I'm Just Making Up The Exercises, My Disciple, Have You Really Mastered Them?

Chapter 21: The Bottleneck of Jade Bones, Diary, and Ferocious Beasts

Li Xuan's words, to Xu Yan, were like the guidance of a master, teaching him how to comprehend and how to break through the constraints.

"Capture the hidden inspiration around you, comprehend every blade of grass and every tree, comprehend the natural world..."

In a daze, Xu Yan seemed to have gained some understanding.

"Thank you for your guidance, Master!" Xu Yan respectfully said.

Li Xuan saw that his foolish disciple had been fooled again and nodded in satisfaction.

For the next two days, Xu Yan did not practice, but instead wandered around the small village, feeding chickens, planting vegetables, and sitting on a stone at night, gazing at the stars in the sky.

His mind unexpectedly became tranquil.

Without the obsession to break through the constraints of his golden bones, without the obsession to cultivate, his mind seemed to have let go of all burdens, and he felt relaxed.

At a certain moment, he even had a sense of the marvelousness of the world.

After three days like this, when Xu Yan finished weeding and was about to leave, he suddenly noticed a segment of earthworm emerging from the soil, then retracting back into it.

He also saw a small insect digging a hole in the soil.

In his mind, a flash of inspiration occurred, as if a sudden realization.

"Cultivate true intent, blood and qi like a dragon... I understand!"

At that moment, Xu Yan felt that he had gained enlightenment, with flashes of inspiration in his mind, instantly comprehending the profound meaning of the cultivation technique.

"I will definitely be able to temper my jade bones!"

"Thank you for your guidance, Master. It is because of this enlightenment that I was able to capture the hidden inspiration around me and understand how to break through the bottleneck!"

Xu Yan was extremely excited.

The next day, before dawn, Xu Yan began to practice.

Li Xuan, upon seeing this, was surprised. His foolish disciple had quickly regained his spirit and continued to persevere?

As long as Xu Yan didn't discover the deception, it was fine.

When the one-year period ended, he would immediately sever the master-disciple relationship and end the deception, then go live a peaceful life in Wu Country!

In the future, he probably wouldn't see Xu Yan again.

At this moment, Xu Yan was infusing his blood and qi into his bones, nurturing them in the marrow. Strand by strand, he slowly permeated his blood and qi into his bones, nurturing them in the marrow.

After three days, Xu Yan felt a kind of soreness and swelling in his bones, which indicated that it was time to refine them.

Once Xu Yan entered the state of cultivation, it was as if he had forgotten everything, with only the mysterious inspiration between heaven and earth appearing in his mind.

Boom!

The blood and qi in his marrow roared like a giant dragon, and the marrow surged and surged, as if it had come alive.

At this moment, Xu Yan felt an indescribable pain throughout his body.

Itchy, stinging, soreness...

His entire body's bones would swell one moment, as if they were about to burst, and then shrink the next moment, as if they had become smaller. Even the marrow was compressed and solidified.

Between the swelling and shrinking, purer blood and qi were born.

Xu Yan seemed to feel that within his bones, a kind of inexplicable charm was being born.

The sensation at this moment was more painful and harder to endure than the first time he underwent Bone Refining.

Drops of sweat continuously fell.

Xu Yan gritted his teeth and persisted until he could no longer bear it, then stopped his cultivation.

"The golden bones have loosened a bit..."

Xu Yan discovered that the golden bones that had reached their limit and could no longer be refined had loosened at this moment, becoming even stronger.

"I have comprehended it correctly. Jade bones are not far away!"

Excited, Xu Yan practiced even more diligently in the following days.

The pain he endured became even more intense.

Seven days later.

The originally golden bones had actually become lighter.

Although the golden bones had become lighter, the strength of the bones had increased by more than thirty percent.

Half a month later, the bones all over Xu Yan's body turned white, but they were more than twice as hard as golden bones.

His qi and blood became purer and stronger.

"I haven't even become a jade bone yet, but I'm already this powerful. If I become a jade bone, how much stronger will I be? My Martial Dao foundation surpasses the ancient geniuses!" Xu Yan's heart was filled with excitement, as he was not far from becoming a jade bone.

Ten days later, Xu Yan's bones began to appear crystal clear, just one step away from becoming jade bones.

However, in this final step, Xu Yan once again felt resistance.

It seemed like he had encountered a bottleneck and could no longer continue to transform.

Just one step away from complete transformation and being able to truly refine jade bones, how could Xu Yan be willing to give up?

Therefore, in the next two days, he continued to refine, but made no progress. It seemed that only by breaking some kind of restraint could he complete this final step of transformation.

...

Li Xuan had no idea that his foolish disciple was about to refine jade bones.

With nothing to do that day, he dug out some relics from the village elders, including books.

Some of the people in the village were literate, and books were the most valued possessions in the village, although there weren't many.

A rolled-up cloth fell to the ground with a thud. Li Xuan bent down to pick it up and found writing on the cloth.

"Whose relic is this? I don't think I've seen this before."

Curiosity piqued, Li Xuan opened the cloth.

The cloth was quite long, and when it was spread out, it was covered in writing, seemingly a diary.

"Is this Big Bull's diary?"

Li Xuan looked surprised.

Big Bull, a rough man, actually wrote a diary?

"Big Bull died in the Evil Beast Forest, but that tiger has already been killed, so he has been avenged."

Li Xuan felt a sense of sorrow.

Big Bull was among the group that left the village, but only he managed to escape.

Flipping through the cloth, Li Xuan casually read Big Bull's diary, treating it as a way to pass the time.

"Big Bull actually wanted to marry eight wives. Quite ambitious, but it's a pity."

When he reached the end of the cloth, Li Xuan suddenly froze, his expression becoming serious.

The last part of the cloth recorded Big Bull's solo departure from the village, wanting to go to the city.

Outside the Evil Beast Forest, he saw a ferocious beast!

"What Big Bull saw wasn't that tiger!"

It had been rumored in the village that there was a fierce beast in the Evil Beast Forest, and Li Xuan subconsciously believed that there was only that tiger in the forest.

In fact, besides that tiger, there was another fierce beast?

"That fierce beast is even bigger than a tiger, with fiery hair and fangs over a foot long..."

Seeing Big Bull's description of the fierce beast in the diary, Li Xuan was shocked. This fierce beast was even more terrifying than a tiger.

Why would there be another fierce beast in the Evil Beast Forest besides the tiger?

The tiger was the king of the forest.

How could it allow other fierce beasts to exist in its territory?

"Big Bull was the first person I heard mention a fierce beast in the Evil Beast Forest. He mentioned it more than once. When we were planning to leave the village together, it was because of Big Bull's warning about the fierce beast that we thought it was too dangerous."

"It wasn't until that guy came back, claiming to have learned the Tiger Killing Technique, that we had the confidence to leave the village..."

Li Xuan thought of a possibility. Could it be that the tiger was the lackey of the fierce beast in the Evil Beast Forest?

"My foolish disciple, leading people to hunt the tiger, did he encounter that fierce beast? It seems not. Could it be that the fierce beast hid because it saw too many people and didn't show itself?"

"No, I have to ask my foolish disciple. I'll have him lead people to search the Evil Beast Forest and make sure to kill that fierce beast!"

Li Xuan tidied up his things and went out to find Xu Yan.

(End of this chapter)