Grinding Cultivation Toward Martial Saint-Chapter 112 - 39 Breakthrough, Skin as Hard as Stone

Chapter 112: Chapter 39 Breakthrough, Skin as Hard as Stone

Wanhua Building.

Jiang Ning walked out of Wanhua Building holding a wooden box filled to the brim with fifty bottles of Plant Essence.

Looking at the wooden box in his hands, his heart swelled with great satisfaction.

Just spending one thousand taels of silver to buy fifty bottles of Plant Essence, to Jiang Ning, this was akin to striking it rich.

After all, the effects of Plant Essence were many times that of ten-year-old Wild Ginseng, and compared with Wild Ginseng, the body could also absorb Plant Essence much more easily.

This also allowed him to infer that absorbing Plant Essence would increase the daily amount of Source Energy Points he could accumulate.

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Moreover, with these fifty bottles of Plant Essence, he wouldn’t have to worry about resources to aid his martial training before reaching Stone Skin.

Fifty bottles of Plant Essence should suffice for about twenty days’ use.

As for refining sand, he had some left, and Wang Jin had already sent him a batch, enough for him to use for a while.

“Next, I can focus on continuing my martial training. Now, with about twenty to thirty days left until the Inspection Office opens, I will strive to improve my strength by one or two levels during this time.”

Jiang Ning murmured to himself.

After leaving Wanhua Building, he went straight home.

Then he entered into a state of rigorous martial training.

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In the blink of an eye, seven days passed.

By the Luoshui River, Jiang Mansion.

Wearing only shorts, Jiang Ning posed the sixth form of the Vajra Immortal Body in his yard.

He then circulated the Five Beasts Force, driving his Qi-Blood around his body, continuously refining the skin membrane beneath the surface.

[Vajra Immortal Body Experience Value +1]

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[Vajra Immortal Body Experience Value +1]

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As he refined the skin membrane, the experience value for the Vajra Immortal Body kept increasing.

At this point,

Jiang Ning had already closed his eyes, looking inward at his body.

With his inner vision, he could see the skin membrane below had already undergone tremendous change.

At the beginning, when the skin membrane formed, it was a thin red film clinging right below his skin.

Later, as his Vajra Immortal Body progressed, the red film became spotted with specks of white.

As he continued to refine the membrane, the white spread, signaling that he was one step closer to the next level of Refining Skin, Stone Skin.

At the same time,

In the state of inner vision, Jiang Ning also moved the Qi-Blood inside his body to continuously flush the areas of the skin membrane still red.

Based on his previous experience, mobilizing Qi-Blood to flush such areas accelerated the gain of experience for the Vajra Immortal Body, meaning he could refine the skin membrane more efficiently.

After a short time,

Jiang Ning slowly opened his eyes.

[Skill]: Vajra Immortal Body (Entry 987/1000)

“Only 13 experience points away,” Jiang Ning muttered, his heart thrilling with excitement.

“One more time, and I can break through my current realm and enter the small success stage of Refining Skin, turning skin to stone,” he said silently to himself.

Afterward,

Jiang Ning stood up, took a white jade-colored porcelain bottle from beside him, opened the lid, and swallowed the Plant Essence inside.

As the emerald Plant Essence entered his body, a wave of coolness spread from his throat, rushing upwards to his crown, clarifying his mind.

Sinking down to his five viscera and six bowels, throughout his limbs and bones, he instantly felt as if his body, parched from dryness, was being revived by sweet rain, while the strain from refining the skin membrane was swiftly recovering.

Sensing the revival of his body condition and the changes within,

Jiang Ning couldn’t help but exclaim, “Plant Essence truly is a wonderful thing, its effects are indeed far superior to those of Wild Ginseng!”

After more than ten days of personal experience, he truly realized the ease with which Plant Essence could be absorbed.

Compared with Wild Ginseng, the speed at which the medicinal power took effect was incomparable.

The effect of Plant Essence was immediate.

At the same time, over these past days of absorbing Plant Essence, he had also gained an additional benefit – an increase in Source Energy Points.

[Source Energy]: 81.6

In seven days, Source Energy Points had risen from fifty-three point eight to eighty-one point six, with an average daily increase of over three points.

This was the extra boost brought by Plant Essence.

He then glanced at his character panel.

[Name]: Jiang Ning

[Source Energy]: 81.6

[Skills]:

Reading and Writing (Second Limit Breaking 1043/3000) (Traits: Unforgettable, Extraordinary Five Senses)

Five Animals Fist (Perfection 765/1000)

Chopping Wood Blade Skill (Third Limit Breaking 4000/4000) (Traits: Touch and Understand, Blade Like Gust, God-like Blade Control)

Inner Elixir Cultivation (Master 1005/2000)

Canglang Blade Skill (Master 1/200)

Vajra Immortal Body (Entry 987/1000)

After closing the panel,

Jiang Ning felt that his condition had significantly recovered.

He then jumped into a barrel of water to cleanse his body of the dried refining sand.

In less than the time it takes to drink a cup of tea,

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He jumped out of the barrel, still wearing shorts.

Even though it was mid-September, the sun was still overwhelmingly powerful.

Looking at the reddened skin on his body, Jiang Ning paid it no mind.

