Chapter 26: Breakthrough! Iron Arm Fist Second Layer

Qin Jiang was stunned when he heard this. "Take them all off?"

Wang Minglang took a puff of his pipe, exhaled a cloud of white smoke, and grinned. "A half-grown boy still cares about this? There's no outsider, it's just us two, what are you afraid of?"

Qin Jiang's eyes shifted back and forth, nodding somewhat hesitantly. "Alright then."

After saying this, he started taking off his clothes directly.

"Hey, hey, hey, you're really taking them off? I was joking, just take off the upper body; the medicine bath is for the arms, not for those legs of yours." Wang Minglang hurriedly raised his hand to stop him.

*Inhale—! * Qin Jiang took a deep breath, silently took off his upper cloth garment, and jumped directly into the copper vat.

"Heh, see how wise I am? I knew from the beginning that I had to use a copper vat; if I had changed to a porcelain vat, it would have been stepped into pieces I don't know how many times!"

Wang Minglang, with his pipe in his mouth, used a long tube to draw water from the water trough into the copper vat.

Before long, the water in the copper vat had submerged Qin Jiang's shoulders, leaving only his head exposed.

No longer injecting water, Wang Minglang walked to the shelf on the left, grabbed a few herbs, walked to the right, picked up a mortar, and started pounding the medicine.

A moment later, the herbs were pounded into a paste. He carried the mortar to the copper vat. "Lift your arms."

Qin Jiang lifted his arms, and he directly grabbed the medicinal paste and smeared it on Qin Jiang's arms. In just a few seconds, the paste formed a soft shell on his arms.

"Alright, put them down," he said.

As his arms submerged in the water, it was as if a chemical reaction occurred, and the body temperature of his arms rose rapidly.

Wang Minglang walked to the side, took out a porcelain bottle from a hidden compartment, walked to the copper vat, and poured it into the water; it was a yellow liquid.

In an instant, a layer of yellow mist accompanied by a pungent odor volatilized, and at the same time, the clear water was rapidly dyed light yellow, and the heat in his arms climbed rapidly, becoming scorching hot.

Not idle, Wang Minglang walked to the herb shelf and pressed a button.

*Hoo~~! *

A rush of wind appeared under the copper vat, and in the blink of an eye, flames ignited.

Only then did Qin Jiang discover that there was a fire channel under the copper vat.

The water temperature in the copper vat gradually rose, and Wang Minglang picked up a few relatively fresh herbs from the herb shelf and came to the copper vat.

"After mastering the first layer, you should have already felt the existence of internal Qi. In the next few hours, you must control the internal Qi in your body with all your might to stay in your arms."

Hearing this, Qin Jiang closed his eyes directly and manipulated the internal Qi in his body to surge toward his arms. The scorching feeling became more intense as the water temperature in the copper vat rose.

Fine beads of sweat appeared on his forehead, time passed constantly, and Wang Minglang threw herbs into the copper vat from time to time.

I don't know how long it had been, but Qin Jiang could no longer perceive the change in time, only feeling his arms gradually becoming scorching, and in the end, there was even a feeling of being roasted.

Long after, it had darkened outside the window, and Wang Minglang wiped the sweat from his forehead.

He looked at Qin Jiang; this was Qin Jiang, after all. If it were someone else, he wouldn't have been so dedicated.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have to do anything else all day.

A moment later, Qin Jiang opened his eyes, and a faint light flashed by.

He looked into the copper vat; the originally light yellow water had turned dark green, and the burning sensation in his arms had disappeared, replaced by a warm and cool feeling.

"Alright, come out, I have something to tell you." Wang Minglang sat on a stool to the side, crossing his legs and smoking his pipe.

Qin Jiang jumped out of the copper vat, mobilized internal Qi to steam off the moisture, and put on his clothes. "What is it?"

*Inhale~* Wang Minglang took a puff of his pipe and exhaled slowly. "I saw what happened last night."

Qin Jiang's eyes changed slightly. "You saw it?"

Wang Minglang nodded slightly. "Hmm, your experience is still lacking, but I've handled it for you. If there's anything like this in the future, no need to hide it from me."

"By the way, just pretend you've never seen the words 'Jinyu Pavilion'; don't say you know if anyone asks in the future."

Qin Jiang nodded slightly. "Understood."

Wang Minglang smiled gratifiedly. "Good, go back."

