Chapter 279: Psychic Transformation, New Traits!

Chapter 279: Psychic Transformation, New Traits!



That night.

The indoor charcoal fire blazed, and the candlelight flickered.

Jiang Ning sat beside the fire, continuing to read the book in his hand.

Although, for him now, even with the outdoor temperature dropping to below zero in the depths of winter, he couldn't feel the cold.

However, his habit from his previous life as a southerner made him prefer doing things while warming himself by the fire.

[Scholarly Insight Experience +1]



[Scholarly Insight Experience +1]



[Scholarly Insight Experience +1]



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As he slowly turned the pages of the book, his Scholarly Insight experience gradually increased.

After another half a watch.

[Skill]: Scholarly Insight + (Four Breakthroughs 5000/5000) (Traits: Memorize at a Glance, Extraordinary Senses, Keen Mind, Exceptional Insight)



"Finally, it's full!" Jiang Ning put down the book and rubbed his neck, which had been bent down reading the whole time.

Then, he looked at his panel again.

[Essence Energy]: 318.93

It was clear that the fifth breakthrough of Scholarly Insight, Firewood Splitting Blade Art, and Water Nature were all of the same level, requiring only 200 Essence Energy points to break through.

The next moment.

A thought crossed his mind.

The Essence Energy points rapidly decreased.

Then.

Crack—

He felt something rising from his forehead, as if something was about to break out of its shell.

At the same time.

He instantly felt his psychic energy expanding, as if it had become substantial. The range of its coverage was also constantly expanding.

Initially, it could only cover a radius of 100 meters, but it quickly extended to 105 meters, then 110 meters, and finally 115 meters. This indicated that his psychic energy was rapidly growing stronger.

It should be noted that, when the radius is 100 meters, each additional meter increases the coverage area exponentially.

At this moment.

Jiang Ning's psychic energy coverage area was slowly but steadily expanding.

With each breath, the coverage area exceeded that of the previous breath.

A moment later.

200 meters.

Feeling that his psychic energy had stopped growing and reached its maximum length, Jiang Ning was stunned.

Before completing the fifth breakthrough in Scholarly Insight, his psychic energy could only cover a radius of 100 meters.

But now, after completing the fifth breakthrough in Scholarly Insight, his psychic energy had rapidly increased. After the psychic transformation ended, he could cover an area of 200 meters.

It should be noted that an area of 200 meters is four times that of 100 meters, not just double.

This indicated that his psychic energy had directly quadrupled after the breakthrough and transformation of Scholarly Insight.

Such an increase was extremely exaggerated.

Because previously, the base strength of his psychic energy was already extremely high.

Far surpassing sixth-rank Martial Artists of the same level.

This was also the reason he could complete the tempering of Iron Bone and Mystical Bone so efficiently.

Now, with his psychic energy directly increasing fourfold, it meant that the efficiency of his bone tempering would improve once again.

"Comfortable!" Jiang Ning's face lit up with joy as he slowly opened his eyes.

Today, whenever he had free time, he would read the book in his hand.

Until late at night, he finally accumulated enough experience to reach the fifth breakthrough in Scholarly Insight.

This improvement did not disappoint him.

The growth of his psychic energy alone, on top of his already solid foundation, had quadrupled.

Then.

He opened his panel again.

[Essence Energy]: 118.93

[Skill]: Scholarly Insight + (Five Breakthroughs 0/6000) (Traits: Memorize at a Glance, Extraordinary Senses, Keen Mind, Exceptional Insight, Celestial Eye)



[Celestial Eye]: Able to open the Celestial Eye and perceive things and matters that ordinary people cannot.

"Celestial Eye?" Jiang Ning was surprised.

He immediately thought of the Heaven's Yellow Sect.

According to Lin Qingyi's previous statements and his understanding of the sect.

The so-called Celestial Masters in the sect possess the ability of the Heavenly Eye Initiation.

With the Celestial Eye, they can see things that ordinary people cannot, but also, by cultivating ancient methods, they can achieve the state of Yin Spirit.

"Could my Celestial Eye be of the same nature as the Celestial Eye of the Celestial Masters in the Heaven's Yellow Sect?" Jiang Ning muttered to himself.

Then.

He closed his eyes slightly and instantly sensed the existence of the Celestial Eye.

The Celestial Eye was not his physical eyes.

Instead, it was a virtual eye located between his eyebrows.

Feeling the change in his forehead, he raised his hand and touched his brow.

