I Can Merge Techniques-Chapter 91 - 90: 20 Days of Arduous Training, Astonishing Gains

Chapter 91: Chapter 90: 20 Days of Arduous Training, Astonishing Gains

The term "burning" was no exaggeration.

The Realm of Bone Marrow Forging used one’s Qi Blood Power as a flame to temper the tendons and fascia throughout the body.

The goal was to attain a state of gnarled, powerful muscles and Qi Blood as mighty as an elephant’s.

During cultivation, one had to convert their condensed Qi Blood Power into kindling. This would ignite an intangible, true flame to forge the major tendons of the body, making them as hard as steel and as resilient as a bowstring.

Strong tendons unify one’s strength.

Only then could one’s power flow from the entire body, gathering all their strength to a single point to erupt in an instant, allowing them to lift the heavy as if it were light!

Once one broke through to the Bone Marrow Forging Realm, stopping a rampaging steed with one’s bare hands would be child’s play!

A casual kick could shatter the ground for yards around!

Besides taking the Leopard Embryo Muscle-Enhancing Pill and undergoing the medicinal bath daily, one also needed to arduously cultivate the Soft Skills Twelve Techniques from the Twelve Forms Fist.

These twelve techniques were originally the foundation-building exercises of the Twelve Forms Fist. In the Blood Nourishing and Blood Refining stages, one only needed to practice them slightly.

But to break into the Bone Marrow Forging Realm, they became critically important, requiring one to spend many hours practicing them repeatedly each day.

The Soft Skills Twelve Techniques didn’t circulate Qi Blood Power. Instead, they required the practitioner to assume a variety of extremely contorted and stretched positions, then use their Qi Blood Power to assault the tendon channels throughout their body.

The process was excruciating, like being subjected to brutal torture. This was the "forging" in Bone Marrow Forging.

However, no matter how agonizing the Soft Skills Twelve Techniques were, how could they compare to the pain of the Bone Marrow Forging medicinal bath?

The Blood Refining process was said to feel like being seared by fire.

But compared to the "fire of Bone Marrow Forging," it was but a firefly to the bright moon!

Moreover, the medicinal baths for breaking into the Blood Refining Realm were taken once every three days.

But the medicinal baths for breaking into the Bone Marrow Forging Realm were taken once every single day!

Chu Fan sat upright in the medicinal tub, feeling as if his entire body was being roasted by a true flame, as if he would be burned to ashes in the next moment!

This agony had to be endured for over an hour straight!

For twenty days, without a single break!

Chu Fan’s face twisted slightly. With a thought, he looked at the panel in his consciousness, trying to distract himself...

[Spiritual Essence: 928]

[Pollution Level: 1/100]

[Technique: Firewood Splitting Saber Technique (Second Limit Break 5899/6000) (Traits: Saber Swift as Wind, Saber Heavy as a Mountain)]

[Technique: Twelve Forms Fist (First Limit Break 2810/3000) (Trait: Vajra Iron Fist)]

[Technique: Running Technique (First Limit Break 2920/3000) (Trait: Wind under the Feet)]

[Technique: Nine Blood Soul Blades (Great Success) Progress: (541/600) (Trait: None)]

[Technique: Ghost Shadow Illusionary Body Step (Small Success) Progress: (267/600) (Trait: None)]

[Technique: Extreme Night Cold Prison Hand (Small Success) Progress: (251/300) (Trait: None)]

...

His progress in Bone Marrow Forging was actually faster than his progress in Blood Refining had been.

If outsiders knew of this, they would surely find it hard to believe.

When he first discovered his rapid progress in Bone Marrow Forging, Chu Fan himself was puzzled and had specifically asked Master Cao about it.

Only then did he learn that Zhao Tianxing’s half-root of wild mountain ginseng and the "great medicine" from Master Cao had caused him to undergo a complete Rebirth...

It was precisely because of this that his speed in Bone Marrow Forging could surpass his speed in Blood Refining.

Ordinary people’s cultivation followed a sequence: first Blood Nourishing, then Blood Refining, followed by Bone Marrow Forging and Bone Tempering, and finally Entering Force.

But that half-root of wild mountain ginseng, plus the "great medicine" gifted by Master Cao, had a majestic and vast medicinal power that scoured his physique and tempered his tendons and bones.

It had caused his tendon and bone strength to surpass Zhao Tianxing’s in a short period of time!

Chu Fan felt a little guilty receiving such benefits for nothing. After all, Tianxing still hadn’t brought himself to consume his remaining half of the ginseng root.

Since starting the daily Bone Marrow Forging, whether it was the Leopard Embryo Muscle-Enhancing Pills or the medicinal baths, Chu Fan had pushed himself to the absolute limit.

