Chapter 445: Chapter 410: Superior Bone Structure, Retracting Yang, the Prison God Meng!
Early the next morning, Meng Chuan finished his stance training and practiced Baji Fist in the courtyard.
Xu Qingfeng, in the courtyard opposite, was also doing his morning exercises. Hearing the sounds from Meng Chuan’s yard, he came out curiously and said:
"Brother Meng, aren’t you supposed to leave for study abroad today? Why are you still practicing so early in the morning?"
Meng Chuan smiled and said:
"The schedule changed, I’ll leave later."
Xu Qingfeng nodded and said:
"Just in time, do you want to go to the Demon Nest for some training together?
Recently, a lot of low-level Demon Nests have appeared in the San Qin region, perfect for martial artists like us.
Both Chu Yanhu and I have decided to team up for training."
Having ventured into the Demon Nest twice before, Xu Qingfeng had improved significantly.
Apart from gaining combat merit credits, his Eight Trigrams Fist also saw great progress in actual combat.
He understood his own style better now, practicing on the mountain daily made him lazy.
But combat training in the Demon Nest, where he earned merits, gave him energy...
Meng Chuan finished his stance, waved his hand, and said:
"You guys go ahead, be safe. I have other matters to attend to."
First, he would carry out national tasks with the ’Two Swords’, then set off on his travels.
This year, he would probably leave the ’Lishan Mountain Taskforce’ and travel solo for a while.
Watching Meng Chuan return to the house, Xu Qingfeng felt a bit nostalgic:
"After Meng Chuan broke through to the Second Limit, he became even more unfathomable. I need to hurry and catch up."
When Meng Chuan practiced Baji Fist, the undeniable imposing force around him made Xu Qingfeng take a side glance.
It was clear that this must be an extremely powerful True Skill Baji Fist.
Xu Qingfeng thought to himself:
"I also need to work hard and push myself, first standing in Pile Skill for a while, then going to learn True Skill Tai Chi from Taoist Qi to improve my fist skill level..."
Thanks to two Demon Nest missions, he had ample credits on hand.
He chose a Tai Chi True Skill from the Hidden Martial Pavilion and decided to take some lessons from Taoist Qi.
Besides mastering the boxing techniques of the water and wood elements, Taoist Qi’s specialty was indeed Tai Chi.
...
In the quiet room at home.
Meng Chuan stripped down to his shorts, exerting slight strength, and his muscles, a hundred times more robust than those of a bodybuilding champion, bulged out completely.
The [Kalalok Dust] brought forth by the cultivation of Treasure Appearance Golden Venerable Skill attached to his body, scattering gold light fragments, adding a touch of mystery and majesty.
As his cultivation technique proficiency increased, the golden dots grew denser.
In areas such as his chest, head, and thighs, golden dots began to show a tendency to form lines.
At the same time, small golden dots were also generating from under his skin, gradually spreading to various private parts of Meng Chuan’s body.
Currently, his underarm and pubic hair in his crucial areas had all fallen off, with golden dots gradually emerging at the pores.
Meng Chuan looked down and thought, after two more months of practice, his so-called ’Great Dragon’ might evolve into a ’Golden Dragon’...
He withdrew his mystic phenomena, deciding to first continue practicing the ’plain and unadorned’ Brahma Town Prison.
Looking at the Great Brahma Venerable Statue on the wall, Meng Chuan contemplated:
"Thanks to the twice-mutated physical fitness, practicing Brahma Town Prison again will be less painful, though the cultivation progress is still slow..."
Improving the relevant Buddhist teachings is indeed imperative.
After nearly three hours, Meng Chuan was drenched with sweat, finishing today’s external practice session.
The proficiency of the two True Skill level hard skills did not show improvement on the panel.
However, the remaining two did make some progress.
[Cyan Netherworld Dragon Lock Body: Major Success (99%) → Perfection (1%) Ready for Limit Breaking]
As this technique approached Major Success, the progress slowed significantly.
