Chapter 57: Body Tempering, Body Tempering!

As Chen Chong gave the command, a massive amount of information flooded into his mind. It was all the mnemonic chants, diagrams, and methods related to every training step of the Vajra Indestructible Divine Art.

His consciousness stirred, letting the complex information fill his brain, and then he quickly sifted through it, carefully reading it in detail.

In the six days since he arrived in the Crimson Territory, Chen Chong had been cultivating frantically almost around the clock, without distinguishing between day and night. As a result, his Main God Materialization Power had steadily increased, with daily gains between 30 and 40 units. So far, from self- cultivation alone, Chen Chong’s Materialization Power had increased by over 200 units.

The growth of his Materialization Power was not limited to that, however. From the very beginning, Chen Chong had discovered that the Main God Light Sphere had the magical ability to absorb electricity and convert it into Materialization Power. After last night’s Electrotherapy session, which lasted less than two hours, not only had the True Qi within his body absorbed the electrical current and grown stronger, but the Main God Light Sphere in his mind also drew in a considerable amount of current to replenish its own energy, yielding nearly 100 more units of Materialization Power.

Now, Chen Chong’s Materialization Power Reserve had reached 1450 units. After setting aside the 1000 units of Materialization Power needed for his trump card, the Senzu Bean, he had enough left to exchange for another cultivation method!

There was no doubt that, to strengthen his physique so he could endure longer periods of Electrotherapy and rapidly reach the foundational stage of Current Push, Chen Chong decisively chose the Vajra Indestructible Divine Art first.

Time passed bit by bit. Through the Main God’s translation, Chen Chong quickly understood the basic training method for the Vajra Indestructible Divine Art.

Just from the description alone, this Body Tempering Divine Art was not a difficult method to train. Its core consisted of an atlas of 108 different secret transmission postures, supplemented by striking, medicinal bath, and other auxiliary training methods.

Head, arms, elbows, knees, fists, palms, waist, torso, legs… The 108 secret transmission movements covered every part of the human body. Each posture tempered a different part of the body, and each one had to be matched with a unique method of breathing and Qi circulation. Through this, the practitioner’s own True Qi was forged into a unique Rigid Force, which was then deeply permeated into the practitioner’s flesh, blood, and internal organs. This greatly strengthened the practitioner’s flesh, blood, muscles, bones, and internal organs, granting a shocking boost to both physical defense and physique strength!

Therefore, a certain level of internal energy cultivation was an essential prerequisite for training the Vajra Indestructible Divine Art. Its training was divided into four levels:

First level: when circulating Qi to protect the body with the True Rigid Aura, the body showed a bluish-black hue; this was the Body Tempering Iron Body!

Second level: when the practitioner circulated energy, the body showed a reddish-copper hue; this was the Body Tempering Copper Body!

Third level: the body showed a silvery-white hue; this was the Body Tempering Silver Body!

The fourth and highest level: while the protective Rigid Qi circulated, the practitioner looked as if dyed by golden light, with an indestructible body; this was the Vajra Indestructible Body!

In Chen Chong’s view, the Ultimate Infinite Qigong was essentially like a powerful Qigong mental method that allowed the practitioner to gradually cultivate extraordinary and unconventional strength. The Vajra Indestructible Divine Art, on the other hand, was purely a Body Tempering Hard Art. Its sole purpose was to forge a non-human body of immense strength and indestructible durability! From the description alone, the Vajra Indestructible Divine Art could simultaneously enhance strength and physical defense. It was undoubtedly a very comprehensive Body Tempering Hard Art that served both offense and defense, especially suitable for his current situation!

Right now, without using Electrotherapy, he lacked large supplements of nutrients and energy, so training the Ultimate Infinite Qigong often yielded half the results for twice the effort. Spending all his time on it would just be a waste. But the Vajra Indestructible Divine Art could make him impervious to blades and greatly enhance his physical defense. Moreover, while strengthening his self-preservation ability, it could also extend the duration of his Electrotherapy sessions due to his enhanced physique!

This was undoubtedly a positive feedback loop.

Chen Chong’s heart couldn’t help but stir with excitement. Without a moment’s hesitation, he carefully analyzed the movement diagrams appearing in his mind, ready to begin training.

As the complex diagrams flashed before his eyes, Chen Chong’s mind stirred slightly.

