Chapter 237: Chapter 212: Supreme Physical Martial Arts_1
Lu Yan had mastered seven of the Body Refining Martial Arts to the level of Unity of Man and Martial Arts. He was itching to complete the last two.
After persisting for two days, Lu Yan finally surrendered and negotiated with Guan Shan. He gently coerced and persistently nagged Guan Shan until he got the last Immortal Bone from his hand.
Guan Shan was left with only a single Immortal Horn.
Guan Shan clearly expressed that he could not give the Immortal Horn to Lu Yan as it was one of the few mementos left behind by Chu Chenzhou that he kept as a memory.
After obtaining the Immortal Bone, Lu Yan did not immediately consume it.
He was afraid of wasting it.
He started to contemplate the speed Martial Arts.
A month later, Lu Yan had managed to practice three speed Martial Arts to the novice level.
Only then did Lu Yan regulate the Dao Book, swallowing that piece of Immortal Bone to enhance his Body Refining Martial Arts.
A bit more than a day later, the eighth and ninth Martial Arts achieved Unity of Man and Martial Arts.
Immediately, the nine Body Refining Martial Arts fused together, rapidly combining, and erupting into a dazzling radiance.
As the radiance dissipated and all nine elements united, Lu Yan felt a unique energy influx permeating his body. His body began a drastic transformation, as if he was undergoing a metamorphosis.
Blood, bone, organs, everything was transforming.
A few hours later, Lu Yan’s transformation was complete. A layer of dusky impurities covered the surface of his skin.
After cleaning himself, Lu Yan felt refreshed and invigorated.
Upon careful sensing, he found that without using Body Refining Martial Arts, his body seemed to have become several times stronger than before.
Beside the Dao Book, of the nine Body Refining Martial Arts Avatars, only one remained with writing on its head: Top Martial Arts, unnamed, Unity of Man and Martial Arts.
"Before the great battle of Kunwu Mountain, I swallowed two Immortal Bones, and during this period, I swallowed another two. The Dao Book appears to have a new change. Let’s go test it outside," Lu Yan said.
Lu Yan left the City Lord’s Mansion and headed towards the mountains outside the city.
With a thought, three Avatars appeared beside him.
Yes, indeed, he could now simultaneously summon three Avatars.
"Let’s test the distance."
A thought crossed his mind and the three Avatars dashed off in three different directions, returning shortly after.
"Ten miles, the operable distance has been doubled."
"Good, the wish to let my Avatar battle thousands of miles away without moving myself is getting closer."
Lu Yan was quite eager.
He then withdrew his Avatars and with a low shout, his body began to undergo a transformation.
His muscles became slightly prominent, and a layer of dark golden light spread across his skin’s surface. Dark golden scales began to cover his body, resembling armour.
"After nine types combine into one, when I activate the Body Refining Martial Arts, the transformation is not as significant as before. My body’s proportions are more harmonious, but this strength.." Lu Yan said.
Lu Yan targeted a mound several miles away.
Thud!
Bending his legs slightly, he forcefully propelled himself forward. The earth beneath his feet erupted, creating a large pit. His body had already shot out 800 meters away.
En route, a large tree obstructed his path and was promptly broken in half by his body.
Thud!
He landed sturdily, the ground beneath him exploded into another crater.
With a few leaps, Lu Yan arrived in front of the mound, striking its cliff face with a punch.
Boom!
The entire mound trembled, stones flew everywhere, a huge pit appeared in the cliff face, and hairline cracks formed and extended in all directions from it.
Following that, Lu Yan came to a towering tree which needed two people to fully embrace. Wrapping his arms around the tree, he took a deep breath and yanked upwards.
The roots of the tree visibly separated from the earth, and numerous snake-like roots were yanked out.
Boom!
Lu Yan dropped the tree on the ground.
"The supreme Physical Martial Arts, it’s truly strong. With such a powerful force and needless to mention the defense."
Lu Yan was grinning from ear to ear.
In some respects, Body Refining Martial Arts are more challenging to cultivate than other Martial Arts.
