Chapter 94 - 81: Demon Sale in the Mountain Town, a Body of Treasures, 560 Taels, Fish Dragon Transformation Complete, 24-Section Dragon Bone

Chapter 94: Chapter 81: Demon Sale in the Mountain Town, a Body of Treasures, 560 Taels, Fish Dragon Transformation Complete, 24-Section Dragon Bone

She was completely stunned.

"He..."

"What in the world is this ’Bone Tempering Skill’ he’s cultivating!?"

"How can he bear the body of a Silver Bone before even reaching Great Success!?"

No, this was just too absurd.

Ordinary people had to complete all three steps and reach Great Success in Bone Tempering just to support an Iron Bone frame. Only those with excellent foundations and resources could hope to support a Silver Bone, or even a Golden Bone.

But...

When it came to Ji Xiu, the process was completely reversed!

The moment he tempered his Spinal Dragon, he had already forged an Iron Bone body.

And now, the moment his Force entered his marrow...

Setting aside why his Breaking Realm was as easy as splitting bamboo, just look at these bones—why had they turned into a ’Silver Bone’ body??

No, even though she, Cai Ling’Er, cultivated the Jade and Gold Bone Method...

...she couldn’t have supported a body of ’Gold, Silver, and Iron Bones’ before reaching Great Success!

No wonder when they fought, she felt that her Qi and Blood, bones and sinews, and Force were all inferior to his.

So that was the reason!

It would be a miracle if she could beat him. He was practically invincible at the Bone Tempering stage. Unless she could break through her Shackles and advance to ’Mercury Blood Silver Marrow’...

...how could she ever hope to suppress him?

Cai Ling’Er’s head was spinning. As she carefully recalled the day’s events, she felt as if she had fallen into a bottomless pit from which there was no escape.

SPLASH!

Ji Xiu stood up, exhaled a turbid breath, and took the towel Cai Ling’Er was holding to wipe his upper body.

’This maid is good in every way, except she doesn’t know how to serve people. Her worldly knowledge is also pitifully small. All day long, she just wears this constantly shocked expression, like some country bumpkin.’

Ji Xiu wondered to himself, ’This girl can’t be an imposter, can she?’

But looking at her golden-hued skin that seemed ready to break at a puff of air, her Qi and Blood all condensed within her Blood Marrow so her figure wasn’t distorted in the slightest, she was worlds more beautiful than any girl in Anning County...

He thought for a moment. ’Just her looks alone are a feast for the eyes.’

’She might be a bit slow, completely swindled by my bluff, and she’s so stubborn about defending her ’noble lady’ dignity that she voluntarily promised to honor her word.’

’But at least she gave me a Pill and is going to forge a bow for me for free, right?’

’A little clumsiness doesn’t matter.’

’I, Young Master Ji, don’t sweat the small stuff. I don’t care about these things. I should have the magnanimity to tolerate all people, like the ocean accepts a hundred rivers!’

[Mortal Transformation: Soaring Dragon Gate Volume 3 - True Flood Dragon Transformation!]

[Prerequisites: The Spinal Dragon must be in a soaring posture to become ’True Flood Dragon Bone.’ A total of twenty-four sections must be tempered using Demon Pills, Treasure Pills, Earth Treasures... and the like!]

[When the twenty-four sections of the spine are tempered into ’A True Flood Dragon Spine,’ the skill is considered complete!]

Having mastered the Fish Dragon Transformation, Ji Xiu looked at the conditions for the third volume, which would take him to Great Success in Bone Tempering, and clicked his tongue in amazement.

No wonder his Master, Duan Chenzhou, went bankrupt. It had forced him to come to Old Huang’s place to leech off him.

It turned out that during his cultivation of the first two volumes, the supplementary Mountain Ginseng and other materials he used were all top-grade. This had already made his not-so-wealthy family’s situation even worse.

It also explained why today, after he finished refining the Pill, Huang Xuan had looked so pained and miserable while mixing the concoction with Ancient Ape Essence Blood, shocked by his rapid progress...

It made him feel so bad that after forcing three hundred taels on Gu Baichuan, he took two hundred of the remaining two hundred and sixty taels and stuffed them into Huang Xuan’s hands.

He didn’t know if it was enough, though.

But it was no exaggeration to say,

this skeleton of his...

...was enough to bankrupt several Martial Artists at the Peak of Skin Refining. Even a Seventh Grade Pill Master like Pharmacist Huang couldn’t quite bear the cost!

"My god, has it reached the point where my skeleton can no longer absorb ordinary Essence Blood or Heart Blood?"

Ji Xiu reached out and touched the Medicine Tripod, where the medicinal properties still lingered. Seeing no reaction as his body failed to absorb them, he couldn’t help but look pained.

"I have to use ’Demon Pills,’ ’Seventh-Grade Treasure Pills,’ or even legendary ’Earth Treasures’ to temper them. It’s a real money-swallowing beast!"

"If the third volume, ’True Flood Dragon Transformation,’ is like this, then what kind of requirements will the final ’Dragon Gate Jump’ have for cultivating the so-called Mercury Blood Silver Marrow?"

"Don’t tell me I’ll actually have to go and catch a Dragon Species!"

"No wonder Master Duan said this skill ends at the third volume..."

"I just wonder how Old Huang is doing with that ’Qi Dao Demon Pill’ I gave him. If he can incorporate it into a Secret Medicine to temper my spine into ’Twenty-four True Flood Dragon Bones’..."

"In future fights, other people will only have an ordinarily tempered Spinal Dragon, while I’ll have what’s like a True Flood Dragon Spine and a body of Golden Bone. Why would I even need to fight? I could just slap them down one by one!"

As he thought this, Ji Xiu clenched his fist and glanced at Cai Ling’Er, who stood beside him biting her lip with a conflicted expression. He couldn’t help but laugh inwardly.

’This Young Master’s abilities...’

’...this is only the beginning.’

’My only flaw is that I’m expensive!’

’Watch and learn!’