Chapter 28: A Huge Gap Between Skin Toughening Phase and Bone Forging Phase (2/2)

In regards to this, Junior Leopard needed few aids, for he had had one insight before and integrated the hammering skill into Tai Chi. But Qin Xuanlong felt disappointed because this bloke was so smart that he had become obsolete. How amazing!

In this way, half a year went by. A half year was neither too long, nor too short. Junior Leopard became more and more accustomed to living in the Wu Family ironware shop. With his strength and technique progress, Junior Leopard now could forge objects with higher quality.

”Your technique is on a par with common craftsman now! ”

Holding a yataghan which was forged by Junior Leopard just now, Qin Xuanlong split an iron bar, which was as wide as a bowl, into two parts with an arc of the sword. He brought the sword in front of him, and seeing a small gap had appeared in the edge of the blade, said with his brows furrowed, ”It seems to be the highest level you can reach such a young age. There still is a year and a half left and you need to practice Nine Dragons Heavenly Fire Technique patiently. You'd better reach a wonderful phase of the Level One of the fighters or even to the edge of the Level Two of the fighter. In this way, you are very likely to be chosen by the Elders.”

”Very likely to be chosen by an Elders?”

Those words were truly attractive.

Being a well-known family in forging irons, the Wu Family were much more than a simple family. It was similar to a school-like structure and the only difference from a school was that each generation's master was surnamed, Wu. While in the Wu Family, there were also numbers of people with other surnames. Those people lived in the Wu Family from the very beginning. Their progenitors were the three disciples of the Wu Family ancestor, who initiated the family property. They were the Ma Family, the Lin Family, and the Xu Family. In the evolution of several hundreds of years, the Ma's disappeared, the Lin's declined, while the Xu Family gradually became powerful and prosperous. In this way, masters and the Elders couldn't limit their disciples to their offspring, for people with other surnames were also brilliant.

Those experts who had other surnames but rendered their service to the Wu Family were the Elders.

To be an Elder of the Wu Family was neither simple nor difficult. As long as you achieved a cultivation of the Level Four, then you had the primary qualification.

The Level Four meant one would break through the Skin-Toughening Realm to the Bone-Forging Realm.

The Bone-Forging Realm in three realms!

It sounded not difficult. But among quantities of men in the gathering of martial arts, people who could break through the Skin-Toughening Realm to the Bone-Forging Realm were less than one percent. On the one hand, proper techniques were hard to find; on the other hand, magic drugs were in short supply.

Only top-level legendary techniques could practice internal qi that could nourish one's body. In such a way one could be able to break through with Punching Skill of Bone Forging and nourish internal qi but not resort to magic drugs. But how could normal people afford such amazing techniques?

Therefore, most of the fighters needed not only great efforts but also a countless accumulation of magic drugs, to practice to the Bone-Forging Realm. Or else, at least 50 years was needed if one only practiced Punching Skill of Bone Forging. Time could bring a great change in the world. Who knew whether you were too old to practice after 50 years?

Actually, it was nearly impossible for common people to obtain magic drugs. Wang Tianlei, for example, had talent in practice. He could practice to the phase of the Level One according to the popular and basic martial arts in the army. With some more decades, he could easily reach the Level Two or Three, but that was all.

There was a huge gap between the Level Three and the Level Four. And it was the first threshold which all fighters had to face. At the same time, their power could be quite different between the Level Three and the Level Four because of the huge gap. Even those who newly reached the Bone-Forging Realm were ten times stronger in skeleton intensity and tenacity. Thus they could strike out with more strength without using internal qi than those who struck with internal qi. Once they use internal qi, their destructive power would unquestionably be beyond the Level Three fighter's imagination. So even a fighter who was in the wonderful phase of the Level Three couldn't bear a fist of a fighter in the Bone-Forging Realm.

Ashes to ashes with one fist!