Martial Research Master

Chapter 8: THE TRAINING-

Two months later-

A figure was currently dashing through the forest at top speed. It was a boar type beast of 1st level.

These were known for their enormous bodies, thick reinforced skin, and ferocious temper due to which they were able to roam freely without any barriers amid these forests.

They were some of the apex being in the 1st tier demons present in the forest. Although they didn’t infringe humans outside, upon being disturbed, they instantly assume a ferocious stance and attack with the motive to kill.

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Currently, a boar demon was running at a fast speed. If looked at carefully, one could see the fear in his eyes, as if he was running away from something or someone.

Tears could be seen in its eyes. Scars and wounds dripping with blood could be seen covering its whole body. The boar was running away from an enemy, someone /something that was far powerful than it.

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Suddenly someone was in the way of his escape route; it abruptly halted itself. A looked of bewilderment could be seen in its eyes. A black silhouette was standing in front of it, looking at it with the eyes of a predator.

Who else could it be except Long Tao? In these two months that he has started the training in Blood Tempering Formula too, Long Tao would continuously go on to hunt a large number of demon beasts of the 1st level with which he continuously cultivated.

It took him two months to reach the 9th level of 12 Forges art, which amounted to an addition of a tremendous amount of strength to his body. One should have known that Long Tao had far surpassed the body limits of ordinary Foundation experts of the clan when he was just at the 6th level of forging. Hence the current realm of his strength was at an unprecedented scale. He could hunt a vast number of beasts without even feeling fatigued from the exertion of force.

With the addition to the already powerful physique due to the Hell forging art, the Blood Tempering formula, added an endless amount of strength to his body, with the addition of giving his body another massive boost in its abilities as well as some additional benefits.

Long Tao would have already hunted more than 1500-2000 demon beasts of the 1st level. He stopped counting after the mid of the first month because he knew it was useless.

One should know that the practice of Devouring art results in the tempering of the body with the help of essence from demons, to obtain the properties of others, and to add it to one’s benefits.

Long Tao’s senses have grown quite a bit since he last tested. This result was because of his progress in heaven pestle art. Currently, Long Tao has already undergone the grinding for the 4th time.

One could say that Long Tao, although howling in more and more pain, has started to get accustomed to feeling it sooner or later. It has given an enormous boost to not only his soul strength but also tempered his will and strengthened his Dao’s heart.

One should always aim to increase his power and start to gain insights into the higher realms.

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Long Tao finished the fight with boar, he approached its body and was about to lift it. At first, Long Tao could easily hunt beasts one after another, but the monsters soon realized that someone was trying to take their lives and started roaming around in large groups.

Long Tao was not bothered by the fact because this was an even better way for him to train and temper his physique As well as improve the battle instincts.

This solo vs. group battles led Long Tao to gain vast amounts of battle experience and improved his instincts to a considerable extent.

Long Tao had hunted a vast number of beasts, which included boar, bear, jackals, pythons, even poisonous toad, and snakes.

He could devour everything with the help of the blood tempering formula. It was as if the method allowed him the power to gulp everything into himself.

At first, he was scared trying out poisonous demons, and the initial bites have left him paralyzed and on the brink of death, but as he continued to practice the blood tempering formula, faint runes present in his blood started glowing, and the effect of poison started reducing bit by bit. It was soon that the poison soon could even affect him, and his body has already begun to immunize him against the poison of this level. Long Tao had heard that the ability of poison Practioner is quite scary. They use poison to kill their enemies and practice the storing and usage of poison in it.

There was also rumor of there existing a unique body that is immune to poisons called the 100 poisons body.

Wielders of this body were not affected in the slightest by the poison and even could covertly poison into cultivation materials to aid in their practice and strength improvement.

Long Tao has never come across such art, but one thing he can know for sure that the immunity gained by the practice of the blood tempering art was quite good.

Maybe, if he cultivates with a large number of poisonous demons, he would be able to gain this heaven-defying body. Picking up the boar’s body Long Tao proceeded towards his cave.

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It had now become a routine of Long Tao. His clothes were heavily tattered now, and his body has features of barbaric community due to lack of personal grooming on his behalf.

Long Tao passed near a river; he decided to wash himself up, as well as wash the beast of the body because he didn’t want to leave a trace of the path taken by him to reach his cave as he proceeded.

