Grinding Cultivation Toward Martial Saint

Chapter 100: Chapter 27 Tempering the Skin Membrane

In the wilderness.

Crackling—

Sparks flew as the roasting rabbit over the fire was now sizzling with oil, and its meaty scent wafted through the air.

Jiang Ning turned the stick, ensuring that the rabbit on the stick was heated evenly.

Another moment passed.

Jiang Ning used a clean stick to poke through the rabbit meat easily and nodded in satisfaction.

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“It should be about done! Time to eat!”

He let it cool for a while longer, waiting for the roasted rabbit to lower in temperature before tearing off a leg.

Barely having taken the first bite, Jiang Ning couldn’t help but frown.

It looked delicious, but the taste was quite average.

He then shook his head, “Forget it! Without seasonings, one can’t expect much. The key is to fill the stomach!”

In no time at all, he had devoured the entire rabbit.

For his current appetite, one adult rabbit could only make him feel about eighty percent full.

After satisfying his hunger.

Jiang Ning then went over to the water to wash the grease off his hands as thoroughly as possible.

Afterward, he went to the side and opened a box of medicinal sand prepared for him by Shen Congyun.

“It’s time to start refining my skin!” Jiang Ning murmured to himself.

Then, in no time, he stripped off his clothes.

The first stage of skin refining involves scrubbing the entire body with the medicinal sand until the skin turns red all over and begins to bleed slightly.

Only then can you start channeling Qi-Blood to any part of the body, absorbing the medicine of the sand under the influence of Qi-Blood.

With repeated cycles like this, until under the surface layer of the skin, a layer of skin forms that connects throughout the body.

Only by achieving this step can one truly join the ranks of Martial Arts Nine Grade.

The prerequisite for all this is to take off one’s clothes.

Without removing the clothes, the medicinal sand couldn’t be scrubbed onto every part of the skin.

That’s why Jiang Ning chose not to return to the city today.

In the wilderness, he could confidently remove his clothes to refine his skin.

How could he do this if he returned to the Martial Arts Hall and didn’t have his own yard?

After he had taken off his clothes.

Jiang Ning picked up the medicinal sand and started scrubbing it onto his arms.

Moments later, he grimaced, and the corner of his mouth twitched slightly.

Because the process is really painful.

Grain after grain, like sandstones, was rubbed on the skin repeatedly, until the skin was rubbed raw.

As one can imagine, this process is extremely painful.

After more than half a 2-hour period.

Enduring the pain, Jiang Ning had scrubbed the medicinal sand all over his body, his skin turned red all over, and faint bloodstains were oozing out.

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Jiang Ning immediately formed the first pose of the Vajra Immortal Body.

According to the records of Vajra Immortal Body, there are a total of eighteen poses.

Each pose corresponds to a pathway for channeling Qi-Blood and refining the body.

After forming the first pose, he began to channel Qi-Blood and refine his body.

Time slowly passed.

After a quarter of an hour.

Feeling the heat across his body, his muscles warmed up, and he immediately changed to the second pose.

Another quarter of an hour passed, then he posed the third move, switching to a different pathway for channeling Qi-Blood and refining the body.

[Vajra Immortal Body EXP +3]

After practicing the three moves, Jiang Ning suddenly saw a prompt before his eyes.

He then quickly checked his panel.

[Skill]: Vajra Immortal Body (Unmastered 3/100)

“Not bad!”

Seeing the panel, Jiang Ning immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

He then murmured to himself, “Just like the Inner Elixir Cultivation Skill, it requires ten times the experience of ordinary cultivation techniques, which isn’t outrageous!”

The next moment.

He began to check his body and saw that the skin beneath the peeled blood scabs was still red.

Although it no longer bled, the skin still looked visibly fragile.

Then, Jiang Ning touched it with his finger and immediately felt a pain like a needle prick.

“It seems I can’t refine my skin any more today! It needs time to recover.”

Afterward.

Jiang Ning jumped into the nearby pool.

This place was specifically chosen by him as a suitable place.

Situated on the side of a cliff.

It not only had spring water coming out from between the rocks for him to drink,

But also a half-stagnant pool for him to bathe.

At this stage of skin refining, one has to clean off the blood scabs from the body after daily practice, then apply medicine to heal faster, enabling the body to recover to its original state, and to continue applying medicinal sand for further practice.

Again and again, until a skin membrane is formed throughout the body, one is officially stepping into the Skin Refining Realm and joining the ranks of Martial Arts Nine Grade.

In the pool.

Jiang Ning bore the pain on his body, quickly rubbed off the blood scabs from his body.

