Chapter 6: Seven Sounds

  "Hmm..."

  In the room, when Lin Dong opened his eyes in a daze, the sunlight had already poured onto his face. He stared at the sunlight shining into the room and suddenly sprang up from bed with a fish-like movement. Just as he was about to lift his foot, an extremely sour pain suddenly appeared in his body, almost causing Lin Dong's legs to bend and fall to the ground.

  "This..."

  The sudden soreness left Lin Dong with a stunned expression, the feeling was as if he had been training intensively for an entire night.

  "Isn't that just a dream?!"

  Suddenly, Lin Dong seemed to have thought of something, a look of shock appeared on his face, and then he gritted his teeth and propped himself up, the posture of Tongbei Fist was extremely familiar, as if it had been tempered countless times. However, only he himself knew that he had just learned this set of fist techniques from Lin Xiao yesterday.

  In the room, the young man's face was solemn, and a set of fist techniques were skillfully displayed in his hands. Immediately afterwards, the slapping sound caused by the friction between his arms and sleeves echoed loudly.

  "Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"

  When a set of punches produced five crisp sounds, Lin Dong's body came to a stop, his face filled with a strange color, some shock, some madness, and a little fear.

  "How can you cultivate so quickly..."

  Lin Dong gazed at his palms, muttering to himself. He could feel it - the Fifth Resonance might not be his current limit after all. If he wanted to, reaching the Seventh Resonance wouldn't be a difficult task!

  This speed made Lin Dong feel unbelievable. In the younger generation of the Lin family, there were not a few who practiced Tongbei Fist, but to be able to cultivate it to the seventh resonance at this age was probably extremely rare.

  "What's going on here?"

  Lin's eyebrows moved, his brow furrowed in thought for a moment, then his palm suddenly touched his chest, taking out the mysterious stone symbol that had been placed in the pocket of his inner garment. This was something he had obtained from the mountain cave yesterday.

  If there's anything suspicious about Lin Dong, then this stone symbol would definitely be number one.

  "Is this thing really that amazing?"

  Lin Dong grasped the stone token, a faintly cool sensation spreading from his palm, and under that coolness, even the soreness in his body seemed to have eased slightly.

  Suppressing the emotional fluctuations in his heart, Lin Dong carefully put away the stone symbol again. He could vaguely feel that this stone symbol was extraordinary. If this news got out, it would likely cause no small trouble. So, it's better not to let a second person know about this thing.

  Put away the stone token, Lin Dong immediately pushed open the door and exited. First, he casually ate some of the breakfast that Liu Yan had prepared, then in a flash, he dashed into the mountain cave. Now his body was sore all over, if he continued to cultivate intensely, it would likely cause injury. Fortunately, this situation didn't pose much trouble for Lin Dong, who had discovered the wonderful use of the stone pool.

  Blood dripped into the stone pool, Lin Dong comfortably soaked for half an hour before crawling out, not only did the acid pain in his body disappear, but his state also seemed to have recovered to its best stage.

  He touched the skin on his body, and that hard feeling became even more pronounced. This also brought a smile to Lin Dong's face. At this speed, it was likely that within ten days or so, he would be able to officially enter the fourth seal of Body Tempering!

  He crawled out of the stone pool and Lin Dong once again threw a set of Through-Back Fists, this time he was almost using his full strength, without any reservation.

  "Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"

  Seven sounds!

  His fists stopped, Lin's small face flushed with excitement. With these seven consecutive backfist punches, he had the confidence that if he were to meet Lin Shan again, he would absolutely not be beaten as badly as last time!

  After getting excited for a while, Lin Dong finally calmed down, hehe smiled foolishly, and then crawled out of the cave to continue his daily bitter cultivation. Although he now possessed the divine effect of the stone pool, Lin Dong understood a simple truth.

  The most important thing in the path of cultivation is actually oneself. Although external forces can make one's cultivation path smoother, it ultimately depends on oneself how far one wants to go on the path of cultivation.

  So, just because of Shi Chi, one cannot give up that kind of effort and diligence. After all, that is Lin Dong's greatest wealth.

  …

  One day of bitter practice, at dusk, Lin Xiao, with a serious face, also came to inspect Lin Dong's cultivation. As for the latter's cultivation, he had always been very strict and harsh.

  However, when Lin Dong's set of Tongbei Fist came down and actually produced three sonic booms, even if he had deliberately maintained his composure, the relaxed and open eyebrows still revealed the surprise and satisfaction in his heart.

  Seeing this scene, Lin Dong also let out a sigh of relief in his heart and secretly laughed to himself. If Lin Xiao knew that he could now actually strike the Seven Sounds of the Back with the Tongbei Fist, what would his face look like?

  …

  Sweltering summer days, the whole summer, the younger generation of the Lin family were all working hard to cultivate themselves, because they all understood that half a year later would be the Lin family's clan comparison. This clan comparison had an extremely important role for them.

  The Lin family was not a powerful and prestigious clan, so it was impossible for every member to receive the best treatment. If one wanted to receive the best spiritual medicine and martial arts training in the family, they had to show their uniqueness.

  And this so-called tribal comparison is a competitive stage for them to stand out, which may be the first formal competition in their lives, but in some sense, it also determines their future achievements.

  A person who is nurtured by a family will always have an easier time than one who relies solely on self-cultivation, of course, with some special exceptions.

  As they were all busy preparing for the tribal comparison, there was no one to disturb Lin Dong during this period. He was happy to be quiet and within ten days of getting the mysterious stone symbol, he almost entered that dark space every night after falling asleep, where there was a "teacher" perfect to the extreme.

  The nine reverberations of Tong Bei Quan, the more you go back, the harder it is to practice. Especially after the seventh reverberation, the difficulty increases exponentially. Even if Lin Dong had practiced bitterly for ten days, he could only barely produce the ninth reverberation, and that was still dependent on his state. As for the so-called tenth reverberation, he couldn't even touch the slightest hint of it.

  However, Lin Dong did not feel discouraged about this, because he was very clear in his heart that being able to cultivate the Nine Sounds of Thunder within ten days was a terrifying speed.

  This can be seen from the fact that Lin Xiao only made six moves when he usually tested Lin Dong's progress, and Lin Xiao's gaze at him was a bit strange. He had practiced Tongbei Quan for two months before reaching the level of six moves, but Lin Dong had reached it in just ten days. This speed left even the strict Lin Xiao speechless.

  While practicing Tongbei Fist, Lin Dong's physical refinement did not stop. Instead, relying on the extraordinary effects of the stone pool, he secretly increased the intensity of the training course set by Lin Xiao several times. As a result, although he was like a dead dog every time he entered the stone pool, after half an hour, when he crawled out, he immediately became spirited and refreshed, and the soreness in his muscles disappeared completely.

  After such ascetic practices, although it was arduous and exhausting, the effect was extremely remarkable. In just a few days, his skin became increasingly tough, sometimes even able to punch stone directly with his fists, and when he executed the Tongbei Fist, the force behind it increased by more than half.

  At this speed, I should be able to reach the fourth stage of Tempering Body soon...

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