Chapter 934 - The Painful Second Stage (1/2)

The second stage of the True Gold Body Forging Arts was a cruel one.

One needed to cut open their flesh to reveal their bones and then pour the liquid gold inside to refine them. Both the act of cutting the flesh and pouring burning hot gold was inhuman to most people, and they wouldn't even imagine doing it.

Refining the gold for this stage was also a long process, since Lin Mu needed to reduce it to a quarter of its original volume. The amount of gold that he was refining for the second stage was 1506 kilograms, which was a significant amount.

Putting all that gold into the cauldron put it at about half of its capacity in the solid form and when it melted completely, it was about one third its capacity.

'Now come's the hard part…' Lin Mu thought and looked at little Shrubby. ”You can stop heating it now. I need to do the rest of the parts myself. I'll tell you when I need you to heat it again.” He spoke.

”Alright, I'll wait.” Little Shrubby replied.

Nodding his head, Lin Mu began the refinement process that was even longer than before. With the quantity of gold, it took Lin Mu about four days before he reduced the volume of the gold by half.

But this was not enough and he needed to reduce it even more to a quarter.

'The more I refine it, the harder it gets…' Lin Mu understood.

The spirit Qi consumption was also far higher than before, such that Lin Mu actually needed to use more of his stored spirit Qi. Before this, his passive spirit Qi absorption was enough to compensate for the continuous use.

Day turned to night and time passed. Another five days passed before Lin Mu was finally done with the refinement of gold. He had successfully reduced it to a quarter of what the volume used to be.

Though the weight of the gold was still the same.

”Now that I think of it, the increase in my weight is almost unnoticeable.” Lin Mu just realized.

He couldn't even tell that his weight had increased by almost three times what it was originally.

”And after this stage, it will be even more… I can't even imagine the effect by the final stage.” Lin Mu muttered to himself.

Compared to Little Shrubby, Lin Mu was still rather light and thus there being no extern signs was normal. Lin Mu could imagine leaving behind deep foot prints by just casually walking.

While he didn't know how much Little Shrubby's eight was exactly, it was certainly more than a ton considering how large he was.

'Will he even be able to carry me and run at that point?' Lin Mu couldn't help but wonder.

”If he breaks through again and reaches the Dao Shell realm, I doubt it will be a problem for him. Even now, lifting a weight like that isn't a problem for him or you, though running might not be possible for long distances.” Xukong suddenly spoke.

”Hmm… I see senior.” Lin Mu replied and looked at little shrubby, sensing his cultivation base.

Thinking for a bit, Lin Mu tried to estimate if Little Shrubby could breakthrough during this time as well or not.

'I don't know how long the third stage will take. I will give little Shrubby as much as beast Qi during that time and hopefully both of us can breakthrough in that period.' Lin Mu thought to himself.