Chapter 48 - Rock Body Tempering

Looking at Chen Heng, Carey took a deep breath and it took him quite a while to calm down his emotions. Anyway, at present, Chen Heng was his friend. The two of them had been together for quite a long time. They trusted each other deeply and had a very profound friendship. With this relationship, the further Chen Heng could go in the future, the more benefits it would bring to him. If Chen Heng could really reach a certain level, it would make his family behind him attach more importance to him and allocate more resources to him. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but smile, and his expression when looking at Chen Heng became even more eager. At this moment, looking at Carey's performance, Chen Heng also smiled secretly. He had already anticipated the reactions of Carey and others long before. To some extent, Carey's reaction at this moment was exactly what he wanted. At this time, Chen Heng had already shown his own value. As long as the other party could see this point, they would surely increase their investment in him in the future, thus helping him in various aspects and accelerating his development. And when this kind of investment continued to increase and reached a certain level, even if the other party wanted to withdraw, they probably wouldn't be willing to do so. After all, the cost was there. Once the investment reached a certain level, if they gave up, all the things they had invested in the past would probably be wasted. Chen Heng deeply understood the principle in it. Sure enough, on the way back, Carey chatted with Chen Heng about some recent events in Kutu City and purchased a batch of materials from the shops under Chen Heng's name at a very favorable price, allowing Chen Heng to make a small profit. After that, Chen Heng returned to his residence. A few days later. In the early morning, the sun outside was shining brightly. On the training ground of the manor, Chen Heng was standing there alone. At this moment, his face was calm. He stood there silently and looked very peaceful. "Simultaneously cultivate both the internal and external aspects and mobilize the qi and blood in the body..." While silently practicing the body tempering method, Chen Heng was thinking to himself: "For the Rock Body Tempering, the method of mobilizing qi and blood in it seems to be able to influence the operation of life energy隐隐之间..." "It seems that the so-called life energy is mostly a part of the human body's qi and blood, just a bit special..." Standing there, Chen Heng was thinking silently in his heart. During this period of time, because his knight cultivation had reached a certain bottleneck, Chen Heng temporarily put aside the knight cultivation and began to focus his main energy on the body tempering method. That is, the Rock Body Tempering method he got from Liu Yi. According to the records in the Rock Body Tempering method, this body tempering method was passed down from the Rock Immortal in those years. It was a method created by the Rock Immortal after he killed the stone demons, observed the body structures of the stone demons, and then improved and created it. For ordinary people who want to practice this method, they first need to practice until their body tempering reaches the perfect level, and then mobilize qi and blood, simultaneously cultivate both the internal and external aspects, and transform their bodies towards the level of a rock. The whole body tempering method can be divided into three steps from the initial flesh and blood body to the final creation of a rock body. First of all, it is to temper the body, temper the flesh and blood body until it is strong enough to withstand the impact of swords and knives. At this step, the cultivator may seem no different from ordinary people on the surface, but once they mobilize their qi and blood, they can immediately transform their bodies and make them strong enough to withstand the impact of swords and knives. And then, it is necessary to further condense and transform one's own body into a rock body. Once the rock body takes shape, the martial body is officially formed, which has already surpassed the body tempering level and reached the martial body realm. At this level, for those who possess a rock body, once they mobilize their qi and blood, even if swords and knives are used against them, they won't lose a single hair. According to the annotations above, even for firearms, if their power is a bit lower, they probably won't be able to break through the rock body. This is the second step. After condensing the rock body, the last step is to condense the heart of the rock to make the rock body perfect. Once reaching this step, it is the time when the rock body is perfected and the martial body is perfected. According to Chen Heng's understanding, in the real world, martial artists at this level are probably no ordinary people. Even in the whole Linzhou City, they can be considered as important figures. Of course, this step is still too far away from Chen Heng at present. At this moment, he is still at the first step of tempering qi and blood and refining his body. He is proceeding very slowly and being extremely careful in this step. There is no way. When ordinary people temper their bodies, there will usually be elders taking care of them, either teachers or their direct relatives. However, Chen Heng didn't have any of these treatments. And the body tempering method is very delicate. Maybe just a single detail going wrong will cause big problems in one's own body tempering, and even plant hidden dangers in the whole body, leading to a series of serious consequences. So for this Rock Body Tempering method, Chen Heng was extremely careful during the cultivation process. However, during the cultivation, he also discovered some problems. When practicing the Rock Body Tempering method and mobilizing qi and blood, it will also affect the life energy in his own body, driving the life energy in his own body to enter the cycle together. And after the existence of life energy enters the training and body tempering, the effect seems to be much better than the ordinary tempering of qi and blood. This couldn't help but surprise Chen Heng a bit. From this aspect, the so-called life energy of knights is actually the so-called qi and blood of martial artists, just a bit more special. It is precisely because of this that the method of mobilizing qi and blood will also have an effect on life energy. And with the existence of life energy joining the body tempering, although Chen Heng was very careful when practicing the Rock Body Tempering method, the speed didn't seem to be slow. Almost every day, he could feel his own progress and feel that his body was gradually getting stronger. To be honest, Chen Heng felt very comfortable with this feeling. However, limited by the stock of life energy in his body, the time he could practice the body tempering method every day was limited and couldn't reach a higher level. To some extent, this time limitation also restricted Chen Heng's progress speed and made his progress speed slow down a lot. Of course, Chen Heng has already had some ideas about this problem. In fact, the way to solve this problem is not difficult. Since it is caused by the lack of life energy, then just find a way to increase the life energy in the body. And it is very simple to increase life energy. People in this world often use some medicines when practicing knight cultivation. The function of those medicines is very simple. They burn life and use it as a primer to derive the life energy in the user's body. Chen Heng got these things from Sorondo during the first simulation. And now, as a student of Coribo, it's not difficult for him to get this stuff. Of course, for ordinary people, this stuff can't be used too much. The essence of burning life is actually burning the human body's qi and blood to derive some special life energy. This kind of burning, it's okay to do it once or twice in a short time. Although it is harmful to the human body, it is still within the controllable range after all. But once it lasts for a long time and the number of times increases, then it will be very troublesome. It is very likely to cause serious damage to the human body, and even to some extent, affect the lifespan and shorten one's lifespan a lot. The price is really heavy. So in this world, except for some people who will use this method when they just start practicing knight cultivation, the rest of the people won't use it at all. However, the means that others won't use is very suitable for Chen Heng. Using this kind of thing can quickly burn qi and blood and even life to generate life energy. In this way, the problem of the lack of life energy in his body can undoubtedly be solved. As for the reduction of lifespan and other problems caused by doing this... Chen Heng thought about it and felt that it wasn't a big problem. After all, this body of his now is not his real body. Whether the lifespan is long or not doesn't really matter. Moreover, considering the chaotic situation in this world, even if he didn't do this, it would be very difficult for him to live until he died of old age. It's better to sacrifice part of his lifespan in exchange for an increase in strength in a short period of time.