Hide in The Immortal Cultivation World, Strike Hard in the Martial World - Chapter 60 57: Anjin Achieved! Bone Refining Appears!

“No, absolutely not! My medicine-making is my ace in the hole. If word gets out, I’ll starve to death. If you’re after this, I’m not drinking this wine!”

Elder Liu pretended to refuse the wine, pushing the jar away. However, a flicker of regret in his eyes was captured by Chen Yi.

“Hahaha, Elder Liu, I was just joking. How could I possibly covet all your medicine-making skills? I can’t even learn your bare-handed fire-starting technique!

I was just thinking that the medicine I concocted yesterday suits my taste quite well. Considering that I might need to consume it frequently in the future, I don’t want to bother you.

So, if I could learn to brew my own medicine with you sipping wine and supervising, and I’d still pay you, wouldn’t that be more convenient? Don’t you agree?”

Chen Yi used a famous psychological negotiation technique, proposing an unacceptable condition at first and then suggesting a reduced request,

From learning his core skills to just needing verbal guidance in concocting his own medicine.

In this way, the other party is more likely to accept.

As he spoke, Chen Yi poured another bowl of wine and handed it to Elder Liu.

Without thinking, Elder Liu accepted it and contemplated:

“Is that really what you want, not learning my other skills, and only focusing on what benefits you? I’ll instruct you while you do the work?”

“Of course, learning how to brew my own medicine is enough.”

Although, I might need to consume something different later…

“Well…okay, One pound of tiger whale bone, two stalks of volcanic flowers, and some red-blood carp blood. Yes, that’s about right.

Yes, grind the bones, wait, stop!

Don’t grind it so energetically, you’ll lose all the essence. This way, in this direction, yes, proceed.”

So, while Elder Liu was sipping wine, he tutored Chen Yi, who slowly started making today’s two strong bone pills.

Elder Liu only used his mana twice, once to ignite the fire and once to finalize the pill. Chen Yi did all the other work,

“Elder Liu, here is today’s payment of a hundred taels of silver, please take it.”

“Eh, you really are giving so much? I’ve already had a lot to drink,” Elder Liu felt somewhat embarrassed since he only gave verbal directions while indulging himself.

“What are you talking about, Elder Liu? These are two separate things. Drinking with you is because you remind me of my grandfather. Paying you is for the medicine, they are two different matters!”

“Oh~, okay, separate. So, are we going to continue?”

“Looking forward to your guidance!”

The host and the guest had a great time.

Well, learning how to make the strong bone pill cost about a hundred taels of silver,

How to handle each step and each ingredient, the properties, toxicity, restraining relations between each ingredient, Chen Yi got a preliminary concept and understanding.

Of course, Elder Liu didn’t foolishly reveal everything to Chen Yi, especially the two parts that required cultivator’s mana: controlling the fire and making the pill from medicinal powder. These, Chen Yi didn’t understand and couldn’t learn.

It seemed these were the most crucial parts of Elder Liu’s skills.

Well, but my wine isn’t that easy to refuse. And you can’t take this skill to your grave.

I have a four-attribute spiritual root, mastering Qi cultivation is a matter of time.

I’ll wait a bit more, till I’ve elevated my body refining ability to the utmost in this mortal world, and then venture into the Spiritual mist. That should be safer.

…

Taking medicine, cultivating, selling fish, delivering wine, making medicine,

Three days later,

While cultivating, Chen Yi suddenly felt something. His arm felt very itchy as his entire vitality and blood seemed to rush towards his arm,

Despite having hundreds of vitality and blood power inside him, he felt like he was about to be drained!

Chen Yi was excited, realizing it was the result of his days of hard work. The quantitative change had led to qualitative change, and he was about to break through to Anjin.

But normally, wouldn’t a couple hundred vitality and blood power be enough for Anjin?

Why does my eight hundred vitality and blood power seem insufficient?

Chen Yi took half of a strong bone pill to supplement his vitality and blood while inspecting his arm to figure out what was going on.

After a while, the itchy feeling in his arm subsided,

At that moment, Chen Yi felt as if his arm bone had become extremely hard, and seemingly possessed inexhaustible strength,

He felt as if he could smash a huge rock into pieces with a single punch!

