In the mountain forest.
Crackle—
Sparks flew, and the rabbit roasting over the fire sizzled with dripping fat, its rich aroma filling the air.
Jiang Ning turned the wooden stick, ensuring the rabbit roasted evenly.
A little while later.
Jiang Ning poked it with a clean piece of wood. Seeing that it easily pierced the rabbit meat, he nodded in satisfaction.
"It should be about done! Time to eat!"
He let it cool for a while longer. Once the roasted rabbit's temperature had dropped somewhat, he tore off a rabbit leg.
The moment he took his first bite, Jiang Ning could not help frowning.
It looked delicious, but the taste was rather ordinary.
Then he shook his head. "Forget it! Without seasonings, what more can I ask for? Filling my stomach is what matters!"
In no time at all, the entire rabbit had entered his stomach.
With his current appetite, a full-grown rabbit could only leave him about eighty percent full.
After satisfying his hunger.
Jiang Ning went to the water and washed the grease from his hands as clean as he could.
Then he went to the side and opened a box of skin-grinding sand Shen Congyun had prepared for him.
"It's time to begin tempering the skin membrane," Jiang Ning muttered.
Then, in no time at all, he stripped off his clothes.
The first stage of skin tempering required one to rub skin-grinding sand over the entire body.
Every inch of skin had to be rubbed until it turned red, until traces of blood seeped out. Only then would it count as sufficient.
Only afterward could one circulate one's blood and qi to any part of the body, using its power together with the body to absorb the medicinal effects of the skin-grinding sand.
This cycle had to