Free Web NovelChapter 306: Chapter 306: Washing Marrow Great Success
Xu Yunfan grinned and casually patted the bow’s body. "This bow has quite a temper. It thinks I’m not worthy of it. But that’s fine. It’s a Divine Weapon, after all; its spirit needs to be broken in. Give it some time. After I ’discipline’ it a bit, it’ll naturally behave."
For Divine Weapons like this, as long as he frequently refined it with his Strength, or even his Pure Yang True Qi, he would naturally be able to wield it freely. As for whether it would completely acknowledge him as its master, Xu Yunfan didn’t care.
A melon plucked by force may not be sweet, but it still quenches the thirst.
Moreover, he had a faint feeling that the Sky-Sundering Cloud-Piercing Bow was likely the highest quality weapon from the depths of the Sword Burial Abyss. Given time, it might truly develop its own spirituality, undergo a qualitative transformation, and as a Divine Weapon, advance further to Tier Eight.
At this thought, Xu Yunfan couldn’t help but curl his fingers, his knuckles rapping against the Cold Iron body of the Sky-Sundering Cloud-Piercing Bow, producing a clear, ringing sound.
The more he looked at it, the more he liked it. Bow-type Divine Weapons were exceedingly rare and extraordinary. He casually slapped the unruly Divine Weapon. "What an arrogant little thing, looking down your nose at me? You think I’m not worthy of you?"
The bow’s body trembled and shot out a few sparks, as if responding to his provocation.
"We have a long road ahead of us..." Xu Yunfan muttered.
"I’ll refine you with Pure Yang True Qi every day and christen your edge with enemy blood in battle. We’ll see then if your weapon spirit is tougher, or if my fists are harder!"
Hearing this, Bi Yuan’s wide sleeves fluttered without a breeze. A look of appreciation, as if admiring unpolished jade, appeared in his eyes. A flicker of a smile crossed his face as he nodded slightly. "Good. You’ve got guts."
Cui Yu, on the other hand, gave Xu Yunfan a deep look and said in a low voice, "Both Divine Weapons are extraordinary, especially the Sky-Sundering Cloud-Piercing Bow... If you can truly tame it, it will become a devastating weapon in the future."
Even Bi Yuan hadn’t expected Xu Yunfan to fish out two extraordinary Divine Weapons in one go.
At this moment, Xu Yunfan was a sight to behold. He wore the Dragon Scale Armor, which shimmered with a faint, dark light. The Red Fire Dragon-Swallowing Mace was coiled on his back, and the patterns on the Shaking Mountain Hammer at his waist seemed to flow like Earth Veins. Now, with the addition of this ferocious bow, he was practically a living, moving Soldier Tomb.
His loadout was absolutely extravagant!
The sight was so much that even Vice Sect Leader Shen Wuya, who had been standing silently to the side, turned and walked away without a word.
’Since the founding of the Taoist Sect, who has ever managed to gather four or five Divine Weapons on their person...’
’Can you even use them all?’
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A full month had passed since he entered the Sword Burial Abyss, but Xu Yunfan hadn’t slacked off in the slightest.
On this day, before the break of dawn, the Gang Wind atop the mountain peak cut like a knife.
Xu Yunfan sat cross-legged on the Profound Jade Platform, the steaming Blood Qi around his body condensing into a crimson haze in the cold wind.
His eyes were shut tight, his spine undulating like a dragon. A roar like a torrential river echoed from within him. As he pushed the Yijing Marrow Cleansing Skill to its absolute limit, the Golden Marrow throughout his body began to stir. Just yesterday, all the marrow in his body had been cleansed by his Strength, transforming bit by bit into Golden Marrow.
All the bones in Xu Yunfan’s body felt as if they were being forged by an invisible giant hammer, emitting the sound of clashing metal as they vibrated at a high frequency.
The surging medicinal power from the Purple Gold Bone Forging Pill he had previously consumed transformed into thousands of fine purple streams. Following the torrent of Blood Qi Strength driven by the Yijing Marrow Cleansing Skill, they drilled into the seams of his bones like living creatures.
If one were to observe this with the Celestial Eye, they would surely discover that wherever these purple medicinal streams passed, intricate Thunder Patterns would appear on the surface of the bone. From deep within the marrow cavity, purple lightning as fine as hair would erupt, tempering the originally murky marrow into a brilliant golden color.
This was the prototype of the "Golden Body" recorded in the scriptures of Mituo Temple. The Buddhist Sect called it "Vajra Indestructible," while the Taoist Sect referred to it as "Jade Bone Heaven-Born."