Walking out of Wang Minglang's courtyard, Qin Jiang looked back at it and turned to leave silently.

On the way back to Shan Man Lou, he looked at the panel. 【Current Martial Arts】

Longevity Five Qi Technique (First Layer) (30/250)

Iron Arm Fist (Second Layer) (22/300)

Earth Dragon Body (First Layer) (19/200)

【Potential Points: 6.8】

Not only was the Iron Arm Fist raised to the second layer, but the Longevity Five Qi Technique and Earth Dragon Body were also affected, improving a bit.

Feeling the changes in his body, the skin was thicker and tighter, as if covered by a thin film, presenting a faint silver-gray color.

The internal Qi in his body had also increased significantly. If the internal Qi in his body was the thickness of a chopstick before, now it had reached the thickness of a finger!

Both the quantity and intensity were several times what they were before! "Haha, congratulations, Iron Arm Fist second layer. With your sister's help, you can directly become a big leader of the Red Tiger Gang!" Wang Minglang said with a smile.

In the outer city, except for a few important places guarded by gang disciples at the deacon level, most areas were the responsibility of big leaders.

It could be said that in these four outer city districts, a big leader was already considered high-level in the gang.

"Uncle Wang is too kind, I'm still far from it," Qin Jiang laughed.

"You kid, alright, go back and rest if there's nothing else. I also want to see how long it will take you to master the third layer of the Iron Arm Fist."

Wang Minglang tapped his pipe, then spoke again. "By the way, you were collecting herbs for Baiyun Physician before, right? Often going to Daheishan?"

Qin Jiang nodded. "Yes, but it's not every day."

"Then alright, don't go to Daheishan for a while; it's a bit uneasy over there," Wang Minglang said.

Qin Jiang frowned slightly. "Uneasy refers to?"

Wang Minglang loaded new tobacco and took a puff. "Well, it involves the County Lieutenant. Normally, only people at the Hall Master level of the Red Tiger Gang are qualified to know about such things."

"However, with your aptitude, becoming a Hall Master in the future is a sure thing, so telling you doesn't count as anything. This 'uneasy' actually refers to the crisis of weirdness."

"Weirdness?" Qin Jiang asked with some surprise.

He suddenly discovered that he didn't seem to understand this world; besides monsters, there were actually weird things.

"Yes, when you went to Daheishan to collect herbs before, you should have encountered fog, right? Occasionally, you would also see some black shadows appearing in the fog," Wang Minglang said.

Qin Jiang recalled the heavy fog he encountered on the day of his rebirth, and that humanoid black-haired monkey that still felt creepy when he thought about it.

However, "Isn't that a monster?" he asked.

Wang Minglang was stunned, then nodded knowingly. "Also, the appearance of some weird things is similar to monsters or even humans."

"However, the most obvious sign of weirdness is that pair of eyes, pitch-black and hollow, just like a whirlpool."

"Another thing is that when weirdness appears, it is often accompanied by weird fog; the thicker the fog, the stronger the weirdness."

Qin Jiang remembered that whether it was that black-haired monkey or the two fox demons, they all had those hollow eyes and were accompanied by fog. In other words, what he encountered were actually weird things, no wonder applying garlic was useless.

It was just that the weird fog accompanying the appearance of that black-haired monkey was a bit too thick, more than a hundred times thicker than that of the fox demons.

He had already walked through the gates of hell twice without knowing it.

"You must be careful; weirdness is different from monsters. Monsters generally don't hurt people, but weirdness is not; their behavior is unpredictable, and their ways of killing are strange and varied," Wang Minglang said.

Qin Jiang nodded. "Then how exactly is this weirdness formed?"

Wang Minglang shook his head. "Heaven and earth generate resentment, and weird fog is naturally formed. Under the infection of weird fog, weirdness is born by itself."

"Every time weirdness appears, it is often because a murder case has occurred in this area, and the deceased died extremely miserably."

"Even the weirdness in the wild is mostly in mass graves, battlefields, and the like. Back then, I heard that the Rong Kingdom and the Xiong Kingdom, which border us, once broke out in war."

"The two armies fought, with no less than thirty thousand people, countless casualties, and a weirdness was born that was strong beyond measure, directly swallowing the two armies clean!"

"Of course, this is a rumor; I don't know if it's true or false."

He took a puff of his pipe. If such weirdness really existed, how could the countries still fight? They would have been destroyed long ago!