Chapter 95 - 82: Advancing the True Flood Dragon Bone, Heaven Has No Handle and Earth Has No Ring! Divine Traveling in the Great Thousand Realms, My Sister Has the Makings of a Banished Immortal!?

Chapter 95: Chapter 82: Advancing the True Flood Dragon Bone, Heaven Has No Handle and Earth Has No Ring! Divine Traveling in the Great Thousand Realms, My Sister Has the Makings of a Banished Immortal!?

[The Tutor has successfully completed the advance on ’Fish Dragon Transformation’.]

[Current available advances for Martial Arts and Skill Daos: 1]

[Tutor: Ji Xiu]

[Current Cultivation: Bone Tempering Realm (Force Entering the Marrow)]

[Martial Arts & Skill Daos: Great Success in Horse Riding, Celestial River Saber Technique, Turtle and Snake Grand Foundation Stake, Ninth Grade Alchemy Skill, Mortal Transformation: Soaring Dragon Gate, Sword Mountain and Fire Sea Stance, Arrow Skill: Dusk Crows...]

[Traits: Waist and Horse Unity, Ten Steps One Kill, Calm Mind and Concentration, Profound Blood Flood Dragon Tendons, Bosatsu Prison Break!]

Ji Xiu stepped out of the large medicinal bath cauldron, draped an outer robe over his shoulders under the moonlight, and sat on a nearby stool. He silently observed his current status through the Primordial Daoist Talisman.

’As the Primordial Daoist Talisman upgraded, the greatest trump card of my life gained two new functions.’

’One is the ability to make an extra advance, and the other is the epiphany of the true form, which allows me to achieve twice the results with half the effort.’

’The former allows me to advance ’Arrow Stance: Dusk Crows’ at the same time as ’Fish Dragon Transformation’. This way, I won’t get stuck in the dilemma of being unable to start on a new Martial Art or Skill until the previous advance is finished.’

’As for the latter, that’s the most critical part. Without it, how could I have so quickly tempered my Silver Bones, or even entered the second stage of the Bone Tempering Realm?’

’This degree of progress is so ’astounding’... I doubt even the so-called ’Muscle and Bone Refining’ from the legendary Martial Arts Ancestral Land or the Major Sect True Sects could compare!’

Recalling the awestruck expressions on his maids’ faces from earlier, Ji Xiu knew full well that his level of skill was unheard of, and not just in a tiny place like Anning County.

Even in Jiangyin Prefecture, it would be considered absolutely astounding.

’I wouldn’t say it’s completely unheard of or never before seen...’

’...but it’s definitely not common.’

However, as he looked at the conditions for advancing ’True Flood Dragon Transformation’—the third scroll of Mortal Transformation: Soaring Dragon Gate—Ji Xiu couldn’t help but narrow his eyes, a sudden thought sparking his curiosity.

’In the past, when I advanced Silver Carp Transformation and Fish Dragon Transformation, I started at the entry-level. The conditions were met right from the start, thanks to the resources provided by Master Duan, and the effects were fed directly back into my physical body.’

’Now that I have this ’epiphany’ talent, what will happen if I make an advance...?’

’Let’s see what happens.’

...

[Mortal Transformation: Soaring Dragon Gate—True Flood Dragon Transformation, advance to entry-level successful!]

[Perfection Condition: Fuse Seventh-Grade Secret Medicine and Demon Pill Essence into the spinal bones, open the twenty-four vertebrae of the spine, and extend it to the nine orifices of the limbs. Success will forge the ’True Flood Dragon Bone’.]

[Once perfected, your body will have the might of a Dragon Elephant. An ordinary cultivator at Great Success in Bone Tempering can exert 3,000 jin of force. With the True Flood Dragon Transformation, you will possess arms with the strength of 10,000 jin and be able to draw a ’Hundred Stones’ heavy bow. With a mere mortal body, you will rival a Flood Dragon that can overturn rivers and seas!]

As the thought arose in Ji Xiu’s mind, he summoned the Primordial Daoist Talisman and initiated the advance.

In a trance,

He saw vast, misty clouds and a surging, powerful river.

Before he knew it...

Ji Xiu had previously taken the true form of a Fish Dragon through his advance on the Fish Dragon Transformation.

Now, sinking into a ’formless and selfless’ epiphany, he instantly felt his body swell again. Within a vast, boundless sea, he arched his back.

The next moment, lost in this dream-like state,

he had already transformed from a Fish Dragon into a True Flood Dragon. He rose and fell within the vast ocean, and wherever he passed, the countless denizens of the Sea Race bowed their heads. He was the very picture of majesty and power!

And those twenty-four ’Flood Dragon Bones’ connected to his spine... with the slightest exertion, they could churn the ocean and summon monstrous waves!

He could summon wind and rain and exhale clouds and mist. A flick of his tail held the power of a Dragon Elephant, enough to make the waters of the Celestial River itself pour backward.

Even the towering Dragon Gate, which seemed both illusory and real, was now much closer than it had been when Ji Xiu was a Fish Dragon swimming in the depths.

It was as if he only needed to take two more steps, to complete two more earth-shattering transformations, and he could take the final leap, cross that miraculous threshold, and forge a genuine ’True Dragon Spine’.

And then... he would reach the apex of the Bone Tempering Realm and forge a ’Venerable Martial Bone’!

[The Tutor has taken the true form of a ’True Flood Dragon’, roiling the seas, and entered a state of ’epiphany’. Advance progress is increasing!]

[Due to a lack of resources, achieving the entry-level has exhausted the Tutor’s current Qi and Blood. Two sections of True Flood Dragon Bone have been forged. Progress +2!]

[The Tutor’s vital essence and potential have been exhausted. The remaining progress can only be forged with the aid of Demon Pill Earth Treasures.]

[Current Progress: (2/24)]

THUMP! THUMP!

Ji Xiu’s expression changed. His heart hammered in his chest and his breath hitched. He was abruptly and involuntarily ejected from that profound state.

Without a moment’s hesitation, he had chosen to advance the third scroll: the ’Golden Bone’ True Flood Dragon Transformation.

Previously, after he had perfected the Fish Dragon Transformation, his force had already penetrated his marrow, allowing his body to produce the Tiger and Leopard Thunder Sound, sharp as the crack of a whip. Every inch of his flesh, blood, and bone had taken on the glimmering sheen of Silver Bone.

But!

The moment he advanced ’True Flood Dragon Transformation’ and began cultivating the third scroll of Mortal Transformation: Soaring Dragon Gate, two of the twenty-four vertebrae of his Spinal Dragon—the two connected to his arms—began to glow. A faint, golden sheen, like gold and jade, bloomed where there was none before!

Immediately after, Ji Xiu’s entire body tensed. He squeezed his blood and marrow, circulating them frantically, but he still couldn’t stop his body from rapidly withering away.

If this continued... he would be drained by this inexplicable power and turned into a dried-up husk without anyone needing to lay a finger on him.

’So that’s how it is!’

’Cultivation Techniques, Martial Arts, and other skills can be instilled directly into my mind from nothing through comprehension.’

’But the immense power of the physical body is tangible; it can’t just be created from nothing, like rootless duckweed!’

’To acquire it, I must draw upon existing resources.’

’And by starting the advance, entering an epiphany, and unconsciously circulating the technique, my progress is indeed doubly effective for half the effort.’