After nearly three months of honing, the last 20% was finally completed, breaking through to the Perfection level.
As Grandmaster Zhao of Wudang had said earlier, at the moment of attaining Perfection, quantitative change leads to qualitative change.
Meng Chuan’s body shook, producing dense cracking sounds from his bones.
His spine, like a great dragon, connected vertebrae after vertebrae, causing his already tall body to increase in height by more than ten centimeters.
At the same time, the fascia under his skin emitted a cyan jade glow, representing the perfection’s mystic color reflecting on his skeletal and visceral surfaces.
As the stimulation continued, the [Kalalok Dust] golden dots passively emerged on the body surface.
Drawn and absorbed by the cyan light, they gradually formed a net-like protective pattern interwoven with gold and blue.
In introspection, he noticed that his five internal organs were enveloped by invisible Qi strength, resonating with a sound like rolling thunder with each breath.
This is precisely the sign of the ’Mysterious Primordial Lock Viscera’ as described in Daoist texts.
This unexpected joy also enhanced the defense capabilities of his internal organs, bringing a spontaneous smile to Meng Chuan’s face.
The mysterious strength brought by the Dragon Lock Body’s breakthrough to Perfection continued transforming his physique.
Cyan energy flowed through his body, gradually sinking into every limb and bone, disappearing.
The most notable transformation was in the joints and bone quality.
Trying to move his hands and feet, the turning of elbows and knees no longer produced any sound of flesh and bone friction; it seemed as seamless as copper machine parts merging perfectly.
Meng Chuan simply performed a set of punches to sense the changes, with whistling fist winds and smoothly rotating joints like a precise steel bearing without any impediment, he clearly felt the enhancement brought by the improved bone structure.
The minor vibrations endured by his bones when exerting force disappeared entirely.
Replaced by a seamless transmission of power.
His bone quality had likewise improved, with the [Bone Dense] becoming harder than before.
The sponge-like [Bone Loose] inside the bones also condensed the pores under transformation, becoming more solid.
The countershock force from punching the air was naturally absorbed by the bones.
At this moment, his entire skeletal structure had already turned into a martial weapon as hard as no less than a Demon Suppressing Weapon.
"My current bone structure should be considered as [Superior Grade] now..."
No wonder little Xu was so lazy during the martial artist stage of cultivation, yet his fist skill training greatly boosted his Qi blood, and his progress was rapid.
With the assistance of superior bone structure, practicing fist skills below true skill level poses no difficulty.
Meng Chuan stretched his fists and legs, continuing to feel the newly transformed skeletal framework.
He was now truly someone with "excellent bone structure."
Initially, he relied on various characteristics and comprehension to learn martial arts.
Now, after the metamorphosis of his bone structure,
the flow of power through his movements was as natural as commanding his own limbs, without needing to intentionally adjust the force angle.
Training in fist skills again, with the combination of comprehension and his current bone structure, his proficiency accumulation speed reached new heights.
"I wonder if breaking the limit of the Dragon Lock Body can further enhance my bone structure..."
Meng Chuan could sense that although his bone structure was already superior, there was still room for improvement.
Beyond transforming "golden bones" or "jade bones" and such,
there were still minute impurities between his bone gaps, preventing it from being considered completely spotless.
Reflecting for a moment, he turned his attention to another hard skill that had also improved.
[Shaolin Iron Crotch Skill: Perfection (79%) → Perfection (80%) awaiting limit breaking]
"After breaking this limit, the practice of crotch skills can be temporarily set aside. When I go to Wudang, I’ll seek out Daoist crotch skills to learn."
After breaking limits, I can integrate the Damol and Shaolin crotch skills and create my unique [Meng-style Crotch Skill]..."
Daoist crotch skills often involve retracting the genitals into the abdomen, emphasizing pure yang crotch skills.
Meng Chuan suspected the cultivation difficulty might be challenging.
