With a snap of his fingers.
Two years had passed.
In those two years,
Gu Qingfeng had been diligently managing the Gu Family, while also mobilizing their resources to collect other Martial Arts.
After all, the breakthroughs of Mountain Shattering Fist and Iron Body Skills had made Gu Qingfeng realize that even without advancing his Cultivation, as long as the Martial Arts he practiced were numerous, his strength could passively increase.
Each Martial Art served to temper different parts of the body.
Take Mountain Shattering Fist, for example.
This Martial Art truly strengthened the fists, with skin and flesh fortification being just a secondary benefit.
As for Iron Body Skills, it was an overall defensive Martial Art that could temper one's outer skin and make it as hard as iron.
Thus,
the more Martial Arts he collected, the greater the benefits.
If it were an ordinary person whose talents and Cultivation were limited, then practicing multiple Martial Arts would be impossible.
However,
Gu Qingfeng was different.
He had upgrade points.
As long as he had enough upgrade points, it was not a problem to bring all Martial Arts to Perfection.
Nonetheless,
even among the lower-grade Martial Arts, there were differences in strength.
For example, Gu Qingfeng would naturally not consider weak lower-grade Martial Arts.
Therefore,
in the span of two years,
Gu Qingfeng had gathered three relatively powerful lower-grade Martial Arts.
Big Stone Breaking Hand!
Iron Leg Skill!
Iron Refining Finger!
...
Although Gu Qingfeng's talent for practicing Martial Arts was not incredibly high, his pace of practicing lower-grade Martial Arts was much faster than ordinary people because he was a Blood Refining Realm Martial Artist.
In two years, Gu Qingfeng had brought all three Martial Arts to the Small Success stage.
From outward appearances, nothing seemed extraordinary, but only Gu Qingfeng himself knew that his strength had significantly improved compared to two years ago.
It was at this moment,
the long-inactive attribute panel suddenly refreshed with new messages.
"Your offspring 'Gu Yang' has achieved Breakthrough to the Late Stage of the Refining Skin Realm!"
"Reward upgrade points*5!"
"Reward Blood Refining Pills*30!"
Seeing the information refresh on the panel, Gu Qingfeng's face instantly lit up with joy.
"Good, I didn't expect Yang'er to achieve Breakthrough to the Late Stage of the Refining Skin Realm so quickly!"
Gu Yang had begun practicing Martial Arts at the age of seven, and now, after only three years, he had stepped into the Late Stage of the Refining Skin Realm—an incredibly astonishing talent.
At least within the circle of White Stone Dao, Gu Qingfeng had never heard of someone reaching the Late Stage of the Refining Skin Realm at such a young age.
Of course,
Gu Yang's Breakthrough was also thanks to the frequent Qi Blood Pills Gu Qingfeng provided.
But no matter what,
Gu Yang's talent in Martial Arts was already proving to be quite exceptional.
Now that Gu Yang had made a Breakthrough,
with five upgrade points,
Gu Qingfeng wanted to immediately continue improving Mountain Shattering Fist.
After all, among all Martial Arts, Mountain Shattering Fist was the highest in grade.
However—
When Gu Qingfeng's gaze landed on Mountain Shattering Fist, he discovered that enhancing this Martial Art now required a full ten upgrade points.
This change
caused Gu Qingfeng to frown.
"Last time, enhancing Mountain Shattering Fist only needed five upgrade points, but now it requires ten. It seems that after a Breakthrough, the upgrade points needed for increasing the level of Martial Arts are going to be significantly more than before!"
Ten upgrade points.
Gu Qingfeng certainly did not.
Over the past two years, he had only managed to accumulate these five upgrade points.
Thinking of this,
Gu Qingfeng gave up on enhancing the Mountain Shattering Fist and instead chose to enhance the Iron Body Skills.
After all, Iron Body Skills were also quite important.
If he hadn't cultivated Iron Body Skills to Perfection, making his defenses much stronger than that of an ordinary martial artist, he might have already died at the hands of Shangguan Jiang.
