Fighting For Eternity

Chapter 160: Starting from the Bottom (True Beginning)

"Ha" Fei coldly shouted while spinning to the left, and slamming the air with back side of his fist, after gaining extra momentum. Then, he goes for a straight blow, but he slammed air with the very tip of his knuckle. He tucks the fingertips to the very bottom of his knuckle, forming a long fist, and punched straight. This blow was quite low in power but it did increase the reach.

After then, he punched involving the turning to aim towards the side of the visualized opponent or simply he attacked from side. Then, he clenched his fist, slamming vertically up. Finally, he stomped in the ground, giving him some moment; he jumped and slammed a punch from the air.

"Back Fist" "Leopard Blow" "Hammer Fist" "Hook" "Hook" "Superman Punch"

"Back Fist" "Leopard Blow" "Hammer Fist" "Hook" "Hook" "Superman Punch"

"Back Fist" "Leopard Blow" "Hammer Fist" "Hook" "Hook" "Superman Punch"

After intensive training for six hours straight, he broke reached perfection in first six layers of Body Tempering Art. During his training, his body was stinking. Even he was surprised to release so much of impurities during such as basic training.

But he soon realized, he didn't get chance to temper his body in such a way instead he was using shortcuts to increase his strength. This was also the reason for his body to be so impure. This made him speechless whether to thank for such tragedy to his body or feel sorry?

But no matter what, he is happy to practice now. He went to the fourth floor, and jump in Sacred Dew, and normal water pond. This pond was created long ago when Fei needed to take a bath, now he can use it quite properly.

He began to clean his body, and relaxed for a moment. But he didn't realize when he tried to relax, he dozed off. Only after eight hours, he woke up and found himself sleeping in the pond fortunately, pond wasn't deep otherwise he might have sunk.

After that, he took break for next ten hours digesting everything he learned. Finally a day passes inside the pagoda, and then he began to practice leg styles. This leg style includes six different kicking styles; Front Kick, Back Kick, Side Kick, Round Kick, Axe Kick, and Butterfly Kick.

These were simple movements but practicing it while running spiritual energy inside will let you temper your body. This Body Tempering Art actually uses these movements to attract spiritual energy around a person. Then a person just needs to run spiritual roots while doing different styles.

But the spiritual roots role is to absorb spiritual energy inside the body, not inside dantian in this stage. So, while doing these postures, you also need to control your spiritual roots attraction. Then, these postures will direct spiritual energy into the very deep cell of your body, and temper your body.

Unlike energy manipulation art, it works as body quenching, squishing the body cells, and tempering them with spiritual energy. This also takes out hidden impurities from his body.

"Front Kick" "Back Kick" "Side Kick" "Round Kick" "Axe Kick" "Butterfly Kick"

"Front Kick" "Back Kick" "Side Kick" "Round Kick" "Axe Kick" "Butterfly Kick"

Just like previous six layers, he practiced these six kicks for six hours straight before perfecting them. These actually didn't make large development in strength but, it was huge help for removing impurities. Not to mention, he wasn't expecting these to increase his strength.

In fact he underestimated these arts; after all human body gathers lots of impurities from the birth. Only if these impurities are removed, he can truly achieve perfect foundation. Previously when he increased his strength, he ignored impurities in many cases, because he didn't practice Mountains and Rivers Body Tempering Art completely.

Although Nine Elephants Moving Mountains and River Art was strong body tempering art, he still relied on soft method to practice it rather practicing it by hard method such as practicing under gravity. But now, he won't make such a silly mistakes, he needs to go through bottom for making his physical strength rise once again.

After cleaning his body, he slept once again. Like this, he took six days to complete Body Tempering Art to the perfection. His finger styles were also extraordinary though there much styles except using spiritual energy in different way. This was rather odd and extremely painful technique because he needed to strike stone boulder with his finger to practice it.

In this practice, he trains every finger on his hand by tempering them with spiritual energy in each strike against the boulder. Using spiritual energy to relieve pain than that of tempering it, he needed to strike hard every time to practice this art further.

His endurance also increased a lot during this training. Only after breaking hundred pounds boulder with his finger, he can achieve perfection. Next palm style were just as same as finger, except he needed to destroy two hundred pounds boulder with his palm, and it did had different positions to strike.

