Daily News: You promised yourself to be a fisherman, but you've become a martial arts god?

Moonlit night.

Lakeside.

Li Nian took out a small porcelain bottle and poured the remaining four Blood Essence Pills into her palm.

He took a deep breath and stared intently at the Blood Essence Pill in his hand.

"Taking pills separately can easily lead to loss of medicinal power and incomplete absorption. Swallowing them together allows the pure medicinal power to circulate throughout the body, maximizing the original power of the pills."

"My cultivation has reached the peak of Bone Refinement, and I have also achieved the Great Perfection of Iron Shirt, which is more than enough to withstand the medicinal power of four Blood Essence Pills."

"Only by maximizing my cultivation can I survive the battle against the pirates of Shenyuan Village!"

The thought just formed in my mind.

Li Nian frowned and swallowed all four Blood Essence Pills in his hand.

The elixir melts instantly upon entering the mouth.

The powerful medicinal effects exploded in my stomach.

boom!

The medicinal power was as vast as the sea, almost bursting his body, which visibly swelled up.

"Iron Shirt!"

Li Nian's gaze darkened. Enduring the excruciating pain in his body, with veins bulging on his forehead, he silently shouted in his heart.

"Press it down!"

Under the moonlight, his skin appeared a cold, metallic color, and his bulging body was forcibly compressed back into its original shape.

Before he could catch his breath, the powerful medicinal force stirred the robust blood energy around him, causing it to boil instantly, like a raging tidal wave relentlessly washing over his limbs and bones.

His skin instantly turned a deep reddish-brown, and the sweltering heat made the surrounding trees rustle. The wet lakeside ground beneath his feet was heated, and wisps of mist rose from the water.

"Sky Eagle Stake!"

Li Nian assumed a stance and continuously swung the Sky Eagle Stake.

The claws, like demons, tore through the night.

Wherever he went, it was like a whirlwind, and wherever he stepped, dust flew up!

With a series of twists and turns, the stance guided his blood and energy, breaking through the fourth barrier of blood cultivation—

Tanzhong (CV17)

click!

With a crisp sound like an eggshell breaking, the Tanzhong acupoint was easily breached by the surging blood and qi.

A hint of joy flashed in Li Nian's eyes, but she didn't stop practicing the stance.

"continue!"

Pulling blood and qi to impact the final stage of blood refining—

perineum!

Half an hour later.

click!

The perineum is torn open.

All blood vessels in the body are connected, and qi and blood flow smoothly without obstruction.

This is the pinnacle of Blood Refinement!

Li Nian's eyes blazed with joy, but it didn't stop.

"While the medicine's effects are still present, let's break through to the Bone Refinement stage in one fell swoop!"

When internal energy penetrates the bones, and the bones generate a deep, powerful force, one has officially embarked on the path of bone training.

Therefore, breaking through bone training means injecting the internal energy contained in the blood and qi into the body and bones.

As internal energy is introduced, the scorching blood and qi tear through the flesh inch by inch, and the heat flows slowly along the periosteum. With each step forward, it feels like being branded with a hot iron.

Just as the blood and qi flowed through the joints and cleansed away the filth, a strange, dull itch, as if a hundred insects were crawling into the body, instantly swept over every part of the body!

Li Nian endured the excruciating pain in her body and continued practicing the standing meditation, guiding her qi and blood to flow into her bones.

Once, twice...

Hundreds of times, thousands of times...

Ten thousand times!

boom!

As the internal force repeatedly tempers and refines the bones, the blockages are quickly cleared away, making them increasingly unobstructed and resilient, like a piece of jade that has been polished for thousands of years.

At this moment, the shackles were broken.

Once you've trained your bones, you're done!

Li Nian suddenly opened her eyes, her gaze flashing with a sharp light.

"It's done!"

Li Nian clenched his fists, clearly feeling the immense internal force contained within his bones, as well as his steely, unyielding bones.

He glanced at the thick tree next to him and raised his arm to wave.

boom!

The tree trunk was blasted open with a large hole.

Li Nian wiped the wood shavings off his fist and nodded in satisfaction.

"With my Bone Refinement Body and Iron Shirt technique, my physical defense is no less than that of a peak Bone Refinement cultivator!"

"If we were to face Liu Tanqi directly, we might be able to offer some protection!"

The thought settles immediately.

Suddenly, he remembered something.

"Open the system and check the intelligence points!"

