Successive Breakthroughs! Peak Blood and Qi Realm!

Su Que circulated the strengthened Wedding Dress Divine Skill True Qi through his meridians.

Feeling the vast power of this True Qi, Su Que thought, It is time to raise my martial realm.

From what Su Que currently knew, the essence of martial realms lay in the quality of a martial artist's physical constitution.

Advancing one's martial realm was a process of continually transforming one's physical constitution and repeatedly shattering the limits of the human body.

Thus, the most obvious signs of a martial realm's advancement were increases in the physical body's strength, speed, reactions, and other such aspects.

Martial arts, in essence, were techniques of combat, encompassing methods of exerting force, angles of attack, and so on.

From another perspective, they were methods for wielding one's own body.

Internal arts were methods for strengthening True Qi.

The True Qi one cultivated could, first, merge with the blood to form qi and blood and advance one's martial realm; second, it could further amplify the power of martial arts techniques.

By Su Que's own understanding, the martial realm was the foundation—the base stats, as they had been called in his previous life.

Both martial arts and internal arts were methods that could amplify those base stats.

Su Que was currently in the Blood and Qi Realm.

The Blood and Qi Realm had five levels. He was at the fourth level: Fourth Blood Bone Forging.

At this level, one had to stir up one's qi and blood and continuously temper the bones. On this foundation, one could also use methods such as pounding and medicinal baths to forge one's bones until they were as hard as iron.

"All right, let's begin."

With that thought, Su Que cast aside all distracting thoughts and focused, circulating the four kinds of inner qi within his body.

—Wedding Dress Divine Skill True Qi, Crimson Fiend True Qi, Yin Wind Death Qi, and Dark Yin True Qi.

With a thought, the Wedding Dress Divine Skill True Qi absorbed the other three kinds of True Qi into itself, forming an even more formidable True Qi.

Then, he merged the True Qi into his blood.

Before practicing, he always drank Startling Blood Soup, leaving his blood in a constantly surging, boiling state.

Now that the True Qi had merged with his blood and qi and blood formed, it surged and boiled even more fiercely.

He then controlled the qi and blood, gathering it first toward the upper arm bone of his right arm.

When all the qi and blood rushed into his right arm, the muscles of his right upper arm suddenly swelled.

Boiling qi and blood coursed beneath his skin, tinting it faintly red.

Veins bulged beneath the skin.

His right upper arm instantly grew a size larger, its muscles rising like rocks.

"Hm?"

Su Que cracked his eyes open and looked at his swollen right upper arm. An idea suddenly arose in his mind.

But what he needed to do now was temper his bones with qi and blood, so he temporarily suppressed the thought.

He planned to study it properly after completing Fourth Blood Bone Forging.

Thus, he closed his eyes again, gathered his focus, and with a thought, fiercely compressed the qi and blood, driving it toward his bones.

At once, his enlarged right upper arm abruptly shrank back to normal.

Because his qi and blood contained four kinds of True Qi, it was exceptionally violent.

The four kinds of True Qi were like four iron hammers used to forge weapons, slamming into his bones.

Dull thuds immediately sounded from Su Que's right arm.

The four kinds of True Qi were incomparably fierce, tempering his bones and thereby accelerating the speed at which his qi and blood forged them.

Before even an hour had passed, he had not only tempered the bones of his right upper arm, but also finished tempering those of his forearm.

Next, he continued circulating this qi and blood fused with four kinds of True Qi toward his left arm.

The first bones he tempered were those of his left upper arm.

As qi and blood gathered there, his muscles became engorged once more, swelling visibly to the naked eye.

Muscles rose like rocks, while veins protruded like little snakes.

As his thoughts moved, the qi and blood compressed and gathered toward his bones, and his bulging muscles returned to their normal size.

The next instant, muffled booming sounds rang out once more from several bones in his left upper arm.

It was the four kinds of True Qi within his qi and blood, pounding and tempering his bones.

In less than another hour, Su Que had completely tempered the bones in both his left upper arm and forearm.

Su Que immediately felt both arms become light and nimble, as though they contained tremendous power.

Without using True Qi or unleashing the Seven Injuries Fist, he simply smashed his bare fist down at the ground!

Boom!

The mountain rock shattered, cracks spreading outward like a spiderweb, and a pit was instantly gouged into the ground.

This was the physical strength of a warrior after tempering his bones.

If Martial Arts and internal cultivation were added to the mix, that power would become even more destructive.

Estimating that it was already deep into the night, Su Que wiped away his sweat, put on his shirt, and walked out of the Cave before sprinting all the way home.

Over the next two nights, Su Que continued tempering his bones with Blood and Qi.

When tempering their bones with Blood and Qi, some children of prominent families often supplemented the process with medicinal baths, pills, and other methods, allowing them to pass through this stage quickly.

But Su Que's Blood and Qi contained four kinds of true qi, each possessing an extremely sinister power—some fierce and unyielding, some blazing hot, some corrosive, some icy cold.

Under the repeated tempering of these four distinct forces, Su Que's bones not only quickly met the requirements of Fourth Blood Bone Forging, but also became harder than the bones of other warriors at the same realm.

Tonight, only the last piece of Su Que's skull remained to be tempered.

Su Que had once heard people of the martial world say that the skull was often the hardest bone to temper.

Because the skull lay close to the brain, a moment's carelessness while using Blood and Qi to temper it could very easily injure the brain.

Thus, warriors tempering their skulls were always exceedingly cautious. They did not dare let their Blood and Qi scour the skull recklessly, making the process much slower.

However, Su Que's Talent Value had now reached 41 points, granting him quite exceptional aptitude, and with it, superb control and precision.

Therefore, when tempering his skull, he could control his Blood and Qi to scour only the skull without straying off course and affecting his fragile brain.

Su Que immediately fused true qi into his blood, forming Blood and Qi, and sent it rushing toward his skull.

As Blood and Qi surged into his head, his face took on a jujube-red hue.

More than an hour later, Su Que abruptly opened his eyes and gently exhaled. The jujube-red color faded from his face.

He had finally completed the tempering of his skull, passed beyond the realm of "Fourth Blood Bone Forging," and successfully reached the realm of "Fifth Blood Organ Refining."

His five viscera had already been tempered to exceptional toughness when he cultivated the Seven Injuries Fist.

Now, when he used Blood and Qi to temper his five viscera, he needed only the time it took for one incense stick to burn to complete "Fifth Blood Organ Refining."

At this point, he had become a Peak Blood and Qi Realm warrior.

"What is the next realm after the Blood and Qi Realm, and how should it be cultivated?"

At that moment, this question surfaced in Su Que's mind again.

He had previously asked around at taverns and gambling houses.

But the people he had asked were all One-Blood and Two-Blood Warriors. Their levels were too low for them to know anything about that realm.

"Perhaps I should ask at one of the martial academies in the city..."

"Or perhaps I could ask Bai Wuji. As a Five Blood Warrior, he should know..."

Su Que thought to himself.

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