Chapter 297: Changes After Breaking Limits in Fist Technique, and a Million-Point Reward Arrives!

Chapter 297: Changes After Breaking Limits in Fist Technique, and a Million-Point Reward Arrives!



January 27, 2024

Inside the house.

He opened his panel once more to take a look.

Primordial Energy: 1357.88

Skills:

Five Beasts Fist (4 Limit Breaks 633/5000) (Characteristics: Five Viscera Storing Essence, Five Elements Spirit, Fist Technique Grandmaster, Bear and Tiger Physique)



Splitting Firewood Sword Technique (6 Limit Breaks 4788/7000) (Characteristics: Cross-Categorical Understanding, Lightning-Fast Sword, Divine Sword Control, Sword and Body Unification, Innate Sword Bone)



Water Nature+ (6 Limit Breaks 7000/7000) (Characteristics: Underwater Breathing, Advanced Water Control, Water Spirit Affinity, Cloud and Rain Manipulation, Water Spirit Body)



In the morning, he had over two thousand Primordial Energy points, but after the previous expenditure, it had decreased to just over a thousand points.

At this moment, the Water Nature skill on his panel had already met the conditions for the next Limit Break.

The skill's experience points had reached 7000, and the required 1000 Primordial Energy points for the seventh Limit Break were also fulfilled.

Now, with just a thought, he could successfully complete the Limit Break for Water Nature.

But after a moment's hesitation, he rejected the idea.

The path to Fifth Rank was right before him.

The strengthening of his Inner Fortification not only influenced his combat power at this Fifth Rank level but also had far-reaching effects on various aspects in the future.

Even when he reached Fourth Rank, Third Rank, Second Rank, and First Rank.

Inner Fortification would remain of utmost importance.

If Inner Fortification was depleted, even a Third Rank Grandmaster or a Second Rank Grand Grandmaster would experience a significant drop in combat effectiveness.

This was why even top-tier Grandmasters, capable of splitting rivers, couldn't fight thousands of soldiers alone.

The total amount of Inner Fortification was always limited.

A Grandmaster without Inner Fortification, facing thousands of soldiers, would still be overwhelmed, tired, and exhausted.

In such a situation, facing a Grandmaster at their limit, even a few Fourth Rank martial artists could easily defeat them.

Even Grand Grandmasters and those above, including First Rank martial artists at the apex, couldn't escape this fate.

Therefore, Jiang Ning clearly understood that strengthening Inner Fortification should be his top priority.

He didn't plan to waste the hard-earned Primordial Energy points he had accumulated.

Instead, he decided to continue improving his Five Beasts Fist, pushing it to another Limit Break.

According to his estimation, the next Limit Break for Five Beasts Fist would require 2000 points.

Currently, he had over 1300 Primordial Energy points, not too far from the 2000-point goal.

Inside the house.

"Young Master, why are you eating so little?" Green Ripple looked at Jiang Ning, who had put down his bowl, with a surprised expression.

Jiang Ning smiled slightly at her astonished gaze.

"With my success in Inner Fortification, I can control my body's metabolism and don't need to eat much."

At this moment, he hadn't eaten a single grain of rice or sip of water all day, and after just two bowls of rice, he felt he had had enough.

This was the power of the Inner Fortification Realm, controlling the body's metabolism and reducing its consumption.

This was also why he could eat three meals a day like a regular person.

Otherwise, if he ate to his heart's content, even ten people's food wouldn't be enough for him.

Usually, to replenish the energy consumed during martial arts training, he relied mainly on his body absorbing water to nourish itself.

After getting up, Jiang Ning looked at Green Ripple, who was holding a bowl in her left hand and chopsticks in her right.

"Take your time eating, I'm going to practice my fists!"

With that, Jiang Ning pushed open the door and stepped into the courtyard, where the cold wind blew in.

After Jiang Ning left, the door was closed again.

Only then did Green Ripple start devouring her food.

She had been hungry all day, and her stomach was already growling.

Especially after practicing martial arts, she found her appetite growing rapidly, and it was now astonishingly large.

Previously, to satisfy her hunger, she had to steam white flour buns every day.

Not to mention today, where the dishes on the table were all fine teas, mainly meat dishes, and large portions of meat.

She had been drooling over the food earlier.

But in front of Jiang Ning, she didn't want to lose her composure, so she ate slowly and calmly.

Now that Jiang Ning had left, she could let loose and started stuffing her mouth with food.

On the other side.

As Jiang Ning stepped out of the house, he heard the sounds of Green Ripple's hurried chewing coming from within. He couldn't help but smile.

He had already sensed that Green Ripple was starving earlier, so he decided not to eat either.

For him now, eating a little more or less didn't make much difference.

Replenishing his body's consumption with ordinary food was already a very inefficient method.

But since he was still a physical body, he needed certain elements from food.

Additionally, he had already grown accustomed to eating three meals a day.

When slightly hungry, eating delicious food was a kind of happiness.

When the food was tasty enough, eating was no longer just a necessity for survival but also an enjoyment of life.

