Chapter 62 New Exercises

In September, the summer sun was hot.

Inside the bedroom of the wooden house, the sunlight beamed in strongly along the window gap, teasing the air to a fever pitch, exuding a warmth that was not inferior to thick women, the type that lingered after a surge of passion. At the head of the bed, Lin Manshan was naked, sitting on his knees with his eyes closed, his greenish right arm slowly raised.

The right arm was like an emerald, the front side was lighter in colour and smoother and more translucent.

The back is a deeper dark green, and when you look closely, you can vaguely see countless wrinkle-like lines, like dense scales.

From a distance, it looks like a piece of armour with a metallic lustre, giving people an extremely solid sense of perspective.

After slowly opening his eyes, Lin Manshan frowned, his right fist opened abruptly, light golden glow gleamed from the palm of his hand. Then, the back of the five fingers surfaced with five golden lines, which extended towards the fingertips, engulfing it with a golden aura, and condensed into a sharp golden claw.

Lightly scratching the edge of the bed below, it was like a sharp blade cutting through tofu, causing strips of wood shavings to be scattered.

"After the Mysterious Jade Hand has been improved, it's a lot stronger. Not only has the hardness increased, but it can actually increase arm strength. Using it in combination with the Duskgold Dreadclaw Bear External Spirit Bone, the effect is also extremely outstanding." Lin Manshan smacked his lips in dumbstruck, and then the corners of his mouth rose, "It's not in vain that I spent more than three months of afternoons deducing the Mysterious Jade Hand, and opened all the corresponding connected meridians of the two arms, not bad, not bad."

"Why don't we change the name to Kirin Arms from now on?"

After dispersing his martial soul and his arms returned to their normal skin colour, Lin Manshan stroked his chin and then shook his head.

"Forget it, I still have to perfect it for my wives in the future. It's better to simply change the word and call it Refining Jade Hand."

Laughing, his body fell backwards and lay on the bed, and he couldn't help but murmur, "Meridian Skill, Refining Jade Hands, Blinking Steps, Purple Haze Pupils, and Capturing the Dragon, hoo it's really not easy, it took so long for the whole thing to be done..."

"Finally it's all done!"

From March to September, six whole months, he finally improved all of the several major techniques of the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record.

Well, some of them were just minor incidental changes, without alteration, only the name was changed.

The first improvement was the Mysterious Heaven Skill. Many acupoints in the human body are places where meridians intersect and converge. After probing, he found that the Mysterious Heaven Skill operating route that Tang San was operating was passing through certain acupoints when turning around. Perhaps because the meridians were too complicated the creator didn't sort it out either, and even went off on a fork in the path inside, circling around a short distance more.

There were even a few locations where the spirit energy bypassed the originally thicker meridians after leaving the acupoints and diverted into the slightly thinner ones, and although it returned to the proper meridians later on, there was indeed a small delay.

So, in line with the principle of if you can travel the main road, don't take a shortcut, and if you can take a shortcut, don't make a detour, he re-arranged the meridians and acupoints all over again and then made small changes all the way along the original operation route of Mysterious Heaven Skill.

Although the process was bumpy and took a lot of time, the result was not bad. After all the changes were made and then coming back to run through it in its entirety, he found that the flow of spirit energy was significantly smoother and faster. Along with that, the cultivation speed had also increased, not much, about 10% or so.

On top of that, the spirit power transformed from the altered Mysterious Heaven Skill, which absorbed heaven and earth's aura by using the martial soul as the foundation, seemed to be a little different from the one described in Tang San's original story. Tang San's cultivated spirit power characteristics seem to be based on Mysterious Heaven Skill internal force. Even if Tang San absorbed so many poisonous spirit beasts' spirit rings, even if the blue silver grass martial soul has become poisonous, his spirit power still does not have any poisonous attributes. It was still unchanged and 'proper', with a gentle attribute and the ability to get rid of poisons.

In terms of characteristics, there was neither the tenacious vitality unique to the Blue Silver Grass race which is a plant system spirit beast, nor the dominance and heaviness of the weapon martial soul Clear Sky Hammer, and it seemed to be completely unaffected by the attributes and characteristics of the martial soul itself.

Whereas, the spirit power that came from his improved Meridian Skill was tinged with the attributes of the martial soul. For example, his spirit power was significantly thicker and more domineering compared to before, and it also carried an aura of a more intense sharpness.

When he used this spirit energy to utilise his martial soul, he found that the power of the attacks he sent out had obviously increased.

Of course, this also spawned a problem.

'That is, in the future, if I want to use my spirit power to heal the sick and save people or something, it should be hopeless. When this sharp energy enters the body, it might even backfire, and poor control will puncture the human meridians. Fortunately, I can still get rid of the poison and I have soul power, so all kinds of resistance are very high, and the self-healing ability is also good. As for helping people heal, don't I still have the Blue Silver Emperor's right leg bone for that?'

Thinking of this, Lin Manshan couldn't help but mentally mention one more time, 'Tang San, your mother's spirit bone is truly great!'

"Also, the characteristics that this spirit power of mine carries right now, is it because of the characteristics attached to my martial soul after absorbing the spirit rings of the Golden Armoured Beetle and the Duskgold Dreadclaw Bear? Or is it that my Greatsword martial soul itself comes with these characteristics? Also, is this new technique of mine compatible with any martial soul? When different spirit masters cultivate it, their spirit power will carry different characteristics?" After pondering, Lin Manshan shook his head, "Whatever! I'll know when I find my wives to try it out. Besides, I've been practising it for a few months now, anyway, there are quite a few benefits, no harm done, and it feels stronger than Tang San's."

