Lu Chen reaped a rich harvest from his battle with the Red-Scaled Alligator Demon.
With his feat of slaying a bone-forging Great Demon despite being only at Great Accomplishment Sinew-Piercing, he eclipsed the many prodigies of the Qu River region in one stroke and claimed first place on the Demon-Slaying Ranking.
Meanwhile, the rewards bestowed by the Martial Temple were equally astonishing.
A full hundred Tendon-Strengthening Pills!
That was a stockpile of cultivation resources enough to make anyone green with envy.
For Lu Chen, it meant he would not have to worry about pills for a long time to come.
He had already brought the Heavenly Silkworm Tendon-Transmutation Art to great accomplishment.
The major sinews throughout his body were connected as one, with blood, qi, and force surging through them like mighty rivers.
As long as he continued tempering his sinews with Tendon-Strengthening Pills and accumulating blood and qi, honing every major sinew to its limit step by step, reaching perfection in sinew-piercing would only be a matter of time.
But compared with those pills, what Lu Chen valued more was the insight into "force" he had gained during this battle.
Previously, through cultivating the Heavenly Terrace Demon-Subduing Fist and using Demon-Subduing Force as the core governing his other forces, he had already learned to layer three forces together, unleashing destructive power far beyond any single martial art.
But he had still been inexperienced at blending the other forces.
After reaching great accomplishment in sinew-piercing, however, the various forces flowed more smoothly through his body. He could control them with greater ease, blending different forces within himself to produce different effects.
For instance, combining Azure Dragon Force with Coldwater Force formed an azure dragon in the water that could bind his opponent more effectively, exerting far greater suppressive power than