Reborn Anew

After dinner with Patriarch Wu Qiming's family at the ancestral residence, Wu Yuan first went with his mother to pick up his younger sister from the neighbors', then returned home.

As night deepened, his mother Wan Qin and his younger sister Wu Yijun gradually fell asleep.

Wu Yuan made his way to the riverbank with practiced ease.

"After more than a month since waking up, I've finally sorted out most matters." Wu Yuan smiled.

His original plan had been to seize first place in the Martial Academy Grand Competition and obtain five hundred taels of silver. Yet by a twist of fate, he had ended up with even more money.

"Now."

"As long as nothing unexpected happens, I have a year to cultivate in peace." Wu Yuan first surveyed the surroundings and confirmed that no one was present.

One year?

"In my previous life, I broke into the top ten of the Federation Youth Martial Arts Tournament in only a few years! And I wasn't even seventeen then." Light gleamed in Wu Yuan's eyes.

The years from twelve to eighteen were the golden age of development.

Even without training, some youths would see tremendous increases in height, weight, muscles, bones, and meridians as long as they ate and drank normally. If they practiced martial arts?

The improvements would be even more astonishing!

Martial arts were not immortal cultivation. Skills could be improved slowly, but one's physical foundation had to be laid as solidly as possible before the age of eighteen.

"In this life, my genes are ten times stronger, and I possess all the cultivation experience from my previous life?"

"One year?"

"Even if I can't reach this body's peak, with the Tiger Leopard Bone Refining Technique as my foundation, I still have a great chance of surpassing my previous-life peak!" Wu Yuan pondered, then shifted his stance, like a tiger or leopard springing from its cage.

"Crack! Crack! Crack!" As he spread his legs and opened his hips, his muscles and bones rang out in bursts, and his entire aura changed in an instant.

He resembled a ferocious beast.

Over the past dozen days, Wu Yuan had practiced the Tiger Leopard Bone Refining Technique several times. His physical qualities had soared, and the force of a single punch had already exceeded Five Thousand Jin.

What a terrifying rate of progress!

"Bones and sinews like a tiger, swift and fierce as a leopard." Wu Yuan flipped his palm and swallowed several Low-grade Body Tempering Pills at once.

A faint explosion sounded from his abdomen. In mere seconds, a pile of impurities flew from his mouth.

As his body grew stronger, his digestive ability naturally grew stronger as well.

"So hot!" Wu Yuan felt the medicinal power swiftly take effect. He no longer restrained it excessively, instead entering his cultivation state at once and methodically practicing the various postures.

If Wu Yuan had still been somewhat unfamiliar during his first cultivation session, needing to constantly adjust the minute details of his muscles and bones and the varying speeds of his blood flow—

After several rounds of cultivation, however, with Wu Yuan's control over his body, he could easily enter an almost perfect state.

"Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!" As his posture shifted, beginning from within and spreading outward, with his spine as the core and his limbs as supports, invisible currents of force began stimulating his muscles and fascia.

Huff! Huff!

Wu Yuan adjusted his breathing and controlled the speed of his blood flow. Even his heartbeat gradually slowed, entering "resonance" with the muscles and bones throughout his body.

The stimulation grew ever clearer!

"Skin and flesh, fascia, bones!" Wu Yuan felt as though ants were gnawing and tearing at his entire body, causing unbearable discomfort. This represented his body growing at an astonishing rate.

His muscles became firmer and stronger, capable of unleashing greater force.

His fascia grew increasingly resilient, while his bone density rose without pause, allowing them to bear even more powerful muscles.

Even his internal organs were faintly affected, continuously strengthening.

Correspondingly—

The energy contained within the Body Tempering Pills was being consumed at an astonishing rate as well.

"My thoughts are clear and my heart is at ease. Today's results seem a little better?" The thought flashed through Wu Yuan's mind, but he promptly stopped dwelling on it.

He calmed his mind and continued cultivating.

His martial realm was exceedingly high.

As his cultivation deepened, he gradually came to understand the principles behind this method. In truth, it stimulated the deepest cells within flesh, blood, muscles, and bones, allowing them to achieve the most perfect growth and continually advance toward the "Life Apex"!

