Chapter 23: Indestructible Body One Layer

  These days, Zhang Shan has been staying at home to practice, not leaving the door or stepping out of the house. In his spare time, he also had a fierce battle with Si Tu Ming Kong, and his understanding of the Four Forms Fist has deepened a lot.

  Situ Qingwan also had the family servants send over a large quantity of Concentrated Spirit Pills, allowing Zhang Shan's cultivation speed to rise to another level.

  Now his whole body is filled with true yuan, and he vaguely feels that it's not far from breaking through to the second heavy realm of Lingwu.

  Ten days later, the Situ family finally sent over the materials needed for Zhang Shan's physical refinement. As expected, there was no top-grade demon crystal, only mid-grade demon crystal, but the other spiritual herbs were all top-grade goods that had been aged to perfection, and their value was in no way inferior to that of the demon crystal.

  Although there was no top-grade demon crystal to slightly disappoint Zhang Shan, he knew that this couldn't be helped and the other materials were all high-quality, showing that Si Tu Qing An hadn't been perfunctory.

  These days he has prepared the necessary tools according to Biling's instructions and is waiting for the materials.

  With these things in hand, Zhang Shan arrived at the secret underground room in his home and got started.

  This underground chamber was built at the same time as Zhang's mansion, and was originally used to store some valuable things. Later, it was used by Zhang Shan as a closed room for practicing his skills.

  Inside the room, a stove had already been set up, with a large vat about half a person's height placed on top of it, and space below to start a fire.

  He filled the large jar with clear water and Zhang Shan started a fire.

  Half a time later, the water in the big jar boiled, and he began to follow the instructions of the spirit tablet. First, he put all the demon crystals into it, then according to different orders, he threw a stalk of spiritual grass into it at intervals.

  The clear water in the jar slowly changed color, and several more times of water were added during this time. After a full 12 hours, the entire large jar of water had turned a deep red color, like fresh blood.

  "Alright, now take off your clothes and go inside. Practice the Five Elements Body Refining Technique to refine your body without destroying it. This process will gradually become very painful, you must persevere, if you can't hold on, you will die." The Spirit of the Tablet instructed for the last time.

  Zhang Shan took a deep breath, adjusted his mindset, and stepped into the big vat.

  The water was very hot, but still bearable. Zhang Shan sat down in the vat with his legs crossed, and his entire body was immersed in this crimson medicinal liquid. He began to circulate his breath and entered a fetal state, starting his practice of the indestructible body of the five elements.

  As he continued his practice, Zhang Shan felt as if countless ants were crawling into his body through every pore, an unbearable itch.

  He knew it was the feeling of the liquid seeping into his body through the pores.

  A moment later, that itch turned into a burning pain, as if being roasted in an oven.

  The pain grew more and more intense, Zhang Shan's skin began to grow walnut-sized blisters, which then burst open, his whole body became a bloody mess.

  Zhang Shan carefully guarded a bit of spiritual clarity, desperately operating the indestructible body's technique of the Five Elements, and began to repair his damaged body.

  The body is constantly cycling through decay and repair, just like being cut by thousands of knives, that kind of pain is deeply ingrained in the bones yet seemingly endless.

  Zhang Shan's stubborn and enduring temperament played a crucial role at this time, he did not collapse in such extreme pain, but his spirit became more and more condensed.

  As time passed, he finally entered a state of self-forgetting, where his entire body seemed to have disappeared, and his spirit was in a profound and mysterious realm.

  After an unknown period of time, Zhang Shan let out a long sigh and slowly opened his eyes, waking up.

  At this time, the liquid medicine in the large barrel had not a single drop left. He moved his body and felt that every inch of muscle was extremely tough, and compared to before, there was an indescribable change.

  Jumping out of the big vat, Zhang Shan hastily found a dagger and stabbed it into his own arm.

  The dagger stabbed into the skin but only shallowly indented and didn't even break the skin or bleed.

  Zhang Shan thought for a moment, then activated his true yuan and stabbed again with all his might. This time, the dagger finally broke through the skin, but only managed to penetrate less than half an inch into the muscle before coming to a stop, unable to go any further.

  He pulled out the dagger, and only a tiny amount of blood flowed out. Before long, the wound stopped bleeding, and the skin began to heal at a visible rate. A few minutes later, the place where he was stabbed returned to its original state, without even leaving a scar.

  Zhang Shan was overjoyed and couldn't help but burst out laughing.

  The five elements are indestructible, and it seems that he has succeeded, and the effect is extremely satisfactory.

  With this strong and resilient body, and his self-healing ability is different from ordinary people, his chances of winning against Shentu Shengdong have increased greatly. At least for now, he has the confidence to stand undefeated.

  "Thank you, Bei Ling." Zhang Shan sincerely thanked in his heart.

  "You are my host, you empower me to continuously evolve, and currently you are still satisfactory, I don't want to change hosts for the time being either." said Ling calmly.

  Zhang Shan picked up the clothes beside him and put them on: "Could it be that you've changed hosts many times before?"

  "Although I can't recall many things at present, I feel that I should have changed several hosts." said the Monument Spirit firmly.

  "What about your previous hosts?" Zhang Shan asked curiously.

  "Of course it's dead, otherwise I wouldn't be able to acknowledge a new master again."

  "Alright, so I was mistaken? I thought you were mysterious and powerful, and that as the seal is gradually lifted, you would become even more formidable. I didn't expect you couldn't even protect your host?"

  "Make it clear, I'm not a bodyguard. I can give the host all sorts of heritage, but that doesn't mean I can save the host's life. Everything depends on the host themselves, so don't have this misconception."

  "Got it, I'll be careful with my own life from now on." Zhang Shan said with a smile, waving his fist.

  As soon as he walked out of the underground secret room and into the upstairs room, he saw Xiaoyazi sitting on a chair with his chin in his hands, lost in thought.

  "What are you doing here?" Zhang Shan asked with some surprise.

  "Ah, young master, you've finally come out. You've been in there for two whole days and the mistress was getting worried, so she had my sister and me take turns keeping watch here." Seeing Zhang Shan, Yu Rou let out a visible sigh of relief.

  "I've been in here for two days already? Hmm, nothing's happened at home these past two days, right?" Zhang Shan walked out towards the outside.

  "No, it was just yesterday that Young Master's friend Lei Meng came over once. I heard he sat for a while after Young Master went into seclusion and then left." Yuxu followed behind, tilting his head in thought.

  "Did Mengzi come looking for me? What did he say he wanted with me?"

  "I don't know about this, it was Uncle Cheng who invited him."

  "Have someone send some food to my room, and then invite Uncle Cheng over." Zhang Shan instructed with a nod.

  After returning to his room, the food was delivered quickly, and after being closed for two days, Zhang Shan was also hungry, and he ate a big meal with gusto.

  Soon, Zhang Cheng walked in: "Young master, you're looking for me?"

  "I heard someone mention that Lei Meng came over yesterday? What did he want with me?" Zhang Shan asked, putting down his chopsticks.

  "He heard that the young master had gone into seclusion and didn't tell me what it was about, but I saw him looking a bit uneasy." Zhang Cheng said after thinking for a moment.

  Zhang Shan furrowed his brow, as Lei Gao and he were usually together, but this time only Lei Meng came to find him, with an unusual expression, could it be that something had happened to Gao Peng?

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