Chapter 4: Breaking Through the Angle of Skin

  "Alright, young master!"

  Bu Ruye Lin was there, laughing wildly. Xing Tian helped him prepare the water, bringing it to a boil, and then put everything except for the thousand-year-old ginseng and ten-thousand-year-old He Shou Wu into the water, brewing a medicinal broth.

  "Thank you!"

  As he spoke, Ye Lin quickly took off all his clothes and immersed himself entirely in the scalding medicinal broth.

  A thousand-year-old ginseng participating in a ten-thousand-year-old He Shou Wu, after all, has already reached the quality of being red and is an extreme product. It can't be like those ordinary spiritual medicines that directly come with a hot water bath, which would be a great waste.

  Boiling water will evaporate all the medicinal properties of the elixirs, infusing them into the water, transforming a large bucket of clear water into a murky medicinal broth.

  Ye Lin plunged into it, feeling extremely comfortable. At this moment, in his heart, there was only the pleasure brought by his physical body. He had forgotten everything about Shangguan Wanyi, the Shangguan family, and Ye Zhen.

  The warrior's training was originally meant to put the human body directly into such medicinal water, allowing the newly broken through and internally empty flesh to fully absorb the medicinal effects of the medicinal broth, strengthening the flesh.

  However, this absorption varies from person to person.

  Some people just need a little bit to make their physical body reach saturation, such as Xing Tian with strong bloodline talent.

  But some people, because their innate physique is really too poor, even if they are allowed to soak in medicinal broth every day, their body is just a wooden knot, and they can't absorb it at all, or absorb very little, such as Ye Lin.

  It is true that a person's cultivation and innate talent in blood determine the length of their path forward to a great extent.

  This is also why Ye Lin, as the eldest grandson of the Ye family's direct line, would be ridiculed by his collateral cousins for being too incompetent.

  Everything is respected for its strength, and no one can blame anyone else.

  Ye Lin's innate talent was really too poor, for sixteen whole years, he had been soaking in the medicinal bath for sixteen years and only reached the first rebirth of Tempering Skin Realm, being ridiculed by others, it was purely what he deserved.

  However, even if it's just a little absorption, it's still absorbing, and the comfortable feeling when the flesh is strengthening can't be wrong.

  Moreover, Ye Lin's comprehension is not weak, and it should be said that it is very strong, or even too strong.

  Recognized as the number one of the Ye family, and even recognized as the number one of Yunshui City, for many martial arts techniques, he basically only needs to take a glance at them, and he can master seven or eight out of ten.

  It was precisely because of this that his father would say to him when he was ten years old, "Son, listen to me, innate talent and bloodline cannot decide everything. The deeper you go into martial arts, the more it is the strength of your understanding that decides everything."

  One of them will pass on the "Dragon Elephant Prajna Fist" to him.

  As expected, his comprehension was indeed powerful and did not disappoint his father. In just one month, he broke through the first layer, and with this breakthrough, his physical body also broke through the first heavy heavenly refinement boundary.

  Ever since his father's disappearance, his physical body had not made any progress, and even when he practiced the "Dragon Elephant Prajna Fist", it was only a shell of its former self, lacking in spirit.

  Just thinking about it made Ye Lin even more curious about his own eyes.

  Since it can find treasures and see a fleeting dragon on the horizon, is this its limit?

  Suddenly, he felt that the magical treasure-hunting eyes he had just obtained wouldn't be so simple, otherwise, how could he see the divine dragon flashing by at the horizon?

  He thought, and his gaze wandered far away towards the horizon.

  "Ahhh~~~~~~"

  Suddenly, by the ear, it seemed to have come again, the sound of a dragon's roar. Hurriedly looking around, indeed, in the sky above, a purple divine dragon flashed by once more.

  To be exact, this time, the divine dragon flashed by too quickly, and didn't even leave a shadow that could be seen clearly.

  However, he clearly remembered the size and shape of each scale on Shen Long's body.

  It's really amazing. The dragon's huge body, he can't remember clearly, but the scales on the dragon's body are like carved in his mind.

  "What's going on here?"

  Ye Lin sometimes was a person who liked to dig holes, things he couldn't figure out, he always maintained a strong curiosity, just like now.

  It was precisely because of this that he did not notice the changes in his physical body at all.

  "Master, Master..."

  Ye Lin sank into contemplation, without noticing any changes in his physical body. However, this didn't mean that no one else had noticed.

  Xing Tian remained by Ye Lin's side, anxiously watching the changes in the medicinal broth, although he knew that Ye Lin's bloodline talent was too poor and could hardly absorb much of it. He still hoped that the latter could absorb a bit more, allowing his physical body to break through smoothly.

  But just then, something strange happened.

  Originally, due to the large number of spiritual medicines and their strong effects, the water in the wooden barrel did not show any signs of movement even under the intense heat added by Xing Tian's great strength. Suddenly, however, the entire medicine cauldron started boiling vigorously.

  "What is this???"

  As for this phenomenon, Xing Tian was all too familiar with it. In the past, every time he soaked in the medicinal broth, such a situation would basically occur.

  "It's because the medicine in the medicinal soup is absorbed too quickly that this phenomenon occurs!"

  In the medicinal broth, because there are too many miraculous medicines, even if it is heated with great force and fire, there will be no movement or sound.

  However, if the efficacy of the elixir is absorbed too much by humans, then naturally, the efficacy of the medicinal soup itself will decrease in amplitude, and correspondingly, the medicinal soup will also become clearer.

