Chapter 91 (1/2)

There were nine copper-coated puppets in total in the martial practice room, whose strength corresponded to the standards of nine levels in Martial Realm respectively.

It was worth mentioning that the copper-coated puppets were different from the Spirit Testing Stone. Spirit Testing Stone tested the spiritual strength of practitioners, while copper-coated puppets tested the martial power.

It was also easily understood that possessing spiritual power did not mean you could exert the matching combat power.

The exertion of combat power was closely related to the martial arts and realm cultivated by the practitioner.

After all, as the combat was the combat, cultivation was just a source of strength for the combat. If you wanted to play it out, you must use some kind of martial arts as a medium.

Lin Xun came to a copper-coated puppet marked “Burning Blood”, the sixth level of Martial Realm, and patted on the cardiac position of the puppet.

With a hum, this copper-coated puppet beamed a red ray from its pupils, as if waking up from sleep, and each and every inch of the body was bright and shiny.

Lin took a deep breath, and every inch of his muscles suddenly sturdy like a steel wire. His physical strength overflowed and wandered along his spine which like a dragon roaring.

At this moment, even Lin Xun’s breathing was indistinctly showing momentum of raging wind and thunder!

Boom!

He stretched his right arm out to clench the copper-coated puppet’s wrist like lightning. Meanwhile, the strength he had already stored up suddenly poured out like a flood, bursting into a formidable concussive force.

As one move of A Manual to Break Tendons and Bones, it could instantly dislocate an enemy’s joints, unloading all his strength and making him totally enfeebled. Used by an overmatch, it could even kill an enemy by smashing his internal organs in a movement.

Bang!

The copper-coated puppet was absolutely capable of resisting one strike from a practitioner on the sixth level of Martial Realm. However, it now was exploded as easily as a piece of paper, leaving its parts everywhere, except for a length of its arm grabbed by Lin Xun.

Lin Xun felt stunned abruptly upon witnessing this scene, wondering that the puppet was too weak.

He had roughly speculated that his physical body was powerful enough to fight with a practitioner on the sixth level of Martial Realm.

After all, he had entered the Heaven-accessing Place to try to pass the test every three days over these days. Even though each time he had ended up in failure, his physical body had been refined and promoted greatly.

Until now, even Shia Zhi said that the progress in body refining Lin Xun had made was absolutely quicker than that in his spirit energy cultivation.

Nonetheless, it didn’t occur to Lin Xun yet that his one random strike could destroy a copper-coated puppet with the strength of sixth level in Martial Realm.

It was just a martial strength test, of course. Even so, Lin’s physical body based on A Manual to Break Tendons and Bones was beyond his own expectations.

After thinking for a while, he walked up to another copper-coated puppet which was at the seventh level of the Martial Realm.

He changed his strategy this time. He simply threw a punch by use of the most direct force technique.

Bang!

The copper-coated puppet was knocked into the air with deeply sunken chest and a striking fist-shaped imprint on it.

At the same time, Ding, a sound came from the copper-coated puppet, “Congratulations, my guest! Your martial power has been strong enough to threaten an overmatch on the seventh level of Martial Realm.”

Lin Xun looked at his fists, deeply lost in thought, and turned around to walk out of the Martial Practice Room.

However, when he left, Lin Xun had to pay a high cost of 100 imperial silver coins to compensate the copper-coated puppet he had destroyed.

Although he was better off than before, it was still a big expense for Lin Xun. Lin Xun could not help sighing. He should have carried out the test with the copper-coated puppet on the seventh level of Martial Realm directly.

Nevertheless, having figured out that his power had been strong enough to threaten an overmatch on the seventh level of Martial Realm, LinXun was rather delighted.

Of course, it was only a test of martial power. The situation was ever-changing in a real fight, thus the experience of a practitioner, as well as his equipment and the power of martial arts he learnt, could be key factors of a fight.

“With the spiritual power of 4,900 jun (an ancient unit of weight; 1 jun is equal to 15kg) which was strong enough to match a top practitioner of the eighth level in Martial Realm, and the physical power strong enough to threaten a practitioner of the seventh level in Martial Realm, unexpected benefits may occur when I get to the Gang Spirit Realm as long as I keep practicing.” Walking out of the Donglin Martial Practice Hall, Lin Xun pondered and summarized the power he had owned while walking towards the home.

With the County Test to take tomorrow, Lin Xun had no interest in wandering any more.

But when he arrived at Courtyard 49, Lin immediately heard a stream of curses coming from the yard.

“Damn it! I am the young master of Martial Club of Shue in Donglin Town. How dare you bully me like this? You really have no idea of death or danger, uh-huh!”

“Let us go!”

“You will see, you have been in great trouble, and no one in this town can save you!”

Lin Xun raised his eyebrows, then pushed the door open and walked in. Immediately he saw more than a dozen well-dressed young boys lying on the ground, with disheveled hair, swollen faces and bound hands. They were just like prisoners, and looked miserable.

In the middle of the courtyard, Shia Zhi sat alone quietly, reading a book, as if she did not hear the abuses.

Beside Shia Zhi stood Fatty Diao and the Bones, but both of them were in a trance and seemed quite uneasy.