After eating and drinking for a while, Zheng-Fu and Hai-Dong dispersed to rest, getting ready to leave for the Artsy Water Sect tomorrow as intended.

Inside Zheng-Fu's room...

[The first stage: the Golden Nascent Soul Armor Stage]

'Swirl the energy throughout the body, merging it into one. Energy is the body; the body is energy.'

'Relax for flexibility. Be strong to resist.'

Thud!!! Thud!!! Thud!!!

'Swirl the energy throughout the body, merging it into one. Energy is the body; the body is energy.'

'Relax for flexibility. Be strong to resist.'

Thud!!! Thud!!! Thud!!!

After returning to his room, Zheng-Fu began to repeat the first stage of the Golden Emperor Armor Body Skill, practicing the technique over and over several times to fully understand it. And every time Zheng-Fu finished reciting, his body changed.

He became stronger with each session of practicing. Earlier, Zheng-Fu had been confident that if he had faced the elementary level of Immortal stage martial master directly, he could only use his body to directly resist attacks without using any energy to support him at all.

But after practicing this skill several times, his senses now told him that even someone at the intermediate level of the Immortal stage would find it difficult to deal with him, even if he did not use any energy or defense.

"I've never thought that the more I cultivate, the more profound its depth becomes. I don't know how much stronger my body will become if I cultivate the second stage, the Golden Immortal Armor." Zheng-Fu was extremely excited as he thought of the success that would come after he achieved the next stage in the cultivation of the Golden Emperor Armor Body Skill.

But after practicing just now, Zheng-Fu felt that the first stage of this body skill had reached a dead end. It could not be developed any further. Zheng-Fu felt very sorry, but he had to give up because it would be a waste of time.

There were still almost two shichens left before the morning came, so Zheng-Fu decided to lie down for a bit. But before going to sleep, Zheng-Fu did not forget to bring out the Immortal Qi energy stone to hold it in his hand, as he did not know what would happen during his sleep.

Flap!!!

Cough!!!

Cough!!!

Whooooosh!!!

'The body as strong as a rock, deep-rooted as a large tree, unshaken by the raging wind, conquering with formidability.'

Huh...?

"The body as strong as a rock, deep-rooted as a large tree, unshaken by the raging wind, conquering with formidability? What's this?" Zheng-Fu muttered while still closing his eyes, wondering about the meaning of these words after hearing the mysterious voice. And all of a sudden, a light flashed.

Whooooosh!!!

'The body as strong as a rock, deep-rooted as a large tree, unshaken by the raging wind, conquering with formidability.'

This time, the mysterious voice that had been heard earlier rang again. Not only the sound but also a light figure sitting in a meditative position. Then, the figure slowly stood up before stopping, like a lifeless person standing still. After a while, a strong gale blew onto the light figure. But that light figure did not move or do anything other than stand firmly against it.

"It's just like this... So it's just like this!" Zheng-Fu suddenly understood something clearly, what the words he heard meant and what action that light figure did. He now understood...

[The second stage: the Golden Immortal Armor Stage]

'The body as strong as a rock, deep-rooted as a large tree, unshaken by the raging wind, conquering with formidability.'

Booooooom!!!

Thud! Thud!

At that moment, after Zheng-Fu adopted the light figure's words and gestures to accordingly practice, the mass of energy and fluctuations in his body suddenly caused a huge change to both his bones and muscles. They were both much stronger and more flexible than before.

But it was not over yet. The light figure that had previously shown Zheng-Fu its gesture and then stopped now started to move again. Along with it, countless other light figures appeared to surround that light figure as they all turned their faces towards that light figure.

'A hundred thousand sharp weapons are not an interception. Just stand firm as real gold; the physical body can change indefinitely, like gold turning from a liquid into a solid.'

Whooooooooooooosh!!!

After the mysterious voice finished speaking, Zheng-Fu did not hesitate, began to memorize the mysterious voice, and immediately followed the light figure with intent and determination. He knew that these contents must be part of the Golden Emperor Armor Body Skill, and so were the previous words.

From what he thought, the previous phrase was probably the second stage of this body skill. As for the phrase he was currently working on, it was probably the third stage. And if he could successfully practice it, then his body would be extremely strong and could withstand attacks from the Immortal Soul martial master with ease. But all of sudden...

Argh!!!

As Zheng-Fu was concentrating on practicing following the light figure, he suddenly spat out a huge mouthful of blood, along with the feeling of pain in the same part of the body where the light figure was slashed by the other surrounding light figures. There were more than ten slashes together at one time.

Aaaah!!! Aaaah!!! Aaaah!!!

The longer it took, the more Zheng-Fu felt the pain and suffering since the surrounding light figures were more than ten thousand. And every time these light figures slashed, more than tens to hundreds of them acted at the same time, causing Zheng-Fu to ache all over.