"In my previous life, merely cultivating the Dragon Marrow Cleansing Technique after reaching adulthood gave me strength exceeding Twenty Thousand Jin."

"In this life, what if I cultivate both techniques at once?" The deeper Wu Yuan thought, the more fervent his heart became.

Even with his state of mind, it took him quite a while to calm down completely.

The days passed one by one.

Liu Ruyan, Xu Yuanhan, and a group of elite martial academy disciples left Li City in succession. Luo He and Wu Sheng likewise headed to Nanmeng Martial Academy.

As for General Xu, after the inspection team departed, he never came looking for trouble with the Wu Clan. It seemed he had completely put the matter of the competition behind him.

It was exactly what Wu Yuan wanted.

After seeing off his two friends, Wu Yuan only occasionally looked after his younger sister and visited the martial academy once every few days. He spent all the rest of his time cultivating alone.

Every day!

His physical qualities rose madly, undergoing constant transformation.

The growth of his strength and the drastic changes in his body were incomparably wonderful, enough to make anyone lose themselves in them.

Spring gave way to autumn.

In the blink of an eye, July arrived. More than three months had passed since the Martial Academy Grand Competition.

The riverbank late at night.

Wu Yuan still held strange postures like a ferocious beast, half crouched upon the ground. Large beads of sweat slid down the muscle lines of his back and legs, as though carved by blade and chisel.

Huff!

Wu Yuan gave a light leap and rose to his feet.

"Feels great. Every time I finish practicing the Tiger Leopard Bone Refining Technique, I feel incomparably refreshed." Wu Yuan savored the comfortable numbness spreading through his body.

The sweat emerging from the pores across his skin rapidly diminished.

With Wu Yuan's control over his body, even if he ran dozens of miles in one breath, he could keep from shedding a single drop of sweat.

But when his physical qualities underwent such drastic transformation, it became difficult to control the flow of sweat.

"The Tiger Leopard Bone Refining Technique truly deserves to be called the pinnacle crystallization of the Human Federation's wisdom. It's simply inconceivable." Wu Yuan murmured to himself.

The more he cultivated, the more he could feel the power of this strength-training method. He could not imagine how it had been created. Only the Human Federation, having compiled the cultivation methods of tens of billions of people, could have accomplished such a feat.

"I originally thought that, as time passed, its effects would grow weaker, just like when I cultivated the Dragon Marrow Cleansing Technique after becoming an adult. Who would have thought its effects would actually become stronger and stronger?" Wu Yuan sighed.

Now, he also understood the reason. If one cultivated these techniques after adulthood, when one's bones and sinews had fully formed, the effects would not be very pronounced.

But now, he was still developing at a frantic pace. Cultivating the Tiger Leopard Bone Refining Technique would in turn stimulate that development.

"In just three months, my strength has nearly caught up to my previous life!"

His physical strength—Eighteen Thousand Jin in one arm!

Wu Yuan had tested it himself using the equipment at the martial academy yesterday, when no one was around. It was not far from what he sensed through his Internal Vision.

What terrifying strength.

Four months ago, when Wu Yuan had just awakened, the power of a punch from his body was only a little over Three Thousand Jin. Now, it had increased fivefold.

"There is the miraculous nature of the cultivation technique, but more importantly, there are my genes."

"If it were in the Human Federation, at the same age, even with the assistance of an intelligent network and the best nutritional supplements, I still wouldn't reach this level after cultivating for a year."

No matter how much a cat trained, it could never train itself into a tiger.

"The Central Land is vast, and powerful figures have emerged in every generation, but there are probably few who reached the level of a Fifth-Rank Martial Artist at fourteen." Wu Yuan swung his fists.

His muscles and bones exerted force, his muscles bulging out in slabs, as though cast from steel and brimming with power.

"The only problem is that the eight hundred Body Tempering Pills I exchanged for last time have been used up again."

"I've already bought from Stellar Tower four times in a row. Especially the fourth time—there was likely a Proficient Expert following me. Though I shook him off, I can't go to Stellar Tower again."

"Where should I get Body Tempering Pills next?"