The next day, within Star River Sect, at the wooden cabin on Eagle Beak Cliff.
In the small courtyard before the cabin, where many exotic flowers and strange herbs grew.
Fang Hong was methodically practicing the Southern Dipper Body Shaping Method he had received from his cheap master yesterday.
The Northern Dipper governed death; the Southern Dipper governed life!
What the Southern Dipper Body Shaping Method cultivated was unending vitality.
It strengthened the qi and blood throughout the body, bolstering one's inner vitality.
Aside from its immensely powerful effects in tempering the flesh and qi and blood, its more important purpose was actually nourishing the body.
It nurtured the body itself, healed hidden injuries, and extended one's lifespan.
In truth, this Southern Dipper Body Shaping Method was not the original version.
It had been adapted and created by some great figure of the Myriad Star Lineage in the past, based on a cultivation method from Bright Moon Peak that was close to the Heaven Realm.
That cultivation method was called the Great Yin Body Shaping Method.
It was an incomparably mystical cultivation method.
However, its cultivation threshold was too high. That great figure of the Myriad Star Lineage had later used it as a blueprint to create this top-tier body-tempering method.
Hummm~~
At that moment, Fang Hong suddenly shifted from motion to stillness. Every pore across his body sealed shut, without a trace of qi and blood leaking out.
Yet every muscle in his body was continuously trembling.
The force of those trembling muscles constantly gathered, transforming into a peculiar strength that penetrated deep into his bones and tempered them without cease.
Southern Dipper Body Shaping Method: Level Four (0/100)
The cultivation realm displayed on the panel before his eyes instantly changed.
Fang Hong directly took out a bottle of Qi Replenishing Pills, poured them all into his mouth, and swallowed them whole.
The instant they entered his stomach, the pills transformed into powerful energy, swiftly replenishing Fang Hong's continuously drained qi and blood.
As the energy within his body dispersed and circulated.
An incomparably itchy sensation rose from deep within Fang Hong's bones.
Fang Hong's face was full of excitement, yet the muscles at the corners of his eyes kept twitching from the itch deep within his bones.
"I've finally advanced to the Marrow Refinement Realm. But this feeling of refining marrow is truly unbearable."
Fang Hong endured the discomfort with difficulty as he thought.
Still, despite how unpleasant it was, he had finally broken through to the Marrow Refinement Realm.
The Marrow Refinement Realm was intimately linked to the subsequent Blood Replacement Realm.
As the saying went, marrow refined like frost, blood refined like mercury.
After advancing to the Marrow Refinement Realm, both one's qi and blood and inner strength would become even more powerful.
At the same time, due to the unique role of bone marrow.
Once martial artists reached the Marrow Refinement Realm, their healing abilities and immunity would become outrageously powerful.
Blade wounds stopped bleeding at once; a hundred poisons could not invade!
Meanwhile, at the cabin entrance, Zhao Tianchen, who had originally been sitting on a stool, was so shocked that he dropped straight onto the ground.
His wrinkled old face was filled with utter astonishment, frozen like a wooden chicken.
Zhao Tianchen had been watching from the side ever since Fang Hong began cultivating that morning.
When Fang Hong first began cultivating, his progress had been lightning-fast. Zhao Tianchen could overlook him breaking through realm after realm.
Although the Southern Dipper Body Shaping Method was a peerless top-tier body-tempering cultivation method.
Fang Hong had, after all, already been a martial artist at Bone Refinement Great Accomplishment. He had a certain foundation, and his body had already undergone a considerable degree of tempering.
Zhao Tianchen simply assumed that Fang Hong was a genius.
After all, Fang Hong's formidable physical strength and surging qi and blood showed that his foundations were incredibly deep.
But Zhao Tianchen had never imagined.
That Fang Hong would break through to the Marrow Refinement Realm so quickly.
Bone marrow lay deep within the bones throughout the body, making it extremely difficult to temper.
But what had he just seen?
His little disciple had merely practiced in a methodical manner nearly a hundred times.
Then, for no apparent reason, he had broken through!
It was simply like child's play!
Was this how people broke through realms in your family?
Zhao Tianchen felt as though his entire worldview had been overturned.
The understanding he had built over countless years of traveling north and south seemed to have cracked at that very moment.