Not due to the technique itself, but because his "golden dragon" was too large, uncertain if it could be retracted...
After completing hard skill training, he began to practice [Earth-bearing Four Symbols Fist] and [Life and Death Entwined Silk Hand], two complete paths of the Five Elements.
The power of these two techniques was just average, and their limit-breaking traits were also rather ordinary, so they were considered auxiliary courses.
They were mainly to prepare for future integration and enhancement of the Five Elements Qiankun Method.
...
At the Northern United University, in the martial arts dojo ring.
These few days, Meng Chuan trained while waiting for his teammates to arrive.
He speculated in his heart that besides the previous agreement with Chen Xuan to spar a little,
Zheng Chengcheng, who lost to him twice, must want to redeem himself after breaking two limits.
Before the mission started, he had to make these "two swords" acknowledge his strength.
After all, the mission leader could gain an extra 20% special combat achievement incentive, which Meng Chuan was certainly not going to give up.
Gathering his thoughts, a fierce momentum like roaring flames ignited around him.
In his normal form, his towering physique of two meters and four or five, stood on the Cloud-Ascending Ladder, towering in mid-air.
His body surface radiated with gold, blue, black, and purple protective hard skills, while the five elemental colors of true qi adhered to his surface.
At this moment, Meng Chuan stood at the center of the arena, resembling a humanoid light pollution, ready to face the challenge of three senior second limit martial arts instructors.
In terms of martial arts realms, there was no detailed division into early, middle, late, or even great perfection stages.
Instead, based on the intensity of qi and blood and the time of realm breakthrough, they were roughly categorized into entry-level, senior, and peak.
For instance, within the second great limit, breaking ten thousand in qi and blood value was enough to be considered a senior grandmaster.
...
On the arena.
"What kind of monster is this... It feels like even with True Martial, it wouldn’t break the defense..."
In the eyes of the three instructors, Meng Chuan at this moment was like a raid boss in a game.
Various visual effects dazzled around his body, and that robust physique, his health bar must be extremely thick.
Plus, the martial momentum surrounding him, as if a wildfire spread,
if struck with one punch, facing him one-on-one, would likely result in instant knockout.
The three of them inwardly smiled with bitterness; this was truly a genius among geniuses, a top martial prodigy...
Just entering second limit and already this fierce, leaving no chance for others.
...
Three days later, the martial god Meng sat cross-legged in a room.
These days, he had defeated all invincibles of the second limit at Yong’an campus.
Finally, he was taught a lesson by Dong Yue and became "honest"...
Meng Chuan still remembered when Master Dong took action, the moment his qi and blood overturned the martial arts dojo’s roof was breathtaking.
"A Three-Limit Martial Arts Master is truly formidable, a hundred thousand qi and blood value is truly terrifying..."
Meng Chuan estimated that after the second limit, for him to challenge a higher level again,
without at least 20,000-30,000 qi and blood value, it was basically impossible.
The road of martial arts, the higher you go, the greater the disparity.
Even a newly broken through Three-Limit Master, his qi and blood value was only a fraction of theirs.
Combined with his body after the third mutation, as well as stronger fist skills support, it made it difficult for him to cross the chasm in realms.
Those who could cultivate to high realms were not ordinary people; they all had their unique strengths.
In future cultivation, Meng Chuan was confident of invincibility within the same realm.
But if he wanted to maintain the momentum of a martial artist, challenging second limit grandmasters across realms,
he had to break through those limits, incorporating powerful practical traits, to further elevate his combat capabilities.
These were not achieved overnight; Meng Chuan calmed his mind and returned to his routine cultivation.
Accumulating bit by bit, the fist skills he now practiced were gradually approaching true skill level.
Slowly breaking the limits, his future held unlimited possibilities...
...
At 3 PM, heart method cultivation concluded.
While adjusting his breath, Meng Chuan simultaneously checked on the progress of the Dragon Sitting Meditation,
entrusted to Tao Heart to "auto-train," during this recent period.