Now that enhancing the Mountain Shattering Fist was not an option, Gu Qingfeng naturally wanted to enhance the Iron Body Skills.
As for the other few lower-grade martial arts, Gu Qingfeng did not want to waste upgrade points on them for the time being.
The reasoning was simple.
With time, cultivating lower-grade martial arts to Perfection wasn't a problem, but having martial arts Breakthrough was not so simple.
Originally, Mountain Shattering Fist was able to Breakthrough because Gu Qingfeng knew he had relied on Blood Refining Pills and a fortunate coincidence.
Otherwise,
the chance of Mountain Shattering Fist having a Breakthrough was practically nonexistent.
This point
could be directly seen by the fact that there were quite a few martial artists who had achieved Refining Skin Perfection at the White Stone Dao, but the number of those who had reached the Blood Refining Realm had drastically decreased.
Martial Arts Breakthrough
was not something that everyone could achieve.
Now, even with Blood Refining Pills, Gu Qingfeng had no confidence in breaking the limit of Iron Body Skills, so he simply used the five upgrade points to Breakthrough the Iron Body Skills.
With that thought,
the five upgrade points vanished into thin air.
Gu Qingfeng immediately felt a flood of memories emerge, in which he had practiced the Iron Body Skills day after day for decades, braving the bitter cold of winter and the scorching heat of summer, toughening his body through the beating of martial artists and tempering himself under waterfalls. Only through such a lengthy accumulation of effort could Iron Body Skills successfully Breakthrough.
And at the moment of Breakthrough, Gu Qingfeng's skin turned the color of ancient bronze, his muscles seeming to contain explosive power.
Tremendous qi and blood pervaded the air,
rising up like Qi Blood Smoke towards the heavens.
After a long time,
the boiling qi and blood calmed down, and Gu Qingfeng took another look at his attribute panel.
...
Name: Gu Qingfeng
Age: 32/100
Realm: Initial Stage of Blood Refining
Martial Arts: Mountain Shattering Fist (Unbreakable Level 1), Iron Body Skills (Body as hard as iron Level 1), Big Stone Breaking Hand (Small Success), Iron Leg Skill (Small Success), Iron Refining Finger (Small Success)
Upgrade Points: 0
...
"Body as hard as iron!"
Gu Qingfeng looked at the characteristics of Iron Body Skills, clenched his right hand, and reached for his left arm with strength that could easily crush stones and cleave metal, yet it couldn't breach the skin's defense, leaving only a few white marks.
Seeing this,
Gu Qingfeng's face showed delight.
After the Breakthrough of Iron Body Skills, his defensive capabilities had transformed to an astonishing level.
Since the Breakthrough of Mountain Shattering Fist and the subsequent practice of Big Stone Breaking Hand coupled with Iron Refining Finger, Gu Qingfeng's fingers could rival an ordinary divine weapon, yet even so, they could not break his own defense.
From this, it could be seen
that the strength of his physical defenses now was such that an ordinary martial artist at the initial stage of blood refining probably couldn't break through.
Only a mid-level martial artist in the stage of blood refining could pose a threat to him.
As for the overall level into which his combat power had entered, Gu Qingfeng did not know for the time being.
After all,
such things as combat strength still needed real combat to determine.
At this time,
Gu Yang had already walked in from outside.
"Child pays respect to Father!"
Compared to two years ago, the now more strapping Gu Yang was no different from a teenager and, due to years of martial training, he also possessed a masculine and vibrant air about him.
Gu Qingfeng smiled slightly: "Yang'er has come."
"Father, I've just made a Breakthrough to the late stage of the Refining Skin Realm!"
Gu Yang's face was filled with joy; after his Breakthrough, he had been eager to come and share the good news.
Gu Qingfeng nodded in approval: "Good, to achieve a Breakthrough to the late stage of the Refining Skin Realm at such a young age, you will surely surpass me one day. The Gu Family will need you to stand as its pillar in the future!"