The gravity continued to pressure the brown layer and finally reduced it to less than a centimeter thick.
The moment this happened, all of the medicinal properties of the earth attribute herbs were consumed and a rumbling sound spread in all his body. His muscles and skin stiffened as the brown layer started to attach to them.
It now formed a skin-tight bond and looked completely like a part of Lin Mu's body. It no longer had any patterns like an armor, and had returned to a very simple form. If one were to look at it when the armor was activated, they would think that it was just some low leveled defensive technique.
But in reality, this thin looking armor was strong enough to take the blows of a Nascent Soul realm cultivator now. Lin Mu had now successfully reached the fifth level of the Mortal Strengthening scripture and had done something very few people had accomplished.
