Chapter 29: Chapter 29: Passive Body Forging
He hadn’t felt anything when he put on the helmet just now.
How could it be that two hours had passed, and it was only now kicking in?
’Are my reflexes slower than a T-Rex’s?’
Yang Shen clutched his stomach, feeling his whole body twitching.
He wasn’t in excruciating pain, but the sensation was definitely far from comfortable!
’No... I won’t even make it to school if this keeps up.’
The school wouldn’t take responsibility for anything that happened off-campus. He had to at least get his condition under control.
So, Yang Shen resorted to the only method that might work.
Cultivation!
Ignoring the passersby, Yang Shen sat in a half-lotus position, his hands forming a circle like a crescent moon, hovering slightly above his navel.
He had been getting faster and faster at entering a state of Cultivation, but this time, the strange reaction from his body was a major distraction. It took him a full ten minutes to successfully circulate the Qi Cultivation Guiding Technique.
The "Source" in the air was gradually guided into his five viscera and six bowels, and the Pip-Boy on his wrist began to display notifications for "+0.1 Qi and Blood Value".
As he calmed his mind and cultivated, his brain finally managed to suppress the cyber-zen BGM in his head.
In the preceding half-hour, Yang Shen had been fully exposed to a special piece of music specifically designed to enhance the "earworm effect," and he remembered it more vividly than anyone else.
The stronger ones among the others couldn’t get it into their heads, while the weaker ones spent most of their energy resisting the pain.
Now, by replaying it in his cerebral cortex, he was actually producing a real "Body Forging effect."
The only problem was, it was as if his "ESC" key had been pried off in a video game—he couldn’t stop it!
Yang Shen tried repeatedly. The moment he stopped his Cultivation, the BGM would resurface in his mind.
Then he would be forced to start cultivating again just to get a moment of peace.
He was essentially crowd-controlled on the spot. It was beyond annoying!
From seven in the evening until eleven at night, a full four hours, he was unable to move. If he weren’t now considered the "adult" of the Yang Family, with no one to look after him, his family would have been worried sick by now.
Only when the night grew deeper did Yang Shen wearily exhale a turbid breath.
He still hadn’t managed to turn off that damn BGM.
But it seemed he had learned to "lower the volume"...
The "Buddha Sound Body Refining Technique" in his mind was now at about 10% of its full power, a tolerable level.
Yang Shen opened his system and, sure enough, saw the "Buddha Sound Body Refining Technique" had appeared in the section for Cultivation Techniques mastered by the Clan Leader...
’Did I really learn it?’
This was the one and only case the Vajra Sect couldn’t find even if they searched with a lantern!
"Body Forging Without Material"!
As long as he replayed the music in his mind, he could strengthen his physical body anytime, anywhere...
He instinctively wanted to contact Shi Yuehai and ask if there were any side effects, but the thought of the Vajra Temple inevitably conducting "long-term follow-ups" or even "long-term monitoring" on him made him dismiss the idea.
’For now, the current 10% intensity shouldn’t cause any injuries... If a problem really does arise, quickly sitting down to cultivate is a viable solution.’
’I can’t let the Vajra Sect find out. It would be too easy to expose my other secrets.’
He was willing to reveal some of his "miracles" to his family, as his whole purpose was to cultivate an "Immortal Race" and give his family a better life.
But he wasn’t foolish enough to tell his secrets to these large corporations...
"I was just saying I wanted to learn some Horizontal Martial Arts Training after starting college to get taller, and now, by a strange twist of fate, I actually have one... And this is a high-level Cultivation Technique that costs 108,000 yuan a year!"
’No... that’s just the Vajra Temple’s tentative price. Given its miraculous effect of "Body Forging Without Material," it’s probably worth far more.’
’It might not even be released on the open market. It’s more likely to become a "Secret Inheritance" or a "Unique Secret Technique"!’
Yang Shen clicked his tongue twice and thought, ’Still, I can’t be too optimistic. In any case, if I feel like I can’t handle it in the next few days...’
’I’ll just make a run for the school.’
’I have to at least hold on until I’m past the school gates before I collapse.’
Yang Shen let out a long breath and checked his watch. It was almost twelve o’clock.
His aunt was on the night shift, leaving just the four kids at home. A lot had happened today, but as the "Clan Leader," he had to go back and anchor the family’s destiny.
Since obtaining the system, although he hadn’t done a perfect job, he had gradually developed the mindset of a "Clan Leader."
’The Qi Cultivation Ancestor is heading home.’
The Jinshui District at night was not bustling. In fact, you could even call it boring. The faint smell of dust permeated the air.
