Liking This Feeling

Bang!

A loud crack of exploding bones rang out in the air.

After practicing more than a dozen times, one of the students successfully produced a bone crack.

As soon as that student produced a bone crack, more cracks began ringing out one after another.

After receiving massages with the special ointment, the students all found the right feeling and produced bone cracks.

Qin Fen also carefully sensed the changes within his bones. His punches became smoother and smoother, and every time he finished performing the Thunderclap Fist, he felt his bones grow a little harder.

The medicinal effects of the ointment also continued to seep deep into his bones, strengthening them.

With a bang.

Qin Fen threw a punch, and a bone crack came from within his body.

Joy immediately appeared in his eyes. The Thunderclap Fist had finally reached the beginner level.

With a thought, a crude Panel visible only to him appeared before his eyes.

Qin Fen: Quasi-Martial Artist

Martial Arts: Galloping Horse Strength/Peak Perfection (1/500), Eighteen Falls Upon Touching/Entering the Hall and Reaching the Inner Chamber (35/100), Thunderclap Fist/Rudimentary Understanding (0/30)

Righteous Qi Value: 95

Sure enough, the Thunderclap Fist had appeared on the Panel.

Since he had only just learned it, its proficiency was still at zero.

Moreover, the proficiency required for the Thunderclap Fist to reach the peak of Rudimentary Understanding far exceeded that of Galloping Horse Strength and Eighteen Falls Upon Touching.

For Galloping Horse Strength and Eighteen Falls Upon Touching, reaching 10 proficiency at the Rudimentary Understanding realm was enough to advance to the next realm. But the Thunderclap Fist required 30, equivalent to the First Glimpse of the Path realm for those two martial arts.

This showed that the higher the grade of a martial art, the harder it was to cultivate.

Eighteen Falls Upon Touching was a Lower First Grade Martial Art. Its proficiency requirements for Rudimentary Understanding, First Glimpse of the Path, and Entering the Hall and Reaching the Inner Chamber were no different from Galloping Horse Strength, but it had an additional realm of Comprehensive Mastery before Peak Perfection.

The Thunderclap Fist was a Lower Second Grade Martial Art. Compared to Galloping Horse Strength, it not only had an additional realm of Comprehensive Mastery, but the proficiency required for each realm was also different. To reach the peak of Rudimentary Understanding, it required 30 proficiency.

Qin Fen still had 95 Righteous Qi Value. It had indeed been wise to save it.

However, 95 Righteous Qi Value was only enough to raise it to the First Glimpse of the Path realm.

The massage and manipulation had taken forty minutes, so the class soon ended.

The students dispersed. Qin Fen went to the training floor of Thunder Spirit Martial Arts Hall, found a secluded and empty training room, and used his Righteous Qi Value to improve the Thunderclap Fist. All his Righteous Qi Value was instantly added to this martial art.

Qin Fen's body suddenly shook violently.

A mysterious force within his body pressed and tempered his bones, making their density more compact and greatly increasing their hardness.

As he improved, Qin Fen's bones also produced loud cracking sounds.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang...

A series of bone cracks, like firecrackers, echoed through the training room.

After the bone cracks sounded thirty times, all the sounds merged into one.

Rumble!

The bone crack transformed into a clap of thunder that exploded through the air, its power greatly increased.

Once the improvement was complete, the force within Qin Fen's body came quickly like a tide and receded just as quickly.

Qin Fen then looked at the changes to the Thunderclap Fist on the Panel.

Thunderclap Fist/First Glimpse of the Path (65/100)

This improvement had been fiercer than any previous one.

He had used 95 points of Righteous Qi Value at once, increasing his proficiency by 95 points. The leap had been enormous.

Through the Panel's enhancement, the forms and techniques of the Thunderclap Fist had been deeply imprinted in his mind, as though he had cultivated them through arduous practice himself. But the sharp increase in his bone hardness over such a short period required time to recover from.

Qin Fen felt a wave of soreness throughout his bones, as though he had trained day and night for several days. His thighs, calves, arms, fingers, and toes all throbbed with intense pain at the slightest movement.

Before this, he had considered improving his martial arts at the last minute in a fight.

Now, it seemed that idea would not work.

Small improvements were fine and had little effect on the body. But drastically increasing martial art proficiency and sending one's realm soaring would have a certain impact on the body.

Even if he saved up Righteous Qi Value in the future, he could not add it all to a martial art at once.

Trying to become fat with one bite could easily get him stuffed to death. He should improve gradually so as not to damage his body.

If only I could get another massage.

Qin Fen thought to himself.

Thunder Spirit Martial Arts Hall's exclusive ointment was meant to assist in cultivating the Thunderclap Fist. Besides allowing force to penetrate deeper into the bones, it also protected the bones to a certain extent and could eliminate bone fatigue.

With that thought, he immediately took out his phone and opened Thunder Spirit Martial Arts Hall's official website.

Sure enough, Qin Fen found the massage service on the martial arts hall's website.

But it was just as expensive as the classes. A single massage actually cost five hundred.

However, when he thought of how a 50-milliliter bottle of Secret Medicinal Oil with Spiritual Content above "0.1" cost five hundred and could only be used four or five times at most, five hundred for a massage was understandable.

After all, the ointment itself was valuable. It contained many medicinal herbs that strengthened the tendons and bones, and it was even possible that Spiritual Qi had been added through special methods. Ordinary people and Quasi-Martial Artists could not absorb Spiritual Qi, but Thunder Spirit Martial Arts Hall had Martial Artists who had opened the Mysterious Gate Aperture in residence. Adding Spiritual Qi to ointment was no difficult task.

And there were also professional masters from the martial arts hall to perform the massage and manipulation. Five hundred was not expensive.

Qin Fen even felt that Thunder Spirit Martial Arts Hall's ointment was no less effective than the Secret Medicinal Oil on the market. The only difference was that Secret Medicinal Oil did not require special massage techniques. One only needed to apply it to the injured area and rub it lightly, and the medicinal oil could seep into the body through the pores.

The martial arts hall's ointment, however, required a master to massage and manipulate it with special techniques before it could penetrate the body and reach deep into the bones.

Perhaps that was why the martial arts hall's ointment could not be widely distributed on the market. If they could solve that problem, they would basically be able to compete with Secret Medicinal Oil for business.

Qin Fen shook his head and cast those thoughts aside.

It was not something he needed to care about.

There were still nineteen hundred in his account. He had spent one hundred on a Nutritional Meal at noon, and now that the Thunderclap Fist had appeared on the Panel, he no longer needed to attend lectures. So he gritted his teeth, painfully placed an order, and headed to the massage area.

Forty minutes later, Qin Fen walked out of the massage room.

Although the massage was expensive, it was worth every penny. The pain in his body had indeed eased considerably. After going back to rest for the night and getting a good sleep, he would be full of energy and vigor again the next day.

Qin Fen could not help sighing inwardly. Rich people had it far easier when practicing martial arts than poor people. They could eat Nutritional Meals every day, use all kinds of medicinal herbs to assist their cultivation, get massages and manipulation to quickly eliminate physical fatigue, and even hire private instructors for constant guidance.

In just one day, he had spent sixteen hundred and experienced what it felt like to be rich.

To be honest, Qin Fen was starting to like this feeling.

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