Beginning with the Five Animals Fist to Become a Saint

Chapter 585 Cultivation, Forging Divine Bones!

Shangyang Cave Heaven.

Jiang Ning climbed to the top of the mountain, where thick smoke billowed up in front of him.

Even in this frigid place, the temperature was frighteningly high, making him feel as if he were in a fire.

The view was completely obscured by thick smoke.

"Finally here!" He stood on the three-inch-wide ground, took a breath, and was immediately hit by a strong, pungent smell of sulfurous smoke.

Upon smelling this aroma, he began to understand what was below.

The next moment, he closed his eyes slightly, then opened them again.

His eyes burned with fire, and in an instant, he saw the scenery below through the billowing smoke.

Below the massive mountain pass, rolling golden lava flows.

As the lava rolled, thick smoke rose up, obscuring the sky and the sun.

“That is…” Suddenly, his pupils contracted slightly. He saw a golden stone being turned up in the rolling lava, and then submerged by the lava again.

Tian Gang Yang!
In just a split second, he made his decision.

It's not just its appearance, but also the dazzling energy clusters that shimmer like the sun in its fiery eyes.

This phenomenon only occurs in highly condensed energy clusters.

He clenched his fist, suppressing his excitement.

next moment.

He jumped straight down.

With agile movements, it descended along the cliff face.

There is a drop of hundreds of feet between the mountaintop and the churning lava in the mountain pass below.

As he descended rapidly, the air became increasingly scorching, and the temperature rose quickly.

suddenly.

A flame ignited on his body.

He gripped the cliff face with one hand and slapped the flames out with the other, instantly enveloping himself in a golden light.

"That was terrifying! My clothes almost got burned to ashes, and I would have been completely naked. That would have been incredibly embarrassing!"

Jiang Ning secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Here, the mustard leaf cannot be activated or used, and he has no other clothes besides the one he is wearing.

If this outfit were to turn to ashes, then he would have no choice but to go on a killing spree with only this body left.

"Thank goodness!" He breathed a sigh of relief again.

With the protection of the golden light, the high temperature was kept out, and the clothes on my body were also safe again.

He then continued downwards.

"The temperature here is terrifyingly high. The air temperature must be at least over 500 degrees Celsius, otherwise the clothes I'm wearing, made of special materials, wouldn't have spontaneously combusted!" He thought to himself as he descended.

With his current strength, if it were ordinary cloth, a slight movement would cause the strong wind to tear it apart, unless he constantly uses his true energy to protect his body.

Therefore, the fabrics used for their clothing are all of exceptional quality, not only extremely tough but also impervious to water and fire.

Of course, the so-called invulnerability to water and fire is only water and fire in the conventional sense.

A moment later, he was only a few feet above the churning lava.

As the surging lava fell, it would occasionally touch the stone wall beneath his feet.

"Nowhere to go!"

He looked down and muttered to himself.

Then it swept across all directions.

They quickly located a rock on the cliff.

With a swift movement, like a white ape leaping across the lava, it quickly crossed the lava and arrived at the wall on the other side.

The next moment, he gripped the edge of the protruding rock with his five fingers, and with a flick of his arm, he unleashed a burst of strength.

boom!
The mountainside trembled, and pebbles immediately fell with a "whoosh," landing in the lava and splashing up golden waves of lava.

At that moment, with a burst of strength, he pried a rock weighing over 10,000 jin off the rock face, then lifted the rock and threw it downwards.

The rock, weighing over 10,000 kilograms, fell like a cannonball.

After one breath.

boom! !

It was like a giant rock falling from the sky into a lake, instantly causing the lava to burst into waves.

call--

Seeing the lava waves about to engulf him, Jiang Ning blew downwards.

Instantly, the thick smoke was blown away, and the surging lava waves seemed to encounter an invisible barrier, stopping in place.

They quickly exhausted their momentum and fell downwards.

After a while.

The churning lava below calmed down, and the rocks, each weighing over ten thousand pounds, floated on the lava like boats. Only then did Jiang Ning jump down.

boom--

Upon landing on the rocks, he paused slightly, thus relieving himself of the force of the fall.

His gaze then fell upon the churning lava all around him.

He has been here for the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, but so far he has only seen the first piece of Tiangang Yang Stone.

After a short while, he shook his head, went to the edge of the rock, and slowly inserted his unsuspecting fingers into the lava.

The moment the golden lava touched his fingers, he couldn't help but frown.

After persisting for several more hours, he withdrew his fingers from the lava and then slowly shook his head.

"no!"

A simple test revealed that he was not yet capable enough to enter the lava.

The surging golden magma was clearly different from ordinary magma.

