Chapter 93: Chapter 89: One Year Later, Yinuo Leaves_1
In the blink of an eye, two more months passed.
The time agreed upon for a year with Shen Yinuo has arrived.
"Lu Yan, I promised to prepare martial food for you for a year, and I’ve kept my promise. I’m a woman of my word, aren’t I?"
Said Shen Yinuo.
"Yes."
Lu Yan nodded.
"I should go. There are still many places I haven’t gone, many martial foods I haven’t tasted, and there are many things I haven’t done yet."
Shen Yinuo was murmuring, as if speaking to Lu Yan, but also as if speaking to herself.
Lu Yan was silent.
Truth be told, after spending so much time together, he was a little reluctant to see Shen Yinuo leave.
But all good things come to an end.
"Lu Yan, you have an Innate Martial Body, right?"
Shen Yinuo asked.
Lu Yan nodded and said, "Yes."
"Five times the Qi-blood?"
Lu Yan nodded again.
In reality, he was six times the average, but the difference between five and six wasn’t significant.
"Then you know that it is very difficult for an Innate Martial Body to infuse Qi-blood into bones and cultivate into a Martial Marquis, much more difficult than the average person."
Shen Yinuo said.
"Really?"
Lu Yan’s face changed, he hadn’t heard of this.
It’s mainly because there are too few people with Innate Martial Bodies, so some experiences are not widely known.
"To understand why, you need to understand what a Martial Marquis is, what bone strength is, and how it is cultivated."
"Five thousand years ago, the first emperor of the Dagu Dynasty, a legendary figure known as the Martial Ancestor, said that practicing martial arts is about using external forces to develop a person’s natural potential."
"The first realm, the Limit Breaking realm, involves opening the Sealed Door to develop the potential of flesh and blood. By using martial food, the strength of the flesh, blood, and Qi-blood is constantly enhanced."
"The second realm, the Bone Strength realm, involves the development of potential in the bones. In the bones, there are five spaces: surface, inside, inner, deep, and abyss."
"The five spaces are impenetrable, much stronger than the Sealed Door. It is almost impossible to break the bone space directly."
"But based on the Doctrine, everything has a thread of possibility. On each space, there is a node, as long as you find this node, you can break open this space."
"But the node is not fixed in one place. It is constantly moving, and the location varies every second. So to break through into a Martial Marquis, you need to infuse Qi-blood into the bones, using the Qi-blood to shake the bones and force out that node. But this process is extremely dangerous, and a slight error can result in the bones being blown up by Qi-blood, resulting in great damage to one’s Origin Energy or even death."
"Especially for those with an Innate Martial Body, the Qi-blood is too strong, and the bones can’t withstand it after it enters them. So, the stronger the Qi-blood, the harder it is to break into a Martial Marquis."
"Although the bones of an Innate Martial Body are stronger than those of an average person, they are not nearly as strong as the Qi-blood. If your Qi-blood is five times that of an average person, the breakthrough will be even more dangerous."
Shen Yinuo explained in great detail.
Lu Yan’s mood became getting heavier.
Based on this, it seems extremely difficult for him to break through into a Martial Marquis.
He has six times the average person’s Qi-blood quantity, although cultivating an Acquired Martial Body would enhance his body each time his Qi-blood capacity increased.
But the strength of his bones definitely can’t keep up with the Qi-blood.
If six times the normal amount of Qi-blood surged into his bones, his bones would probably explode in an instant.
"Given the difficulty of breaking through, how do the Feudal Lords still regard those with an Innate Martial Body as key training targets? Do they have a solution?"
Lu Yan had a thought and asked.
"There are solutions, of course, mainly by using martial food. Do you know why the Mutated Nine-section Heart Meat can increase the success rate of breaking into a Martial Marquis? That’s because after eating it, it can harmonize Qi-blood temporarily, making Qi-blood become gentler and less destructive, which indirectly protects the bones."
"In addition, there’s another martial food, one of the Eighteen Bone-penetrating Methods, called Beast King Bone-Protecting Soup. It is made by boiling the whole skeleton of the Alien Beast, Jade Bone Tiger, with various auxiliary spiritual medicines. If it is consumed during the breakthrough to Martial Marquis, it will form a special energy attached to the bones which can greatly protect the bones for a short time."
