Fox Demon: Heaven rewards diligence; I will eventually achieve divine mastery of martial arts.

Chapter 40 Horizontal Training Techniques, Cloth Armor Body!

If that's the case, why waste that time and energy?

It's better to do something simple, like practice running.

As long as you run faster than others, you can still escape unscathed.

According to what I just inquired about, there are no martial arts schools in Xuanling City, only a security escort agency called Sifang Escort Agency.

This is where Lin Yu's hope lies.

If the Four Directions Escort Agency also lacks martial arts knowledge, then Lin Yu will have no choice but to search for books on medicine and related fields.

Something like the Taoist canon or similar texts would also be acceptable.

Many martial arts techniques in martial arts novels from my past life were related to the Eight Trigrams and Yin-Yang.

Lin Yu didn't expect to understand it directly; even a little bit of inspiration would be good.

After about ten minutes, Lin Yu stood under an impressive plaque.

The four large, elegant characters of "Sifang Escort Agency" immediately came into view.

There was a steady stream of customers at the entrance, and business seemed to be booming.

This is it.

Without saying a word, Lin Yu walked into the lobby on the first floor.

The ground floor is decorated like a tavern, where you can see groups of people drinking together, or chatting and joking. The backyard is vaguely set up like a training ground, and you can hear shouts from people exercising from time to time.

The second floor is where guests are received.

As soon as Lin Yu stood still, someone came up to greet him.

"Young man, are you looking to hire someone to escort your goods, or..."

"I want to find a bodyguard who knows martial arts."

Lin Yu spoke in a gentle voice, with a faint smile on his face.

They reappeared at the entrance of the security escort agency an hour later.

Lin Yu stood on the street, looking at the thin manual in his hand, his face full of smiles.

After traveling to so many places and putting in so much effort, I finally found the secret manual I was looking for.

Furthermore, this martial art is not like the Crimson Fiend Fist, which is more about technique.

It is not just about physical enhancement, but about genuinely strengthening oneself.

This martial art is called Cloth Armor Body.

As you can tell from the name, it's a martial art similar to Iron Shirt or Golden Bell Cover, or other external martial arts techniques.

According to the manual and the bodyguard, once the cultivation is complete, the skin will be as tough as cowhide, as if wearing a layer of armor, providing amazing defense.

It can effectively defend against weapons such as knives, spears, and clubs.

When talking about this skill, the bodyguard patted his chest proudly and said that his grandfather had mastered it to the extreme. When he encountered a tiger on the mountain, he took a claw attack head-on and was unharmed.

Whether it's true or false, we don't know.

In any case, when it came time to ask for the final price, they asked for five taels of silver.

Lin Yu managed to cut the price down to three taels. If it weren't for his genuine liking for it and its usefulness to him, the price might have dropped even further.

Carrying the manual, Lin Yu didn't rush back, but instead turned and headed to the blacksmith's shop.

The training of the Cloth Armor Body requires quite a few auxiliary tools.

Moreover, given his current situation, ordinary things won't be of much use; he needs something special.

After visiting the blacksmith shop, the pharmacy, and the tailor shop, Lin Yu finally returned to the caravan's temporary resting place, carrying a large pile of things.

Back in his room, Lin Yu's face was beaming with an unstoppable smile.

For him, the most important aspects of the path of a martial artist boil down to two points.

One is hard to kill, two are strong attackers.

To meet the first requirement, the most important thing is to have a strong physique.

Now, after cultivating the Mighty Bull Technique, his physique is even stronger than that of the demon race.

What if we take this foundation and further cultivate external martial arts techniques?

This will inevitably allow my physique to reach a new and terrifying level!

By then, let alone the sharp teeth and claws of any demon race.

So what if it's a cultivator's flying sword?

As long as the level of his cultivation technique is high enough, it won't be effective for him to stab you while standing still.

Therefore, this cloth armor has truly come at the perfect time.

After placing everything on the table, Lin Yu immediately began taking off his clothes.

The training of the Cloth Armor Body is actually very simple.

In daily life, they rub their bodies with coarse cloth, hit them with hard objects, and so on.

Generally speaking, all of these require continuous training to improve one's resilience.

Over time, the skin naturally changes, and its resistance to impact is further enhanced.

However, this level of beginner's skill was naturally a bit lacking for Lin Yu.

It's like rubbing against something with coarse cloth; given Lin Yu's current skin defense capabilities, it wouldn't have any effect whatsoever.

Therefore, Lin Yu made special preparations.

Take out the medicinal herbs I bought from the pharmacy; this one is called Brucea javanica kernel.

It has a certain degree of corrosiveness to the skin.

It was the knowledge Lin Yu learned while studying medical books along the way.

Put the kernels of Brucea javanica into the mortar and pestle you just bought, and pound them continuously with the pestle until they become a paste.

He reached out and grabbed the paste-like herbs, spreading them evenly on every inch of his skin, including his private parts.

Lin Yu didn't want to end up like someone in a martial arts novel, possessing formidable skills but having a weakness that would be easily exploited.

After a few minutes, once the paste-like medicinal material had been evenly applied all over his body, Lin Yu quietly waited for the medicine to take effect.

A moment later, my skin began to heat up, and then a burning sensation gradually spread through my body.

This feeling intensified, and waves of pain followed.

Faced with this pain, Lin Yu merely frowned. Compared to the pain he experienced when breaking through his cultivation technique, this pain was nothing at all.

After about twenty minutes, feeling that it was about time, Lin Yu gently rubbed his skin with his finger.

You can see that the skin covered by the herbal paste has begun to turn red.

When I pressed my finger on it, the skin felt much softer than usual.

Seeing this, Lin Yu nodded in satisfaction.

He turned and picked up the coarse cloth that he had placed on the table, which had been cut to the width of gauze. While wrapping it around his body, he also wrapped himself in the iron shot he had bought at the blacksmith's shop.

Compared to ordinary people cultivating the Cloth Armor Body, Lin Yu's cultivation method is obviously much more rigorous.

After all, if he didn't do it this way, it wouldn't be of any use given his current physical condition.

After wrapping his entire body in cloth, completely bound by iron filings, it was finally over.

Lin Yu picked up the mirror and looked at himself.

I'm wrapped up like a mummy now, which looks quite comical.

But the effect is very obvious, especially during activities, you can clearly feel the iron pellets rubbing against your skin.

Add to that the corrosive nature of the medicinal herbs, and the unpleasant sensation is indescribable; it truly feels like ants are gnawing at your entire body.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 41: Outstanding Results, Target: Indestructible

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However, to become stronger, one must make sacrifices.

Endure this discomfort.

Lin Yu put his clothes back on, picked up an iron rod he had bought, and started hitting himself in various places.

"boom!"

"boom!"

A muffled thud, like the beating of a drum, echoed continuously in the room.