Grinding Cultivation Toward Martial Saint

Chapter 101: Chapter 28 Martial Arts Nine Grade, New Trait

In the blink of an eye,

it was nine days later.

[name]: Jiang Ning

[Source Energy]: 50.3

[Skill]:

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Five Animals Fist (Great Success 957/1000)

Inner Elixir Cultivation Skill (Master 255/2000)

Vajra Immortal Body (Uninitiated 98/100)

Chopping Wood Blade Skill+ (Second Limit Breaking 3000/3000) (trait: touch and understand, blade like a swift wind)

“It’s time to harvest again!”

Just after waking up and looking at his panel, Jiang Ning’s face showed a pleased smile.

Today was his day of bountiful harvest.

His Source Energy Points had reached as high as fifty, and a plus sign had appeared behind the Chopping Wood Blade Skill.

50 Source Energy Points were enough to add a plus sign to the Chopping Wood Blade Skill after its Second Limit Breaking; this indicated that, with sufficient Experience Value, a third Limit Breaking of the Chopping Wood Blade Skill would only require fifty Source Energy Points.

10 points, 20 points, 50 points.

This undoubtedly corresponded to the Experience Value needed for each breakthrough of the Chopping Wood Blade Skill before.

Therefore, it was not hard to guess the Source Energy Points needed for the fourth Limit Breaking, which would be 100 points.

Moreover, the Experience Value for the Vajra Immortal Body had reached 98 points, just two points shy of formally starting the technique.

The moment of initiation would be when he refined his skin membrane and fully stepped into the ranks of Martial Arts Nine Grade.

At this moment, seeing various changes on his own panel, Jiang Ning no longer hesitated.

As his thoughts moved, his Source Energy Points rapidly decreased.

In an instant,

he felt a stream of information surge into his mind.

Jiang Ning immediately closed his eyes.

In his mind, countless figures emerged, each one of them being him, each wielding a saber to chop wood.

One chop followed another, seemingly tireless, seemingly unaffected by the passage of time.

Every chop was powerful and swift like thunder.

After countless chops,

Jiang Ning slowly opened his eyes.

The next moment,

his form leaped forward, covering several meters before landing beneath a large tree.

Then he picked up the black wooden saber placed under the tree.

Clang—

He drew the saber, the sound crisp and sharp.

Immediately,

he grasped the saber in his right hand and swung it down.

Swoosh—

The saber instantly sliced through the air and landed on a nearby tree twenty centimeters in diameter.

Crack—

After one chop, the large tree slowly inclined and fell. At the freshly chopped spot, as the tree fell, a clean and smooth cut surface suddenly appeared.

After one chop, Jiang Ning sheathed his saber and then nodded slightly.

“Not bad! This chop has increased my power by another twenty or thirty percent! Not only is the explosive power fiercer, but the speed is also faster!”

Then he clenched his fists, feeling the power contained in his arms.

Jiang Ning murmured again, “And the strength in my arms has slightly increased! With my current strength, if I were to face Hong Chengtao again, perhaps one chop could kill him!”

Feeling his own changes, Jiang Ning was extremely satisfied.

Without saying much, the mere enhancement in the might of this chop made him feel that spending those 50 Source Energy Points was worth it.

After all, the Source Energy Points were strictly an additional gain, requiring no extra effort on his part.

As long as he accompanied it with daily energy intake, the Source Energy Points would grow.

Especially with the intake of medicines that contained immense energy, the daily growth of Source Energy Points was even more significant.

Thus, for Jiang Ning at this moment, accumulating fifty Source Energy Points would not take too long,

roughly every ten to twenty days, which was not difficult.

Afterward,

Jiang Ning reopened his panel; he wanted to see what traits he had gained with the third Limit Breaking of his Chopping Wood Blade Skill,

[Skill]: Chopping Wood Blade Skill (Third Limit Breaking 697/4000) (traits: touch and understand, blade like a swift wind, God-like Blade Control)

[God-like Blade Control]: Increases affinity with the blade, enhancing the talent for the Saber Technique.

“An auxiliary effect? Not bad!” Jiang Ning nodded slightly.

Then, looking at the few traits on the panel, he appeared thoughtful.

“It seems these three traits all weigh the same, seemingly on the same level.”

Then he glanced at another section of the panel.

[Skill]: Five Animals Fist (Great Success 957/1000)

“Five Animals Fist will likely reach Perfection tomorrow! After reaching Perfection, accumulating another thousand Experience Points will allow for a Limit Breaking.”

“In terms of grade, Five Animals Fist is higher than Chopping Wood Blade Skill, I wonder if the traits gained from breaking the limit of Five Animals Fist will be stronger?”

“Logically, they should be stronger!”

Jiang Ning muttered to himself.

Afterward, he closed the panel, moved aside, and quickly stripped off his clothes.

Then he took out a box of skin grinding sand.

[Skill]: Vajra Immortal Body (Uninitiated 98/100)

He was only two points away from refining his skin membrane and officially stepping into the ranks of Martial Arts Nine Grade.

At this moment, Jiang Ning could no longer wait.

Then, enduring the pain, he rubbed the skin grinding sand all over his body.