Instantly, he felt a slight bump on his forehead, as if there were tiny particles protruding.

"It's right here." He thought to himself.

Then, he closed his eyes.

The Celestial Eye between his brows instantly opened.

At this moment, even with his eyes closed, he gained a different visual perception. He turned and looked around, and all the items in the room fell into his line of sight.

No matter how bright or dim the light was, at this moment in his vision, it was all the same, slightly dim, but still retaining the original colors.

The next moment.

With a thought, the wall in front of him suddenly became illusory, extremely transparent, and the walls inside the house instantly had more than ninety percent transparency.

This also instantly allowed him to see the various scenes outside the house.

Then, he slightly raised his head and gazed into the distance.

His line of sight pierced through the eastern courtyard, through the tall walls, and saw the thick snow on the pebble beach and the frozen lake surface.

Even without a trace of starlight or moonlight, it was a pitch-black night where one couldn't see their fingers if they stretched out their hand.

Yet, he could still see everything in the distance.

"Is this the Celestial Eye?" Jiang Ning muttered to himself, then nodded in satisfaction: "Not bad at all!"

After some experimentation, he also roughly understood the usage of the Celestial Eye.

After activating the Celestial Eye, darkness was as good as non-existent.

Even in the darkest environment, without a trace of light, his vision remained unaffected.

At the same time, after activating the Celestial Eye, he also gained the ability to see through obstacles.

A thick wall, when he activated the Celestial Eye, could instantly become more than ninety percent transparent.

This was an extremely practical function for him.

His archery skills were formidable, and the arrows he shot, even if blocked by rocks, could still penetrate them.

But he was only afraid of his line of sight being obstructed.

If his vision was blocked, even with his powerful archery skills, it would be useless.

As the psychic field expanded, even though Scholarly Insight had allowed him to break through limits five times, his psychic energy underwent another transformation, greatly increasing.

However, it could only cover a range of two hundred meters.

For his archery, two hundred meters was nothing.

With his archery skills, even a target two kilometers away was within his range.

Now with the Celestial Eye, he could fully utilize his archery skills.

Then, he slowly opened his eyes.

But the Celestial Eye remained activated.

He went back to the bronze mirror, looked at his reflection, and touched the space between his eyebrows.

He could still only feel the slightly raised particle under his skin.

Apart from that, he didn't sense any other strangeness.

Furthermore, even if his finger covered his eyebrows, it didn't obstruct his vision in the slightest.

"No wonder it's called the Celestial Eye, it really is somewhat spiritual!" Jiang Ning muttered to himself.

Then, as if remembering something, he muttered: "I wonder, after activating the Celestial Eye, can I see the Yin Spirit of that Earth King from the Heaven's Yellow Sect?"

He hadn't forgotten.

That night had been extremely dangerous for him.

Moreover, that night, when Lin Qingyi made her move, she injured the Earth King's Yin Spirit.

It was possible that the Earth King of the Heaven's Yellow Sect would take out his anger on Jiang Ning.

To prevent this, he also needed a way to detect Yin Spirits.

As for dealing with Yin Spirits, he didn't know if his current ability to gather gale thunder force could pose a threat to Yin Spirits.

According to his understanding, Yin Spirits could travel a thousand miles at night, crossing prefectures in a single night.

But Yin Spirits were illusory existences, and using their power to affect reality wasn't that simple.

At most, they could only display one or two percent of their strength.

The stronger the martial artist, the more effective it would be.

Qi and blood energy were extremely yang and firm.

They were innate counters to Yin Spirits.

Thunder force was also the most firm and powerful object between heaven and earth.

Thinking of this, he raised his right hand.

Suddenly, a fierce wind rose from the ground inside the room.

Electric arcs appeared in his hand, and a ball of thunder light formed.

"Sure enough, as my psychic energy strengthens, the gale thunder force I gather also becomes more powerful."

He could feel the gale thunder force from a two-hundred-meter radius gathering in his hand.

Within a breath, it had already reached the upper limit of his control.

A bluish-green electric light gathered in his hand, flickering on and off.

This was the effect of the Gale Thunder Breath, allowing him to sense and control the gale thunder force.

The next moment.

A window on one side of the room suddenly opened.

The cold wind rushed into the room.

Jiang Ning waved his right hand, and a bluish-green electric fire, like lightning, slashed through the air, instantly passing through the open window and landing on the courtyard ground.

Boom!

The courtyard was instantly filled with a blinding white light, and a thunderous roar echoed.

