Tiger Demon Bone-Tempering Realm Great Accomplishment, One Hundred and Sixty Bones Tempered

"Consume ten years of Lifespan to simulate Martial Arts -- Earth Coiling Art"

[Year 1, you begin cultivating.]

[Year 2, Earth Coiling Art achieves minor success.]

[Year 5, masterful, reaching the Great Accomplishment stage.]

[Year 7, Earth Coiling Art is perfected, gaining an additional five hundred jin of strength.]

[Year 8, you attempt to integrate Rock Steadiness Fist into Earth Coiling Art.]

[Year 10, you succeed.]

[The Martial Art is renamed: Stone Plate Fist Art]

[In the same year, you feel this Martial Art shares a conceptual resonance with Mountain Splitting Palm and Cauldron Origin Art.]

[Perhaps, it can be further integrated.]

The cultivation level and practice experience of Stone Plate Fist Art merged into Jiang Yi's body.

His strength advanced further!

Around him, an aura more profound than before faintly emerged.

Standing on the ground, he was like a mighty rock!

Indestructible, unmoving!

"Can it be integrated further?"

Previously, each Martial Art merged its concepts and complemented its moves.

This was known as synergistic pairing; they were independent existences when separate!

But integration was different!

It meant reorganizing the Martial Arts!

Like melting down various iron blocks one by one, then gathering them in a furnace to forge something new.

Taking the essence, discarding the dross!

Compensating for weaknesses, complementing strengths and flaws!

Creating a new Martial Art on the old foundation of the original Martial Arts!

This held no disadvantage for Jiang Yi!

After pondering for a moment, he made up his mind.

"Consume 10 years of Lifespan, simulate Martial Arts -- Stone Plate Fist Art."

[Year 1, this Martial Art has already reached perfection.]

[Yet, you believe there is still room for improvement.]

[By integrating other Martial Arts, perhaps its power and even its grade can be greatly enhanced.]

[You use Cauldron Origin Art as the primary, attempting to integrate the Martial Art Stone Plate Fist Art into it.]

[Year 3, you make progress.]

[Year 4, the Martial Arts have been preliminarily integrated.]

[Year 6, you continuously improve and advance.]

[Year 7, improvement in progress.]

[Year 9, you succeed, renaming the integrated new Martial Art as Cauldron Origin Fist Art.]

[Year 10, you attempt to integrate the Martial Art Mountain Splitting Palm into Cauldron Origin Fist Art.]

"Consume another 5 years of Lifespan, continue simulation!"

[Year 13, you have a clear idea, deciding to integrate moves and add cultivation methods.]

[Year 15, you succeed.]

[The new Martial Art is completed and renamed Cauldron Origin Mountain Splitting Art.]

[Its grade is Yellow-rank, middle grade!]

[Upon Great Accomplishment, one can forge the Cauldron Origin Mountain Splitting Force.]

It's done?!!

By integrating three Yellow-rank, lower grade Martial Arts and one unranked Martial Art, it merged into a Yellow-rank, middle grade one.

This means!

The upper limit of this Martial Art is to assist a martial artist in breaking through to the third minor realm of the Martial Path --

Tendon-refining realm!

Jiang Yi carefully sensed it, his cultivation subtly advancing.

[Life Master: Jiang Yi]

[Cultivation level: Tendon-refining realm]

[Physique: None]

[Skills: Nameless Scripture (Incomplete), Eagle Claw Technique (Mastered), Cauldron Origin Mountain Splitting Art (Mastered), Tiger Roar Fist (Mastered), Cloud Snake Step (Mastered), Wrathful Blade Art (Mastered), Tiger Demon Body Tempering Art]

[Lifespan: 107]

"It's time to get started on this Mysterious-rank martial art!"

Tiger Demon Body Tempering Art. The Tiger Demon is a fierce beast from ancient forests.

Its body is as massive as a mountain, and its entire form is as dark as ink!

It is a great overlord of the ancient forests!

Legend has it that a very ancient and peculiar bloodline flows within its body.