Positions such as; straight palm strike, superman palm strike, double palm collision, and repeated palm strikes. These strikes tempered his palm and his body too. Especially, these positions were tempering his body, removing impurities. 

After practicing palm strikes, he also practices weapons style. Here, he actually needed to practice Sword, Spear, Bow and Arrow, Saber, Axe, and surprisingly a fan. He practiced these six weapons continuously for twelve hours straight rather six hours. After he became expert in using these weapons, he realized he can actually practice any weapon art now.

If his talent of understanding increases or if he uses cheats, then he might even comprehend their Intents. Martial Arts Intents are different from normal intent because they are practically created for each art, so there are millions of different intents in the world.

But for now, nothing about these matters because his goal is to lay out perfect foundation which he did after he completed the Body Tempering Art. He achieved golden body that was only inferior to the golden body he got for the first time.

His first golden body he achieved was stronger than golden body he achieved for the second time when he reached tenth layer of Body Tempering Stage. There is huge difference in these two experiences, in first he spent three years tempering his body with spiritual energy.

But for second time he only used thunder energy which was much more effective than spiritual energy to reach tenth layer. But his body was lot worse than previous one because he couldn't accumulate enough energy to temper his body properly.

In those three years, he had tempered his body so many times with spiritual energy that his body was lot stronger like Iron Body. So, he practically created a strongest foundation which was later disrupted by the thunder.

Now, he created golden body for the third time, and this was second only to the first golden body. It was still powerful than the third one. OF course, if his first golden body wasn't that powerful than he wouldn't be able to fight against two thunder bolts.

It took him three days of outside time to complete four arts and digest them. The next he looked for was Stone Body Condensation Art. Now, this art was the starting point for tempering his physical body. Up until now, he was building foundation, now he can start.

The Stone Body Condensation Art was divided into three layers; Stone Skin, Stone Muscles, and Stone Bones. Stone Skin needs to temper the skin of a body with the help of Body Quenching Paste and Spiritual Energy for seven days straight. If you take break during this time, you need to cover the five times of break you took.

First he thought of buying Body Quenching Paste from the store but later, he declined this thought. He transferred the Nine Divine Dragons Cauldron to the first room. He also took out materials required to create Body Quenching Paste.

There were basically three materials required; blood of a low rank monster beast, Stone Flowers, and Fire Berries. There were most of materials inside the alchemy room required for learning alchemy. This Body Quenching Paste was also basic alchemy requirement to learn.

He put those materials into the huge cauldron, and lit up green flames from his hands. Currently, these green flames were the only flames he could use with ease. He manipulated the flames, and start burning the cauldron from the bottom.

Inside the cauldron, materials were hovering in the middle, not falling on the bottom. They were basically controlled by Fei's spiritual power. After the change in his thoughts, Fei once again started alchemy and wanted to reach peak on every terms of the alchemy.

He was very knowledgeable in term of alchemy for basic products, but he wanted to create pill pattern in this paste, normal pill pattern is only a name of these powerful and effective patterns. Using pill pattern, he can increase the effects of any alchemy product but it was hard to pull this out.

Not to mention, he is not very proficient on forming pill pattern. Pill Patterns are ranked from one to nine, one being lowest and nine being highest. But even if he can form a single pill pattern in this pill, it will be more than enough to temper his skin.

He slowly began to focus more on the basics of alchemy theories, and try to make Peerless Grade Paste. Only then he can start forming pill pattern on them. Now since his understanding has increased a lot, he succeeds on forming Peerless Grade Paste on the first try.

But he couldn't form a single pill pattern on it. It took him fourteen hours and only after practicing seven times he was able to form a peculiar pill pattern in the Body Quenching Paste. The paste was white with red strips over it while there was a peculiar pattern in shape of ''.

It also took two extra materials to form pill patterns; White Lily flower, and Tulsi Leaves. If they are used in a correct way such as forming pill pattern, they can increase the effect of the product by three or five times.

After creating paste, he takes back the green flames and unties his clothes. After that, he rubbed paste all over his body, and he felt burning pain that was hard to endure. He forcefully gritted his teeth, and run Stone Body Condensation Art in his mind.

"Enduring the flames, tempering the body with spiritual energy, using blood of the monster beasts to form stone skin in my body."