After school, Ye Qingzhou returned home and immediately called upon Yingyue to use the Golden Scale Emperor’s Order to transport into Lingyun Grotto Heaven.
Jade Mist Mountain, Bishui Pond.
"Yingyue, help me guard."
"Yes, my lord."
After giving the order, Ye Qingzhou took out the cultivation technique Xu Lan had provided him and began to comprehend it.
In the Dongji Kingdom, different families and sects have varying focuses on Bone Forging and Muscle Strengthening Secret Techniques, but the Skin Refining Without Leakage technique is surprisingly unified. The country gathered human and material resources, pulling together ideas to continuously innovate and update the skin refining methods suitable for the physique of human martial artists, reaching the twenty-first version.
The one in Ye Qingzhou’s hand is the most perfect version currently.
The content of the cultivation technique is not complicated; it’s straightforward throughout, without using secret codes for encryption, and each detail is explained clearly and plainly, fearing that practitioners might not succeed.
"External Training of muscles, bones, and skin, Internal Cultivation of one breath. Why does it feel like the last step of External Training, skin refining, resembles the packaging stage in the semiconductor industry’s chip processing?"
Ye Qingzhou pondered, and in his view, the so-called skin refining is like putting a shell on oneself, using a method of fixing and sealing to lock in the True Qi within the body.
In the Martial Arts World, this step is called locking the Qi and blood, creating a Leakless True Body.
Because only in the Leakless Realm can one lock a pure and flawless Martial Arts True Qi.
This shows that the last step of External Training is actually a preparation for the last step of Inner Cultivation.
A martial artist must first achieve Skin Refining Without Leakage to lock the Martial Arts True Qi transformed from Inner Breath, thereby advancing to a Professional Level Martial Artist.
But this packaging is often one-time.
Therefore, if there’s a mistake, causing the external skin to be imperfectly packaged, at best, it would result in a defective "Leaking True Body," at worst, direct failure, with skin deformities, making life worse than death.
So this last step must be taken with extreme caution.
On Blue Star, for ordinary martial artists, like Ye Xiangyang in the past, this final step of skin refining costs around three million, mainly for purchasing specialized skin refining secret medicine.
As for the efficacy...
It’s just so-so, better than nothing.
The Xu Family is willing to spend money on resources, investing in Ye Qingzhou, but now the resources the Xu Family can buy no longer appeal to Ye Qingzhou.
Because he has found better exotic treasures!
Earth Treasure Level Innate Wood Qi!
And it’s not like at Thunder Accumulation Mountain, where you have to compete for every strand, but there’s a large supply directly available!
Others’ skin refining secret medicine, even in wealthy martial arts families burning through money, uses formulas with small amounts of Upper Grade Treasures paired with a large quantity of Middle Grade Treasures.
Unlike Ye Qingzhou, who uses Earth Treasure Level Innate Wood Qi entirely for skin refining, luxury is an understatement for his actions.
Ye Qingzhou sat cross-legged in Bishui Pond, instantly the Twenty-Four Gods inside his body radiated celestial light, illuminating a three-inch area of his Spiritual Platform.
Simultaneously, the life network within him quickly adjusted, gradually establishing a close connection with the surrounding vegetation and fungi.
Divine Gold turned into golden threads as fine as cow hairs, drilling out of Ye Qingzhou’s pores, then deeply rooting into the ground, continuing to spread until it enveloped the entire natural ecological system of Jade Mist Mountain.
Subsequently, Ye Qingzhou’s breathing gradually synchronized with the surrounding trees.
And his spirit merged with this small piece of heaven and earth before him, indistinguishable from one another.
Yingyue watched this scene in disbelief, her heart filled with shock: "The Grand Emperor’s Undying Body of the Cyan Emperor? The lord can actually master such divine techniques!"
However, the events that astonished Yingyue even more were yet to come!
As Ye Qingzhou’s breathing gradually elongated, the forest of Jade Mist Mountain began to slowly convert the primordial Qi inside Lingyun Grotto Heaven into Innate Wood Qi.
Among the Five-Colored Pythons, Yingyue’s Cyan Python inherently possessed a strong wood attribute talent, naturally sensing the Innate Wood Qi permeating the air.
And the closer to Ye Qingzhou, the denser the Innate Wood Qi became.
Such temptation, displayed as if freshly steamed Tang Monk’s Flesh placed right on the Road to the West in front of the monsters, who could resist it?
Yingyue stuck out her tongue and licked her rosy lips, then pressed her entire body against Ye Qingzhou’s, wriggling around, taking several deep breaths with a look of unsatisfied desire: "Such rich Innate Wood Qi, my lord, I want more."
As the Innate Wood Qi entered her body, Yingyue felt her cultivation level instantly increase significantly, and taking a breath was equivalent to months of hard cultivation!
What’s even better is, if she wanted to shed her snake body and obtain a Jiao body again, this Innate Wood Qi is indispensable!
Yingyue’s enchanting figure couldn’t shake Ye Qingzhou’s mind, as firm as steel. At this moment, he was immersed in completing the Skin Refining Without Leakage step using Innate Wood Qi.
Deep cyan Innate Wood Qi gradually infiltrated his epidermal cells, sealing his pores.
Then, one by one, his hairs began to fall off.
Not just the body hair, but also the hair on his head and eyebrows.
Soon, Ye Qingzhou’s skin was as flawless and smooth as exquisite jade, with no trace of impurity.
The Leakless True Body is achieved!
Opening his eyes suddenly, looking at the fallen hair on the ground, Ye Qingzhou raised his hand to touch his bald head: "I’ve turned bald and also stronger."
With a thought, the power of Inner Breath began to transform the primordial Qi into a more advanced energy—Martial Arts True Qi!
After imprinting his Martial Arts Will upon it, Ye Qingzhou instantly felt this energy move freely, no longer needing to be stimulated by Inner Breath, its efficiency increased by countless times.
But when Ye Qingzhou took a breath, his body suddenly felt discomfort, his face changed drastically: "Damn, the primordial Qi is poisonous!"