Chapter 339: Chapter 51: Martial Arts Sixth Grade, Qi-Blood Like a River

In the courtyard.

Jiang Ning sat under the moonlight, having organized everything he had mastered. He then pulled out a yellow parchment from the Sumeru Ring.

This yellow parchment contained the detailed exposition of the Martial Arts Sixth Grade Bone Forging Realm.

The last time he had exchanged for the Seventh Grade Realm exposition at the Internal Affairs Office, he had also obtained this yellow parchment detailing the Sixth Grade Bone Forging Realm.

He had already read everything recorded on the yellow parchment.

But at this moment, he still took out the parchment detailing the Sixth Grade Bone Forging Realm to read it again from start to finish, to prevent any errors in his memory.

As he looked at the parchment, the small black texts on it became clearly visible under the bright moonlight as the clouds dispersed.

Reviewing the text he had once read, Jiang Ning no longer saw the prompts for Experience Value increase in the skill of Reading and Writing.

Because according to the rules he had figured out, repetitive reading did not bring about an increase in Experience Value.

A moment later.

Jiang Ning had fully perused the parchment, and the words recorded on it deepened in his mind, engraved like the chisel of a sculptor.

Briefly reflecting, the explanation regarding the Martial Arts Sixth Grade Bone Forging Realm reappeared in his mind.

According to the explanations on the yellow parchment, the Sixth Grade Bone Forging Realm was the final stage and step of outer refining of the physical body.

Skin, flesh, and bones, after being forged, the entire skeleton becomes as hard as refined iron.

Under such a condition, even a thousand forges of fine iron could hardly sever human bones.

At this step, the physical body was truly powerful and reached Perfection.

The yellow parchment also recorded the philosophy and method of Bone Forging.

This step of Bone Forging aimed to mimic the method of Refining Soldiers, following the path where a thousand hammers create iron, and a hundred refinings create steel.

The human bones were treated as common iron blocks, condensing the Qi Blood Power within the body to form a great hammer for forging.

Constantly hammering the human bones, striking out the impurities and aided by external substances, the bones were forged with a thousand hammers and hundred refinings.

It was named the Bone Forging Realm precisely because this realm drew inspiration from Refining Soldiers.

This realm was divided into several steps.

Iron Bone, the small success of Martial Arts Sixth Grade, where the bones were no longer white but turned silvery white, much like the color of pure iron, hence the name Iron Bone.

Only by reaching this step did the hardness of the bones transform, possessing a strength not inferior to refined iron, and this level was considered the Martial Arts Sixth Grade.

And the martial artists of this step, having copper skin and iron bones, were as if cast from copper and iron, making them immensely difficult to kill.

Just as rocks are not as tough as refined iron.

Yet, even if giving a common person a long sword made of refined iron, they could not chop through ten centimeters thick rock.

This was the underlying principle.

Thus, even at the initial stage of the Martial Arts Sixth Grade, such a powerful person on the battlefield would be a one-man-army against thousands.

Such martial artists, even when subjected to sword and spear attacks or a barrage of thousands of arrows, would only suffer minor superficial injuries.

And this was just the small success, the initial level of the Sixth Grade.

The next step was Xuan Bone.

The bones would be like mysterious iron, presenting a shiny black color, toughness comparable to a hundred forges of refined iron.

This was called Great Success.

A few days ago, the blood monster he had slain, as per his examination, belonged to this stage of Martial Arts Sixth Grade.

The bones presented shiny dark color, named Xuan Bone.

The next step following Xuan Bone was Jade Bone.

Bones transition from shiny dark to a jade color, translucent and as flawless as a jade stone, which was considered Perfection of the Sixth Grade.

And according to records on the yellow parchment, if chance allowed, yet another transformation existed.

According to Martial Saint, this transformation was called Divine Bone.

It was also a crucial step to achieve the body of a Martial Saint.

Merely this hint on the yellow parchment was valued as priceless in the eyes of the world.

The body of a Martial Saint.

In the current world, only one had reached it, that being the founding Martial Saint of Great Xia.

The establishment of Great Xia largely credited to that Martial Saint.

A single person overpowering the entire world, such was the terror of a Martial Saint.

Over the next few hundred years until today, no second person had reached the level of Martial Saint.

That Martial Saint’s achievement in the Martial Arts was unparalleled.

Therefore, the secrets surrounding a Martial Saint were known only by that Martial Saint himself.

Thus, a hint coming directly from him about the body of a Martial Saint naturally held inestimable value, even said to be priceless.

“Divine Bone!” Jiang Ning murmured to himself.

Immediately, he recalled the records about the Bone Forging Realm.

To leap over the threshold of Martial Arts Sixth Grade, achieving Iron Bone through the method of Bone Forging, a crucial point was capturing spiritual power, understanding it, and mastering it.

The stronger the spiritual power, the greater the control over one’s own body.

Only thus could one meticulously control the body’s Qi Blood, condensing it into Qi Blood Hammers.

By continuously striking the internal bones with the Qi Blood Hammers, repeatedly hammering out the impurities, the hardness of the bones would continually increase.

Just like ordinary iron containing impurities becoming harder with each strike, removing impurities through repeated pounding.

A thousand pounds form steel, this was the saying.

However, achieving this step crucially depended on the spiritual power reaching a level of substantive manifestation.

It was the degree to which spiritual power could lift a falling leaf from a distance.

Merely this step had stumped numerous warriors at the peak of Seventh Grade.

Because growing powerful spiritual power was immensely difficult.

Similarly, the potency of the Qi Blood also affected the efficiency and progress of refining the bones.