The First Marquis of Daxuan

Chapter 41: Skin Tempering (Please read, collect, and vote for the monthly ticket)
In more than a month, he accumulated three hundred points, which were enough for his Golden Scale Skin Tempering Technique to break through from minor success to major success.

With such speed and progress, even those so-called geniuses in the inner city would feel inferior.

Su Mu lay down on the bed, adjusted his posture, and adjusted his thoughts and breathing.

At this moment, he had an idea and tapped the “+” behind the Golden Scale Skin Tempering Method.

boom!
It was as if a ball of hot energy and blood exploded in the body, instantly flowing from the heart throughout the body and rushing to the skin all over the body.

An indescribable pain exploded in Su Mu's mind. For a moment, his skin felt as if it was being pricked by needles outside and burned by fire inside.

The severe pain made him kick his legs, roll his eyes, and faint again.

To apply the energy of one or two years of skin tempering to the body in an instant is definitely beyond the limit of what the human body can endure.

If there hadn't been some vague force protecting him, Su Mu would have died from the pain.

Fainting is just the body's instinctive way of protecting itself.

After an unknown amount of time, Su Mu slowly woke up from his coma.

After waking up, he wished he had not woken up.

Because my whole body was still in pain, and that pain was much more intense than the pain I felt when I was tempering my skin.

He curled up into a ball, sweat pouring out of every pore of his body. The mattress beneath him had already been soaked with sweat, as if it had just been pulled out of the water.

It was a full quarter of an hour before the pain from the stabbing needles gradually disappeared.

Su Mu was almost exhausted and lay limply on the bed.

The bed was already filthy, with shed skin flakes, sweat, blood, and indescribable impurities.

Everything mixed together like mud and gave off a bad stench.

But now, Su Mu no longer cared. He just lay in the filth, without even the strength to move a finger.

After more than half an hour, Su Mu let out a long breath and managed to get up.

After accumulating strength for a while, he stood up completely and stuffed the meat and tonics he had prepared in advance into his stomach.

Only then did he feel that the feeling of being drained was lessened a little and he regained some strength.

He endured the unpleasant stench and threw the quilt out, then fetched several buckets of water to wash his body clean.

"Another waste of bedding."

Su Mu muttered to himself.

Fortunately, Butler Xu gave him five hundred taels of silver last time, otherwise Su Mu’s salary would not be enough for him.

It is said that the poor are good at literature but the rich are good at martial arts. Su Mu has the help of the system panel, so he no longer needs those outrageously expensive medicinal materials to quench his skin.

Even so, Su Mu still felt that he was spending money like water.

The most important thing is eating. After tempering his skin, his appetite increased greatly. One meal can be equivalent to five or six meals of an ordinary person. Moreover, he would get hungry easily after eating, so four or five meals a day would be a common thing.

And after every breakthrough, he would feel hollowed out and needed a lot of nourishment.

For example, the meat and tonic he prepared in advance cost him more than thirty taels of silver.

If he only relied on his own salary, a year's salary would not be enough for this meal.

If it was someone else who practiced martial arts, the cost would be even greater than Su Mu's.

No wonder there are so many detectives in Nancheng Division, but so few of them have truly entered the Body Tempering Realm.

It’s because body tempering is too expensive. Even if you have the qualifications, you may not have the financial resources.

After everything was packed up, Su Mu lay down on the bed to rest and recuperate.

After about an hour, the meat and tonics were gradually digested and absorbed, and the body's strength slowly recovered.

Su Mu was full of energy again. He clenched his fists and felt his body steady and strong.

"Finally the skin hardening is complete!"

Su Mu could clearly feel the changes in his body at this moment.

Compared with before, his physical strength is longer-lasting. If he uses the Fu Bo Sword at full strength, he can perform the Jiu Chong Lang ten times without the embarrassing situation of running out of physical strength.

Especially his skin, which became even tougher. If it could be magnified countless times, it would be seen that there seemed to be countless tiny golden scales on the surface of his skin. These golden scales, which were invisible to the naked eye, made his skin as tough as thick cowhide.

A slightly blunt knife would only leave a white mark on his skin without causing him to break the skin and bleed.

After perfecting his body, the resistance and endurance of his skin was much stronger than that of ordinary people. Even if Su Mu didn't know how to use a sword, he could still kill those thugs who hadn't tempered their bodies.

"I have mastered the Fu Bo Sword Style. When I am at a lower realm, the Fu Bo Sword Style can almost make up for the gap of one realm.

Now, even if I encounter a warrior who has reached the second level of Body Tempering, I can still fight him."

Su Mu thought to himself.

These days he has been learning everything about martial arts.

His martial arts skills were perfect, and he had obvious advantages when his body-tempering realm was low.

Especially when you are in the first and second stages of body tempering.

However, as the realm improves, the gap in power between each other becomes larger, and martial artists at a high level can almost all practice their martial arts to perfection.

[Name: Su Mu]

[Identity: Constable (officer)]

[Points: 5 points]

[Kung Fu: Golden Scale Skin Tempering Method (Great Mastery)]

[Martial Arts: Fubo Sword Skills (Perfect), Archery (Beginner)]

Thinking in his mind, Su Mu called out the system panel and focused his attention on the Golden Scale Skin Tempering Method.

The Golden Scale Skin Tempering Method requires one thousand points to reach perfection.

"One thousand points, based on the team leader's basic income, it will take fifty days."

Su Mu calculated silently in his mind, "If performance is taken into account, the time can be shortened by half at the fastest, and I can earn enough in less than a month."

Compared to other warriors, his greatest advantage is thriftiness.

No spiritual liquid is needed to temper the skin, which saves him more than a few hundred taels of silver. If not for this, he would probably still be worried about the silver.

It’s not like now, where all you have to do is get the job done.

"The skin has been tempered to a great extent. I will go and urge the waist badge tomorrow. We still have to enter the inner city as soon as possible."

Su Mu said to himself, and suddenly, his ears moved slightly.

The next moment, Su Mu grabbed the long knife, opened the door and rushed out.

As soon as Su Mu stepped out of the door, he felt the ground was slippery.

When I looked down, I saw that the ground was covered with sticky black liquid at some point.

"Fire oil!"

Su Mu was shocked.

Just at this moment, several torches flew in from outside the courtyard wall and fell to the ground with a thud.

call!
The flames suddenly rose up.

The kerosene burned too fast and there were too many ignition points, so Su Mu had no time to stop it.

Seeing that the fire had started, he rushed to the gate of the yard and reached out to open it.

There was a rattling sound of iron chains, and the door was actually locked from the outside.

Su Mu narrowed his eyes slightly, and the next moment, the long sword was unsheathed.

With two clicks, the wooden door broke into pieces.

Su Mu rushed out of the yard and just in time saw several figures sneaking into the alley.

He turned around and looked at the house that was engulfed in flames, hesitated for a moment, and finally chose to stop.

The fire has already started. If it is not put out quickly, it will definitely affect the neighbors.

As for the arsonists, Su Mu had already seen their figures and appearances, they couldn't run away!
(End of this chapter)