Chapter 63: Longxiang Confluence, Internal Force Transformed into Qi!===GLOSSARY===

"Ah?" Chen Chuan stared, dumbfounded.

Superior Medicinal Bath, Body Tempering Pill—these are privileges reserved for the Song Family's key disciples.

For guards and martial instructors like them, unless they have great merit, they shouldn't even dream of such treatment.

"Miss, this… this isn't proper!" Chen Chuan said, steeling himself.

Although Miss Song is also of the direct line, Superior Medicinal Bath and Body Tempering Pills, aside from the Family Head and a few Elders, others have no authority to distribute them privately.

Miss Song wants to use the Song Family's resources to help Qin Shuo cultivate, but with her current status, she clearly cannot do so.

"His medicinal ingredient consumption will come entirely from my share."

As if seeing through Chen Chuan's thoughts, Miss Song added lightly.

Then she continued, "In these years I haven't been in the Song Family, is my cultivation share still intact?"

"Yes, yes!"

Chen Chuan forced down his inner shock, nodding repeatedly.

What evil has possessed the Miss? To actually give her cultivation resources to this brat.

Could it be that the Miss has taken a liking to this brat?

But the Miss clearly already has a fiancé!

Come to think of it, the Miss and her son-in-law are not on good terms.

Could this be the Miss's true love? No wonder she treats him so well.

If only I could be favored by the Miss, though I'm older and have a child…

Cough cough, I'm getting carried away!

Chen Chuan's mind was a tangled mess of starch, unable to discern the relationship between this handsome youth and the Miss.

But one thing he already understood: this youth before him is absolutely not someone he can provoke.

Bang!... Bang!... Bang!...

The silent impact sounds followed one after another.

Shoulders, back, hands, elbows, legs…

Qin Shuo utilized the rivets on the Dinghai Stake to pound and temper every inch of his skin, allowing force to instantly reach his entire body, forming a golden light film to resist external harm.

In his mind, he contemplated Longxiang Intent; each impact felt as if he harbored a dragon and elephant, his aura astonishing, occasionally accompanied by dragon and elephant roars from within his body.

This sound arises from the friction of rapidly gathering force against the film and muscles, and also signifies a certain level of comprehension of Longxiang Intent.

Qin Shuo devoted himself entirely to tempering the Longxiang Golden Body, sweating profusely, training until he reached 【236/】 before stopping.

He took out the Qi and Blood Powder purchased from the Wind and Thunder Pavilion, swallowed it with warm water, and continued cultivating.

Gradually, the dragon and elephant roars became more frequent.

From initially needing twenty or thirty attempts to produce one Longxiang Harmony, to now achieving it with every three to five heavy impacts.

If the Longxiang Monk learned that someone, in just half a day, had cultivated his self-created Longxiang Golden Body to the level of Longxiang Harmony.

He would likely be so shocked as to crawl out of hell to see what kind of monster this is.

Longxiang Harmony actually refers to the explosive sound produced when force flows through muscles and major tendons too quickly.

When these two sounds merge into one, it signifies that the cultivator has mastered the flow speed of force in muscles and major tendons, enabling dual flow unification, condensing force into a point for instantaneous explosion.

This technique is also called Longxiang Confluence, a killing move of the Longxiang Golden Body.

Back in the Black Dragon Stronghold, Yuan Gang used this move, making Qin Shuo feel the threat of death.

This method of condensing force into a point for explosive release, compared to the White Ape Mountain-Splitting's Three Origins Merging into One, where force transforms into blade, shares a wonderful similarity.

However, back then Yuan Gang had not achieved true Three Origins Merging into One, merely a simple Longxiang Confluence; otherwise, who would win or lose remains uncertain.

Now, having comprehended the mystery of Longxiang Confluence, Qin Shuo feels his internal force more refined, as if reaching a critical point.

Breaking through this critical point will bring about a qualitative change.

Thereafter, aside from eating and sleeping, Qin Shuo remained in the training room cultivating the Longxiang Golden Body.

When he felt deficient in qi and blood, he took medicinal pills; when fatigued, he had Chen Chuan prepare medicinal baths to relieve muscle fatigue.

Time passed unnoticed in this monotonous yet addictive training.

By the morning of the second day, Qin Shuo's Longxiang Golden Body progress had reached 【2682/】, already close to the level where blades cannot cut in and axes cannot harm.

Only then did he realize that Yuan Gang's Longxiang Golden Body had not truly achieved minor completion.

According to his estimation, when his refinement progress reaches 【5000/】, he will basically attain Yuan Gang's former level.

