This martial arts tournament is time-stopping.

"Hmph! A lowly tenant farmer, does he think he deserves my money?"

Yang Heng refused the compensation and mediation with his hands behind his back, and seized on the weakness of the Dragon Tiger Hall, which only charged money for its martial arts training but did not sign contracts, to question them in return:

"Furthermore, our martial arts school charges money for teaching skills; have we ever established any other rules?"

"Furthermore, Third Senior Brother, your previous teaching was lazy, resulting in many people not learning the stance training. Yang Dayong can only learn stance training from others now. He is diligently learning, what's wrong with that?"

"Fine, fine! You're right!"

Qi Feixing didn't defend himself, but directly admitted that he had indeed been slacking off a few days ago.

But then his expression changed as he looked at Yang Heng!

You have your reasons, but I have the right and the power!

There are plenty of ways to govern people in the future!

Third Senior Brother Qi Feixing turned to look at Ye Chu:

"Junior Brother Ye, what Apprentice Yang said makes sense. The root of this problem lies with my laziness, but I won't let you suffer this fright for nothing. Let's go find Master to choose a skin-smoothing technique, and I'll give you some additional compensation!"

"Third Senior Brother, how can this be blamed on you? It's all Yang Heng's fault for distorting the facts, and besides, Yang..."

Ye Chu paused at this point.

He wanted to say that since Yang Heng could do it, why couldn't he do it when Yang Heng broke through the blood barrier?

But then I thought, if I said this in advance, wouldn't that be a reminder to Yang Heng?

Let's not say anything, and wait until Yang Heng breaks through the blood barrier before playing some stance training with him!

in addition,

Some people wanted to curry favor with their third senior brother Qi Feixing, so they humiliated Yang Heng in other ways.

"Huh? Junior Brother Han was called a tenant farmer by Yang Heng, and Junior Brother Ye was also called a tenant farmer by Yang Heng. Could it be that both of these geniuses have worked the land at the Yang family's farm?"

Wang Hongru, from the inner courtyard, deliberately brought up a controversial topic.

"I remember, they were all from Qingniu Village, the village that was possessed by evil spirits and where the Yang family killed a large number of martial artists!"

Qin Shaoyang took the opportunity to add something.

"If that's the case, the Yang family truly has little fortune, even sending away such promising martial arts talents!"

"Inner Courtyard," Long Xuanji said, stroking his chin.

"Yang Heng is truly a useless piece of trash! He has top-tier physical constitution, yet he can't even compare to two men who used to farm for his family! This kind of shame will never be washed away! I think it would be better for him to commit suicide and be buried, ending it all!"

Cheng Rang from the inner courtyard was even more sharp, piercing Yang Heng's shameful and fragile heart.

"Huh? Where are Ye Chu and Third Senior Brother?"

Qin Shaoyang denounced Yang Heng until Yang Heng's eyes were brimming with tears. Just as he was about to show off to Ye Chu, he discovered that the main character had vanished.

Many of the senior disciples from the inner court have also disappeared!

Only Han Heng stood by with great interest, watching his sharp-tongued Yang Heng!

……

[Cultivation Level: Skin Smoothing]

【Technique: Tiger-Taming Stance (Beginner: 1/40)】

As Ye Chu followed his third senior brother through the inner courtyard and the True Inheritance Courtyard, he met Nie Qingcang in the back residence. During this time, he took the opportunity to examine the origin of his immortal body.

He finally reached a new level: skin smoothing!

Furthermore, once you've mastered the Tiger-Taming Stance, the required progress isn't too great.

By relying on the Daoist essence collected daily, half of it can be allocated to cultivation techniques, and it can be fully replenished in seven or eight days.

However, upon entering the Skin Polishing Realm, according to the Third Senior Brother's instructions, one must choose a cultivation method, which means changing the cultivation method and potentially shifting the focus of cultivation.

"Master, Junior Brother Ye has broken through the Blood Barrier, please give him your guidance!" Qi Feixing brought Ye Chu to Nie Qingcang and bowed respectfully.

"I didn't expect your blood and qi to accumulate faster than Yang Heng's. Besides that 'Wolf Smoke Elixir,' what other supplements did you take in between?"

Nie Qingcang's gaze swept over Ye Chu's body, but he saw no trace of other stance training, nor did he see anything unusual.

"Besides the tonics from the martial arts school these past few days, I've also bought a few treasure fish!" Ye Chu said without a second thought, pulling the treasure fish out.

"No wonder the blood and qi are accumulating so quickly."

Nie Qingcang nodded. He naturally liked this kind of student who could listen to the advice that "you need to spend money and consume resources in the early stages of cultivation."

As for where Ye Chu, a peasant, got the money?

