Martial Research Master

Chapter 7: THE TRAINING-

Long Tao completed the first grind, according to the manual in ‘Heaven Pestle’ art.

Out of the three manuals he had in his memories, he managed to practice two of them to success until now.

The last manual, ‘The blood tempering method, ‘remained. Long Tao was excited to try out its benefits.

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The ‘Blood Tempering method was also known as the devouring art of heavenly glutton. According to this formula, one has to get the corpse, blood, and cores of demonic beasts to practice the tempering.

One has to start devouring all of the items, one by one, while training in the mantra and circulation art of the body.

The introduction stated that not only will this art temper the blood of the practitioner but also, it will take the blood essence of the beast, and assimilate it into the body of the practitioner.

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Hence, an advancement/ enhancement in the bloodline of the practitioner took place.

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It was surprising to see such an art present in the universe as, no none has ever heard of the usage of beast essences of other demons, to enhance and create the bloodline of one’s own.

A bloodline was something that was nurtured through generations of martial practice, even within beasts.

The practitioner of this art also gets some of the base strength of the beast into his body.

In rare cases, the practitioner may be blessed with the heaven-defying luck; monstrous comprehension might be able to retrieve the ancient bloodline memories of the devoured species and learn their art.

It was likely the only formula present within the memory of Long Tao, which seemed to be completely unlocked and had no restriction as it was only to teach and continuously enhance the devouring power of the practitioner.

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One could quickly gain insights into multiple types of divinities, while simultaneously gouging the benefits of the body growing more tyrannical. Long Tao went through another round of cross-checking before he wants to head towards starting the cultivation of ‘Blood tempering art.’

Exiting the cave, for the first time in 3 months, Long Tao was finally was at the realm where he can start the hunting of the beasts.

As he proceeded towards the forest, he started looking out for traces of beast presence in the nearby area. Soon he found evidence of footprint, and as he followed it to the end, he could see a wolf drinking water.

Long Tao alerted himself and slowly started approaching the wolf from within the bushes.

As he made sure that he got the exits of the wolf covered and was at an approachable distance from the wolf, he suddenly leaped out from the bushes, coming face to face with the wolf.

Alerted from the sudden movement, the wolf hurriedly turned towards Long Tao and started staring at him with a ferocious glare. A Human dared to stand in its way. As the wolf proceeded towards Long Tao, he gradually stiffens his body, bringing complete harmony in his movements.

Although Long Tao knew that his physical properties were extremely high, he still chose to be alert when facing an enemy.

‘When facing one ‘s opponent, even a single mistake or moment of ignorance could claim their life.’ Long Tao understood that fact, and slowly proceeded towards the demon wolf with caution.

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The wolf bared its fang, and conjuring the strength of his legs, sprinted towards Long Tao, to bite his head off. In the Demonic beast world, power matters. It was always a game of survival of the fittest.

Long Tao, clenched his fist, and as the teeth of the wolf were just about to fall on the skin of Long Tao, he smashed the face of the wolf with his strength. All these days of continuous training have laid a perfect foundation for Long Tao, and his current bodily power was unimaginable by conventional logic.

An example was the fact that the wolf, which attacks them a little while earlier, was currently blasted through the air, as its face was bloody, with a loud crackle of bones occurring.

After being smashed into the ground, the demonic wolf couldn’t even gather a little bit of strength to lift its body. It knew it was on the verge of death due to the earlier strike of the human standing near him. Giving a last loud Howl, it died.

Long Tao was shocked, observing his fist; even in his wildest imagination, he would not have thought that his strength has grown to such an extent that a single punch from him enough to kill the demon wolf.

As he went near the body of the wolf, he decides to carry it back to the cave, before starting to cultivate according to the method of the Blood tempering formula. But just at the moment when Long Tao was about to carry the corpse at his back, he heard the howling of a bunch of wolves coming from the nearby area.

Black lines occurred onto the face of Long Tao, as he recalled the last howl of the wolf before dying. It was as if he warned the members of his pack, and attracted them towards Long Tao.

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Soon a whole bunch of wolves arrived at the location of the fight, and upon seeing the corpse of their pack member, all of them growled towards Long Tao and rushed towards him.

Baring the initial thoughts of nervousness, a faint excitement occurred in the mind of Long Tao as he wanted to ascertain the current limits of his strength.

The pack slowly started to surround Long Tao and proceeded towards him together.

Wolves were known to hunt their prey in a pack, giving it no chance of life. A fight was imminent. Long Tao flashed a determined look on his eyes, and the battle began.

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It was close to nightfall now; alone, a silhouette could be seen lying on his back in the dark cave. Multiple dead bodies lay around him.

For Long Tao, this one was the first battle experience after completion of his initial training. He was tired due to the last fight. After lying for a few hours, Long Tao moved and gathered the corpses around him.

He dissected them with his bare hand, devouring the part of meat removed. He then started cultivating the art.

Long Tao’s blood was starting to get infused with the abundant blood essence from these corpses. It was a leap in the quality of bloodline.

Long Tao continued to devour more quantities of meat as the bodies started disappearing.

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The next morning –

Long Tao could be seen practicing the formula of Blood temper. The process was nearing its end as the corpses have vanished due to the devouring practice of Long Tao. Only now, Long Tao came to realize that he is required to hunt large numbers of demons if he wan to cultivate the art.

After the last set of meat was entirely consumed. He stood and started analyzing his body for the difference gained. He could feel his body being more potent than before. Growth could be seen in his muscle density and power output.

One could easily think about how tyrannical and strength boosting this whole art was. Long Tao was satisfied with the result, and this was the only part that didn’t require him to go through the hellish pain, again and again, to grow in strength.

But the effort required to hunt the materials was present as well. Canceling it one could say that the Blood Tempering art was a very satisfying art to cultivate in.

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A huge sound of bones cracking and skin being torn apart could be heard, accompanied by the Painful howls of Long Tao.

Long Tao decided in his mind that form now on his schedule would include the cultivation of 12- forging art while simultaneously grinding his soul in the heavenly pestle and hunting beasts for the cultivation of the blood tempering formula.

Long Tao had Long Since understood the idea that only with a great amount of hard work and constant tempering could one be able to meld themselves in becoming the true expert who stood above all.

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Closing his eyes, he immersed himself again into the hellish torture of the forging art. There was no requirement of food to practitioner since they absorbed the natural energies.

The pain was endless but he results obtain at the ned were worth every effort he has put into cultivating this set of art.