Not mentioning its slow cultivation speed, the conditions for its advancement are usually stringent as well.
Some Body Refining Martial Arts are similar to Heart Tempering Decision, needing catalysts during their breakthrough phases.
This cannot be achieved purely through comprehension.
Therefore, few people can cultivate a Body Refining Martial Art to the level of Unity of Man and Martial Arts.
Let alone a Top Martial Arts level Body Refining Martial Arts.
Achieving a Supreme Physical martial skill not only greatly increased Lu Yan’s power, but also his ability to hold his own in a life or death situation.
If he had to face Spirit Sect’s Duo Zhu again, he felt confident that he would be able to match him without any assistance.
His defense would be unbreakable.
"What to name it?" Lu Yan pondered.
"The nine Body Refining Martial Arts undeniably have Divine Jiao Body as the most potent one. After executing it, the manifested changes are also the most conspicuous. It might as well be named Divine Jiao Gold Body," Lu Yan murmured.
Immediately, the words on the Body Refining Martial Arts Avatar’s head changed: Top Martial Arts, Divine Jiao Gold Body, Unity of Man and Martial Arts.
Having accomplished the Body Refining martial arts, up next was to level up the speed-related Martial Arts.
But now he lacked Immortal Bones, he could only slowly level up by consuming Martial Food.
Third-grade Martial Food primarily increased one’s Cultivation Level.
Second-grade Martial Food raised Martial Arts.
Because, after reaching the Master Level, Lu Yan found that consuming second-grade Martial Food was extremely slow, almost negligible, in increasing his inner strength.
Fortunately for him, there was good news.
After months of research, Lu Wenxuan was finally able to cook third-grade Martial Food. Because of this, Lu Yan didn’t need to bother Guan Shan all the time anymore.
Moreover, the breeding of Alien Beasts was gradually shaping up.
Before, Lu Yan had bought some second-level alien beasts and recipes in the various master-level feudal lord factions. He put them on Changfeng’s second-level hidden blood land vein and Li’an City’s second-level blood land vein.
Although the alien beast meat he had now was mostly from beasts killed in battle on Kunwu Mountain.
But those alien meats would eventually be used up. If he wanted a constant and sustainable supply, he would need to breed them himself.
Before he knew it, half a month had passed.
Lu Yan received news that people from the Mansion of King Ming had finally arrived.
Both the Ding Family and the Zhao Clan were led by Grand Masters heading towards Kunwu Mountain.
Upon hearing the news, Grandmasters from various factions all set off for Kunwu Mountain.
The Feudal Lords such as the Qiu Family, the Ouyang Family, and the Fang Family, who had produced Martial Spirits, were incredibly nervous, fearing punishment from the Mansion of King Ming.
Yet they had to go, they could only move forward, no matter how difficult.
Lu Yan, riding on Blood Slaughter, arrived at Kunwu Mountain first, joined by Guan Shan.
Then, the Grandmasters of factions such as the Li Family and the Gao Family arrived one after the other.
On the third day, Zhao Tianyang and others, accompanied by seven men in purple tight-fitting robes, entered Kunwu Mountain.
The seven men were big and tall, with an imposing bearing, their presence like that of a tiger’s.
Their purple robes were embroidered with gold trim.
"They’re the bodyguards of King Ming."
Guan Shan whispered.
Lu Yan had a thought in his mind.
He had heard Guan Shan talking about the main structure of King Ming’s Mansion.
The military power of King Ming’s Mansion was mainly divided into three parts.
King Ming’s Army, King Ming’s Forbidden Guard Army, and King Ming’s Bodyguards.
King Ming’s Mansion reportedly had three hundred thousand members in King Ming’s Army.
And within King Ming’s army, there were no warriors who had undergone Limit Breaking twice. The weakest of them were those who had undergone Limit Breaking thrice.
The Forbidden Guard Army of King Ming consisted of thirty thousand individuals. No Limit Breaking warriors were allowed. The weakest of those in the Forbidden Guard Army were Martial Marquis.
That is to say, they were an army made up of Martial Marquis.
