Bone Structure Transformation, Bee Waist Ape Back

Bone Structure Transformation, Bee Waist Ape Back

Bone Structure Transformation, Bee Waist Ape Back

The water ghost disaster had spread far and wide. Master Yang had taken Xu Changfeng out with him, leaving the remaining twenty-odd apprentices of Stone Wall Courtyard naturally under Lin Mo's management. It was not much trouble.

Lin Mo returned to the courtyard and sat down to rest. Thinking back on the past two days, he had truly spun like a top. Why did every matter rush to collide with him?

Though he had gained quite a few benefits from it, there had been risks as well.

"It's time to rest properly for two days. Tomorrow morning, I'll transform my bone structure and upgrade my Fate!"

With that thought in mind, Lin Mo sat quietly in a corner of Stone Wall Courtyard, watching the apprentices practice their stance work.

Early the next morning, as usual, he first instructed the apprentices in practicing their stance work.

"If you can't even stand steady, how can your punches be steady?"

"Straighten your arms, relax your waist, sink your hips. Your punches need strength, and they need speed. Do you understand?"

Lin Mo moved among the youths. Looking at these impoverished boys, all around his own age, he inexplicably thought of himself from several months ago. Once upon a time, he too had been nothing more than a fisherman's son.

By practicing stance work, nurturing his qi and blood, and breaking through the Martial Pass, he had earned this single chance to change his fate!

"I know your families are poor. You worked hard to earn this half-month chance to learn martial arts, so you must cherish it all the more!"

"If you want to live well, if you want to become a martial master, then you have to work until your life is on the line!"

Looking at the boys, Lin Mo did not mind firing them up a little. After correcting their stance movements for a while, he finally turned to the matter of upgrading his Fate.

Lin Mo did not linger long at Stone Wall Courtyard. The advancement of a white Fate to a green Fate would surely cause a great commotion and make it easy for others to notice something unusual.

Since Master Yang Yun and Senior Brother Xu were both absent, he returned to the small courtyard where he lived and came to its tiny practice ground.

He took out medicinal herbs for external application, assorted Qi and Blood Pills, Trauma Medicine, and the like. After preparing a pile of meat as well, he sank his consciousness into the Jade Talisman in his mind.

Lin Mo sat cross-legged on the ground and slowly exhaled a breath of foul air. Excited, he muttered, "Jade Talisman, let me see just how much potential you have. A green Fate!"

[Fortune Breakthrough, Cost *100, Sturdy Bone Structure—Bee Waist Ape Back]

[Fortune: 30]

Lines of gilded text flowed across the Jade Talisman. Lin Mo immediately saw the words for the green Fate. Who would have thought it would be [Bee Waist Ape Back]?

"[Bee Waist Ape Back], ranked three hundred and sixty-first on the Human Bone Ranking. Though it ranks slightly below Chen Qing's [Golden Bone Jade Tendon], this is a bone structure truly suited for combat!"

While he had still been patrolling the docks, Lin Mo had read miscellaneous books and studied these bone structures, especially those listed on the Human Bone Ranking.

The miscellaneous books recorded [Bee Waist Ape Back] like this...

Those with bee waists and ape backs have slender waists, broad backs, and long arms.

One of the finest bone structures forged from the killing aura of soldiers. With long arms, one excels at archery; with a bow, one can pierce a willow leaf from a hundred paces, while with fists, one can drive force through steel.

The waist is slim yet powerful, as supple and resilient as a bee's waist; the back is broad and straight, like an ape's, allowing its long arms to move with ease.

"Compared to several similarly ranked human bone structures, it possesses more agility and technique than [Tiger Back Bear Waist], yet more raw power than [Snake Body Mantis Leg]. It is a more well-rounded, more skill-oriented all-purpose bone structure..."

Searching through the memories in his mind, Lin Mo quickly reached a conclusion.

As for why his bone structure upgrade had produced such a result, it was likely related to the White Ape Eight Section Fist he practiced, as well as his white Fate, [White Ape Momentum].

