Grinding Cultivation Toward Martial Saint-Chapter 113 - 40 The Strong Defensive Power of Skin Training Small Success!

Chapter 113: Chapter 40 The Strong Defensive Power of Skin Training Small Success!

In his own courtyard,

Jiang Ning clenched his fists and instantly felt the surging and abundant power within his body.

“So strong!”

“The strength I feel should exceed 1,300 catties!”

He then stomped his foot.

Boom—

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The ground beneath his feet shook at that moment, sending dust flying, and the nearby trees swayed constantly, rustling loudly.

“Truly strong!”

Feeling how his physique coped with the reaction force of this strength, Jiang Ning’s face was full of joy.

The next moment.

He bent down, casually picking up a gray-white rock from the ground.

Immediately, he clenched his fist, exerting force with his fingers and palm together.

The muscles in his arm swelled like tree roots.

After one breath.

He opened his hand, and the gray-white rock in his palm had now turned into a pile of shattered stones.

As Jiang Ning opened his right palm, pieces of rock fell to the ground.

Hoo—

With a blow into his palm, the white ash sticking to it was blown away, revealing his unscathed palm.

“Indeed, there’s no injury!”

Jiang Ning wore a smile and then said, “Let’s try again!”

Afterward.

He took a few steps and came before a rock weighing about thirty to fifty catties.

His five fingers closed together, forming a fist.

“Break—”

Jiang Ning uttered lightly.

His right hand punched out instantly, unleashing a formidable force.

The fist, swift as the wind, heavily struck the rock before him.

Boom—

With a loud noise.

The thirty to fifty catty rock in front of him instantly exploded, with fragments flying in all directions.

Feeling no pain in his fist, Jiang Ning reversed his fist towards himself.

“Hoo—”

He blew forcefully again, and the dust on his fist was blown clean, instantly revealing his undamaged skin.

“Such impressive defensive power!”

Jiang Ning smiled once more.

His fleshly body clashed head-on with the rock, and although the rock shattered, his fist and palm were free from any injury.

This undoubtedly meant that the hardness of his skin had surpassed that of the rocks.

Only thus could he remain unscathed.

Feeling the changes in his skin’s toughness, Jiang Ning nodded in satisfaction.

Reaching this stage, he considered himself a true Martial Arts Ninth Grade.

Stone Skin, compared to Cowhide, was a metamorphosis.

Still flesh and blood when likened to cowhide.

But being comparable to hard rock was different.

A rock is not flesh and blood.

Normally in Martial Arts, reaching the level where skin is as hard as stone, the body is as if covered by a layer of rock, with extremely strong defensive power.

The Cultivation Technique he practiced for refining his skin was Vajra Immortal Body, the Vajra Temple’s Sect-defining martial arts.

Cultivating the Vajra Immortal Body, at any level, would result in a defensive power at least thirty to fifty percent higher than that of an ordinary martial artist at the same level.

This was the strength of a top Sect’s defining martial arts.

After this simple test, Jiang Ning roughly understood what level his defensive power had reached.

His skin had become much harder than ordinary rock.

If an ordinary person were to use farm tools like scythes and axes, they would at most inflict some superficial wounds on him, unable to cause serious injury.

“Getting this far, I really am fundamentally different from ordinary people! No wonder it is said that only those who reach the ranks of Martial Arts Ninth Grade can stand out from the crowd,” Jiang Ning reflected silently.

Afterward.

Jiang Ning moved aside and picked up his ebony long saber.

Clang—

He drew the saber from its sheath: “Let’s see if my physique can now withstand the stacking of two-layered power.”

As his words fell, his right hand also gripped the long saber tightly, with power flowing in his right arm, brewing.

The next moment.

He suddenly made his move.

Holding the saber, he made a chopping motion into empty space.

Swish—

A sharp sound of air being sliced came through.

Under this cut, the air felt like water due to the excessive speed of the saber and the heaviness of its force.

As the saber fell, it sliced the air cleanly, leaving a visible trace.

After the flash of the saber, the razor-sharp long saber suddenly halted in mid-air.

This cut was made in the air.

Jiang Ning suddenly felt a strong tearing sensation in his body and the explosive double force in his right arm, creating a heavy burden.

After maintaining the saber-holding pose for a full breath, Jiang Ning then circulated power in his right hand and flicked his wrist.

The long saber in his right hand flew straight into his left hand.

Then.

He flexed the fingers of his right hand and then clenched them into a fist, feeling the relaxation and transformation of the muscles and skin in his arm.

After repeating this several times, he nodded in satisfaction, “Indeed, it’s different now! The overlay of the two-layered power doesn’t put too much strain on my right arm, I can fully withstand it, and I still feel like I have extra strength. My Canglang Blade Skill can proceed to make breakthroughs!”

[Skill]: Canglang Blade Skill (Master 1/200)

According to the introduction of the blade manual, once the Canglang Blade Skill makes a breakthrough to small success, it can overlay triple power, thus unleashing even more terrifying destructive force.

With my current physique, I can completely withstand the explosive force of triple power.

Even on reaching great success with the Blade Skill and overlaying five layers of power, I may still be able to endure it, if desperately.

With that thought, Jiang Ning had already made up his mind.

“In the following days, I’ll focus all my effort on practicing the blade, first breaking through to the realm of small success with the Canglang Blade Skill to see if my body can withstand the explosion of triple power.”

