Chapter 218 - 213: Bai You Ruo Arrives at Ganshan City

Chapter 218: Chapter 213: Bai You Ruo Arrives at Ganshan City

Extraordinary Blood Marrow. He had to drink it right away!

He downed another bottle.

In the ice water, his body temperature rose rapidly.

The ice melted, easing the burning sensation.

Once his temperature returned to normal, his body calmed down.

He summoned his Experience Panel to take a look.

[Constitution: 12.30 → 12.51]

It only increased by 0.21.

’Did I build a tolerance to the medicinal effects so quickly?’

No, that wasn’t it.

SPLASH!

He stood up, snatched the towel from the maid’s hand, and wiped himself down haphazardly before heading to the training room to hone his Night Divine Fist.

He went through the various Contemplation Methods, performing the Visualizations over and over.

The residual medicinal energy in his body slowly entered his root marrow as he performed the Visualization movements.

A slight tingling numbness started from his lumbar spine.

The feeling was like having an experienced old physician perform bone-setting and adjustments on you.

It was painful, yet pleasurable.

After honing the Night Divine Fist for dozens of repetitions, the medicinal energy was completely dispersed and absorbed.

The values on his Experience Panel flickered:

[Constitution: 12.51 → 12.56]

[Extraordinary Ability: Dark (Awakening Progress 11.29% → 11.37%)]

The increase in his Constitution was expected.

But the increase in his Dark Ability’s awakening progress was a complete and pleasant surprise.

’The medicinal power of the Extraordinary Blood Marrow can enhance abilities too?’

Hmm.

’Why didn’t Shui Yun and the others ever mention this?’

’On the other hand, that physician from earlier seemed terrified I would damage my root marrow.’

’Could this be the danger of consuming Extraordinary Blood Marrow directly?’

The average Extraordinary doesn’t have such a formidable constitution.

If their bodies can’t rapidly absorb the massive amount of medicinal energy, the violent potency will surge into their root marrow.

The root marrow is as fragile as silken tofu.

Once it’s damaged, it’s incredibly difficult to repair.

This is the main reason why most Martial Artists and Extraordinaries don’t consume Extraordinary Blood Marrow raw.

Some might ask, couldn’t they just take small sips?

The problem is, their bodies don’t absorb the medicinal energy that quickly either.

Even with small sips, a small stream of medicinal energy would still dart through the body, rampaging uncontrollably.

Within minutes, it would follow the blood vessels and travel to where the bone marrow resides.

It would still cause damage, just on a smaller scale.

The damage might be so minor that it goes unnoticed at first.

This could mislead people into thinking they can handle the medicinal power.

As a result, the damage accumulates, eventually leading to irreversible consequences.

Degeneration of one’s Superpower or backlash would be considered light consequences.

More severe outcomes could be paralysis, or even a vegetative state.

Having figured out these key points,

Tang Wen was much more careful when he drank the Blood Marrow again.

Following Shui Yun’s instructions, he only drank one-third of a bottle at a time.

He also waited longer between doses.

This way, his body absorbed it more quickly.

He then used the Night Divine Fist’s series of Contemplation Methods to draw out the remaining medicinal energy and stimulate his root marrow.

This achieved the effect of enhancing his Dark Ability.

Over the course of the day, he had used up one-sixth of the three portions of Blood Marrow that Shui Yun had brought.

One portion of Blood Marrow consisted of ten bottles.

In other words, Tang Wen drank five bottles in one day.

Theoretically, this should have increased his Constitution by 1.5.

However, some of the medicinal energy acted on his root marrow, increasing his ability’s awakening progress.

As a result, his constitution attribute increased by a total of about 1.2.

[Constitution: 13.2]

[Extraordinary Ability: Dark (Awakening Progress 15.10%)]

After drinking the first bottle, his Extraordinary Ability didn’t increase at all.

The second bottle only increased it by 0.08%.

This meant that the medicinal energy from the first bottle was completely absorbed by Tang Wen’s body.

With the second bottle, a small portion was left over, which stimulated his root marrow and affected his Extraordinary Ability.

The third bottle caused an increase of 0.96%, indicating that even more medicinal energy was left over;

and so it went for the fourth and fifth bottles.

In the end, his awakening progress increased by almost four percentage points.

CRACK.

CRASH.

At the dinner table, Tang Wen crushed the large porcelain bowl in his hand, spilling congee all over the floor.

The housekeeper and Liang Yu each grabbed one of his hands and helped him to his feet.

"Are your hands alright?"

"We’ll switch to iron bowls tomorrow!"

A maid came forward to clean up the mess.

Tang Wen shook his head. ’My strength grew too fast; I’ve lost control over it.’

After dinner, he fetched two weapons and went to the garden.

One was a three-hundred-jin heavy blade.

The other was a feather-light bamboo blade.

He lifted the Heavy Blade and, with a SWOOSH, swung it down.

Three thin twigs were severed from the bushes.

Liang Yu and the housekeeper watched with curiosity.

They didn’t understand what he was doing.

Tang Wen shook his head, swung again, and two more twigs fell to the ground.

He sighed.

’With my Expert Level Sword Skill and Control Power, I can’t even manage to cut a single twig anymore?’

SWISH! SWISH! SWISH!

The blade flashed brilliantly.

After a few repetitions of the Wind-breaking Blade, Tang Wen started to get his feel back.

BZZZZZ

A bee flew past in the garden.

Tang Wen’s ears twitched. Pinpointing its location by sound, his blade flashed. With a soft ZING, the bee plunged into a patch of flowers.

Its two translucent wings were carried into the air by a gentle breeze.

Turning around, Tang Wen picked up the Bamboo Blade.

The Bamboo Blade was long and narrow, somewhat resembling a Tang Blade.

But in terms of hardness and material, it couldn’t compare to a Tang Blade.

Its body was just a thin strip of bamboo, and at the edge, the bamboo was as thin as paper.

He slid the Bamboo Blade back into its sheath.

SHING!

He drew the blade.

A piece of a decorative rockery was sliced horizontally and crumbled apart.

The Bamboo Blade also shattered into pieces, like a flurry of dancing butterflies.

"Go get more Bamboo Blades."

A bundle of Bamboo Blades was brought over.

Bamboo Blades were common tools used by sword skill masters to practice their swordsmanship; they weren’t hard to find, nor were they expensive.

Tang Wen spent the better part of the afternoon in the garden.

Finally, with one last strike, the Bamboo Blade left its sheath, and a porous stone was sliced open, the cut surface perfectly smooth.

His control over his strength needed no more practice.

「That night.」

During the first half of the night, he practiced his Stealth Technique, trying to conceal his form while holding larger and larger objects.

During the second half of the night, he continued to drink the Extraordinary Blood Marrow.

He didn’t rest for a moment, not because he was impatient for quick success.

Shui Yun had said that the medicinal power of the Extraordinary Blood Marrow was at its strongest within the first three days after it was extracted.

Pharmacists had conducted many experiments. Regardless of the storage method—be it wax-sealed Jade Bottles, bone containers, or cryogenic sealing—