Enlightenment: Beginning as a Disposable Warrior-Chapter 183 - 139: Four Bone Forgings, Rebirth! (Part 2)

More than half a year after the Third Bone Forging, Su Mu glimpsed the mystery of the Fourth Bone Forging!

At this moment, the bones in his body began to vibrate, conveying an intense craving and greed for energy.

"I'm going to break through!"

Su Mu's heart was burning with excitement. Now, the three rounds of Sinking Bone within him had reached their limit, and today he would break this shackle.

Su Mu took out the three bottles of Jade Bone Pill that he had prepared long ago. After taking one pill, the bones in his body greedily divided the medicinal power like a pack of wolves.

Su Mu's eyes shone brightly, feeling the feedback from his unsatisfied bones.

He swallowed the second pill.

The third pill.

"Is it still not enough?" Instead of being worried, Su Mu was pleased. He had anticipated this breakthrough several days ago and had prepared three large bottles of Jade Bone Pills for this moment.

"Consume as much as you like. I want to see how much you can digest!"

Filled with heroic spirit, Su Mu continued to swallow another pill until the greed for energy slightly subsided after consuming a total of five Jade Bone Pills.

At this point, Su Mu held his breath, summoned his Qi blood and power to dissolve all the medicinal power, and repeatedly tempered his bones, already harder than iron.

Even among those who had undergone Third Bone Forging, Su Mu's bones were noticeably thicker, thanks to his long-term use of the Three-in-One Body-Strengthening Soup and his practice of multiple cross-training martial arts, laying a solid foundation.

With the triple impact of Qi blood, Pill Force, and Jade Bone Pill's medicinal power, under introspection, Su Mu saw blue-green jade glimmers appearing on the surface of each bone, sprouting like bamboo after the rain.

Then the dots connected into lines, and the lines into a surface, covering each bone with a layer of cyan jade color.

During this process, Su Mu once again felt his bones' greed and craving for energy. This time he simply looked up and swallowed an entire bottle. He was too impatient to take them one by one—a short pain was better than a long one.

As the sun and moon alternated and the stars shifted, this transformation lasted from late night yesterday until dusk the next day, consuming a terrifying twelve Jade Bone Pills.

Hoo--------

As the setting sun sank in the west and the sky grew dim, the young man sitting cross-legged in the courtyard exhaled a long breath, and an astonishing scene occurred. As he finished exhaling the turbid air,

the boy under the night sky emitted a layer of cyan jade glow, this cyan jade radiance flowing across every inch of his skin, making him seem as if he walked out of cyan jade itself.

In introspection, Su Mu saw every bone in his body emanating crystalline cyan jade light, as if carved from jade, like a flawless heavenly creation.

However, these seemingly magnificent, art-like jade bones were not fragile at all, but surprisingly strong.

With a thought, every bone in Su Mu's body seemed to light up, and as the cyan light flowed, a mysterious power surged within him.

As this enigmatic power circulated through his limbs and meridians, Su Mu felt an unprecedented strength, as if his entire body was endowed with endless divine power, effortlessly reaching a force of a thousand pounds, or even ten thousand, with every move, without needing to harness power or Qi blood.

"So this is the mystery of the Fourth Bone Forging... truly formidable!"

As Su Mu observed his jade-like bones, he couldn't help but compare them to the 'Ice Skin Jade Bone' realm from martial arts novels in his previous life, a legendary state now realized.

"Can I now call the bones within me Jade Bones?"

First Bone Forging becomes Iron Bone, the second becomes Tough Bone, the third becomes Sinking Bone, and the fourth appropriately becomes the realm of Jade Bone!

Jade Bone, with bones sculpted like jade, marks a transformation from the naturally weak foundation of humans compared to demon beasts, a postnatal metamorphosis that can change the fundamental qualities of practitioners.

Even the training foundation of those born weak could be transformed into a prodigious martial artist with the Four Bone Forgings.

This is why this step is extremely difficult to achieve.

Crack!

Su Mu performed the Five Animals Qigong, stretching his body, and as his fists and feet moved freely, they generated cracking sounds, with each slow form creating gusts of wind, leaving behind afterimages, the power so shocking it was like a humanoid demon beast.

Feeling the surge of divine power within, Su Mu was confident that this non-Entry Level Five Animals Qigong in his hands could rival Eighth-Grade Martial Arts, and if combined with Pill Force, it might touch the threshold of Seventh Grade.

"Hiss... the density of my bones has more than doubled compared to the Third Bone Forging, and in terms of explosive power and resistance to attacks, the difference is huge, at least several times greater."

After finishing a set of Five Animals Qigong, Su Mu even faintly felt an invisible bottleneck, causing him significant alarm. He knew clearly that once he broke through this intangible barrier, the Five Animals Qigong might become a Grade-Entering Martial Arts!

Su Mu looked down at his arms, feeling as if he had undergone a rebirth after the Fourth Bone Forging.

"Let's try other martial arts now!"

As Su Mu performed other martial arts, each art provided him with new insights, and several perfected martial arts faintly exhibited the potential to advance further.

And when Su Mu performed the two Eighth-Grade Lightness Techniques, his whole body felt electrified.

Instantly, the cicada's chirping in the courtyard became restless and the wind surged.

Two intense spiritual lights flashed through Su Mu's mind,

these two skills, due to sudden enlightenment, had swiftly reached great success in Su Mu's hands in less than ten days, now settled down, shedding the three parts of impatience after the enlightenment, uncovering the true meaning of martial arts.

"Buzz-------"

Simultaneously, a unique power was born between Su Mu's legs, the unique power of Feixu Skill and Eight-Step Chasing Cicada erupted at this moment.

These powers also became Su Mu's twelfth and thirteenth paths of power.

The Strength Pill in Su Mu's abdomen welcomed these two powers and completely merged them, elevating his already extraordinarily strong power to a new level!

Hoo!

Su Mu let out a breath, filled with confidence, and thought that if the Qi Wuxing from Lin Family Manor of a month ago revived, even if he had another Iron Armor Corpse Puppet, Su Mu believed he could directly overpower and destroy Qi Wuxing along with the puppet without resorting to the Melting Gold Technique to dispel the Corpse Qi first.

In the face of absolute strength, all schemes and tricks are powerless!

"The next step is to attack the third-time Yijin and... the Fifth Refining Force."

After the Fourth Bone Forging, Su Mu, who had undergone a transformation in his root foundation and produced two additional paths of power, faintly grasped new insight.

"To achieve the Fifth Refining Force... the current power is still too precarious!"

Su Mu now possessed a total of thirteen paths of power, a fact that would certainly shock the Three Counties if known, yet Su Mu still felt it insufficient.

"Nine paths of power aided me in achieving the Fourth Refining Force... transforming power from liquid to solid, condensing into a Strength Pill."

"The Fifth Refining Force will likely require double, at least eighteen paths of power!"

However, a flicker of confusion passed through Su Mu's eyes too, for the path after Transforming Force was undocumented in the martial arts secret manuals.

Yet he knew well this was surely not the limit of Refining Force, possibly the Qingyun Three Counties' martial arts were too weak, lacking further inheritance.

"Where does the path for the Fifth Refining Force lie?"

No one could answer Su Mu's question, yet he did not linger on it excessively; the path was beneath his feet, and his current accumulation of power was insufficient. He resolved to proceed step by step.

After four Bone Forging sessions achieving Jade Bone and rebirth, Su Mu felt that experts of the same level as the Black Mountain Army's Four Protectors were no longer a concern.

"Bring along the Flood Order and the Guo Family Account Book... it's time to visit the Demon Slayer Bureau to see Li Zhihe."