Leg Dao Divine Ability!
Lu Ming saw that he had gained a point of Leg Dao experience, and his heart leapt with joy.
His guess had been right. Practicing lightness skills could give rise to new divine abilities.
In other words, if he kept practicing other martial arts, such as boxing or swordsmanship, wouldn't they all give rise to divine abilities too?
In the future, he might possess ten thousand divine abilities, flying through the sky and burrowing underground, capable of anything.
Lu Ming couldn't help but indulge in the thought, his heart brimming with excitement.
After a long while, he calmed down. The future looked bright, but for now, he didn't have many opportunities to get his hands on so many manuals.
He also had limited time to practice each day, so for the moment, he could only focus on what was in front of him.
Demons and monsters seemed to be stirring in the city. If he could develop a Leg Dao Divine Ability, it would greatly improve his chances of survival.
He immediately decided to set aside at least half of each day to practice Grass Gliding.
Practicing Grass Gliding would also build his power and speed up his breakthrough into a Skin Refining martial artist, so it wouldn't delay his progress by much.
With that thought, he wasted no time brewing a packet of Qi-Nurturing Powder. It looked black and murky, with a strong smell of Chinese medicine.
Pinching his nose, he tipped his head back and swallowed it in one gulp.
Along with the bitter taste, a fiery medicinal force slid down his throat and into his stomach. It burst inside him like a spark, then flowed through his limbs and every bone.
Lu Ming felt his heart pounding and his blood boiling. Knowing the Qi-Nurturing Powder had taken effect, he immediately resumed practicing Grass Gliding.
[Evolving Leg Path Divine Ability (2/100)...]
[Evolving Leg Path Divine Ability (3/100)...]
[Evolving Leg Path Divine Ability (4/100)...]
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Over the next five days, Lu Ming spent two shichen each day practicing Grass Gliding. Each session of Grass Gliding simply took longer than a session on the Nine Palace Living Stakes. Unlike the stakes, which he could run through in just a few breaths, Grass Gliding gave him experience more slowly, only fifteen points a day. Even so, after five days, he had nearly filled his Leg Dao experience bar.
[Evolving Leg Path Divine Ability (75/100)...]
"Phew." In the small courtyard, Lu Ming finished his last round of Grass Gliding for the day and stood at rest, breathing lightly as he wiped the sweat from his brow with a towel. His body was utterly exhausted, but seeing that his Leg Dao experience had reached seventy-five filled him with excitement. He was close. The day after tomorrow, he would develop his first Leg Dao Divine Ability. His first Acupoint Divine Ability had been Heaven Leak, and he had relied on it to reach the Integrated Force stage. It had helped him immensely. He wondered what his first Leg Dao Divine Ability would be, and anticipation stirred within him. After musing on it for a while, he felt that he had rested enough. He went straight to the Nine Palaces Stakes and began that day's practice on the Wooden Tablet Nine Palace Stakes. "Tap, tap, tap..." He had become very skilled at traversing the stakes. Each step swept forward as he darted through them with ease and fluidity. In less than three breaths, he had crossed the Nine Palaces Stakes. The wooden tablets rang out nine times as he reached the other end.
[Evolving Acupoint Divine Ability (162/10000)...]
"Keep going!" Lu Ming applied wound medicine, rested for a while, then continued practicing.
[Evolving Acupoint Divine Ability (164/10000)...] ```
[Evolving...]
[Evolving Acupoint Divine Ability (200/10000)...]
The sun sank in the west. After completing his final run through the Wooden Tablet Nine Palace Stakes, Lu Ming was sore all over.
He checked his Acupoint experience. It was steadily progressing, but the total of ten thousand made him smile wryly.
A few days earlier, after developing his second Acupoint Divine Ability, Point Kill, he had practiced the Nine Palace Living Stakes again the next day and discovered that his Acupoint Divine Ability could indeed continue to evolve.
But the experience requirement had also gained another zero after the original thousand. He would need a full ten thousand experience points to develop his third Acupoint Divine Ability.
He had cut his stake practice down to two shichen a day, which meant he could only gain forty experience points a day. At that rate, it would take him more than half a year to develop his third Acupoint Divine Ability.
Still, Heaven Leak and Point Kill were both very powerful Acupoint Divine Abilities, enough to serve him well for a while, so he could accept that.
What troubled him even more was that after five days of one packet of Qi-Nurturing Powder a day, he had only one packet left.
"Huh?!" The Qi-Nurturing Powder had worked well, and Lu Ming was wondering whether he could get a few more packets when he suddenly felt his blood and qi surging wildly after that day's practice.
It was like wave after wave rising inside him, making his body feel swollen.
"This is..." Lu Ming's eyes widened slightly.
The next moment,
the blood and qi inside him surged and swelled. The Integrated Force, like compressed cotton, seemed to be refined along with it, transforming into a surge of blood-qi that coursed through the skin covering his body.
In just a few breaths, his body, tempered by many days of hard practice, finally transformed. His skin abruptly became incomparably tough.
He clenched his fist and clearly felt the skin all over his body connect as one. His strength had increased tremendously!
Even the soreness in his body from practicing seemed to have eased.
"I broke through! This is Skin Refining, the realm of a true martial artist!"
Lu Ming was overjoyed. "So this is Blood-Qi Power?"
Lu Ming felt wisps of Blood-Qi Power within him, condensed from his vital energy. It was the foundation of a martial artist.
He could freely direct the Blood-Qi Power to cling to the surface of his body, greatly enhancing his strength.
"The martial path is amazing!" Lu Ming curiously tried all sorts of things.
That night, he didn't fall asleep until very late.
The next day, he hurried excitedly to the Martial Arts Arena.
Wei Jinlin hadn't arrived yet, but almost all the disciples were there.
Lu Ming looked around and frowned slightly. He hadn't seen Li Youning for the past few days.
Disciples of the Military Service Bureau were generally not allowed to leave the Bureau.
However, if they could pass the more advanced Stone Tablet Nine Palace Stakes, they would be allowed to come and go freely.
To pass the Stone Tablet Nine Palace Stakes, one needed the strength of Major Completion in Skin Refining. Li Youning had certainly reached that level. Maybe she had gone out to take care of something.
Soon, Wei Jinlin arrived. Lu Ming pushed aside his distracting thoughts and stepped forward.
"Master Wei, I can now break nine stakes in three breaths."
Wei Jinlin's eyes flickered as he stared at him.
"Your name is Lu Ming, right? Show me."
A confident glint flashed in Lu Ming's eyes as he approached a set of Wooden Tablet Nine Palace Stakes.
In truth, after gaining the Point Kill Divine Ability, as long as his body was in normal condition, his aura alone was stronger than these lifeless wooden tablets.
He could smash every wooden tablet with Point Kill in an instant. He didn't need to break through into Skin Refining.
But there was no point in that. He was demonstrating Three Breaths Nine Breaks in front of Wei Jinlin so he could move into the large courtyard and earn the right to practice the Stone Tablet Nine Palace Stakes.
Without reaching Skin Refining, he couldn't practice the Stone Tablet Nine Palace Stakes at all, so he had waited until after his breakthrough to demonstrate.
"Smack, smack, smack..."
Lu Ming stepped into Mud-Wading Steps and felt the skin all over his body tighten as the strength of the Skin Refining Realm surged into action.
With his blood and qi reinforcing him, he didn't use any finger techniques. He relied solely on the palm-blade strikes of the Nine Palace Living Stakes, yet still smashed through nine wooden tablets and reached the other end with ease in less than three breaths.
After the nine strikes rang out, the entire arena fell silent.
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