That's not important!

Every day, inside and outside the city, entire families are wiped out, and wealthy and powerful families are being robbed...

In short, as long as you can make money through your own abilities, that's fine!

Nie Qingcang then spoke:

"As I said before, if you stay at the martial arts school, I'll reward you with a precious pill that corresponds to each level you advance in!"

"So now, it's up to you to choose the right technique for the skin-smoothing stage!"

"I have common, readily available martial arts techniques here, such as 'Stone-Sharpening Technique,' 'Iron Armor,' 'Bronze Man Technique,' and 'Hundred-Refined Skin.'"

If you choose this path with limited potential, this will be the last time the martial arts school teaches you the techniques; your future path in martial arts will be up to you.

"The cultivation method practiced by my disciples in the Dragon Tiger Hall is either the 'Hidden Dragon Shedding Skin Technique' or the 'Tiger's Path Skin Appearance Method'."

The "Hidden Dragon Shedding Skin Technique" focuses on cultivating the toughness of the skin membrane, making it as strong as a copper wall and iron wall, able to withstand heavy blows.

The "Tiger's Pathological Physiognomy Method" focuses on cultivating the suppleness of the skin, making it as agile as a tiger's shadow or leopard's markings, capable of transforming into a thousand different forms.

However, their cultivation paths are different and incompatible, so they cannot be chosen simultaneously.

"You choose!"

Nie Qingcang gave Ye Chu two choices.

Ye Chu thought for a moment. He definitely wouldn't choose an ordinary cultivation technique with limited potential. As for the two skin-sharpening techniques for the Dragon Tiger Hall's inner disciples, one focused on defense and the other on transformation.

Then, combined with his abilities such as time stop and immortality, even the strongest defense is not as strong as time stop, and the transformation is, in other words, the ability to escape.

Combined with the fact that when he visited eight butcher shops in the county town before, he had felt that he was too slow.

"Master Nie, I choose 'The Tiger's Lackey's Physiognomy'!"

"Haha, a wise choice!"

Nie Qingcang burst into laughter: "In this world of martial arts, speed is the only way to break through defenses. To put it bluntly, the one who runs faster than others has the greatest chance of survival!"

"From now on, you will be my personal disciple, Nie Qingcang. I will also refine a new 'Soul-Devouring and Spirit-Seizing Pill' for you to help you quickly condense the tiger skin and master the application of the 'Changgui'!"

"A newly refined elixir? Controlling ghosts?"

Ye Chu was somewhat surprised that his master could also refine pills.

In addition, shouldn't 伥鬼 be ghosts?

If this is true, then martial arts training methods need to be re-evaluated!

Nie Qingcang got up, went into the house, took out the "Tiger's Lackey Skin Physiognomy Method," and handed it to Ye Chu:

"The reason why the precious pill needs to be refined is that the last 'Soul-Devouring and Soul-Stealing Precious Pill' stored in the martial arts school was given to Han Heng, and I need to collect a new portion of the Mountain Lord's essence blood to refine the pill for you!"

Furthermore, once a tiger becomes a spirit, it is born with the ability to devour souls and condense vengeful spirits.

Therefore, the significance of using the essence of the mountain lord's blood to refine the precious elixir for you lies in teaching you this ability to devour souls and condense vengeful spirits!

"Then when you can devour souls and steal spirits, coupled with the skin-refining characteristics of the Skin-Smoothing Realm, you can easily change your appearance without being detected by outsiders."

"A poem testifies to this: Devouring souls and refining spirits to cultivate the physical body, a thousand accomplices and a hundred ghosts worship the Demon King!"

Afterwards, Nie Qingcang led Ye Chu to a key location of the Dragon Tiger Hall: the Beast Garden.

Entering the zoo,

The cages on both sides of the road are lined up one after another, with all kinds of strange snakes coiled among them, some with colorful scales, some with fleshy horns on their heads, their tongues flicking and their hissing sounds being thin and piercing, the whole garden is full of a cold and fierce atmosphere.

After walking a short while, they saw several fierce tigers with glaring eyes and white foreheads locked in a steel cage as thick as an arm.

Beside it stood a cage forged from silver-patterned black steel, which imprisoned a mountain lord whose body was surrounded by swirling clouds, whose dark gold patterns were faintly visible and flowing all over his body, and whose beast king majesty was not diminished in the slightest!

Furthermore, Ye Chu felt a sense of horror as if his mind had been captured by the mountain lord after just one glance. His internal energy then violently vibrated, finally dispelling the hazy feeling of being obscured from his mind.

"The mountain lord is truly mysterious! If I were an ordinary person, just one glance at him would have meant certain death or serious injury!"

Fortunately, I've mastered the basics of martial arts!