Chapter 63

Other world.

Underground temporary camp.

"There's a month of winter break, I can explore this place properly... After breaking through to the Unpolished Jade Realm, even without using a laser gun, my strength should at least not be inferior to a late-stage or even perfect-stage Qi Condensation cultivator, right?"

Fang Xing sat cross-legged with a medicine bottle in front of him.

After opening it, he saw a snow-white pill roll out—it was the 'Primordial Pill'!

"The quality of Qing Dan Fang is still trustworthy... and this bottle has never been opened."

He stood up and began to practice the Great Dragon Stake and the Crouching Tiger Stake step by step.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

His breathing was like a dragon, his movements like the wind. The secret room was almost like having an extra large furnace, and the temperature around him kept rising.

During the dynamic exercises, Fang Xing could feel his skin, flesh, tendons, and bones all moving in unison...

The Blue Star Federation's Martial Way, the first realm of skin and flesh and the second realm of tendons and bones, had already been walked through by him!

His current physique could be called Jade Skin, Profound Flesh, Willow Tendons, and Steel Bones!

It was simply the ultimate peak that a martial artist of the first two realms could reach!

He even had a vague premonition that even without taking the pill, as long as he persevered, he would definitely be able to break through within three to six months!

This was the benefit of a solid foundation!

"But I obviously don't have that much time... How precious is the winter break? I still have to explore this world properly!"

"What's more, when martial artists fight, one step fast means every step is fast! What I like most is never fighting an unprepared battle; it's best to suppress people with my realm every time!"

"What martial spirit is just punching the stronger? Since ancient times, the Martial Way has been one horizontal and one vertical; the winner stands, the loser lies down. Only the one standing can speak reason, and whatever they say is right; if you lose, whatever you say is wrong!"

Fang Xing's eyes were firm as he swallowed the 'Primordial Pill' into his stomach.

The feeling brought by the 'Primordial Pill' was completely different from other physique-tempering pills.

As he moved the Qi and blood in his stomach to actively digest the pill, Fang Xing felt strands of cool intent spreading along his abdomen, gradually permeating his own internal organs...

The Unpolished Jade Realm! Known as the human body's unpolished jade, it is the continuous flow of internal breath, perfect and integrated!

Simply put, after tempering the skin, flesh, tendons, and bones, one begins to go from the outside in. After the external skills are perfected, internal breath is naturally generated!

Then, one circulates the internal breath to temper the internal organs!

When the internal organs are polished to perfection and the internal breath is integrated, it is the peak of Unpolished Jade, the perfection of the human body, and one can attempt to open the Mud Pill Palace and break through to the Courage and Resolve Realm!

Whoosh... inhale...

Fang Xing's breath was long and continuous, feeling the strands of cool intent dispersing and being easily accepted and digested by his own strong body... In his internal organs, 'sprouts' seemed to emerge.

That was... internal breath!

Or according to the martial artists of this world, it was Primordial True Qi!

"Sure enough, it's as easy as turning one's hand, as if it were a matter of course!"

He exhaled a long breath and looked at his fingers.

Pfft!

As his mind moved, Primordial True Qi several inches long suddenly emerged from his fingertips.

It was extremely flexible and carried a sharp intent.

"Previously, mastering blade light and sword light relied on Rank A martial arts to push them; now, it's internal breath circulating throughout the body, doing whatever I want..."

Fang Xing muttered and looked at the attribute bar:

【Name: Fang Xing】

【Age: 17】

【Profession: Martial Artist】

【Third Realm: Unpolished Jade (Internal Organs: 11/100)】

【Military Fist Twelve Forms: 53/200 (Proficient)】

【Great Dragon Stake: 5/400 (Master)】

【Crouching Tiger Stake: 69/200 (Proficient)】

【Ghost God Blade: 37/100 (Skilled)】

【Extreme Emotion Sword: 8/100 (Skilled)】

【Dragon Elephant Gong: 5/100 (Entry)】

【Gate of Heavens (Charging)】

"The Primordial Pill's effect is not bad. After starting the internal organ cultivation, it could actually help push the proficiency a bit..."

Glancing at the realm, Fang Xing couldn't help but reveal a look of satisfaction: "A seventeen-year-old Unpolished Jade Realm martial artist, that counts as a genius on Chick Star, right? After all, Gu Yun is still struggling in the second realm..."

"This world is indeed full of treasures!"

Of course, he knew the root cause of his rapid martial progress and wanted to exert this advantage even more thoroughly.

"The cultivation of an Unpolished Jade martial artist is to constantly accumulate internal breath and temper the internal organs... When the internal organs are perfect and integrated, one can break through to the Fourth Martial Realm!"

"In the market, there are also pills suitable for Primordial martial artists... Although they are more expensive and use raw materials for pills that increase mana for early-stage Qi Condensation, they can indeed greatly increase Primordial True Qi..."

Fang Xing's gaze moved downward. He had already abandoned the Military Fist, but due to the breakthrough of various martial arts and realms, the proficiency had still increased a bit.

The Great Dragon Stake and the Crouching Tiger Stake were the foundations of his daily hard practice, but unfortunately, they were a bit difficult to increase.

There was nothing to say about the Ghost God Blade and the Extreme Emotion Sword; they were just applications of moves that required more actual combat.

As for the final Dragon Elephant Gong?

"After becoming Unpolished Jade and possessing Primordial True Qi, it seems to be quite beneficial for the Dragon Elephant Gong?"

