Chapter 942 - The Final Stage Of The True Gold Body Forging Arts (1/2)

The moment Lin Mu touched the surface of the Liquid Gold, he felt the difference.

It was dense enough that his body was repulsed by it a bit. If it were not for the fact that he had already absorbed a relatively high amount of gold in his body, he might not have even been able to sink into the liquid gold.

After all, the density of gold was way higher than that of the human body, making it close to impossible to sink into it.

Even then, the density of the liquid gold in the cauldron was way higher than the gold Lin Mu had refined before this. Thus he had to force his way into it. If he didn't put a constant pressure, he would be pushed out of the gold.

Thankfully, his body was no longer affected by the heat of the gold and could withstand it with ease. The previous two steps had increased his defense to handle that much with ease.

'Now to wait till it solidifies, so I don't need to constantly keep on pushing myself down.' Lin Mu thought to himself.

The volume of gold in the cauldron was more than double Lin Mu's original volume, which meant that he was fully immersed in it and could sit cross legged inside it. This was also how it was described in the True Gold Body Forging Arts.

He was supposed to be fully 'encased' in the gold once it cools and solidifies. Only after that happened was he supposed to start cultivate with the mnemonic of the technique. It took about three hours before the gold was fully solidified.

Lin Mu was sure that there were some qualitative changes that had happened to the gold as normal gold should solidify way faster than this. Though once it did, Lin Mu started cultivating almost immediately.

In this step of the True Gold Body Forging Arts, the practitioner needed to cultivate within the solid gold until they could 'breathe' in it. Once they managed to reach that point, the gold would slowly started to shrink and assimilate into their bodies.

There was no time estimate to how long this would take as more than 99% of those that practiced this technique had failed, not to mention the ones that reached this step were but just a fraction of that.

Lin Mu and Xukong were discussing about it a while back and they had come to an estimation about the number of people that managed to cultivate the True Gold Body Forging Arts. They came to the assumption that there was a chance Lin Mu might have been one of the five or so people that reached this point.

This figure was due to just how high the requirements and difficulty of this technique were. For Lin Mu, the requirements were greatly lowered, but for a normal cultivator they would need a lot more resources and additional pills like the Bone Enameling pill.

The progress that had taken Lin Mu two months to reach would take others at least a year or more. Though there was still the third stage that had no time estimate as it would greatly vary depend on the individual talent and skills.

Many would simply die because they would end up suffocating inside the gold and would be far too weak to breakout themselves. Lin Mu didn't have that issue since if he wanted to he could break out of it forcefully with his power and could hold his breath for a very long time.