Sixty-nine skin stones

  "Which school of magic should I cultivate next?"

  Ye Chen fell into deep thought after completing his training in Flame Orb Seal and Wind Control Seal.

  He now has six law seals: 'stone skin', 'entanglement', 'water arrow', 'thunder strike', 'golden bell cover' and 'ice cone'. He also has a 'wind blade' secret book obtained from Zheng Zhicheng, which he has not yet cultivated.

  During the Qi-refining stage, cultivators can only cultivate minor magic techniques. The types of minor magic techniques sold at street stalls in the Immortal City are far from being just these; commonly seen ones number in the hundreds or thousands. If one also counts the secret manuals of various major merchant guilds, the quantity is even more enormous.

  Most cultivators in the Qi Refining stage have limited time and energy, so they can only choose a few minor spells to cultivate.

  "I have already mastered one attacking spell and one speed spell. Currently, I still lack a defensive spell, which needs to be supplemented. Stone Skin and Golden Bell Shield are both defensive spells. Stone Skin directly transforms the skin into stone armor, while Golden Bell Shield adds an extra layer of defensive magic shield outside the body. These two spells have their own advantages and disadvantages."

  Ye Chen thought for a long time.

  "Learn the skin of stone!"

  Ye Chen made a decision and immediately began to cultivate his third law seal, 'Stone Skin Law Seal'.

  Ye Chen's primordial spirit emitted a divine sense, triggering the Stone Skin Technique seal.

  Ye Chen clearly saw that a faint yellow glow appeared on the palm of his right hand, covering his skin. Immediately afterwards, the outer layer of skin on his palm gradually began to petrify, turning into a layer of stone armor.

  It's probably because I just started learning, this layer of stone skin is extremely weak. The yellow light began to spread along my arm, extending and covering my chest, left arm, legs, and finally covering every part of my body before disappearing.

  However, petrification solidifies the skin, and it can't be seen on the surface. Unlike golden bell cover, it doesn't have an obvious glow.

  Ye Chen clenched his fist, which was covered with a layer of stone armor, and punched the giant tree beside him.

  Bang! A fist-sized hole appeared on the giant tree, half a foot deep.

  Ye Chen pulled out his fist, looking shocked.

  He punched the tree with a heavy fist, and normally he should have felt some slight recoil. But after adding this layer of stone skin, he didn't feel any recoil at all.

  "Gained an extra layer of stone skin, significantly weakening the damage it receives!"

  Ye Chen found a sturdy tree and began to fiercely punch it with his fists, using all his strength, starting his crazy training.

  After dozens of punches, the thin stone skin on Ye Chen's body began to shatter, and he started to feel a sharp pain from the heavy punches hitting the giant tree, with faint blood seeping out. He began to kick with his legs and crash his body until his entire stone skin shattered.

  That feeling of shattered stone skin is like tearing one's own skin, producing intense agony.

  After his entire body's stone skin shattered, Ye Chen immediately added another layer of stone skin to himself and continued to cultivate. Every time a layer of stone skin shattered, after reapplying it, the stone skin would become even harder.

  Such high-intensity training requires extremely strong willpower to support it.

  Such a cultivation lasted for several days. Ye Chen looked at the Stone Skin Scripture and was delighted to find that more than 100 characters of the Stone Skin Scripture had all lit up.

  Ye Chen punched the Xuan Tie Dao Ling instrument with his fist, leaving a blood mark several inches long on his fist. "Skin like stone armor can greatly weaken damage. The defensive power of stone skin is almost comparable to that of low-grade Ling armor. Such defensive power is already quite astonishing."

  Ye Chen summoned a fireball in his hand, but instead of throwing it out, he directly detonated it beside himself.

  Boom!

  A small fireball exploded fiercely, and a raging flame burst forth.

  Ye Chen was blown several meters away by the fireball, rolling on the grass before jumping up. His body was boiling with energy, his stone skin shattered but he was unharmed. The stone skin had withstood the explosion and flames.

