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Chapter 100, Page 115: Skin Refinement Completed! It's Time to Challenge the Six Meridians Divine Sword! [Seeking Monthly Tickets!]

After observing for a while, Huang Rong thought again that this chess game seemed to contain a formation that could disturb people's minds. Could she try to break it using the "Soul Transfer Technique" of the "Nine Yin Manual"?

However, the result was not as expected.

Or rather, it had some effect, but with her level of Soul Transference Technique, it was far from enough to unravel the mystery of this chess game that could disturb people's minds and even stir up their obsessions. On the contrary, because of her initiative, she suffered a backlash from the chess game, and her eyes gradually became blurred.

Huang Rong's mind was filled with a jumble of thoughts.

First, images of Lu Chen gently kissing her kept replaying in her mind, then a blurry vision appeared before her eyes, and a dreamlike scene inexplicably surfaced.

In the illusion, she sat in front of a baby cradle, gently rocking it, while Lu Chen stood to one side of the cradle, humming a lullaby in his deep, melodious voice.

Inside the cradle lay an adorable baby, exquisitely beautiful, with big, bright black eyes, smiling sweetly at them in a childish voice.

Huang Rong had no obsessions.

Being with Lu Chen was perhaps her greatest obsession, and since Lu Chen was right beside her, she didn't suffer from the torment of "not being able to have what she wanted".

The baby wasn't exactly an obsession; it was just that she used to believe that kissing would make her pregnant, which led to this illusion.

Therefore, those illusions did not have much effect on her.

The Soul Transfer Technique also has the ability to protect the mind, so Huang Rong did not remain infatuated for long before she awoke from the illusion.

I feel a slight dizziness from overthinking, but it's nothing serious.

However, her body felt a little hot, and her mind was filled with images of Lu Chen kissing her. She couldn't help but miss his kisses.

She even thought of the thirty-six paintings of the Northern Darkness Divine Art, wondering if Lu Chen's kisses would be even more intense if she imitated the seductive poses of the beautiful woman in the paintings.
This strange idea that suddenly came to her made Huang Rong feel somewhat ashamed.

But then she thought, she was Lu Chen's little wife, so how could doing some proper things between husband and wife be considered shameless?
Even if they strike those embarrassing poses, according to Brother Lu Chen, it's just a little bit of fun between husband and wife.

Despite having this excuse, she still couldn't help but steal a glance at the stone bed, a little afraid that Lu Chen would suddenly wake up, see through her thoughts, and laugh at her.

Fortunately, Lu Chen was still fast asleep, but his sleeping position had changed from lying face down to lying on his back at some point.

Seeing this, Huang Rong quickly went over to turn him over to avoid aggravating the injury on his back.

But just as her fingertips touched his shoulder, Lu Chen stretched out his arm and grabbed her. With a soft cry from her, he pulled her onto the stone bed, then lifted the blanket, pulled her into his arms, and covered her with the blanket again.

"My injury has healed."

Lu Chen said with a smile:

"Shouldn't we give them a reward?"

Huang Rong's face turned so red it looked like it was about to drip water. After hesitating for a while, she finally let out a soft "hmm" that was barely audible.

After agreeing, she buried her face in his chest in embarrassment.

Although she had kissed him many times, this time was different. This time he wanted her to feed him as a reward. How could Huang Rong, who had always passively received his kisses, not feel shy?
After hesitating for a long time, she finally mustered up her courage, raised her head, glanced at him with hazy eyes, and gently pecked him on the lips...

……

Time flies, and three months have passed in the blink of an eye.

On this day, Lu Chen stood steadily beneath the waterfall, his body remaining as still as a rock no matter how the waterfall crashed down.

Suddenly, his skin tightened and then began to tremble rapidly.

As his skin trembled and quivered, the force of the waterfall that rushed onto him was instantly neutralized, reducing the impact he experienced by 30%.

Some of the water was shaken into fine droplets, which splashed out in all directions, turning into a thick white mist that enveloped him.

As the mist spread over an area of ​​several meters, engulfing him entirely in the thick fog, a clear and melodious sword cry suddenly rang out.

Amidst the long, drawn-out sword cry, Lu Chen soared into the air, his agile figure resembling a divine sword. He defied the fierce bombardment and charged upwards, soaring more than three zhang in one breath.

Wherever it passes, the waterfall is like a torn curtain, splitting in two!
After its upward momentum subsides, the torrents of the waterfall continue to crash down relentlessly.

Lu Chenren was in mid-air with nowhere to grab onto, but he suddenly swung his right arm and flicked it upwards, briefly separating the waterfall. Taking advantage of this opportunity, he landed back on the large rock below and then jumped into the lake with a splash.

Emerging from the lake, Lu Chen stretched out his limbs, floated on the surface, and laughed heartily.

After three months of arduous training beneath the waterfall, his swordsmanship was finally perfected through "skin refinement."

However, the results of his "skin refining" were slightly different from what he had previously estimated.

First of all, the damage output bonus from unarmed martial arts such as fists, palms, fingers, and claws is only 10% of that after successfully refining the skin of both arms.