At a thought from Lin Mo, the instant his fortune dispersed, heat surged from his dantian and spread throughout his body, his skin flushing faintly red.

That heat flowed through his limbs and bones, gradually becoming tangible. In merely the few breaths it took for his skin to redden, it effortlessly smashed through the qi and blood bottleneck.

"First Stage Perfected!"

His surging qi and blood was nearly impossible to suppress. White vapor curled around Lin Mo's nostrils, lingering for a long time in the late autumn chill.

Based on his past experience of upgrading his Fate, breaking through the qi and blood bottleneck was only the first step...

Lin Mo sank into concentration, carefully observing and guiding the qi and blood throughout his body to nourish his flesh and physique. Even the gaps between his bones were permeated by that wave of heat.

As though his entire body were soaking in a hot spring, Lin Mo felt his bones itch and burn, as if they were being reforged and tempered anew. Bit by bit, foul-smelling impurities seeped out through his pores.

As the impurities were expelled, tearing pain swept through the muscles of his waist and back. He could clearly feel the muscles around his waist tightening and his back broadening, a gradually emerging inverted-triangle outline taking shape.

After dozens of breaths, the tearing agony in his muscles and bones had already left Lin Mo drenched in sweat.

After a hundred breaths, Lin Mo's face had turned somewhat pale. His teeth were clenched tight, and his body trembled without stop.

After half a quarter of an hour, the pain gradually faded. Qi and blood surged upward, leaving his face flushed and burning.

"Is it finally over?"

Lin Mo opened his eyes, rose to his feet, and stretched his limbs. His bones crackled like exploding beans, every inch of sinew and bone rising section by section.

His spine linked together like a dragon's backbone, power running through it as one whole. Even his body had grown a notch taller.

The gray robe that had once fit him well now had trouser legs shorter by half a little finger's length.

Before he could even rejoice, the impurities seeping from his body sent their foul stench straight into his nostrils, making him nauseated.

Lin Mo hurried to the water vat. The vat was large enough to take two or three people embracing it, and once filled with well water, it weighed no less than eight or nine hundred jin.

"Eight or nine hundred jin? Then let's test my current strength! A breakthrough to First Stage Perfected, plus a green Fate!"

He sank his waist, spread the five fingers of both hands like winnowing baskets, and hooked them around the protruding rim of the vat like iron locks. With a deep grunt, he lifted the water vat off the ground.

Dust rustled down from the bottom of the vat, leaving only a deep circular mark where it had stood.

"The improvement in bone structure really is extraordinary!"

Light flashed in Lin Mo's eyes, and a grin spread across his face.

At First Stage Accomplished, he had possessed only four or five hundred jin of strength. Yet after this breakthrough and transformation of his muscles and bones, he had actually achieved a doubling in power!

This was not as simple as one plus one equaling two...

With twice his former qi and blood, if Lin Mo encountered the likes of Zhao Hubiao again, why would he need a sneak attack? Three to five close-range exchanges would be enough to leave him unable to tell east from west, north from south!

He gathered his strength again and slowly tilted the water vat. Gurgling streams of clear water washed over his body.

Still feeling that the stench clung to him, he simply stripped off all his clothes, underwear included, and tipped the vat again to pour its well water over himself.

After washing himself clean, Lin Mo took out a fresh set of clothes from the room and changed into them.

He wore a dark indigo outfit of coarse cloth. For ease of movement, the sleeves were neatly wrapped around his forearms. The garment had no excessive ornamentation, yet it outlined the contours of his back muscles as a whole.

With every drawing in and releasing of his fists and feet, Lin Mo could feel surging power.

Taking advantage of his roiling qi and blood, he practiced a set of White Ape Eight Section Fist. Its momentum was incomparably fierce, his fists and feet nearly tearing through the air.

After a little exercise, he finally sat cross-legged once more and picked up the braised beef and water that had been set aside for some time, gulping them down.

As he replenished the qi and blood his body had consumed, he continued thinking about that breathing method.

First Stage Perfected, plus [Bee Waist Ape Back]—that was more than enough to begin cultivating the breathing method!