Chapter 25 - Impenetrable Iron Skin!
After a month, there were still rumors. Even the ancestor of Purple Cauldron Mountain, Xu Mei, the old woman Zhang Fatso One claimed to be his master, had heard about it. At this point, Bai Xiaochun and Zhang Fatso One had no choice but to leave Purple Cauldron Mountain. Following Zhang Fatso One’s suggestion, they went to Third Sister Black to rescue her.
(ED Note: Black Fatso Three has been changed to Third Sister Black after Bai Xiaochun learned of her gender.)
And so, the two headed for Green Peak Mountain.
Black Sister Three had thinned down a bit. It wasn’t very obvious, but her body had started showing some slight curves, which stunned Bai Xiaochun and Zhang Fatso One. At that moment, the duo could barely recognize her. Even that dark face of hers now had some grace to it, if she lost all her fat, Black Sister Three would definitely be a beauty.
Merely hearing the cry of a Spirit Tailed Chicken caused Third Sister Black’s eyes to light up.
From that moment onwards, Green Peak Mountain’s Spirit Tailed Chickens started going missing.
At the moment, the name of the Mad Chicken-Stealing Devil had spread far and wide. All of the outer sect disciple knew about it, even the handymen did.
But before long, just when the elders started taking notice, the great thief suddenly vanished, never appearing again. Black Sister Three and Zhang Fatso One were both recovering, and though they were unable to go back to their former glory, they had grown a lot stronger.
On the other hand, Bai Xiaochun had finally completed the eighty-one day circulation. His hunger wasn’t as intense as before, so the three refrained from stealing any more chickens.
The eighty-one cycles of the Unending Longevity Technique were not completed in one go. Instead, it was accumulated overtime, however, the result was exactly the same.
On that day, Bai Xiaochun’s skin gained a metallic luster as he stood in the courtyard. His eyes burned with tenacity as black light shone from his body, emitting a strong aura.
Eighty-one days of pain, eighty-one days of hunger. At that moment, everything culminated into the birth of an overwhelming power that continuously bursted from within his body.
Each burst held immeasurable vitality that merged with Bai Xiaochun’s skin, enhancing the metallic color and black light. His skin rapidly hardened as the black light increased in intensity.
If an outsider were to see him standing there, he would mistake him for a metal statue instead of a human made of flesh and blood.
By the nineteenth burst, his mind was already trembling, yet the bursts showed no signs of stopping.
Bai Xiaochun didn’t move an inch, barely even breathing. If one were to take a closer look at him, they would discover that his pores were ceaselessly expanding and contracting, condensing the energy of the sky and earth.
“After the eighty-first burst, I’ll have an impenetrable skin. I’ll enter the world of metallic skin!” The formula appeared in his mind as he stared forward. All the efforts during the past year, all the starvation and all the excruciating pain he had endured, all of it was for these final bursts.
FWOOM!
The Qi inside him exploded once more, the metallic color of his skin became deeper as Qi spread to every inch of his body, tempering it in the process.
The Bai Xiaochun now was like a weapon of the gods. The bursts were like the booming strikes of a forging hammer that clanged inside him twenty, thirty, forty, forty-eight times…
Three days had passed. Bai Xiaochun still stood there, the surroundings tranquil and peaceful. The outside was quiet, but in his ears, Bai Xiaochun could hear the roaring thunder-like explosions from inside his body.
When his Qi burst for the forty-ninth time, the force of the impact amplified. His body shook as thin cracks formed on his skin, and it seemed like he was unable to withstand the bursts any longer.
“As expected, an unfortunate situation has arisen…” Bai Xiaochun frowned. He had once read that during the impenetrable-skin-tempering, cracks would inevitably appear. The longer the person could endure the bursts, the stronger the skin would become once the tempering stopped.
Even if Bai Xiaochun didn’t continue struggling, the impenetrable-skin-tempering would still be successful. However, he wanted it to be as perfect as possible. If he could endure a complete eighty-one Qi bursts, the resulting skin would be utterly flawless.
Closing his eyes, Bai Xiaochun continued to endure the bursts as they spread throughout his whole body. Fifty, sixty, seventy… With a single breath, Bai Xiaochun lasted for five more days. At which point, the Qi bursts numbered in the seventies.
The cracks on his skin had spread over his entire body, and a lot of them had even connected in various parts of his body. His body was like a shattered vase glued together.
It seemed as if it could shatter at any tim