"It's a bit lighter, and I should be able to lift something more focused."

Shi Mu said a few words to himself, raised his hand again, and with a bang, he threw the stone lock onto the nearby ground.

The entire square swayed slightly.

Shi Mu then raised his hands and took a closer look.

The palms of both hands are slender and strong, but no matter how you look at them, they are never like flesh and blood bodies that can emit a thousand pounds of force.

After pondering for a while, Shi Mu walked to the wooden frame and took off the long knife again.

A moment later, sword shadows burst out in the square, as if flying sand and stones were flying, and like dragons going out to the sea.

With a "swoosh", the white horse swept out, flooding a nearby wooden stake.

After a few "pa" and "pa", the wooden stake was instantly cut into seven pieces and rolled out.

One breath and six kills!

His swordsmanship was no longer as fast as Li Canghai's previous demonstration.

As soon as the sword shadow subsided, Shi Mu stood there in the place with a long sword inverted, looking at the wooden stake in front of him, his face full of thoughtful expression.

In the evening.

In a small, thick wooden door locked from the inside.

Shi Mu lay on the big bed in the middle of the room with his eyes closed.

At this time, his skin was red and he was sweating. His whole body curled up into a ball. His mouth made intermittent sounds from time to time, his limbs kept twitching, and his whole body was in a semi-coma.

After a long time, his pain gradually stopped, his limbs slowly stretched out, his skin gradually returned to normal color, and he opened his tired eyes.

Shi Mu took a few deep breaths, walked under the bed and moved his hands and feet, moved his arms and grabbed the edge of the bed, and at the same time he used his five fingers to force him.

A crisp "click" sound!

The seemingly sturdy solid wood bed was broken and opened.

"The strength has increased a little more, but it is not as amazing as it has been a few times. It has been one month since the last attack and only lasted half a quarter of an hour. It seems that the possibility of improving it in the future is not high." Shi Mu murmured.

The amazing change just now has appeared since he moved into this manor, more than once. This is why he showed amazing strength and extraordinary sword skills during the day.

The first attack of the change was when he was in the first month of his stay in the manor, and he was tortured for a whole night.

But the next day after he returned to normal, he found that his strength and physical reactions had increased much more than before.

Then two days later, the second change began again.

In this way, he has experienced more than ten such changes in the past few months, and each attack has benefited the body incredibly.

However, as the duration of the mutation becomes shorter and the interval becomes longer and longer, the increase in strength and reaction begins to gradually weaken.

Now this time, he has only increased his strength a little, which is far from comparable to the first few times.

But even so, Shi Mu's strength is now over a thousand pounds, and his reaction speed is several times that of ordinary people.

No matter how slow Shi Mu was, he could guess that this change was probably related to the giant clam rescued from the seabed that day.

After all, the entire process of change was very similar to the boiling blood after he woke up at the beach that day, but the pain increased more than ten times.

He has heard a lot of such strange fates from the biography of the strong among the storytellers, and has also been envious of them.

Now that this kind of adventure has appeared on him, he naturally overjoyed him, and he has also increased his confidence in passing the Kaiyuan Martial Arts Academy test in half a year.

In addition, Shi Mu also truly confirmed from Li Canghai that even if he realized the sense of qi and his age meets the requirements, he still has to go through a very fierce competition to enter the Martial Arts Academy.

After all, the Kaiyuan Martial Arts Academy has limited resources and can only recruit a limited number of people within the quota. Judging from previous experiences, the number of people who registered in the entire Kaiyuan Prefecture states was often several times higher than that.

Shi Mu knew very well that his talent was average, and even if he took Qi Ling Pill, his chance of comprehension would not be much higher than that of ordinary people.

According to Li Canghai, once you pass the ninth level of body quenching, every step you increase, the chance of qi comprehension can increase the chance of qi comprehension a lot. Once you can practice the body quenching to the tenth level, even the chance of comprehension of ordinary qualifications will be more than one-third. If you have completed the cultivation to thirteenth level of body quenching, the probability of failure is only half.

This is also the reason why some martial artists with poor qualifications can still rely on the Great Perfection of Body Tempering and taking Qi Ling Pills multiple times to successfully advance to acquired martial artists, but the time and money spent during the period is not something that ordinary martial artists can bear.

Of course, only at such an age can you realize the sense of qi. The golden time for martial artists to practice is completely wasted. It is easy to imagine how difficult it is to continue practicing later. Even the middle stage of the acquired martial arts will become extremely difficult, and the possibility of the later stage is even more slim.

However, some truly powerful families can also increase the chance of qi comprehension by collecting some rare auxiliary pills, but the cost is that it is still several times more than the purchase of Qi Ling Pill.

Li Canghai originally practiced the body tempering technique to twelve%. After he was over 20 years old, he barely advanced to the acquired world by taking Qi Ling Pills twice. Whenever he talked about this, this mid-stage acquired world warrior was still extremely regretful.

