Blood Flame Ox Demon Technique

[After eleven months of blade technique training, your Demon-Slaying Blade Technique has reached completion.]

[Experience: 120 points]

Chen Xian was speechless. It had taken him thirty-seven months to train a single blade technique to completion.

The original owner had trained for three years, after all.

This talent...

Fortunately, there were plenty of experience points outside of Demon-Slaying Pass.

If talent was lacking, demons would make up for it.

Images flickered in his mind, like a slideshow. Summer, autumn, winter, spring – years passed. Each move of the blade technique was etched into the walls of his mind.

Closing his eyes, Chen Xian casually made a move, each strike fast, fierce, and accurate.

Afterward, he began to improve the [Great Tablet Smashing Hand].

[After ten months of training, your Great Tablet Smashing Hand has achieved minor success.]

[After eighteen months of training, your Great Tablet Smashing Hand has achieved great success.]

It wasn't until the forty-sixth month that the Great Tablet Smashing Hand reached completion.

It took even longer than the Demon-Slaying Blade Technique.

Of course, the power was undeniable.

[Experience: 74 points]

[Martial Arts: The Ox Demon Body Refinement Technique (Completion), Demon-Slaying Blade Technique (Completion), Great Tablet Smashing Hand (Completion)]

[Realm: Body Refinement Completion]

[Lifespan: Nineteen years and seven months]

Glancing at the panel, Chen Xian's gaze fell on [The Ox Demon Body Refinement Technique]. The panel had previously indicated that his vitality was abundant, but he hadn't found a way to advance his realm.

This meant that to advance to the next realm, he would need to deduce this martial art.

Chen Xian didn't immediately proceed with the deduction. He actually went to the latrine. Returning to the camp, he practiced his blade techniques with Zhao Tong, Ding Chen, and others, practicing the Great Tablet Smashing Hand against thick stone slabs.

Late into the night.

Chen Xian lay on the large communal bed in the camp, unable to sleep. Partly because he wasn't used to it, and partly because he thought about this world filled with chaotic demons, where he could lose his life at any moment, making him feel restless.

The worst part was that his lifespan was only nineteen years and seven months. He wondered if it could increase.

Seeing that everyone else was asleep, he rolled over and went outside the camp.

He looked up at the sky. Under the cold moon, everything was bathed in a blood-red hue.

"Can't sleep?"

A voice came from behind him.

Chen Xian had heard the footsteps long ago but hadn't turned around.

Only now did he turn to look. It was Ding Chen.

"Brother Ding can't sleep either," he said with a smile.

Ding Chen chuckled and came to sit on a stone slab next to Chen Xian.

"You were quite brave this evening," Ding Chen said.

Meeting Ding Chen's slightly confused gaze, Chen Xian calmly replied, "It was all forced out of me!"

Ding Chen agreed with the statement, but he still felt that Chen Xian had changed somewhat.

"Do you often train your body in secret?" he asked.

Chen Xian's eyes flickered. Since he had been asked, he needed to provide an explanation.

He couldn't help but smile, "My family's circumstances are not good, and my talent isn't great either. If I don't work harder, how can I survive in this chaotic world?"

Ding Chen nodded, stood up, and patted Chen Xian on the shoulder. "Don't overthink it. If you have any problems or needs, you can tell me. I'll help as much as I can."

"Thank you, Brother Ding!" Chen Xian nodded.

"Go to sleep!" Ding Chen said, turning and entering the camp.

Chen Xian also returned to the camp and lay down to rest.

After closing his eyes, he began to use his experience points to deduce [The Ox Demon Body Refinement Technique]. This body refinement technique could no longer satisfy him.

He had to deduce the subsequent cultivation methods.

[After ten months of day and night deduction, your Ox Demon Body Refinement Technique has made no progress.]

Images flashed through his mind like fleeting glimpses of floating light. Ten months passed in the blink of an eye.

The cultivation technique showed no progress.

[After fifteen months of day and night deduction, your Ox Demon Body Refinement Technique has begun to show promise.]

Images flashed through his mind again. Chen Xian couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Two years passed, resulting in the four words: 'Some progress has been made.'

