"It's a little lighter, and I should be able to lift something more important. ”

Shi Mu muttered to himself, raised his hand again, and with a bang, threw the stone lock to the nearby ground.

The whole square shook slightly.

Shi Mu raised his hands and took a closer look.

The palms of the two hands are slender and sturdy, but no matter how you look at it, they don't look like flesh and blood that can emit the power of a thousand catties.

Shi Mu pondered for a while, then walked to the wooden frame and took off the long knife again.

A moment later, a series of sword shadows burst out in the square, as if flying sand and stones, and like a dragon going out to sea.

With a "whoosh", the white pi practice swept out, drowning a nearby wooden stake in it.

After a few "pops" and "pops", the stake was instantly cut into seven pieces and rolled away.

Six slashes in one breath!

His sword skills are so fast that they are no longer under Li Canghai's previous demonstration.

The shadow of the knife flickered, and Shi Mu stood in place with the long knife upside down, looking at the stake in front of him, his face full of thoughtfulness.

In the evening.

In a large, poorly furnished house, a heavy wooden door is locked from the inside.

Shi Mu lay on the big bed in the middle of the room with his eyes closed.

At this time, his skin was red, hot and sweaty, the whole person was curled up into a ball, his mouth made intermittent ** sounds from time to time, his limbs kept twitching, and the whole person was in a semi-comatose state.

After an unknown amount of time, his pain gradually stopped, his limbs slowly stretched out, his skin gradually returned to its normal color, and his tired eyes opened.

Shi Mu took a few deep breaths, walked under the bed and moved his hands and feet, and with a move of his arm, he grabbed the edge of the bed with his five fingers.

"Click" with a crisp sound!

The side of the solid wood bed, which seemed to be very strong, shattered in response.

"The strength has increased a little more, but it is not as amazing as the last few times, it has been a month since the last attack, and it has only lasted for half an hour, and it seems that it is unlikely to improve in the future. Shi Mu muttered.

The astonishing change just now had appeared since he moved into this manor, and more than once, which was why he had shown amazing strength and superior sword skills during the day.

The first episode of the mutation was when he was tortured for a night during his first month at the manor.

But when he returned to normal the next day, he found that his strength and physical reaction were much higher than before.

Then, two days later, in the evening, the second mutation began.

In this way, he has experienced more than ten such abnormalities in the past few months, and each episode has benefited his body amazingly.

However, as the duration of the mutation became shorter and the interval between episodes became longer, the increase in strength and reaction began to weaken.

So far, this time, it has only increased his strength a little, and it is far from being comparable to the first few times.

But even so, Shi Mu's strength is now more than 1,000 catties, and his reaction speed is several times that of ordinary people.

Even if Shi Mu was sluggish, he could guess that this anomaly was mostly related to the giant mussel that was rescued from the bottom of the sea that day.

After all, the whole mutation process was very similar to the boiling feeling of his blood after waking up at the beach that day, but the pain increased tenfold.

He had heard a lot of stories about this kind of strange fate from the biographies of the strong people in the mouths of the storytellers, and he used to envy them.

Now that this kind of adventure has appeared on him, he is naturally overjoyed, and he has also increased a lot of confidence in passing the test of the Kaiyuan Martial Arts Academy after more than half a year.

In addition, Shi Mu also truly determined from Li Canghaikou that even if he comprehended the sense of qi and met the conditions for age, he still had to go through a very fierce competition if he wanted to enter the martial arts academy.

After all, the Kaiyuan Martial Academy also has limited resources, and can only recruit a limited number of people within the quota. Judging from the experience of previous sessions, the number of people who signed up in the entire Kaiyuan Prefecture was often several times higher.

Shi Mu knew very well that his talent was average, even if he took the Qi Spirit Pill, the chance of comprehending Qi Sense would not be much higher than that of ordinary people.

According to Li Canghai, once the ninth layer of the quenching body is passed, each layer of improvement can increase the probability of qi sense comprehension a lot, and once the quenching body can be cultivated to the tenth layer, even the probability of ordinary qualification comprehension is more than one-third. If the cultivation reaches the thirteenth quenching body, the probability of failure is only half smaller.

This is also the reason why some low-quality martial artists, even after the age of thirty or forty, can still rely on the Great Perfection of Quenching and taking the Qi Spirit Pill many times to successfully advance to the acquired martial arts, but it takes time and money during the period, and it is not something that ordinary martial disciples can bear.

Of course, it is only at such an old age to comprehend the sense of qi, and the golden time for martial arts cultivation is completely wasted, and the difficulty of continuing to cultivate in the future can be imagined, even after advancing to the middle stage of Tianwu, it will become extremely difficult, and the possibility of the later stage is even more approximate.

However, some children of real powerful families can also increase the chance of qi comprehension by collecting some rare auxiliary pills, but the price is far more than several times that of purchasing qi spirit pills.