For Shi Mu, with his current small fortune, he doesn’t have to think about purchasing auxiliary elixirs, and he can only take the path of improving the body tempering level.

However, once the body tempering technique has passed the ninth level, it will take a long time to practice it to a higher level. It will take far beyond ordinary people's imagination. Only a real monster-like genius can do it in the history of the Great Qi Kingdom. There are only a few people in the history of the Great Qi Kingdom.

With the help of his physical changes over the past few months, Shi Mu has directly pushed the body tempering technique to the ninth level, even close to the tenth level.

According to normal judgment, it should be no problem for him to enter the tenth level of body tempering in half a year, but if he wants to enter the eleventh level, it will still be a long-lasting thing. And the chance of one-third of the qi comprehension will naturally not make Shi Mu really relieved.

It seems that if he wants to go further in the body tempering technique, he can only use the extreme cultivation method that Li Canghai once mentioned.

According to Li Canghai, this method of body tempering was obtained by him accidentally from an expert. Although it was very simple and crude, the body tempering effect was surprisingly amazing. The whole process was too dangerous and painful, and there was even a significant possibility of death during the cultivation process, so it was rarely taught to other apprentices. If Shi Mu was willing to spend a lot of money, he would be willing to teach it all.

Danger? Since he made the vow of becoming a strong man in front of his mother's grave, he knew that he would embark on a difficult road full of thorns, so how could he be afraid of any danger!

But what he has to do now is to master the martial arts of stone shaving, and then he can practice the body tempering technique with all his heart.

Shi Mu thought indifferently and made a decision in his heart.

...

Seven days later, a three-foot-high blue water tank was erected in the center of the manor square, filled with dense soybeans.

"Drink" "Drink"

Shi Mu stood in front of the water tank, naked on his upper body, wearing only a pair of fat black trousers, and a thick silver leather hood on each hand. He clenched his fists and beat the wheat grains in the water tank hard.

"Listen, although the power of the stone fist is directly related to its own strength, the toughness of the fist itself is the key to whether it can exert its maximum power. Otherwise, no matter how powerful it is, even if it is strong, it will fly across the stone and traumatize your hands. You are just a beginner. Although the body tempering technique has been completed, the strength of the fist can only hit some wood. I now ask you to wear multiple layers of fish skin gloves to hit these soybeans, which can slowly stimulate the muscles, bones, and flesh on your hands, so as not to let your hands go.

I started to suffer too much trauma and could quickly improve the strength of your hands. When your fists can penetrate the entire water tank with one blow, I will replace the beans with larger gravels and subtract one layer of fish skin gloves on your fists. When you can also hit the gravel in the water tank to the end, I will replace it with real iron sand. After the iron sand can also be penetrated, I can practice with real large rocks... Note that the swing of your left hand is a little larger!" Li Canghai stood beside him with his arms folded with his hands, telling expressionlessly.

"yes"

Shi Mu agreed, waving his arms endlessly, each punch was more than half a foot deep into the water tank, his upper body was sweating profusely, and every muscle was bulging like a mouse, and his whole body was covered with a strange fanaticism.

Half a quarter of an hour later, Shi Mu suddenly shouted loudly, and after punching out, he actually penetrated the water tank more than a foot deep, almost burying half of his arm in the soybeans.

"Stop! Didn't I tell you not to use too much effort? Let me see if your hand is injured?" Li Canghai's face changed drastically when he saw this scene, and shouted sternly, and quickly took out a bottle of medicine from his arms.

"Master Li, it's okay." Shi Mu grinned and pulled his arm out of the soybeans.

"Hmph, I have the final say whether there is something wrong. Take off the gloves!" Li Canghai snorted and said without thinking.

Upon hearing this, Shi Mu could only shake his arm and take off the leather holster from the fist layer by layer, and move the exposed red fingers a few randomly in front of Li Canghai.

"Hey, it seems that it's really okay. Strange, according to my years of experience in teaching disciples, it's normal for me to use such great strength, and all my five fingers should be covered with blood. Come here and punch this wooden stake directly with your fist, and use all your strength this time!" Li Canghai carefully looked at Shi Mu's palm, showing an unexpected expression. After thinking about it, he pointed to a thick wooden stake nearby.

"Yes" Shi Mu heard this, took a deep breath, walked to the wooden stake and slowly wandered around.

There was a "boom" sound!

After Shi Mu shook his shoulder, he punched it out with a sudden punch, and actually broke the wooden stake as thick as a bowl from the middle. Even with a "whisper" sound, the upper half of the wooden stake flew out of the square and hit hard on the outer wall of a certain room, shaking the entire room slightly.

The fist he retracted was completely unharmed!
Chapter completed!