#15 - Chapter 15: Killing Demons and Practicing Boxing

《Dragon Demon Body Refinement Method》, according to legend, is a body refinement method researched by ancient cultivators observing the True Dragon race. After achieving great success, it is said that it can make a cultivator's physical body comparable to the power of a True Dragon! And it can evolve all kinds of incredible physical body acupoint divine powers.

However, it is a pity that, like other body refinement methods, this 《Dragon Demon Body Refinement Method》 only records up to Bone Forging. All body refinement methods after Bone Forging are lost.

The realms of body refinement are most likely Skin Refinement, opening up the human body's meridians, which is equivalent to a cultivator's Qi Refinement. After Skin Refinement is Bone Forging, which is equivalent to a cultivator's Foundation Establishment.

It is said that after Bone Forging, there are still realms in body refinement for cultivating the human body's five internal organs and six bowels, but the 《Dragon Demon Body Refinement Method》 only records the method of Bone Forging. There is no method for how to refine the five internal organs and six bowels.

This also means that cultivating the Dragon Demon Body Refinement Art can only reach the Foundation Establishment stage, and there is no hope for future Core Formation or Nascent Soul stages.

But you don't care. In this life, you only need to cultivate the 《Dragon Demon Body Refinement Method》 to the Bone Forging realm to achieve your goal.

"Forging one bone is equivalent to the strength of the first level of Foundation Establishment, forging two bones is equivalent to the second level of Foundation Establishment."

"In this life, forging two bones will be considered achieving the goal, which is enough for me to deal with the Wang family's old ancestor in the next simulation."

Blackwater Market, inner city, a residence in the City Lord's Mansion, Lin Changqing is holding the 《Dragon Bone Body Refinement Method》, carefully observing it.

Unlike cultivators who only need to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to cultivate,

body refinement requires practicing boxing and then using a special secret recipe medicinal soup to temper the physical body.

Lin Changqing has already exchanged a large batch of spiritual medicines and herbs with exchange points and moved them to his home.

These spiritual medicines and herbs are what he needs to temper his physical body with after finishing his boxing practice.

"Dragon Demon Body Refinement, first form, Mountain Dragon Battles Tiger!"

Putting away the 《Dragon Demon Body Refinement Method》, Lin Changqing comes to the courtyard and starts practicing boxing according to the visualization diagram he watched before.

The first visualization diagram of the 《Dragon Demon Body Refinement Method》 depicts an ancient era, in the desolate mountains, a True Dragon fighting a giant tiger.

A body refiner who cultivates the 《Dragon Demon Body Refinement Method》 must visualize himself as the True Dragon fighting the giant tiger.

Lin Changqing stood in his boxing stance, left fist upward, right fist inward, like a pair of dragon horns, and punched forward.

When this punch was thrown, there was a faint meaning of a dragon's roar, shaking Lin Changqing's physical body.

"The body refinement method is indeed magical, but after throwing a punch, you can feel the power of the physical body has improved."

Lin Changqing retracted his fist, felt the changes in his own physical body strength, and then continued to practice boxing.

After practicing continuously for four hours, Lin Changqing stopped. At this moment, his physical body was very red, as if it had been hammered.

And his physical body made a crackling sound.

Lin Changqing looked inside his body. At this moment, he could feel that a meridian in his left hand was open.

This is the Skin Refinement realm of body refinement. Skin Refinement is to temper the body through continuous boxing practice.

Opening up ten meridians is equivalent to the first level of Qi Refinement.

Twenty meridians, the second level of Qi Refinement.

Opening up one hundred and eight meridians is the tenth level of Qi Refinement.

[You exchanged for the 《Dragon Demon Body Refinement Method》 and quickly got started. After an afternoon of boxing practice, you opened up a meridian.]

[But you are not too happy. Opening up meridians becomes more and more difficult as you go on. You have already prepared to spend more than twenty years to open up all the meridians.]

[Taixu 330, June 13th, after a month of boxing practice, you have opened up ten meridians.]

[June 16th, you received a mission that demonic cultivators are appearing in White River County. After you complete the mission and slay the demons, you continue to practice boxing.]

