Loa sat cross-legged on the bed, sinking his awareness into his body.
Starting at his tailbone, he counted upward, vertebra by vertebra.
The nine vertebrae of his Sacrococcygeal Domain and the five of his Lumbar Domain had all completely turned to jade. Those fourteen vertebrae were translucent as jade, energy circulating within them without any deliberate effort on his part. It was like a warm river flowing upward from his tailbone, pleasantly warm all along the way.
During his year of training in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, he had tempered his Thoracic Domain up to the tenth vertebra.
Two remained.
But those two were harder to temper than the previous ten combined. The higher he went, the harder it became. The last two sat just below his neck, at the crucial junction between the upper and lower sections. At his current pace, he estimated that each would take half a year-one year for both.
Loa opened his eyes and sighed.
He could not go much faster.
Natural treasures were far too rare. Something like those vitality fruits from last time could only be found by chance, not sought out. For those, he would still have to try his luck in the Magical Beast Mountain Range. Staying cooped up in the city certainly would not work.
He rolled his shoulders, his bones cracking.
Since breaking through to level eight, he had not had a proper fight apart from testing his strength against Wangcai. But he knew where he stood-if he went back a year and used Yin Thunder to kill those two level-nine Fire Dragons again, he certainly would not end up dizzy and unable to stand steadily as he had that time.
An ordinary level-nine warrior would not last three moves against him.
He was confident of that.
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