Gulp~
Zhao Tianchen swallowed and did his utmost to suppress the astonishment in his heart.
"Hong'er..."
Yet just as Zhao Tianchen was about to speak, before the words could even leave his mouth.
He saw Fang Hong begin cultivating again.
Southern Dipper Body Shaping Method: Level Four (1/100)
Southern Dipper Body Shaping Method: Level Five (0/100)
Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle—
An intense sound of blood rushing came from within Fang Hong's body.
The skin over his entire body turned incomparably red, while veins bulged violently across his surface, like roots and steel cables tangled all over him.
Fang Hong's eyes bulged as though they were splitting apart, and his pupils were bloodshot.
Streams of foul-smelling waste blood were continuously expelled from every pore of his body, even from his eyes, ears, mouth, and nose.
Fang Hong abruptly stuffed three bottles of Qi Replenishing Pills into his mouth.
His throat was directly swollen from being crammed with so many Qi Replenishing Pills.
Yet as though he felt nothing, Fang Hong flushed red and forcibly swallowed them down with great difficulty.
Thump~~
Zhao Tianchen had only just calmed the shock in his heart and sat back down on his chair.
But upon seeing that scene, he immediately fell off the stool once more.
His face bore a horrified expression, as though he had seen a ghost.
"The Blood Replacement Realm!"
"Impossible, impossible?!"
"How could he break through to the Blood Replacement Realm so quickly?!"
Zhao Tianchen cried out in shock, even terror filling his face.
He was even clutching a tuft of beard in his hand.
He had been stroking his beard just now, but upon witnessing this, he had yanked it out in his horror.
But his mind was now completely consumed by the fact that Fang Hong had directly broken through to the Blood Replacement Realm.
He no longer felt any pain from pulling out the hair on his chin.
Before Zhao Tianchen could recover from his boundless shock.
Fang Hong had already begun cultivating once more.
Fang Hong had no intention of suppressing his own strength.
If he had sufficiently profound cultivation methods and an ample supply of energy, he wished he could cultivate straight to the strongest level right now, becoming number one under heaven.
Unfortunately, that idea could not yet be realized.
But now, he had a powerful master like Zhao Tianchen looking after him.
He had exquisite cultivation methods to practice, as well as ample pills to replenish his energy.
Woohoo~
He had never had such a wonderful beginning!
Cheer for me! Applaud me!
Opportunity knocked but once—how could he not cultivate until he could cultivate no further?
Thus, Fang Hong naturally seized every moment and cultivated without wasting a second.
The Southern Dipper Body Shaping Method was enough to let him cultivate all the way to the completion of Organ Refinement.
Then he could learn the Heavenly Star Array Formation arts of Myriad Star Peak.
After that, he could naturally cultivate the Star Body Forging Treasure Art!
His cheap master had said before that Star River Sect did not lack heavenly treasures related to energy.
Judging from his master's certain and confident tone.
Fang Hong felt that he should not lack treasures to replenish his energy when the time came.
Then this time, he would definitely soar explosively into the heavens.
After all, that Starry Sky Treasure Art could allow its practitioner to directly cross over the Earth Realm and break through to the Heaven Realm with the physical body alone.
But after reaching the Heaven Realm, Star River Sect's assistance to him would probably no longer be as great as it was now.
Although Star River Sect stood alongside Crimson Spirit Sect as a top-tier sect within Tianhe Prefecture.
If one looked across the entire Wei Kingdom.
Star River Sect could only be considered a second-rate sect of the upper-middle tier.
After all, the sect master, Star River Sect's current strongest expert, seemed to be only at the Heaven Realm.
Moreover, after he broke through to the Heaven Realm, the energy he would require for further cultivation and breakthroughs would likely be immense.
Star River Sect would probably find it difficult to sustain such supplies by then.
Therefore, this period was likely the stage when his strength would rise most terrifyingly.
Once he broke through to the Heaven Realm, the speed at which he grew stronger would likely plummet, perhaps even stagnating for a time.
Thinking of this, how could Fang Hong dare waste any time?
If he was going to take flight, naturally the earlier the better.
If any unexpected accidents arose later, he would also have sufficient strength to protect himself or deal with them.
Forget everything else—first, firmly grasp strength, the most important factor, in his own hands.
That was the safest course!
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