He proceeded, but just as he was going to leave for his cave, he saw a bunch of silhouettes following him.

These were of the same variety as the wolf killed by him for the first time. This situation left Long Tao in the sense of bewilderment.

This number of wolves moving around was a matter of grave concern. Long Tao prepared for combat, as he readied his posture a took an offensive stance. However, Long Tao’s clan had multiple attack arts that can be practiced in the Foundation realm.

Long Tao, after long hours of discussion with his father, already knew that these were just minor forms of attack styles and didn’t hold much of a use.

If one wanted to start practicing real arts, it was possible only after reaching the Qi child realm, only then could one be said to have stepped into the real art of cultivation and understood what Qi was.

So even if Long Tao knew many arts on foundation level due to his previous training in the clan, he didn’t bother to practice them and left the fighting style to be that of brute strength and instincts.

The wolves had surrounded Long Tao as they prepared to attack him. ‘shew’ the wolves sprinted towards Long Tao together to finish their enemy.

Long Tao started bashing his fists and injuring multiple opponents at the same time. But no matter how powerful he was due to the large number in the pack of wolves, he was still wounded with some minor injuries now and then.

The fight continued; a higher number of wolf corpses could be seen lying on the ground, but the attack didn’t end.

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They continued more and more scars started to appear on the body of Long Tao. It could be said that he began to look miserable.

Long Tao started getting severe as this fight prolonged, but the rush in his excitement also grew because this was his hardest battle since he started cultivating.

He was sure after the battle ended, he would be able to practice the blood tempering art for a Long Time, due to the number of slaughtered demons.

It had already been several hours since the fight started; the number of wolf corpses can now be counted up to 1-200.

Even the wolf pack had a look of fear and caution in their eyes. They were slowly retreating due to the ferociousness of the enemy they encountered this time.

It could be said that this time they had kicked a steel plate, but there was no path of retreat now. How could Long Tao give them the chance to retreat and give up on the colossal nourishment in front of his eyes, which could aid in his cultivation for a long time?

Long Tao had long since reached the 5th level of Blood tempering for foundation; these nourishments can sustain him at least till the 8th level.

How could he give up? He started to get more and more frenzy and slaughtered all the wolves present. Some managed to run away. This time was a massive harvest for him.

He started the transportation of these corpses to his cave. Soon nightfall occurred, and most of the battlefield was already cleaned up.

Long Tao soon completed his transportation.

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It was a very tedious day. He instantly started devouring the beast corpses to recover his lost strength. Only after simultaneously eating about 20 bodies and cultivating the blood tempering method was Long Tao finally able to regain all the lost power due to the fight.

After completing a little bit of rest, Long Tao again resumed the Blood Tempering art and soon finished the 6th and 7th level of his Blood tempering art.

The cultivation of Blood Tempering art complemented the 12 Forges of death perfectly, and the corresponding level of one was easy to reach if one has already reached the level of the other skill.

Hence after completing the 7th stage, he decided to retake a short break. Just as Long Tao was about to close his eyes after lying down, he suddenly got a horrible feeling, a sign of evil omen.

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Something was not right. All his instincts were indicating a coming danger to his life. Suddenly the ground shook, and a loud bang could be heard on the walls of the cave, entrance. ‘BOOM’ the cave entrance exploded, as a loud howl was heard. Long Tao was sweating profusely now.

Every pack of the demonic beast seems to have a leader who is more powerful than the rest of the group. The wolf king always heads the wolf pack.

It was a second-grade demonic beast, one that can only be contended by the Practioner of Qi Child realm; it was not something Foundation forging expert could imagine of defeating.

It was said that once one rises to the Qi child realm, they will be able to sense the Qi of the world, absorbing it into their body, strengthening it, and then projecting it out in forms of various art.

Qi was the source of all the power a cultivator willed to project out, and only with the help of that can one cultivator be said to have embarked on the path of cultivation.

Although Long Tao couldn’t sense Qi and store it, the brutal forging art had already exposed him to it. Also, due to the continuous forging and tempering, he was already more potent than foundation forming experts.

Currently, the wolf king was standing before Long Tao, growling with rage. Long Tao knew that today was not going to be peaceful enough for him to be able to relax.

A fight was imminent.