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Chapter 16 Test
"In addition to combat, this skill is also useful in other areas! For example, secretly reminding someone. Or quietly guiding others' thoughts. However, this skill requires one's spirit to be in a perfect state.

"If you are in a state of fear, confusion, panic or other negative emotions, or if your mental strength is not as strong as your opponent's, you may suffer backlash."

The third special skill is called [Copying].

Using this skill, the scholar can memorize and solidify the moves or abilities of another person and use them in battle. However, this skill is also the one that consumes the most mental energy among the three skills. It is basically a one-time trump card.

"It's a pity that I missed the fight between Fan Caiyi and Tu Sen, otherwise I could have tried to copy their special skills. Whether it's teleportation or turning the body into metal, it's a life-saving trump card at the critical moment!"

Su Daoshan felt that this was the most suitable one among the three special skills for his needs.

"Of course, the most interesting technique is asking questions. I have a lot of these mental harassment questions."

Thinking about it, after finishing a cup of tea, Su Daoshan stood up, walked through the corridor of the ear room and around to the back of the small building, pushed open a wooden door in the middle of the back wall, and came to a yard filled with various training equipment.

Right next to the platform where we watched the stars last night is Su Daoshan’s exclusive training ground.

Daily morning exercise is an unshakable habit of mine.

Su Daoshan walked around the training ground.

The site was not large, no more than 20 meters long and 12 or 13 meters wide, surrounded by high walls. Under the walls were a variety of weapons, stone locks, stepping stakes, iron sand bags, and fighting dolls.

Su Daoshan stopped in front of a row of iron locks in the corner of the wall, tilted his head and looked left and right.

This is a tool used to train strength, cast from pig iron in the shape of a lock. There are five iron locks in this row, the lightest weighing 20 kilograms and the heaviest weighing up to 500 kilograms.

On the road of martial arts, a martial artist has been training his body and cultivating his inner qi since the age of six. By the age of twelve, his bones have gradually become strong, his qi and blood have gradually prospered, and his physique has gradually become stronger. If he can lift a 200-jin iron chain above his head with both hands, he is considered to have entered the ninth level.

After getting started, the first thing a warrior needs to do is to learn to break the whole into parts and practice the strength of the limbs separately.

If one wants to advance from the lower level of the ninth rank to the middle level of the ninth rank, the minimum standard is to lift an iron chain weighing two hundred kilograms horizontally with one arm.

Su Daoshan bent down, grasped the 200-jin iron chain, and lifted it up. But the moment he straightened up, he felt the weight in his hand and exclaimed "Huh" in surprise.

Su Daoshan didn't expect it to feel so light in his hand. He weighed the iron lock up and down, and even suspected that it was made of paulownia wood wrapped in iron sheets - you know, he hasn't even started to circulate his inner qi yet!
Su Daoshan kept his body straight, and without shaking or relying on the force of inertia, he slowly raised his right arm outward.

Lifting a 200-jin iron chain in this way is much more difficult than lifting 400-500 jin with both hands.

However, at this moment, Su Daoshan had only one feeling.

"Too light!"

If I compare it to the gym in my previous life, it might be a bit exaggerated to say that I was holding a one-kilogram dumbbell in my hands, but it felt like no more than five kilograms. Not to mention horizontal raises, even if I held one in each arm and did calisthenics while doing lateral raises and chest expansion exercises, it would be no problem!
Su Daoshan raised his hand and loosened his five fingers. With a loud bang, the iron chain fell freely and hit the bluestone on the ground, breaking a corner of the thick bluestone and sending fragments and slag flying everywhere.

This is a real 200 kilograms!

Su Daoshan turned around excitedly and walked to a long stone trough.

There were five five-finger balls on the stone trough. This training device was very similar to a bowling ball, with a round shape but five holes for the fingers, and was made of pure iron. The five iron balls were lined up in a row, also ranging from 20 jin to 500 jin.

If the lower level of the ninth grade is overall strength and the middle level of the ninth grade is limb strength, then the assessment criteria for the upper level of the ninth grade is wrist strength and finger strength.

Only by grabbing an iron ball weighing a hundred pounds entirely by relying on finger strength and completing a series of movements can one be promoted to the upper level of the ninth rank.

Su Daoshan directly chose a 200-jin iron ball. He also did not circulate his internal energy. He inserted his fingers and lifted the iron ball easily with a little effort.

Su Daoshan raised his arm, and the iron ball was like an alien glove. As his wrist turned 360 degrees, it drew a small circle lightly in the air.

Next comes the elbow rotation, then the shoulder rotation...

As Su Daoshan's movements became more and more vigorous, the whistling sound of the iron ball became louder and louder. In the end, it was like a hurricane. The whistling wind stirred the air and made the wooden door vibrate.

