High-level martial arts: Starting with a heart of steel, stats crush everything.

Unlike the common understanding of tempering from the inside out, the tempering of a martial artist's body is from the outside in.

Starting with the skin, then the blood, bones, and bone marrow, and finally the most vulnerable internal organs.

If Chen Mo's final punch in the national competition hadn't been a real injury, it might not have broken Yang Zuo's bones.

Having gained experience in using mental power to guide blood and qi to temper the skin, Chen Mo became much more adept at tempering blood.

After a brief period of familiarization, Chen Mo successfully guided the first wisp of qi and blood into his own bloodstream.

Although the blood that has undergone tempering will still be replaced, its properties have been memorized by the body, and the blood that is replaced later will also be in the form of the tempered blood.

The moment the Qi and blood came into contact with the blood, a burning sensation that Chen Mo had never experienced before swept over his entire body with the force of thunder.

"hiss......"

Looking at his health points, Chen Mo couldn't help but grin.

"400 points per second, that'll only last 20 minutes..."

Body Tempering Pills can alleviate the damage caused by body tempering to a certain extent, but ordinary martial artists can only take one at a time, as taking too many can easily lead to tempering failure.

However, Chen Mo doesn't need to worry about this problem at all.

Whether it's due to his innate physique or an ability granted by the system, Chen Mo can now largely ignore the side effects of pills.

However, there is a limit to ignoring the side effects of pills. After thinking for a moment, Chen Mo took out a second Body Tempering Pill and swallowed it.

The medicine began to take effect, and the terrible burning sensation on Chen Mo's body was significantly reduced.

Looking at his attribute panel again, the damage from Tempered Blood had decreased from 400 points per second to 300 points per second.

"One more, please!"

Seeing that his idea was working, Chen Mo took out the third Body Tempering Pill and swallowed it.

However, compared to the effect of the second Body Tempering Pill, the effect of the third pill was much worse, only reducing the damage to 280 points of health per second.

"One more?"

Chen Mo gritted his teeth. Anyway, these pills didn't cost him any money, so he might as well take them!

After he swallowed the fourth level-four Body Tempering Pill, the damage reduction effect was negligible, and the damage only decreased by ten points.

That's about it.

Chen Mo was already very satisfied with this result.

Chen Mo's health points decrease by 270 per second, while simultaneously recovering 200 per second. In other words, Chen Mo's health points will decrease at a rate of 70 per second.

If he takes it easy, he can temper himself continuously for about an hour under six times the gravity.

This number is already terrifying. Apart from the four members of Chen Mo's team, the other sixteen finalists could only last for about fifteen minutes under double gravity.

Shaking his head to clear his mind of all the jumbled thoughts, Chen Mo began to concentrate all his attention on refining his blood.

...

The tempering process is undoubtedly painful, but it is an essential path to becoming a master.

Time passed slowly, and Chen Mo opened his eyes just before his health bar was about to reach zero.

"The progress is too slow. At this rate, it will take at least a month to complete the blood tempering."

With the six times gravity deactivated, Chen Mo, his face somewhat pale, emerged from the gravity tempering chamber.

[Host has successfully begun blood tempering. You can spend 200 gold coins to digitize the tempering progress.]

[Should we enable data-driven refinement progress?]

【whether】

"Two hundred gold coins..." Chen Mo licked his lips, seemingly not at a loss?

During this period, in addition to training in the training camp, Chen Mo did not forget to complete daily tasks to accumulate gold coins.

Compared to the previous fixed fifty gold coins, the daily quests after level four will fluctuate between seventy and one hundred and twenty gold coins.

Over the course of the week, including what he had saved up before, Chen Mo had accumulated a total of 730 gold coins.

"Come on, we can always save up again if we spend it."

After spending a huge sum of 200 gold coins, a new section appeared on Chen Mo's system panel.

[Body Tempering Progress: Skin (99%), Blood (3.9%), Bones (0%), Bone Marrow (0%), Internal Organs (0%)]

"Wait a minute!"

Chen Mo frowned. Hadn't he already completed the skin tempering?

Why is the skin's progress at 99%?

[Host, there's no need to be confused. The limit that a body tempered using the current world's tempering methods can reach is 99%.]

[The host can spend gold coins to replenish the last 1% and become a perfect steel-skinned character.]

"How much money..." Chen Mo had a bad feeling that his savings might be running out.

[Perfect Steel Skin 1% Progress (500 Gold)]

"..."

"Damn it, if this doesn't work, I'll take you down with me."

Despite his cursing, Chen Mo still felt it necessary to spend those five hundred gold coins.

I don't know what the difference is between perfect steel skin and regular steel skin...

After clicking to purchase, fine cracks simultaneously appeared all over Chen Mo's body.

However, instead of blood flowing from these cuts, there was a layer of fair and delicate new skin!

[Purchase successful. Congratulations, host, on completing the tempering of the steel skin!]

【Perfect Steel Blood 1% Progress (1500 Gold) (Now Available)】

"Why does it feel even worse than the steel skin before?" Chen Mo shook off the skin flakes that had fallen off his body and touched his now fair and delicate skin.

"Could it be that we need to activate it with qi and blood?"

Thinking of this, Chen Mo almost instinctively activated the blood and qi stored in his skin.

In the blink of an eye, her originally fair and delicate skin became incredibly tough, and its color changed from white to iron gray.

Chen Mo gently tapped the iron-gray skin, and it actually produced a sound exactly like steel.

"Damn, this skin is tough enough."

"These five hundred gold coins are really great value for money."

[Perfect Steel Skin is being activated. It consumes 20 HP per second, and increases defense by 100% during activation!]

"A noble percentage attribute boost."

Chen Mo happily deactivated the Perfect Steel Skin mode, glanced at the time, and realized it was almost dinnertime.

"Hey, Xiao He Miao, where are Gu Feng and the others right now?"

Chen Mo pressed the miniature earpiece in his ear and immediately contacted He Miao, who was in the dormitory.

"Chen, Chen Mo, could you please stop calling me Xiao He Miao?"

He Miao blushed slightly in the dormitory. After getting to know each other for a while, Chen Mo and the others had started calling her Little He Miao.

He Miao didn't dislike the nickname, it was just too cute...

She's determined to become a cool and powerful woman, so even her nickname has to be imposing and domineering!

Just like Chen Mo's nickname "Ferocious Beast".

"Gu Feng and Yang Zuo have just finished their agility training, and Sister Ma is currently undergoing strength training."

"I've already called them for you. Is it time for dinner?"