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Chapter 52: Iron Bones and Steel Bars (5000 words long chapter)
"Ten levels of internal training, Bodhisattva status?"

Su Ti was shocked when he heard this, and Long Yuanzheng nodded.

"That's right. Among all the internal training methods in this world, except for the Bodhisattva practice, the ninth level of internal training is already the limit. It is impossible to break through the tenth level."

"Because in order to break through the tenth level, all abilities, strength, speed, thinking, and physique must reach perfection, which requires an all-round internal training method to achieve."

"Unfortunately, apart from the Bodhisattva's Way, there is no other internal training method in the world that is all-round."

"Because practicing the Bodhisattva Path can lead to the attainment of Bodhisattva status, now you know why it is called the Bodhisattva Path."

Speaking of this, Suti felt curious.

"Master, is there really anyone who can practice the Bodhisattva's Way to the tenth level?"

Long Yuanzheng nodded.

"Yes, as far as I know, there were definitely some in history, and there were quite a few. However, most of these martial artists who achieved the status of Bodhisattva were great monks from the Secret Country, and that was a long time ago. As for now, I haven't heard much about them."

"But it is precisely because of their examples that so many warriors in the Secret Country have continued to practice the Bodhisattva Way, just to achieve the Bodhisattva status like them one day."

Hearing this, Suti couldn't help but ask again.

"What kind of state is the Bodhisattva's fruition?"

Long Yuanzheng chuckled.

"First, all physical attributes, strength, speed, intelligence, and physique are perfect, without any increase or decrease. Lifespan is greatly extended. The longest person who has achieved this in history lived to be 133 years old."

"Secondly, it is said that those who have attained the status of a bodhisattva will have the appearance of a bodhisattva, with a cinnabar-like red dot between their eyebrows, a fresh fragrance, and extraordinary beauty. They will be free from illness and disaster throughout their lives, and will have the ability to know good and bad fortune, and understand good and bad luck."

"So magical?"

Su Ti was surprised. This was not a human being, but a god.

Long Yuanzheng smiled and said, "To have practiced martial arts to that level, one must have achieved the state of turning decay into magic. Otherwise, how could so many people continue to practice the Bodhisattva Way? However, things like attaining enlightenment are just a thought. It's just a legend. In reality, I have never seen anyone who can practice to the tenth level of inner training."

Su Ti felt a little excited after listening to this. As a warrior, he naturally yearned for a stronger and higher level of martial arts.

Just because others can't do it doesn't mean he can't.

With the Red Martial Arts Modifier, he might actually be able to attain the legendary Bodhisattva status.

However, despite being excited, Su Ti still raised his next question after digesting the knowledge of Bodhisattva's attainment that Long Yuanzheng had said.

"Master, I want to know what a demon is, and also about the next realm of the Hunyuan Realm."

This is the knowledge that Suti is currently eager to know, especially the second one.

After asking this, Long Yuanzheng and Liang Bo looked at each other. Long Yuanzheng smiled bitterly and shook his head, then said with relief.

"Originally, this knowledge involves the highest secrets in the ancient martial arts world. There is no benefit in being exposed to it in advance. I also thought that it would take a long time before I could tell you, but I didn't expect that you would reach the Hunyuan stage so quickly. You already know all these things."

"The two questions Suti asked actually have the same answer in the end. I will start with the first one."

"First, let's talk about the origins of monsters. I don't know much about monsters. I only know that they have existed since the Wu Dynasty. They are a very powerful species different from humans."

“Similarly, it is also the origin of ancient martial arts.”

"The origin of ancient martial arts?"

Su Ti was a little confused. How come this monster was related to the origin of ancient martial arts?

Seeing that he was puzzled, Long Yuanzheng was not surprised. He had the same expression when he first found out about it, so he explained.

"In the beginning, ancient martial arts were actually created to fight against monsters. Legend has it that during the Wu Dynasty, monsters ate people and caused panic. They were born very powerful and we fragile humans could not match them. Therefore, our ancestors created ancient martial arts to hone our bodies and strengthen our physiques in order to become stronger and resist the monsters."

Fighting against the monster, Su Ti's eyes showed enlightenment. So that's how it was. He didn't expect that Gu Wu had such an origin...