After each session of skin membrane refining, after training the Vajra Immortal Body, his skin would always look like this.

This was simply because using the refining sand had damaged the surface layer of the skin.

As long as he repeatedly ran his Qi-Blood through it, his skin would quickly return to normal.

Soon after,

He began to practice boxing, moving his Qi-Blood throughout the training, which allowed him to recover from the bodily harm, and the reddened skin would also return to a wheatish color.

Over these few months, under the sun’s rays, his skin had long turned a healthy wheat color.

As for this change, Jiang Ning was actually quite pleased.

Before, his skin had been overly pale, an unhealthy shade of white that did not suggest good health.

Now this was the color of healthy skin.

[Five Animals Fist Experience Value +1]

[Five Animals Fist Experience Value +1]

[Five Animals Fist Experience Value +1]

[….]

Jiang Ning’s boxing practice speed was getting faster and faster.

In two hours, he could practice the boxing technique five times.

Each time he practiced the technique, it would bring an increase of one point of Five Animals Fist experience value.

It also increased his body’s total Qi-Blood by five strands.

Condensing Qi-Blood was extremely taxing on the body.

Especially for someone like him, who condensed Qi-Blood Power with such high efficiency.

Thus, these days, he had to consume two bottles of Plant Essence every day to sustain his body’s expenditure.

This made him feel more and more like a gold-swallowing beast.

Before, he had become rich from counter-killing Hong Chengtao and others.

Then there was the golden leaf that Cao Bin had brought to him, which at one point made his fortune reach as high as three thousand and four hundred taels of silver.

Later, he spent six hundred and sixty-six taels on the residence he now lived in.

Then he went to the Wanhua Building and bought fifty bottles of Plant Essence, costing a whole one thousand taels of silver.

Now his fortune was left with only seventeen hundred taels of silver, which was about half of what he had at his richest.

This was because, when he bought the residence, Manager Tong from the Moon Pavilion was very generous and gave him a huge discount.

He dropped the selling price from one thousand six hundred and sixty-six taels to six hundred and sixty-six taels for him.

That saved him a thousand taels of silver.

Then, at the Wanhua Building, when he bought Plant Essence, he got a twenty percent discount which saved him three hundred taels, and then Manager Han rounded down the amount by wiping off two hundred taels.

That saved him a whopping five hundred taels of silver.

If it was not for these savings, his wealth would have significantly decreased by another one thousand and five hundred taels.

It would have nearly reverted him to a state of poverty.

Reflecting on all this made Jiang Ning feel like he was spending money too quickly, just like water flowing away.

Afterward.

When Jiang Ning’s skin gradually returned to a normal color from his continual boxing practice.

He immediately stopped practicing.

Then he could hardly wait to take out the skin refining sand and smear it all over his body, rubbing vigorously.

[Skill]: Vajra Immortal Body (Entry-level 987/1000)

Seeing this section on his panel, he knew he was about to break through and reach the level of Stone Skin.

So at this moment, he could no longer hold back.

Rubbing forcefully, the sand-like skin refining sand rolled repeatedly on the surface of his skin, causing Jiang Ning to feel bursts of pain, and his skin began to turn red, as if stained with blood.

Shortly after.

The rubbing finished.

Hu——

Jiang Ning slowly exhaled the impure energy from his belly, then posed in the third posture recorded in the Vajra Immortal Body manual.

He then activated Five Beasts Force to push the Qi-Blood throughout his body, refining his entire body.

And he entered a state of inner sight, precisely mobilizing Qi-Blood to repeatedly wash the weaker parts of his skin, the membrane that was still red.

The closer the skin membrane was to white, the stronger that part of the skin membrane was, and the closer it was to the state of Stone Skin.

[Vajra Immortal Body Experience Value +1]

[Vajra Immortal Body Experience Value +1]

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As Jiang Ning posed in the fourth and fifth postures, his experience value for Vajra Immortal Body kept increasing.

Soon.

He reached the critical bottleneck.

[Skill]: Vajra Immortal Body (Entry-level 999/1000)

He glanced at his panel, where Vajra Immortal Body was just one point away from the next level.

Jiang Ning remained unfazed.

Because for him, there were no bottlenecks, no barriers.

As long as the experience value reached that step, reached fullness.

A quantitative change would produce a qualitative change, and his cultivation technique would break through.

[Vajra Immortal Body Experience Value +1]

When this prompt appeared in front of him again.

There was a sudden change on his panel.

[Skill]: Vajra Immortal Body (Entry-level 999/1000)

Instantly turned into.

[Skill]: Vajra Immortal Body (Master 0/2000)

The next moment.

While Jiang Ning was still in the state of inner sight.

He saw the whiteness wildly spreading on his skin membrane, spreading rapidly.

In an instant, the membrane areas that were still red evolved into white.

He knew that once the skin membrane of his entire body transformed into white, it signified that he had successfully broken through, stepping into the level of Stone Skin.

In this state of frantic transformation, he felt his skin become harder and tighter.

His entire body was no longer the kind of deep-seated pain but was filled with a numbing sensation.

He could feel as if there were millions of ants moving under the invisible skin.

In the blink of an eye.

After dozens of breaths.

All transformation had ended.

Jiang Ning slowly opened his eyes, a look of joy on his face.

“Success!!!”