Yi Yun stood in front of the black ironstone and started sending punches on to it!
How could mere fists made of flesh and blood break apart such lifeless black ironstone?
Yi Yun gritted his teeth, one punch, two punches, three punches…ten punches, twenty punches!
He used all his strength in every punch!
The first few punches resulted in bruised fists. The pain was heart-wrenching as his fists turned bloody. Finally, as the punches flew, his joints began to rattle.
The pain travelled from his fingers to his heart, it was an indescribable pain.
But Yi Yun gritted his teeth and endured through it. His face was drenched in sweat. His lips turned white as his face turned pale!
Only till the point where his fists’ surfaces were nearly bones instead of flesh that Yi Yun stopped.
Following that, he began kicking the boulder. He did so till his legs were covered in bruises. He could barely stand. After a breather, Yi Yun began hitting the boulder with his shoulders and back!
Yi Yun used every possible part he could use, but he was eventually still unable to do anything to the black ironstone; instead, his body was filled with cuts and bruises.
Pain!
Yi Yun rested on the ground. His body was out of strength, and even his vision had blurred.
He focused on his breath, and followed the theories of the “Dragon Rib Tiger Bone Fist” techniques to circulate his energies.
This was a self-mutilating cultivation method that Yi Yun did not dare to try previously.
However, a few hours ago, Yi Yun had eaten his fill of the Frost Python’s desolate bones energy.
The energy contained within the desolate bones was called the Power of Desolates; it was a great gift to any cultivator!
Compared to the Power of Desolates, the herbal essence in the Lian Clan Herb Mountain was trivial.
Even a hundred-year-old herb would be lacking.
With the support from the Power of Desolates, only then did Yi Yun dare to proceed with such self-mutilating practice.
This practice was recorded as the Dragon Rib Tiger Bone Fist’s “Tiger Claws Smite Rocks”, a method to train the bones.
Using the boulder to smite his bones was a tremendously painful and hard process. It was impossible without strong perseverance.
Even with perseverance, he had to have the resources to support it.
If not, one could end up disabled instead of having the bones trained.
Because of limited resources, the members of the warrior preparation camp did not dare to attempt Tiger Claws Smite Rocks.
Only the gifted in the large tribes could withstand such injuries through the consumption of desolate beast meat and soaking in desolate beast blood.
The Power of Desolates rapidly circulated within Yi Yun’s body. His wounds began to itch, indicating the recovery of his wounds.
The desolate bones were indeed top notch, together with the Purple Crystal’s purification; the energy used to heal his body was at a tremendous speed, visible to the naked eye!
The method used by “Dragon Rib Tiger Bone Fist” to train one’s bones, letting the Power of Desolates to heal those wounds was a cultivation method similar to iron forging.
The method of forging swords was to repeatedly hit a steel sword when hot to forge a peerless sword!
Yi Yun’s current practice was similar to the forging of a sword.
He treated his body as the raw steel and the black ironstone as the anvil. Through repeated hits, he forged his body as a form of cultivation!
After resting for six hours, Yi Yun felt that he had recovered. There were scabs on his hands, so it did not affect his movements.
Yi Yun wrapped his wounds with cloth, and without any hesitation dived into the waterfalls!
“Splash!”
The water smashed into his body, like a thousand pound jackhammer!
Under the waterfall was a deep plunge basin!
From the perennial impact from the waterfall, the plunge basin was of an unknown depth. From land, the plunge basin was emerald green with no obvious bottom.
This was the deepest water body Yi Yun could find in the vicinity of the Lian tribal clan grounds.
Yi Yun was practicing another stance of the “Dragon Rib Tiger Bone Fist”–”Dragon Dancing in Vast Water”!
In actual fact, “Dragon Dancing in Vast Water” was not cultivated this way. The vast water referred to the ocean, but there was no ocean in the vast wilderness. Yi Yun could only use the plunge basin of a waterfall.
“Dragon Dancing in Vast Water” was a technique to train a body’s internal organs.
The more Yi Yun practiced “Dragon Rib Tiger Bone Fist”, the more he understood its subtleties.
A warrior’s strength and energy was easily cultivated. But it was much harder to cultivate the tendons, bones and internal organs.
In the stances of the “Dragon Rib Tiger Bone Fist”, a warrior could cultivate his tendons through “Fierce Tiger Descends the Mountain” by pulling his tendons like a bowstring, strengthening them tremendously.
Using “Tiger Claws Smite Rocks”