Blade Technique Perfected, Five Animal Frolics Fist Minor Completion!

[Skills]: Firewood Chopping Blade Technique (Perfected Realm 0/1000)

When this skill advanced from Great Completion to the Perfected Realm.

In an instant.

Jiang Ning sensed something different.

His mind was still flashing countless images, just as before.

Every image that flashed by was one of the blows he had chopped down during this period.

Countless angles and countless overlapping lights and shadows ultimately had the dross discarded and the essence retained.

At the same time, Jiang Ning felt waves of tingling in his arms, as though millions upon millions of ants were crawling all over them.

After several breaths.

All the changes vanished.

Jiang Ning tightened his grip on the firewood blade, a trace of a smile appearing on his face.

"Is this the Perfected Realm of the Firewood Chopping Blade Technique?"

"It actually has such an effect. Clearly I'm holding a firewood blade, yet it makes me feel as though my flesh and blood have extended! I can control it like an arm!"

Holding the firewood blade, he casually swung it twice.

Whoosh—

Whoosh—

The sound of the blade cleaving through the air suddenly rang out, and another faint smile appeared on Jiang Ning's face.

His swings were roughly thirty percent faster.

Moreover!

Jiang Ning swung the blade down again.

Thud—

As the firewood blade fell, the heavy log lying diagonally across the wooden post was suddenly cleaved in half.

"Moreover, the force behind my swings has also increased by roughly twenty to thirty percent! This improvement is truly excellent!!"

He gripped the firewood blade, nodding with satisfaction.

"If I had a proper blade right now, my combat strength would increase severalfold at least!"

At that moment, Jiang Ning felt somewhat high-spirited.

He even wanted to go straight to Xu Yunfeng and have a great fight, cutting him down with a single slash.

"Not yet! Not yet!!"

Whoosh—

Jiang Ning exhaled deeply, and his turbulent heart gradually regained its calm.

My Blood Qi strength is still far inferior to his. Give me a little more time!

He tightened his grip on the firewood blade.

Then he opened his Panel again and glanced at it.

[Skills]: Firewood Chopping Blade Technique (Perfected Realm 0/1000)

He was only one thousand Experience Points away from making the Firewood Chopping Blade Technique undergo a Breakthrough!

That wouldn't be difficult for him!

If necessary, he could grind out those one thousand Experience Points in a single day.

What a pity!

The Source Energy Points limited his performance!

[Source Energy]: 6.8

Looking at the Source Energy Points on the Panel, he felt a little regretful.

"Once my Source Energy Points break ten, at my current efficiency of gaining 0.4 per day, I'll need about eight more days! There's no need to rush grinding Experience Points for the Firewood Chopping Blade Technique! But if I leave, I'll have to consider getting a blade for self-defense!"

"For me now, having a blade in hand and having no blade in hand are worlds apart!"

"After all, every inch longer brings an inch of strength. How can flesh and blood withstand an iron weapon?"

Jiang Ning's heart stirred, and he added this matter to his schedule.

In the blink of an eye, four days passed.

After finishing a round of the fist technique.

[Five Animal Frolics Fist Experience Points +1]

[Skills]: Five Animal Frolics Fist (Minor Completion 17/500)

Jiang Ning looked at the prompt before him and shook his head slightly.

"To possess both spirit and form is the only way for the fist technique to reach Great Completion! It seems completely impossible for me to achieve that with my comprehension!"

After trying for more than a day, Jiang Ning was now prepared to give up.

He gave up on trying to comprehend the essentials of the Great Completion Five Animal Frolics Fist through his own deductions.

A few days earlier, because he had asked Wang Jin for guidance and grasped the essentials of the Minor Completion Tiger Form Fist—strength within softness and softness within strength—

his efficiency in gaining Experience Points from practicing the fist technique had surged over the following days before reaching Minor Completion.

Every round of the fist technique increased his Experience Points by two.

It was precisely because of this that he had managed to grind this fist technique to Minor Completion in just a few days.

Jiang Ning then clenched his fists again.

His Blood Qi surged within him, instantly coursing through one arm, with some still left over.

"Now that my Blood Qi has reached Minor Completion, after the Five Animal Frolics Fist reached Minor Completion, I can condense three strands of Qi and Blood Power every time I practice the fist technique. At this rate, it won't be long before my Blood Qi reaches Great Completion, or even the Perfected Realm!"

"However, the day the Patrol Office Establishes Prefecture isn't far off either. Perfected Blood Qi alone doesn't amount to much. I still need to enter the Martial Dao ranks, and I need outstanding combat performance to enter that institution with its exalted status."

I can't slack off!

He immediately opened his Panel and glanced at it.

