Self-Abusive Cultivation

Yi Yun had practiced bone cultivation all night, but he couldn't absorb the energy within the Savage Bones without limit.

Yi Yun discovered that once he absorbed a certain amount of energy, he felt excessively bloated, as if he had eaten his fill and could not swallow another bite.

If he continued absorbing energy at that point, he would feel chaotic streams of energy rampaging through his body, leaving him numb and tingling all over.

At times like this, Yi Yun felt as if his entire body were brimming with strength, desperately wanting to vent it.

He wanted to go up the mountain and cultivate. He couldn't wait!

After finally waiting until dawn, and after the day-shift workers came to replace him, Yi Yun headed straight for the back mountain. He first jogged slowly to the mountain entrance, and after making sure no one was around, he broke into a sprint!

He was like a nimble antelope. A casual leap carried him five or six meters.

He vaulted onto three-meter-high rocks in a single bound and crossed through five-meter-tall trees!

Yi Yun was hardly running at all. He was flying just above the ground! The terrain in the mountain forest was incredibly complicated, but with Yi Yun's keen five senses and reactions, no terrain could count as an obstacle to him.

He ran all the way to the mountaintop, crossed over one peak, and reached the slope behind the mountain. Then he crossed a ravine and went to another mountain farther behind it.

During this entire journey, Yi Yun did not rest even once. As he moved, he maintained a steady breathing rhythm—not hurried, yet extraordinarily deep and long. His heartbeat was also steady—not fast, but immensely powerful!

He ran for nearly half an hour before stopping. After running for such a long time, his face was not flushed and his heart was not racing! Running was also a form of cultivation. After running like this for a while, Yi Yun felt refreshed from head to toe.

This place was already the farthest safe location from the village. Any farther, and he would leave the Spiritual Ground's protective range, where he might encounter Giant Beasts or Savage Beasts.

With Yi Yun's current strength, encountering a Savage Beast would mean certain death.

The vegetation on this mountain was not especially lush, and patches of black rock lay exposed in some places.

This was Black Iron Rock. Black Iron Rock was as heavy as steel and several times harder than ordinary stone. Even Green Pine, which could split rock, had no way to sprout from Black Iron Rock.

The place where Yi Yun stood was a flat stretch beneath a cliff, about ten zhang across.

Above the cliff, a waterfall hung down like a strip of white silk. Countless sprays scattered through the air, and hazy mist reflected a rainbow. On Earth, this scenery would definitely have counted as a captivating tourist attraction.

The waterfall was not especially wide, but its drop was immense, exceeding a hundred meters. The wild torrent crashed down with a thunderous roar that could be heard from several li away.

This Training Ground was one Yi Yun had chosen beforehand, precisely because of this mountain spring waterfall.

Yi Yun drew a deep breath, circulated the energy throughout his body, and began his arduous cultivation again.

The mountains were empty and the wilderness vast, with no one for dozens of li around. Yi Yun practiced the moves of Dragon Marrow Tiger Bones Fist one by one.

The back mountain of the Lian Clan was never short of huge stones. Yi Yun specifically sought out a piece of Black Iron Rock with a smooth surface.

Standing before the Black Iron Rock, Yi Yun slammed his fists into it again and again!

How could fists of flesh and blood possibly smash apart Black Iron Rock that even Green Pine could not sprout from?

Gritting his teeth, Yi Yun punched once, twice, three times... ten times, twenty times!

Every punch was thrown with all his strength!

During the first few punches, Yi Yun's fists were merely bruised and the pain pierced his heart. Later, his fists were dripping with blood. Finally, flesh flew from his fists, while his knuckles cracked loudly.

The ten fingers were linked to the heart. This pain was simply indescribable.

Yet Yi Yun gritted his teeth and persevered. His face was covered in sweat, his lips were pale, and all color had drained from his face!

Only when hardly any flesh remained on the surfaces of his fists, and he could even faintly see the stark white bones beneath, did Yi Yun stop.

Next, he began kicking the boulder. He kicked until both legs were bruised and he could barely stand. After resting briefly, Yi Yun began ramming it with his shoulders and smashing it with his back!

Yi Yun used every part of his body he could, but in the end he still could not overcome the piece of Black Iron Rock. He was covered in wounds from head to toe.

Pain!

Yi Yun lay on the ground, without the slightest bit of strength left in his entire body. Even his vision had grown considerably blurred.

