Chapter 17: The Fifth Transformation, Golden Bones in Sight

In the secret chamber, Xu Yan stood in a horse stance and began to refine his bones.

As the cultivation technique circulated, his blood boiled, and his body felt warm. His blood and qi began to grow stronger continuously.

The dragon of blood and qi coiling around his bones became even more massive, and the force it exerted while moving through his bones was even stronger.

"Indeed, the Crimson-Eyed Tiger is the king of tigers, containing vast amounts of blood and qi!"

Xu Yan circulated his blood and qi, beginning the refinement process.

"The speed of refinement has greatly increased!"

As the blood and qi circulated, both internally and externally, the copper bones began to take on a faint golden hue.

This was a sign of the transformation into golden bones!

"Once the medicinal supplements made from the Crimson-Eyed Tiger are ready, the speed of bone refinement will increase even further!"

"According to the current speed, I can complete the first transformation in no more than five days!"

The refinement of golden bones requires nine transformations to be complete.

"I can still go faster. The cultivation technique I have comprehended may not be complete, and I should continue to understand it further!"

"Only by doing so can I complete the refinement of golden bones more quickly!"

Xu Yan's gaze was resolute as he entered a state of complete focus, continuing to comprehend the cultivation technique while refining his bones.

The next day, Xu Yan received the medicinal supplements and the processed tiger skin from the pharmacist Pan, and returned to the secret chamber to continue his cultivation.

"Indeed, the speed of refinement has increased even more!"

"I must purchase more precious medicines and more supplements to strengthen my blood and qi!"

Xu Yan was extremely excited. At the current rate of refinement, he might complete the first transformation of golden bones in just another day and a half.

After finishing his cultivation, he found the manager of the Xu family trading company and asked him to purchase more precious medicines.

"Money doesn't grow on trees. Why are you buying so many precious medicines?"

At lunchtime, Xu Junhe scolded Xu Yan.

"The family's medicine storage is almost empty. Where is the Nine-Leaf Yuanzhi? Where is the thousand-year-old ginseng?

"You wasteful child, are you trying to kill your father with worry?

"Where are there so many precious medicines in the world? If you send people to buy them, the prices will rise. If others know it's you, a foolish boy, buying them, they will raise the prices even more!"

Xu Yan had been scolded many times before. He knew that his actions would cause some losses to the family, but with the path of martial arts in sight, he had to pay any price!

It was just a small loss of money.

As long as he could enter the world of martial arts and truly become his master's disciple, what did a little loss of money matter?

Xu Yan looked at his mother with a pleading gaze.

"Mother!"

Xu Junhe's face turned green with anger and he shouted, "Don't always turn to your mother for help. I am the one who makes the decisions!"

"You're shouting so loudly, you're scaring Yan'er!"

Xu Yan's mother, seeing her beloved son's pleading gaze, immediately softened.

She glared at her husband with dissatisfaction.

"I..."

Xu Junhe almost spat out a mouthful of blood.

"Madam, you can't..."

Xu Yan's mother frowned and said, "Husband, it's just a bit of money. If Yan'er likes it, why can't we afford it?"

"Of course we can! A bit of money is nothing."

"Then that's settled. Do you only see money? That's our son!"

"I..."

Xu Junhe deflated.

"You're the best, Mother!"

Xu Yan chuckled.

Xu Junhe, puffing and glaring, could only acknowledge Xu Yan's decision to purchase the precious medicines at a high price.

...

"The first transformation of golden bones is about to be completed!"

Xu Yan felt the dragon of blood and qi coiling around his bones, and the blood and qi seeping into his bones had already nourished the bone marrow.

A tingling sensation spread through his body, and at one moment, with a loud boom, the dragon of blood and qi surged into his bones, entering the bone marrow.

In an instant, Xu Yan felt a massive surge of blood and qi, as if his entire body was being reborn, and he was in a state of sublimation.

New blood and qi emerged, and the old blood was expelled.

The first transformation of golden bones!

As his blood and qi grew stronger, his entire body seemed to sweat, excreting a layer of sticky, dark purple old blood.

At one moment, his entire body felt lighter, and his bones turned a light golden color.

Xu Yan felt himself become even stronger.

If he were to kill a Crimson-Eyed Tiger with his current strength, he could shatter its head with a single punch!

"Is this what golden bones feel like?"

Xu Yan clenched his fist, feeling a surge of power. His blood and qi had grown more than twice as strong.

Moreover, he felt that his blood and qi were now purer and more powerful!

"Nine transformations, and the golden bones will be complete. How powerful will that be!"

Xu Yan was filled with anticipation.

"My body feels so dirty. I should wash up. Is this a blood change? Expelling impurities from the blood and qi, making them purer? This foundation of martial arts will be even more solid and pure.

"Perhaps the ancient prodigies my master spoke of were pure in this way!"

Xu Yan had a moment of enlightenment.

"Not only the purity of blood and qi, but also the purity of the martial heart, a clear and flawless mind!"

"I am not far from becoming an ancient prodigy!"

Xu Yan left the secret chamber, changed his clothes, and washed away the dirty blood.

...

On the twelfth day back at the Xu family.

In the secret chamber, Xu Yan's body excreted a layer of faint red dirty blood, like sweat.

"This is the fifth transformation!"

Xu Yan's eyes shone with excitement. Over these days, he had relied on the medicinal supplements made from the Crimson-Eyed Tiger and further comprehension of the cultivation technique to increase his refinement speed.

He was now at the fifth transformation.

His bones had turned golden.

He was not far from the ninth transformation, the true completion of golden bones.

Moreover, with the fifth transformation, there was no more dirty blood to be excreted.

His blood and qi were almost completely pure!

"With my current strength, even the top martial artists in the world today could be killed with a single punch!"

Xu Yan was extremely excited.

From what he knew, the martial artists in the world today were too fragile for him.

A single punch could kill them!

Even those renowned strongmen were no exception!

"I must not be arrogant. I must remain humble. There are definitely other martial arts experts in the world, but they are deeply hidden and may not show themselves in the mundane world!"

Xu Yan warned himself.

"I should return tomorrow."

This time, he had purchased some precious medicines and the medicinal supplements made from the Crimson-Eyed Tiger, which he had not yet finished. If I can further comprehend the deeper mysteries of the cultivation technique, the refinement speed should increase even more.

Xu Yan left the secret chamber and prepared to return to the small mountain village the next day.

...

"Tomorrow will be half a month. My foolish disciple should be back, right?"

Li Xuan stood on a hillside, sighing.

Without his foolish disciple, he had to do everything himself, and his life was not as leisurely.

"The fierce tigers and beasts in the Evil Forest should have been killed, right?

"Of course, on the condition that my foolish disciple can leave the Evil Forest safely without getting hurt."

Li Xuan was somewhat worried.

"I don't know why, but I feel my body has become a bit stronger."

"Are the effects of the precious medicines really that strong?"

Over the past half month, Li Xuan felt his body had become a bit more robust and his strength had increased.

He once suspected he might have a hidden power-up.

But it turned out he was just overthinking.

In the end, he concluded that it was the effect of the precious medicines brought by Xu Yan.

He sighed, the precious medicines in this world truly had remarkable nourishing power.

ps: Please follow, collect, and support!