After a long silence, the witch concluded: "The wyvern from before was the owner of this laboratory, a sorcerer. In his attempt to break through to the second realm, 'Spiritual Transformation Sorcerer,' he took a dangerous and misguided path. Although he did reach the second realm, his body is now permanently fixed in wyvern form."
"He wandered around, concealing his identity while using the advantage of his dragon blood to command and subjugate kobold tribes, making them raid people for him and provide experimental subjects."
"He successively subdued several half-dragons, who became a great help to him. Ordinary kobolds were too weak; even dozens of them together wouldn't be a match for the village guard (now that the Sea Soul Continent has merged with the Azure Domain, there are also top-tier martial artists with internal energy in the villages). But with the addition of the half-dragons, things became much easier."
"As for the villagers who were kidnapped..." the witch shook her head, "He used them all as experimental subjects, the purpose of which was to allow himself to regain human form and become a normal sorcerer who could freely change his form."
"A month ago, this Argonian sorcerer arrived outside Rimbaud City, quickly subdued the kobolds in the cave, enslaved them, and ordered them to capture several groups of villagers... Then the adventurer party received a mission and failed, and afterwards, the high-ranking wizard Karlov, while investigating his apprentice's death, also died here."
[This adventure has come to a successful end. As the one who contributed the most, you sold the Argonian warlock's possessions, including his own corpse.]
The Sea Soul Continent doesn't place much importance on certain aspects of human ethics. Since the sorcerer went astray and completely transformed into a beast, and can't turn back...
[It looks like a dragon, its bloodline is dragon-like, and it can't transform back into human form, so it must be a dragon-like being!]
[It's a high-quality dragon blood material!]
[One cultivation system on the Sea Soul Continent involves transforming into exotic beasts, so they don't really care about such things. Even if the dragonkin were originally human, they would still be considered the lowest-ranking livestock, slaughtered whenever they felt like it.]
[In other words, the influence of the Azure Domain and the introduction of the Zunyuan system in the last few centuries have altered their "Wufan" structural ecology.]
[In the past, even a first or second-stage wizard apprentice could, with a single command, unconditionally take the village chief's daughter as a servant, regardless of whether she lived or died.]
Ultimately, you've obtained 3100 refined gold, multiplying your assets many times over.
[Only twenty days after arriving in Rimbaud, you have become famous throughout the city.]
The second realm is still too terrifying. A single sub-dragon can wipe out an army of millions of mortals, and that's without the demon race's ability to "kill and devour simultaneously."
The entire city of Rimbaud lacked a single regular second-realm warrior, making it unable to resist a dragon comparable to a late-stage Innate Realm expert (although the dragons wouldn't attack a city).
[So the city lord—Sir Dia, the ruler of this city—expressed his gratitude to you: "Thank you for saving the villagers of my territory, blah blah blah, blah blah blah."]
You know he's not actually grateful to you for saving the villagers, because he doesn't care about those villages at all. His words of thanks are just an excuse; his main purpose is to win you over and get closer to you.
Often, forcing someone to do you a favor can backfire and create resentment, but forcing yourself to owe them something can actually improve their attitude towards you.
You casually dealt with him, a thought lingering in your mind.
That Argonian warlock... is actually quite honest.
He didn't actually need to risk sending the kobolds to raid people.
[Because the buying and selling of people exists in the extraordinary market of Rimbaud City alone, and the prices aren't high. Even if an Argonian sorcerer has no wealth, he can easily exchange a little of his own blood for a batch of mortal slaves, and no matter how he experiments, he won't cause any trouble.]
[...]
[After "hammering the tendons" comes "forging the bones."]
This is the stage within the Extreme Martial Artist system's Zero Realm that offers the greatest potential for strength enhancement.
[From perfecting the Hammering Tendons to perfecting the Bone Forging is equivalent to advancing from a relatively weak first-rate martial artist to an above-average martial master.]
Of course, the Extreme Martial Arts system has higher combat power; a fully-fledged Bone Forging Master can already overpower a Martial Master who has condensed their martial will.
"Bone forging involves constantly training the bones to maximize the body's strength and unleash maximum power!"
Every day you boil bone meal, drink bone broth, and do seven sets of bone-strengthening exercises.
"Interesting. There are different levels of bone forging. The weakest is iron bone, then steel bone, and the most powerful martial artist has jade bone."
Even the most ordinary martial artists, no matter how hard they try, can only forge an iron body. Only the most outstanding martial artists have the chance to forge a steel body. As for jade bones... they are extremely rare in this world!
However, the path of martial arts has always been about defying fate and altering destiny. One can use rare and precious materials to break through limitations and forge bones of steel, or even jade!
[Jade Bones: Bones as white and lustrous as jade, incredibly strong and resilient; a single movement can exert the force of 100,000 jin!]
[After forging the Jade Bones, you will become even stronger in every subsequent realm, becoming invincible among those of the same realm!]
[You recall Bei Chenguang's annotations on this cultivation system; the Jade Bone... isn't actually that mysterious.]
[Just like the "muscle and bone resonance" you experienced during your Martial Master stage in the Zun Yuan system.]
[During your time in Cloud Six, the resonance of your muscles and bones could produce a deafening roar like a dragon's cry (Chapter 58), but in Cloud Seven, until you broke through to Grandmaster, the resonance of your muscles and bones was only the sound of a mountain collapsing (Chapter 76).]
[But in reality, both have reached perfection; you've mastered them thoroughly!]
The difference in the perceived quality is simply due to your different "aptitude" at the time! (Ordinary people have one level of aptitude, but after undergoing the Heavenly Origin Cleansing, they have ten times the aptitude.)
The same principle applies to bone forging. If one's aptitude is less than three times that of an average person, they will eventually develop iron bones after forging. If their aptitude is three to six times that of an average person, they will develop iron bones halfway through forging, and steel bones after completing the forging process. Jade bones, on the other hand, are six to nine,999... times more aptitude.
[A talent ten times greater than full potential is a Golden Bone, a rare find even in ten thousand years, with a faint golden glow emanating from its bones.]
(The phrase "difficult to emerge from for ten thousand years" refers to the "lower realm" where the extreme martial arts system is prevalent, not the "upper realm.")
[The Zun Yuan system can boost aptitude to 9.9999 times during the innate "Heavenly Yuan Cleansing" process, and in some individuals, it can even reach ten times, in order to give birth to a Sacred Body.]
The Extreme Martial Arts system allows individuals to enhance their aptitude from the "Bone Forging Stage" using various top-tier secret elixirs. However, most of them only have 4-9 times their original aptitude at the second or even third realm. Only when they reach perfection at the third realm can their aptitude transform to a full 10 times, giving birth to a "Martial Body" (Sacred Body).
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(5th update. Also, if you guys don't like Western fantasy or fish-exploding plots, then after I finish writing the next part of the plot I'm currently writing, I'll compress the later parts a bit (?′ω`? ))
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