Thunderous Sound Fills the Nine Heavens, Startled Bow Drops Flying Geese

Lian Clan Training Grounds--

Over thirty burly men were training in the field, raising dust and kicking up stones!

They were all members of the Lian Clan's Warrior Reserve Camp, and their instructor was Yao Yuan, a coach from the Lian Clan. He was also the third warrior in the Lian Clan, after the Tribe Leader and Lian Chengyu, to reach the fifth level of Mortal Blood.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Fist winds howled, and roars echoed to the heavens. The members of the Warrior Reserve Camp were each cultivated with the tribe's full effort.

It was early winter, and the Great Wilderness was battered by strong, cold winds. Yet, the members of the Warrior Reserve Camp were all sweating profusely from their training!

However, on the high platform, their instructor Yao Yuan, watching these burly men train, frowned. "Stop!"

Yao Yuan's shout was like a clap of thunder on a clear day!

The training warriors immediately halted.

"The 'Dragon Marrow Tiger Bones Fist' that I taught you is a fundamental cultivation method passed down from the Tai'a Divine Kingdom! Although this 'Dragon Marrow Tiger Bones Fist' only has eighteen forms, each form is profound! You bunch of stupid pigs, you've only learned the movements but can't embody their Mysterious Charm at all. It's just a superficial display, completely useless!"

With that, Yao Yuan's words negated all the efforts these burly men had made in their training over the past few days!

Yet, no one dared to voice a word of protest because Yao Yuan held immense prestige within the Warrior Reserve Camp.

Lian Chengyu's prestige was due to his future potential; he could become a Purple Blood Warrior, or even reach realms beyond Purple Blood.

Yao Yuan's prestige, however, was due to his past.

Yao Yuan was not originally from the Lian Clan. He was an outsider who had once cultivated to the peak of the Purple Blood Realm. Later, injured while being pursued by enemies, he fell back to the ordinary warrior realm. He came to the Great Wilderness to seek refuge and settled with the Lian Clan, where he had lived for many years.

His strength was gone, but Yao Yuan's experience remained. No one dared to question his authority in teaching the Warrior Reserve Camp.

After all, Lian Chengyu was taught by Yao Yuan!

Given Lian Chengyu's young age and his birth in a small tribe like the Lian Clan, how could he have achieved so much without the guidance of a master?

"Don't underestimate the 'Dragon Marrow Tiger Bones Fist.' In the Tai'a Divine Kingdom, the most precious thing is naturally the Tai'a Sacred Law. But the Tai'a Sacred Law is a cultivation method that you can only access when you reach higher realms of martial arts. Below the Purple Blood Realm, it's completely useless! Below the Purple Blood Realm, you must cultivate this 'Dragon Marrow Tiger Bones Fist'! Even the royal family members of the Tai'a Divine Kingdom do so!"

"The 'Dragon Marrow Tiger Bones Fist' is a top-tier body-refining method. If you were to truly calculate its value, it's worth more than a city! It was only because the Tai'a Divine Kingdom, in order to strengthen the nation and give countless impoverished people the opportunity to practice martial arts and resist the dangers of the Great Wilderness, intentionally made the 'Dragon Marrow Tiger Bones Fist' public. It is your good fortune to be able to learn this set of fist techniques!"

"To reach the fifth level of Mortal Blood, the Qi Induction Realm, you must successively cultivate Valiant, Long Breath, Thunderous Sound, and Meridians! To cultivate these, you must train your strength, refine your muscles and tendons, and refine your bones and internal organs! This set of eighteen forms of the 'Dragon Marrow Tiger Bones Fist' includes the refinement of muscles and tendons, internal organs, and bones!"

"If you can truly master the first six forms of the 'Dragon Marrow Tiger Bones Fist,' you will be able to lift a thousand-pound cauldron, possessing the strength of one cauldron, and draw a nine-stone bow fully, shooting arrows a thousand paces away that can still pierce through armor!"

Yao Yuan lectured loudly in the field, and every word fell clearly into Yi Yun's ears.

"Lift a thousand-pound cauldron, draw a nine-stone bow..."

Yi Yun listened with a sense of longing. In this other world, nine stones were equivalent to nine hundred pounds!

"Hearing Yao Yuan say this, the 'Dragon Marrow Tiger Bones Fist' is indeed a good set of fist techniques. I didn't expect the Tai'a Divine Kingdom to not hoard their foundational fist techniques but to make them public to strengthen the nation. The ruler of the Tai'a Divine Kingdom possesses some of the demeanor of a sage."

Yi Yun held his breath, his eyes fixed on the training ground. He had come here with the intention of secretly learning martial arts!

Before crossing over, the only martial arts Yi Yun had learned were military boxing during his military training, which was more akin to street fighting and would be useless in this world. Now, Yi Yun's physical fitness was rapidly improving, but he lacked knowledge of cultivation methods and martial skills. He would surely be at a disadvantage in a real fight!

Furthermore, without a cultivation method, his future cultivation speed would be significantly slower.

Especially as his realm increased, the problems would likely become more pronounced. Otherwise, the Tai'a Sacred Law of the Tai'a Divine Kingdom wouldn't be so precious!

"I will demonstrate it for you now. Watch carefully!"

Yao Yuan's voice boomed, and Yi Yun's attention was heightened to the maximum.

