Chapter 168 - 105: 6 Power-Level Styles of Hand, Fist, Palm, Finger, Claw, and Leg, Acquiring 1 Ye Longxiang’s Head

Chapter 168: Chapter 105: 6 Power-Level Styles of Hand, Fist, Palm, Finger, Claw, and Leg, Acquiring 1 Ye Longxiang’s Head

He had no idea that this girl, with her quirky way of thinking, was rapidly growing more fond of him.

She was just pondering how, if she ever divined the location of a dangerous tomb in the future, she would have to drag him along to explore it. That way, they could watch each other’s backs in a life-or-death crisis...

Ji Xiu, meanwhile, bent down to look at the Jade Marrow Cold Lotus, his fingers gently rubbing its dark blue leaves.

"So, this is an ’Earth Treasure’..."

Meanwhile, the Jade-Horned Spirit Deer that had been happily leaping about in the pool saw the stone stele it often rested against shatter, revealing a Treasure Lotus.

Its deer eyes immediately filled with greed. With a SWOOSH, it leaped up, opened its maw, and tried to gobble the whole thing down.

Luckily, Ji Xiu was quick. He slapped the deer across the face, making the Jade Deer whimper as its eyes filled with resentment.

"You greedy little deer. This is good stuff. I’ve heard that a single leaf or lotus seed can heal hidden physical injuries and chronic ailments, even for a Qi Cultivation Grandmaster."

"If you devoured it in one bite, it would be like casting pearls before swine!"

Ji Xiu took a Treasure Box from his robes, carefully dug up the Earth Treasure with its roots intact, and placed it inside, cursing with a smile.

He turned his head to see that Cai Ling’er had already run eagerly to the six stone walls. Her beautiful eyes were shut tight, her Divine Soul radiating outwards as she tried to comprehend the art, looking as if she was betting her entire life on this single moment of intense concentration.

In response, Ji Xiu first put away the Treasure Box containing the Jade Marrow Cold Lotus. He then rose and walked over to the ’Bone Like Glaze’ skeleton. He gazed at the inscription carved on the stone wall—’Ye Longxiang’s Head, left by Ye Wenjiang’—and thought to himself:

’I wonder who this Grandmaster was. To think he would record a Secret Martial Dao, something worth more than gold, deep in this remote mountain forest.’

After a moment’s thought, he dug a pit at the bottom of the now-drained Cold Pool, intending to bury the skeleton. But as he applied a bit of force with his hands...

Immediately, Ji Xiu felt a staggering resistance that sent a jolt of surprise through him.

’Thanks to Miss Bai Shuo casting me with Dragon Blood, I’m already on the path to the Extreme Realm of Mercury Blood Silver Marrow. I can draw a bow of one hundred stones, my Flood Dragon Arms can lift ten thousand pounds, and I’m ferociously strong.’

’Although I don’t have the abilities of a Skin Refining Martial Artist—like projecting Outer Gang to injure people from a distance or wearing an Immortal Robe to create a self-sustaining cycle—my raw strength is not far behind.’

’Even so, with these arms that are like a flood dragon molting into a true dragon, channeling power from my twenty-four semi-draconic vertebrae, I can barely even drag this senior’s remains?’

’Judging by the state of this wilderness, who knows how many years he’s been lying here.’

’To leave behind such a miraculous phenomenon so many years after death...’

’I can’t imagine how powerful this skeleton must have been when he was alive. No wonder it could nurture an Earth Treasure into existence after the flesh had rotted away.’

’His entire body is a Great Medicine...’

A skeleton like this...

If someone with malicious intent were to find it, they could take it back, grind it into a fine powder, and refine it into a Secret Medicine to use for Bone Tempering.

In Ji Xiu’s estimation, it was likely more precious than any Foundation Establishment Treasure Medicine!

But he had already obtained the Earth Treasure and earned the right to comprehend a Secret Martial Dao like ’Ye Longxiang’s Head’. With the moral code from his past life, he had his own bottom line when it came to his pursuit of the Martial Dao. Naturally, he harbored no such evil thoughts.

So, after bowing once in respect,

Ji Xiu’s eyes turned serious. He gathered his strength again, let out a low shout, and pulled with the force of a moving elephant!

The Profound Flood Dragon Tendons coiled around his Dragon Bones, glowing with a brilliant light. He unleashed the strength of his arms, a force of a thousand jun, and with a WHOOSH—

he ripped the skeleton, whose lower half was embedded in the earth, straight out of the ground. Taking one heavy step after another, he dragged it into the pit a few breaths later.

RATTLE...

"Hmm?"

He had just laid the Glazed Jade Bone down.

Ji Xiu looked down and discovered a translucent Jade Pearl, the same color as the skeleton, that seemed to have been clutched tightly in its palm.

He hadn’t noticed it before.

But as he moved the jade frame, the hand had suddenly loosened, causing the ’Jade Pearl’ to fall into the soft soil.

Seeing this, Ji Xiu raised an eyebrow. He bent down, picked it up between two fingers, and wiped away the dirt.

He saw that the small pearl was inscribed with the words ’Sun and Moon’. Despite being decades old, its luster was undiminished, and it glowed with a brilliant light.

"Sun and Moon..."

Ji Xiu lowered his gaze, glancing at Cai Ling’er, who was still deeply immersed, scratching her head in frustration. Then he looked at the Jade Deer, which was circling him pitifully with a look of longing.

He discreetly put away the Sun and Moon Jade Pearl.

At the same time, as he tucked the Jade Pearl close to his body,

Ji Xiu was suddenly inwardly shocked. He felt his Divine Thought—something he thought could only be increased by studying the Dao Seals—begin to grow and ascend, bit by bit, just from wearing this pearl.

’This Sun and Moon Jade Pearl can actually enhance my Dao Skill?’

What a miraculous item! Truly extraordinary!

Previously, thanks to his ’Script Recognition and Locket Granting’ ability and his recent days spent studying the ’Ten Thousand Laws Dao Seal Visualization Map,’ Ji Xiu had already noticed progress. He could clearly sense that in his once ignorant and hazy Divine Palace, his Divine Soul had begun to gather.

Once it fully coalesced, he would gain profound abilities like Introspection, Spiritual Eyes, Stabilizing the Spirit, and Soul Capture. This would mark the Perfection of the First Realm of Daoist Skill: Script Recognition and Locket Granting, the gathering of the Divine Soul!

At that point, not only would his Bone Tempering have reached the point of being impervious to blades and spears, but his Divine Soul would also be able to stabilize his spirit and repel all evil. He would be truly Leakless and without flaw.