Chapter Thirty: Refining the Body's Beginning

  When leaving Chaohui Garden, Luoyu met the female lead Luoxue and saw that future divine beast's head and tail were connected and wrapped around her wrist like a beautiful bracelet.

  Luoyu's eyes widened in surprise as she pouted her lips and walked forward, calling out: "Ninth Sister!"

  "Shòu Shū, Thirteen Little Sister." Luo Xue nodded.

  "Eldest sister, are you going to look for Third Elder? He should still be in the living room at this time."

  "Yes," Luo Xue said after a pause, "thank you for yesterday."

  She unexpectedly received the gratitude of the Ice Snow heroine, and Luo Yu was momentarily stunned. She hadn't expected the heroine to take her feelings seriously; at the time, she had just been acting on a whim.

  "She's gone, let's go too." Huang Daishou pulled Luo Yu and said, "Are we going to the market later?"

  "Oh~" Luo Yu patted her own forehead, but the female lead's slight response made her excited and dazed, this habit needs to be changed.

  The father and daughter arrived at the market, where Luo Yu bought some medicinal herbs for physical training. There were Flame Grass, Ling Ci, Shi Pi Hua, and over a dozen other spiritual medicines inside. Since all of these spiritual medicines were under 100 years old, she was able to buy enough for ten medicine baths with just 80 low-grade spiritual stones. All of Luo Yu's spiritual stones had been used up in that destroyed interspatial ring, so now she was penniless and could only ask her father to pay the bill.

  She bought some more Iron Thorn seeds, preparing to practice her Wood-type binding technique. She had previously used the Linggu Valley seeds for practicing Qigong without any attacking effect. Afterwards, Luoyu brought her father to the stall where they bought the demon beast eggs yesterday.

  "The little girl is here again, see if there's anything you want." The middle-aged stall owner greeted.

  "Senior, I'm just looking, don't have to buy." Luo Yu squatted down and rummaged through the things on the stall.

  "Alright! If you like something, I'll give you a discount. No big deal if you don't buy anything." The stall owner was in a good mood, having made a fortune in spirit stones the day before from this young girl's clansmen.

  Luoyu searched for a long time but couldn't find anything satisfactory, so she finally picked up an unidentifiable black soil block and bought it with a spirit stone, feeling like she was getting a bargain. Huang Daishou shook his head in his heart, but didn't stop her, just treating it as a joke.

  Afterwards, Luo Yu repeatedly studied and finally found that it was just a piece of soil. She sighed in her heart, those who followed the original "female lead" and "female supporting role" to pick up leaks, how did you discover that there were other treasures? Is it unbelievable or does she really not have the fate of being the female lead? Alas, it seems that taking someone else's route makes one's own route go nowhere, and it's better to be a good passerby.

  Back home, Luo Yu didn't rush to flip through the Jade Manual of Body Cultivation, but instead practiced the Horse Stance in the courtyard, a prerequisite for body cultivation.

  "What is Jade doing?" Huang Daishou had been on leave at home for several days to accompany the children.

  "Zamastep, Father!" Luo Yu replied, can't you see that?

  "What's with the butt pose? Tuck your crotch in."

  Huang Daishou's finger snapped out, and the spiritual energy struck Luo Yu's buttocks, almost causing her to fall over. Luo Yu was furious in her heart: "Dad, don't you think that's a bit too indecent!"

  "Squatting too high."

  Huang Daishou pointed again, pressing down on Luo Yu's shoulder.

  "Toes parallel forward, don't turn outward."

  Luoyu quickly moved her toes, not letting her father's spiritual energy shot out. She was really afraid of him! Being so heartless to his own daughter, are you sure I'm not adopted?

  "Alright, I'll let your mother bring two bowls of water and put them on your shoulders."

  Luo Yu's shoulders were originally not very stable, and now they shook even more violently.

  Two bowls flew out of the house and landed on her shoulders, then crashed to the ground with a loud bang.

  "Oh no, my bowl—"

  Lin Mo's exclamation sounded in her ear, Luo Yu looked down and saw that it wasn't broken. It was the Lingyu bowl, which was quite sturdy.

  "Girls, you just love watching me make a fool of myself." Luo Yu turned back with a bitter smile.

