Mayfly Step Slash

[Simulation begins. Your name is Ye Feng, a direct-line descendant of the Ye Family, one of the Four Great Families of Fengyuan City. Although your Bone Structure is poor, you are exceptionally diligent, and you are also a Martial Skill Genius with extremely high comprehension. The Ye Family's high-level members kept the Talent for comprehension you displayed hidden from outsiders; only a select few knew of it. The family resources given to you were also brought in line with Ye Mingyue's. This was already second-tier cultivation. Throughout the Ye Family's history, only a handful of people had received first-tier resource cultivation.]

[In the first year, while diligently tempering your body, you also practiced the Mountain Shaking Fist day and night. Seeing how hardworking you were compared to other children, your father felt deeply guilty. Since you had displayed extraordinary Talent for comprehension before the family's high-level members, your father did not go out alone to search for spirit medicine that could alter your Bone Structure. Instead, he convened the Family Elder Council, striving to obtain the family's help in finding a way to improve your Bone Structure.]

[This Family Elder Council lasted a full two days. In order for you to receive the family's assistance, Ye Changming gave up a great deal of his own interests. In the end, the Family Elder Council approved it, and the entire Ye Family began gathering relevant information. They ultimately settled on the simplest method: collecting nineteen Mysterious Grade Precious Herbs.]

[The Ye Family's treasury already contained fifteen Precious Herbs from the formula, while two of the remaining four could be exchanged from the other two great families, so the difficulty was not too high. The final two were also the most crucial and hardest to obtain: the Profound Grade High Rank Precious Herb, Moon Pass Fruit, and the Profound Grade High Rank Precious Herb, Nirvana Petal. Of the two, the Nirvana Petal was exceptionally difficult to acquire. The family needed to send people to the large city of Yicheng City and wait for the once-every-fifty-years Auction House for a chance to obtain them.]

[These nineteen Precious Herbs could ultimately be refined into a Bone Strengthening Root Growing Treasure Pill. Refining this pill required extremely high Alchemy Mastery, and the Ye Family's current Third Ancestor happened to be an expert in alchemy. Most Mysterious Grade Treasure Pills in all of Fengyuan City had been refined by him. As long as the Precious Herbs were collected, he had a seventy percent chance of succeeding. You knew nothing of what Ye Changming was secretly striving to obtain for you, and continued your arduous training day after day, year after year.]

[In the second year, your cultivation rose to the Body Tempering Realm Seventh Level. The Ye Family Third Ancestor personally went to exchange Precious Herbs with the Bai Family and Shi Family. Since many Pills required the Third Ancestor to refine them, although the Bai Family and Shi Family were at odds with the Ye Family, they bore no great hatred toward it and would not offend the Third Ancestor over this matter. Thus, the exchange went smoothly, and seventeen Mysterious Grade Precious Herbs were gathered.]

[In the middle of the second year, a family elder came to find you and asked you to enter the special Miniature Secret Realm controlled by the Ye Family to explore for treasures. From your father, Ye Changming, you learned that this special Miniature Secret Realm was one of the two special Miniature Secret Realms controlled by the family. Unlike Ordinary Secret Realms, special Secret Realms usually had cultivation restrictions, but the harvest within was most often beyond comparison with that of Ordinary Secret Realms. The special Miniature Secret Realm the family was about to open could only be entered by those below the Blood Transformation Realm, and it carried a certain degree of danger.

There were many Yellow Grade Spirit Medicine within this Secret Realm. If luck was good, one could even obtain a small amount of Mysterious Grade Precious Herbs. It only opened once every hundred years, and the next opening would be two months later. Since your Mountain Shaking Fist had already reached Initial Proficiency, the family acknowledged your strength and wanted you to enter the Secret Realm this time to help the family acquire more spirit medicine.]

[That same year, you entered this Miniature Secret Realm with four other Ye Family disciples, five people in total including yourself. The other four followed your lead in exploring. Holding the map provided by the family, you explored with maximum efficiency after entering the Secret Realm. The other four cleared the way for you; if they encountered a Mortal Grade Peak Beast they could not resist, they would record it for you to deal with later. During the half month within the Miniature Secret Realm, you led the four disciples, including Ye Mingyue, on a sweeping raid. You went through dozens of battles, but you resolved them all with ease. The four of them greatly admired your strength. In the end, you obtained 276 Mortal Grade Herbs, sixty-eight Yellow Grade Spirit Medicine, and four rather precious Mysterious Grade Precious Herbs. The family highly praised your gains and distributed quite a few rare Pills suitable for the Body Tempering Realm for the five of you to consume.]

[In the third year, aided by the Pills, your cultivation rose to the Body Tempering Realm Eighth Level.]

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[In the fifth year, you had absorbed every Pill given to you by the family. Only then did you realize how powerful the small increase in Pill absorption provided by your Talent, Innate Medicinal Heart, truly was—it multiplied your gains outright. Or perhaps your original absorption rate had simply been too low. This year, you reached the peak of the Body Tempering Realm Eighth Level. You could feel that within half a year, you would step into the Body Tempering Realm Ninth Level. You also comprehended Mountain Shaking Fist Intent, stepping into the Perfection Realm of Perfected Mastery. Because of the Pills, the speed of your cultivation advancement was now comparable to that of Ye Family peers of the same age with Yellow Grade Bone Structure.]

[In the tenth year, you broke through the Body Tempering Realm and reached the initial stage of the Blood Transformation Realm. You noticed that your cultivation progress was becoming slower and slower, and your Martial Skill improvement was no longer as rapid as before. You had already been mentally prepared for this result. Even among family disciples, most branch descendants with Mortal Grade Bone Structure remained at the Blood Transformation Realm for their entire lives, unable to break through to the Organ Refining Stage. But because you had broken through to the Blood Transformation Realm by the time you came of age at eighteen, the family elders speculated that you might possess other Talents that were difficult to detect. This made them expect even more from you. Thanks to the aptitude you had displayed, along with the resources provided by the family and your parents, you did not need to worry too much about resources while in the Blood Transformation Realm. You only needed to focus wholeheartedly on raising your cultivation.]

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[In the twenty-sixth year, your cultivation rose to the middle stage of the Blood Transformation Realm. Because the Mountain Shaking Fist improved slowly, you cultivated a Sabre Technique as well. Your Talent was not limited to fist techniques; you seemed even more adept with the sabre. The Yellow Grade Middle Rank Sabre Technique, Mayfly Step Slash, had already been cultivated to the Perfection Realm of Perfected Mastery. This Sabre Technique had three moves, and only three moves. When facing an enemy, each slash could grow fiercer than the last, or you could accumulate Mayfly Blade Intent and unleash a fatal slash. The accumulated blade intent was extremely aggressive, stressing an advance that never turned back, with no road of retreat. Once you failed to kill the enemy, you could only leave yourself at their mercy.]

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[In the thirty-fifth year, the family bought the Profound Grade High Rank Precious Herb, Moon Pass Fruit, and the Profound Grade High Rank Precious Herb, Nirvana Petal, for you at Yicheng City's Auction House. That same year, the Ye Family Third Ancestor personally refined the Pill for you.]