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Fang Xiu maintained his own practice rhythm.

In a blink of an eye, it’s winter.

In the courtyard of Fang family.

Bang bang bang!

Fang Xiu, dressed in a black outfit, kept punching the special sandbag hanging under the loquat tree.

Each punch hit the sandbag like a heavy hammer, leaving clear punch marks.

While punching, his footwork was like the wind, moving around the sandbag.

The continuous heavy punches shook the sandbag violently, and the branches kept making creaking sounds, as if they would break at any time.

Bang!

With a dull explosion, Fang Xiu punched a big hole in the special sandbag, and the sand inside flowed to the ground.

"The skin grinding is complete."

Fang Xiu breathed a sigh of relief.

Relying on the Ye family's monthly salary of ten taels of silver, a cup of green bamboo tea, and a red-blooded carp every month from Bai Xing, he worked hard for half a year and finally reached this point.

The main reason is that I haven't gained any good talents or destiny in the past six months.

Therefore, the time it took to reach the completion of skin polishing was a little slower than he expected.

Now, Fang Xiu has figured out the conditions for collecting talents and destiny from the Book of Destiny.

First of all, only the people he kills with his own hands can reveal their talents and destiny. Secondly, not everyone has talent or destiny.

Some of the prisoners on death row were killed by him, and he kept watch all night, but nothing happened.

However, the advancement of external skills is not fast, but the skill of Hunyuan Yiqi Jue has been improved from five years to nine years.

Based on internal strength alone, it is estimated to be no weaker than the ordinary meat refining realm.

Unfortunately, the effect of green bamboo tea becomes weaker the more you drink it.

Practice both internal and external skills. The more advanced the internal skills are, the greater the promotion effect on external skills will be.

Even if Fang Xiu doesn't use Hunyuan Qi, his endurance is much stronger than before, and his physical recovery speed is also significantly accelerated.

If I have to say there is any shortcoming, it is that the appetite has become larger.

"The next step is to attack the flesh barrier..."

Fang Xiu had been practicing all afternoon, and his whole body was feeling warm, but the energy and blood in his chest had barely improved.

Obviously, after the dermabrasion is completed, if the physical barrier is not broken, it will be difficult for Qi and blood to continue to improve.

"The worse the foundation, the easier it is to encounter bottlenecks, but..." Fang Xiu smiled.

When you encounter a bottleneck, if you use water to grind your efforts, you may not be able to break through it for several years, or even more than ten years.

For example, Ma Sandao, who was of average quality at that time, practiced for two and a half years, and achieved great success at the age of eighteen.

Later, in order to get married to his childhood sweetheart, he put a lot of effort and money into it. As a result, his eldest son became ill and unprotected right after he was born. He sought medical treatment everywhere but did not live past his first birthday.

As a result, Ma Sandao delayed the prime time of cultivation, and did not break through the flesh barrier until he was twenty-five years old. Finally, he was stuck in the flesh-refining realm for twenty years.

If you encounter a bottleneck, you must break through it as soon as possible.

The most direct way is to use strong medicine, use the powerful medicine to stimulate the physical body, and break through the barrier in one breath.

However, this will damage the body's potential and make it more difficult to break through in the future.

The best way is to use medicine that warms and nourishes qi and blood, which can provide a large amount of qi and blood without damaging the foundation.

But the disadvantage is that it costs a lot.

The poor can only rely on talent.

If you don't have talent, you have to grind slowly and rely on luck to make breakthroughs.

"When external skills encounter a bottleneck, I can still practice internal skills."

Fang Xiu returned to the room. After resting for a while, he sat down in the barrel and took a medicinal bath.

External skills are stuck in a bottleneck and cannot increase Qi and blood, but practicing internal skills can increase Qi and blood at the same time.

To break through the flesh barrier, the minimum requirement is for the Qi and blood in the chest to be as thick as five fingers. The more Qi and blood, the easier it is to break through the barrier.

As for the middle and lower root bones, normal cultivation can train Qi and blood to the thickness of five fingers at most.

Without external help, it is a category that is promising but more difficult.

But Fang Xiu can use the Hunyuan Qi to abruptly increase the potential of the physical body and reduce the influence of the roots and bones.

The blood in his chest is now close to five and a half fingers.

The probability of breaking through the flesh barrier can be increased by at least 10 to 20%.

"Practice for another month and see. If you can't break through naturally, buy warm and tonic medicinal materials."

Wait until the effect of the medicinal bath gradually wears off before you get up and get dressed.

He still hasn't used the five hundred taels of silver notes.

If he can't successfully pass the test next month with the help of Hunyuan Qi, he plans to ask Ye Jin'er to help purchase medicinal materials.

After getting along with her for more than half a year, he believed that Ye Jiner was a trustworthy person.

Ye Jin'er spent so much money on him, but he usually only needed to show up at the Ye family's cloth shop to prevent anyone from causing trouble.

It's really easy to get this money.

Ye Jin'er should be the person who hopes that his strength will improve the most, besides Fang Xiu himself.

...

...

Another month has passed.

It's late December.

This year’s first snow came later than usual, but it was also heavier than before.