However, the power of swordsmanship such as "Sword Aura" increases dramatically.

In the past three months, his skill level has only increased by a little over 50%.

But the sword's edge grew longer and longer.

Just now, when he used his hand as a sword to cut the waterfall in reverse, the invisible sword light that burst forth was already a foot long!
This is clearly the wonder of "Sword Body" in JX3 - when the Sword Body is fully mastered, every move is filled with sword energy, and even a drop of blood or a strand of hair can be transformed into a celestial sword.

He is still far from mastering the sword body; he has only just completed the most basic "skin refining."

However, the sword's divine power also began to manifest. Without much increase in power, the sword's aura could extend a foot outward, while the consumption of true energy did not increase much.

In addition, after completing the skin refinement of his legs, his lightness skill was also enhanced, allowing him to leap higher and farther, and to move more swiftly and agilely.

The power of his leg techniques also increased by 10%—because the "Number One in the World" must have no weaknesses and must be a well-rounded warrior. Therefore, during his month-long "vacation" on Peach Blossom Island, he also learned the "Whirlwind Sweeping Leaf Leg" from Master Huang.

In this way, he has mastered all kinds of unarmed skills, including fists, palms, fingers, claws, and legs, and can fully enjoy the output bonus brought by the mastery of "sword body skin refinement".

Successfully refining his body and head significantly enhanced his overall defensive capabilities.

When he is attacked, whether it is a martial artist's fists and feet, internal energy from a distance, or a blunt weapon attack, 30% of the force will be neutralized the moment it touches his skin.

The remaining 70% of his strength would be further reduced by his protective true qi.

After multiple reductions, if the final damage is only 30% or 40%, it's considered that the opponent's strength is highly refined and has extremely strong penetrating power.

If I had this perfected skin-refining defense during my battle with Ouyang Feng, I might have recovered from my injuries and become as energetic as ever after just one night.

In short, after mastering the art of skin refining, not only will ordinary people's weapons be unable to cause him any harm, but even the unarmed skills of experts, remote internal energy, and blunt weapons such as clubs will be greatly reduced.

Only a sharp blade imbued with the true qi of a master, or a divine weapon like the Heaven-Slaying Sword or the Dragon-Slaying Saber, can relatively easily break through his skin's defenses.

However, it will also be subject to skin damage.

The sheer magnitude of improvement he'd achieved with just the "Skin Refining" stage stirred a restless desire within Lu Chen, prompting him to test the power of the next level, "Flesh Refining." So, after catching his breath on the lake's surface, he returned to the waterfall's base. Under the impact of the rushing water, he rapidly circulated the second level of the "Sword Body" technique, channeling his true energy to temper his muscles.

However, once he began the tempering process, he realized how difficult it would be.

The difficulty of "meat refining" is more than double that of "skin refining".

Even with the help of the rushing waterfall, the progress is still much slower than refining skin.

After practicing for an hour or so and sensing the progress of his tempering, Lu Chen silently calculated and realized that at the current pace, it would take at least a whole year to achieve mastery of flesh tempering—the time it took him to achieve mastery of skin tempering was not just two months in the Tianlong World.

In the world of Laughing at the world, he had already been tempering himself for more than a month, and in the end, he only managed to bring his right arm to near completion with the help of a bowl of Five Treasures Honey Wine.

After returning to the world of Legend of the Condor Heroes, he finally completed the skin-refining of his right arm on the eve of his return to Peach Blossom Island.

Even though there was a "snowball effect" during the tempering process, and the tempering progress was getting faster and faster as the skin tempering progress gradually increased, it still took him more than a month to complete the skin tempering of his left arm after returning to Peach Blossom Island.

Later, in the Tianlong World where the cultivation progress was faster, with the continuous hammering and tempering from the great waterfall, and the "snowball effect" that made the progress faster and faster, it took another three months to temper his entire body's skin to perfection.

All told, it took Lu Chen about half a year to complete his skin refining accumulation.

The difficulty of "flesh refining," which is more than twice that of skin refining, would probably take at least a year, even in the Tianlong world with its higher energy level and superior cultivation environment, and considering the "snowball effect."

Of course, this valley is like a paradise, and with Rong'er by my side, it wouldn't be a big deal to cultivate here for another year.

But wouldn't that mean missing out on many opportunities?
For example, if Li Qiushui and Tianshan Tonglao had perished together during her secluded cultivation, who would have gotten the Lesser Formless Skill from?
Kumārajīva?

Can consider it.

In fact, the reason why Kumārajīva went astray was because he was too greedy. He actually used his foundation in Tibetan Buddhist internal energy cultivation to practice the Taoist Lesser Formless Skill. Wasn't that courting death?

Rong'er, on the other hand, does not have this problem.

Her martial arts foundation was originally Peach Blossom Island internal energy cultivation, which does not conflict with Taoist internal energy cultivation.

