Body Refinement for Longevity: From Health Cultivation Exercises to Overcoming All Techniques

This monkey troop's territory is definitely not suitable.

What if one day these monkeys want to take back their territory and get impatient and come in to fight him?

Chen Han wasn't afraid; he could easily kill all of these monkeys.

What he fears is that when the butterfly emerges from its cocoon, it will grow larger and more numerous, so it will definitely need to be carefully placed on the ground. If some clueless, stinky monkey steps on it, he will be heartbroken.

"There's nothing I can do. These monkeys are quite intelligent. They're just staying up in the trees and won't come down. I don't know how to use my light-footed skills to jump up there, so I'm completely helpless against them."

"Let's look for somewhere else."

Half an hour later, Chen Han bit his fingertip and fed the tiny, fingernail-sized larvae of the Broken Life Butterfly with his blood and tender grass. Then, under the unfriendly gaze of the monkeys, he left the place.

Two days later, the delicate white body of the Broken Butterfly gradually became plump, and the remaining eggs were also broken open, from which the larvae emerged.

"We need to hurry, or we'll be in trouble."

Chen Han dared not delay. In the past few days, he had made this matter his top priority, and even temporarily stopped his journey to Eagle Falcon Mountain.

Unfortunately, finding a place to live was difficult. In the wind and rain, the place was either leaky or drafty. Either it already had a master that he couldn't defeat, or strange beasts roamed around it, making the mountains unstable and there was no peace.

These butterflies grow larger after metamorphosis, which is one reason why he can't carry them all with him, and another reason why they become extremely fragile.

Perhaps the noise of a massive, strange beast passing by could kill them.

Chen Han continued driving the carriage forward, searching for the best place for the Broken Life Butterfly to metamorphose.

But soon, the faint smell of blood in the air made him instantly alert. He narrowed his eyes and looked ahead, where the smell of blood was coming from.

Chen Han carefully hid the carriage, then stepped forward to check the situation.

Before long, as he went deeper, the smell of blood became stronger and stronger. Sure enough, he found the source of the smell in front of a cave.

There were six tigers lying dead, their eyes lifeless. The smallest of them was over two zhang tall, taller than a person even on all fours. The tallest and strongest was over four zhang tall, with one of its teeth thicker than a person's forearm. Their size was simply terrifying.

Upon seeing this, Chen Han was secretly alarmed.

This largest beast is over five hundred years old and is the most ferocious and powerful tiger. Even if he were to encounter it, he would only be able to run for his life, as he would be completely unable to match it.

The highest-ranking beast Chen Han had ever killed was a beast under two hundred years old, and that was only recently, after a great deal of effort.

A tiger beast that is five hundred years old is far inferior to it.

Chen Han emerged from his hidden spot and began to observe the beast. He noticed that its eyes were deeply sunken and its skin was shriveled, indicating that it had been dead for some time.

Those tiger eyes were extremely small, still retaining some of their original state from when they were alive, as if they had seen some kind of ferocious beast that would terrify even the king of the forest.

"This is!"

Chen Han suddenly realized something, and his expression immediately became serious.

And there were large patches of blood on the tiger's chest, beneath which a large pool had accumulated.

"Could it be...?"

Chen Han's gaze was uncertain, a sense of doubt lingering in his mind.

Without hesitation, he reached his hand through the bloodstains into the tiger's carcass, trying to grasp the heart that had long since stopped beating.

However, there was nothing there; he felt nothing at all.

Chen Han examined each of the tiger beasts, and without exception, they had all lost their hearts.

It was clearly man-made.

"Sure enough, someone's been here before..."

Chen Han felt as if he were facing a formidable enemy.

In this wilderness, the most dangerous creature is not a powerful beast, but a human. As one of his own kind, Chen Han understood perfectly what this meant.

If he were to encounter a strange beast, he could easily run away; the beast wouldn't bother with such a paltry amount of meat.

But people are different; they might covet your wealth, your treasures, or even stab you in the back at a crucial moment.

This was not a good sign. Chen Han fell silent again. 'If that person were weaker than me, that would be fine; I could easily kill them, or at least send them far away.'

Chen Han glanced at the tiger beast with its muscles bulging explosively, and a strange sense of unease quickly spread through his heart. "But this person can even kill such a ferocious beast. His strength must be no less than mine. If I were to encounter him, I would truly be at his mercy."

"Furthermore, why did this person specifically remove the heart of this tiger beast, just like I did?"

"Could he also be practicing Tai Chi for health and wellness?"

Before Chen Han could figure things out, he discovered another problem.

That was the tiger's back, where there was a charred patch, the fur was curly, and the skin was torn open, making it look ferocious and terrifying in Chen Han's eyes.

"This is a fire attack. It shouldn't be like this. Why would they use fire? Even a fire attack wouldn't burn this beast like this."

Martial artists typically do not use ranged attacks in combat, as doing so would expose many weaknesses and cause very little damage. Even when they do use ranged attacks, they mostly employ various hidden weapons.

In any case, he believed that no one would fight while carrying a Molotov cocktail.

However, the current situation clearly does not fall into either of those categories.

The damage caused by the fire was simply unbelievable. Tigers have thick hides and tough flesh; fire attacks usually only burn off some fur, not damaging the flesh at all. But now...

Large swaths of skin and flesh were charred black, and not a single hair remained. When Chen Han touched it, it instantly turned to ashes.

It's all burned to ashes!

"How could an ordinary fire cause such a devastating scene...? Perhaps it was caused by a 'cultivator'..."

Chen Han made a bold guess in his mind.

He was panting heavily, unable to believe that the legendary cultivator had actually been here not long ago.

"Cultivators of Immortality, Tai Chi Health Preservation Exercise..."

Chen Han speculated, connecting the two with his previous musings, and inevitably had some doubts.

"Could it be that this Tai Chi health cultivation exercise is really related to some kind of cultivation technique? Could it be a cultivation method?"

After a long pause, Chen Han shook his head. There was too little known information, and his unfounded guesses would only affect his judgment. Everything would have to be learned after a deeper understanding.

After staring blankly in the direction of Eagle Falcon Mountain for a while, Chen Han stopped thinking about it and looked around.

"It seems that these few kittens are the rulers of this place. The surrounding beasts don't dare to come near them, even though their corpses are almost rotting."

"However, this actually benefited me."

Isn't this a natural incubation base?

The more dangerous the place, the safer it is. Chen Han was not afraid to advance and used this place as the incubation ground for the Broken Life Butterfly.

After leading the carriage here, he began his incubation business.

Chen Han used whatever materials were available to create a simple hatching site in a feng shui-blessed location, using grass, leaves, and mud. He then carefully and evenly placed the broken-life butterflies on it.

After finishing everything, Chen Han breathed a sigh of relief.

"Now, all that's left is to wait for the little ones to emerge from their cocoons. However, it's time for me to break through to the Martial Artist realm..."

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