Li Canghai originally cultivated the technique of quenching the body to twelve percent, and after he was in his twenties, he barely advanced to the acquired level after taking the Qi Spirit Pill for the second time, and every time he talked about it, this mid-acquired martial artist still regretted it very much.

For Shi Mu, with his current small net worth, he didn't need to think about the acquisition of auxiliary pills at all, and he could only take the road of improving the quenching level.

However, once the body quenching technique has passed the ninth layer, and then wants to cultivate to a higher level, the time it takes will be far beyond ordinary people's imagination, and those who can cultivate the body quenching technique to the twelfth layer of the Great Perfection realm before the age of fifteen can only be done by a true demonic genius, and there are only a few people in the entire history of the Great Qi Kingdom.

With the help of the body changes in the past few months, Shi Mu has directly pushed the body quenching technique to the ninth layer of Dacheng, and even close to the realm of the tenth layer.

According to normal judgment, it should not be a big problem for him to enter the tenth layer of the quenching body after more than half a year, but if he wants to enter the eleventh layer, it is still a distant matter. And the one-third chance of qi comprehension naturally can't really reassure Shi Mu.

It seems that if he still wants to go further in the technique of quenching the body, he can only use the extreme cultivation method that Li Canghai once mentioned.

According to what Li Canghai said, this method of quenching the body was inadvertently obtained by him from a master, although it was very simple and rude, but the effect of quenching the body was surprisingly amazing, but the whole process was too dangerous and painful, and there was even a great possibility of premature death in the cultivation process, so it was rarely taught to other apprentices. If Shi Mu is willing to spend a lot of money, he is willing to teach it.

Ever since he made a vow to become a strong man at his mother's grave, he knew that he would embark on a difficult path full of thorns, and how could he be afraid of any danger!

However, what he has to do now is to master the martial art of Stone Shattering Fist first, and then he can devote himself to cultivating the art of quenching the body.

Shi Mu thought indifferently, and soon made a decision in his heart.

......

Seven days later, in the center of the manor square, a three-foot-high cyan water tank was erected, filled with dense soybean grains.

"Drink" "Drink"

Shi Mu stood in front of the water tank, with his upper body, wearing only a pair of fat black trousers, carrying a thick silver holster on each hand, and slamming the wheat grains in the water tank with both hands clenched into fists.

"Listen, although the power of the gravel fist is directly related to its own strength, the toughness of the fist itself is the key to whether it can wield the maximum power, otherwise even if its own strength is great, a punch on the stone will be bloody and self-harming. You're just a beginner, and although you've already done the art of quenching your body, your fists are only strong enough to hit some wood. I now let you wear multiple layers of fish skin gloves to hit these soybeans, which can slowly stimulate the muscles and bones on your hands, so that your hands will not suffer too much trauma at first, and you can also quickly improve the strength of your hands. When you can penetrate the entire tank with a single blow with both fists, I'll replace the beans with larger gravel and subtract a layer of fishskin gloves from your fists. When you are able to hit the gravel in the tank to the end, I will replace it with real iron sand, and when the iron sand can also be broken, I can practice with real large rocks...... Notice, your left hand swings a little wider!" Li Canghai stood beside him with his arms folded, and said expressionlessly.

"Yes"

Shi Mu agreed, his two arms waved, each punch was more than half a foot deep into the water tank, his upper body was sweating profusely, every muscle was bulging like a mouse, and the whole person was shrouded in a strange frenzy.

Half a quarter of an hour later, Shi Mu suddenly let out a loud shout, and after a punch was slammed out, he actually hit more than a foot deep into the water tank, almost burying half of his small arms in the soybeans.

"Stop! Didn't I tell you not to use too much force at first! Let me see if your hand hurts?" Li Canghai saw this scene, but his face changed greatly, he shouted loudly, and quickly took out a medicine bottle from his arms.

"Master Li, it's okay. Shi Mu grinned and pulled his arm out of the soybean.

"Hmph, whether it's something or not, I'm up to me. Take off your gloves!" Li Canghai snorted and said without thinking.

When Shi Mu heard this, he could only shake his arm again, then took off the holster on that fist layer by layer, and moved the exposed reddish ten fingers casually in front of Li Canghai a few times.

"Hey, it seems like it's really fine. Strange, according to my years of experience in teaching, it is normal for all five fingers to be bloody with such a strong effort. You come over and hit this stake directly with your fist, this time with all your strength!" Li Canghai carefully looked at Shi Mu's palm, showing a surprised expression, and after thinking about it again, he pointed to a thick wooden stake nearby.

"Yes" Shi Mu heard this, took a deep breath, walked to the wooden stake, and slowly walked around.

"Boom"!

After Shi Mu shook his shoulders, he suddenly punched out, and actually broke the thick wooden stake from the middle, and even the upper half of the wooden stake flew out of the square and smashed heavily on the outer wall of a certain house, smashing the whole room slightly.

The fist he withdrew was unscathed!