From breaking the limits of archery to achieving martial arts godhood

After traveling continuously, Chen Xun returned to the Medicine Gang from Baisha River in less than an hour.

By this time, his clothes were dry.

After returning from leave, Chen Xun went back to his room.

The familiar surroundings made Chen Xun breathe a sigh of relief, and the tension in his heart dissipated considerably.

Chen Xun picked up the teapot on the table and, without caring how many days the water had been sitting inside, gulped it down.

"Ha," Chen Xun exhaled a breath of stale air, and only then did he have the mood to examine the things he had obtained from looting the corpse.

Open the bundle; inside were five odds and ends.

There was a small stack of silver notes. Upon careful counting, there were eight notes, all of which were one hundred taels each.

The banknotes were waterproof, so these eight banknotes are still well preserved.

The eight hundred taels alone made Chen Xun very satisfied.

"It was worth it."

Chen Xun happily put away the eight silver notes.

The second item was a token made of fine iron.

The front is engraved with the three characters "Zhuqi Zong" (铸器宗), and the back is engraved with the name Wan Zhenping.

Clearly, this is Wan Zhenping's token as a disciple of the Weapon Forging Sect.

The material is of good quality; if melted down, it could fetch a tael or two of silver.

Chen Xun was not short of money, so he put it away and prepared to find a secluded place to throw it away.

The third item is a bottle.

The bottle has a red paper sticker with words on it. Even after it gets wet, the words "Blood-Nourishing Pill" are still faintly visible.

Upon opening the bottle, there was one red pill remaining inside.

"nice one."

Chen Xun was overjoyed and quickly put it away.

These are pills used by martial artists in the Blood Transformation Realm for cultivation. Each Blood Replenishing Pill is worth two hundred taels of silver and is also limited in quantity.

By this point, Chen Xun had amassed a fortune of one thousand taels, almost his entire fortune.

The fourth item was a folded piece of silk cloth, which felt cool to the touch, had a nice feel, and was also very durable.

When unfolded, the silk cloth, which was originally only half the size of a palm, became as big as half a table.

It was covered with a large amount of text, as well as some clear drawings of the human body.

Upon closer inspection, Chen Xun's eyes lit up.

It turns out this is a martial arts manual that records a martial art called "Body Forging Technique," whose philosophy is to temper the human body like a weapon.

This is a manual for external martial arts training. Once mastered, the practitioner's physical strength will far surpass that of other martial artists at the same level.

This is another auxiliary cultivation technique that can help cultivators accelerate their cultivation speed during the cultivation process.

After all, the cultivation principle of the Physical Body Realm is to continuously strengthen the body until it reaches its limit and can no longer be improved.

After reading through the entire manual, Chen Xun became increasingly delighted.

Chen Xun discovered that this was a mid-grade Yellow Rank martial arts manual, and it was quite unique, lacking stance training and breathing techniques, only providing a cultivation method.

Cultivation methods are divided into practice and nourishment.

Training involves using various methods to temper and refine the body.

The nourishing method involves taking the medicine powder prepared according to the prescribed formula, applying the ointment, and taking a medicinal bath to nourish the body.

In short, this is a time-consuming and expensive endeavor.

Cultivators also need to have sufficiently resilient nerves to withstand various forms of torturous training.

For example, a martial artist with the strength of a thousand catties is asked to use a specially made iron hammer to repeatedly strike the practitioner's entire body hundreds of times, and the practitioner is required not to resist in any way.

The training takes about three months, or eighty-one days, with at least a hundred hammer blows per day. The number of blows is increased depending on the cultivator's physique, until the cultivator's skin bleeds.

During this period, without tremendous perseverance and endurance, a person will faint from the pain, and then the training will be considered a failure.

This is only the sixth stage of the training method.

There are nine stages in total, with the last three stages being even more terrifying.

Therefore, this "Body Forging Technique" is easy to learn, but it is very difficult to master it or even achieve great success.

Of course, Chen Xun is not afraid of any martial art, no matter how difficult it is.

However, he still has many martial arts techniques to practice and cannot find extra time to practice this "Body Forging Technique".

Therefore, he could only put it aside for the time being.

Folding up the silk cloth inscribed with the "Body Forging Technique," Chen Xun looked at the fifth item.

The fifth item was a key, entirely blood red, and surprisingly, it was warm to the touch, which was quite magical.

Looking at it from left to right, not knowing what use it was, Chen Xun put it together with the silk cloth and hid it in a secluded corner.

After finishing these tasks, Chen Xun rested for a while before beginning his cultivation.

First, he practiced the [Whirlwind Swift Blade] sword technique. Now, Chen Xun can complete a whole set of sword techniques in ten seconds.