  "Hehe," Lin Mo smiled, "we're not teasing you, we're helping you! To show our sincerity, I and your dad have decided to let Xi'er practice with you."

  It was originally his own request, good or bad, but it was unexpectedly pushed out as a shield! Zi Yun smiled bitterly, but did not refute.

  Then, the Luoyu siblings began their day of Za Ma Bu. When they couldn't squat anymore, they would rest for a while before continuing. By the end of the day, Luoyu was so exhausted that she had to be carried into the medicinal bath to soak. The medicine seeped into her body, and it felt both painful and refreshing. Her cries could be heard throughout the entire courtyard. When the medicinal bath cleared up, Luoyu climbed out of the tub, and by then, all her fatigue was gone. She sat cross-legged in meditation, and the effect was even better than before.

  The spiritual energy is slowly absorbed into the body, entering the meridians and then gathering in the dantian. After that, Luo Yu runs the Ba Tian Jue method to disperse the spiritual power throughout the body to temper the flesh. If it's a pure physical practitioner, they directly absorb the spiritual energy into the body to temper the flesh without entering the meridians. For those who cultivate their Qi, both methods are possible. To speed up the cultivation of the body, practitioners usually use the former method because the spiritual power in the meridians is thicker than that in the external world.

  The first three stages of physical training are the power period, which are 500 jin force, 1000 jin force and 2000 jin force, reaching the limit of human strength. At this time, the skin on the surface of the body cannot be scratched by ordinary objects, and has a certain resistance to spells in the refining qi period. After entering the fourth stage of physical training, spiritual power combines with the flesh to produce true yuan, which is another type of spiritual power that cannot be projected through the air in the early stages of physical training. It manifests as physical strength on the outside, and if there is a weapon with good conductivity, it can also enhance the power of the weapon; however, if the practitioner needs to, they can also transform it back into spiritual power to cast spells. At this time, the flesh is equivalent to a large-scale spiritual power storage device, which is not possessed by pure physical trainers.

  After practicing Li, there are (4-6 levels) practicing flesh, (7-9 levels) practicing internal organs, (10-12 levels) changing tendons and (13 levels) tempering bones. In addition to the increase in strength, the corresponding parts of the body in each period receive focused polishing and become extremely tough.

  The practice of Ba Tian Jue can be cultivated to the level of Lian Zhang Qi, just one step away from entering Yi Jin Qi, which is also the reason why it is classified as a high-grade Earth-level technique. In addition to the basic practice method, Ba Tian Jue also includes the martial techniques of Ba Tian Quan and Ba Tian Gun Fa.

  Luoyu decided to put Ba Tian Quan in front, after all, fist techniques are simpler than gun techniques.

  Two days later, Luo Yu's horse steps began to take effect, and the siblings started practicing hitting a wooden stake with a diameter of 1 foot. Since it was called Ba Tian Fist, they first needed to have some strength and dominance, and didn't rush into practicing the fist method.

  "Bang! Bang! Bang!" - The sound of hitting a wooden stake echoed in the courtyard.

  Luoyu refused the boxing gloves her father had prepared for her. If she was going to train, how could she be afraid of getting hurt? She didn't use spiritual power either, only relying on her physical strength to hit the wooden stake, this way she could achieve the effect of training. In just a short while, both small fists were already bloody and bruised, with fresh blood staining the wooden stake, exceptionally eye-catching.

  "Yu'er, stop for a moment and apply some medicine first."

  Lin Mo walked over to Luo Yu's side, looking at her small face covered in sweat and her bloody fist, feeling especially distressed.

  "Come on, help me apply some ointment."

  Luoyu stopped hitting and obediently let her mother apply the medicine. After being soft for a long time, she suddenly made a move on the tomboy, and this body really couldn't take it.

  After taking the medicine, Luo Yu again circulated the Ba Tian Jue to transport the water and wood spiritual energy to the back of his hand to heal and nourish the wound. Soon, new flesh grew, the wound healed, and half an hour later, the back of his hand was as good as before, with even tougher skin.

  Then, after a day of hitting, getting hurt, healing, and hitting again, Lu Yu was finally able to strike out a visible dent on the pear blossom wooden stake. Jiuzhong...