Chapter 129: Are You Going to Lose to Time?
The statement that King Kong is not bad was not there at first.
In ancient times, people in the world only knew "forging skin and refining meat", but did not know what "King Kong is not bad". At that time, martial arts had not yet been perfected, and cultivators were more likely to rely on instinct and the method of "thinking for me" to blindly enhance themselves - over time, more and more people trained their external skills to this extent, and this skill gradually became famous.
Later, some sages summarized the way of internal practice and spread it widely. Cultivating internal strength is not as immediate as cultivating external strength at first, but after cultivating for five or six years, the cultivation speed of external strength will gradually decrease, while internal strength will not. After cultivating for ten years or even longer, the improvement rate of external strength will be even slower to the point of outrageous, and it often takes months or even a year or two of time and hard work to improve by a star and a half.
In contrast, the internal strength, which has been able to make steady progress, is obviously more advantageous.
So gradually, "the introduction of external skills and the improvement of internal skills" has become the mainstream of martial arts.
This situation continues to this day.
With the exception of a very small number of schools, there are almost no martial artists who will continue to work hard after they have cultivated their external skills to a certain extent. And this realm of "forging skin and refining meat" naturally appears less and less.
Among the very few schools of thought that practice penance, the most well-known in the world are the ascetics of Buddhism.
They practice in a hard, almost masochistic way, imbuing the power of the Dharma on their bodies. Gradually, their bodies slowly change color, glowing with a metallic sheen that resembles gold.
Buddhism refers to this situation of turning the body into gold as the "vajra body". Generally speaking, such a vision is only manifested when the Dharma is being practiced. However, the vajra body is permanent even after a person dies, and even if a person dies, the body still retains this strong and full of Dharma power.
Therefore, the "forging skin and refining meat" cultivated by ascetics is called "King Kong is not bad".
The name "King Kong is not bad" sounds much more majestic than "forging skin and refining meat", so there are even many martial artists who have cultivated "forging skin and refining meat" through other methods, and will also practice some Buddhism, or simply use other methods to make their bodies appear golden.
The right to ...... It's okay that King Kong is not bad.
Anyway, the core functions are exactly the same.
Just like the current Pan Long, if he wants, as long as he tempers his body with the power of merit, he will soon be able to refine his body into the ascetic's "King Kong is not bad".
But that's not necessary.
He is not one of those guys with unknown origins and strange identities, who need to use "King Kong is not bad" to cover up his identity and disguise himself with the image of an ascetic.
As the number one master of the younger generation of Great Xia, no matter what magic skills he cultivated, as long as it was not something like "Ten Thousand Demon Devouring Souls" or "Heavenly Demon Bliss", he could see that the great evil needed to be eliminated as soon as he made a move, and everything else was fine.
"Forging skin and refining meat" is naturally no problem.
At most, everyone will think that he really deserves to be a genius, and he can even practice this, and by the way, I wonder if he has some quirks and actually practices this kind of stupid kung fu......
Pan Long himself is quite happy about the progress of quenching, but he is a little dissatisfied.
All along, his physical strength has been very high, and among people with the same cultivation, there is almost no one who can compare to him.
But although his defense is high, his attack power has never been very good - not that it is not strong, but it is not strong enough.
Compared to a master of the same cultivation, his attack ability is generally above average.
If you apply the concept of the game, if the average attack power of a character of the same level is 100, his attack power is probably close to but not more than 200.
Is this low attack power? Certainly not low.
But...... It's really not "very high".
After all, his defense can be at least 1000 or more!
The defense is ten times or even higher than that of a person of the same level, and the attack power is less than twice that of the person, it is obvious that his attack power is far from keeping up with the defense power, which is a typical defense high and low attack.
It's a pity that "forging skin and refining meat" is also based on strengthening defense - whether it is a foreign martial artist or an ascetic, they all pursue the idea of "consolidating the foundation". What is the meaning of consolidating the foundation? Strengthening the defense and resilience is the strengthening of the foundation.
Being able to survive and live for a long time is the most important ability.
Pan Long didn't object to this statement, but his current defense and survivability were really strong enough, even before he cultivated to become an adult, it was enough.
"Alas!" Seeing a layer of metallic light on his hand, and then dissipating again, he couldn't help but sigh deeply, "Am I the famous 'stacking the last armor and being beaten the hardest' on the Internet back then?
"Strong is a version of the thing, handsome is a lifelong thing, why can I only be strong but not handsome......?
Complaining is complaining, and quenching will not stop.
In the blink of an eye, it has been three months since he came to this world.
The aura of the Shan Hai Jing can probably allow him to stay in this world for four and a half months, and now more than half of it has passed.
The strength of the human being's psionic induction has dropped to less than 60 percent.
During this time, Pan Long really had enough strength, and even for meals and rest, he chose to fly into space and return on the way back - at that time, the Spirit of the Snow Mountain was in charge of the pick-up, and he could seize the time to close his eyes and fill his stomach.
In terms of industriousness, he should be the most industrious person in the world.
It's just that he wasted a lot of time when he first came to this world, and no matter how much he hurried up and tried desperately to catch up with the schedule, he still ...... It may be too late.
"I can now complete an average of once every seventy hours to spread the earth's spirits, and each time I can reduce the strength of psionic energy by about three percent. The remaining fifty-seven percent requires nineteen assignments. That's 1,330 hours, or 55 days...... It's too late!"
On the way back to the ground from outer space, Pan Long was lying on the cloud platform, his eyes closed, but he couldn't sleep.
"There was so much time wasted before, the time spent investigating, the time spent waiting for news, and the extra time spent unskilled...... If I had been as skilled and hardworking as I am now, it would have only taken me about 100 days to complete the whole job!"
"If only I had more time......"
Pan Long sighed, feeling a little uncomfortable.
He was a little worried, according to the current trend, even if he kept leaving this world, it would only add up to reduce the intensity of the spiritual energy on the ground to more than ten percent.
At this level, will the Star Swallowing Demon Gods still be able to discover this planet?
He wasn't sure.
If not, everyone is happy.
If he could, would he wait for the next time he came to this world, and what he saw was that the entire planet had been swallowed by the demon god and was slowly digesting?
Thinking of that possibility, he tossed and turned.
And as the saying goes, "Misfortune doesn't go alone", when he returned to the ground, he got even worse news.
The high-quality Hells are running out!