  In this way, under the strong fire and heat, the water in the medicinal soup that has lost its efficacy will boil up at high temperature.

  But such a phenomenon, appearing on Xing Tian's body is normal, but appearing on Ye Lin's body is basically impossible!

  But what was once impossible has now become reality.

  The reality is that the leaves are soaked in medicinal broth, and the efficacy of the medicine in the broth decreases at a visible rate to the naked eye, while the temperature of the water also rises sharply, and the bubbles become bigger and bigger.

  Young Master!!!!!

  It's too strange, so Jian Tian carefully thought, it's better to wake up Young Master to take a look.

  But this time it was even stranger, no matter how Xing Tian called him, he couldn't wake him up.

  "Never mind, young master's absorption of the medicine has sped up, that's all good things, why should I still worry?"

  Thinking of this, Xing Tian felt at ease.

  But before long, the problem arose again.

  "How did this happen?"

  Because Yelin's absorption speed was too slow in the past, the spiritual medicine would always be wasted in large quantities when heated with great force. As a result, every time Yelin took a medicinal bath, the amount of spiritual medicine used would be several times or even dozens of times more than usual.

  But this time, under Ye Lin's speed of absorption, there wasn't even a bit of waste!

  Why is there a shortage of spiritual medicine?

  To know, this is the share of more than ten people!

  There was no other way, in order to let Yelin break through smoothly, Xingtian gritted his teeth and took out a small medicine cauldron, put the thousand-year-old ginseng into the cauldron, then added a large fire to the cauldron, and simmered the thousand-year-old ginseng into a medicinal broth.

  Looking at the medicinal broth, the water had gradually turned into plain white water, and Ye Lin's physical body only had a few small white spots like fish scales, which was far from reaching the level of having scaly skin.

  Wow!!!!!

  Xing Tian saw this, gritted his teeth, and put all the thousand-year-old ginseng that had been boiled into a pulp into the medicinal broth that was about to become plain water.

  The thousand-year ginseng indeed lives up to its name, with a potent medicinal effect. In less than half an hour, the clear broth-like medicine has thickened again, and is even more dense than before.

  As the medicinal broth thickened, Ye Lin's body grew scales that resembled fish scales, which became larger and more numerous, densely covering his skin.

  However, correspondingly, the scales became more and more numerous, and also bigger and stronger, his physical body's absorption of spiritual medicine was also greater and greater. Even a thousand-year-old ginseng, with its powerful medicinal effect, enough to satisfy the needs of dozens of breakthroughs from the Skin Refining Realm to the Bone Forging Realm, yet it still couldn't satisfy Ye Lin's needs for this one breakthrough.

  "Whoa! This guy, is he going to have a huge outburst today?"

  If this breakthrough method is used in the future, Xing Tian is worried that even the Ye family may not be able to afford his cultivation expenses.

  If it's really like that, what's the use of Young Master having a good cultivation talent?

  As expected, in less than half a time, the rather large medicinal effect of the thousand-year-old ginseng was completely absorbed by Ye Lin.

  "Alright, young master has finally got a chance to break through, no matter what, I will support him."

  As he spoke, his right hand pulled out a small knife, and his left hand grasped the Wàn Nián Hé Shǒu Wū. He gritted his teeth and used his right hand's small knife to slash a wound on the Wàn Nián Hé Shǒu Wū.

  It's a spiritual medicine of the ten-thousand-year grade, which has reached the ultimate level of ordinary goods. All the medicinal effects inside have been condensed into **. Generally, as long as there is a mortal wound, just scratch a small opening and absorb a drop of the liquid, it can cure even the most serious illness.

  However, this time Xing Tian was also ruthless, and he actually dripped three drops of medicine into the medicinal broth used on Ye Lin's body before stopping.

  To know that this is a liquid medicine of the Wan Nian class, one drop can bring people back from the dead, but to regrow bones and flesh is as easy as turning over one's hand.

  But just such a precious liquid, in less than a minute, was actually absorbed by Ye Lin again.

  The problem is that Ye Lin's body is now covered with scaly, horn-like objects on the surface of his skin, like a bottomless pit, which can't satisfy its suction power at all.

  "Alright, I'd like to see how much you can absorb?"

  Xia Tian also went a bit crazy and directly dripped the ten drops of medicine into the medicinal broth.

  To know, generally, a high-grade elixir like this one would have at most twenty or so drops of liquid medicine. And yet, Xing Tian took ten drops, which is half the amount!

  But now, for Ye Lin's breakthrough, Xing Tian can't care about so much anymore.

  "Ahhh~~~~"

  Suddenly, a wave of oppressive energy emanated from Ye Lin's body. The scales on his body flashed with purple light, arranging themselves freely in a dense pattern to form a protective armor.

  "Awesome! Is this really Young Master's Corner of Skin?"

  To know, generally speaking, people who break through the Jia Pi boundary can only show a layer of horn-like substance on their skin at most.

  Even so, that would still greatly increase his defense and strength. Which one would be like Ye Lin, whose entire body was filled with scales?

  What's most important is that even Xing Tian couldn't recognize it - this scale armor transformed from fish scales, what kind of scale was it?

  Of course, if Ye Lin saw the scales on his body now, he would find that they were dragon scales, and they were the same as the purple divine dragon he had seen.

  Not bad, except for the size being different, the number of scales, shape and arrangement are all the same.

  This is the natural transformation of Longxiang Panruoquan when it breaks through the Angle Skin Boundary.