After an unknown length of time, Su Qingwan opened her eyes. She gently shifted her body away, putting some distance between them.
Zhao Feng flexed his slightly stiff arm.
Silence fell again. Both knew that something indescribable had long since crept into the easy rapport they had shared as comrades in battle.
Over the following days, Zhao Feng devoted himself to studying the cultivation manual of the Yin-Yang Body Tempering True Scripture.
Once he had made some progress, Zhao Feng understood why Su Qingwan had said he needed to learn the Barbarian Tribe's cultivation methods to refine the Barbarian God's finger bone.
Refining the Barbarian God's finger bone isn't easy. The trace of the Barbarian God's will within it fiercely rejects outsiders; only descendants of the Barbarian Tribe can receive it. What I practice, however, is an orthodox cultivation manual of the Central Plains' Qi and Blood Martial Dao, and my body has followed that same path. Recklessly refining it and enduring the Barbarian God's lingering will would be courting death. I need to practice the Barbarian Tribe's cultivation manual so that his lingering will believes I'm one of their descendants.
Having sorted out his thoughts, Zhao Feng began studying the manual.
The Yin-Yang Body Tempering True Scripture was a cultivation method created by the Ancient Barbarian Tribe. It was difficult for a Central Plains martial artist like Zhao Feng to practice, but with his panel, he had nothing to fear.
On the second evening, information appeared on the panel before Zhao Feng's eyes.
[Yin-Yang Body Tempering True Scripture: beginner (1/500)]
Practicing the manual alone could get him started, but once he reached minor mastery, he would have to begin dual cultivation.
Of course, minor mastery was all he needed to refine the Barbarian God's finger bone. At