If not for the reasonably busy restaurant behind him, there probably wouldn’t be any sign of life at all.
However, as Yang Shen rounded a corner, he ran straight into someone.
The other person’s Power was considerable; they clearly had some Martial Cultivation. Because they were also wearing a Nanliang High School uniform, Yang Shen took a second look...
"Uh, sorry..."
The person didn’t speak, instead turning to look Yang Shen up and down, their gaze finally landing on his backpack.
That was where he had the Vajra Sect supplement kit he had received today...
After they brushed past each other, Yang Shen recalled that the person seemed to be one of the "Lucky Students" from earlier that day... He had a vague impression of them as one of the four students who had lasted until the very end.
Aside from himself, everyone else had endured through sheer force of their Martial Arts Realm. This underclassman was probably a top student as well.
’Just wonder what a student is doing out so late.’
Having brushed past him, Yang Shen didn’t think much of it and continued on his way...
....
When he got home, it was, as expected, completely quiet. Lei Lv and Lei Yi were curled up in their bedding on the floor.
When the door opened, Lei Lv’s eyes snapped open warily, but upon seeing it was Yang Shen, he went back to sleep.
It seemed he had deliberately chosen a spot near the door.
He only had an hour left for Cultivation tonight, but he planned to familiarize himself with the "Buddha Sound Body Refining Technique" instead.
On the way back, the "earworm effect" had acted up a few more times, but Yang Shen’s method of adjusting the volume was becoming more and more practiced.
Arriving at the Celestial Platform, Yang Shen felt the changes in his body.
The mechanism of the Buddha Sound Body Refining Technique was miraculous; it could directly stimulate the Inner Viscera, which were difficult to temper in the initial realms!
Besides conventional Body Forging, strengthening the Inner Viscera was one of its other amazing effects.
Currently, the efficiency of the "Buddha Sound Body Refining Technique" was nowhere near that of practicing the "Sixth Set of Initial Realm Body Refining Fist" at sunrise to manifest the Rising Sun Fist Intent.
Gauging it roughly, if the efficiency of the Rising Sun Fist Intent was a "10," then the Buddha Sound Body Refining Technique was currently in the 1 to 1.5 range...
But this was passive Body Forging.
No time limits, no equipment required...
While eating, during class, while taking a dump... as long as Yang Shen thought of the "BGM," he would enter a state of Body Forging.
Yang Shen even felt it could work while he was sleeping, as long as he could actually fall asleep.
Martial Arts Cultivation wasn’t a perpetual motion machine. It required "Source" to be converted into "Qi and Blood Value" to raise one’s realm.
But "Sourceless Body Refining" wasn’t completely useless, either. It could allow him to infinitely approach the absolute limit of his current realm!
Over and over, without end.
This Cultivation Technique was truly groundbreaking, a one-of-a-kind marvel in the thousand-year history of Martial Arts inheritance!
’What does "No one can defeat me in my BGM" even mean?’
’Has my BGM ever stopped?’
After thinking all this through, Yang Shen paradoxically began to focus on the sound in his mind, lest he forget it in a few days.
On the Celestial Platform, Yang Shen sat cross-legged, continuously feeling the twitching of his muscles as he began to learn and familiarize himself with the process.
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The next morning, Yang Shen finished breakfast and headed to school as usual.
Last night, he hadn’t replaced sleep with Cultivation. Instead, he had spent the whole night on his cyber-chanting, so he was a bit tired.
Yawning as he walked down the familiar street, he was about to buy breakfast for Xu Bamboo as usual when he found the road was blocked off.
A police officer raised a hand to stop him. "This area is closed off, son. Go around."
Yang Shen peered past the barrier but couldn’t see anything specific, only seven or eight police cars parked there. It looked serious...
High school students are curious about this sort of thing, but they’re not dumb enough to force their way in. He nodded and left.
He hadn’t gone more than a few steps when he came across two students from his school, whispering about something.
"Last night, across from my place... that Weizhen Homestyle Cooking restaurant, something happened!"
"Huh? For real?"
"Why would I lie? Someone with Martial Arts Psychosis rushed in and killed three people, and injured seven!"
"That’s horrible!"
"If the chef hadn’t had a bit of a Martial Cultivation foundation and held him off until the police arrived, I heard the guy was planning to kill everyone inside, specifically targeting ordinary people!"
Yang Shen frowned slightly.
Weizhen Homestyle Cooking... that was the restaurant where he had been holed up cultivating yesterday.
One of the girls said, "And you know what the craziest part is?"
"There’s something even more shocking?"
"I glanced at the group chat this morning. They’re saying the person with Martial Arts Psychosis is a student from our school!"
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