It made people feel a kind of nameless happiness.

And the food made by Liu Wanwan was delicious enough to make Jiang Ning's tongue tingle, even though it was just home-cooked food.

So even with his success in Inner Fortification, he still maintained the habit of eating three meals a day.

After that.

He no longer listened to the sounds from inside the room.

Standing in the courtyard piled high with snow.

From the window frames, a faint candlelight escaped, providing a glimmer of light to the pitch-black courtyard.

He circulated his inner breath, and as he unleashed it, a clean and spacious area was instantly cleared on the ground.

Standing on the clean and spacious stone brick floor.

He closed his eyes once more.

Five images of mythical beasts immediately appeared in his mind.

Tiger, deer, ape, phoenix, and bear.

The five mythical beast images were incredibly vivid in his mind, every strand of fur and every detail of their patterns were crystal clear.

"It's definitely working!"

"It seems that drawing them out and consolidating them is indeed effective!"

Then, he assumed a boxing stance.

His body moved.

Roar—

A tiger's roar echoed out of thin air.

Green Ripple turned her head to look out the window, and she saw a sea of red, the fire illuminating the night.

"Oh my..." Her eyes widened, and a grain of rice fell from the corner of her mouth.

On the other side.

In the courtyard.

Jiang Ning practiced his punches with his eyes closed, and in his mind, he imagined a mythical beast bathing in flames amidst a sea of fire.

In that instant.

He felt as if he was surrounded by a sea of fire.

All around him, in every direction, were endless raging flames.

Above his head, a series of overlapping shadows formed a cage, trapping him within the fiery sea.

At this moment, he also felt the Fire Essence constantly flowing from the outside world into his body, merging with his heart.

Inside the house.

Green Ripple quietly peered through the door crack, and she saw a tiger bathing in raging flames in the pitch-black courtyard.

The tiger would crouch, pounce, and sweep its paws, causing the air to crackle.

However, she noticed that although the fire was intense, it didn't transmit much heat.

Even though she was only separated from the fiery tiger by a door, a distance of less than three zhang, she still didn't feel much heat from the flames.

It was as if the flames before her were merely a reflection in an illusion, possessing only the form without the substance.

Wait a minute! She suddenly shook her head.

She saw that the snow-covered tiles were now extremely dry.

And not far away, the dark and damp tiles were receding, indicating that the moisture on the tiles was rapidly evaporating.

Just then.

The tiger turned its head, and through the door crack, its eyes met hers.

She instantly felt a wave of heat rushing towards her, and she couldn't help but squint.

Thump, thump, thump—

She quickly stepped back, patting her heavy chest, her eyes filled with lingering fear.

In that instant, she saw that between heaven and earth, there was only the tiger, its body enveloped in flames, bathing in the fiery sea.

At this moment, she also felt a terrifying wave of heat rushing towards her.

The heat from the flames alone made her feel as if she was about to be devoured by the fire.

She gently patted her heavy chest, and after a while, her pounding heart gradually calmed down.

On the other side.

Jiang Ning changed his boxing stance.

Suddenly, the courtyard was filled with a solemn and murderous aura.

Within a zhang, white flashes occasionally appeared.

Wherever the white flashes passed, the snow swept up by the boxing wind was instantly split in two.

[Five Beasts Fist Experience +2]



As he finished practicing the boxing technique, a prompt appeared before his eyes, but he ignored it.

Then, Jiang Ning slowly opened his eyes.

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His gaze swept across the courtyard.

He immediately noticed the dried stone bricks and the melted snow beyond the courtyard.

But there was not a trace of fire damage in the entire courtyard.

"The boxing stance should be considered to have entered the second stage, transforming from illusion to reality."

Looking at the scene before him, Jiang Ning nodded slightly, his face filled with satisfaction.

After practicing the boxing technique, he also realized that the Five Beasts Fist had once again broken through limits, bringing him further improvement.

The efficiency of his Essence Energy cultivation had increased again, and the nourishing effect on his five viscera was even stronger.

More importantly, the boxing stance had undergone another transformation.

Compared to the previous illusion, the current boxing stance clearly possessed the ability to influence reality.

Imprisoning Fire Tiger Boxing Stance.

Once unleashed, it was as if a fire tiger had descended into reality, radiating intense heat.

This clearly showed that the boxing stance had reached a new level, with initial effects of turning illusion into reality.

"Unfortunately, my knowledge of martial arts is still lacking, and I'm not quite sure what level my current boxing stance has reached."

Jiang Ning shook his head inwardly as this thought arose.

Then, he felt that his condition was good.

So, he took out a wine flask that he had been brewing for a long time.

Inside the flask was top-quality wine from the Bright Moon Tower, and soaking in the wine were fragments of the Moonstone he had found in the sunken ship at the bottom of the lake.

Soaking the Moonstone fragments in the wine could produce the legendary Imperial Essence.

He opened the wine flask, and with a 'glug, glug', he quickly drank all the wine.

[Essence Energy]: 1357.88

"After soaking for so long, I hope there's a good increase in Essence Energy points tomorrow!"