But even so, Zheng-Fu still would not give up on the idea of practicing at all. He gritted his teeth, steadfastly continuing to practice until a shichen and a half passed.

Hehehe!!!

"Finally succeeded... I have finally accomplished the third stage of cultivation!" Zheng-Fu said happily after he was able to endure the cultivation.

It took him more than one shichen after easily practicing the second stage without any impact. But for the third stage, he had to bear the agony of suffering, which, if it were someone else, would have already given up.

There was only half an hour left before the morning came. He had completed the third stage of the Golden Emperor Armor Body Skill. Zheng-Fu tried to free himself from the mysterious dimension because he thought that the next stage would definitely take more time. Moreover, an idea that popped into his head told him to stop at the third step.

The reason was that his energy level was now still too low to cultivate the Golden Emperor Armor Body Skill in the fourth stage, the Golden Emperor Armor Stage, so Zheng-Fu tried to leave this mysterious dimension first.

Whooooooosh!!!

Phew!!!

After being able to come out, Zheng-Fu let out a long breath, tired and exhausted. His body was now covered with sweat that was drenched from the cultivation just now. Zheng-Fu took off his clothes and went to take a shower and change into a new outfit.

Half an hour had passed...

"Brother Zheng-Fu, are you ready?" Hai-Dong's voice sounded in front of Zheng-Fu's room.

Creeeeak!!!

"I'm ready, Big Brother Hai-Dong," Zheng-Fu opened the door and replied to Hai-Dong softly.

Ah!!!

As soon as Hai-Dong saw Zheng-Fu, his face instantly twitched in shock. At this moment, Zheng-Fu looked very handsome. Whether it was his clothes, face, hair, figure, or skin, it all looked good and matched perfectly.

"Is... is... is this really you?" Hai-Dong said in disbelief in his own eyes, unconsciously asking.

"Why are you asking like that? Well, it's me. Who else could it be?" Zheng-Fu frowned slightly suspiciously at Hai-Dong's question.

"Really? I could not believe my eyes. Yesterday, you still... um... still looked good, but today you look even better than yesterday. Those teenage girls must now be captivated by your charm alone.

That's bad for me!" Hai-Dong said, envious of Zheng-Fu's figure but also glad and proud that he had such a good-looking and talented little brother.

"Brother, you're complimenting me too much. How can I be cooler and better looking than Big Brother?" Zheng-Fu said humbly before praising Hai-Dong back.

Ha ha ha!!!

"Well, could say that we both look so cool... but let's talk about this later. Now we have to leave hurriedly because the beast of burden that will take us to the Artsy Water Sect has arrived," Hai-Dong turned a little more serious before taking Zheng-Fu back onto the deck and disembarking from the boat to the monster beast of burden boarding point for traveling to the Artsy Water Sect.

The place was not very far from the harbor. Most of the Artsy Water Sect's disciples who would travel to the sect would come to this point, where this monster beast of burden would come here to pick them up to return to the sect every three days, and today, it had already completed three days of it.

"Brother Zheng-Fu, you don't have to worry. I'll say to Elder, who controlled the monster beast of burden, for you to go up with us because you have a business with Supreme Elder," Hai-Dong suddenly realized that other than the disciples of the sect, outsiders were absolutely forbidden to mount this monster beast.

Therefore, he thought that he had to inform the Elder in charge of controlling the monster beast and turned to tell Zheng-Fu.

"Thank you so much, big brother," Zheng-Fu did not think much about it and thought it had to be like this, so he just thanked Hai-Dong and followed him.

'Now I can achieve the third stage of the Golden Emperor Armor Body Skill: the Golden Immortal Soul Armor Stage, so my body will be able to withstand attacks from the intermediate level of Immortal Soul martial master without having to use any body-protecting energy, right?' Zheng-Fu thought in his mind. He was so excited about the results he had achieved.

The success he had achieved from the third stage of the Golden Emperor Armor Body Skill also made him much stronger than those Immortal Soul martial masters, although he was already stronger than them previously. But now, even if he were assassinated or surrounded by a large number of high-level Immortal Soul martial masters, he could be sure that those martial masters could not easily hurt him.

Huh...?

"Is that Senior Hai-Dong? Then who is that young man, and why is he so handsome like that?"

"What? Where? Who's handsome? Wooooow!!! He's really handsome!!! Much more handsome than Senior Hai-Dong!"

"That's true, both smart and good-looking. His skin is not bad. Owwww... I'd indeed like to catch him to sail the barque with me!!!"

The chatter of the group of pretty young women rang out as they saw Zheng-Fu walking with Hai-Dong. They were also the Artsy Water Sect's disciples, so they were already familiar with Hai-Dong's face, but as for Zheng-Fu, they had never seen him before, so they naturally had strange new sensations when they saw a young man who was young and smart and very good-looking...

Ahem!

"I don't see anyone who looks good... Just normal, just common in general!"

Huh...?

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