Their Guts Are This Big—Then I Can Only Kill Them All

Deep within Black Crow Mountain.

Sun Yu ran wildly for a full two hours, circulating his blood and qi to the limit and forcibly carving a path through waist-deep snow.

A concealed stone cave appeared ahead, reeking with a thick, fishy stench.

Sun Yu stepped straight inside.

"Roar!"

From the darkness, a black bear weighing seven or eight hundred jin lunged at him, its blood-filled maw opening wide to bite off his head.

Sun Yu neither dodged nor evaded. He did not even draw his woodcutter's knife. The muscles in his right arm tightened instantly, his five fingers clenching into a terrifying iron fist as he smashed it viciously toward the black bear's head!

"Bang!"

A dull impact exploded through the cave.

The black bear's hard skull caved in and shattered at once. Its massive body slammed heavily to the ground like a heap of rotten mud, blood pouring from its seven apertures as it died on the spot.

The terrifying brute strength of the Perfection Realm Iron Skin Bear King Skill made killing an unranked beast as easy as slaughtering chickens and dogs.

With one hand, Sun Yu grabbed several enormous boulders and blocked most of the cave entrance.

He sat down beside the black bear, and warmth gradually returned to his body.

The town must know by now, Sun Yu thought to himself.

Just as he had guessed, Nanqiao Town had already been thrown into a complete uproar.

The Head Shopkeeper of Wanbao Merchant House had been killed, the secret chamber looted, and that priceless Blood Tai Sui had vanished without a trace.

There was no need to think about it. The spies of the town's major martial halls and merchant houses had surely poured out in full force, scouring the mountains and plains for him, this madman.

After all, whoever caught him would gain all the treasures on Sun Yu's person.

But Sun Yu did not care about any of that in the slightest.

He took the bundle from his back and lifted away the layer of black cloth, revealing an exquisitely crafted glazed glass case.

Inside, the dark-red mass of Blood Tai Sui was still wriggling extremely slowly, giving off a nauseatingly fishy-sweet scent brimming with astonishing blood and qi.

The Head Shopkeeper had said that this thing needed to be nourished with a martial artist's heart's blood in order to survive.

But Sun Yu had never intended to present it to any big shot, much less feed it with his own blood.

"I never thought such a rare treasure existed in this world."

A savage chill flashed through Sun Yu's eyes. Without the slightest hesitation, he brought down his knife and split the glazed glass case apart!

"Pfft!"

The blade's tip stabbed deep into the Blood Tai Sui. An incredibly viscous, crimson liquid, scalding hot like magma, instantly gushed out.

Sun Yu opened his mouth, leaned toward the split, and gulped it down in huge mouthfuls.

The liquid was bitter beyond measure upon entering his mouth, but the moment it reached his stomach, it transformed into an incomparably violent and domineering essence of blood and qi, rampaging wildly through his limbs and bones like a mountain flood bursting its banks!

"Boom!"

Sun Yu's skin instantly turned an intense crimson. Wisps of white vapor rose from the top of his head, and the blood and qi that had been depleted by his successive battles was not only fully restored within a few breaths, but filled him until his Meridians faintly ached!

If an ordinary Skin Tempering Realm martial artist drank even a mouthful of such domineering reserves of blood and qi, they would likely explode and die on the spot.

But with the Perfection Realm Iron Skin Bear King Skill as his foundation, Sun Yu forcibly withstood this violent impact.

"Good stuff!"

He took the dust-stained Cold Toad Breath Swallowing Technique from his robes.

He opened the book.

Unlike the fierce, forceful nature of external hardening arts, this technique focused on absorbing the qi of Extreme Cold. Like a cold toad hibernating through winter, it pressed Internal Breath strand by strand into the depths of the Bone Marrow, using it to temper the bones throughout the body.

Sun Yu firmly committed the mnemonic verses and cultivation diagrams to memory.

Silver light flickered across his retina.

[Technique: Cold Toad Breath Swallowing Technique (Not Yet Initiated)]

Sun Yu precisely calculated the time.

Before long, Zishi arrived.

The "+" behind the panel lit up.

Sun Yu smashed down with his will.

"Buzz!"

[Cold Toad Breath Swallowing Technique (Initiated)]!

An incomparably frigid current exploded without warning within Sun Yu's Dantian!

This current was completely unlike the heat flow from the Vajra Skill. Like countless sharp ice blades, it stabbed straight through his channels and into the gaps between his bones.

"Hiss!"

Sun Yu sucked in a breath of cold air, the muscles all over his body spasming uncontrollably.

The cold seeped into his bone marrow, beginning to brutally scour the impurities from his bones.

Over the next few days, Sun Yu holed himself up completely in the bear cave.

When he was hungry, he gnawed raw on the black bear's flesh and blood.

When he was thirsty, he grabbed a handful of ice and snow from the cave entrance and stuffed it into his mouth.

At midnight on the second day, [Cold Toad Breath Swallowing Technique (Proficient)].

At midnight on the third day, [Cold Toad Breath Swallowing Technique (Mastered)].

