Daily Evolution from Mastering Tai Chi-Chapter 128: Golden Bell Shield Lv4, Gold Patterns on the Flesh
After returning to the hotel room, Wang Ye noticed it was still early.
So he started practicing the Golden Bell Shield on the balcony.
He planned to attempt to break through to the next level of the Golden Bell Shield tonight.
If he didn’t, once he set off on his hiking journey, it might be difficult to find another opportunity for Golden Bell Shield training.
Wang Ye took a hammer out of the drawer.
According to the training rules of the Golden Bell Shield, he began to strike and temper various parts of his body.
Although this small hammer no longer caused him much harm, for now, he didn’t have any better tempering methods, so he had to apply more force with the small hammer onto his body.
With great effort, Wang Ye hammered for half an hour, barely leaving a uniform spread of bruises on his body.
After completing the tempering, he immediately took off his clothes and entered the bathtub to speed up recovery.
The intense sensation swept over his entire skin in an instant,
The deep red liquid at over 50 degrees continuously stimulated his wounds, promoting his recovery.
The medicinal bath of the Golden Bell Shield multiplied his already extraordinary recovery ability by two.
Therefore, he only soaked in the medicinal bath for forty minutes before the bruises on his body gradually healed. However, the injuries to bones and fascia didn’t recover as quickly, leaving many parts still with a faint ache.
Wang Ye brought up the panel to check the skill level of the Golden Bell Shield.
[Golden Bell Shield lv3 (91.23%)]
"Just ten percent more, one more session and it might level up," Wang Ye didn’t hesitate, immediately jumped out of the bathtub, and picked up the hammer to continue hammering his body.
Since his rest in the medicinal bath was short, the liquid didn’t seep into bones and fascia for a reparative effect.
Thus, Wang Ye found this round of training exceedingly painful. Especially when hammering on the bones, he even felt as if his bones would be dented.
Wang Ye endured the severe pain, training for forty to fifty minutes.
Finally completing the training session.
Although the effect wasn’t great.
At least the skill level was almost full.
Wang Ye took off his clothes and entered the bathtub again.
In an instant.
The excruciating pain swept over his body.
But this time, Wang Ye sensed a feeling beyond the pain.
He felt his skin suddenly becoming extremely taut, while his bones tingled pleasantly, and all his muscle fibers twitched like motors, causing him to spasm uncontrollably. His stomach, which was initially about eighty percent full, gradually emptied to about forty percent full, and a strong sense of dizziness surged to his head.
"This is... the system creating a breakthrough opportunity for me!"
Wang Ye instantly realized this, hurriedly tearing open the pre-prepared energy gels and squeezing them into his mouth.
The acidic sweetness slid down his throat, converting into sugar to replenish his energy consumption.
Wang Ye finished about fifteen energy gels, consuming six to seven thousand calories.
Then he closed his eyes, leaning against the edge of the bathtub, adjusting his posture to the most comfortable one to prepare for the upcoming breakthrough.
[You took a medicinal bath; the stimulated damaged areas resulted in a 3.0% increase in Golden Bell Shield skill level.]
[Your Golden Bell Shield skill level is full, leveling up from lv3 to lv4.]
[Golden Bell Shield lv4 (0.5%)]
In that instant.
Wang Ye suddenly felt his skin and muscles undergo extreme twisting and compression.
The twitching of muscle fibers gradually ceased. Instead, they began condensing rapidly, becoming robust.
His body was like a freshly forged piece of iron, undergoing constant hammering.
Numerous impurities were pounded out, making his body increasingly tough and hard.
The feeling was quite peculiar, similar to excretion, but countless times more refreshing.
After an unknown time had passed.
Wang Ye slowly opened his eyes.
At the moment of opening his eyes, he felt as if his body had been reborn.
Not only had his skin, bones, and fascia been strengthened.
Even his internal organs seemed to be covered with a layer of elastic membrane.
An ordinary person’s full-force punch to his internal organs might not cause him any harm.
Even parts like his eyes, Adam’s apple, and genitals experienced some degree of strengthening.
Though not invincible, when slightly bumped, they wouldn’t trigger noticeable pain anymore.
Wang Ye slowly lowered his head and was about to examine the changes in his body, when he was shocked to find that the once-overflowing dark red liquid in the bathtub had turned ink black, with a thick layer of unknown sediment at the bottom.
"Was this polluted by my metabolic waste?"
Feeling a wave of nausea, Wang Ye immediately scrambled out, drained the bathtub, and flushed the residue down the drain.
He even used the shower to rinse off the bathtub’s remaining black dirt.
After cleaning, Wang Ye approached the mirror.
He wiped the foggy mirror with a towel.
But at the instant he saw his body, Wang Ye’s pupils suddenly constricted.
He discovered a transformative change in the texture of his muscles.
Previously, his muscles had the smooth and sleek texture of steel, exuding a sense of speed and explosiveness like a beast.
However, after the Golden Bell Shield leveled up, his muscles transformed into a texture resembling coarse rock, with ferocious muscle fibers seemingly ready to burst through the skin, giving a violent and indestructible appearance.
But what surprised Wang Ye the most was the presence of faint golden lines emerging on his skin. At first glance, these lines resembled the reliefs on ancient tripods, possessing a rich classical aura.
Yet Wang Ye knows that these faint golden lines actually cover areas primarily tempered by the Golden Bell Shield technique. The bones, fascia, and muscles in these areas underwent countless cycles of hammering and healing, leading to abnormal growths which made his skin appear raised in lines. Plus, due to the frequent blood oozing during training, without timely cleansing, the blood blended like tattoo ink into the dermis, merging with his yellowish skin to produce a light gold color resembling the reliefs on ancient tripods.
Wang Ye tried knocking these faint golden lines on his body with a hammer. The sound was akin to metal striking metal.
"Have I truly evolved into the Golden Bell Shield...?"
Wang Ye couldn’t help but reveal an astonished expression.
After testing his body’s sturdiness, Wang Ye went downstairs and spent five hundred yuan on a late-night snack to replenish what he had used for the upgrade.
After eating, Wang Ye suddenly felt a wave of fatigue wash over his brain.
He immediately returned to the hotel and fell asleep upon lying down in bed.
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The next day.
After morning exercise and returning to the hotel, Wang Ye received a delivery of outdoor hiking gear that he ordered online the previous day.
