Xuantian Immortal Cultivation Record

The effects of the black mud that Ape Thirteen consumed were the same as those experienced by the Azure-Eyed Lion-like Beast.

However, it refined the substance much faster than the lion-like beast, noticing changes in its bones in less than three months.

Zhang Yuanjing originally intended to suppress its cultivation, but seeing this, he decided not to stop it from consuming the black mud and allowed both beasts to consume and refine it together.

He then began to refine the Crimson Cloud Pills. Refining the broken bones and other materials in the secret realm had almost depleted his prepared Crimson Cloud Pills. Fortunately, he had sealed away a lot of Red-Finned Fire-Marked Fish meat, and he also had a stock of auxiliary herbs, so he refined twenty batches in one go.

Then, he started refining the Molten Gold Tempering Pill. He had no shortage of Golden Elephant Fruit, one Glass Tree was cultivated in the Yin-Yang Creation Furnace, and there was plenty of it. Only the Skyfire Flowing Gold Grass had been completely used up and needed to be cultivated.

Thirty years had passed since the last time he refined pills. If he had used all that time to practice cultivation, he would have already cultivated the Skyfire Flowing Gold Grass with the Thick Earth Transformation Art at the third level.

Unfortunately, he was caught up in various affairs, traveling everywhere, and even when he returned to the sect, there were constant battles, making it difficult to find time to meditate and practice. Therefore, the growth of this spiritual grass was often interrupted, relying on the improvement of his cultivation technique and the spiritual energy gathered in the swamp to finally mature.

Following the herbal configuration of the Molten Gold Tempering Pill, he prepared twenty portions of materials this time.

With the experience from the previous time and without the pressure of completing a task, he had a good grasp of the furnace this time. The number of pills produced was exactly twice the previous time, obtaining thirty-six pills, of which thirty-three were low-grade and three were mid-grade, which was not bad.

After resting for several days, he began to consume the black mud, using the same method as the two beasts.

The taste of this substance upon entering his mouth was similar to the sesame paste he had eaten as a child, but slightly bitter. After a few breaths, the bitterness disappeared, and there was a slight sweetness, similar to the taste of some herbs.

Once it entered his stomach, it was immediately different.

Ordinary herbs, when swallowed, take some time to be absorbed into the body. But this substance dissolved immediately, turning into tiny particles that seeped into the muscles and then moved towards the nearest bones.

This process took a long time. About a month later, a few black particles adhered to the bones and began to merge into them.

This integration process was also extremely long, taking about three to five days.

He felt no discomfort, and couldn't even feel any reaction from his bones.

When he took it for the second time, he began to circulate the Sky-Supporting Art.

The entry stage of this technique only uses magical power to forge the bones with the help of pills, the intensity is not great, and it emphasizes gradual progress. Only when it reaches a certain level can external force be used for compression.

Under the urging of the Sky-Supporting Art, the process of the bones absorbing the black particles obviously accelerated. Although it could not be compared with Ape Thirteen, it was several times faster than the Azure-Eyed Lion-like Beast.

Half a year later, his bones began to ache, which was very different from the situation of the two beasts. He examined his body internally with his divine sense, but found nothing unusual in his bones, only a pain from the inside out.

He stopped taking the black mud and only practiced the Sky-Supporting Art. After a few days, the pain disappeared.

However, as soon as he took the black mud, his bones would quickly ache.

He guessed that this was mostly because his bones, as a human cultivator, were naturally not as strong as those of demonic beasts, so there was a kind of fission pain from within.

In his cultivation life, he had repeatedly experienced severe pain in his meridians, dantian, body, and soul, but pure bone pain was a first for him.

At first, he was worried that his bones would not be able to withstand it, so he stopped taking the black mud as soon as there was a slight pain.

Later, seeing that his bones were fine, he endured the severe pain, continued to swallow the black mud, accelerated the operation of the Sky-Supporting Art, and urged his bones to quickly absorb the black particles.

After a few months, the pain in his bones accumulated to a limit, and it seemed that something was about to burst out of his bones. This was a sign that would only appear after entering the second stage of bone forging after mastering the Sky-Supporting Art.

Zhang Yuanjing was overjoyed. He had only been forging his bones for less than a year, and he had entered the second stage, which was simply a rapid progress. He told Zheng Yuandu and left the Profound Origin Hall to find a mountain in the mountains, drilled three hundred and fifty feet into the ground, and continued to operate the Sky-Supporting Art with the help of the majestic earth force.

In the deep earth, the earth force pressed in from all directions, squeezing his body into a ball, and his bones also creaked. On the contrary, the forces that wanted to burst out of his bones were suppressed by the earth force, as if they had returned to calm.

Zhang Yuanjing continued to take the black mud and refined it with the Sky-Supporting Art. After another half a year, the power accumulated in his bones became more and more powerful and violent, and even under the suppression of the earth force, it was still ready to move.

At this time, Zhang Yuanjing did not dare to continue refining and absorbing the black mud, so he used the suppression of the earth force to refine the power in his bones with the Sky-Supporting Art.

Half a month later, when the power accumulated in his bones was completely refined, Zhang Yuanjing felt that all the bones in his body were like gold and iron, both strong and extremely resilient, and a force of ten thousand catties gathered between his gestures.

After that, he followed this path, repeatedly forging his bones, constantly strengthening his bones, until his spine began to itch, and then he stopped.

The itching of the spine is a sign of entering the third stage of bone forging.

The third stage of bone forging is to forge the spine. Only by forging the spine to be strong enough to match the bones of other parts can a complete bone forging be considered complete.

The spine is the most difficult bone to forge. There are many vital points on it. If you are not careful, you will hurt yourself, or even lose all your cultivation.

According to the method of the Sky-Supporting Art, forging the spine is first to induce the earth force to exert pressure on the spine, and then take pills for refining. The difficulty here lies in the control of the earth force.

Zhang Yuanjing had a way. He released the Primal Stone to protect his body, isolating the earth force from the outside, and then communicated with Zhang Shi, letting it go five hundred feet into the earth to find a place where the earth force was stable and stopped.

Then, he asked Zhang Shi to slightly release the protection on his spine, allowing part of the earth force to come in, thereby forming pressure on the spine.

In this case, because the spine was under great pressure, when he took the black mud, most of the black particles that were transformed were moved to the spine under the guidance of the Sky-Supporting Art and quickly merged into the bone.

Unlike refining other bones, when forging the spine, even with external force, the power of fission in the bone cannot be completely suppressed, so it is necessary to grasp the measure, often stop, and refine the violent power in the bone with the Sky-Supporting Art alone.

Therefore, the speed of forging the spine is quite slow. If Zhang Yuanjing did not have the Primal Stone to control the earth force for him, it would be easy to develop an impatient and rash mentality under the combination of internal and external forces, leading to failure.

Thus, another year passed, and Zhang Yuanjing finally completed the third stage of bone forging.

Once the spine was established, the bones of his whole body were suddenly strengthened again, obviously exceeding the flesh, as if a pile of rotten flesh was built on steel bones.

However, with such bones inside to strengthen the body, the flesh will also be forged unconsciously. This is precisely the subtlety of the Sky-Supporting Art.