Skin Refining Great Accomplishment!

"Thought moves before the hand, force flows light and nimble, finger passes without shadow, breaking wind and piercing clouds..."

Lu Ming stood in the courtyard, recalling the mantra of the Cloud-Piercing Finger.

This second-rate finger technique's hallmark was speed—speed like a lightning flash through clouds.

Thus, the attacking gesture of the Cloud-Piercing Finger was not two fingers, but a single finger, striking solely with the most agile index finger!

To train in speed, one must first train in precision.

Following the cultivation method of the Cloud-Piercing Finger, Lu Ming hung a leaf on the arm of a wooden dummy, and behind the leaf, at a distance of one finger's width, he fixed a sheet of white paper.

What he needed to do was pierce through the leaf with his finger without damaging the paper.

One finger's distance was only the beginning; to truly enter the threshold, he had to make the leaf and paper stick tightly together. With a single finger strike, the leaf would break while the paper remained intact.

In terms of entry difficulty, the Cloud-Piercing Finger, though a second-rate finger technique, was even harder than the first-rate lightness skill, the Cloud-Stepping Technique.

Lu Ming paid no heed to the difficulty. What he valued was the extra experience the Cloud-Piercing Finger added.

After setting up the leaf and paper, he immediately struck out with a finger!

Pfft! Tear!

The leaf snapped, and the paper tore as well.

Lu Ming shook his head slightly. His control was indeed too poor. Without diligent practice, when he truly faced a strong enemy later, even if he spotted a black weak point, he might not be able to hit it.

Thinking this, he trained with even more vigor, resetting the leaf and paper, and striking out with another finger!

This time, he was much more serious, training with full effort. After each finger strike, he had to rest a while to recover his focus before continuing.

The Divine Ability Panel finally reacted.

[Evolving Acupoint Divine Ability (206/10000)...]

206?

Lu Ming's eyes lit up. As expected!

Before training, he had checked—the Acupoint Divine Ability experience was originally 202. Now, after practicing the Cloud-Piercing Finger, it had reached 206, a direct increase of 4 points.

Previously, he could only gain 2 points per practice session.

This meant the extra experience from a second-rate martial art was indeed a natural 2 points.

Although the Cloud-Piercing Finger was harder to master, as long as he trained with full effort, every finger strike earned him experience.

In the same training time, if he practiced finger techniques, the finger technique experience gained was greater than the leg technique experience from practicing lightness skills.

And now, the experience needed to evolve the next Acupoint Divine Ability and Leg Dao Divine Ability was 10,000 points each.

Lu Ming pondered for a moment and immediately decided to evolve the next Acupoint Divine Ability first.

Acupoint Divine Abilities emphasized killing and focused on momentum. Used well, they could easily allow one to kill enemies above their rank.

Evolving the third Acupoint Divine Ability would greatly boost his combat power. With Red Cloud County growing turbulent and unpredictable, he needed to prepare more trump cards.

As for Leg Dao Divine Abilities, with Godly Movement and Earth-Splitting, they were enough for now.

Having made up his mind, he continued practicing the Cloud-Piercing Finger.

Pfft! Pfft-tear!

The sounds of leaves and paper being pierced rang out from time to time in the courtyard.

[Evolving Acupoint Divine Ability (210/10000)...]

[Evolving Acupoint Divine Ability (214/10000)...]

[Evolving...]

[Evolving Acupoint Divine Ability (242/10000)...]

An hour later, Lu Ming felt unbearable pain in the index fingers of both hands. Finally, trembling, he stopped, panting lightly.

That was enough for today.

But though his body was utterly exhausted, looking at the rapidly growing Acupoint experience, he felt quite excited.

He had gained a full 50 points of experience in one hour.

So, training six hours a day would yield 300 points.

In just thirty-three days, he could evolve the third Acupoint Divine Ability.

This result made Lu Ming secretly breathe a sigh of relief. Compared to the half-year-plus he had calculated before, now it was reduced to about a month—a massive shortening of time.

A month later, there would still be nearly a month until the major exam—plenty of time to put it to use.

"Bang~bang~" Only then did the sound of a clapper come from the Public Kitchen.

Food was being served!

Lu Ming looked up. The sky had long since darkened. He shook his head, wondering what the cook at the Military Service Bureau had been up to, delaying by an entire hour.

He leisurely went out, heading to the Public Kitchen for his meal.

Seeing Wei Jinlin eating with a stern face, seemingly still displeased, he chose a seat far from him and sat down without greeting him. After finishing his meal, he quietly returned to his courtyard.

Over the next few days, Lu Ming cultivated diligently every day, training for a full six hours each day. His acupoint experience skyrocketed.

[Evolving Acupoint Divine Ability (2042/10000)...]

Finally, on the sixth day, as Lu Ming pointed out his last strike, he suddenly felt his blood and qi surge and his scalp tingle.

Soon, his blood and qi returned to normal.

Lu Ming was radiant with energy. He clenched his fist, feeling his entire body light and powerful. A smile crept onto his face, and he breathed a quiet sigh of relief inside.

His scalp had also connected with blood and qi—Skin Refining was complete!

Fortunately, it was only the sixth day. He had broken through within the seven-day limit Wei Jinlin had set.

If he had still been using injury medicine, he would never have completed this breakthrough.

It had to be a cultivation medicine like Sweet Dew Powder.

After breaking through, Lu Ming fully sensed the changes in his body, feeling secretly delighted.

Now, he could better withstand the inertia of Godly Movement. As for the Earth Splitting Divine Ability's control over the earth, it had expanded from a radius of three zhang to five zhang—a massive increase!

As his martial arts cultivation grew stronger, his divine abilities could also unleash greater power.

In terms of martial arts breakthroughs, he had gained doubly, filling Lu Ming with a sense of satisfaction.

It was already late today, so he planned to inform Wei Jinlin of this tomorrow. That way, he could learn a new martial art—the second-rate palm technique, Nine Palaces Palm!

Lu Ming looked forward to it eagerly.

But the next day, before Wei Jinlin arrived, an old friend knocked on his door instead.

"Senior Sister Li?" The person standing at the door was none other than Li Youning.

Lu Ming welcomed Li Youning into the living room and said with a smile:

"My place is humble, so I can only offer you water to drink. Senior Sister, how do you have time to visit me? How is the Li Family Bank doing now?"

Li Youning took a deep breath and said, "Junior Brother Lu, we're preparing to move away."

Lu Ming was stunned. "Move away?"

Li Youning's face was grave as she slowly nodded and said:

"The entire clan is relocating to Qingning Prefecture City. There are some connections of the Li Family there, enough to settle down. As for the Li Family Bank in the city, it's already closed."

Lu Ming's heart jolted upon hearing this.

He hadn't expected that even after winning the arena battle, the Li Family would end up like this.

Though he had anticipated that their fate wouldn't be good, he never imagined it would come to a full clan relocation.

All of this was because of that Zhou Zhen—Zhou Zhen, the abandoned disciple of the Lingyun Sect!

The Lingyun Sect was merely a third-rate sect, and Zhou Zhen was just an abandoned disciple.

Yet even so, his mere arrival had suffocated the Li Family, forcing them to seek another path.

The Li Family had operated in this county for years and surely had some connections. But likely because their rival was Zhou Zhen, no one dared to help.

Lu Ming thought to himself that he must rank as high as possible in the upcoming great examination and eventually enter a sect.

Otherwise, even if he built a family as large as the Li Family, he would have no dignity in front of sect disciples.

Suddenly, a question occurred to him, and he asked:

"The whole clan is moving. What about you, Senior Sister? Aren't you still serving your martial service?"