After swinging it a few times, Su Daoshan suddenly threw the iron ball up, and held it with his five fingers at the moment of its falling, making it stop completely from moving in an instant without any shaking.

Su Daoshan put down the five-finger ball and looked at his hands in surprise.

On the road of martial arts, from the ninth level to the first level, there are five levels to overcome. Among them, the ninth level of external force and the eighth level of internal force are both the first level. The core of this level is only one, forging the body!

Just like a piece of raw iron, if you want to be qualified to be forged into a weapon, you must first be tempered into steel. At the beginning of martial arts, let alone fighting with others, you must first temper your own physique.

In this level, the ninth level of external force is the original strength of the human body.

At this level, there is no difference between warriors and ordinary people. Warriors use their bodies in the same way that ordinary people use their bodies. It is nothing more than making their bodies stronger, their muscles firmer, and their strength greater through various training and diet.

The eighth level of internal strength is stimulated by internal Qi and combined with various physical training exercises to expel all impurities, disease, and coldness from the body. It not only strengthens the body, but more importantly, it strengthens the five internal organs, improves Qi and blood, and allows the strength to penetrate the entire body.

After fusing with the Dao Seed last night, Su Daoshan felt the life force contained in the Dao Seed merge into his body. Under the impact of this life force, his bones, blood, meridians, and muscles were all reborn, as if he were reborn.

But Su Daoshan had no idea to what extent it had reached.

Until now...

"Sure enough, after becoming a transcendent warrior, it's not just one aspect that is improved, but the overall life level. No wonder Fan Caiyi is already a seventh-grade warrior at about the same age as me... Can the physical attributes of a lion be the same as those of a local dog?"

Understanding this, Su Daoshan turned his head and stared at a huge steel war puppet with his sharp eyes.

This war puppet is two meters tall, with its arms clasped and legs bent, standing in a posture. It looks like armor with a large number of square protrusions. It is wide at the bottom and narrow at the top, with a 30-centimeter-high and 80-centimeter-square base at the bottom.

Su Daoshan walked up to the iron doll, took a deep breath, and circulated his internal energy.

Soon, Su Daoshan's breath began to become long and dense. The blood in his body was mobilized, rushing with the powerful pumping of the heart. White mist swirled around his forehead, and between breaths, his pleura made a croaking sound like a bullfrog.

The battle puppet weighs 12,000 jin and is a standard instrument for testing the eighth-grade strength of warriors. To enter the lower eighth-grade, a warrior needs to use all his strength to bump it.

The intermediate standard is to push it with the arms.

The higher level standard is to shake it with finger force!
This is also a process of cultivation from the whole to the part, but there is an essential difference between the eighth-grade internal force and the ninth-grade external force. To use a simple analogy, the external force is like a rigid mechanical force, while the internal force is like an explosive force.

Moreover, the two have different physiques. When reaching the eighth level of internal strength, the bones will become tougher and tougher, and the fascia and muscles will become stronger and stronger.

An ordinary person could rip open a ninth-grade warrior with a single blow. But a blow with the same force on an eighth-grade warrior wouldn't even penetrate an inch. The tough skin and muscles and the internal strength contained within them could naturally rebound, greatly dissipating the force and reducing the damage.

This is why all the major sects set the eighth rank as the entry line for the county examinations over the years. Similarly, this is also the minimum standard for a warrior to truly have the combat power to go out of the city and fight against the crazy puppet.

The ninth rank is for strongmen, the eighth rank is for warriors.

Su Daoshan had never thought about being promoted to the eighth rank. But at this moment... he even skipped the assessment of the lower and middle eighth rank, and stood directly in front of the war doll, with his ten fingers on the doll's forward-embracing palms.

He had never used his inner qi before, but now as it was running, Su Daoshan felt like a completely different person. As his qi and blood surged, a huge force burst out from every cell in his body, like ignited gunpowder.

Su Daoshan's ten fingers were like pliers, and he suddenly grasped the puppet's palm and pushed it hard. The six-ton ​​puppet suddenly shook.

Immediately, he turned pushing into pulling.

With a bang, the sudden change in force was like a water hammer effect, and there was an explosion between his hands and the hands of the war doll. The dust in the sunlight was pushed away by an invisible shock wave.

A bolt from the blue!

The war doll's shaking amplitude increased.

Su Daoshan let go, channeled his strength into his fingertips, exhaled and shouted, then pressed the five fingers of his right hand slammed down on the chest of the war doll, blasting out all his internal energy!

The shaking war doll was like a racing car with burned tires that suddenly released its brakes. It retreated abruptly, moving nearly half a meter away, and the base left a clear mark on the ground!

Bang! The puppet kept shaking, its entire body trembling like a giant bell being struck.

The upper level of the eighth grade!

(End of this chapter)