Chapter 154

Time passed quietly for several months in the days when Jie Ming was immersed in research and practice.

Charles's Body Elemental Tempering Technique and the Body Tempering Method were indeed simple enough, and there were enough research materials for reference, making Jie Ming's research progress in this aspect exceptionally smooth.

It only took a few months for Jie Ming to research a "Body Tempering Method" unique to himself.

This method absorbed the technical principles of Charles's Body Elemental Tempering Technique; the spiritual power controlled in the original body tempering method was replaced by elements, guiding elemental energy to temper himself and stimulate the deepest potential of the body.

So starting from a month ago, his body refining officially began.

The effect was significant.

Body-refining methods of the cultivation civilization all have a characteristic: because they study themselves more deeply, they can greatly improve the training effect through external resources.

These so-called resources, in addition to specific drugs and materials, the most important is spiritual energy.

Theoretically, as long as there is enough spiritual energy, the speed of physical improvement can reach a quite exaggerated result.

And the transformed body tempering method, in order to adapt to the environment of the wizarding world, the resources required naturally changed from spiritual energy to elements.

Coincidentally, what Jie Ming lacks the least is this thing!

Not to mention the elemental storage-type rune wizarding tool he researched himself, just the Tier 6 small-scale elemental pool he bought from Lei Ke for experiments before was enough for him to use for a long time.

He used the elemental energy stored in the small-scale elemental pool to constantly wash and temper his body.

Every elemental impact was accompanied by the tearing and reorganization of muscles, and the trembling and strengthening of bones.

His body became stronger at a speed visible to the naked eye, his muscle lines were smooth and full of explosive power, and his skin became tougher.

Clenching his fist lightly, one could even hear a faint explosion in the air.

Under the supply of massive resources, in just one month, Jie Ming's physical fitness underwent earth-shaking changes.

Of course, the disadvantage was also obvious—it improved too fast.

With the substantial improvement of physical fitness, Jie Ming gradually discovered that his control over his body had declined.

He became a bit "clumsy" and would unconsciously exert too much force when doing some fine operations.

During meditation, he would also occasionally affect the stability of his spirit due to the surge of physical strength.

This feeling of loss of control was not entirely negative, but it was a warning: the speed of physical strengthening had exceeded the control of his spirit and will.

What's more troublesome is that he could feel that there was still a large part of physical potential in his strengthened body that had not been fully developed.

Like a sleeping giant, waiting to be awakened.

If he continued to strengthen like this, facing the rapid decline of his ability to control his own body and the potential accumulated inside, the strengthening of the body would instead fall into a bottleneck.

He needed to synchronize his body and spirit and fully incorporate this surging power into his control.

How can one quickly master surging physical strength?

The best way, of course, is... to have a passionate fight!

In a thrilling fight, the body's instinct will quickly adapt to the power, and the spirit will be highly concentrated, mastering every bit of muscle explosion to the fullest.

Fortunately, Jie Ming does not lack sparring opponents at the current stage.

After discovering his problem, Jie Ming activated the spatial teleportation array and came to the Purgatory Sulfur plane.

This molten gold earth was still that violent and magnificent scene.

The air was filled with a strong smell of sulfur, and volcanoes in the distance were constantly spitting out scorching smoke and magma.

Jie Ming chose an area that had not yet been developed; this place had not been preliminarily cleared by the "construction team" and retained the most primitive ecological chain and the wildest life aura.

Without using the more hidden Eye of Detection, he released his spiritual sense and locked onto several giant magical beasts with fierce auras nearby.

Such an obvious spiritual sense detection was simply a naked provocation for these magical beasts.

As soon as they were discovered, the magical beast group immediately roared.

Jie Ming didn't use any wizardry either, relying only on his strong body tempered by elements, and rushed into the rioting magical beast group.

"Roar!"

A giant lava dog covered in volcanic rock armor rushed over first, carrying the fishy wind of sulfur and the scorching heat of magma.

Jie Ming advanced instead of retreating, his eyes flashing with light.

He clenched his fists, his muscles knotted, and threw a straight punch!

The air was squeezed and made an explosion, carrying the power of a thousand jun, directly smashing onto the lava dog's head.

Bang!

The hard rock armor crumbled like tofu under Jie Ming's pure physical strength.

The lava dog let out a sad cry, its huge body was blown away by a punch, and it hit the scorched black rock wall in the distance heavily, leaving a huge depression.

But this was just the beginning.

More magical beasts were attracted by the fluctuations of the battle; they had different forms, some were physically strong, and some could spit poisonous fire.

Jie Ming shuttled through the beast group, every punch and every kick carrying the great force of tearing the air.

He didn't dodge, nor did he defend, letting the magical beasts' sharp claws tear, poisonous liquid corrode, and flames burn.

He just swung his fists again and again, feeling every contraction and every explosion of his muscles.

Pain!

Severe pain deep into the bone marrow!

Every time he was scratched by sharp claws, splashed by corrosive poisonous liquid, or burned by lava spray, Jie Ming could feel severe pain.

But he didn't shrink back; instead, he turned this pain into a more precise perception of his body.

He tried to use less force to subdue his opponents, use more tricky angles to avoid vital points, and use shorter distances to erupt with stronger power.

