Chapter Six Cultivation

  The river is outside the city, and the western mountain.

  Heavy snow seals the mountain, weighing down the branches.

  A dull thud came from the mountains, continuous and unrelenting. In front of a massive iron stone, Lu Fan's upper body shook violently as he quickly threw punches, smashing out one dent after another in the iron stone.

  His arm was already covered in blood, and the ground was stained red all over.

  His entire arm was swollen and numb, initially still aching with pain, but now completely paralyzed. Lu Fan could hardly feel the existence of his arm. He desperately practiced according to the collapse mountain fist's punching method.

  Next to it were piles of blazing grass and piles of clothes, tools, and frozen food like ice blocks.

  Lu Fan had been practicing for several hours, and the Bongshan Fist was easier to practice than he thought. Except for the pain of smashing his arms against the stone, he gradually got a feel for the moves and the force required.

  Finally, Lu Fan stopped after exhausting all his strength.

  His two arms were almost unable to move now. Lu Fan felt that his arm might have been broken, and he seemed to have heard the sound of bones cracking.

  He bit off a piece of Flamegrass with his mouth and swallowed it after chewing randomly for a few times.

  Soon, Lu Fan saw his body turn bright red, as if it was about to burn. This was the medicine starting to take effect, and Lu Fan felt his strength quickly recovering.

  But that's still not enough, taking Flamegrass internally is just a general way to heal wounds. Practicing Mount Bungou's Fist requires both internal and external application.

  Feeling that his arm was almost movable, Lu Fan took out the prepared tool and ground a stem of Lianhuo grass with white roots into powder, then applied it to his arm.

  The moment the powder touched the wound on his arm, Lu Fan felt a piercing pain coming from his arm.

  The intense pain caused Lu Fan's face to start twitching, this kind of pain was like his arm being burned by a flame. Clenching his teeth, Lu Fan kept telling himself that he could do it, he could hold on.

  Little by little, as he applied the powder evenly, Lu Fan saw his arm rapidly begin to recover.

  Can't help but say, Baigen Lieyancao's effect is surprisingly good, and it indeed boosts cultivation speed.

  The pain made Lu Fan want to scream and vent his anger, but he gritted his teeth and continued to cultivate.

  But when his fist hit the stone again, he suddenly felt another tearing pain. The two pains overlapped, almost causing him to faint.

  Lu Fan suddenly burst into a loud scolding, and his cultivation of over a decade instantly vanished.

  While scolding, Lu Fan continued to cultivate. This was the best time for practicing the Crumbling Mountain Fist. According to the book's description, cultivating at this time could allow the medicinal properties to better penetrate his body.

  The so-called Bajiquan training is actually to first destroy one's hands and arms, then transform them through the application of Li Yan Cao, both externally and internally, finally cultivating iron fists and arms that can shatter rocks.

  Although Lu Fan had mentally prepared himself for the fact that practicing the Collapsing Mountain Fist would be a very painful thing, he hadn't expected it to be this unbearable.

  But once he has made up his mind, he won't change it.

  In order to save time practicing, he even brought enough food, tools and clothes, planning to stay in the western mountains for ten or twenty days until he masters the collapse mountain fist.

  The sound of angry scolding still echoed in the mountains and forests, Lu Fan practiced for several hours.

  The sun sets in the west, the dusk converges from all sides, and the sky starts to fall with small snow again.

  Until he couldn't lift his arms anymore, Lu Fan finally stopped.

  At night in the mountain forest, it was quiet and cold. Lu Fan picked up some branches with his feet and used his feet to strike a flint to ignite a bonfire for himself.

  Lu Fan quietly ate the roasted food in a cave.

  This is also why he chose this place as his training ground, because there was a cave here that could provide him with a place to rest.

  It was midnight when Lu Fan felt that his hands could move again, and he applied some more medicine powder to himself. With a burning pain, he leaned against the rock wall to rest.

  The years of cultivation were always bitter, Lu Fan stared at the snow outside, unable to fall asleep for a long time.

  For more than twenty days afterwards, Lu Fan was immersed in a state of cultivation.

  For more than 20 days, Lu Fan had become accustomed to the bloody and bruised arms from practicing every day, as well as the terrifying pain that continued after applying medicine powder.

  From being unable to fall asleep after applying the medicinal powder, he can now sleep as soon as he lies down with the medicinal powder on. Lu Fan also feels that he is getting stronger and stronger. Moreover, this intense cultivation of over 20 days has made Lu Fan feel that his body has also made significant progress, and he feels that his strength is increasing every day.

  His fists flew like birds, and Lu Fan changed various punching methods to pummel the iron stone in front of him. The originally intact iron stone was beaten by him until it was full of cracks.

  Suddenly, Lu Fan's movements paused for a moment, and then he exerted force from his waist, his fists bringing forth the sound of breaking wind as they heavily smashed onto the iron stone.

  With a loud crash, a tall iron stone was smashed and flew out, splitting into two halves in mid-air.

  Lu Fan smiled as he watched this scene, and then looked at his own bright red arm, seemingly having achieved the desired effect.

  Bengshan Fist is a set of martial arts skills with intricate moves, but after half a month of practice, Lu Fan gradually understood that Bengshan Fist was actually just one move, a move that instantly maximized and released his power.

  So-called various moves are all for him to adapt to different ways, at different times, and from different angles how to punch out this explosive force.

