Under the moonlight.
In a temporary cave dwelling carved into a desolate mountain.
After Aaron finished comprehending the cultivation art, a sudden impulse rose in his heart. He sat cross-legged and began circulating the Bright Jade Art.
Within his body, the true essence of his Foundation Establishment Realm mana flowed like a clear spring, murmuring onward, while the bones throughout his body emitted a crystalline glow.
Then, the eleventh layer of the cultivation art broke through smoothly, entering the twelfth layer—the realm representing the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage!
"This bottleneck... I broke through it that easily?"
"I'd originally planned to slowly grind it down over decades, maybe even a century..."
Aaron glanced at his attribute panel:
[Realm: Foundation Establishment Middle Stage] [Cultivation Art: Bright Jade Art, Twelfth Layer (1/2000)] [Skill: Second-Order Jade Bone (300/1000)]
"The breakthrough in my cultivation art brought Jade Bone along with it."
Aaron looked at his palm and exerted a little force. A crackling volley of popping joints rang out.
"At this point, Second-Order Jade Bone is already as tough as ordinary low- to mid-grade magical artifacts... In other words, my body refinement has reached the point where, even if I just stood there without defending myself and let Qi Refinement cultivators attack me with magical artifacts, there's a good chance those artifacts would get stuck on my bones? They wouldn't be able to inflict fatal wounds?"
"But I'd have to be an idiot to try taking magical artifacts head-on with my body..."
"Besides... although this divine ability specializes in bone refinement, stronger bones have also rapidly enhanced the strength of my physical body... I've reached the point where I can crush a force-transforming martial master barehanded, without using any martial techniques, with brute force alone... Martial arts really have no future."
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