Snowy Night: Body Transformation (Part 2)

Inside Li Yang's private training chamber.

Li Yang sat cross-legged on a meditation cushion, bare from the waist up. Slowly, he placed the Marrow Cleansing Pill, crystalline and fragrant like a luminous pearl, into his mouth.

The Marrow Cleansing Pill melted the instant it entered his mouth. Streams of cool fluid immediately began flowing into every part of his body.

Li Yang's fixed meridians were like dried-up riverbeds, while the cool fluid formed by the Marrow Cleansing Pill was like clear spring water. Stream after stream of spring water flowed through those parched channels, and Li Yang's meridians immediately began absorbing it. He could clearly feel their elasticity and vitality increasing...

But as more and more cool fluid entered his body, the pill's medicinal power accumulated in greater and greater amounts. The Marrow Cleansing Pill was simply too potent. In an instant, it was like floodwaters bursting through a dam and crashing down, as the pill's formidable power erupted completely...

The cool streams transformed from brooks into raging rivers, while Li Yang's meridians were no more than dried-up ditches. The overwhelming medicinal force immediately battered every one of his meridians like a surging torrent.

For an ordinary person, the most important thing was—the heart meridian!

Under such an assault, without someone using Internal Energy to protect the heart meridian, it would surely snap apart, resulting in instant death!

At that moment, all of Li Yang's Internal Energy was gathered around his heart meridian, protecting it. Though he did not possess much Internal Energy, it was enough to guard that small heart meridian. Moreover, his Internal Energy recovered at an astonishing rate, so he was not worried in the slightest about running out! This was the benefit of when Li Yang had thrown three thousand flying daggers fully infused with Internal Energy in three hours.

His spiritual platform was empty and lucid. He retained a sliver of clarity to control his Internal Energy and protect his heart meridian, leaving everything else to the Marrow Cleansing Pill's mighty and miraculous medicinal power.

Under the impact of that powerful medicine, Li Yang's meridians, having absorbed some of its power at the beginning, had gained vitality and elasticity, and thus began slowly expanding. But there was a limit to that expansion. They had absorbed the medicinal power for too short a time; their vitality could not possibly have become that strong. Thus... the meridians began to sustain damage.

Unable to withstand the impact, cracks slowly appeared in his meridians. At the very same instant, the Marrow Cleansing Pill's medicinal power helped them recover. Yet the pill's force tore them open again, while its medicinal power repaired them once more...

Tear... repair... tear... repair...

At the same time, every part of Li Yang's body, including his muscles, tendons, bones, and more, began absorbing the pill's medicinal power. His muscles became more vital and held greater potential, while the vitality of his tendons and bones also rose...

At last, the Marrow Cleansing Pill's power inside Li Yang gradually calmed. Much of its medicinal power had already been absorbed by his muscles, tendons, and meridians. The meridians throughout Li Yang's body had completely transformed, changing from dried-up little ditches into broad river channels.

His meridians had taken shape. The greatest obstacle blocking Li Yang's path to greater strength had finally been removed!

But Li Yang did not notice that when the Marrow Cleansing Pill had first entered his body, a dark-red energy had also rushed inside. That dark-red energy far surpassed Internal Energy in rank. With Li Yang's meager strength, he could not sense it at all.

The dark-red energy flowed upstream, shooting straight toward Li Yang's head!

Suddenly, the dark stone Li Yang had always worn close to his body flashed red. A faint glow instantly surged into Li Yang's body and charged directly toward his mind. At the same time, the black stone he wore against his skin instantly turned into stone powder, scattering across the floor.

"Ha ha..." Faint laughter echoed in the depths of Li Yang's mind, then gradually faded away...

Li Yang abruptly opened his eyes. "Laughter?"

"It seemed like a voice just sounded in my mind?" Li Yang was somewhat uncertain. After all, the sound had only faintly appeared before vanishing.

"Perhaps it was just an illusion. But now, it seems that I... have undergone a Body Transformation. The problem of my meridians taking shape has been resolved." Only then did Li Yang suddenly realize one thing—he had undergone a Body Transformation!

Li Yang sent his Internal Energy through his meridians, feeling how broad and resilient they had become. A faint sense of unreality washed over him, leaving him slightly dizzy.

"Ah—my meridian problem has finally been solved!" Li Yang suddenly sprang up from the meditation cushion and let out a thunderous roar.

"Ah—ah—" Li Yang threw back his head and roared wildly, as though he were releasing every ounce of pent-up oppression and pressure from his heart in one burst!

He had succeeded!

His meridian problem had been solved!

He had even undergone a Body Transformation. His tendons, bones, and meridians were better than those of people who normally cultivated internal arts!

Back then, when the number one expert of the Dragon Fang Ace Team had arrived at Security Bureau Group 9, he had possessed the lowest power of them all. For two entire years, the oppression had weighed on him. His fixed meridians had remained a massive chasm across his path to greater strength. Even after he began training desperately for fifteen hours a day, including physical cultivation, his energy had only reached around eighty crystals. Yet Tian Lin, the weakest among the other members, was usually nothing more than a playboy and did not train seriously. He only met the minimum requirement of six hours a day, but because he had cultivated internal arts since childhood, he had still reached over two hundred crystals of energy!

Even the weakest member at Star Luo Base had nearly three times his energy!

The fundamental reason was his fixed meridians!

Pressure—tremendous pressure!

Jiang Xue entering his life had only increased that pressure. If he wanted to live together with Jiang Xue, he had to enter Security Bureau Group 11. He could enter by relying on his Flying Dagger Mastery, but what about afterward? Only missions that Security Bureau Group 9 could not complete would cause the experts of Security Bureau Group 11 to be dispatched.

After entering Security Bureau Group 11, even the lowest-level missions would be A-rank missions! With Li Yang's energy of less than one hundred crystals, he might succeed once or twice by relying on Flying Dagger Mastery. But his enemies would all be super experts with energy in the thousands of crystals. If he slipped up even once, he would be finished! He would no longer be able to remain with Jiang Xue.

Was Li Yang willing to leave Jiang Xue? Could he bear to let Jiang Xue live alone in sorrow afterward?

"Absolutely not. Once Xue and I are together, I cannot die early on some mission and leave her alone in loneliness and grief. I must raise my strength and make sure I survive every mission! I must make the days we spend together last longer..." Li Yang stared firmly ahead into the training chamber, his outburst of roaring finally coming to an end.

The Li Yang of the past had been weak in energy. The Li Yang of the past had constantly borne immense pressure over his future life with Jiang Xue!

But now, all of that had been resolved by the appearance of the Marrow Cleansing Pill!

His meridians were now even more resilient and spacious than Hei Yan's and the others'! He had completely undergone a Body Transformation! From now on, cultivating internal arts would surely carry him forward a thousand miles in a day, and the day his strength soared was close at hand!

"Xue, wait for me. I will definitely grow stronger. I'm planning to grow old with you, after all. Those A-rank missions, and even higher-ranked missions, I will complete them perfectly in the future. There won't be any accidents!" Li Yang's confidence surged! It was confidence in his future strength!

A dragon trapped in shallow waters, once it soared into the heavens, would surely churn rivers and overturn seas, winging through the nine skies! Who could still restrain the future of a transformed Li Yang?