Later, she practiced the "Nine Yin Manual" Yi Jin Duan Gu chapter, as well as the upgraded and improved version of the Old Man's Fist that incorporated the principles of Yin and Yang in Taoist Tai Chi. Her internal energy had long since completely leaned towards Taoism, so there was absolutely no problem for her to switch to cultivating the Lesser Formless Skill.

With this thought in mind, Lu Chen crashed through the waterfall, leaped into the lake, and swam quickly toward the shore.

Now that the skin-refining technique is complete, it's time to go out of the mountains with Rong'er and travel to seek opportunities!

The first stop...

Let's go to Dali and experience the Six Meridians Divine Sword!
……

Outside Dali City, in the Diancang Mountains, north of Yuefeng Peak, there is a "Chongsheng Temple", which the people of Dali usually call "Tianlong Temple".

Tianlong Temple is the family temple of the Duan royal family of Dali. All the emperors of the Duan family have become monks in this temple. A few days ago, even the current emperor, Duan Zhengming, was ordained here.

Of course, Duan Zhengming only temporarily became a monk in order to learn the Six Meridians Divine Sword and fight against the Great Wheel King Kumārajīva.

The final result was not good.

Although six masters, including Duan Zhengming, who were skilled in the "One Finger Divine Skill," each mastered a different version of the Six Meridians Divine Sword and formed a sword formation to fight against the Great Wheel King, Duan Yu, the heir of Duan Zhengchun, the Prince of Zhennan of Dali, was still kidnapped by Kumārajīva.

All the masters of Dali were dispatched to search for Duan Yu's whereabouts, but the Great Wheel King used a strategy of dividing his forces, luring away the pursuers with his subordinates, and then fled to the Song Dynasty alone with Duan Yu.

Unable to cross the border to pursue the suspects, the Dali officials and soldiers had no choice but to temporarily cease their pursuit.

Duan Zhengming returned to secular life and went back to Dali City to continue serving as emperor and handling state affairs.

Duan Zhengchun then led his four guards to the Central Plains to search for his beloved son's whereabouts—all information that Lu Chen and Huang Rong had gathered in Dali City.

Because the arrival of the Great Wheel King was quite grand, and the abduction of Duan Yu caused such a huge uproar that Dali mobilized many experts and sent out a large number of troops. Such a commotion could not be concealed at all.

In Dali Kingdom, not only martial arts practitioners but also ordinary people knew about this matter. You could hear a lot of news about it just by sitting in a restaurant or teahouse.

Although rumors circulated that the Prince of Zhennan had gone to the Song Dynasty to rescue his son, Lu Chen knew that Duan Zhengchun had quickly stopped thinking about finding his son after arriving in the Song Dynasty.

Anyway, Duan Yu wandered around the Central Plains without anyone looking for him, while Duan Zhengchun only showed up at his old lover Ruan Xingzhu's place.

Perhaps Duan Zhengchun felt that since he couldn't defeat Kumārajīva anyway, finding him would be useless, so he simply pinned his hopes on the great monk Mahāchakra Mīnō, hoping that he wouldn't recklessly commit murder.
Judging by the timeline, Duan Zhengchun should already be indulging in the gentle embrace of Ruan Xingzhu, and Duan Yu should have already begun his journey to pursue immortality.

At this moment, Lu Chen brought Huang Rong to Tianlong Temple.

When the monk who was in charge of receiving guests stepped forward, put his palms together in greeting, and inquired about the purpose of their visit, Lu Chen politely returned the greeting and replied:

"I have long admired the fame of the Six Meridians Divine Sword of the Dali Duan family and I yearn for it. Today I have come to seek your guidance and hope that the eminent monks of Tianlong Temple will be generous in bestowing their teachings upon me."

The monk in charge of reception stared in disbelief, stunned for a long while, then turned and ran back into the temple, shouting as he ran:

"Disaster! Disaster! Someone has come to steal the Six Meridians Divine Sword again!"

"..."

Lu Chen remained silent.

He was indeed somewhat interested in the Six Meridians Divine Sword; the Qi Sword was also a sword, and it fell within his hunting range.

But he never intended to forcibly seize the sword manual.

I just wanted to try and see if I could learn this special sword technique through a martial arts competition.

He thought to himself that what he had just said was quite polite, as that was how he always said it in Hengshan City.

Why are the monks of Tianlong Temple making such a racket and slandering people's innocence out of thin air?

Seeing the monks' reaction, Huang Rong chuckled and said in a cheerful voice with her eyes crinkling:
"The monks of Tianlong Temple are probably already terrified of that Great Wheel King!"

Lu Chen shook his head helplessly.

The power of the Great Wheel King is indeed extremely strong.

Looking across the world, there are indeed very few people who can defeat him.

Unfortunately, Da Lun Ming Wang only plays high-level games and has bad luck, always inexplicably running into cheaters...

Just as they were secretly complaining, five monks came out of the temple together. The atmosphere was quite solemn at first, but when they saw Lu Chen and Huang Rong's appearance, their solemn expressions immediately turned into doubt.

So young...

They dare to attack Tenryu-ji Temple?
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