Long Yuanzheng sighed.

"However, when this kind of enhancement reaches the Hunyuan realm, many ancient warriors have already reached their limits and can no longer make any further progress."

"If you want to break through this limit, you need a special ancient martial art, which is called extraordinary martial arts in modern times."

"The Limit-Breaking Martial Arts is a martial art created by the earliest batch of ancient martial artists who, after reaching their limits, were unwilling to stop there and imitated the monsters to break the limits of the human body.

A warrior who practices the martial arts of breaking limits can break through human limitations and reach a state that transcends the limits of mortals. This state is called the extraordinary state. "

"Aren't you wondering what the next level is after the Hunyuan Realm? I'll tell you, it's the Transcendent Realm."

"Extraordinary realm?"

Regarding this realm, Su Ti had actually gotten a glimpse of it when Long Yuanzheng was about to fight with Li Zong. At that time, Long Yuanzheng's body swelled and grew taller like the Hulk transforming, and there were terrifying black bloodshot on Li Zong's face. The terrifying aura that was not like that of a human being erupted from the two of them, all of which spoke of the power of this realm.

"Well, your master is a warrior of the extraordinary realm."

Long Yuanzheng said lightly, there was no pride in his eyes, only a deep sense of responsibility, and a touch of deep loneliness and guilt.

"Let's get back to the topic. Because the Limit-Breaking Martial Arts was originally a martial arts that humans imitated from the demon race, it requires a special thing as a medicine, and that is the flesh and blood of the demon race."

"The limit-breaking technique that our Longmen lineage practices is called the Golden Python Transformation Technique, and the monster flesh and blood required is the flesh and blood of a monster called the Mixed Golden Python."

When Su Ti heard Long Yuanzheng talking about the flesh and blood of monsters, he felt a little sorry that he left the corpses of the lizard monsters he killed in King Mu's tomb. But when he heard about the Hunjin Python, he no longer felt sorry at all.

Those lizard monsters have nothing to do with the three words "Golden Python".

Su Ti was just about to ask Long Yuanzheng where to find the Golden Python, but Long Yuanzheng's eyes were already filled with desolation.

"Unfortunately, this monster called the Mixed Gold Python has been missing for a very long time. Even I was able to master the 'Golden Python Transformation into Dragon Technique' only by luck, thanks to a pill made from the flesh and blood of a Mixed Gold Python passed down from the ancestors of the Longmen Sect."

"And the pill I used was also the last one in our Dragon Gate."

Having said this, the loneliness and guilt in Long Yuanzheng's eyes became more obvious.

At this time, Uncle Liang also sighed and came out to explain.

"Almost all the extraordinary sects that possess limit-breaking martial arts nowadays do not hunt monsters to practice like the warriors in the Wu Dynasty, because monsters have disappeared long ago."

"They all rely on the elixirs handed down from their sects, made from the flesh and blood of monsters, to practice. Once the elixirs are used up, it means that the extraordinary inheritance will be cut off."

“Like me, I am also a warrior in the Hunyuan realm, and I have reached the realm where I can practice martial arts that can break through the limits. However, because I do not have the medicinal ingredients needed to break through the limits, I can only stay in the Hunyuan realm and cannot break through.”

Uncle Liang sighed. As a warrior, if one hopes to reach a higher realm, who would be willing to stay in one realm for his whole life?

"Is it really true that we can never find it again?"

Su asked, if Longmen's medicine is used up, doesn't it mean that he will not be able to break through to the extraordinary realm?
Long Yuanzheng shook his head.

"This is not ancient times. In the Wu Dynasty, there were many monsters. At that time, there were also many ancient warriors who practiced limit-breaking martial arts. The monster flesh and blood they needed were easy to obtain. However, monsters had almost disappeared by the Qian Dynasty. After experiencing the Hundred Kingdoms, the Xiya Ancient Dynasty, and then to the modern times, they are basically as rare as evil spirits. Ordinary people will never see them in their lifetime. Even I have never seen even one monster or evil spirit in my life."

After Long Yuanzheng said this, Su Ti was still unwilling to give up.

He has a modifier. What if he can improve his martial arts without the need for medicine?

