Chapter 175 - 107: New Year’s Eve, a Dragon Gate Jump, Breaking the 2nd Physical Limit, Bones Like Glaze and Blood Severing Gold

Chapter 175: Chapter 107: New Year’s Eve, a Dragon Gate Jump, Breaking the 2nd Physical Limit, Bones Like Glaze and Blood Severing Gold

"You’re certainly doing your utmost. It’s clear you truly want to secure a future for that boy."

"Using an Earth Treasure to connect with such a great personage..."

"He’s the one who’s profited."

"I’ll handle this matter by going around that old master at the Medicine Shop, so he won’t find out."

"That boy’s character is indeed not bad. I’m quite fond of him myself. But how did he get connected with Fan Nansong..."

"If not for that, I would have really wanted to take him as my personal successor. Alas!"

Hearing this, Huang Xuan just smiled, not replying, and simply bowed low again.

...

「Several days later.」

After securing the Earth Treasure and Secret Martial Art from the Earth Dragon Cave, the weather turned freezing cold, with frosty winds and biting snow. The new year was just around the corner.

Ji Xiu, with nothing else to do, found himself with plenty of free time. He spent his days pouring all his energy into understanding Dao Seals and undergoing Dragon Blood Tempered Bones!

And so, Ji Xiu could be seen in every corner of the residence, constantly in Visualization and deep in comprehension, striving to fully grasp all Eight Hundred Dao Seals recorded in the ’Ten Thousand Laws Dao Seal Visualization Map’.

[Tutor has read through the Dao Seals for Script Recognition and Locket Granting, studying them a hundred times. Their wonders reveal themselves. Repaying advanced progress +6...]

[Tutor has read through the Dao Seals for Script Recognition and Locket Granting, studying them a hundred times. Their wonders reveal themselves. Repaying advanced progress +7...]

The Dao Seals were difficult to understand at first, but the more he studied and the more powerful the Divine Thoughts he condensed, the more his progress soared!

In just a few short days, he had already maxed out the progress bar of eight hundred!

[Ten Thousand Laws Dao Seal Visualization Map (800/800), advance repaid!]

[Breaking through the bottleneck, First Realm Perfection!]

[Current Dao Skill, First Stage: Script Recognition and Locket Granting, mastered!]

[Script Recognition and Locket Granting]

[A Practitioner who reads Dao Seals and condenses a Divine Soul in their Sea of Consciousness can command Talismans, consume Spiritual Qi, and manifest Miracle Skills!]

As he watched Ji Xiu’s Divine Soul grow stronger by the day, Fan Nansong, who was staying by Ji Wei’s side, personally teaching her and preparing to escort the "Little Ancestral Master" back to the Flying Immortal Temple, saw this and his jaw nearly hit the floor.

Back in his day, it had taken him a full three years just to comprehend eighty Dao Seals!

And that was considered above average.

’It’s unbelievable. Just what level of Dao Skill genius is the Ancestral Master’s brother...’

’How does he feel even more like a ’Banished Immortal’ than the Ancestral Master herself!?’

And as his Dao Skill took form and his Divine Soul condensed, Ji Xiu could clearly feel that when he entered a state of epiphany to comprehend the final volume of Mortal Transformation: Soaring Dragon Gate and absorb the Dragon Descendant Blood provided by Bai Shuo, both his progress and his rate of absorption were clearly accelerating.

The proof was in the results: every other day, Bai Shuo would now be unconscious for an entire night.

BOOM, BOOM-BOOM!

「On the eve of the new year.」

In the evening, the sky bloomed like the morning dawn.

Behind the Ji Residence, Ji Wei, dressed in a thick skirt and jacket, excitedly pulled Lin Ruyue along to set off fireworks with Jiang Li, who was leaning against a wall.

Watching the sky glitter with starlight, like the Milky Way pouring down, the fireworks warding off evil...

Leaning against the wall, a nostalgic look appeared in Jiang Li’s eyes.

The simple joys of the mortal world are the most comforting to the human heart.

’How many years has it been since I last saw such a scene?’

「Inside the East Residence.」

Duan Chenzhou and Qin Zhuo sat facing each other. Watching the fireworks that filled the sky, Duan Chenzhou said with a smile, "After we celebrate the new year here at your junior brother’s place, I’ll return to the estate with you to handle some matters."

「At the same time...」

Inside the Ji Residence, Bai Shuo, her face flushed and beaded with sweat, watched Ji Xiu. His eyes were crimson, and he no longer fell unconscious the moment he started cultivating, as he had at the beginning.

She was like a lone skiff in a tempestuous sea, desperately holding on...

[Tutor is consuming Dragon Blood, Quenching the Twenty-four Section Dragon Bone, causing the bones and tendons to radiate a jade-like luster, breaking through the Extreme Realm. Repaying advanced progress +2...]

Four times in a row over several days!

Today... was the last time.

But she felt that the young man before her was as vigorous as a dragon and fierce as a tiger. He showed not the slightest discomfort or impatience from the Dragon Blood entering his Blood Marrow. It seemed he could endure it even better than she, a True Dragon Descendant, could!

This completely defied Bai Shuo’s understanding of common sense. Recalling her miserable experiences of the past few days, she wanted to cry but had no tears left.

’This free blood donation of mine is a total loss!’

’If this kid can’t pay me back in the future, I’ll have suffered a huge loss!’

BANG!

Just then, outside the window, the east wind at night set a thousand trees of flowers ablaze, as fireworks bloomed and fell like rain.

A dull roar, like rolling thunder, resonated outside.

And also... erupted, section by section, from within the young man’s spine with a series of CRACKS!

Bai Shuo had just breathed a sigh of relief when she saw Ji Xiu suddenly stop sucking on her finger.

But as she looked up, she suddenly saw that behind his bare-chested, powerful frame, amidst a series of surging, muffled rumbles, the faint image of a True Dragon was actually taking shape!

RUSH!

His blood surged like a great river, its vapor almost forming a column of smoke!

Ji Xiu’s eyes glinted as he shot to his feet. The bones beneath his skin... were no longer iron, silver, or gold. They were like liuli glass, without a single impurity, non-increasing and non-decreasing, beyond purity and impurity!

Bones like liuli glass, akin to jade!

Then, Ji Xiu lightly lifted a finger and made a small cut.

In an instant!

With a SIZZLE!

A single drop of scalding, golden blood fell and actually corroded a large hole right through the stone floor tile!

Seeing this, she realized it could melt even Red Gold, let alone a person!

Blood-Melting Gold!

[Tutor’s advance for ’Mortal Transformation: Soaring Dragon Gate’ is now at Perfection...]

[Tutor has broken through the body’s Second Great Limit, ’Mercury Blood Silver Marrow’!]

[Tutor has obtained the Trait, ’Dragon Descendant Treasure Bone’!]

The Second Great Limit, a Martial Bone!

On the eve of the new year, it all came to fruition!