Even with the blessing of the Water and Fire Immortal Robe, he is not afraid of ordinary flames and can roam freely in ordinary magma.

But you can't just roam freely in this lava field.

Because the temperature in this magma is terrifyingly high.

He inserted his fingers into it, and within just a few breaths, he felt a burning pain.

If it lasted any longer, it might not be pain anymore.

After a brief attempt, he gave up on the idea.

I stood on the rock, waiting to witness the scene I had just seen.

……

the other side.

"Two more opponents have been dealt with!" Looking at the corpses left on the ground, the second senior brother of Qingyang Cave Heaven smiled faintly.

"Second Senior Brother, this is the second group of opponents we've encountered. It seems quite a few share our thoughts," a junior sister remarked.

“That’s perfectly normal!” The second senior brother nodded slightly. “The nights in the Shangyang Cave Heaven are so eerie, chilling to the bone, but this glowing river can easily dispel that chill. Who wouldn’t see that its source might contain a treasure!”

"Second Senior Brother, if there is a treasure at the source of this river, what kind of treasure do you think it would be?" asked the junior sister beside her.

“It must be an extremely yang substance!” Before the second senior brother could speak, Wang Yuan spoke up.

"Junior Brother Wang Yuan is right!" The second senior brother nodded.

Then he looked ahead at the glowing river that meandered like a dragon.

"Let's continue. We'll encounter other trial participants, and we'll need the help of our two junior brothers and junior sister Ge Xian'er."

"Please rest assured, senior brother!" Wang Yuan said.

He knew that his senior brother had suffered a great loss of spiritual energy from his repeated attacks and needed time to recover.

……

Inside the crater.

"The second one!" Jiang Ning reached into the churning magma and scooped out the golden-glowing Heavenly Gang Yang Stone, a look of joy immediately spreading across his face.

He then exerted force with his feet and stomped heavily on the lava.

The surging lava beneath his feet suddenly exploded like waves, and he swept through the air, landing safely on the floating rocks.

"We got the two Heavenly Yang Stones in less than two hours, which went quite smoothly!"

Looking at the fist-sized, golden stone in his hand, he beamed with joy.

He already possessed the Yin Earthly Fiend, and now he has obtained the Yang Heavenly Fiend.

The road ahead became clear in an instant.

next moment.

He glanced again at the churning lava around him.

"For now, let's use it. We'll talk about it if we need more!"

With two Heavenly Yang Stones in hand, he made his decision.

Then, he took out the Earthly Fiend Yin Stone from his pocket.

The Yin stone is crystal clear, with what appears to be flowing clouds and mist inside. The Yang stone, on the other hand, radiates golden light, with what appears to be swirling mercury inside.

These two are the Heavenly Gang Yang and the Earthly Fiend Yin.

The stone is a single, natural piece.

Then, he unleashed a burst of power in his hands.

boom! !

The powerful force stirred up air currents, causing the void to tremble, but the two strange stones in his hand remained completely unharmed.

"It's really tough!" he thought to himself.

Then place the yang stone in the right alveolar bone.

Since he underwent five blood transfusions and his teeth fell out and regenerated, his teeth have become the hardest part of his body.

Even the most powerful weapons can be bitten through by his teeth.

He strained his upper and lower jaws together.

Boom——

With a sound from his mouth, the solid structure of Yangshi was instantly destroyed, and a gap appeared on the side.

As the gap appeared, strands of golden threads began to spill out and fall.

Seeing this, he put the Yin Stone into his mouth again.

Boom——

With a crisp sound, the Yin Stone broke open in his mouth.

Then, a dark purple substance, resembling wisps of smoke, began to rise.

"The yang energy sinks while the yin energy rises; that's quite peculiar!"

He spoke softly and released his hands.
The Yin and Yang stones floated in front of him.

Then he opened his mouth slightly and took a deep breath.

In an instant.

The yin and yang energies emanating from the stone seemed to be drawn by some force, converging towards his mouth.

next moment.

Two extreme forces entered Jiang Ning's body.

He immediately closed his eyes slightly and used his mind to guide the two streams of energy that had entered his body.

The energy first dissolves into the sternum.

Then, he mobilized all the energy in his body and, under the control of his mind, condensed it into a small hammer of energy.

boom--

His whole body trembled violently, and a thunderous roar erupted within him, as if lightning were exploding.

The Bone Forging Method imitates the method of forging weapons, transforming blood and qi into small hammers, while the 206 bones in the body are forged into fine iron.

Just as refined iron is forged through countless hammerings and temperings, so too are the 206 bones in the body.

As the first thunderclap exploded, Jiang Ning continued to mobilize his qi and blood.

Now, the power of his blood and qi within his body is so vast that with each strike, it is as if thunder explodes within him, causing his entire body to tremble.

