Chapter 12: Iron Cloth Shirt Perfection

Lu Zhangsheng clicked directly toward the plus sign behind the Iron Cloth Shirt.

The Source Energy Points instantly decreased by eight points.

"Sizzle..." 【12-4

As a warm current surged from within his body, he felt as if he were placed in a mysterious space, beginning to practice the Iron Cloth Shirt day and night without pause.

"In the first year, you practiced diligently day and night, making rapid progress..."

"After five years of practice, you trained the Iron Cloth Shirt to fifty percent of Great Completion, and the effects gradually slowed..."

"After ten years of bitter cultivation, you trained the Iron Cloth Shirt to seventy percent, still without any slackening..."

"After twenty years, you finally trained the Iron Cloth Shirt to perfection."

Lu Zhangsheng slowly opened his eyes; deep within his gaze, it was as if time were flowing, appearing extremely profound.

He clenched his fist, and a powerful force surged into his heart.

The skin and membrane on his body radiated a bronze-colored luster, and his defensive power was truly astonishing.

Relying on his diligent practice, he finally trained the Iron Cloth Shirt to perfection, and his realm also reached the Bronze Skin stage.

He looked at the panel in front of him.

Host: Lu Zhangsheng.

Age: Twenty (Eighty).

Realm: Bronze Skin.

Martial Arts: Iron Cloth Shirt (Perfected), Iron Leg Skill (Entry Level 1%).

Skills: Basic Blade Technique (Great Completion).

Equipment: Hundred-Tempered Slaughtering Knife (Red).

Status: Good.

Source Energy Points: Eight.

Bound Exotic Beast: Pangolin (White).

"There's actually a plus sign after the Iron Cloth Shirt?"

Looking at the gray plus sign, Lu Zhangsheng was quite surprised.

"Could it be that perfection is not the limit of Skin Refining?"

This gave him some ideas in his heart.

The further one cultivates in the Martial Dao, the more difficult it becomes, but the benefits after each breakthrough are astonishing, and even one's lifespan increases by a large margin.

Because his Martial Dao had just begun, his body's deficiencies were also replenished, and his lifespan reached about eighty years.

Skin Refining is the starting stage of a martial artist and also the foundation; the more solid the foundation is built, the higher the potential naturally becomes.

When at the same level, the strength is naturally stronger.

This made Lu Zhangsheng look forward to the changes to come even more.

Not only that, there was also the technique fusion button waiting for him to verify.

However, his current Source Energy Points were probably not enough; even the Iron Cloth Shirt could not be improved again.

Just raising it to perfection consumed as many as eight points; if he were to raise it another level, the consumption would likely be even more astonishing.

He needed a large number of Source Energy Points.

Thinking of this, Lu Zhangsheng walked into the room and began to split off a wisp of consciousness, casting it toward the pangolin.

Taking advantage of the fact that there was still some time before the Demon-Suppressing Division recruited martial artists, he prepared to explore Little Cloud Mountain again.

To see if he could find some more good things.

With a shift of his thoughts, Lu Zhangsheng discovered that he had appeared in an underground space.

The surroundings were pitch black, filled with moist soil, and permeated with a large amount of earthy smell and the scent of fragrant grass.

This was a space more than ten meters from the surface, very safe.

It extended in all directions for dozens of meters, like an underground fortress.

It seems the pangolin hadn't been idle these days, having dug out its own lair.

Lu Zhangsheng didn't rush to act, but instead began to carefully investigate the pangolin's memories.

A moment later, he had a preliminary understanding of the basic situation of the entire Little Cloud Mountain.

The area for dozens of miles around the summit was occupied by a group of fierce beasts; compared to the foot of the mountain, the medicinal herbs at the summit were more precious in age.

The quantity was also much greater.

Those fierce beasts had also guarded most of the medicinal herbs.

They all knew that these things had significant benefits for themselves.

They had all treated them as their private property.

Lu Zhangsheng's heart stirred, and he clicked on the Burrowing Skill point.

"Zzz..."

The pangolin's claws began to grow rapidly and shed.

A moment later, the pair of claws turned bronze-colored, emitting a faint luster, and their hardness was clearly much stronger.

The exotic beast panel also had changes.

Bound Exotic Beast: Pangolin (White).

Level: 1. Skills: Burrowing (Excellent), Armor Enhancement (Excellent).

Source Energy Points: Six.

Lu Zhangsheng raised his claws and began to dig into the soil in front of him.

"Shasha..."

In a few breaths of time, a large amount of soil was dug out of the hole, and the speed was about twice as fast as before the breakthrough.

