Longevity Begins with the Seven Injuries Fist-Chapter 182 - 128: Exotic Golden Bell Shield

Su Que first opened the cover of the Golden Bell Shield insights and looked at the first page.

What he saw was a chaotic mess of paper.

'Li Tunshan is really a crude martial artist, his handwriting looks like ghostly scribbles.'

Su Que thought to himself and then continued to look at the paper.

Moreover, Li Tunshan wrote very casually, with only some scattered thoughts and insights, jotted down here and there.

Sometimes he would doodle and draw randomly.

Some words were written so carelessly that Su Que couldn't recognize them.

Additionally, Li Tunshan's literary skills were quite limited, making some sentences difficult to read.

However, fortunately, Su Que had previously cultivated many techniques and was extremely experienced.

Additionally, his high enlightenment allowed him to fill in the meaning based on context, even if a few words were unclear or sentences unreadable.

The first part was Li Tunshan's understanding of the general outline of the Golden Bell Shield.

Among it were legends about the Golden Bell Shield in the martial arts world.

After reading it, Su Que had a general understanding.

In the martial arts world, some refer to the "Golden Bell Shield" as the top defense technique.

When cultivated deeply, it not only becomes indestructible but also resists water, fire, and poison, granting endless power, truly miraculous.

Even when fully mastered, the Golden Bell Shield possesses the ability to counterattack when struck.

The deeper the cultivation, the stronger the protective force, and the stronger the counterforce against opponents' attacks during confrontation.

Cultivating the Golden Bell Shield entails using True Qi to stimulate one's acupoints, thereby unleashing protective force within the body.

Moreover, the Golden Bell Shield is a martial art that integrates both internal and external cultivation.

When reaching a certain realm, the protective force can spread throughout the five viscera and six organs.

'It seems Li Tunshan has not cultivated the Golden Bell Shield to the level where it can protect the five viscera.' Su Que thought.

When he killed Li Tunshan, he discovered that Li Tunshan's five viscera and six organs were rather fragile.

At the time, he thought the Golden Bell Shield could only project Qi force for defense and couldn't protect the body's internal organs.

He didn't anticipate that it wasn't the Golden Bell Shield that was lacking, but Li Tunshan himself was weak.

However, it was precisely because Li Tunshan was weak that his Seven Injuries Fist Force could damage his internal organs and quickly defeat him.

'But if someone as weak as Li Tunshan could dominate Jiannan Prefecture, then how strong must the real experts from the Great Buddha Temple be?' Su Que couldn't help but wonder.

Continuing to read for a while, he realized,

Li Tunshan hadn't failed to cultivate the Golden Bell Shield deeply; he simply hadn't obtained the subsequent cultivation techniques for it.

As for why he hadn't acquired them, Li Tunshan didn't mention it in his insights.

However, he speculated,

Perhaps Li Tunshan was just a secular disciple of the Great Buddha Temple and hence couldn't inherit all the Golden Bell Shield cultivation techniques.

This was akin to the hierarchy between the outer and inner disciples of the Tang Sect, and the grading among the outer disciples.

One can obtain the corresponding realm's cultivation techniques only after reaching a certain level.

He estimated that the Great Buddha Temple, being large, might have a similarly strict hierarchy.

Su Que continued to turn pages and discovered there was much more content further back.

After reading for a while, he realized that because Li Tunshan had not acquired subsequent Golden Bell Shield cultivation techniques, he attempted to deduce them based on earlier techniques.

However, Li Tunshan's enlightenment and aptitude weren't as good as his, and he couldn't deduce the later cultivation methods.

Most of the deductions were incorrect.

Flipping further, Su Que found that Li Tunshan's deductions gradually became accurate, and he began integrating various hard skill cultivation methods.

He understood immediately.

Li Tunshan cultivated numerous hard skills primarily to integrate them to deduce subsequent Golden Bell Shield cultivation methods.

And Li Tunshan's extensive practice of hard skills wasn't in vain; he did touch upon some clues for the subsequent cultivation methods of the Golden Bell Shield.

He combined various hard skill cultivation methods to create a new methodology for cultivating the Golden Bell Shield.

But he failed.

Because Su Que found in the insights that after following this method, Li Tunshan recorded his feelings.

Physical pain, chaotic meridian flows, distracting thoughts... all of these are signs of Qigong deviation.

Turning the pages again, Su Que found no more content.

It's estimated that Li Tunshan, fearing Qigong deviation, didn't continue practicing this method and sought other approaches instead.

However, Li Tunshan was killed by him before thinking of another way.

Su Que began to turn the pages backward.

He wanted to revisit the Golden Bell Shield cultivation method that Li Tunshan had developed.

Physical pain, chaotic meridian flows, and distracting thoughts were side effects of this Golden Bell Shield cultivation method.

Li Tunshan feared these side effects, but Su Que did not.

In fact, ever since witnessing Li Tunshan perform the Golden Bell Shield, he had been highly interested in it.

After all, the Golden Bell Shield is a top-tier defensive miraculous technique, highly reputed in the martial arts world.

If he hadn't seen the Golden Bell Shield cultivation method created by Li Tunshan, he would have intended to cultivate the authentic Golden Bell Shield.

His Golden Finger has an additional effect of reversing techniques.

For evil techniques, the extra effect reverses the techniques' side effects.

For instance, the extra effect of the Seven Injuries Fist is the damage to the cultivator's five viscera and Yin Yang Qi.

He can cultivate standard techniques,

but cultivating evil techniques, after reversing the side effects, can enhance his physique and spirit.

In turn, it can extend his lifespan, enhance his Talent Value, and increase his cultivation speed.

With so many benefits, he naturally cultivates evil techniques rather than proper techniques.