The yin and yang substances in the stone continuously converged into his body.

boom--

boom--

boom--

The rumbling sound inside his body gradually increased in speed, and then turned into a violent storm.

A total of one hundred and eight sounds fell, and the first bone in his chest had already turned into a faint gold color.

"It's done!!"

Upon seeing the change in the first piece of tissue on his chest, Jiang Ning was immediately overjoyed.

Only by achieving divine bones can one truly complete the process of bone forging.

And this is one of the keys to becoming a Martial Saint.

He then pressed on while the iron was hot and began to work on the second bone in his body.

The human body, excluding flesh and blood, consists of 206 bones.

Although he was somewhat different, with a knife-like bone structure in his chest that nurtured extraordinary techniques, he needed tempering and only had 206 bones in his body.

Only when all 206 bones are forged to a light gold color, creating divine bones, can the process be considered complete.

time flies.

As the sky begins to lighten and the night slowly recedes, the chilling atmosphere gradually diminishes.

"Second Senior Brother, listen!!" Ge Xian'er stopped in her tracks.

Upon hearing this, the second senior brother from Qingyang Cave Heaven also stopped and listened attentively.

The same applies to Wang Yuan and the other two.

"That's... the sound of thunder exploding?" The junior brother next to him asked with a surprised look.

"No!" The second senior brother shook his head: "It sounds like a hammering sound."

Wang Yuandao said, "It's the sound of bones being forged."

"Bone forging?" Ge Xian'er asked in surprise.

Upon hearing this, the second senior brother also looked at Wang Yuan.

Noticing the doubt in their eyes, Wang Yuan said, "In the eyes of ordinary people, bone forging is divided into three stages: iron bones, black bones, and jade bones."

"But above the jade bones, there is another level, which is the divine bones!"

"Divine bones and golden body, the foundation of a martial saint!"

Upon hearing this, the junior sister looked surprised.

"The foundation of a martial saint?"

"Okay!" Wang Yuan nodded.

"How come I didn't hear that?" the junior sister said.

The second senior brother on the other side also looked at Wang Yuan with a slightly narrowed gaze.

Wang Yuandao said, "I didn't know before. Later, when the elders of the sect learned that I had exceptional talent in martial arts, they told me about it and passed on to me the secret of forging divine bones."

Upon hearing Wang Yuan's explanation, the second senior brother immediately understood.

In the eyes of the elders in the sect, this meant that he lacked martial arts talent and that knowing too much was meaningless.

"Has Junior Brother achieved Divine Bones yet?" he asked.

Wang Yuan shook his head: "Forging divine bones requires not only profound techniques and materials, but also an extremely strong physique and vital energy."

Even with the help of gravity at the core of Qingyang Cave Heaven, I still failed!

Upon hearing Wang Yuan's words, the second senior brother felt relieved.

He knew how exceptionally talented Wang Yuan was in martial arts.

He is the number one among the younger generation in Qingyang Cave Heaven.

If it weren't for his shallow immortal roots and insufficient aptitude for immortality, he wouldn't be ranked below me.

Even Wang Yuan couldn't do it, so he knew he was even less capable.

I temporarily dismissed the idea.

However, the idea of ​​the foundation of the Martial Saint was deeply rooted in his mind.

As the second senior brother of the Qingyang Cave Heaven generation, he knew how terrifying that Martial Saint was.

One man dominated the world for over eight hundred years.

Even when the sect's patriarch intervened, he suffered a crushing defeat.

There are many blessed lands and grottoes in the world, but in the end, they all choose to temporarily avoid the limelight and lie low.

Those who refuse to bow their heads are the ones who shed blood on the outside world.

Several blessed lands were even destroyed, their lineages severed, and their traditions lost.

Although he was skilled in the path of immortality, how could he not have the idea of ​​becoming such a person if given the opportunity?

Although he didn't want to admit it, he knew that with that person around, the path of martial arts was extraordinary enough.

However, there is no possibility for the Immortal Path to regain its ancient glory.

Even if the environment improves, it is impossible to truly return to that era.

“Senior Brother Wang Yuan, if what you say is true, isn’t it someone forging divine bones there?” the junior brother who had been relatively quiet spoke up.

“That’s certainly possible!” Wang Yuan nodded and continued, “With some kind of intuition, we can sense the approximate location of the trial participants, and there is such a sensing mechanism above.”

As he spoke, Wang Yuan pointed to the mountain peak.

As dawn broke, the group could already see thick smoke rising into the air.

"Does that mean there's a supreme treasure there for forging divine bones?" the junior brother asked again.

“That’s possible!” Wang Yuan nodded.

At that moment, a glint of light flashed in the eyes of the second senior brother.

(End of this chapter)