“If I can, then I will advance the Canglang Blade Skill to great success and master the overlay of five layers of power!”

“If I can achieve the overlay of five layers of power, I can instantly unleash more than five times my usual might, making me capable of fighting across ranks.”

“After all, my current physical strength has already surpassed one thousand catties, at around twelve to thirteen hundred catties.”

“And within the Divine Power Realm of the Martial Arts Eighth Grade, ordinary skilled fighters have around two thousand catties of strength, with the more powerful ones possessing three thousand catties.”

“Though they are several times stronger than me, if I can overlay five layers of power, my strength would directly amplify by more than five times. In addition to the enhancement from the three breakthroughs of the Chopping Wood Blade Skill, I could instantly unleash more than twenty thousand catties of force.”

Thinking up to this point, Jiang Ning couldn’t help but take a deep breath of cool air.

To burst forth with tens of thousands of catties of force using the body of flesh and blood is indeed astonishing.

But as exaggerated as it seems, it is actually quite normal.

In his previous life, those top boxers could throw a punch with a force of sixteen hundred catties.

And how strong were they?

Their single arm strength was at most a few hundred catties.

And now, my strength is several times theirs.

Moreover, in this world where Martial Arts are prosperous and magical, it’s not excessive to use all sorts of unbelievable powers in tandem with a Middle Grade Martial Arts technique, to explode with such force.

Afterwards.

Jiang Ning sheathed his blade and his gaze swept over the ground.

Then it was immediately drawn by a straight mark on the ground.

With a simple glance, he knew the mark on the ground was the result of the air cleaved by his blade, a sword force cut.

“That’s really exaggerated!” Jiang Ning couldn’t help exclaiming, “If this blade had fallen on a soldier in armor, it should have been enough to cut him in two, right?”

Then he pondered for a moment before shaking his head, “Not necessarily! The Martial Arts in this world are so strong, the techniques of Refining Soldiers must be extraordinary.”

“With human strength reaching several thousand catties, or even higher, this sort of force could wield a thousand-catty hammer, erupting with tens of thousands of catties of force, or even more. They forge fine iron, capable of smithing metals comparable to the special alloys from my previous life.”

Thinking of all this, Jiang Ning shook his head again and let out a wry smile.

“Forget it!”

“Why bother thinking so much!”

“Continuing to enhance my actual strength is the real priority!”

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Afterwards.

Jiang Ning took a bath, washing off the dry skin-grinding sand from his body and also the layer of dead skin.

After he finished bathing and got dressed, he instantly felt refreshed and reinvigorated.

“I haven’t visited the Martial Arts Hall for a few days!”

“Now that I’ve reached small success in Refining Skin, and achieved skin as tough as stone, a weight has been lifted off my shoulders, it’s a good time to pay a visit to the Martial Arts Hall.”

Jiang Ning stood in the yard, muttering to himself.

Then, he grabbed his ebony long blade and walked straight out of the yard.

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Canglang Martial Arts Hall.

“Greetings, Brother Jiang!”

“Greetings, Brother Jiang!!”

The two disciples guarding the Martial Arts Hall immediately greeted Jiang Ning with respect as he got off the horse carriage.

Jiang Ning responded with a smile and a nod before heading inside the Martial Arts Hall.

Backyard of the Martial Arts Hall.

As soon as Jiang Ning stepped into the backyard, he found it, usually quiet, now somewhat lively.

In the pavilion shaded by large and lush trees, four people were seated and one was standing.

The person standing was very familiar to Jiang Ning; she was Li Qing, currently the only female disciple in the Martial Arts Hall.

As for the other four individuals, they were all sitting around a stone table. One of them was Wang Jin, but the other two men and a woman Jiang Ning did not recognize.

These two men and one woman were not young.

The oldest of them appeared to be over forty.

From the fact that he was sitting opposite Wang Jin, his standing among the three seemed to be the highest.

On either side of him and Wang Jin sat a man and a woman, both around their thirties.

From their uniform clothing and the unique badge of a plant and flower on their chests, Jiang Ning could tell that they were all from the same Sect.

At this moment, Jiang Ning’s sudden appearance and the noise he created immediately drew the attention of everyone in the pavilion.

“Greetings, Master!”

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Jiang Ning bowed to Wang Jin.

Wang Jin, who had a calm expression, showed a faint smile upon seeing Jiang Ning.

Li Qing, standing behind Wang Jin, waved cheerfully when she saw Jiang Ning.

“Junior Brother, come over!”

“Senior Sister Li!” Jiang Ning greeted in return.

“Jiang Ning, come here,” Wang Jin called out.

“Yes, Master!” Jiang Ning answered.

He then walked forward, and meanwhile, Jiang Ning heard Wang Jin, while smiling, say to the middle-aged man in front of him.

“Elder Liu, this is also one of my best disciples, named Jiang Ning.”

Upon hearing the name Jiang Ning, Elder Liu in front of Wang Jin looked at Jiang Ning with a bit of surprise.

“Jiang Ning, I have heard of Wang Brother’s distinguished disciple. They say that Shen Congyun was punished because he helped him and violated the rules of Wanhua Building!”

Wang Jin nodded, “Elder Liu is right; it is indeed him!”

As these words were spoken, the man and woman beside Elder Liu also glanced at Jiang Ning. Their gaze lingered on him briefly before they refocused their attention.