Until the skin all over his body turned red, with threads of blood emerging. @@novelbin@@

Only then did he stop this action.

The next moment,

he immediately assumed the first position of Vajra Immortal Body.

He circulated his Power, propelling his Qi-Blood to temper his entire body.

In that instant,

Qi-Blood surged, and his body heated up.

After this process,

Jiang Ning slightly closed his eyes, his consciousness sinking into his body.

With his spiritual power allowing internal vision,

he immediately saw under his skin countless red silk threads had connected together, forming a net around each piece of his flesh, a net woven from red silk threads.

And the number of these threads was still increasing, overlapping and connecting together, gradually forming a layer, a layer soon to cover his entire body.

An action ended.

Jiang Ning then struck a second pose.

Then a third pose.

After all three actions had ended,

“Vajra Immortal Body Experience Value +5”

As this prompt appeared, the panel suddenly underwent a huge change, the Vajra Immortal Body instantly leaped from uninitiated to the ranks of the beginners.

“Skill”: Vajra Immortal Body (Beginner 3/1000)

At the moment the Vajra Immortal Body entered the beginner level,

Jiang Ning immediately felt itching and pain under his skin, as if thousands of ants were burrowing into his heart.

His body temperature also rose sharply.

He couldn’t help but clench his teeth, then his thoughts sank into his body.

Using spiritual power to internally inspect his body,

he immediately saw the layer under his skin rapidly expanding, spreading, and merging together.

Any weak spots on the layer before were rapidly expanding, thickening the layer.

In just a dozen breaths, this dramatic change had ended.

From the perspective of Jiang Ning’s internal vision of his own body, he immediately saw a continuous layer under his skin had completely formed.

This layer connected to the skin on one side and to the flesh on the other,

linking his entire body together.

After internally inspecting for a moment, Jiang Ning opened his eyes.

He first clenched his fists.

Suddenly, he felt his strength had greatly increased, filled with a powerful sense of power.

It also gave him an illusion, that there was nothing that could withstand his power.

Hu—

Hu—

Jiang Ning took two deep breaths, suppressing his expanding confidence.

He knew this was the mental expansion caused by the massive boost in strength in a short time.

His current strength, looking at this world, was still very weak, far from being as powerful as it felt.

After calming down, Jiang Ning then broke off a branch from a nearby tree.

The broken end of the branch was incredibly sharp, much like a blade.

“Let’s try the defensive power of my skin now!” Jiang Ning thought.

Then he jabbed the branch into his arm.

He saw the skin on his arm sunk deeply in, but no blood seeped out.

“Not bad!” Looking at the mark on his arm, Jiang Ning nodded slightly, somewhat satisfied.

If it had been before he cultivated the layer, this jab would certainly break the skin and blood would have seeped out.

Now, it was only a slight stinging sensation; the surface of the skin wasn’t even punctured, let alone the layer underneath.

This indicated that his resilience had significantly improved.

After that,

Jiang Ning grasped the branch and slid it down his arm.

The sharp branch scraped across his skin, bringing a bit of pain, which made Jiang Ning frown slightly.

Immediately, looking at the white mark revealed on his arm, he couldn’t help but smile.

“Indeed different! Even such a sharp branch sliding down couldn’t puncture the surface skin, let alone damage the layer underneath!”

“Now I can be considered officially entering the ranks of Martial Arts Nine Grade!”

Jiang Ning felt extremely exhilarated inside!

Martial Arts Nine Grade, the long-desired Martial Arts Nine Grade.

At this moment, he had completely achieved it.

Now, he was qualified to join the Inspection Office.

But, before the three months Wang Jin mentioned, there was still about one and a half months left.

In these one and a half months, he could still improve a portion of his strength.

In this way, passing the assessment to enter the office would be almost guaranteed.

Thinking of this, the gloom in Jiang Ning’s heart cleared, bright as the sun breaking through clouds, his mood greatly uplifted.

Afterward,

Jiang Ning jumped into the pool.

In the icy water, he continuously rubbed his skin to wash off the blood scabs.

After getting out of the water, he dried off the water stains on his body and then re-applied the healing ointment for external injuries.

He then continued to practice fist techniques in the mountains and forests.

The Five Animals Fist was only a step away from Perfection.

With his current efficiency, he could formally breakthrough and reach Perfection tomorrow.

So Jiang Ning planned to return to the city tomorrow.

After all, he had been out for ten days.

During these ten days, the wild ginseng he had brought along was almost eaten up.

Now, he only had one stick left, which was because he controlled his consumption over these days.

After this stock was used up, in order not to affect his growth speed, he could only choose to return to the city.

Only by returning to the city, would his more than two thousand taels of silver be of use.

He could continue to eat nourishing medicines while practicing martial arts, to continue efficiently increasing his Source Energy Points.

These necessary items were completely impossible to acquire in the wilderness of the mountain forests.

Moreover, now that he had entered Martial Arts Nine Grade, Jiang Ning felt his strength had reached a thousand pounds.

Along with his other techniques,

no matter what choice Cao Bin would make because of Xu Yunfeng and Hong Chengtao’s deaths, he had the confidence to face them.

With this kind of confidence, he was not afraid of any trouble upon returning to Luoshui County city!