It is bloodthirsty and brutal by nature, with incredibly ferocious strength!

Only a powerful martial artist can contend with it!

The founder of this martial art observed such a fierce beast!

Comprehending the realm of form and intent!

And thus created this martial art for tempering the flesh and body!

According to the martial art's content!

Tiger Demon Body Tempering Art is divided into five layers—skin, flesh, tendons, bones, and blood.

These precisely correspond to the four minor realms of the first stage of the martial path, and the Blood Qi Realm, the second major stage.

Cultivating to the fifth layer signifies great accomplishment!

It can help a martial artist break through to the Blood Qi Realm, manifesting the immense strength of a Tiger Demon.

The strongest person in all of Wushui Town seems to be at the Blood Qi Realm.

If he breaks through to that level!

He would be among the absolute elite of the entire town.

He could walk sideways if he wanted to!

"Let's begin."

"With over a hundred years of lifespan, it should be enough to break through to great accomplishment, or even mastery of the martial art!

I don't think there will be any problem!"

"Consuming 20 years of lifespan to simulate the martial art—Tiger Demon Body Tempering Art."

[Year 1: You begin cultivating.]

[Year 2: As your cultivation has already reached the Tendon-refining realm, you quickly master the first layer.]

[Year 7: You master the second layer, your strength increasing by 1,500 jin.]

[Your total strength reaches 10,000 jin!]

[Year 17: After ten years, you successfully enter the third layer. Your tendons become as tough as bowstrings, and your body gains the Tiger Demon's potent force.]

[Year 20: You continue to cultivate diligently.]

"Not enough?"

Twenty years of simulated cultivation manifested in Jiang Yi.

His skin and membranes bulged, and his body let out muffled thuds!

His strength surged!

Blood and Qi churned like tidal waves, washing over his flesh, blood, tendons, and bones, continuously strengthening his physique.

There were even faint signs of it breaking through his body!

At the same time!

An ancient aura of ferocity and brutality emanated from him!

It was as if a fierce beast had possessed him, exuding immense demonic might!

"Continue consuming 20 years of lifespan to simulate the martial art—Tiger Demon Body Tempering Art."

[Year 40: You achieve great accomplishment in Tendon-refining. Your tendons are tough, your force is powerful, and all your limbs and bones are connected.]

Twenty years to achieve great accomplishment in Tendon-refining?

Jiang Yi felt a series of cracking sounds within his body, as if a hundred large bows were being drawn simultaneously.

His tendons became tough!

Streams of force flowed within them!

His body was like steel, his tendons like bowstrings!

As he moved his body, the force gathered and was ready to erupt!

Jiang Yi felt his entire body surge with power!

If he were to face that so-called Great Stronghold Master again right now!

He was confident that even without using his trump cards, he could blow him apart.

He could even contend with a martial artist who had just entered the Blood Qi Realm.

If that were truly the case!

Then he had underestimated his own strength somewhat!

"Again!"

"Consume thirty years of Lifespan, continue simulating Tiger Demon Bone Refining Art."

[Year 45, you successfully tempered the first bone in your body.]

[From this point, you stepped into the Bone-Tempering Realm.]

[Year 70, two-thirds of your bones have been tempered, reaching seventy-six pieces.]

"Continue!"

"Consume thirty years..."

[Year 90, you reached the fourth layer of Tiger Demon, Perfection. The Bone-Tempering Realm was completely mastered. One hundred and forty-six bones were as hard as mysterious iron, resonating like tiger roars.]

[Marrow generates Blood Qi, might like a rainbow!]

[Year 91, you diligently cultivated and filled your Blood Qi, attempting to temper the remaining sixty bones.]

[Year 100, you tempered another fifteen bones.]

[Progress completely stagnated, unable to advance an inch, seemingly reaching the limit.]

[Yet you could sense that you could break through to the second great realm of the Martial Path—the Blood Qi Realm—at any moment.]

[You were just one step away from that realm.]

[You held back!]