At this moment, every one of his bones was like Profound Iron tempered a thousand times by Thunder Fire, and the flow of his marrow even created the sound of wind and thunder.
Occasionally, stray bolts of purple lightning would leap from his skin, drawing in the surrounding Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi and forming wisps of electrical arcs that flickered around his body. freeweɓnovel.cøm
’You have cultivated continuously, aided by the power of the Purple Gold Bone Forging Pill and enhanced by the Ten Thousand Years Ginseng King’s Medicine Power. Your Skill Level in the Yijing Marrow Cleansing Skill has increased.’
’You have cultivated continuously...’
Watching the Skill Level notifications that occasionally popped up in his vision, Xu Yunfan let out a soft breath and glanced at the Yijing Marrow Cleansing Skill’s Skill Level on his Attribute Panel.
He was only three points away from the one thousand needed for Great Success.
In three months of arduous training day and night, besides advancing both his Dragon and Tiger Hibernation Skill and his Eight Desolates Dragon Fall Mace Technique to the Minor Achievement stage, he had practiced the Yijing Marrow Cleansing Skill the most diligently.
After three months of sleepless, relentless cultivation, the Blood Qi in Xu Yunfan’s body was already boiling like magma.
At this moment, he sat on the Profound Jade Platform atop Qingwei Mountain, the blue veins beneath his skin coiling like Qiu Long dragons. Every breath he took drew in the sparse Spiritual Qi from the world, merging it with the surging medicinal power within his body.
As he pushed the Yijing Marrow Cleansing Skill to its absolute limit, he let out a sudden low shout. A dense series of CRACKLES erupted from his bones, like thousands of Jade Beads falling to the ground, or the clang of striking metal.
’Your Yijing Marrow Cleansing Skill has reached Great Success.’
A notification prompt appeared in his vision.
In that instant, a vast and profound, ocean-like torrent of warmth surged through Xu Yunfan’s body, filling his every limb and bone.
Under the waves of warmth generated by the Attribute Panel, his bones felt as if they were being repeatedly forged by an invisible Heavy Hammer. The originally dense bone matter shattered inch by inch, only to be rapidly reconstructed under the envelopment of his Blood Qi and Pure Yang True Qi.
A pale golden marrow fluid seeped from deep within his bones. Wherever it passed, intricate and profound patterns appeared on the bone’s surface, resembling both a Star Map and talismans—the very sign of achieving Great Success in Jade Marrow Golden Bone.
His bones suddenly let out a series of pops like roasting soybeans, which then produced a clear, resonant echo like a carillon of bells and chimes.
With such durability, it was likely that even a strike from a Treasure Artifact would struggle to leave a mark.
Xu Yunfan was inwardly stunned. ’No wonder Mituo Temple’s Yijing Marrow Cleansing Skill is hailed as the number one Marrow Cleansing technique, unrivaled for millennia. With this Golden Body alone, one could clash with a Treasure Artifact bare-handed.’
He finally believed the incredible feat Li Haomiao had once described—of an old monk from Mituo Temple who shattered a Divine Weapon with his bare hands.
He slowly rose to his feet. As he stretched his limbs, his spine arched like a dragon’s back, capable of twisting into unbelievable angles with his movements, yet it would instantly straighten when he exerted force, transferring power to his limbs without the slightest hint of sluggishness.
The fully fractured bone shards within him healed in an instant, washed over by his Blood Qi. The newly formed periosteum glowed with an amber luster, teeming with hidden Vitality and making his Blood Qi even richer.
Marrow begets the power of blood, and the blood converted from the Golden Marrow was now tinged with a hint of crimson-gold.
What caught Xu Yunfan’s attention the most was how the effects of the Marrow Cleansing after reaching Great Success had pushed his senses completely beyond mortal limits.
He could clearly discern the flight path of an insect a thousand feet away, and could even perceive the faint purple halo of flowing Spiritual Qi.
The rustle of the mountain wind through pine needles, the squirming of an earthworm thirty feet underground, even the thundering roar of his own blood rushing through his veins—if he calmed his mind and listened closely, every sound was as distinct as the beating of a war drum.
Xu Yunfan’s nostrils flared slightly. The lingering fragrance of the Elixir he had taken, the earthy scent of the soil, the tang of rusted metal... thousands of scents were deconstructed into individual threads. He could even smell the faint sandalwood that had lingered on Senior Sister Cyan Simurgh’s robes three days ago.
As a thought crossed his mind, he reached out and lightly touched the stone platform. He could actually perceive the sharp edges of the individual quartz crystals within the rock. His skin’s sensitivity to changes in airflow was now so acute that he could predict the trajectory of an opponent’s attack.
