Chapter 151: Attack and Defense (1/2)
Alex felt like he had just realized the importance of body cultivation. Everything his master had said until now had barely influenced his thoughts against body cultivation. At best, he would reluctantly accept the pain and cultivate.
But now, he had an incentive to. ”Even if I could cultivate more than this with Qi cultivation alone, I still wouldn't get as strong since continuous breakthroughs are bad for your foundation. But, this seems entirely different.”
”This is quite exciting.”
Now that he knew how strong his Qi-less body was, he decided to check how strong it was with the Qi. ”If I'm remembering correctly, my fists did the same damage as my cultivation base. So, with the Body cultivation, it should be higher, right?”
”Although, I don't know how much more damage a simple muscle tempering realm can add to my current strength.” Alex let go of the withheld Qi and let it fill his body.
He prepared his fist once more and punched the metallic puppet as hard as he could.
BAM
This was a much louder sound than he was imagining. He looked up at the puppet to see what the result was.
<Organ Tempering 2nd Realm>
”Or-Organ Tempering 2nd Realm?” he blurted out, shocked at the result. ”But..how? My body isn't strong enough to show that kind of result. Was I mistaken earlier?” he wondered.
The last time he had tested his physical strength was when he had just gotten the Smiting Blade technique. After that, he had trained under the assumption that all of his damage would always be equivalent to his cultivation base.
”Even master had said the same thing. Due to one's Qi, your strength without any external techniques or artifacts would be equal to your cultivation base under normal circums—”
His eyes went wide. ”Is there something more to my strength other than the weak body cultivation right now?” he tried to think of the reasons.
”I see…” he finally said after a minute. ”It has to be either because of the Yang Jade, the Mortal Cleansing I went through, or the unknown blood essence, right? But which one? Maybe even all three.”
He punched once more just to be sure it wasn't a fluke and the puppet indeed showed 'Organ Tempering 2nd Realm' once more.
He took out the normal sword and used it this time.
<Organ Tempering 1st Realm>
”Woah! Even a normal Common Mortal grade sword's damage increased by so much? What about my actual sword?” he thought as he took out the Steel sword and used it.
<Organ Tempering 3rd Realm>
”Yeah, that's more like it.” He went on to test on a few more techniques. He managed to deal a realm higher worth of damage with his Smiting blade. Sadly, techniques like the 2nd and 3rd strike of the Elusive Heavenly sword which were more focused on the Qi were the weakest of the different techniques Alex knew now.
Iron Fist Punch, however, had become amazing.