[After eighteen months of continuous deduction, you have researched three methods for circulating blood qi, but they are not yet mature.]

"...!?"

Chen Xian was speechless, but seeing the words 'circulating blood qi,' the next realm, the Blood Moving Realm, flashed in his mind.

The original host seemed to have heard Ding Chen mention it once, and it surfaced in his mind now.

[After twenty-five months of continuous deduction, your Ox Demon Body Refinement Technique has finally made subsequent progress, and you have renamed it the Blood Flame Ox Demon Technique.]

[Martial Art: Blood Flame Ox Demon Technique (Uninitiated)]

[Experience: 6 points]

Looking at the system prompts, Chen Xian finally felt relieved.

He discovered that deducing martial arts consumed a lot of experience points.

It took sixty-eight months of deduction to finally deduce the subsequent blood qi circulation methods for the Ox Demon Body Refinement Technique.

Next, he only needed to use experience points to upgrade this technique.

Until the technique reached completion.

Chen Xian stared at the remaining 6 experience points and, after some hesitation, decided to use them to upgrade the [Blood Flame Ox Demon Technique].

[After six months of diligent training, your Blood Flame Ox Demon Technique remains uninitiated.]

Looking at the system prompt, Chen Xian was slightly stunned. Six months of training and still uninitiated?

It seemed he had underestimated the difficulty.

Three days passed in a blink.

The vanguard went out to hunt demonic beasts every day, which Chen Xian envied greatly.

Those were all experience points!

However, for three days, he practiced the [Blood Flame Ox Demon Technique] every night.

Although the progress was slow, it was still effective.

On this day, Zhao Tong delivered seven cooks and handed them over to the head cook, Ding Chen, completing their team's numbers.

Chen Xian remained quiet, spending his time cooking and practicing.

Of course, Ding Chen and the other seven were also working hard.

Especially after the near-death experience during the last battlefield cleanup, the seven were extremely diligent in their practice.

Another half a month passed.

Chen Xian continued to hide and practice the [Blood Flame Ox Demon Technique] daily. The system still showed it as uninitiated, but he could clearly feel his blood qi circulation becoming smoother, his circulation speed increasing, and his blood qi boiling.

In addition, he made new breakthroughs in body refinement, with his physical strength allowing him to lift 750 kilograms.

He was quite satisfied with this.

"Chen Xian, did you fall into the latrine?" a voice called from outside the latrine.

"Coming!"

Chen Xian tidied his clothes and walked out of the latrine.

A young man with a face like a ripe date stood not far away. He was one of the survivors, named Wang Yan.

He was usually quite smooth-talking but also very dedicated to his training.

"Brother Wang, you go ahead!"

"Go ahead with what? We've got work. Brother Ding sent me to call you, hurry up!"

Hearing this, Chen Xian's eyes lit up. "Is it battlefield cleanup?"

Wang Yan nodded. "We've eaten all the wolf demons brought back last time. The vanguard fought a tough battle today and killed quite a few demonic beasts."

Chen Xian asked as he walked, "What were the casualties of the vanguard?"

Wang Yan replied, "I heard over a hundred more people sacrificed... Every time they encounter a fierce battle, so many people are lost."

Having been in this world for half a month, Chen Xian had heard about the deaths of vanguard soldiers almost every day and had grown accustomed to it.

He arrived at the camp entrance with Wang Yan.

Ding Chen and the others had already put on their armor, which was dark red.

Chen Xian had worn it when he first arrived. A set of armor, helmet, bracers, and greaves weighed fifty kilograms, the straight saber weighed thirteen kilograms, and all the gear combined weighed around sixty-five kilograms.

For body refinement martial artists, this weight was negligible.

According to the Great Ning Dynasty's calculations for martial artists' strength, which were measured in dings, body refinement martial artists needed at least half a ding of strength, with the strongest possessing the power beyond a ding, meaning the strength of one ding.

Chen Xian had compared it; in his previous life, one ding was about six hundred kilograms.

He now possessed the power beyond a ding.

After the two put on their armor, Ding Chen waved his arm:

"Let's go!"

Chen Xian followed behind and asked in a low voice, "Brother Ding, what kind of demonic beasts are on the battlefield today?"