The thirteenth year of Guangzong.
War flames rose on all sides across the Forest Kingdom. Six rebel kings had emerged in succession, and the realm was in chaos.
The imperial court lacked the strength to look south. Seizing the chance, Southern Heaven King Song Shentong used Great Marsh Prefecture as his core, attacking cities and seizing land in every direction, winning battle after battle.
June was the season when Great Marsh Lake teemed with fish and lush aquatic grasses.
On a deserted, uninhabited island.
Aaron drank the "Azure Dragon Life-Seizing Soup" and began training like his life depended on it.
Today, he had finally filled the proficiency of the fourth level of Black Sand Palm, officially tempered his marrow, and broken through into dark force!
Crash, crash!
His qi and blood surged through his body, rushing endlessly through his veins with the roar of mighty rivers.
Aaron even had a faint sensation.
It was as though he could see his own bones directly—each one as hard as steel!
And his marrow was as white as frost and snow.
Bones tempered like steel! Marrow tempered like frost!
Of course, it was only an illusion, but it also meant his skeleton had become incomparably condensed!
"Moo!"
His nostrils and mouth flared, producing a sound like thunder.
Amid the repeated tremors of the sound waves, his bones resonated, generating an entirely new kind of force—dark force!
"After training so bitterly for so long, especially after catching a Crimson Blood Carp tonight, I've finally made it!"
"It's about what I estimated too—breaking through within a year..."
Aaron walked before a huge boulder and held his palm in the air, still three inches from its surface.
Pfft! Pfft!
As dark force burst forth, the stone's surface gave off sharp hissing sounds, as if pierced by