"Ten years of skill! It feels different..."

Fang Xiu came to the corridor and looked at the heavy snow falling in the sky.

The cold wind howled and penetrated into Fang Xiu's collar and cuffs.

However, he did not feel the biting chill.

"No wonder internal strength is divided into five years, ten years, twenty years, and fifty years to correspond to the four levels of skin, flesh, tendons, and bones."

The feeling of nine years of skill is completely different from that of ten years of skill. It is obvious that the skill has only increased by one year, but it gives him the feeling that there is a gap between ordinary people and formal warriors. The quality, speed of movement, and power of Qi are all different. An obvious improvement.

It's not in vain that he has been cultivating his internal strength for a month.

Half a month ago, the fourth young master of Su's cloth shop in the city committed a crime and was imprisoned. The Su family sent a large sum of money in, and Fang Xiu received thirty taels of silver.

Relying on the thirty taels of silver to buy medicinal baths and the effects of green bamboo tea, Fang Xiu's skill reached the ten-year mark three days ago, which is comparable to the meat refining realm of external skills.

"If you want to maintain such a fast cultivation speed in the future, you will need too many resources."

Fang Xiu sighed in his heart.

The effect of green bamboo tea has been greatly weakened. It is estimated that if you drink it for a few more months, it will have no promotion effect on the cultivation of internal strength.

The future expenses cannot be covered by dozens of taels.

Of course, as your realm and strength improve, your ability to make money will also increase.

"It's time to break through."

The energy and blood in Fang Xiu's chest has exceeded five and a half fingers. Now that the speed of internal strength training has slowed down and the external strength is stuck, there is no need to wait any longer.

He was going to buy blood ginseng to pass the customs clearance.

But I have to go to the martial arts gym first.

If the martial arts gym has special clearance methods, you can also purchase them from the martial arts gym.

Fang Xiu went to Yonghefang in the west of the outer city. As soon as he walked to the street where the martial arts gym was located, he saw several luxuriously decorated carriages parked at the gate of the martial arts gym in the distance. There were also the logos of various schools on the carriages.

"The Su family, the Lin family, and... the Wang family! The Chen family!"

The Su family is the Su family's cloth shop where Su Congwen works, while the Lin family runs the escort agency.

Fang Xiu looked shocked when he saw the last Wang family and Chen family.

The Wang family has the great Anjin martial artist in charge, and together with the Shenbingpu, the Huichun Hall, and the Chen family where the county magistrate is located, they are also known as the four major forces in Qingshi County.

The strength of the Wang family stems from the fact that they have two great dark martial arts masters.

As for the other three forces, although each of them only has one Anjin great martial artist in charge, they are all backed by forces from Tianze Fucheng.

As for the six martial arts gyms in the county, they are all branches opened in Tianze Fucheng. The great Anjin martial arts masters in them are all elderly and have come to Qingshi County to retire.

Therefore, the four major forces have the final say in Qingshi County.

"Could it be that Senior Brother has made a breakthrough?!" Fang Xiu's heart moved.

When a warrior breaks through the bone barrier and becomes a great dark warrior, he can lock his energy and blood, which will only begin to decline after he is fifty years old.

Li Shan is thirty-three years old this year. If he breaks through, he still has seventeen years to reach his peak.

Although he, as the top disciple of Sanjue Martial Arts Hall, would not join other forces, such a young Anjin great martial artist opposite him was definitely worthy of the major forces taking the initiative to make friends with him.

Fang Xiu hurried towards the martial arts hall.

If Li Shan really breaks through, then the prestige of Sanjue Martial Arts Hall will be even higher. As a formal disciple, he will not only have a bright face, but also gain some invisible benefits.

"I knew Senior Brother Bai could do it!"

"Senior Brother Bai is really a genius!"

"Senior Brother Bai has only been here for a year, and he has already passed two levels in a row. He is so strong!"

"What year?! Exactly eleven months!"

As soon as Fang Xiu entered the gate, he heard cheers coming from the front yard.

A group of disciples surrounded Bai Xing like a moon.

"Baixing...has it passed?" Fang Xiu looked shocked.

Bai Xing's inferior bone, after practicing for eleven months, could even break the skin and flesh.

Even the children from big families can be considered excellent at this speed. For example, Chang Suqing, Su Congwen, and Su Lingyun in the backyard all reached the meat-refining realm within one year.

Chang Suqing, the fastest, took eight and a half months.

Followed by Su Lingyun and Su Congwen, both in their early ten months.

However, Chang Suqing is of the upper-class, while Su Lingyun is of the upper-middle level and Su Congwen is of the middle-level.

Fang Xiu's bones were in the middle and lower part, and he practiced for thirteen months.

External microdermabrasion is a success.

Ten years of internal strength is comparable to the meat refining realm.

The key point is that Bai Xing is just an inferior root bone. With normal cultivation, the upper limit of Qi and blood is four and a half fingers, which cannot meet the minimum requirement of five fingers to break through the physical barrier.

"I'm afraid only the red-blooded Carp King and the more precious treasure fish can have this effect."

Fang Xiu thought to himself.