In Fang Xing's spirit, he visualized the Dragon Elephant Jin Gang Powerful Bodhisattva. His whole body's Qi and blood surged, and countless strands of Primordial True Qi were dense and continuous, as if intertwined with each other, jointly weaving pieces of 'dragon scales'!

And on his skin, there seemed to be an extra layer of invisible 'elephant armor'!

"This is Dragon Scales and Elephant Armor! After entering the gate of the Dragon Elephant Gong, the defense is indeed greatly increased... As for the strength increase? I don't feel much yet, maybe it's because my martial arts have been advancing by leaps and bounds and my strength has been growing..."

"With this layer of Dragon Scales and Elephant Armor, it feels like wearing a layer of iron armor on the outermost layer, a layer of thick leather armor in the middle, and finally my own physique—a total of three layers of defense... And it doesn't affect flexibility at all, equivalent to being naked!"

A cold light flashed, Fang Xing drew a steel blade and slashed at himself casually!

Bang!

The steel blade was actually bounced away directly!

"Sure enough, once a Rank A martial art enters the gate, in a naked state, it's hard to be hurt by ordinary iron!"

Clang!

After experimenting with ordinary iron, Fang Xing drew the Ink-Pattern Sword again.

This sword was sharp, no less than an ordinary low-grade magical tool.

He stretched out his sturdy, strong arm, whose skin was as crystal clear as jade, placed the blade across it, and pulled it lightly!

Fang Xing could clearly feel the sharpness from the Ink-Pattern Sword. It split the dragon scales, landed on the elephant skin, and was constantly unloaded of its force.

He silently increased his strength. The Ink-Pattern Sword struggled to cut through the elephant armor defense and landed on the jade skin.

After the jade skin unloaded the force again, the sword, which could have cut off a Primordial martial artist's arm, only caused him to break his skin slightly, revealing a bloodstain.

Even under Fang Xing's powerful physical recovery, this bloodstain was fading and disappearing quickly...

"Three layers of defense, and each layer is unloading force? Not bad, not bad..."

Fang Xing was quite satisfied with this: "It should be comparable to those early-stage Qi Condensation body cultivators..."

Early-stage Qi Condensation body cultivators definitely couldn't take a low-grade magical tool with their bare hands!

The more one is a body cultivator, the more one needs to equip spiritual armor to thicken the defense!

Fang Xing understood this principle too.

"Early-stage Qi Condensation body cultivators can be hurt by low-grade magical tools, but it's hard to kill them in a few strikes! If they wear spiritual armor, they are even more like humanoid killing machines, able to charge into a group of early-stage Qi Condensation cultivators, letting spells bombard them and magical tools attack... The most critical thing for the physique of an early-stage Qi Condensation body cultivator is the tolerance! Being able to withstand the penetrating force and influence of low-grade magical tools and low-level spells!"

Even for a body cultivator, relying solely on physique to fight head-on with enemies was a very stupid thing.

Therefore, if Fang Xing were to fight with a cultivator, the first thing he would do was put on a nano-protective suit and even stick on a few defensive talismans!

'With these three layers of defense, plus the nano-protective suit and talismans... I dare to take a few hits from high-grade magical tools and even late-stage Qi Condensation spells!'

'The situation where the defense holds but the person doesn't will never happen to me!'

'Plus my spiritual resistance... below Foundation Establishment, there are basically no opponents worth being vigilant about.'

Body cultivators still had a weakness, which was that their spiritual sense was fragile and their sea of consciousness defense was low.

But for Blue Star martial artists, if the spiritual defense was slightly poor, they would just die or go crazy!

Therefore, Blue Star martial artists' spiritual defense was extremely strong!

Compared to the body cultivators here, they could be said to have no weaknesses!

Of course, Fang Xing hadn't seen a Rank 2 body cultivator comparable to the Foundation Establishment stage, so he didn't know the performance of cultivators here at high ranks.

But from what he had seen, at the Qi Condensation stage, this principle still held true.

"Unfortunately... the defense of an ordinary nano-protective suit is only at the Unpolished Jade Realm... Higher protection would be military-grade external skeletons and mechas... The black market can't buy them."

In Fang Xing's heart, that was full of complaints.

If he had a choice, he would actually quite like to try piloting a mecha.

If he could pilot a mecha to fight against cultivators, that scene would be too beautiful to even imagine...

"Moreover, this is not my limit... Now that I've broken through to the Unpolished Jade Realm, I can practice Rank S martial arts!"

"That 'Great Jin Gang Prajna Divine Power'—Xia Long praised it so much, it's clearly extraordinary..."

"What's more, they can be fused with each other and advanced to the 'Dragon Elephant Jin Gang Indestructible Wei Shentong'!"

"Wei Shentong, Wei Shentong... just the name tells you it's very impressive."

"Alright, I definitely can't count on the Wei Shentong in the near future, but if I master the 'Great Jin Gang Prajna Divine Power,' perhaps I can challenge Foundation Establishment?"

"Alas, I still have to be low-key... who told the market to have a Jin Dan True Lord!"

"Just a glimpse from the drone was enough to calculate that the Jin Dan True Lord is absolutely very dangerous, with various data straight up chasing military fighter jets..."

The Blue Star Federation's army has to go head-to-head with the Evil Deity's dependents!

Any piece of military-grade weapon represents power, not comparable to those old models!

They are rare even in ordinary black markets!

Fang Xing came to the monitoring room and began to read the logs.

Speaking of which, he hadn't been here for a while; after all, he had to prepare for the final exam.

This time he came back, he also broke through directly.

Suddenly, his eyes narrowed: "What is going on?"