Half a month was neither long nor short.
Yi Yang sat cross-legged beneath the withered tree in the courtyard, its branches drooping under the winter snow. Sweat had soaked his Martial Garment into patches of light and dark. His left hand rested on his knee, while the five fingers of his right curled slightly, their tips tinged with an extremely faint blue-black sheen.
Yi Yang brought up his panel.
[Profound Intent Calamity-Extinguishing Finger · Third Level · Organ-Burning (800/300000)]
He had finally reached the third level.
Yi Yang flexed the five fingers of his right hand, his knuckles cracking crisply.
He had found the Profound Intent Calamity-Extinguishing Finger in a hidden compartment belonging to the Wu Family, a century-old martial family in Suining Prefecture. When he first obtained it, he had thought it was merely a decent close-range killing technique. The first two levels, Astral-Breaking and Meridian-Invasion, had indeed proved useful. Against True Astral Realm martial artists, they were downright vicious-a single finger strike scattered their astral energy and blocked their meridians, leaving them no chance to resist.
Ultimately, however, that only put it at the True Astral Realm level.
He had originally assumed this cultivation art would reach its limits once he entered the Profound Connection Realm.
Only when he opened the instructions for cultivating the third level some time ago did he discover how badly he had misjudged it.
The third level of this cultivation art was called Organ-Burning, and its style abruptly departed from everything that came before.
Yi Yang recalled the description in the cultivation art. At the third level, after the finger force pierced the meridians, it no longer spread outward. Instead, it condensed into a single thread and penetrated the opponent's internal organs.
The finger force at this level carried the true