  After groping for so long, Lu Fan had already found the doorway, and that one punch was proof.

  These days of eating bitterness have not been in vain, Lu Fan picked up the stone block and examined it carefully, and it seemed that the effect was still a bit off. According to the book, the small success realm should be able to shatter the stone with one punch. He had only managed to break it into two segments, which didn't seem enough. But he hadn't thought that this kind of high-level martial skill was usually cultivated by those who had already developed their inner energy, and for him to achieve such an effect with just a single punch at the fifth level of body refinement was actually already beyond small success.

  Furrowing his brow, Lu Fan turned to find another stone. In the past few days, he had already ruined many stones, but they were all because of being hit for a long time and were full of cracks, so they couldn't be used anymore. But this one, he had only been hitting it for less than a day.

  Walking up to a cliff, there were many rocks here, and Lu Fan had always been looking for suitable stones for his cultivation.

  After searching high and low, Lu Fan discovered that he couldn't find any stones that were about one person tall. It seemed like he had already used them all up. The stones here were either especially large and impossible to move, or they were especially small, and taking them back would only be for playing with.

  After circling around, Lu Fan finally saw a satisfactory stone stuck to the cliff wall.

  Lufan reached out to move it and found that the stone was bigger than he had imagined. He exerted himself to lift it, and the whole stone was pulled out by him.

  Just as he pulled out the stone, Lu Fan saw a dark cave entrance.

  Lu Fan's heart moved slightly, and he first put the stone aside before walking in.

  The cave seems quite deep, and the further you walk in, the more spacious it feels. There's also an unknown light source, and the inside of the cave is dimly lit, like a candle flickering in the wind.

  At this moment, Lu Fan suddenly saw a plant with dazzling light, its whole body was silver, its leaves were like willow branches unfolding, and in the center there was a small silver-white flower.

  Ghost Orchid!

  Lu Fan recognized it at once; this was the divine medicine, Di Ling Flower.

  Overjoyed in his heart, Lu Fan quickly walked forward.

  Watching the Earth Spirit Flower up close, Lu Fan became more and more certain that it was a spiritual medicine without a doubt. Medicinal materials are divided into nine grades, with those above grade four being called spiritual medicines. The biggest characteristic of spiritual medicines is that they have a strong spiritual energy, and when someone or an animal approaches, they will react.

  Lu Fang had just walked up to the side of the Diligent Flower when the entire plant shriveled up, its leaves tightly wrapping around the flower.

  Lu Fan's face was filled with excitement, as a single spiritual herb could be said to be extremely valuable. Most importantly, the spiritual herb had great benefits for warriors. Like the Earth Spirit Flower in front of him, according to the book, swallowing it would enhance a warrior's physical recovery ability.

  Even among the spiritual medicines, the Earth Spirit Flower is of a fairly high grade. It can be considered as a sixth-grade medicinal material without exaggeration. This kind of medicinal material, when put up for auction, would not fetch a price much lower than that of a single Dan medicine.

  What luck I have today, being able to see it here.

  Lu Fan carefully approached, peeled open the leaves of the Diligent Flower, and plucked off the flower.

  At the moment he picked off the flower, the leaves of the Diligent Flower quickly spread out. Lu Fan didn't pull up the roots; for a treasure like this, taking advantage of it is enough, destroying the roots is taboo, offending heaven above and being despised by people below. Leaving behind the roots, who knows, maybe in another ten or twenty years, another Diligent Flower will grow well.

  Lu Fan sat down cross-legged and swallowed the flower in one gulp.

  Such precious medicine, he was reluctant to take it out for sale, and it's more reliable to eat it himself.

  The flower entered his abdomen, and Lu Fan immediately felt a surge of icy power rising from his abdomen, then rushing towards his limbs like a flood.

  His entire body violently shook, Lu Fan had still underestimated the medicinal power contained within the Spirit Medicine. The violent energy surged through his body, causing him to feel as if his skin was about to burst with fresh blood.

  Gritting his teeth, Lu Fan felt that he had been a bit rash. He thought all medicinal materials could be digested as well as the elixir pills, but it didn't occur to him that if they could all be digested as calmly as the elixir pills, then what would be the point of having Qi Refiners?

  In an instant, Lu Fan fell into a crisis. If he couldn't digest this violent power, what awaited him would be to burst and die from the medicinal force. Suddenly, Lu Fan felt a wave of heat blowing towards him from in front.

  This gust of hot air was clearly not a natural breeze, but rather seemed like someone was blowing directly onto his face.

  Lu Fan's whole body was tense, but he couldn't get up. Because as soon as he moved slightly, the medicinal power in his body would become even more violent.

  Sweat dripped from Lu Fan's forehead as he saw a monster's shadow appear in the flickering light.

  Damn it, isn't this a wild beast?

  Lu Fan's palms began to sweat as he finally realized what the hole was for. It turned out that the stone he had just moved was someone else's door panel.

  A fierce beast lives here, and yet no one knows. Doesn't every year the Jianglin City's various families send out warriors to come and sweep it away?

  How come nobody discovered this place!

  The shadow of the wild beast is getting closer and closer, it seems that it will appear soon.

  Lu Fan's anxiety grew, and the violent power within him surged even more fiercely.

  Is he destined to lose his life here today?

  He is not reconciled!