Chapter 20: Primordial Heavenly Metal

Hao Yi smiled when he heard this and restrained his aura:

"You are quite composed."

Li Fei: "The student just believes that the teacher won't harm me."

A flash of loneliness crossed Hao Yi's eyes, and he said slowly:

"After obtaining an implant, with the deepening of cultivation, there are several corresponding periods. First is the embryo-nurturing stage, where the implant is nurtured in the body and slowly cultivated. Next is the body-breaking stage, where the implant begins to grow rapidly and will replace a part of your body tissues, thereby allowing you to possess various extraordinary abilities. Then is the Qi-changing stage, where innate Qi is practiced through the implant. After the Qi-changing stage is the dao foundation stage; in this step, you need to construct a martial dao foundation."

"The martial path foundation requires gathering five different attribute implants—gold, wood, water, fire, and earth—to construct. Different implant combinations can form different path foundations. What I want you to construct is a martial path foundation with great difficulty—【Primordial Heavenly Metal】."

Hao Yi explained the steps of martial path cultivation to Li Fei and also explained what 【Primordial Heavenly Metal】 was.

Five different implants form a martial dao foundation?

Li Fei didn't expect that the martial dao of this world was like this.

"Teacher, where does the cultivation difficulty of this 【Primordial Heavenly Metal】 lie?"

He asked.

Hao Yi: "The higher the grade of the implant, the more serious the alienation reaction it brings, and the higher the requirement for the human body's bearing capacity. The first implant of the vast majority of path foundations is grade one, but the five implants that make up 【Primordial Heavenly Metal】 are at least grade two. This path foundation has very high requirements for the body's anti-alienation ability, and it also requires a powerful physique and tenacious willpower."

"You can practice the Heavenly Gang Overbearing Body so quickly, which shows that your bone structure is naturally suitable for hard-training kung fu. I told you before that the Heavenly Gang Overbearing Body has a corresponding implant, which refers to this 【Primordial Heavenly Metal】. The higher your attainment in the Heavenly Gang Overbearing Body, the greater the probability that you will cultivate 【Primordial Heavenly Metal】 in the future; this is the reason why I want you to cultivate 【Primordial Heavenly Metal】. As for your aptitude, it can be improved by medicine."

Li Fei nodded: "I understand, Teacher, I am willing to cultivate 【Primordial Heavenly Metal】."

This 【Primordial Heavenly Metal】 might be as difficult as ascending to heaven for others, but for him, there was no difficulty at all.

A look of gratification appeared on Hao Yi's face; he nodded and pointed to the black powder on the side:

"Implants of each grade are divided into three levels: superior, middle, and inferior. This steel armor implant comes from a grade two steel armor beast; the implants extracted from them are usually grade two inferior. Only one in ten thousand steel armor beasts might have a grade two superior implant extracted, so it is very rare.

It's just that there are very few dao foundations that match the grade two steel armor implant, and dao foundations that can use grade two superior steel armor implants are even rarer, and the cultivation difficulty is high, so there might not be one person who can succeed in decades, so this box of implants has been in the warehouse for some years and no one has ever extracted it. I didn't expect that Wang Qitai's granddaughter intended to cultivate 【Qinghua Linglong】 and would need to use this implant."

Li Fei asked: "Teacher, does that mean the higher the quality of the implant that matches the dao foundation, the better?"

Otherwise, this box of grade two superior steel armor implants wouldn't have waited for him to use it.

Hao Yi nodded: "The higher the quality of the implant, the greater the difficulty of cultivating the dao foundation; this is the first point. Secondly, the five implants that make up the dao foundation finally need to form a kind of balance; if the quality of one single implant is too high, this balance cannot be formed, and instead, it won't succeed."

Li Fei understood; some dao foundations that can use grade two steel armor implants are sufficient with grade two inferior, and using grade two superior will instead spoil things.

As for those dao foundations that need to use grade two superior steel armor implants, the cultivation difficulty is very great, and if they are not very powerful geniuses, they wouldn't dare to choose them.

Looking at it this way, that woman named Wang Fengqing was such a genius.

"Although that Wang Qitai is narrow-minded, you are my student, so you don't need to worry about him daring to do anything. From now on, if anyone finds trouble with you in this Lecture Hall, as long as you are in the right, you don't need to be afraid of things; if something really happens, the teacher will cover for you!"

Hao Yi said to Li Fei.

If it were someone else, he wouldn't say such words, because there were too many people who relied on their martial strength to stir up trouble.

But Li Fei looked too upright, and the feeling he had always given him was also that of a well-behaved good child who wouldn't actively stir up trouble, so he would say this to Li Fei.

"I understand, thank you, Teacher."

Li Fei bowed to Hao Yi.

Looking at it this way, Hao Yi's status in the Lecture Hall was even higher than he imagined; with this sentence from the other party, his actions in this Lecture Hall in the future would be much easier.

In his heart, he couldn't help but thank Li Lei for finding the right teacher for him.

"The water has boiled, go and pour the medicinal herbs."

"Okay."

So, a heavy medicinal smell began to permeate the medicinal bath room.

Li Fei poured more than a dozen medicinal herbs into the pot, and after boiling to the end, a lump of black, sticky liquid remained in the pot.

Hao Yi poured the black, sticky liquid from the pot into containers with different dosages of steel armor implant powder, and let Li Fei stir it evenly.

Finally, Hao Yi poured everything from all the containers into a large container, and then let Li Fei stir it evenly, forming a large lump of black mud.

"Alright, take off all the clothes on your body."

Hao Yi said to Li Fei.

Li Fei didn't feel embarrassed, and took off all his clothes in three or two strokes, standing naked in front of Hao Yi.

Hao Yi picked up a brush, dipped it in some black mud from the container, and applied it evenly on Li Fei's body.

"In the very early stages, the implants of grade two steel armor beasts were scales; martial artists at that time would directly sew these scales onto their skin, and then cooperate with medicine and breathing techniques to make these scales and themselves become one."

Hao Yi explained the history of implants while applying it to Li Fei:

"This kind of cultivation method was too crude and easily led to body mutation; later, after continuous improvement by generations of people, the grade two steel armor implant became what you see today. The scales of the steel armor beast are ground into powder and applied to the skin of the whole body with medicine, and then slowly absorbed into the body, thereby entering the embryo-nurturing stage."

Hearing this, Li Fei couldn't help but ask:

"Teacher, then after the implant grows in my body, will I be covered in scales?"

Hao Yi shook his head:

"The earliest martial artists would be like this, but martial artists now won't; as long as you control it well and there are no problems in the embryo-nurturing stage, this implant will only make your skin tougher, but it will look no different from ordinary people."

Hearing Hao Yi say this, Li Fei breathed a sigh of relief.

If he ended up practicing until he was covered in scales, and grew horns and a tail, that style would be too beautiful, and he wouldn't even dare to think about it.

Thinking about it this way, the early martial artists really could endure anything to obtain strength.

Soon, Hao Yi had applied the black mud mixed with implants and medicine all over Li Fei's body.

He let Li Fei sit quietly for ten minutes, and after all the mud on his body had dried, he began to practice the Heavenly Gang One-Qi Stake.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 21 =====