Chapter 45: Tempering (Part 2)

  Snow Thunder Knife Method is named after thunder, naturally extremely fast, adding to the acceleration of Yang Tong's fall, meeting three tails with a horizontal sweep.

  "Ding ding ding" three clanging sounds of metal hitting metal. Immediately afterwards, this battle knife bought with a hefty sum of gold demonstrated its due power, and the three hard-as-raw-iron beast tails snapped off in response.

  Cut off the tail of the three beasts, Yang Tong fell to the ground, and the Snow Thunder Knife was unfolded, taking a knife straight to the nearest spotted beast.

  A flash of knife light, and a saber-toothed beast on the right side was cut in half and died.

  Yang Tong's sword flashed and turned, slashing towards the second and third targets.

  "Whoosh——slash——" Two horizontal knife-cutting sounds came, and the two remaining striped beasts were also killed.

  Yang Tong ignored these barbarian corpses and jumped away from the scene.

  For the first time, Yang Tong's heart was still trembling at close range to take a life, but he endured it with his strong willpower. First, he had to find a safe place to rest and use as a base. Otherwise, surviving in this mountain forest for a month would be very difficult.

  Yang Tong ventured a hundred miles deeper into the map, killing over a dozen low-level inferior beasts along the way. This area was already inhabited by mid-level inferior beasts. Yang Tong first found a mountain wall and excavated a simple cave, taking out the mid-level beast dung he had purchased from the Mercenary Guild and arranging it outside the cave within a 50-meter radius. He then set up some traps and alarm devices within this range, and also buried some landmines in the area ten meters outside the cave.

  In the cave, Yang Tong tidied up a stone bed, took out a pellet from his ring and placed it on the stone bed, sat cross-legged on it, with his heart facing upwards, practicing meditation to cultivate his vital energy.

  The first day of entering the mountain passed like this.

  The sky brightened, and the sunlight shone through the cave entrance. Yang Tong woke up from his meditation, exhaling a mouthful of turbid air. As he stepped out of the cave, the early sun rose, and a faint purple hue appeared at the edge of the sky. Yang Tong circulated his heart method, absorbing this early morning purple energy until it disappeared as the early sun turned into morning sun.

  Yang Tong walked into the mountain cave and after refining the initial sun purple energy, he clearly felt his own progress. In his heart, he secretly sighed, this is indeed a cultivation technique.

  Collecting the essence of heaven and earth, taking in the splendor of the sun and moon.

  Yang Tong was reborn into this world, and during the apprenticeship stage of his cultivation method, most of it was external work, emphasizing strengthening the body. A bit more advanced, such as the "Wind Wolf Fist" or "Snow Thunder Knife Method", these techniques were also about developing the human body's extreme strength, which had a somewhat external-to-internal feel to it. However, orthodox cultivation methods only involved ordinary breathing exercises.

  No wonder the strong in this world are called martial artists, and after awakening they are called martial spirit masters. Rather than cultivators or immortals.

  Focused on cultivating principles and accumulating one's own spiritual power, this cultivation pattern follows the natural order. Far from being as profound and boundless as Yang Tong's method of absorbing the essence of heaven and earth and taking in the splendor of the sun and moon.

  In terms of efficiency, it is naturally far inferior. After several days of cultivation, Yang Tong has already felt the inner energy, because his physical foundation was well-built, and his inner energy cultivation progressed rapidly. When the meridians in his body were tempered by the initial yang purple energy, they gradually opened up. Under the operation of the inner energy, Yang Tong's strength was even more powerful than just practicing his body alone.

  Although the eighth-level apprenticeship did not make a breakthrough, the internal energy cultivation rose to the fourth layer of Qi refining, and it was only four layers away from catching up with the physical cultivation.

  The practice of Qigong at each level of advancement refines the body, expelling impurities from within. This is an internal to external process and this refinement is more thorough.

  A layer of black impurities was excreted from Yang Tong's body, which urgently needed to be washed. Fortunately, when Yang Tong chose the location, he noticed this point, and not far from here, there was a small waterfall. Yang Tong did not take off his clothes, holding a knife in his hand, and directly jumped over, washing himself under the waterfall.

  The cultivation method of the ancient immortal civilization, before transcending the mundane, one must cultivate their Qi. After reaching the 9th layer of Qi cultivation, through a certain stimulation, the strong internal Qi bursts through the bottleneck, allowing one to break through to the foundation-building period. In that instant, the energy of heaven and earth penetrates the body, directly transcending the mundane and awakening.

  The awakening of modern civilization is also the moment when the energy of heaven and earth awakens from within to outside. This step is the same for everyone, it's a necessary step that every practitioner must take.

  Yang Tong washed for ten minutes and then jumped out of the waterfall, using his inner energy to dry himself. He began a new day of cultivation practice.

  Time passed day by day, and Yang Tong went out to hunt and kill barbarian beasts every day, from the initial exploration to the current hard collision, gaining insight into his will in the killing.

  Even with the cultivation method, Yang Tong did not give up on another path of awakening.

  Half a month later, one morning, Yang Tong broke through to the 9th layer of Qi Refining after refining the essence of the moon. His internal energy cultivation not only increased to the 8th layer but also broke through to the 9th layer, and Yang Tong successfully became a 9th-level apprentice martial artist. A 9th-level apprentice martial artist who was not yet thirteen years old would definitely shock all the geniuses in Luoxing City if the news got out.

  Yang Tong's knife skills are becoming more and more mature, his physical strength has reached one ton, combined with the Xue Lei knife method, the explosive power can be increased by nine times! This is still without the support of internal energy cultivation.

  Practicing Qi for nine layers, according to the records of "Yu Qing Secret Records", some low-level spells can be cultivated. Don't underestimate low-level spells, Yang Tong has experimented with them, and a single fireball spell can burn a low-to-medium level savage beast to death. With Yang Tong's current cultivation, he can launch over a hundred such fireball spells. The entanglement spell can immobilize a low-to-high level savage beast for three breaths.

  The reason why he progressed so quickly was because of Yang Tong's own good foundation in cultivation and the power of "Yu Qing Secret Record". Before cultivating "Yu Qing Secret Record", Yang Tong already had a level of eighth grade, and with his long-term practice of Tai Chi, he had also expanded his meridians. It was as if Yang Tong himself was an empty bottle with eight layers of Qi storage capacity, and after cultivating "Yu Qing Secret Record", he was filling this empty bottle with water. With the strong efficiency of the cultivation method itself, it's not surprising to have such an effect. After all, Yang Tong had been practicing since he was six years old, and his foundation of more than six years was not in vain.

  Yang Tong felt extremely happy, from the start of the copper coin, in less than half a year, there was such an astonishing progress, how could Yang Tong not be happy? Moreover, this is just the beginning, the powerful part of "Yu Qing Secret Record" is still behind.

  Don't forget, "Yu Qing Secret Records" is only the first volume of "Supreme Profound Origin Yu Qing Treasure Classic", there are two more volumes behind it, especially the second volume "Profound Origin Refining Treasure Technique". Yang Tong can't even touch the edge now, the immortal way has passed, and the tools and materials for refining instruments need to be prepared by Yang Tong himself. Buying materials may not be a problem, but buying a refining furnace is basically impossible.

  So, Yang Tong had made up his mind that after awakening, he would enter a higher academy for further study, majoring in spiritual tool manufacturing, and use modern technology to help him practice the "Xuan Tian Lian Bao Technique".

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