"This move is called 'Fierce Tiger Descends the Mountain,' and it's a move for refining tendons!"

Yao Yuan stood before a wooden post in the center of the field. His left leg was extended straight forward, his left hand grasped his left ankle, his right knee was bent, and his body was tilted to the side, his waist and back arched like a drawn bow, even emitting a faint creak.

The posture was strange, giving the impression of a body drawn taut like a bow, with Yao Yuan's right fist held close to his waist, like an arrow on the bowstring!

Suddenly, Yao Yuan moved!

His body instantly straightened.

"Snap—"

At that moment, Yi Yun clearly heard a crisp sound emanating from Yao Yuan's body.

Yao Yuan's right fist shot out like lightning, striking the wooden post directly!

"Boom!"

The wooden post shattered into pieces!

The surrounding Warrior Reserve Camp members let out gasps of surprise.

"Coach Yao is so powerful!"

"Damn, such a thick wooden post, shattered with one punch! Coach Yao's fist is made of iron!"

A group of burly men began to flatter him, but they were also genuinely impressed. Survival in the Great Wilderness meant that the strong were always worshipped.

However, facing the flattery of the burly men, Yao Yuan's expression turned cold.

"What you saw was just my fist?"

"Hmph! I said before, this 'Fierce Tiger Descends the Mountain' is a move for refining tendons! The reason my punch shattered the wooden post is not because my fist is strong, but because I used the power of my tendons!"

"Everyone's physical body is a treasure! Do you know what the string of a precious bow called the Star Shooting Bow in the Tai'a Divine Kingdom is made of?"

When Yao Yuan asked this, the strong men present exchanged glances. They hadn't even heard of Star Shooting, so how could they possibly know the material for its bowstring?

"Is it silkworm silk?"

"Is it the legendary Flood Dragon sinew?"

Yao Yuan shook his head. "It's the bowstring of the Star Shooting Bow, made from the sinews of the founding emperor of the Tai'a Divine Kingdom after his death!"

Yao Yuan's words stunned everyone present.

A bowstring made from human sinews!?

"That's right! The move 'Fierce Tiger Descends the Mountain' I just used was to draw my body to its limit, using my bones as the bow and my sinews as the string, to 'shoot' out this punch! The ability to perfectly unleash the power of my tendons and ligaments is the key to the move 'Fierce Tiger Descends the Mountain'! Therefore, 'Fierce Tiger Descends the Mountain' is a move for refining sinews, not for practicing punches!"

"Didn't you hear the sound that came from within me when I threw this punch?"

The moment Yao Yuan threw his punch, a very clear sound rang out, "Thwack—"

Yi Yun heard it clearly. The sound was exactly like the sound of a bowstring being drawn when shooting an arrow.

"'Fierce Tiger Descends the Mountain' is about repeatedly drawing your internal muscles and tendons, making them tougher and more elastic through countless tempering! When 'Fierce Tiger Descends the Mountain' is practiced to a very high level, the sound of the tendons alone when punching can startle wild geese from the sky! This is the so-called 'startled bow, fallen geese'!"

"And in the 'Dragon Marrow Tiger Bones Fist,' there is also a move called 'Dragon Soars Through Nine Heavens,' which corresponds to the bone refining technique. When this punch is thrown, all the joints in the body will crackle, and the sound will be like distant thunder flashing within the clouds, but without striking down!"

"Thunder rumbles in the nine heavens, a startled bow makes geese fall. If you can reach these realms, then practicing this 'Dragon Marrow Tiger Bones Fist' can be considered an achievement!"

After Yao Yuan's explanation, the strong men present stared at each other, their eyes wide. This was too exaggerated!

Was such a realm achievable by a human?

Seeing the expressions of the strong men, Yao Yuan knew he was asking too much.

He continued, "The realm of 'thunder rumbles in the nine heavens, a startled bow makes geese fall' is indeed a bit difficult for you. I don't expect you to reach this realm. As long as you can refine your sinews to the point where they make a sound like a bowstring, even a faint one, and refine your bones to make them crackle when you punch, I will be satisfied!"

"In that case, it can be considered that you have barely reached the third level of Mortal Blood, the Thunderous Sound Realm."

While Yao Yuan was teaching the strong men, Yi Yun listened with a burning heart.

Thunder rumbles in the nine heavens, a startled bow makes geese fall!

Was it possible for him to reach this realm?

Yao Yuan had previously described the 'Dragon Marrow Tiger Bones Fist' as something "not even a city could buy." In this world, a city was far more valuable than a city on Earth. In the Great Wilderness, every city had to withstand the trials of savage beasts, and without numerous experts guarding them, they simply couldn't be sustained. Building a city required countless lives!

Lian Chengyu had merely dangled the bait of allowing the Lian Clan to relocate to a city, and it had earned him the desperate support of so many impoverished people for his cultivation, which was evident.

"This set of martial arts, I must study it carefully. If I can achieve something with it, then the warrior selection of the Tai'a Divine Kingdom will be a piece of cake. I might even have a chance to contend for the title of 'National Scholar,' and then, I can bring Sister Xiaorou some glory too!"

Since Yi Yun had arrived in this world, he decided to make the best of it.

Yi Yun was unwilling to spend his entire life confined to this small Lian Clan, living precariously and struggling for food.