It took a few days, and with the all-out "contribution" of many magical beasts, Jie Ming clearly felt that his body control ability was recovering.

That feeling of loss of control gradually faded, replaced by a sense of doing whatever one wants with power.

"Not enough."

Jie Ming felt his body.

The problem of loss of control of power had been solved, but the potential accumulated in his body had not been digested at all.

This showed that this degree of tempering could no longer satisfy his needs.

He needed an opponent who could force his physical strength to the limit and also allow him to withstand higher-level damage.

His gaze finally locked onto the top predator in this area—a Flame Lord at the Tier 2 living being stage.

That Flame Lord occupied a position near a huge volcano; it was not a flesh-and-blood body, but was condensed from pure flames and lava.

Its form was as tall as a mountain, and its whole body was burning with scorching flames.

As soon as Jie Ming approached, this Flame Lord let out a deafening roar, and the magma surged accordingly, as if the entire volcano was responding to its anger.

"Well come!" Jie Ming's eyes were full of fighting spirit.

He took a deep breath, and the elemental energy in his body accelerated the tempering of his body under the operation of the "Body Tempering Method".

He rushed toward the Flame Lord, his speed as fast as lightning, leaving two rows of footprints on the scorched ground.

The Flame Lord noticed the provocation of this creature, and its huge lava arm slammed out, carrying scorching fire waves, directly slapping toward Jie Ming.

Jie Ming did not dodge or evade, and swung his fist to meet it!

Boom!

A deafening loud noise, Jie Ming's fist and the lava arm collided violently.

The terrifying counter-shock force spread throughout his body along his arm, and every inch of bone was making an unbearable groan.

Jie Ming's body was instantly blown back by dozens of meters, and two deep gullies were plowed out of the scorched earth under his feet.

During the battle, Jie Ming did not activate any defensive wizardry, and didn't even apply a basic shield.

This also caused scorching severe pain to come from his arm, his skin was burned by high temperature, revealing large areas of scorched marks.

However, Jie Ming was excited.

This power!

This pain!

He could clearly feel that under the violent impact and scorching, the cells on his arm were dying and regenerating crazily.

And every time it regenerated, it carried a trace of improvement in resistance to flames.

Those cells that were burned, when regenerating, seemed to learn how to better resist flames, forming a deep-seated protective mechanism.

Unlike Qi Refining, body cultivation was born to obtain stronger combat power.

So even the most basic body cultivation method has the characteristic of infinite evolution in battle.

And when Jie Ming was researching, he naturally deliberately retained this characteristic of the body tempering method.

The Flame Lord saw that one blow failed and let out an angry roar.

More flame runes lit up around its body, and the fire elements in the air were crazily extracted, condensing into thick lava fire pillars, bombarding Jie Ming like a fountain.

Jie Ming shuttled through the fire pillars; his speed was extremely fast, but he didn't completely dodge.

He deliberately let those fire pillars graze his body and even resisted a few times directly.

Every contact, severe pain would make his body tremble, but after that pain, a warm current would come from the depths of his body, and the cells would be repaired under the action of elements and become tougher.

Pfft!

A fire pillar hit Jie Ming's chest head-on.

He let out a muffled groan, his body was knocked flying, and he fell heavily to the ground.

The magic robe on his chest instantly turned into ashes, revealing a scorched black skin, and even scorched muscle tissue could be seen.

The Flame Lord took advantage of the situation to approach, its huge lava sole raised, carrying the momentum of collapsing mountains, and stepped down toward Jie Ming!

Jie Ming endured the severe pain and rolled to avoid it.

He knew that the power of this Flame Lord had exceeded the limit of his current body.

He could feel the fatigue deep in his body; if he continued to fight, even if he could improve through the "Body Tempering Method", it would very likely cause irreversible damage.

What he pursued was tempering, not self-destruction.

"That's it for today, bye-bye!" Jie Ming grinned at the pain on his body.

He stomped his foot, the flight rune wizarding tool activated, his body turned into a residual shadow, and he quickly fled toward the distance.

The Flame Lord let out an unwilling roar, but Jie Ming's speed was extremely fast, and in the blink of an eye, he disappeared into the rolling sulfur smoke.

Jie Ming fled the battlefield in a sorry state, with scorched marks all over his body, and in some places, even bones were exposed, but a satisfied smile was on his face.

The effect was obvious!

He could clearly feel that his body had been tempered like never before in the fight with the Flame Lord.

After the injury completely healed, the potential accumulated in his body should be able to be realized to a large extent, and his physical fitness could rise another level.

And because of the special nature of the "Body Tempering Method", he could feel that his body had a substantial improvement in resistance to flames after healing.

"Short-term goal, first let my body fully adapt to flame damage and obtain high resistance to flame damage!" Jie Ming clenched his fists, feeling the vitality in his body.

"Long-term goal..." Jie Ming looked up at the sky covered by sulfur clouds, his eyes flashing with light, "Obtain resistance to all elemental damage!"

Thank you to the big boss for the alliance leader reward; according to the habits of the world, I should add updates, but the author is really too tired these past two days.

A bunch of things are entangled, and I have to take care of updates, and the saved manuscripts have been exhausted.

I will add updates to thank you after adjusting my state in two days.

(End of chapter)