"There is also a method, which is to take some time to refine one’s Qi-blood during the peak of the fifth Limit Breaking, making the Qi-blood as flexible as possible, as easy to use as one’s own limbs, which can greatly increase the chance of breaking into a Martial Marquis. Of course, this step is extremely difficult."
Shen Yinuo explained.
"Beast King Bone-Protecting Soup?"
Lu Yan fell into contemplation, he often heard of the mutated nine-section heart meat, but the Beast King Bone-Protecting Soup was something he heard of for the first time.
"Yinuo, do you know where in Lingdong Six Counties we could find the Jade Bone Tiger, an alien beast?"
Lu Yan asked.
"I don’t know!"
Shen Yinuo shook her head.
With a sigh, Lu Yan could only resume the search later.
Fortunately, there’s still time. He is still some way off his fifth overflow of qi-blood after reaching the Limit Breaking stage.
"Of course, if you want to force out the bone space node, the quality of the qi-blood must also meet the standard. This is why you need first-class martial arts to break through, so you still have one more challenge, you need to obtain first-class martial arts,"
Having said this, Shen Yinuo patted Lu Yan’s shoulder and added, "The conditions are tough, but I believe you can do it, remember, you have to repay me my life-saving grace, I’m waiting for your achievement, and without breaking into Martial Marquis, you can’t repay me."
"Alright, let’s go, Farewell."
Shen Yinuo picked up her iron pot and spatula, waved her hand and elegantly left, no beating around the bush, straightforward and decisive.
...
A few days later, Lu Yan started to miss Shen Yinuo.
Nothing else, except that he had to start eating dried martial food again.
The martial food that Shen Yinuo had left before she left was already consumed by Lu Yan.
The taste of the dried martial food simply couldn’t compare to the fresh martial food.
Eating fresh martial food was both an enjoyment of gourmet food and a way to obtain energy from the food for martial cultivation.
But eating dried martial food was purely for energy intake.
Even though the Li Family of Baicao City possessed a second-class Blood Land Vein which enabled them to breed more alien beasts and sell more martial food, the number of martial artists in Baicao City was also larger, resulting in a larger demand. There was a limit on the amount of fresh martial food that could be purchased daily, so cultivators mostly relied on dried martial food.
For the feudal lords, the dried martial food brought more profits and they were thus more willing to produce and sell it.
"I really need my own power."
Lu Yan sighed once again.
Martial arts cultivation required a large amount of resources, and martial food was one of them.
He couldn’t always cook martial food himself, could he? Then when would he have time to practice martial arts?
With his own power, he would have his own team of martial chefs and his own exotic beast breeder, which would provide him with a constant supply of martial food.
Only then would the value of a second-class Blood Land Vein truly be brought into play.
That was also why Lu Yan wanted to get control over the Zhou Clan.
Having martial chefs was the foundation for the development of a power.
Once he had power, he could set up his own intelligence network and find spiritual food.
For this, Lu Yan already had a detailed plan in his mind.
He planned to open a martial arts school in Baicao City, to cultivate a group of his own power under the guise of teaching martial arts. Once he became a Martial Marquis, he would infiltrate the Zhou Clan in Qingyang City and gradually erode it.
That’s why, over the past eight months, Lu Yan has been preparing to set up a martial arts school. He selected several second-class martial arts books and taught them to Zhang Jun, Cao Hu, Li Quan, and other key members of the Green Bamboo Gang and the Fierce Tiger Gang.
Apart from three of the thirteen Limit Breaking Warriors from the two gangs who were left behind in Changfeng City to infiltrate other gangs and gather intelligence, the rest, after spreading the news that the ancestor of the Liu Family was a grandmaster, all came to Baicao City.
Lu Yan viewed these people as the core of the future martial arts school.
Anyway, before the fourth Limit Breaking, they could get by on ordinary meat, which should be relatively easy to get and he could afford it.
As for the time to open the martial arts school, it wasn’t yet right. Lu Yan planned to wait until he had mastered the first-class martial arts before officially establishing it.
These days, Wang Cui has been giving Lu Yan the cold shoulder, blaming him for not holding onto Shen Yinuo.
Such a wonderful girl.
Wang Cui’s constant sighs gave Lu Yan quite a headache. Eventually, he spent his days immersed in the training room and martial kitchen, focusing his research on martial arts and martial cooking to avoid her complaints.
