In this state of selfless training, Yi Yun could ‘see’ his meridians.
Sweat rained down and his fists bled.
The sweat had misted his eyes. He heard the faint whistling of the wind. Yi Yun only felt an intense pressure in front of him.
In that second, Yi Yun managed to conjure a strength of unknown origins. He roared as his tendons were pulled to their extremes before shooting out a punch!
“Peng!”
Yi Yun’s practice had uprooted the pine tree, scattering the wood!
Amidst the flying sawdust, Yi Yun’s body had clearly made a soft ‘Peng!’ sound.
Although it wasn’t loud, it was extremely crisp. Just like the twang of a bowstring, it was especially clear in the wide open night sky.
Tendons like bowstrings. So this is tendons like bowstrings…
Yi Yun fell onto the ground staring at the sky with his arms wide open.
That last punch had used up all of his energy!
Yi Yun breathed in deeply. His right fist was mangled red with blood, but the pain made him even more excited!
He knew that he had made small progress towards his ‘Fierce Tiger Descends the Mountain’!
This night was the first time he practiced martial arts in his life. He was practicing the Tai Ah Divine Kingdom’s top technique–’Dragon Rib Tiger Bone Fist’. The ‘Fierce Tiger Descends the Mountain’ move was something only a person with Mortal Blood level three, Thunderous could create the twang of a bowstring using his tendons.
But Yi Yun managed to do it. Although it was soft, he was after all still in the realm of Valiant. He was also only twelve, his bones and muscles were incomparable to an adult’s.
The results were not something any member of the warrior preparation camp could match. He had even exceeded the Lian Chengyu’s Valiant level from the past.
…
Yi Yun did not have a night’s sleep, but so did the old man responsible for brewing the herbs in the Lian tribe drug room!
The pot of herbs had been brewed an entire night. Even the stones propping the pot up were red hot.
At dawn, a few strong men came to pour out a large amount of black liquid from the pot.
This was the entire pot’s essence.
“Hmm…these herbs are the best this time. We could still brew it another three times or so. Although it will be less effective, it’s still extremely precious. You guys can use it to shower. The herbal dregs will be left for the commoners. It will be needed when the desolate bones are refined!”
The Lian tribal clan’s imperfect brewing techniques could only obtain 20% of the herbs’ essence. This was their limit.
And Lian Chengyu could only absorb half of the herbal essence obtained by the tribe through soaking.
Which is to say, Lian Chengyu could only absorb 10% of the herbal essence.
The ratio may sound low, but it was understandable. A normal person was unable to absorb a large percentage of the food they ate, not to mention for herbs that were a hundred times harder to absorb.
The bucket of black herbal liquid was sent into Lian Chengyu’s isolation chamber.
Lian Chengyu had already heard that valuable herbs like Dan Guo, wild ginseng, Black Fungus and licorice were in that pot of herbs!
Lian Chengyu’s cultivation had reached to the point of breakthrough. He was most in need of the herbs to enrich himself.
“Good! Good! It came just in time!”
Lian Chengyu looked at the black herbal liquid with a face full of excitement.
He disrobed and jumped into the hot liquid naked.
The temperature was above ninety degree celsius, sufficient to cook any meat. Even a Mortal Blood fifth level like Lian Chengyu felt pain all over his body.