So, to differentiate, he renamed Mysterious Heaven Skill to Meridian Skill, with the simple reason that changing the Meridian routes altered it. By the way, to make it sound decent, the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record had to be renamed as the Meridian Treasure Record as well.

"It's just a pity that the first of the eight strange meridians hasn't been opened yet." Thinking of the Eight Meridians and Veins, Lin Manshan was also slightly helpless, although he had already found all of the Eight Meridians and Veins, and had also begun to penetrate the first one, the difficulty was indeed beyond his expectations, it really wasn't easy to pass through it!

It was as if the water of a large river had squeezed into a small ditch, at first, the rush was still very strong, travelling all the way like a strong arrow, and as a result, after rushing through a few acupoints, the rush became smaller and smaller. In short, although there is a source of water, the momentum was not enough.

That acupuncture point is right in front, but the 'stick' is not hard enough, it is unable to poke in, what can be done?

Of course go home first to supplement the 'kidney' to build up strength, and come back again next time.

So soon after modifying Mysterious Heaven Skill, he temporarily gave up continuing to charge through the veins and turned to studying other skills.

The second technique he set his eyes on was the previously improved Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, also known as the Blinking Steps. There were no major changes, only the meridian running route was changed to be consistent with the direction of the Meridian Skill. The speed and effect are also unchanged, but after the body is adapted to the Meridian Skill operation, it feels a lot easier and smoother than before to perform the Blinking Steps.

Then there was the Purple Demon Eye, in fact, it hadn't changed at all. After all, it was linked to internal skill, and there was nothing to change. But because of this, when he was operating the Meridian Skill, as the operation speed of the spirit power in his body became faster, the efficiency of the Purple Demon Eye's absorption of Purple Energy when he was cultivating the Purple Extreme Demon Eye was also improved along with it. Consequently, the cultivation speed of the Purple Extreme Demon Pupil had also increased, and it was barely considered an improvement.

Thus, he renamed the Purple Demon Eye to Purple Haze Pupil, both three words with a fitting overlay.

Then after that, it was the Mysterious Jade Hand.

This hand-training method could be said to be the one that he spent the most time researching and reforming.

After the Mysterious Heaven Skill was modified, to not continue to delay his cultivation, he chose to spend his afternoons researching, relying on the Blue Silver Emperor's right leg bone it took more than three months before he finally got through all the meridians involved in both his arms, and the process could be said to be extremely difficult.

There is no way, some meridians are too small. With his current strength, the control of spirit power is limited, an inattentive deviation of piercing the meridians can be said to occur from time to time, he can only take his time.

"Speaking of that, again, I have to mention, Tang San, you... Forget it, better not bring it up. This is something I honestly have to thank the Blue Silver Emperor for, after all, the spirit bone came from her."

It was a good thing that the effect after success was not bad, hard and powerful. This, in turn, was a perfect match for his own unique characteristics, hard and powerful, and long-lasting and durable.

However, this practice method also had its own flaws. Firstly, it was a bit difficult to pass through the meridians, and if the control of spirit power is not enough, and there is no big milkmaid (healer) by the side, the risk factor is a bit high, and it is rather exhausting.

In addition, covering the entire arm consumes a bit too much spirit energy. Moreover, if the spirit power is too scattered and not solid enough, it will also substantially weaken the hardness of the arm and the strength of the increase in power. Therefore, it would be more appropriate to proceed from the fingers to the palm of the hand, condensing downwards step by step.

"Perhaps the ancestor of the Tang Sect who started this hand training method also thought of this possibility. It's just that the internal force wasn't enough to cover and harden the entire arm, so they could only protect the palms first. After all, how can you touch poison if your hands aren't tough enough?" Raising an eyebrow, Lin Manshan couldn't help but think of this possibility.

'It's a pity that Tang San didn't think of this even when he became the Supreme God King later.' The corner of his mouth tugged, shaking his head.

Lastly, it was the Controlling Crane Catching Dragon, which not only was a grappling technique, but also a main control technique, which was focused on the diabolical muscle splitting bone displacing techniques, and when combined with spirit power, can also manipulate objects at a distance, which could grab the target out of thin air, and also control the target out of thin air. It is also a method of hand training, can exercise the flexibility of both hands, compatible with the manipulation of hidden weapons, which is its advantages, but also its shortcomings, as a result, it lacks offensive close combat.

But his improved Refined Jade Hands can cover both arms at a high level, which can harden the arms to enhance defence and strengthen the arm strength. Such a characteristic is undoubtedly born for combat, if it can be used in conjunction with Controlling Crane Catching Dragon, it will be a good set of defensive counterattack-type techniques. Therefore, he added some offensive means to Controlling Crane Catching Dragon and renamed it as Capturing Dragon Technique.

However, after all, he is a sword user. Although his boxing and kicking skills are not bad, there is still a gap with those who specialise in boxing and kicking skills.

As such, the Capturing Dragon Technique was currently in a state where it was yet to be further perfected.

"Let's take my time." Returning to proper thoughts, Lin Manshan looked at the roof and sighed loudly, "Hey, it's September. Time has flown by so quickly! Luckily, even though there was some delay in the middle, the progress of cultivation is not bad."

Thinking of this, the corners of his mouth could not help but curl up.

"Calculating the time, by the time mid-November rolls around, my spirit power should almost reach level 30. Hmm, the period of 2 months or so will soon pass. Nuoding City is relatively close to the Star Dou Great Forest, so I'll just cultivate my spirit power to level 30 in Nuoding City before going to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt for the third spirit ring. Then, by the time I return to Nuoding City again, it should be December."

"And then it'll be New Year's Eve again in less than two months."

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