Looking at his current Essence Energy points on the panel, Jiang Ning muttered to himself.

Then, he began to temper his bones and practice his punches.

Following his previous plan, he was originally supposed to visit the Internal Affairs Bureau of the Inspection Office today.

(End of Chapter)

Through yesterday's conversation with Elder White from the Internal Affairs Bureau, the decision regarding the reward for killing the Fifth Rank Inner Fortification Realm martial artist from the Divine Worship Sect was finally reached today.

However, an unexpected incident during the morning's fist technique practice disrupted his original plans.

Now that it was already late at night, he could only choose to visit the Internal Affairs Bureau again tomorrow.

Afterward, he continued his fist practice.

After breaking through the limits of the Five Beasts Fist, the way he practiced his fist techniques was different from before.

Previously, he only needed to mobilize his qi and blood, practicing the fist forms.

Now, he had to constantly visualize the corresponding beast images while practicing his fists.

This was the insight he had gained after breaking through the limits of his fist technique in the morning.

The next day.

He opened his eyes.

【Primordial Energy】: 1488.76

"Not bad!"

Looking at his panel, he nodded in satisfaction.

Overnight, he had gained more than a hundred points, bringing him one step closer to the 2,000 Primordial Energy points.

According to his speculation, once he reached 2,000 Primordial Energy points, he would meet the energy requirements for the next breakthrough in the Five Beasts Fist.

As for the issue of experience, it was just a matter of time.

Then, taking advantage of the early morning, he continued practicing his fist techniques, tempering his bones, gradually turning his entire skeletal structure into Jade Bones.

Morning.

The sky was still overcast.

Jiang Ning arrived at the Internal Affairs Bureau.

The white-haired Elder White, with a few strands of silver hair, was still like an ordinary rural old lady, warming herself by the charcoal fire inside.

"Senior!"

As he spoke, the old lady's slightly nodding eyes slowly opened.

"It's you!" She seemed to have just woken up, her eyes a bit hazy, and her thoughts a bit slow.

The next moment, her eyes cleared.

"I thought you had forgotten, young man!" The old lady smiled.

"I'm so poor now, how could I forget!" Jiang Ning replied.

"You're quite lucky, young man!" The old lady continued, "Since the previous command from above didn't mention the reward for assassinating the Fifth Rank from the Divine Worship Sect, this time, we'll continue with the previous reward system for meritorious service."

At this point, the old lady continued to look at Jiang Ning with a smile, as if wanting to see his reaction.

At that moment, Jiang Ning's eyes lit up, and his breathing became heavier: "Does that mean a reward of one million, Senior?"

"Yes! A reward of one million Contribution Points!" The old lady nodded slightly, then sighed with emotion: "One million Contributions, for you, is like ascending to heaven in one step!"

"With this one million Contributions, you can rise through several official ranks. With your strength, you could even become a deputy commander in the county city."

"If there's a vacancy, you can choose not to be a phoenix tail and instead take up the position of the Patrol Office head in a certain county, which would be even more comfortable."

"Every Patrol Office is an independent system, and the head holds the highest authority in the area!"

Hearing the old lady's words, Jiang Ning immediately understood.

With one million Contribution Points and his current strength, he indeed had many options.

But he had no such intentions.

His original intention in joining the Patrol Office was merely to find a place to settle down.

He didn't aim to climb the official ladder and achieve the glory of founding a dynasty and honoring his ancestors.

Not to mention that it was difficult for a newly established Patrol Office to have vacancies, and even if there were, he didn't have such ambitions.

The higher the official rank, the more complicated the trivial matters.

The more trivial matters, the less time he had to focus on his martial arts practice and improve his strength.

In his eyes, fame, status, and wealth were ultimately external things, only accessories, not the main focus.

The ultimate goal was to improve his strength and undergo a metamorphosis in his life.

Just like the Martial Saint of the Great Xia.

He alone had maintained peace for eight hundred years, and he had lived for over eight hundred years.

Living for over eight hundred years was not only a symbol of strength but also a metamorphosis in life.

This Martial Saint was the best example before him!

He alone was worth more than a thousand armies.

In comparison, even the emperor above the hall seemed insignificant.

The rise and fall of the imperial throne, the stability of the empire, all seemed to depend on his breath.

In front of this Martial Saint, the imperial throne and imperial power were not worth mentioning.

With his near-thousand-year lifespan, he had witnessed countless generations of imperial power shifts.

His existence, with a near-thousand-year lifespan, was no different from an immortal deity.

For ordinary people, such a lifespan was akin to longevity.

On average, mortals only lived for a fleeting sixty years.

A thousand-year lifespan spanned several generations.

In front of such an existence, what were glory, wealth, power, and status? Anything could be obtained with a thought.

Changing dynasties only required a thought from the Martial Saint.

So, Jiang Ning had long understood his true pursuit.

Power, status, glory, and wealth were merely secondary pursuits in his current life.

In this era, he needed power and status to provide him with a comfortable environment to focus on his martial arts and improve his strength.

(End)

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