Qinghan Prefecture.
Ding-character room.
Yang Chan looked at the information on the panel.
After several days of effort, his Ox Demon Strength Fist had reached 96% of Second Order: Entering the Hall. With one more Potential Point, his cultivation would definitely break through.
When he had previously broken through from nurturing Jing Power to External Refinement: Bronze Skin, there had been none of the bottlenecks people spoke of. Thus, he estimated that if he continued adding points this time, he would break through to the Third Order. At the same time, he would complete the threefold tempering of External Refinement: Bronze Skin and begin tempering his sinews and membranes, forging a body of steel tendons.
His original plan had been to advance to Elite Disciple within Qinghan Prefecture. But after seeing the disciples who had followed Lu Zhenghai and the others to Lingyuan Mountain Range, with several Elite Disciples dead and several wounded—more than half of them dead or injured combined—he reconsidered.
If he became an Elite Disciple at a time like this, he might very well be sent into battle as well. Though the odds were small, since Pharmacists were more useful in the rear, that possibility could not be completely ruled out.
Therefore, Yang Chan did not want to advance to Elite Disciple at this time. The Ox Demon Martial Imprint was important, but his life was more important.
If he had to choose between the two, he would certainly value his life over the Ox Demon Martial Imprint.
Even if the Ox Demon Martial Imprint had to be nurtured during External Refinement: Bronze Skin, he would still abandon it. After all, his future was bright, and he would have opportunities to make up for this flaw in his cultivation later.
There was also one more point: this