Longevity Martial Arts: Starting from Inner Core Skill

Chapter 65: Chapter 65 Two Goals (Seeking Yue Tickets, Seeking Recommendation Tickets, Seeking Follow-Up Reads!)

Since the last snowfall, almost a month had passed.

The people of Qingshan Village returned to clearing the wilderness after the snow melted, and after more than two months of hard work, they had initially cleared those fields.

But after all, it was mountainous terrain, and no matter how cultivable, it wasn’t as good as the plains, so the work ahead was still a significant undertaking.

All in all, everything was moving in the right direction.

Wang Sheng, too, had improved during this time.

Those skills that had broken through several times didn’t make much progress, but those that hadn’t broken through yet advanced considerably.

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Five Elements Fist and Yijin Scripture reached “Five Elements Fist: 9 (12%)” and “Yijin Scripture: 8 (10%)”

Although they had not broken through yet, they were getting close, a matter of time within this period.

But even as they reached levels nine and eight, neither Five Elements Fist nor Yijin Scripture provided the significant boost to physique as when he first started practicing Ba Duan Jin.

With the Martial Artist’s robust constitution as the basis, the improvements that Five Elements Fist brought to the internal organs and that Yijin Scripture brought to the body could essentially be disregarded.

Besides that, the most significant progress was in Iron Wood Planting.

“Iron Wood Planting: Breakthrough +1 (5%)”

Iron Wood had always been important to Wang Sheng, after all, it was the material needed for his Six Harmonies Spear.

So, after ensuring he had enough medicine, he devoted quite a bit of time to planting Iron Wood, and “Iron Wood Planting” had successfully broken through the first limit.

Just like with Chrysanthemum Planting and Medicinal Plant Cultivation before, the newly broken-through “Iron Wood Planting” didn’t transform the trees but accelerated their growth.

But by now, he actually no longer needed a large supply of Iron Wood.

His practice with the Six Harmonies Spear was more about technique than strength, so he usually controlled his power.

At first, he wasn’t quite used to this sort of training, but as practice time increased, he found that using the relatively “fragile” Iron Wood was beneficial.

Not being able to use his full strength actually resulted in a significant improvement in his skill.

In order not to damage the Iron Wood, he had to control his strength with incredible precision, so after practicing the Six Harmonies Spear for so long, his control over his power was incalculably stronger than before.

Stronger power control meant he could precisely handle the maximum strength the Iron Wood could withstand, thus virtually eliminating any consumption of the wood.

The mature Iron Wood he had brought down from the mountains before was still in supply. Breaking through once or even twice wasn’t as important as he’d initially believed.

Perhaps only after breaking through three times would there be a real change, and of course, reaching three breakthroughs in “Iron Wood Planting” would take no short amount of time.

After all, upgrades after breaking through were not as fast as those before, and he had made plans according to the skill’s progress.

“Two provisional goals, within a month, to breakthrough in Five Elements Fist and Yijin Scripture, to strengthen my physique, and also—”

Wang Sheng looked at another of his progress bars.

“Blood Qi like Mercury: 65%”

This represented the strength of his Blood Qi and was a new ability that came with Ba Duan Jin having broken through three times.

Originally, this progress had always lagged behind “Qi Rushing to the Disease, Reducing the Disease.”

But as Qi Blood Power began to repair those “injuries” caused by severe illnesses, even though Qi Blood Power was continually increasing, the pace of the disease reduction gradually slowed down.

And with Blood Qi strength facing no obstructions, with the continuous enhancements from Ba Duan Jin and the consistent supply of Ten-Complete Great Replenishing Pills, its strength gradually surpassed the progress of “Qi Rushing to the Disease, Reducing the Disease: 50%.”

With Blood Qi like Mercury at 65% progress, the aura it emitted under introspection was astonishing even to him.

His other goal was to raise the progress of “Blood Qi like Mercury” to one hundred percent and reach the next realm.