You will receive additional intelligence points as a reward for improving your cultivation level.

He was very curious about the reward for breaking through from Blood Refinement to Bone Refinement.

[Cumulative Intelligence Points: 88]

really!

Li Nian raised her eyebrows, her face beaming with joy.

After the last "deduction" of the Thirty Rock-Shattering Leg, there are 6 intelligence points remaining. If no intelligence is used in the past 12 days, there are 18 points left.

Breaking through the two key points of Tanzhong and Huiyin requires 15 points each, totaling 30 points.

In other words, breaking through from Blood Refinement to Bone Refinement grants an extra 50 points!

The next step is to train bones to break through tendons, and to advance from visible strength to hidden strength...

The reward of intelligence points will definitely be higher!

Bone training is divided into three stages:

Tempering bones, vibrating bones, and refining bones.

Will the reward of intelligence points for breaking through these three levels be higher than 15?

Li Nian secretly pondered.

After a moment, Li Nian snapped out of her thoughts.

Let's deal with the future later; let's focus on the present!

"88 intelligence points, enough to 'deduce' the Deadly Frost Claw and the Soaring Dragon!"

Li Nian secretly made plans.

Open the system.

"Deduction: Deadly Cold Eagle Claw!"

[Deduction of the Deadly Cold Eagle Claw]

one...

three...

eight...

fifteen...

thirty!

In an instant, space stood still, and the wind and waves abruptly ceased.

Countless points of light flowed from between the eyebrows into the ocean of consciousness, eventually coalescing into a small golden figure.

The golden man spread his arms like an eagle spreading its wings, then bent his ten fingers like ten golden iron hooks, and then tirelessly unleashed the deadly Frost Eagle Claw move after move.

Light and shadow intertwine, and time flies by like a fleeting moment.

[For seven years, you honed your martial art, the Deadly Frost Eagle Claw, day and night, without stopping even when your fingers were covered in blood and flesh. Finally, you mastered this skill, making the cold energy internal and solid, and the claw wind carrying a bone-chilling cold air. Your strikes could easily tear through iron armor.]

[In the sixteenth year, you worked tirelessly day and night, yet you still could not perfect this skill. So you packed your bags and traveled to various places, observing birds from chickens to eagles, trying to find the true essence of claw skill from the claw strikes of animals. One day, when an eagle soared into the sky, you had a flash of inspiration and finally perfected this skill. The intent of your claws became divine, and you could control them at will. The chilling power permeated the tendons and bones of your ten fingers.]

In the twenty-third year, due to your relentless practice of the Deadly Frost Eagle Claw technique, you discovered that the moves were still incomplete. Therefore, you disassembled the moves in an attempt to improve the technique.

[In the twenty-seventh year, you finally completed the revision of the thirty-six moves of the Deadly Frost Eagle Claw, and added twelve new moves. You named this claw technique the Frost Eagle's Demon-Suppressing Claw. This technique is more poisonous, more insidious, and more ruthless.]

[In your thirtieth year, while you were diligently practicing the Frost Eagle's Demonic Claw, you vaguely touched upon a trace of the true essence of one of the fundamental principles of claw techniques, the "Boundless Heavens' Explanation of Crossing Calamities and Capturing True Truth." You attempted to deduce it, but due to your limited comprehension, you ultimately failed...]

boom!

Thirty years of arduous cultivation transformed into golden light that flowed into Li Nian's limbs and bones.

Li Nian suddenly opened her eyes, her eyes bursting with brilliant golden light.

He rolled up his sleeves, made claws with his hands, and his bones bulged out like the claws of a hawk.

He glanced at the massive tree ten steps away, spread his arms, and soared out like an eagle spreading its wings.

"Frost Eagle's Claw - Frost Eagle Clone!"

With a low shout, his blood surged, his inner strength flowed from his bones and into his ten fingers. His claws, wrapped in icy black energy, gripped the tree trunk.

Ten sharp, hook-like fingers dug deep into the tree trunk.

Then tear it open.

Wow!

The tree trunk, as thick as a person's embrace, was torn in two alive!

The torn opening left behind shocking, chilling burn marks!

Looking at his unharmed claws, Li Nian couldn't hide his joy.

"Without bone training, one move would be enough to tear it apart!"

"Even if you train your bones, even if you can't tear them apart, you'll still be injured, if not crippled!"

"If you were given iron armor with claws, even bones trained in bone tempering might not be able to withstand it!"