[Name]: Jiang Ning

[Source Energy]: 8.4

[Skills]:

Literacy (First Breakthrough 416/2000) (Trait: Photographic Memory)

Five Animal Frolics Fist (Minor Completion 17/500)

Firewood Chopping Blade Technique (Perfected Realm 1000/1000)

Inner Alchemy Nourishing Life Skill (Initiation 91/100)

"Four more days, and I'll have accumulated enough Source Energy Points to make the Firewood Chopping Blade Technique undergo a Breakthrough."

"As for the Inner Alchemy Nourishing Life Skill, it will reach Initiation tomorrow. This is an Internal Strengthening Method. Normal Martial Artists only take this path after reaching Martial Dao Rank 5. I wonder what effect the Inner Alchemy Nourishing Life Skill will have after reaching Initiation?"

He then closed the Panel.

In the afternoon.

After finishing a round of the fist technique.

[Five Animal Frolics Fist Experience Points +1]

[Skills]: Five Animal Frolics Fist (Minor Completion 18/500)

Feeling his growing Blood Qi and physique, Jiang Ning was in a rather pleasant mood. He went over to the side, lifted a bucket of cold well water, and poured it over his head.

"Refreshing!!"

He shook his head, and droplets of water immediately sprayed in every direction.

"Junior Brother Jiang, you splashed water on me!"

Hearing the voice behind him, Jiang Ning turned around. The person who had come was Cheng Ran, the only one among the Martial Arts Hall's Front Yard disciples who had become friendly with him.

These days, after coming to the Martial Arts Hall, Jiang Ning had done nothing but grind Experience Points and practice his skills every day.

With Wang Jin's permission, he could stay at the Martial Arts Hall permanently.

Jiang Ning had not even stepped out of the Martial Arts Hall's main gate, so naturally he had not joined the disciples' gatherings, drinking sessions, and other activities for cultivating friendship.

As a result, he naturally had little interaction with those disciples.

Especially since Jiang Ning practiced his fist technique so diligently, he had even less time to cross paths with them. No one would have nothing better to do than come looking for trouble with him.

Seeing Cheng Ran approach, Jiang Ning smiled and continued to shake his head lightly. The droplets at the tips of his hair fell onto the dirt around him, and in the blink of an eye, the water marks were quickly evaporated by the scorching ground.

"Senior Brother Cheng, you ran over here yourself. You can't blame me for that!"

Cheng Ran said, "Hehe! Wasn't I just joking with Junior Brother Jiang?"

As he spoke, he lowered the bucket into the deep well.

"This blasted weather is getting hotter and hotter!" Cheng Ran said.

Jiang Ning looked up at the sky. The Azure Sky stretched for thousands of miles, clear and boundless.

He nodded in deep agreement. "It seems like it's been more than two months since we last had rain!"

"That's right!" Cheng Ran said firmly.

By now, the bucket he had lowered into the well was full of water. With two or three swift movements, he hauled up the bucket brimming with cool well water.

"Not just these two months. Luoshui County has barely had any rain throughout the entire first half of the year!" Cheng Ran said.

As soon as he finished speaking, Cheng Ran raised the bucket in his hands and poured it over his head.

"Awesome!!!" he shouted wildly.

Then he continued complaining to Jiang Ning, "Brother Jiang, do you know that July is the time to harvest the grain? Two days ago, I went out on patrol, and a whole crowd of Tenant Farmers came crying poverty in front of me! I couldn't bear it for a moment and waived half a year of taxes for them. When I went back, my father beat me black and blue!"

At that, Cheng Ran seemed to recall the agonizing price he had paid that day and grimaced slightly.

"Senior Brother Cheng, you really are kindhearted!" Jiang Ning said sincerely.

Hearing the flattery, Cheng Ran could not help looking rather pleased.

Then he deliberately put on an expression of remaining unmoved by honor or disgrace. "Let's not talk about that! Brother Jiang, do you know what major event the Martial Arts Hall will have in a few days?"

"What major event?" Jiang Ning asked, slightly curious.

"Have you seen that tiger in the cage?" Cheng Ran asked.

Jiang Ning nodded.

Cheng Ran pointed toward the left side of the courtyard.

"Six days from now, that Ferocious Tiger will be released and placed in that courtyard!"

"By then, the Martial Arts Hall's true disciples will take the stage, allowing us to watch the Ferocious Tiger fight at close range. This will be an enormous help for us in breaking through the Tiger Form Fist into the Great Completion Realm!"

"I heard Senior Sister Li Qing has recently been meditating in seclusion at home, preparing for the final push to enter the Martial Dao ranks. Senior Sister Li Qing will probably take the stage that day as well!"

As Cheng Ran spoke, a thread of excitement faintly appeared on his face.