Xi Chen waited in the forest for nighttime to come. Then he emerged from the deep forest.
He waited for nighttime because he did not want to meet any others that might be from Meng clan.
As he emerged from the shadows of trees, Xi Chen looked left, right and then ahead.
"Perfect. Now not a single soul will be at the street anymore. Let's get home."
Then he sprinted ahead to his home directly.
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When he reached his house, Xi Chen entered the kitchen without making any sound. He feared that he might disturb his siblings.
But as he was about to opened the kitchen door, Xi Bing suddenly spoke from inside the kitchen. "Big Brother, is that you?"
"Yes. It's me. Open the door." Xi Chen replied.
Kehhhhhh...
The door to the kitchen room opened.
Xi Bing looked at his big brother up and down. "Where is the wild beast meat? Did you not get anything today?" He asked. He did not seem surprised at all.
"Don't ask me about it. Today was a complicated day. I don't know what should I say. Should I say I am lucky or not." Xi Chen entered inside and sat down at a stool.
"Xi Xuan is asleep?"
"Yes. He said he was tired."
"What happened?" Xi Bing asked as he closed the door.
"Well... I saved someone from Meng clan." Xi started telling what he encountered.
Xi Bing suddenly cut his sentence. "Meng clan!? One of the 3 great clan?"
Xi Chen poured himself a cup of water and continued his story. "Yes. The 3 great clans. Guard Ma kidnapped a girl from Meng clan. And I happened to saw them in forest."
Before he could continue, Xi Bing cut him off again. "Guard Ma!?. That guy from that day. The Li clan's Guard."
Xi Chen rise his voice in irritation. "Would you stop doing that and let me finish my story."
"S-sorry. Hehe.." Xi Bing realized what he was doing and apologized.
Xi Chen took a deep breath and continued telling the story. "I killed him. He and his two lackeys from that day. They were trying to defile the girl. Luckily I saved her. Then I escorted her to the outskirts of the forest. On the way I met her search team. And I left her with them and left."
Then he reached inside his robe and took out a wooden bottle. "This is the thing they gave me for saving her."
Xi Bing reached out his and took the bottle. "Well what is this. Some kind of treasure." He turned the bottle all around to check what is it.
Seeing his action, Xi Chen smacked his own forehead and soaked his head. Then he snatched back the bottle.
"You fool... You must open the cap of the wooden bottle. You dumbass." He scolded Xi Bing as he opened the cap and poured out the content.
Tap..
A round thumb size pill fell out of the bottle to Xi Chen's palm. It was Scarlet all over.
Seeing the pill, Xi Chen activated his Innate ability.
[Item: Body Tempering Pill
Quality: Mid Grade 1
Property: Using this pill help Mortal realm speed up their process.
Anyone below Acquired Qi Realm can use this.]
"Wow... what is this? Some kind of medicine." Xi Chen looked at the pill with amazement.
"It is a body tempering pill. Anyone at Mortal realm can use this. It will boost them in tempering their body. A good thing." Xi Chen explained calmly.
"Follow me." Xi Chen gestured to Xi Bing to go to the underground base.
When both of them reached the underground base, Xi Chen took out the safebox he used to store the Bone Breaker's Bloom.
Tonight, he was going to use the pill and the spiritual herb to breakthrough. He will reach the bone tempering realm in one go.
"Go up and stay there until I breakthrough. You must leave this place with Xi Xuan, if a make any attraction." Xi Chen ordered his younger brother in a deep voice.
Xi Bing nodded with a serious face and left the underground base.
To be safe, Xi Chen used the pill first. He did not know if this pill will help him breakthrough to Bone Tempering Realm, as he did not see any properties of it. But the Bone Breaker's Bloom is a sure thing.
So he first swallowed the pill and started to refine the essence of it.
As soon as he swallowed the pill, he felt a warm current spreading from his lower abdomen. He circulate the Red Demon Bone Sutra.
His whole body felt warm, when he started absorbing the essence of the pill.
It took an whole hour to finish absorbing the essence of the pill till last.
Then he checked his points behind the Cultivation Technique.
[Cultivation Technique: Red Demon Bone Sutra(81/90)]
'Only 9 points away. I hope this spiritual herb can cross this points. Otherwise I will get backlash later. Who knows when will I recover after that.' Xi Chen prayed for his breakthrough.
"Here I go, whether I succeed or not." The he ate the whole herb.
A bitter yet sweat taste spread on his tongue. Then he felt the same warm feeling from his lower abdomen. But this time, the warm feeling only lasted for a moment.
Suddenly, his whole body started heating up. He felt a tingling sensation on his bones.
"Aargh..!" Xi Chen let out a muffled scream as he suddenly felt shooting pain across all his Bone. The pain was like a thousands of ants biting his bones.
He closed his mouth and grinned his teeth. He knew, the pain is his bones tempering in a small fraction of time.
The whole process lasted more than 2 hours.
After the process, Xi Chen let out a sighed of relief.
Then he examined his body.
"I feel my body so lighter and at the same more heavier. So thats the reason!" Xi Chen was surprise to see the changes in his body.
The lightness and heaviness is the property of attacking with more force and defending with greater strength.
Thinking that his little brother might be getting anxious, he left the underground base.
Xi Bing was still guarding at the kitchen, when he saw Xi Chen emerged from the hole.
"Brother, have you reach the bone tempering realm.?" He asked Xi Chen excitedly.
Xi Chen smiled at him without a word.