The reason was simple. He realized that while the initial dozens of postures in the secret transmission atlas were manageable, the further he went, the more exaggerated and bizarre the secret transmission postures became, as if they were movements a normal person could not possibly perform. It seemed that at the later stages, the Vajra Indestructible Divine Art targeted the body’s vulnerabilities and weak points, which were extremely difficult to train, hence the increasing difficulty.

“The first twenty-seven postures of the Body Tempering Iron Body aren’t too difficult. I’ll start training them first!”

After roughly scanning all the movements and memorizing all the mnemonic key points by heart, Chen Chong jumped off the bed, stood upright with his feet together, and placed his palms together in front of his chest. He assumed the starting posture of the Vajra Indestructible Divine Art.

Then, Chen Chong straightened his arms and slowly bent backward from the waist, bending until his palms touched the ground, like a human arch bridge. The postures from the diagram were deeply etched into his mind. Chen Chong adjusted his position bit by bit until he ensured it was accurate. As his posture became completely standard, he circulated his Qi slightly and immediately felt a distinctly different hot current travel from his chest and abdomen to his lower back and arms, as if silently altering something.

In less than ten minutes, sweat appeared on Chen Chong’s forehead, and he felt the posture had reached his body’s limit. Immediately, the second secret transmission posture flashed through his mind. He straightened up, locked his arms behind him, stepped his left leg inward, twisted his waist fiercely to a 180-degree angle, making his entire body look like twisted dough.

True Qi was mobilized, turning into strands of hot current that gradually permeated Chen Chong’s waist and arms, as if merging into his flesh and blood.

After ten minutes, Chen Chong was drenched in sweat, having reached the limit of maintaining this posture.

Next was the third movement, the fourth… the fifth…

Four hours later, as he moved into the twenty-seventh posture, the last movement of the Body Tempering Iron Body chapter, Chen Chong was touching the floor only with his abdomen. His head, chest, legs, and arms were all lifted off the ground and suspended in the air, with his hands touching his toes, making his whole body look like a snake biting its tail!

Now, Chen Chong was sweating profusely, his whole body soaked. His vision was starting to blur, as if he had reached the very limit of his physical endurance and was only persevering with a sliver of willpower. These postures were quite difficult, and more importantly, they drained strength and mental energy incredibly fast. Even Chen Chong’s physical strength was rapidly and completely depleted.

Even so, Chen Chong’s body emitted scorching heat like a furnace. At the same time, one could see that the muscles all over his body were bulging and swelling as if inflated with air, making him look a whole size larger!

“Ten… four, three, two, one! Huff! Huff! Huff…”

In his muddled mind, as he estimated the time and counted down to one, Chen Chong suddenly relaxed his posture. He collapsed, sprawling out on his back on the floor, gasping heavily for air. He looked as if he had just been fished out of water, and a large sweat stain was clearly imprinted on the floor where he lay. This showed the immense physical toll of these few hours of training!

“I didn’t expect these twenty-seven movements to be so difficult to perform in a row. With my current physical strength, I almost failed to complete them!”

After a while, Chen Chong lay on the floor, his blank mind slowly recovering the ability to think.

The Vajra Indestructible Divine Art had another special feature in its training method. The twenty-seven secret transmission postures of each level had to be performed consecutively to achieve the maximum training effect. The difficulty of training for subsequent levels increased progressively, and the practitioner had to include the previous levels’ training movements to achieve the optimal effect.

For example, a practitioner at the highest level of Vajra Indestructible Body, when continuing to temper his body, would need to start from the very first posture of the Body Tempering Iron Body and then complete all 108 secret transmission postures in one go. The difficulty was simply staggering!

But for now, just finishing the twenty-seven postures of the Iron Body chapter had already pushed Chen Chong’s body to its limit. The later training was still very far away for him.

Casting aside useless thoughts, Chen Chong slowly sat up. His muscles, which had previously swelled as if inflated, had largely returned to normal, though one could still faintly see they were slightly larger than before the tempering.

Gazing at his now slightly bulging muscles, he clearly felt that his muscles were not only swelling but had also become a bit tougher, as if hammered by a craftsman.

“Very good, the effect appeared after only one training session. It seems reaching the Body Tempering Iron Body won’t be too difficult, and it shouldn’t take long.”

Chen Chong squeezed his slightly bulging muscles, feeling delighted, but a strange thought involuntarily arose in his heart:

“But… looking at this trend, if I train like this, won’t I inevitably turn into a muscle fanatic?”