Each time you perform a set of sword techniques, your sword technique experience points will increase by one.

You can gain 6 experience points per minute, and 360 points per hour.

The advanced level of [Whirlwind Blade] requires 50 experience points to advance one point.

Chen Xun usually cultivates for more than an hour, accumulating 500 experience points, before switching to the [Whirlwind Stance Technique].

At this point, even with Chen Xun's great physical strength and endurance, he was already quite exhausted.

For him, standing meditation is a way to restore physical strength and rest.

Combined with breathing techniques, physical strength can be restored even faster.

Once his strength has recovered sufficiently, he will leave his room, go to the training ground, and start running around the training ground to practice the [Tiger Run Step].

When I get tired of running, I go back to my room and continue practicing standing meditation, using breathing techniques.

Before going to bed, Chen Xun would stand on the giant elephant stake for an hour.

This whole process takes up an afternoon and half an evening.

The next morning, as usual, Chen Xun would take the dried medicinal herbs, grind them into powder, and begin preparing the medicine powder.

Today, he did the same thing, but he ground more kinds of medicinal herbs than ever before.

Chen Xun took out a total of twelve kinds of medicinal materials and ground them into powder one by one.

Then take a bowl of water and pour in a special medicinal oil.

Unlike the medicinal oil used to make powders, this special medicinal oil is more viscous and has a stronger binding effect.

When the medicated oil is poured into clear water, it appears as if oil droplets are floating on the surface of the water.

But soon, the medicated oil began to dissolve into the water, turning the water slightly yellow.

At this moment, Chen Xun took out a clean chopstick, dipped it into the mixture, and began to stir.

Once the water in the bowl has turned amber and become viscous, you can remove the chopsticks.

After lifting the chopsticks, you can see a glistening thread.

That would be considered passing.

Next, various ground medicinal powders were poured into the bowl.

The order in which the powders are added is also important, and needs to be considered in conjunction with the medicinal properties of different powders.

Furthermore, the amount of powder, the timing of pouring it in, and the stirring time after pouring all require extensive experience to do well.

Although it was Chen Xun's first time doing this, with his minor level of pharmaceutical experience, he completed this step perfectly.

In the end, we got a bowl of dark, thick paste.

Then, Chen Xun needed to pour this bowl of paste into the medicine pot and stir-fry it under the heat of the flame.

High temperatures are used to fuse the medicinal properties together.

This step is crucial.

If the fusion is successful, you will get pills.

If the fusion fails, all you'll get is a pot of burnt medicine paste.

After stirring the medicine for more than ten minutes until the room was filled with a rich aroma of herbs, Chen Xun lifted the pot away from the scorching stove.

At this point, the black clump of paste in the pot had shrunk by more than half, turning into something like black mud.

After the lump of black mud cooled down, Chen Xun took out the lump of black mud, which was about the size of an infant's fist.

This is not the final product yet.

There are still some unreacted impurities in the black mud, which need to be removed by sieving.

Chen Xun took a sieve with holes several times smaller than a needle tip, then spread the black mud evenly and compacted it.

Those without impurities will flow down through the holes.

Impurities in the black mud will remain on the sieve.

After screening, nearly half of the impurities were removed.

What remains is a medicinal mud with stable and pure medicinal properties.

Next, use a mold to roll these medicinal pastes into balls of the same size.

Chen Xun rolled out two pills of normal size, one of which was half the size.

Then, he coated the surface of these pills with a layer of beeswax. After the beeswax dried, Chen Xun obtained two genuine Bone Tempering Pills and one smaller Bone Tempering Pill.

On his first attempt, Chen Xun successfully completed the production of the Bone Tempering Pill.

This is enough to show that Chen Xun's medicine-making skills at the Lesser Completion stage are extremely impressive.

[Pharmaceutical Experience +100]

Successfully refining a batch of Bone Tempering Pills will add 100 experience points to Chen Xun's medicine-making skill, directly increasing his progress by one point.

Afterwards, Chen Xun continued to make Bone Tempering Pills.

Although each attempt is successful, there are always some impurities involved.

Fortunately, as Chen Xun improved the refining techniques time and time again, the amount of these impurities began to decrease.

When the last batch was refined, the impurities were only half of what they were when Chen Xun refined it for the first time.

In this batch, Chen Xun produced four Bone Tempering Pills.

At this time, five days had passed since Chen Xun successfully refined the first Bone Tempering Pill.

Chen Xun now has more than thirty Bone Tempering Pills in his hand.

During these five days, Chen Xun only refined two to three batches of Bone Tempering Pills a day, which took less than an hour. He devoted the rest of his time to various martial arts techniques.

Therefore, he made great progress in these martial arts.