However, for the residents living by the Luo River, such a commotion didn't cause any disturbance.

The winter thunder had long become a common occurrence, but they also assumed it was just a sudden winter thunder.

After the thunderous sound dissipated, Jiang Ning, even through the walls, saw the power of this gale thunder force explosion.

Falling onto the stone bricks, it merely caused several cracks and a scorched black mark on the sturdy bricks.

Aside from that, there were no additional effects.

"So weak!" Jiang Ning shook his head.

With such power, the damage to physical entities was not even as effective as a casual stomp of his foot.

In his eyes, this power was barely enough to injure ordinary people and posed a very limited threat to martial artists.

Indoors.

Huff—

Jiang Ning exhaled a breath of turbid air and adjusted his state.

"It's time to start forging the Jade Bones!" he muttered to himself.

Then, he began to mobilize the Vital Energy within his body.

A moment later.

Boom—

His entire body trembled, and his Vital Energy surged.

He had a total of two hundred and six bones, but he was simultaneously tempering thirty-six of them.

Before this, he had only been able to temper thirteen bones at once, nearly tripling the number.

"It's feasible!" he thought to himself as he felt the changes within his body.

Immediately.

Boom—

Boom—

Boom—

One hammer after another, the Vital Energy in his body transformed into hammers that continuously struck his bones.

The Hundred and Eight Heaven and Earth Spirit Bone Forging Technique, also known as the Hundred and Eight Lower Heavens in One Cycle.

After a long while.

Boom—

As the final hammer fell.

"Huff—"

He exhaled a long breath of turbid air, his entire body already drenched in sweat.

Then.

A jade-green bottle appeared before him.

The item inside the bottle was the Jade Marrow Pill, which contained the Jade Marrow Liquid necessary for forging the Jade Bones.

Absorbing the Jade Marrow Liquid could completely alter the composition of the bones, forging flawless Jade Bones, also known as Jade Crystal Bones.

Once the forging was successful, the human body's bones would become as brilliant as crystal, transparent, and flawless, allowing one to see the internal blood vessels and nerves.

The next moment.

The jade-green bottle's stopper was opened by an invisible psychic energy.

A pill the size of a soybean, entirely jade-green, appeared before his eyes.

Through the pill's surface, one could see the flowing jade-green liquid inside, like liquid mercury.

The jade-green liquid inside the pill was the Jade Marrow Liquid, extracted and refined.

It was also the most precious part of the entire pill.

It was also the most crucial external substance for forging the Jade Bones.

Whoosh—

The Jade Marrow Pill flew into Jiang Ning's mouth.

The pill's outer coating instantly dissolved upon contact with his saliva.

He immediately felt a cool sensation, like the refreshing taste of peppermint.

Then, he slightly clenched his right teeth.

The Jade Marrow Liquid wrapped in the pill instantly burst open.

In that instant.

Jiang Ning felt an intense coolness, a sensation similar to peppermint but ten times more potent, refreshing and invigorating.

Then.

He closed his eyes.

He felt the Jade Marrow Liquid flowing down his throat and slowly entering his abdomen.

In his abdomen, the Jade Marrow Liquid began to vaporize.

It transformed into fine strands, like smoke and mist.

Then, these fine strands of Jade Marrow permeated his flesh and slowly merged into the thirty-six bones he had just tempered.

Soon!

The substance derived from a single Jade Marrow Pill was completely absorbed by his bones, leaving no excess.

After that, he saw the Jade Marrow-infused bones, as black as obsidian, gradually displaying crystal-like threads.

Witnessing this, his slightly anxious heart finally relaxed.

It signified that everything was going smoothly.

He had taken a solid step towards forging the Jade Bones.

Moreover, due to the transformation of his psychic energy, he gained the ability to simultaneously manipulate thirty-six blood and qi hammers, enhancing his efficiency significantly.

With this newfound ability, his efficiency soared.

The time wasted in the past few days now proved to be a worthwhile investment, as it allowed him to forge the Jade Bones even faster than originally planned.

Not only did it not delay the process, but it also enabled him to forge the Jade Bones ahead of schedule.

He then took another glance inside his body.

"With my current efficiency, I should be able to complete the forging of the Jade Bones within one to two months."

At this thought, his heart rejoiced.

For ordinary martial artists, forging the Jade Bones required years.

But for him, it was a matter of months.

The difference was indeed significant!

"It seems that before the snow melts and spring arrives, I should be able to forge the Jade Bones and directly enter the Fifth Rank."

(End of Chapter)

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