  "After being covered with a layer of stone skin, it can withstand the explosion and burning power of the next fireball spell!"

  Ye Chen clenched his fists, and a sharp glint flashed across his eyes. A yellow light flashed on his body, and a layer of stone skin covered him again.

  "This also means that with this layer of stone skin, it's almost enough to withstand a single earth arrow from the Yao Hao Zhu. Now go and kill the Yao Hao Zhu, let's see if you can handle a first-rate demon beast!"

  Ye Chen performed the Wind Control Technique and flew into the dense forest of hogweed.

  The wild boar has a strong sense of territory, occupying a relatively fixed activity area as its hunting ground. As long as it does not enter the wild boar's territory, the wild boar will not run around randomly. In a forest, it is easier to find the wild boar.

  Ye Chen suddenly stopped, he saw a sturdy and powerful boar in the forest ahead, rooting around the base of a tree with its snout.

  "Thirty zhang away!"

  Whoosh!

  Ye Chen used his Wind Blade Technique and suddenly charged towards that demonic boar, instantly covering a distance of ten zhang.

  "Still twenty zhang away!"

  The fierce boar suddenly discovered a figure with killing intent rushing towards it, and it let out an angry roar. A yellow light flashed on its back as a mud arrow shot towards Ye Chen. Then, baring its tusks, it charged wildly at Ye Chen.

  Ye Chen's figure flashed in mid-air, and the powerful earth arrow collided with his arm. The power of this earth arrow was originally enough to pierce through his arm. However, the earth arrow hit his arm and was bounced off by his hard stone skin, shooting into a giant tree on the side with a "pu" sound.

  The stone skin on Ye Chen's arm was completely shattered.

  "Ah!"

  Ye Chen endured the stinging pain in his arm and charged forward at full speed.

  "Ten Jins......!"

  Ye Chen suddenly charged into the ten-zhang range of the demonic boar, waved his hand, and instantly a palm-sized fireball shot out, blasting towards the demonic boar that was charging forward.

  The wild boar saw the fireball coming at him and suddenly darted to the left and right, dodging the fireball.

  But at such a close distance, Ye Chen's fireball controlled by his divine sense had an extremely high accuracy, how could it be easily dodged?

  "Boom!"

  The demonic boar let out a miserable cry as it was struck head-on by the fireball, its entire body sent flying by the massive explosive force. The demonic boar's skin had an extremely strong defensive power from birth, and even a fireball couldn't blast open its skin.

  "Die!"

  Ye Chen had swiftly charged into close range of the Half-Airborne Demonic Boar, letting out a fierce whistle as he launched a stone fist at its abdomen.

  The hardest part of the razorback is its back, which also has sharp quills. Even higher-level beasts won't dare to collide with its back. However, a small area on its abdomen has no quills and is the most vulnerable place on its body.

  Bang! Bang!...!

  Ye Chen's thousand-pound fist slammed wildly into the abdomen of the demon warthog, its crazy force exploding like a bomb inside the demon warthog's body.

  The wild boar was thrown out several meters away, crashing into a tree with a loud thud, falling to the ground, mouth full of blood, severely injured in the abdomen, and struggling to get up on its four limbs. However, after struggling several times, it still couldn't get up.

  Ye Chen stopped, his eyes fixed on the heavily injured Yao Hao Zhu, panting heavily. This was a fierce and intense battle, without any fancy moves, a head-on confrontation in which he defeated a Yao Hao Zhu with strength equivalent to that of a three-layer Qi Refining cultivator!

  "Wild Boar!"

  "Did you kill a giant boar?!"

  Whoosh! Whoosh!

  Wu Rong and Yuan Hong, two Taoist cultivators, appeared in the thicket, took a look at the demon warthog that had fallen to the ground, and were shocked into speechlessness.

  The two of them couldn't understand how Ye Chen did it, and they were consumed by jealousy. For over ten days, they had each tried their best to hunt down the demonic boar, but none of them succeeded.