Cultivating

In a lush forest, the trees rustled quietly. Birds chirped and flew about through the dense treetops. Suddenly, nasty laughter rang out, making the birds fly away fearfully.

"Hahaha… HAHAHAHA!" Sinister laughing could be heard reverberating throughout the forest.

The laughter was very disgusting and made one shiver.

In a clearing, a young man was sitting cross-legged on the ground. The young man was clearly the source of this seriously disturbing laugh.

This person was, of course, Qin. Qin was in a very good mood.

He had been kicked out of RotMG and reappeared in the cave where he was being held hostage. However, he was lucky and his captors were nowhere to be seen.

'Probably searching for me… ahahaha!' Qin laughed.

Anyways, he had obtained two manuals, [Devastation of the Mad God] and [Duo Shock Fists]. Just by looking at the names, he could tell that they were good stuff.

By some mystical means, the information about these two techniques was transmitted into his mind just before he was kicked out of RotMG.

'Ok, let's check out [Devastation of the Mad God] first,' Qin thought excitedly.

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[Devastation of the Mad God]

Category: Manual

Type: Cultivation Technique

Description: Absorb qi to supplement your cultivation…

Rank: Divine

Origin: Unknown (Host's cultivation is too low)

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"Wow. This is so descriptive…" Qin had an expression of WTF on his face.

Absorb qi? Isn't that the purpose of a cultivation technique?

But the rank of the technique was divine! When Qin saw this, his mood quickly lifted. Then, he moved on to the next part.

Origin, unknown.

'Bruh moment here… Whatever, let's try it out.'

Qin recalled what Old Ten, whatever number it was, had said about Qin, or rather Lance's cultivation- he was barely a 1 star Body Tempering cultivator. Qin slowly circulated his qi according to the technique.

After 5 minutes, Qin finally finished 1 cycle. When he finished, he instantly collapsed onto the floor.

*Haa… haa…* Qin panted heavily. His mind was exhausted from overexertion. Driving the technique was very taxing on his mind. How was this 1 cycle? More like 1 cycle of infinity! Qin knew that he made no sense at this point. However, when Qin checked his cultivation, he was shocked.

2 star Body Tempering!

This technique was really marvelous. It was able to produce such results after 1 cycle!

The Body Tempering Realm was a realm where martial artists tempered their bodies in preparation to step onto the martial path.

One couldn't really be counted as a true martial artist unless they passed the Body Tempering realm- and reach Qi Condensation!

And now… he was at 2 star Body Tempering!

Qin got up and walked to a tree at the edge of the clearing and sized it up.

*Bang!*

*Bang!*

*Bang!*

Qin punched the tree repeatedly. Only after a long while did he stop.

"Haha! This [Devastation of the Mad God] is truly divine!" Tossing his head back, Qin tossed his head back and roared in laughter.

However, Qin quickly sobered up. He knew that rapidly advancing was foolish and was detrimental to himself in the long run.

One could even compare it to building a tower. If you build quickly and recklessly now, when you progress further, the tower would be very unstable. The foundation of the tower would wobble and shake. In addition, it would be nearly impossible to go back and fix the mistakes in the lower regions of the tower.

Therefore, Qin had to consolidate his cultivation. Back to punching trees like a new Minecraft player…

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'Ah…' Qin sighed in satisfaction as he looked at the tree in front of him. This tree was the very same tree Qin had been punching ever since the beginning.

But now, the tree was completely different. On the tree, there was a dent that looked to be half an inch in depth. However, this particular dent bore a remarkably familiar shape-the shape of Qin's fist.

"Hehe! My skin has truly strengthened a lot!" Qin looked at his fist happily. If it had been before, his fist would probably be bleeding by now, with his bones showing.

"Body Tempering: Tempering Skin, Tempering Blood, Tempering Tendon, Tempering Bone, and Tempering Viscera!" Qin looked up from his slightly red fist and said out loud.

Body Tempering, as its name implied, was the realm where one tempered their body in preparation for Qi Condensation and so on.

The first two stars of Body Tempering related to the skin.

The 3rd and 4th stars related to the tempering of the blood within one's body.

The 5th and 6th stars corresponded to the tendons.

The 7th and 8th stars were for the bones.

And lastly, the final star, the 9th star, was the last hurdle before the Qi Condensation Realm- tempering viscera!

Of course, when one reaches a higher star such as 6 star Body Tempering, which is tendon tempering, their skin and everything below the 6th star would also improve. However, these improvements were minimal in consideration.

*Growl…* Qin's stomach grumbled and surprised him. However, when he thought about it, he was already feeling slightly hungry when he was in the cave talking with Little Eleven.

After such a long time, anyone would be hungry, not to mention Qin.

'Let's go hunting boys!' Qin walked out of the clearing in search of food. Even after a long while of searching for food, Qin could not find any animals near him.

Perhaps they had been scared away by his disgusting laugh?