“Let’s try Anjin first!”

Following the instructions of the martial method, Chen Yi tries to condense a stream of vigor. Carefully, he channels it along with his vitality and blood towards his arm bone.

With a swift motion, as if it were wrapped in a layer of lubricant, the vigor slips in easily without any resistance,

Chen Yi immediately feels a comforting warmth.

Next, he tries to infuse the second, third, and all the way up to the tenth stream of vigor. After the tenth, his arm starts to feel a faint tingling sensation,

Could his body already accommodate ten streams of vigor on his first day?

How many could his senior sister accommodate on her first day after breaking through to Anjin? Two and a half, was it?

Indeed, my bones seem to outperform those cultivated in the Martial World.

The next moment, Chen Yi picks up a piece of testing stone from the cabin,

And slams his fist into it,

Halting his fist just an inch away from the stone,

A stream of vigor erupts from his fist,

With a crack, the inch-thick stone shatters into pieces, leaving a finely powdered fist mark at its center!

“So, this is Anjin?

Master once said, martial artists transition from Mingjin to Anjin, only attempting success when they’ve sufficiently tempered their vitality and blood over several months to years, achieving a certain degree of Iron Skin.

Yet here I am, breaking through in just a few days. The Vajra Sutra’s body refining technique is even more potent than I imagined!”

“Furthermore, looking at the power of my punch, it’s much stronger than Mingjin. This strike might carry a force almost equal to 2000 catties.

If such a force is applied to a human body, it could very well break the bones and destroy the organs!

This could prove useful while dealing with body refining experts in the Immortal Cultivation World.

Unless they can counterbalance with Anjin, a power only Martial Artists from the Martial World possess. If they were to counteract my force, how could they possibly withstand the hardness of my bones?”

In this moment, Chen Yi deeply realizes the benefits he’s obtained from integrating the martial methods of two different worlds!

It’s truly a kill from both sides!

“Given the strength of my current body and the thickness of my vitality and blood, I should be able to overpower beginners with Anjin, wear down mid-stages, and be within the range of normal first-level body cultivators.

As for late-stage Anjin, I won’t bother fighting them!”

After a few attempts at exerting Anjin,

Chen Yi tests a small section of his fully tempered hand bone. Without using any vigor,

He smashes his fist onto the stone slab, once again shattering it into pieces.

This time,

Chen Yi is surprised to find that his situation is indeed unusual.

“It seems like I didn’t just enter Anjin, but my bone strength has also reached the initial standard for the second layer of body refining?”

The second layer of body refining cultivators corresponds to the Qi Cultivation Middle Stage practitioners in terms of combat ability?!!

“But, haven’t my body refining techniques not yet reached the peak of the first layer?”

Chen Yi is both surprised and pleased.

The body cultivators he knows from the Immortal Cultivation World generally follow the method of refining flesh first, then bones, and progress their cultivation at this pace.

However, Chen Yi is using the ancient Vajra Sutra, which has an inseparable connection with his martial arts training in the Martial World.

Therefore, while he is using the resources of the Immortal Cultivation World to practice Anjin, he also happens to refine his bones…

With this in mind, I estimate that half of my skeletal structure will be refined by the time I complete refining all the flesh in my body while practicing the first layer of body refining!

Am I progressing on the paths of both the first and second layers of body refining simultaneously?

If my cultivation level reaches Huajin in the future, and I start refining my muscles, wouldn’t I have also started the third layer of muscle refining?

At this moment, Chen Yi is somewhat bewildered, having a hard time figuring out his own level,

Based on the attack and defense capabilities of various body parts, he has already touched the threshold of the second layer of body refining, but only for certain already refined parts.

“To be on the safe side, I should stick to being a normal Anjin martial artist and the first layer body cultivator,

I can’t even be considered a first layer body cultivator yet, since I haven’t mastered the Iron Shirt Technique. Currently I have only refined some of the flesh in my limbs, not even starting the most important upper body.

The Ma Zi Gang… I’ll wait a few more days. While I can still quickly improve my strength, I’ll wait a few more days before I go.”

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