At that time, his entire body's force can instantly transform into defensive golden light; even a powerful bow and strong crossbow would struggle to kill him.

"It's time to take the Body Tempering Pill."

These days, he has been taking medicinal baths and Qi and Blood Powder to enhance his qi and blood recovery and relieve muscle fatigue.

Now, his physique has greatly improved compared to before, and he can safely use the Body Tempering Pill.

The Body Tempering Pill is a medicinal pill with extremely domineering potency.

For martial artists who wish to avoid the suffering of external training yet want to enhance their physique, using the Body Tempering Pill for tempering can to some extent increase bodily strength.

Of course, even using the highest-grade Body Tempering Pill for tempering cannot match the physique of a true external training martial artist.

But under equal conditions, a tempered martial artist is still stronger than an untempered one by a margin.

This is why the Body Tempering Pill is so popular in the prefectural city.

Especially for prominent clans like the Song Family, nearly all important disciples use the Body Tempering Pill to temper their bodies to enhance strength.

For external training martial artists, the Body Tempering Pill is also an excellent auxiliary medicinal pill, capable of accelerating the tempering process.

These past two days, after each training session, Qin Shuo receives one Body Tempering Pill from Chen Chuan, said to be a cultivation share gifted by Miss Song.

Adding the one given by Song Tianhao and the one he purchased himself.

At this moment, he holds a total of four Body Tempering Pills in his hand.

Let me see just how effective these Body Tempering Pills are, which the scions of aristocratic families all flock to.

Qin Shuo poured out a Body Tempering Pill from the porcelain bottle and placed it in his mouth.

Boom!

A vast surge of medicinal power dissolved in his mouth like a flood, rapidly spreading to his limbs and bones.

This medicinal power was extremely domineering, rampaging violently; if not for his formidable physique and the fact that his five viscera and six bowels had already been tempered, he would probably have been coughing up large mouthfuls of blood from the impact of this medicinal power.

"Too frenzied!" Qin Shuo's eyes turned bloodshot.

These medicinal powers not only flowed toward his torso and limbs, but also part of them surged upward to his skull, making his mind dazed and his head feel as if it were about to split open.

At the same time, he felt his entire blood circulating as if he had performed the Burning Blood Secret Technique, all of it boiling and burning into flames.

The only difference was that his qi and blood were not truly burned and consumed, but were tempered and purified, becoming ever more substantial and pure.

【Longxiang Golden Body (Entry 2683/)】

【Longxiang Golden Body (Entry 2783/)】

【Longxiang Golden Body (Entry 2883/)】

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As the medicinal power of the Body Tempering Pill took effect, Qin Shuo's Longxiang Golden Body refinement progress actually also surged rapidly.

In a short moment, it rose from (2682/) to (3482/).

Only then did the medicinal power begin to slowly wane, and the sensation of being burned all over, as if his whole body were immersed in magma, gradually faded.

"One Body Tempering Pill, increasing refinement progress by eight hundred!" Qin Shuo was utterly astonished.

The effect of this Body Tempering Pill is too strong.

You must know, this increase occurred while he had already entered the Longxiang Golden Body.

Being able to reach this extent is truly astonishing.

"If I were to consume all three remaining pills, wouldn't I be able to push the progress to (5882/), surpassing the Horizontal Training Realm that Yuan Gang originally belonged to?"

Qin Shuo could no longer sit still.

If that were truly the case, then his Longxiang Golden Body would undergo a great leap forward.

Without any hesitation, Qin Shuo took another Body Tempering Pill.

Similarly violent medicinal power, like a wild ox rampaging inside his body, carried an extreme heat, as if it wanted to ignite his entire person.

This process was very painful, but watching the progress bar continuously rise, Qin Shuo felt an unprecedented excitement.

【Longxiang Golden Body (Entry 4182/)】

However, what disappointed him was that this time, the progress bar increased not by eight hundred, but only by seven hundred—though that was still astonishing enough.

After all, as his physique strengthened, the effect of the Body Tempering Pill would gradually diminish.

As Qin Shuo had expected.

When he continued to consume the remaining two Body Tempering Pills, the increase in the progress bar dropped from seven hundred, rapidly declining to six hundred, then to five hundred.

Finally, after ingesting four Body Tempering Pills, Qin Shuo's Longxiang Golden Body was raised from (2682/) to (5282/), truly reaching the realm where blades cannot pierce and axes cannot harm.

At the same time, he felt a thread of warm air at his lower dantian, as if a small snake were slowly wriggling.

"This is... Inner Strength Transforming into Qi!?"

Qin Shuo opened his mouth wide, his pair of eyes shining like torches.