"Bone root, increase!"
Without much hesitation, Xu Yang put one hundred and fifty points directly into his bone root.
In an instant, warmth spread through every limb and bone. It was gentle at first, but soon surged like a raging fire.
Pain twisted Xu Yang's expression. Every inch of his flesh felt as though it were burning. This pain was far more intense than anything he had experienced during previous bone root upgrades.
He could no longer remain seated. Agony curled him up on the bed like a boiled shrimp, and he felt as though countless invisible hands were churning inside him, altering his body's structure.
That was more or less what was happening. Looking inward, he saw that his bones seemed to have softened and were actually writhing, as though rearranging themselves into a perfect skeletal structure. The excruciating pain nearly made him faint. His sinews, bones, and flesh also seemed to be reconstructing themselves, with invisible hands adjusting many areas and repairing their flaws.
At the same time, more powerful blood energy emerged from his flesh, far surpassing what he had possessed before in both quality and quantity.
Crack, crack...
Xu Yang's sinews and bones rang out together, as though his very marrow were being cleansed. Unbearably foul black sweat began seeping from his pores, while his skin writhed and trembled as though thousands upon thousands of ants were crawling across it.
Toward the end, he even discovered that his skin was beginning to peel.
Riiip...
Xu Yang pulled with his hand, tearing away a layer of skin as thin as a cicada's wing and exposing fresh, smooth, rosy skin beneath.
"Does this count as shedding my old flesh and bones...?"
An indescribable comfort filled his entire body. It was as though he had broken free of some