He held his breath and focused his mind, then began circulating the energy within his body according to the incantations and mental cultivation method recorded in Dragon Marrow Tiger Bones Fist.

This was fundamentally a self-abusive cultivation method, and Yi Yun would never have dared use it before.

But only a few hours ago, Yi Yun had gorged himself on the energy within Cold Python Savage Bones.

The energy contained in Savage Bones was called Savage Power. To martial artists, it was an immensely nourishing treasure!

Compared with Savage Power, the Medicinal Power of the herbs produced in Lian Clan Medicine Mountain was utterly insignificant.

Even century-old herbs fell far short.

With the support of this Savage Power, Yi Yun finally dared undertake this nearly self-abusive training.

This training method was the bone-forging technique recorded in Tiger Claw Cracks Stone, one of the moves of Dragon Marrow Tiger Bones Fist.

Using rocks to pound the tendons and bones was an agonizing process. Without tremendous willpower, no one could persist through it.

Even with the willpower, one also needed resources to support it.

Otherwise, after being injured this badly, forget bone cultivation—avoiding permanent disability would already be a blessing.

Because of their limited resources, the members of the Warrior Reserve Camp did not dare attempt Tiger Claw Cracks Stone lightly.

The young prodigies of those great lineages could eat fine Savage Beast Meat and bathe their bodies in Savage Beast blood. Only then could they withstand injuries like these.

Savage Power circulated rapidly through his body. Yi Yun felt an itch in his wounds and knew they were healing.

Savage Bones truly were a good thing. Combined with the Purple Crystal's purification, the energy's ability to accelerate his body's healing was almost visible to the naked eye!

Dragon Marrow Tiger Bones Fist forged the bones, while Savage Power healed the wounds. This cultivation method was like forging iron.

The "Hundred-Forged Steel" used to cast swords was repeatedly folded and hammered until a peerless sword was forged!

Yi Yun's current cultivation was similar to forging a treasured sword.

He treated his body as steel, the Black Iron Rock as an anvil, and hammered himself through cultivation again and again!

After resting for a full three hours, Yi Yun felt almost recovered. The wounds on his hands had scabbed over and no longer affected his movements much.

Yi Yun wrapped his wounds in coarse cloth and, without another word, plunged headfirst into the mountain spring waterfall!

"Crash!"

The waterfall struck his body like a thousand-jin warhammer!

And beneath the waterfall lay a deep pool!

The waterfall had battered this pool year after year for who knew how long, and no one knew how deep it was. From the surface, the pool was a stretch of emerald green, like a piece of jade, so deep its bottom could not be seen.

This was the deepest pool Yi Yun could find near the Lian Clan.

This time, Yi Yun was cultivating the move Dragon Dances on the Vast Ocean from Dragon Marrow Tiger Bones Fist!

In truth, the real Dragon Dances on the Vast Ocean was not cultivated like this. The vast ocean meant the sea, but there was no sea in the Great Wilderness, only waterfalls and deep pools.

Dragon Dances on the Vast Ocean was a method for cultivating the internal organs.

The deeper Yi Yun delved into this set of Dragon Marrow Tiger Bones Fist, the more he felt its ingenuity.

A martial artist's strength and speed were easy to cultivate, but the tendons, bones, and internal organs were all inside the body. Training them was not easy.

In Dragon Marrow Tiger Bones Fist, martial artists cultivated their tendons by using Fierce Tiger Descends the Mountain to pull and stretch them, like drawing a bowstring, making the tendons stronger and more robust.

To cultivate the bones, they used Tiger Claw Cracks Stone, repeatedly tempering the bones like steel.

As for cultivating the internal organs, that was an even more difficult matter. The internal organs were unlike the bones and tendons. Martial artists could not actively control their internal organs to move, so cultivating them was no easy feat.

Thus, the creator of Dragon Marrow Tiger Bones Fist devised the move Dragon Dances on the Vast Ocean.

Dragon Dances on the Vast Ocean required the cultivator to leap into the sea and dive one or two hundred meters in a single breath. The pressure of seawater below a hundred meters was terrifying enough to burst a person's eardrums and all five viscera and six bowels!

Water pressure could exert force without distinction on a person's five viscera and six bowels. Enduring this tremendous pressure over a long period could make the five viscera and six bowels tougher!

Yi Yun drew a deep breath, hugged a large stone, and jumped straight into the depths of the pool!