At midnight on the fourth day, [Cold Toad Breath Swallowing Technique (Minor Accomplishment)].

At midnight on the fifth day, [Cold Toad Breath Swallowing Technique (Major Accomplishment)].

As his proficiency soared wildly, the cold energy within Sun Yu grew heavier and heavier. Every time he breathed, visible white frost billowed from his nostrils.

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Until midnight on the sixth day.

[Cold Toad Breath Swallowing Technique (Great Perfection)]!

"Boom!"

A rapid series of dense explosions suddenly erupted from within Sun Yu's body.

"Crackle, crackle!"

It was the sound of the more than two hundred bones throughout his body grinding together like popping beans under the tempering of ultimate cold breath!

He abruptly opened his eyes, a faint blue glint of frost flashing through their depths.

Sun Yu rose to his feet and felt that his body had become much lighter, while the density of his bones had increased severalfold.

Casually, he drove a punch into the rock wall beside him.

"Pfft!"

There was no thunderous crash. Sun Yu's fist sank into the stone as though it were tofu, burrowing more than half a foot deep.

When he pulled his fist back out, the edges of the opening in the rock wall were smooth as a mirror, while fine powder drifted down in a soft rustle.

Bones like refined iron, Internal Breath penetrating the bones!

Second Barrier of Houtian, Late Bone Forging Realm!

He was only a single step away from Great Perfection in the Bone Forging Realm.

Without that Blood Tai Sui, reaching this point so swiftly would truly have taken much more time.

Sun Yu clenched his fist, feeling the icy, bone-piercing yet immensely powerful strength within him. A cold smile tugged at his lips.

If he encountered the Head Shopkeeper again now, he would not need to rely on the rebound of his skin membrane at all. One punch would smash straight through the man's chest.

Just then, the panel on his retina suddenly shook violently.

A string of blood-red words flickered madly.

[Detected that the host has cultivated a Bone Forging Inner Skill.]

[Iron Skin Bear King Skill (Great Perfection) + Cold Toad Breath Swallowing Technique (Great Perfection), fusion requirements met.]

[Fuse?]

Sun Yu's breath caught, and wild delight burst from his eyes.

"Fuse!"

"Buzz!"

Sun Yu felt his mind explode with a roar. The blood and qi and cold energy throughout his body became like two savage beasts, tearing into each other in a frenzied battle within him.

After just three breaths.

Several lines of small text slowly emerged on the panel.

[Supreme Dao Divine Ability: Cold Iron Demonic Body (Not Yet Initiated)]

[Traits: Bones like divine iron, blood like lead and mercury. The skin membrane not only possesses ultimate defense, but also carries Extreme Cold rebound. Whoever touches it will have their Internal Breath frozen and their astral qi driven back!]

Sun Yu drew a deep breath.

Two ordinary Houtian Skills had actually been forcibly fused into a Supreme Dao Divine Ability that defied all reason!

Though it was still only Not Yet Initiated, he could clearly sense that the potential of his physical body had been elevated completely to an utterly terrifying level.

Yet the other two martial arts were still there; they had not disappeared.

Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Sun Yu pulled out the Parchment Map he had searched from the Head Shopkeeper's body.

By the faint light at the cave entrance, he quickly scanned it.

Nanqiao Town was merely a small place on the outskirts of Black Crow Mountain, with scarce resources.

Now that he had entered the Bone Forging Realm, his next step was Organ Tempering.

A Viscera Refining Realm cultivation method was simply impossible to obtain in Nanqiao Town.

Before long, Sun Yu's gaze locked tightly onto a blood-red skull marker north of the map, a hundred li away from Nanqiao Town.

Icefall Black Market.

It was a true lawless zone wedged between several major cities.

There were no laws there, no rules—only the naked law of the jungle.

Murder and plunder, demon beast materials, supreme cultivation methods—it had everything.

"This is the place."

Sun Yu put away the map and tucked it close against his body.

Just as he turned to pack his belongings—

A faint crunch of snow being stepped on suddenly came from outside the cave.

The sound was light, but it could not escape the hearing of Sun Yu, now in the Bone Forging Realm.

Sun Yu paused, then vanished into the darkness in an instant.

"Is this the place? Don't tell me that kid saw wrong."

A deliberately lowered, hoarse voice came from outside the cave.

"It's a bear cave, so it should be here. Stay sharp. The wanted notice says that brat is extremely vicious. He killed Zhao Xiong with one slash, then killed the Head Shopkeeper too. He's a master hiding his true strength." The other voice carried a trace of nervousness.

"What's there to fear? We have six Armor Piercing Crossbows. No matter how well he can fight, can he withstand a volley of crossbow bolts? Cut off his head, and the trading house is offering a full thousand taels of silver!"

The footsteps drew closer and closer. Six figures advanced slowly toward the cave entrance in a fan formation, clutching steel Armor Piercing Crossbows with their strings drawn.

In the darkness.

Sun Yu expressionlessly drew the Refined Iron Hunting Knife from his waist.

Since they had the nerve, then they could all die.

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