The end of the Hour of the Snake.
The Hour of the Horse was approaching.
Two Snow-White Crimson-Flame horses, long awakened to wisdom and versed in human nature, pulled the carriage at a gallop along the level road.
Jiang Ning sat cross-legged atop the carriage, the blazing sun hanging high overhead.
[Realm]: Fourth Rank Marrow Tempering (1999/1999) [Technique]: Inner Elixir Life-Nourishing Technique (Major Accomplishment 5467/10000)
Over the past half month, his greatest progress had been in marrow tempering.
Yesterday, he had finally filled his marrow tempering progress, reaching the realm where marrow tempering was like frost and a drop of blood was like mercury.
Now, when blood dripped from his body, it no longer flowed like that of an ordinary person. Instead, it clumped together like liquid mercury, refusing to scatter.
This phenomenon likewise showed that his marrow tempering had reached completion.
A drop of blood like mercury was a phenomenon produced only after marrow tempering had been thoroughly perfected.
For blood arose from the marrow.
Beyond that lay the path into the Third Rank, becoming a Grandmaster.
As for how to enter the ranks of Grandmasters, he had long since learned it.
The first was the simplest and most common kind of Grandmaster: completing blood exchange with Hundred-Spirit Blood and stepping into the ranks of Grandmasters.
This was also the weakest kind of Grandmaster, known as a Human Dao Grandmaster.
It was called a Human Dao Grandmaster because humans stood at the head of all living things.
And it was the weakest kind of Grandmaster because Hundred-Spirit Blood came entirely from ordinary living creatures.
The innate spiritual substances of ordinary living creatures were too weak to build a deep foundation.
The second method was far more difficult.
It required a secret realm or small world left behind