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"The preliminary assessment, martial physique must reach the Fifth Rank."

"Assessment time, three years."

"If one fails to reach the Fifth Rank within three years, the assessment is considered a failure."

"Failure means death!"

The cold voice echoed in the secret chamber, and it was a long time before the echoes faded that Li Xiaoyao came back to his senses.

"Assessment? What assessment?"

"What the hell is this place?"

Li Xiaoyao quickly walked up to the stone wall in front of him, staggering his feet half a step apart, tensing his waist, and then his right fist violently struck the stone wall.

"Bang!!!"

This punch, though it hit the stone wall, did not leave even a trace.

Li Xiaoyao furrowed his brows into knots, looking somewhat dispiritedly at his fist.

"This..."

"How has my strength become so weak?"

Li Xiaoyao clenched his fists tightly, trying hard to feel the weakness of his body, which startled him.

The isolated chamber was roughly one hundred square feet, with no gaps on any side.

"Thump!"

The sound of something hitting the floor drew Li Xiaoyao's attention, and he turned his head to see an ancient tome that had, at some unknown time, fallen to the ground.

Looking around vigilantly, Li Xiaoyao tried to summon suction with his hand but was shocked to find that he couldn't mobilize the spiritual power inside his body.

"This!" Li Xiaoyao had a flash of insight and roughly guessed.

"Could it be that in this secret chamber, I am unable to use any cultivation level? Even my Golden Body can't be utilized?"

"I just don't know if the Mysterious System can still be used." Li Xiaoyao immediately connected to the system and, seeing the familiar interface, sighed with relief in his heart.

"The Mysterious System seems unaffected, but the only thing I can use are modern weapons." Li Xiaoyao shook his head, "Without the use of my Golden Body, the strength of my full-force punch is only at the Golden Core Realm level. And with my current privileges, the modern weapons I can purchase are utterly incapable of breaking through the walls of this secret chamber."

"It seems that the only way to escape this damned place is to complete this bizarre assessment."

He walked over, picked up the ancient tome, sat down cross-legged, and began to read slowly.

"The Secret Technique of Martial Physique Cultivation."

These six bold characters were written on the tome.

"What exactly is a martial physique?" While Li Xiaoyao understood the words spoken by that mysterious voice, when the words were strung together, he was completely at a loss.

Not to mention what the assessment was or anything about a Fifth Rank martial physique.

This ancient tome was most likely provided by the person(s) behind the Secret Realm.

Although Li Xiaoyao didn't fully understand the purpose behind the assessment that was set for him, he had no mind to think about it further at the moment.

For him now, the most important thing was to complete the task within the given time and escape from this cursed place.

"The martial physique, primarily focuses on tempering sinews and bones to their peak, where one can break through the void with one's body, shatter mountains and rivers with a palm, and extinguish stars with the flip of a hand."

Just this one sentence made Li Xiaoyao's eyes widen in disbelief.

The martial physique is simply the cultivation of the physical body, this point, Li Xiaoyao understood.

However, the words that followed shocked Li Xiaoyao.

The peak of martial body cultivation possessed such terrifying energy; this description was purely the power of immortals.

"Three years to reach the fifth rank is far too long. I will reach the fifth rank of martial body in a shorter period."

Li Xiaoyao's eyes gleamed with determination; he couldn't wait three years.

He didn't know whether he was the only one trapped, or if others were trapped as well.

If it was the latter, he wasn't as worried, but if he was the only one trapped, that would be terrible.

Having shown such disrespect to Ling Tian, Ling Tian would certainly not let him go, and now, being trapped in the secret realm, while he was powerless to directly harm him, would surely target the people around him.

Li Xiaoyao was afraid; he feared that upon leaving here, he would learn that his friends and family had been killed by Ling Tian.

"Ling Tian, you'd better have been just talking, otherwise, I will cut the flesh and bones off your body bit by bit."

With his eyes filled with a cold murderous intent, Li Xiaoyao muttered to himself, held his breath, concentrated, and quickly flipped through the martial body cultivation secret technique in his hands.

...

"Damn it!" Ling Tian punched the stone wall in anger, causing only a rumbling sound, but not even a mark appeared on the wall.

"I'll just wait here and see how long you can hide!" All those treasures were taken by Li Xiaoyao, and despite Ling Tian coming to the secret realm, he got neither the Zhu Fruits nor the treasures, practically gaining nothing.

Of course, the elders of the ancient sects and leaders of other major powers were in the same situation.

Be it the Zhu fruits or the treasures, Li Xiaoyao had almost monopolized them.

Ling Tian sat cross-legged outside the stone wall, deciding to wait right there. He didn't believe that Li Xiaoyao could stay hidden inside forever.

As time passed by the minute and second, two days had quickly gone by.

In those two days, Li Xiaoyao finally finished reading the entire martial body cultivation technique and began cultivating according to the method described.

This secret technique primarily focused on the physical body, and while the cultivation method was incredibly crude, it was also profoundly mysterious.

Every day Li Xiaoyao would use his body to ram into the stone walls, and after turning bruised all over, he would immediately sit down cross-legged and rotate his spiritual power along the prescribed path of the secret technique.

The material of the stone walls was unknown, extremely tough; every time after crashing into them, Li Xiaoyao's face would be swollen and bruised. Then, gritting his teeth, he would painstakingly fold his legs and force himself into a cultivation state.

In the blink of an eye, twenty days had gone by.

For these twenty days, Li Xiaoyao had been mechanically repeating his cultivation routine.

Having mastered the fasting technique, the absence of food and water posed no problem for him.

His hair grew longer, a layer of stubble formed on his chin, and his clothes had long been torn and tattered, leaving him only in his shorts, bare-chested.

His upper body was covered in scars, but each muscle seemed to contain an incredible amount of energy.

"This martial body cultivation secret technique is truly miraculous. I always thought that even without a Golden Body, my physical cultivation level wouldn't be too bad, but after practicing this technique, I realized how limited my knowledge really was."

Li Xiaoyao shook his head and chuckled wryly at himself. Although his cultivation level was at the fourth rank of the Golden Core Realm, his physical cultivation was nowhere near as strong.

If he were to estimate without the aid of a Golden Body, his physical cultivation would at most be at the Condensation Realm, which is relatively weak.

In just twenty short days, however, Li Xiaoyao's physical body had gone from the Condensation Realm to the Spirit Cultivation Realm, a cultivating speed that was nothing short of miraculous.

"Bang!"

Several massive figures suddenly descended from the sky and landed in the space before him.

Li Xiaoyao had just woken from his cultivation when he saw these huge creatures. He wasn't surprised, stood up, rubbed his fists together until they crackled, and with a grin said, "I've been waiting for you guys for a long time."

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