"Master, I want to see our sect's limit-breaking martial arts."

Long Yuanzheng nodded, knowing what Su Ti was thinking. Every warrior who had reached this stage would never be willing to stay in the Hunyuan realm for the rest of his life. "Okay, follow me."

Long Yuanzheng and Liang Bo both stood up, and Su Ti followed them to the outside of the training room in the basement of the villa.

Under the leadership of Long Yuanzheng, Su Ti followed him down, while Liang Bo stayed outside.

Still in the familiar basement, Long Yuanzheng passed by three bookshelves containing martial arts secrets and walked to a wall.

There was a safe embedded in the wall. He entered the password and opened the safe after a while.

There was no gold, silver or valuables in the safe, only an ancient book quietly placed there.

Long Yuanzheng took out the ancient book and handed it to Su Ti.

"As long as our sect's martial artists have reached the Hunyuan realm, they can watch our sect's limit-breaking martial arts, 'Golden Python Transformation into Dragon Technique'."

"This is the secret manual of the Golden Python Transformation into a Dragon Technique. Take a look."

Su Ti took the secret book, opened it and started reading.

This martial art that breaks through limitations is not about moves, punches and kicks, and certainly not about breathing techniques.

Instead, they are two peculiar skills for the circulation of Qi and blood, one for practice, the other for practice. Both are skills for the circulation of Qi and blood that can only be used at the Hunyuan realm.

Practitioners need to take in the flesh and blood of the Hunjin Python, and then practice the methods of Qi and Blood Circulation. There is a certain probability that they can intercept a trace of the monster's origin from the swallowed flesh and blood, thereby changing their own physique.

But this practice is very dangerous, because most of the flesh and blood of monsters are harmful to humans, and even highly poisonous.

Therefore, the training method is not 100% successful, and more than half of them die because they cannot withstand the toxicity of the monster's flesh and blood, and they go crazy and explode before they can "refine" the flesh and blood.
Once successful, the body will break through its original limitations and reach a new level after a long period of weakness.

But this level is not extraordinary.

After all, humans are just humans, and their bodies are not as good as those of monsters. Even if they eat the flesh and blood of monsters and cultivate extraordinary martial arts, their bodies are still in a state below the extraordinary level most of the time.

Only after practicing the other part of extraordinary martial arts and the matching fighting style, the body can temporarily break through the limitations and reach an extraordinary level.

Just like Long Yuanzheng's previous growth and the black blood vessels all over Li Zong's body, this was all due to them using extraordinary martial arts and entering an extraordinary state.

In addition to this, there are some secrets about the extraordinary martial arts, which are recorded at the end of "The Golden Python Transforms into a Dragon" to remind later practitioners to keep them in mind.

That is, those who successfully practice extraordinary martial arts will completely lose their fertility! Regardless of gender or age!
Regarding this point, according to the research of warriors of all generations, it seems that after the warriors intercepted the bloodline of the monster, they themselves began to become inhuman.

Therefore, every extraordinary warrior will leave offspring in advance before practicing extraordinary martial arts, if he intends, to prevent the loss of fertility after successful practice.

When Su Ti saw this, his eyes moved. He didn't expect that such extraordinary martial arts would have such side effects.

However, he could also understand that if one wanted to break the limitations of a human body and become extraordinary, it would be impossible without paying a price.

After reading it carefully, Su Ti, with his high IQ of the fifth level of internal training, has memorized all the methods of blood circulation in it.

And such a skill also appeared in his martial arts skill column.

[Golden Python Transformation into Dragon Technique (Not yet started) requires key materials, mixed with golden python flesh and blood]

This time, the word "gongfa" appeared, but there was no plus sign after it, and not even a progress percentage. There was only a line of prompt indicating that materials were lacking.

When Su Ti saw this, his heart sank.

Even the modifier cannot be added. It seems that the flesh and blood of this golden python is really an unavoidable step.

"Generally speaking, the martial arts that can break through the limits and the elixirs used to cultivate them are the key to a sect's survival. With these two things, the sect will continue to produce extraordinary warriors."

"But our Longmen only has the martial arts of breaking the limit now, and there is no medicine for cultivation. If we can't find the medicine, then this sect will only decline."

