Mei Zhuang Raises the Banner at the Shang Court

Scarlet Yang Bone!

This had to be it!

After killing nearly fifty Spirit Pigs, he had finally found a Scarlet Yang Bone!

Ji Yuan first used his flying sword to extract the Aperture-Tempering Pearl from the Spirit Pig's heart aperture. Then, with one slash, he split the pig in two.

Straight down the middle.

Soon, he spotted a gleaming golden bone in its left foreleg.

It looked like a bone made of gold, growing incongruously from the Spirit Pig's leg bone. It was only about two fingers wide.

Ji Yuan reached out and snapped it off.

The Scarlet Yang Bone felt faintly warm in his hand, remarkably pleasant to hold.

Ji Yuan applied a little pressure to test it. It was quite hard.

There was no blood energy inside the Scarlet Yang Bone, though, only yang energy.

Ji Yuan tried absorbing it... Nothing happened.

After a moment's thought, he stood and circulated the Ninefold Profound Yang Technique. He entered the Standing Stance, and could clearly sense wisps of yang energy flowing from the Scarlet Yang Bone into his body.

He then channeled it to the surface of his body and began—Skin Tempering!

What was more, the Scarlet Yang Bone was plainly more effective for Skin Tempering than the Profound Yang Blood Amber or Aperture-Tempering Pearls.

Once he had confirmed that, Ji Yuan threw himself back into slaughtering and dissecting pigs.

But even after dissecting the remaining fifty Spirit Pigs, he failed to find a second Scarlet Yang Bone.

Over a hundred Spirit Pigs had yielded just one.

That alone showed how scarce the thing was.

At a loss, Ji Yuan tossed half a freshly cut pig heart in front of Cowering Flood Dragon for him to eat.

He could only hope it would put some spirit in him and make