Steel Tendons and Iron Bones

As Beast Intent Demon Claw and Blood Soaked Sinking Heart were born, a vast amount of detailed information regarding them suddenly surged into the depths of Li Hai's mind out of thin air.

Furthermore, his level of understanding regarding these two skills felt as if he had possessed them for a long, long time, reaching a state of profound and thorough mastery.

First was Blood Soaked Sinking Heart.

The specific effects of this divine ability, summarized, were largely the same as its predecessor, Blood Devouring Burning Heart.

The difference was that Blood Devouring Burning Heart, after paying the price of consuming blood and increasing the burden on the heart, could only temporarily boost Li Hai's combat power by fifty to seventy percent.

However, Blood Soaked Sinking Heart, after paying the same price, could amplify his physique and combat strength by a full one and a half times on the spot.

This level of improvement was enough to give Li Hai an absolute advantage when facing opponents of the same realm.

After studying the divine ability, it was time for the real main event—Beast Intent Demon Claw.

As a martial arts technique derived from Tiger Claw Blade Fist, this technique perfectly inherited the extremely solid foundational framework of its predecessor.

Using this framework as a base, it successfully achieved a climb to a higher level of martial arts mastery.

This belonged to a breakthrough in foundational training methods.

On the level of combat application, under the premise of already possessing various fierce force-usage techniques from its predecessor, Beast Intent Demon Claw also pioneered three types of tyrannical force techniques that could perfectly unleash a martial artist's physical strength.

Namely, Spinning Claw Force, Shocking Wave Force, and Mountain Shaking Force.

Setting aside the specific lethality of these three techniques, what needed to be known was that beyond combat and training methods, the more important breakthrough of Beast Intent Demon Claw was in the mysterious and profound realm of the spirit and mind.

This breakthrough allowed the practitioner, upon reaching the pinnacle of this technique, to gestate within their own sea of consciousness a Wild Beast Intent that was pure to the extreme, penetrating and connecting all Qi, force, and body from the inside out.

This was the so-called True Martial Intent.

It is said that the heart hides a beast, like a demon or a monster.

Under the blessing of such pure martial intent as Wild Beast Intent, the force unleashed by Li Hai's punches and kicks was no longer conventional force, but Formless True Force that had completely fused with his own true intent.

To this kind of True Force, ordinary ghosts, monsters, and minor spells could be said to be trash that would perish at a single touch.

In short, True Force carried a certain degree of law-breaking effect.

"Very good, very good indeed."

Li Hai smiled with satisfaction, then moved his thoughts to instantly push these two skills to their peak level.

Boom!

As if a great surge of immortal energy and spiritual essence had descended from the heavens into Li Hai's body, his aura suddenly skyrocketed by a large margin.

At the same time, suddenly, countless strands of hazy airflow, like thumb-thick little snakes, appeared beneath Li Hai's skin, flesh, and bones, constantly swirling, surging, and drifting from head to toe.

These vague, so-called airflows were the so-called Formless True Force.

"Hoo~~"

Li Hai pursed his lips and let out a long breath, suddenly spitting out a pure white stream of air three feet long.

It could be said that such a shocking feat was impossible to achieve if one's visceral functions had not reached an extremely powerful state.

A martial artist of the Force-Body Circulation realm like Guo Huaijin would be completely unable to perform this.

One must reach the higher level of the Steel Tendons and Iron Bones realm to achieve it.

Yes, Li Hai, who had cultivated Beast Intent Demon Claw to its limit in a single thought, had now reached the fourth realm of the martial arts system in this world—Steel Tendons and Iron Bones.

As the name suggests, Steel Tendons and Iron Bones refers to a martial artist who has reached this realm having cultivated every muscle and bone in their body to be as sturdy and flexible as if forged from wrought iron, making them impervious to blades, spears, water, and fire; even if hit by ordinary firearms, they would only feel pain without sustaining injury.

Even the strength of his internal organs far exceeded that of ordinary people, so even if he swallowed ordinary poisons or even stones, he could still digest and eliminate them.

This powerful physique, which required marrow washing, blood changing, and thousands of hammerings to achieve, naturally possessed terrifying physical strength, reaching more than ten times that of a martial artist in the Force-Body Circulation realm.

That is, tens of thousands of catties of strength in every movement.

Since he had reached the fourth realm of Orthodox Martial Arts, Li Hai's personal interface naturally underwent significant changes.

Therefore, his current interface information was—

Master Name: Li Hai

Level/Rank: Orthodox Martial Arts → Steel Tendons and Iron Bones, Bloodline Divine Ability → Mid-grade, Ghost Dao → Fierce Soul

Possessed Skills: Five Animals Qigong, Beast Intent Demon Claw, Blood Soaked Sinking Heart, Ghost Body Soul Remains, Evil Spirit Earth Yin Absorption Method (Fragmented), Evil Sha Yin Descent, Resentful Sha Yang Extinguishing

Entry Traits: [Soul Strengthening Level 2] [Finger Claw Level 2] [Berserk Level 2] [Wildness Level 2] [Ghost Body Level 2] [Ghostly Image Level 2] [Twin Sha Level 2]

Powerhouse Fragments: None

"Let's practice a bit."

The suddenly strengthened Li Hai was naturally itching to move his bones and physique.

So, in the next second, he dug his feet hard into the ground, leaving a row of mottled scratches, and his entire body crossed dozens of feet in a flash like a flying divine tiger, landing on the branch of a towering tree outside the courtyard.

He knocked on the thick tree trunk, which was about a foot wide, and just as he was about to punch it twice, Li Hai's ears twitched as he vaguely heard something.

"Hmm?"

He slowly moved to the side where the branches and leaves were dense. "It seems someone is coming. Hmm~ not just one person, and... they are all filled with the bloody stench of vengeful spirits."

Li Hai, who had practiced Beast Intent Demon Claw to its peak, not only possessed Steel Tendons and Iron Bones but also possessed near-supernatural beast-like perception.

This mysterious perception, which could be quantified as Level 2 Wildness, allowed him to vaguely sense the benevolent, sinister, hypocritical, or violent nature and traits of others before he even heard or saw them, thereby enabling him to avoid all sorts of unnecessary dangers and crises.

Snap~ Snap~

After waiting for a short while, Li Hai heard the sound of withered leaves being crushed beneath him.

He looked down in the direction of the sound and saw two strangers, one thin and one fat, slowly passing beneath the large tree.

The two men appeared ordinary in both dress and features, yet they strangely wore identical black headscarves imprinted with a Blood-Dripping Wolf Head pattern.

Could it be that these two belong to the same faction?

Li Hai pondered silently and continued to look down.

Judging by their path, the destination of these two men was precisely the courtyard of Old Dog Guo.

Coincidentally, the gate of this courtyard was wide open at this moment.

Therefore, as long as one walked a little closer, one could clearly see Guo Huaijin, who had already breathed his last while tied to a tree stump in the yard, the bronze pipe thrust into his chest, and the ground in front of him stained red by a great splash of blood.

When the two men witnessed all of this from afar, their expressions changed instantly, and they cried out in horror:

"Grand Elder Guo is dead!"

"The Second Master's father has actually been killed by someone?!"