"May I touch it?" I was quite interested in these vein-bones. In fact, I had seen plenty of methods that turned energy into armor, but channeling veins into the bones and then transforming the entire body into vein-bones was genuinely rare.
Liyin nodded. "This layer is armor. Unless you break through it, you can't hurt me."
I took her at her word and reached out to touch the vein-bones outside her skin. Sure enough, although this shimmering armor still fell within the category of energy armor, spirit veins were clearly flowing along its exterior. With spirit veins on the outside and bones within, the strength of both determined how sturdy the vein-bones were.
"The divine veins in my vein-bones are stronger, so I look weaker than the divine cultivators in the local guild, but there actually isn't much difference," Liyin explained.
I was also discreetly examining the paths of her spirit veins, but since we did not yet trust each other very much, I dared not probe too freely. I only gleaned a little about how spirit veins were channeled into the bones.
In her hands, for instance, the spirit veins did not enter the bones through their tips. Instead, branches split off and connected to the bones, allowing both the bones and the spirit veins to wield power.
From what I could determine, the spirit veins inside her bones were also being cultivated. This was effectively a method of cultivating the physical body, or body cultivation.
It meant that the bones and flesh were not treated separately; both advanced together.
Ultimately, this could reach the level of attaining the Dao through the flesh. Of course, the cultivation process was likely more painful than the methods used in the Divine Kingdom Alliance.
In the Divine Kingdom Alliance, one only needed