[July 18th, you opened up fourteen meridians. August 17th, you accepted a mission...]

[In this way, a year passed. This year, you practiced boxing to temper your body every day, and then went out to slay demons. After a year, you have opened up twenty-one meridians in your whole body.]

Next, the simulation text on the panel all shows Lin Changqing practicing boxing and slaying demons.

[Taixu 331, practicing boxing and body refinement, slaying demons. This year, you opened up thirty-eight meridians.]

[Taixu 332, practicing boxing and body refinement, slaying demons. This year, you opened up fifty meridians.]

[Taixu 333, practicing boxing and body refinement, slaying demons. This year, the speed of opening up meridians slowed down, reaching fifty-eight meridians. In addition, this year your Qi Refinement tenth level is complete.]

[Taixu 334...]

This continued until Taixu 342.

[Taixu 342, this is the twelfth year you have cultivated the Dragon Demon Body Refinement Method. In these twelve years, you have opened up ninety meridians, equivalent to the ninth level of human cultivator's Qi Refinement, and there are still eighteen meridians away from breaking through to Bone Forging.]

"As expected, the further you go in body refinement, the more difficult it becomes."

Lin Changqing's finger brushed over the text on the panel, according to the text displayed on the panel.

In the first few years, his speed of opening up meridians was very fast, and he could open up more than a dozen in a year, but the further he went, the slower it became.

Especially in the last few years, he could only open up five or six in a year.

This is still because he has the advantage of being a prophet, reporting some of the strategic intentions of the demonic path from his previous life, obtaining a large number of contribution points, which can be exchanged for a large number of spiritual medicines and herbs for body refinement.

In this way, in a full twelve years, he only opened up ninety meridians, which shows the difficulty of body refinement.

But it's not a big problem. This is a simulation, and he has plenty of time to slowly open up the meridians throughout his body.

[Taixu 343, you opened up ninety-three meridians.]

[Taixu 344, you opened up ninety-five meridians.]

[Taixu 345, you opened up ninety-seven meridians. In addition, at the end of the year, you received news that Black Fire Daoist quickly broke through to the fifth level of Foundation Establishment and killed two demonic Foundation Establishment cultivators. Immortal Ni Chang was overjoyed and praised Black Fire Daoist for promoting the prestige of the righteous path and rewarded the Wang family.]

[Hearing this news, you sighed. Your words carry little weight. In the past ten years, you have indeed mentioned to some of the upper echelons of Blackwater Market that Black Fire Daoist may be a demonic spy, but no one believes you.]

[Like last time, Black Fire Daoist is still a Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment cultivator, a Core Formation seed that the entire righteous path values very much.]

[You are just a Qi Refinement cultivator, and Black Fire Daoist is a Core Formation seed that all righteous paths value. If you rashly accuse him, no one will believe you.]

[Moreover, Black Fire Daoist and the Wang family are hiding extremely deeply. In the past ten years, you have wanted to catch some evidence of the Wang family's transactions with the demonic path, but unfortunately, you have gained nothing.]

[Black Fire Daoist is hiding too deeply. If it weren't for the last simulation, you wouldn't dare to believe that Black Fire Daoist could be a demonic spy. After all, just looking at his performance in the past ten years, Black Fire Daoist has even killed demonic Foundation Establishment cultivators, and his hands are stained with the blood of countless demonic cultivators. No matter who looks at him, Black Fire could not possibly be someone who has defected to the demonic path.]

[Knowing that Black Fire Daoist was rewarded by Immortal Ni Chang, you feel a surge of emotions. Now you have the following choices.]

[A: Expose the fact that Black Fire Daoist is a demonic spy.]

[B: Endure it, wait for the opportunity, and cultivate with peace of mind...]

Lin Changqing chose option B. Just like the previous analysis, his words carry little weight. If a Qi Refinement cultivator says that Black Fire Daoist is a demonic spy, others will only think he is crazy, and no one will listen to him.

It's better to cultivate with peace of mind. In this simulation, don't care about anything.

Increase your strength to Bone Forging to prepare for the next simulation.