As for King Ming’s bodyguards, it was said that there were only three thousand people, and they were all strong and formidable.
Lu Yan carefully observed the seven bodyguards of King Ming.
Based on their Qi, these seven bodyguards of King Ming were all Grandmasters.
"Greetings to the seven masters."
All the grandmasters of the major feudal lords bent in reverence.
Only Guan Shan, with his hands behind his back, stood still.
The leading bodyguard of King Ming nodded, walked in front of Guan Shan, fist-bumped him, and said, "Brother Guan, it has been a hundred years since we last met, I trust you have been well."
"So it’s you, Yuchi Zhong. It seems that your cultivation level has improved rapidly over the years. I suppose you are nearing completion in refining the five internal organs and will soon progress to the six internal organs."
Guan Shan nodded, looked at the person in front of him, a complicated look in his eyes.
Yuchi Zhong looked like a large man in his fifties, but his actual age was well over a hundred.
Back when they were at King Ming’s Mansion, Yuchi Zhong’s cultivation level and talents were far inferior to his.
But now, he had already far surpassed him.
Kunwu Mountain, despite being a third-level blood land vein and being plentiful in meats of alien beasts, and even though both master and apprentice were Martial Chef Grandmasters,
Up against the resources of King Ming’s Mansion, how could they compete?
The past hundred years passed by in the blink of an eye, and everything had changed.
"Almost there."
Yuchi Zhong nodded and said, "Where is the Prince? I heard he was killed by a Martial Spirit. Speaking of which, the Prince was also kind to me in the past. If it weren’t for that incident back then... Ah, where is the Prince’s tomb? We must pay our respects."
"The Prince?"
The grandmasters of the various factions in Lingdong looked at each other in astonishment as they heard, their hearts filled with shock.
Could it be that Chu Chenzhou and Guan Shan of Kunwu Mountain had such a past?
They felt a cold shiver seeping into their hearts.
"Follow me."
Guan Shan said, then turned and walked away.
Seven of King Ming’s bodyguards followed him, and Lu Yan and the others also trailed behind them.
After paying their respects to Chu Chenzhou, they started inspecting the corpse of the Martial Spirit.
Although the experts from the Spirit Sect had died and the black shadows in their bodies had dissipated, their bodies had been permeated by the power of the Martial Spirit for many years. Even if only fragments of the corpses remained, the Mansion of King Ming would have methods to examine them.
Guan Shan knew this, and so, after the battle on Kunwu Mountain, he ordered people to gather the remains of the Spirit Sect members for examination by King Ming’s Mansion.
The body of a Grandmaster was highly resistant to decay. The corpses that were refined by the power of the Martial Spirit were even more resistant, and they could be preserved for decades without problems.
"Chen Hao, you come and check it out."
Yuchi Zhong ordered.
A thin man in his thirties walked over, picked up a piece of the corpse, and sniffed it closely. He said, "Indeed, it contains magic power. But for the specifics, we need to take it back to the Mansion of King Ming for experts to analyze."
"The Spirit Sect is becoming more and more rampant, even the remote areas like the six counties of Lingdong are not spared."
Yuchi Zhong said coldly.
Guan Shan’s expression changed, he said, "Are you suggesting that there is evidence of the Spirit Sect’s activities outside Lingdong?"
"Of course, and it’s more serious than you imagine."
"Within the three states of Ming, Yun, and Xuan, the figures of the Martial Spirits can appear from time to time, and in recent years, there have been frequent Magic catastrophes. But King Ming, adhering to the law of Da Chu, instantly deploys troops to kill as soon as the Martial Spirits show up, so within the borders of the three states, the Martial Spirits ultimately cannot pose a threat."
"But in the other states, it’s hard to say. Some feudal princes even resort to the power of Martial Spirits to attack other feudal princes."
Yuchi Zhong said.
Guan Shan said gravely, "The Spirit Sect’s strength has actually developed to this extent?"
"Monsters emerge in chaotic times, what can be done about it? It’s a pity that King Ming is not the universal ruler, otherwise, he would never tolerate such rampant unorthodox practices."
Yuchi Zhong said.
