Chapter 21: Jade Bone Bottleneck, Diary and Ferocious Beast

To Xu Yan, Li Xuan's words sounded like the master's advice on how to gain insights and how to break free from shackles.

“Capture the hidden inspiration around you, feel every blade of grass and every tree, and feel the nature of heaven and earth…”

In a trance, Xu Yan seemed to have some understanding.

"Thank you for your guidance, Master. I understand!"

Xu Yan said respectfully.

Li Xuan saw that he had fooled his silly disciple again and nodded with satisfaction.

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

My mind was surprisingly peaceful.

Without the obsession of breaking through the shackles of the golden bones, without the obsession of practicing, the mind seemed to have put down a burden, and the whole person became relaxed.

At a certain moment, I even had a feeling that the world is so wonderful.

Three days passed like this. When Xu Yan finished weeding and was about to leave, he suddenly discovered that a piece of earthworm had emerged from the soil and was now retracting back into the soil.

I saw another little bug digging a hole in the soil.

A flash of inspiration came to my mind, as if an idea had suddenly occurred to me.

“Nourish your true intention, and let your blood flow like a dragon… I understand!”

At this moment, Xu Yan felt that he had an epiphany. A flash of inspiration came into his mind, and he instantly understood the profound meaning of the technique.

"Jade bones, I will definitely be able to refine them!"

"Thanks to Master's guidance, I was able to have an epiphany and capture the hidden inspiration around me, so I understood the secret of the skill and how to break through the bottleneck!"

Xu Yan was very excited.

The next day, before dawn, Xu Yan started practicing.

Li Xuan was surprised when he saw this. This silly disciple cheered up so quickly and continued to persevere? As long as Xu Yan didn't find out that he was deceived, it would be fine.

At the end of one year, the master-disciple relationship was immediately severed, the scam ended, and he went to the State of Wu to live a good life!

From now on, I’m afraid I will never see Xu Yan again.

At this moment, Xu Yan is nourishing the qi and blood into his bones and bone marrow. Slowly, strands of it, he is continuously nourishing the qi and blood into his bones and bone marrow.

After three days, Xu Yan felt a soreness in his bones, and then he began to temper them.

Xu Yan, who was in the process of cultivation, seemed to have forgotten everything. Only the mysterious inspiration between heaven and earth came into his mind.

Boom!

The energy and blood in the bone marrow suddenly roared like a dragon, and the bone marrow also surged as if it had come alive.

At this moment, Xu Yan felt an unspeakable pain in all the bones in his body.

Numbness, itching, tingling, soreness, swelling...

The bones all over the body expanded as if they were about to explode, and then contracted as if they were becoming smaller. Even the bone marrow was squeezed and solidified.

Between expansion and contraction, more refined qi and blood are born.

Xu Yan seemed to feel that an inexplicable meaning was being born in his bones.

The feeling at this time was more painful and unbearable than the first time I refined my bones.

Beads of sweat kept dripping.

Xu Yan gritted his teeth and persevered until he could no longer hold on, then he stopped.

"Golden bone, it's a little loose..."

Xu Yan discovered that the golden bones, which had reached their limit and could not be tempered any further, now became loose and became stronger.

"My perception is correct, the Jade Bone is not far away!"

Xu Yan was so excited that he practiced even harder in the next few days.

The pain endured is also more intense.

Seven days later.

The originally golden bones turned pale.

Although the golden bones became lighter, the strength of the bones increased by more than 30%.

Half a month later, the bones all over his body turned back to white, but they were more than twice as hard as gold bones.

Qi and blood are purer and stronger.

"I am already so powerful even before I become a jade bone. If I become a jade bone, how powerful will I be? My martial arts foundation surpasses the ancient geniuses!"

Xu Yan was extremely excited, and the jade bone was not far away.

Ten days later, Xu Yan's bones had become crystal clear, and he was only one step away from becoming flawless jade bones.

However, at this last step, Xu Yan felt resistance again.

It seemed as if it had hit a bottleneck and could no longer transform.

How could Xu Yan be willing to accept the fact that he only needed to take the last step of transformation to truly refine the jade bones? Therefore, in the next two days, he continued to refine, but there was no progress. It seemed that only by breaking some kind of shackles could he complete this last step of transformation.

…

Li Xuan didn't know that his silly disciple was almost able to refine his jade bones.

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Having nothing to do that day, he dug out some belongings of the village elders, including books.

The people in the village came here to seek refuge. There were also literate people who left books here. Although there were not many books, they were the most valued things in the village.

Bang! A rolled-up cloth fell to the ground. Li Xuan bent down to pick it up and found some writing on it.

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

Out of curiosity, Li Xuan opened the roll of cloth.

The cloth roll was quite long. After it was spread out, I saw that it was covered with words. It seemed to be a diary? "Is this Daniel's diary?"

Li Xuan looked surprised.

Daniu, a rough guy, actually wrote a diary?

"Daniu died in the evil forest, but the tiger has been killed, which can be regarded as revenge for him."

Li Xuan was filled with sorrow.

When the group left the village, Da Niu was among them, but he was the only one who escaped back.

Flipping through the cloth roll and reading Daniu's diary, Li Xuan just thought he was bored and wanted to read some gossip.

"Daniu actually wants to marry eight wives. He is quite ambitious. What a pity."

When he turned to the end of the scroll, Li Xuan was suddenly startled and his expression became serious.

At the end of the scroll, it records what happened when Daniu left the village alone and wanted to go to the city.

He saw a ferocious beast outside the evil forest! "What Daniu saw was not that tiger!"

There has been a rumor in the village that there are ferocious tigers in the Evil Forest. Li Xuan subconsciously thought that there was only that one tiger in the Evil Forest.

In fact, besides the tiger, there was another ferocious beast? "That ferocious beast is bigger than the tiger, with hair like fire and fangs a foot long..."

Li Xuan was shocked when he saw the description of the ferocious beast in Daniu's diary. This ferocious beast was more terrifying than a tiger.

Why is there another ferocious beast in the evil forest besides the tiger?

The tiger is the king of the forest.

How could it allow other beasts to exist in its territory? How could such a powerful beast allow a tiger to occupy its territory?

“The first time I heard about the ferocious beasts in the Evil Forest was from Daniu. He mentioned it more than once. When we were preparing to leave the village together, it was Daniu who said there were ferocious beasts and it was too dangerous.

"It was not until that guy came back and claimed to have learned the art of killing tigers that I had the confidence to leave the village..."

Li Xuan thought of a possibility. Could it be that the tiger was the younger brother of the ferocious beast in the evil forest?

"My silly disciple, when he led people to hunt tigers, did he encounter the ferocious beast? It seems that he did not. Could it be that because there were so many people, the ferocious beast hid and did not show up?"

"No, we have to ask our stupid disciple to lead people to search the Evil Forest and kill the beast!"

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

(End of this chapter)