The skill after the breakthrough was indeed much more powerful.

Lu Zhangsheng was quite delighted.

As a fundamental skill, Burrowing was crucial to the survival of this exotic beast body, so it was naturally extremely important. Not only that, but after the burrowing speed greatly increased, the range for searching underground could also be further expanded.

He could even safely collect some spirit medicines without leaving the ground.

Of course, some spirit medicines growing on the surface still had to be collected on the ground.

After the speed increased greatly, Lu Zhangsheng was full of energy; he arrived at a space five or six meters away from the underground, and began to go all out, digging forward.

"Shasha..."

A long tunnel quickly took shape in the underground space.

Leading toward the unknown territory ahead.

After digging for half an hour.

A clear fragrance suddenly drifted over, making his spirit stir.

"Is there a chance?"

Lu Zhangsheng waved his hands rapidly, accelerating forward.

Before long, he arrived in front of a small ginseng plant.

The ginseng was only the size of a large palm, and its roots were very full.

He saw the age of the medicinal herb at a glance.

It was exactly a ginseng plant of about sixty or seventy years.

Having a harvest in just half an hour greatly increased Lu Zhangsheng's confidence.

Digging and advancing underground was also feasible.

Not only was safety greatly improved, but there was no longer any need to worry about the invasion of fierce beasts.

With this exotic beast body, he still couldn't resist those large fierce beasts for the time being.

Lu Zhangsheng directly collected the ginseng and began to continue searching.

He sensed the surrounding scents with all his might, relying on the exotic beast's sensitive sense of smell, and dug frantically everywhere underground.

………………

Time passed slowly.

In a flash, seven days had passed.

For the past few days, Lu Zhangsheng had been searching for medicinal herbs underground.

He had somewhat frantically dug through the entire Little Cloud Mountain summit.

He had left his footprints for dozens of miles around.

The entire underground had turned into a traffic hub extending in all directions, though only he could pass through it.

Of course, the harvest was also quite astonishing.

He suspected that as long as it was a medicinal herb growing underground, he had probably collected seventy or eighty percent of them, and the harvest had even become less and less in the last few days.

"It seems these are all the medicinal herbs in the entire Little Cloud Mountain; the rest can only be searched on the surface."

Lu Zhangsheng hid in an underground spot and began to count the harvest of these days.

He saw that the system space was filled with medicinal herbs of all sizes, their luster flickering.

There were even two precious medicines of about a hundred years old.

They were a fleeceflower root and a polygonatum, respectively.

There were also twelve medicinal herbs over fifty years old remaining.

As for the rest of the medicinal herbs of thirty years, there were hundreds of them.

However, these could only be exchanged for silver.

After Lu Zhangsheng's day and night exploration these days, the locations of all the precious medicines in the entire Little Cloud Mountain were clear in his mind.

The most precious was a two-hundred-year-old Fire Cloud Flower.

He was determined to get this precious medicine.

After getting his hands on it, the Source Energy Points in his hand would be enough to sustain him for a period of time.

After his strength improved, he would also have more confidence to deal with the subsequent revenge of the Sanhe Gang.

However, this medicine was guarded by a group of snow wolves, and the other party was quite vigilant, always leaving him no opportunity.

The strength of that snow wolf leader was not bad, only slightly worse than that fierce tiger from before, and with the help of the pack, even the fierce tiger didn't dare to provoke them easily.

This group of snow wolves was also the strongest fierce beast pack in Little Cloud Mountain.

Lu Zhangsheng put away his thoughts and darted toward the northwest.

He prepared to first go to the location of the Fire Cloud Flower to hide and then slowly look for an opportunity.

Half an hour later.

Lu Zhangsheng arrived at the northwest corner of Little Cloud Mountain, an underground space in a wasteland.

"Awoooo..."

Every few moments, bursts of wolf howls came from overhead.

At the same time, the surroundings were filled with a strange fragrance.

Even Lu Zhangsheng underground could smell it clearly.

It seems that the precious medicine was just over ten meters above his head.

The snow wolves' hearing was extremely amazing; after he was about to approach the snow wolf pack, he dived into an underground space more than ten meters deep.

Lu Zhangsheng lay quietly underground, not in a hurry, and began to wait for an opportunity.

At this moment, if he were to start digging, he would definitely be discovered by the other party.

At that time, he would definitely not be able to collect it successfully, and instead, he would put himself in danger.

He estimated that with the other party's hearing, he could approach the ground to a distance of at most seven or eight meters.

Any further up, he would feel a bit uncertain.

(End of chapter)