A few minutes later, he climbed ashore from the pool.

After drying the water off his body, Jiang Ning saw that it was covered in spots and dots of red marks.

These red marks were the wounds from his skin breaking just moments ago.

The Refining Skin sand contained some medicine for healing wounds, which is why he could recover in such a short time, but it still wasn’t enough.

The faster the skin’s external injuries recovered, the quicker his Refining Skin progress would be!

Afterward,

Jiang Ning went to a tree nearby, took down a package hanging on a branch, and picked up a round jar.

After removing the seal from the round jar and opening the lid, he saw a jarful of white jade-colored ointment.

“This is it!” Jiang Ning said.

Once he applied the white ointment all over the large and small external wounds on his body, he instantly felt a refreshing coolness all over.

At this moment,

The sun had completely set, and the light reflecting in the clouds was getting darker and darker.

Jiang Ning put on his clothes, added a few logs to the fire, and then began practicing his punches on the spot.

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The next day.

Jiang Ning flipped off from a rock.

Crackle and pop—

He stretched his limbs and instantly felt invigorated.

[Source Energy]: 29.6

“I gained a total of 1.8 yesterday, indeed, if you eat less, your Energy Points grow less,” Jiang Ning muttered to himself.

He then glanced at his arms and the skin on his body, and couldn’t help but smirk.

“The medicine Shen Congyun left me for treating external skin injuries really is something good. It helped me recover so much overnight, and now I can continue tempering my skin layers.”

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More than half a “Shichen” later.

He rubbed his body all over with the Refining Skin sand, and his skin was rubbed until it bled.

“About there!” Jiang Ning looked at his own body and muttered to himself.

He then struck the first pose of the Vajra Immortal Body on the spot.

Subsequently, he operated his Power, propelling the Qi Blood Power to temper his entire body.

In an instant,

Qi-Blood surged, and his body warmed up.

“Definitely different!” Jiang Ning’s eyes brightened as he continued to think, “No wonder they say mastering Power helps a lot with the efficiency of Refining Skin. It appears to be true.”

What came next,

He struck the second pose of Vajra Immortal Body, followed by the third pose.

After completing the three poses,

He felt his Qi Blood Power was almost completely depleted.

[Vajra Immortal Body EXP +5]

Seeing this notification made a smile spread across Jiang Ning’s face.

“With the help of Power, the efficiency is nearly doubled,—a significant improvement.”

Subsequently,

Jiang Ning cleaned his wounds and then applied ointment for the external injuries.

Then he began practicing his punches again.

Waited until the Great Sun had completely risen, and during the “Chen Shi” he practiced breathing and releasing the Sun Essence Qi, tempering his organs, and increasing the Inner Elixir Cultivation Skill’s Experience Value.

[Inner Elixir Cultivation Skill EXP +1]

[Inner Elixir Cultivation Skill EXP +1]

[Inner Elixir Cultivation Skill EXP +1]

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Right up until “Chen Shi” eight quarters, “Si Shi.”

[Skill]: Inner Elixir Cultivation Skill (Master 28/2000)

After glancing at his panel, Jiang Ning murmured to himself, “28 experience points a day. I should be able to break through to the next Realm in just over two months, not bad!”

He nodded in satisfaction.

One must know that Inner Elixir Cultivation is an exceptional skill.

Moreover, it’s a skill with extreme difficulty in training.

Breaking through to the next Realm would allow mastery of Inner Breath.

That is to say, in just over two months, he would be able to master Inner Breath—what could he not achieve then?

After practicing breathing and releasing the Essence of the Great Sun ended, Jiang Ning continued to practice his punches.

Before he knew it,

It was evening again.

At evening time, once Jiang Ning saw his external skin injuries had completely healed,

He began using Refining Skin sand again, rubbing it all over his body.

Not until the whole body’s skin was rubbed red and bleeding did he

Begin to strike the poses of Vajra Immortal Body, coordinating with Power to promote the tempering of the skin layers.

After completing the three poses,

[Vajra Immortal Body EXP +5]

[Skill]: Vajra Immortal Body (Uninitiated 13/100)

“In nine days, I’ll be able to join the ranks of Martial Arts Ninth Grade!”

“If so, then I won’t return to the city upon entering Martial Arts Ninth Grade.”

“I believe in nine days, the news of Hong Chengtao’s and Xu Yunfeng’s deaths in Luoshui County will have mostly blown over.”

“Plus, by then, as I enter the ranks of Martial Arts Ninth Grade, with my accumulation, even facing the Divine Power Realm of Martial Arts Eighth Grade, I will have nothing to fear!”