Money, on the other hand, was not a concern.

After joining the Seven Stars Gang, ordinary disciples all needed to hustle for missions to earn silver coins.

But when Chu Fan had wiped out the Huang Family, he had plundered a large chest of gold bars and silver notes. For the time being, he had no need to even consider doing missions, so he spent all his time on cultivation.

In just twenty days, he was on the verge of breaking through the Bone Marrow Forging Realm!

Because of this rapid progress, he had focused most of his energy on breaking into the Bone Marrow Forging Realm during this period, and the cultivation of his other Martial Arts had inevitably slowed down a bit.

However, after twenty days of arduous training, the gains were still astonishing!

His Firewood Splitting Saber Technique was just a hair’s breadth away from its Third Limit Break;

His Running Technique was also about to reach its Second Limit Break;

Even the Nine Blood Soul Blades, which was limited by Evil Qi, was approaching Perfection due to that half-root of wild mountain ginseng!

Several times, Chu Fan had to resist the urge to persuade Tianxing to go home more often—with that kind of heaven-defying luck, he might just dig up another Treasure Plant!

...

The Twelve Forms Fist was a bit slower, but if nothing unexpected happened, it should also reach its Second Limit Break tomorrow.

As Chu Fan endured the bone-devouring pain of Bone Marrow Forging, he looked at the various Martial Arts on his panel nearing their breaking points, and an indescribable thrill surged within him.

’The agony of the medicinal bath is still bearable...’

His only regret was that each medicinal bath took too long; it required at least an hour to fully absorb the medicinal potency.

If the medicinal bath were shorter, he might have already pushed his Firewood Splitting Saber Technique past its limit by now.

’Once today’s medicinal bath is over, I’ll break the limits of the Firewood Splitting Saber Technique and the Running Technique in one fell swoop!’

...

Chu Fan circulated his Qi Blood Power, frantically absorbing the medicinal potency.

On the surface of the water in the wooden tub, some medicinal herbs were floating, and steam was still rising.

One set of herbs cost twenty taels of silver, just enough for one bath.

The herbs for the Bone Marrow Forging bath might have only cost five taels of silver more than those for the Blood Refining bath, but the former required a bath every single day, while the latter was only once every three days...

Twenty days had passed, and four hundred taels had already been spent.

This was a sum of silver an ordinary person would be lucky to see in their entire lifetime.

He figured that within the Seven Stars Gang, few could afford to take daily medicinal baths without any reservations when breaking into the Bone Marrow Forging Realm.

Even that scoundrel Zhou Ye probably couldn’t have afforded to spend so much money on breaking into the Bone Marrow Forging Realm back then.

The Seven Stars Gang only gave out two taels of silver per month. An ordinary disciple would have to complete several missions just to earn enough for a single medicinal bath.

’The so-called medicinal bath that feels like your body is on fire is really just burning through your money!’

The medicinal liquid still had a burning sensation, and its potency was still drilling into his body...

Chu Fan closed his eyes, allowing the searing sensation to churn with his Qi Blood Power.

To break through to the next Realm, one had to endure this pain and this expense.

Many people wished for such an opportunity to suffer, but never got the chance.

「More than an hour later...」

The water in the tub had turned ice-cold.

But Chu Fan still felt the flames burning.

He stretched his limbs, feeling as if he had been pickled to the core.

His Spiritual Essence had increased by twenty points...

Over these twenty days, the main sources of Spiritual Essence had been the medicinal baths and the Leopard Embryo Muscle-Enhancing Pills.

Ordinary food simply couldn’t compare to these two.

At this rate, in another twenty days or so, his Spiritual Essence would reach fifteen hundred points.

Just then, footsteps approached.

Zhao Tianxing pushed open the door and poked his head in. "Yo, making soup?"

Chu Fan lifted an eyelid. "Get lost!"

Zhao Tianxing turned to close the door.

But Chu Fan said again, "Come back!"

Zhao Tianxing pushed the door open again and walked into the room. His smile was gone, replaced by a grave expression. "I heard some shocking news at the Moon Arrow Martial Arts Hall today..."

"They said that late last night, a Demon Fiend stormed the Blood Saber Sect, went on a killing spree, and even killed three of their Hall Masters!"

"A Demon Fiend? It killed three Blood Saber Sect Hall Masters?" Chu Fan’s heart went cold.

’Was it really the work of a Demon Fiend? Or could it be retaliation from the Moon Worship Sect?’

Chu Fan’s pupils shrank. "What kind of Demon Fiend could slaughter its way through the Blood Saber Sect... And what about the Government Office?"