Chapter 258

Zhu Yong's incident did not affect anyone; the stone room returned to normal, and everyone started forging iron with all their might again.

But in fact, Xu Yang discovered that many people started to slack off, showing up for work but not putting in the effort, clearly wanting to use this method to strive for more time to stay here.

Once the ore refining was finished, they would have to leave.

Xu Yang was also slacking off a bit, focusing his mind mainly on the Diamond Body Technique, not caring much about contribution points.

At noon, everyone walked out of the stone room to eat, only then learning that Zhu Yong's fire poison was very severe, damaging his meridians and internal organs, and he was forced to leave early as he could no longer continue.

"What a waste, he didn't even know he was poisoned by fire."

"Greedy for merit and advancing blindly, thinking the fire poison of the Earth Vein Spiritual Fire is a game."

"In the path of martial arts, it's not enough just to be able to endure hardship."

Not many people sympathized with Zhu Yong; instead, some made sarcastic remarks, and Liu Youzhen and Song Yushao took the opportunity to sell some more Pulse-Protecting Pills and Ice Spirit Pills.

There were also a few people with sorrowful expressions; like Zhu Yong, they had long since run out of money and were relying on their Gang Qi to endure, not knowing when they would also suffer the same fate as Zhu Yong.

"Where did this mud-legged peasant get so much money?" Not far away, Yun Feng's eyes swept over Xu Yang from time to time.

Initially, Xu Yang being able to produce over two hundred silver taels had surprised him somewhat, but he never expected that after ten days or so, Xu Yang's Ice Spirit Pills and Pulse-Protecting Pills had never stopped.

Successively, he had actually spent over one thousand taels.

"Could it be that he went to do some killing and looting?" Yun Feng thought to himself.

The reason why outer sect disciples often died, with many not returning after leaving the sect gate, was often because it was done by their own people.

It was not just for money, but also for contribution points; he knew of some people from poor backgrounds who had done such things for money.

Xu Yang noticed Yun Feng's gaze but didn't pay much attention to it.

After eating the dried meat and flatbread, everyone entered the stone room again to continue refining the ore.

【Diamond Body Technique · Entry (1999/2000)】

Time flew by, and two days passed. On this day, while Xu Yang was swinging his iron hammer, he suddenly felt his Gang Qi faintly showing signs of rioting, only then discovering that the Diamond Body Technique had reached the edge of a breakthrough.

Glancing at the people in the stone room, he understood that breaking through the Diamond Body Technique here would inevitably be noticed by these people.

Xu Yang immediately dropped his hammer and ran out of the stone room, rushing out of the valley under the pretext of relieving himself.

Just as he sat down in a hidden place, his Gang Qi could no longer be suppressed, surging like a wild horse that had broken its reins.

"Rumble..."

A sound like a roaring river came from within Xu Yang's body, his Gang Qi surging through his flesh and meridians, quickly condensing.

In an instant, his muscles and bones rang in unison, his blood and Qi surged, and his body seemed to have begun a rebirth.

Invisible energy sprayed from his pores, propping up his clothes, and a conspicuous silver-white color quickly crawled onto his skin, emitting a dazzling brilliance; he looked like a silver-white metal man.

His skin was delicate and smooth, emitting a metallic luster.

"Bang bang..."

The sound of his muscles and bones condensing actually transmitted outside his body, and it was deafening, as if thousands of hammers were pounding inside.

Xu Yang only felt an indescribable comfort all over his body, as if a heavy armor had been removed from him; his whole person was incomparably relaxed, his flesh, blood, muscles, and bones were all emitting a kind of joy, in a state of rapidly becoming stronger.

With the Diamond Body Technique at Minor Success, his Gang Qi completely transformed into silver, and his physical body also underwent strange changes, his strength greatly increasing.

A formidable aura emanated from his body, and the plants around where he sat bent their heads one after another.

【Diamond Body Technique · Minor Success (1/4000)】

Xu Yang opened his eyes, able to feel that both the quality of his Gang Qi and the strength of his physical body had undergone earth-shaking changes; he felt that those martial artists who had just entered Minor Success in Gang Qi would probably not even be able to break his defense.