A trace of guilt flashed in Long Yuanzheng's eyes, and he patted Su Ti on the shoulder.

"Suti, you are very talented and have good fortune. It is the master who has let you down. After I broke through the extraordinary realm, I have been looking for the flesh and blood of the mixed gold python for so many years but have not found any clues."

"Master cannot provide you with the cultivation resources you need. Master is ashamed of you."

Su Ti felt a little uncomfortable hearing Long Yuanzheng's guilty words.

"Master, don't say that. You have given me everything you can. Even if I can't cultivate extraordinary martial arts, I can still continue to practice internal training until I reach the seventh or eighth level, or even the legendary Bodhisattva realm."

Hearing this, Long Yuanzheng was also very relieved, but he also felt a little sad. Even if he was at the Bodhisattva level, it was only the perfection of human beings, not the extraordinary level.
He looked at Suti and said with a firm gaze.

"Don't worry, Suti. I will continue to search for the flesh and blood of the Golden Python without any reservation until I find it one day. This is my promise to you!"

Su Ti nodded heavily, then thought for a moment and continued.

"By the way, Master, do we have any other external skills? My copper skin skill has also been perfected under the effect of that fruit, so I want to practice another external skill."

Su Ti has tasted the sweetness of practicing external skills. If he did not have the great success level of Bronze Skin Skill, he would have died countless times.

Since he couldn't practice extraordinary martial arts now, he naturally wanted to learn more external skills to improve his combat effectiveness.

If Su Ti had made this request before, Long Yuanzheng would definitely not agree.

When you are young, just focus more on internal training. The more you practice external skills, the faster your energy will be dispersed.

But now Suti has had a fortuitous encounter, and his Bodhisattva practice has reached the fifth level, which is already the upper limit for most talented people. It will take several years or even more than ten years to advance further. It is normal to make only one level of progress in his lifetime.

In addition, his Bronze Skin Skill had also been highly accomplished, so when Su Ti said he wanted to practice external skills, Long Yuanzheng naturally agreed.

"Your Copper Skin Skill has reached the Great Perfection level directly due to your fortuitous encounter, and your Bodhisattva Practice has also reached the fifth level. You can indeed have the energy to learn other external skills."

"Although Master cannot give you more help in breaking the limit of martial arts, but if you want to practice external skills, Master will definitely help you!"

Long Yuanzheng walked to the bookshelf in the row of external skills, pointed at the densely packed books on it and said.

"Don't practice these second-rate external skills like Iron Body Skill, Jade Cover Skill, Giant Rock Skill, etc. Although these external skills are easy to practice and don't cost much, their upper limit is too low. Even if you practice them, you will only be at the level of one or two external skills."

"Also, don't think that the more external skills you practice, the better. Many external skills conflict with each other. For example, if you practice second-rate Iron Body Skill, you can't practice first-rate Copper Skin Skill. So if you want to practice, practice first-rate external skills. Although it is difficult to practice and costs a lot, the upper limit is high enough!"

"Our Longmen's external skills are now quite complete. We have three first-class external skills that do not conflict with each other for you to practice. Each one will give you the fourth level of external skills after practicing it!"

At this point, since Su Ti was progressing too quickly and lacking common sense, Long Yuanzheng explained to him the difference between the levels of external training.

A martial artist has internal training levels, and naturally there are external training levels as well.

The level of internal training can be judged by the number of times impurities are expelled from human cells, and there is also a good way to judge external training, that is, external training of the same level can weaken the attack power of internal training of the same level by half.

In other words, the fourth level of external training can weaken the attack power of the fourth level of internal training by half.

Now that Su Ti's Bronze Skin Skill has been perfected, it has reached the fourth level of external training, which means that it can weaken the attack power of a warrior at the fourth level of internal training by 50%, and the weakening will be greater for warriors below this level, and less for warriors above this level. This is the calculation.

"The Copper Skin Skill you practiced earlier is already one of the first-rate external skills among these three, and I have two other external skills at the same level as the Copper Skin Skill."

Long Yuanzheng took two ancient books from the shelf.

"These are the two books, Iron Bone Skill and Steel Bar Skill. You can decide which one you want to learn."

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(End of this chapter)