Chapter 150: Such a Weak Body? (2/2)

He saw people waiting in a queue here as well. When his turn finally came, the elder asked, ” What room?”

”Sorry?” Alex asked in confusion.

”What do you want to train in. Attack, Defense, or Movement?” the elder asked.

”Oh, umm... is it possible to go for all 3? I want to train in all,” Alex said.

The elder nodded and took Alex's badge. He then gave him a small wooden token. Alex looked at the token and saw that it was numbered '4-12'. ”Go to the 4th floor's 12th room,” the elder said.

Alex thanked the elder and quickly found a staircase. ”Oh, it goes down too?” he was surprised to see that the Training hall was not only tall, but it was also deep too.

Alex walked up the stairs to the 4th floor, and quickly found his room. Similar to the production hall, he put his wooden token in the keyhole. The door opened to reveal a completely white room.

”Hmm… ” Alex wondered and walked in. The room was quite wide and had enough place for him to try out his techniques.

As he walked in, he noticed a metallic puppet on the other side with a rather long wooden pole extended horizontally around its arms.

He walked up to it and saw that it had 3 switches on its head. He flicked the switch that said 'Offensive Training' and left defensive and movement training as is.

”Alright, does this work how I think it does?” he thought as he knocked on it a few times.

<Skin Tempering 3rd Realm>

”Oh, it does. Let's try with just my body then.” He started to pull in every single Qi he had in his skin, muscle, bones, and organs, back into his meridian.

”Urghh… Why is this so uncomfortable every time I do this?” he thought. Keeping all the Qi inside the meridian and not letting it flow as well, was an unnatural feeling he wished to avoid.

”I better get it done with,” making sure he wasn't leaking any Qi unintentionally, Alex prepared his attack. 'Here it goes,' with a single dash, he reached the puppet in front of him and…

BAM

A strong sound rose out from the board that shocked Alex. 'That sounded so strong!!,' he was shocked. He looked at the puppet and saw that it was taking a while to show the result.

Only after a few seconds did it show the result.

<Muscle Tempering 4th realm>

'That… is quite weak.' He was surprised to see that the Body tempering that his master praised so much had resulted in such low damage. 'If it's this weak, then what is so good about it?' he wondered.

Only after a few seconds did he realize, ”Wait… no, this is quite strong, isn't it? Only one night of cultivation, and I'm already at Muscle Tempering 4th realm. Does that mean… I can get a lot stronger this way?'