For an ordinary person to break through to the Bone Marrow Cleansing Grandmaster Realm, they must first raise their Martial Arts Cultivation to the peak of internal organ Tempering, completing the refinement of all their Five Viscera and Six Viscera. Only then do they have a chance of breaking through.
This is because the Bone Marrow Cleansing process places immense pressure on the body. If one’s body has not been sufficiently tempered, forcing a breakthrough means the sheer force of the Cleansing will be too much to bear.
Once the body reaches its limit, it will explode from the inside with a BANG, reducing the person to a bloody mist. The process is incredibly gruesome—it’s tantamount to suicide.
Therefore, anyone who understands the process of becoming a Bone Marrow Cleansing Grandmaster will always complete their body’s Tempering first. It is the most fundamental prerequisite.
The second requirement is immense Spiritual Power. For most people, the best way to enhance their Spiritual Power is to practice Visualization with the corresponding Martial Seal Visualization Images, constantly honing it over a long period of time.
This process is very slow, but it is a reliable and steady method. Its only true requirement is a great deal of time. The Cyan Yuan Sect’s Former Sect Leader, Liu Xuan, followed this very path.
Another method is to consume elixirs that enhance Spiritual Power. The materials required for these elixirs are extremely precious, and their effects are limited, so one must take a variety of them as supplements to achieve significant results.
The most famous of these is the Concentration Pill, refined from Gathering Spirit Liquid. This method involves borrowing the Power of Faith by extracting it from ordinary people and concentrating it into Gathering Spirit Liquid, which is then refined into Concentration Pills.
The effects are remarkably potent, but the method goes against the natural order.
The former Crown Prince Yang Qian chose this method to accumulate Spiritual Power and eventually broke through to the Bone Marrow Cleansing Grandmaster Realm. Unfortunately, he was ultimately outmaneuvered by the Old Emperor, Yang Yu, and was utterly destroyed, body and soul.
Whether this was karmic retribution is hard to say.
The final requirement is a Spirit Pill to aid the breakthrough to the Bone Marrow Cleansing Grandmaster Realm, such as the Bone Marrow Cleansing Pill. This pill, refined from the Top Level Spiritual Material known as the Bone Marrow Cleansing Spirit Fruit, has just such an effect.
This is because even if the first two conditions are met, breaking through to the Bone Marrow Cleansing Grandmaster Realm is still no small feat. The bottleneck is incredibly difficult to overcome, which is why external assistance is needed.
The Bone Marrow Cleansing Pill is the most effective aid, but simply taking it doesn’t guarantee a breakthrough; sometimes, a little luck is also needed.
Those who are lucky break through right away.
This was the case for the Cyan Yuan Sect’s Former Sect Leader, Liu Xuan; his luck was quite good.
By this time, Yang Chan had already left the Cyan Yuan Sect. He had chosen a remote location deep in the mountains, dug out a secret chamber, and set up a Breath-Concealing Magic Array nearby. He now sat cross-legged in the very center.
Before taking his seat, he had already bathed and burned incense to calm his mind and spirit.
After Lü Zhenghai and his group returned to the Merak Sacred Land, Yang Chan had remained peacefully at the Cyan Yuan Sect for nearly two more months. During that time, he had raised his Flood Dragon Demon Breath Method to its absolute limit.
He was just a hair’s breadth away from breaking through to the next stage.
He had also begun to practice the Peng Demon Bone Marrow Cleansing Scripture and had successfully cultivated the Peng Demon Force. This was all in preparation for his breakthrough and had cost him some Potential Points.
’Yang Chan estimated that when he broke through to the Bone Marrow Cleansing Grandmaster Realm, he would very likely complete the first Bone Marrow Cleansing instantly. He could feel that his foundation was incredibly profound; with such an accumulation, he should be able to complete the first Cleansing in a single go.’
’This was the path chosen by the Saint Sons and Saintesses of the Holy Lands. Although they lingered in the Inner Refining Grandmaster Realm for an extended period, they used that time to not only strengthen their foundations but also reduce the time they would need to spend cultivating in the Bone Marrow Cleansing Grandmaster Realm.’
’After one’s Martial Arts Cultivation reached the Bone Marrow Cleansing Grandmaster Realm, completing a single Bone Marrow Cleansing took decades. This was true even for those with great Talent. Some with less outstanding Talent might remain stuck in the Bone Marrow Cleansing Grandmaster Realm their entire lives, never even finishing the first Cleansing.’
’And these so-called individuals with "less outstanding Talent" were already considered figures at the Celestial Pride Level by most people. It was just that among Bone Marrow Cleansing Grandmasters, they were ordinary.’
’After all, in a place like Qing State, in all the long years since the previous Bone Marrow Cleansing Grandmaster from the Cyan Yuan Sect had fallen, only a single new one—Liu Xuan—had emerged.’
’This was in Qing State, with its population of tens of millions. It was fair to say that Liu Xuan was already a one-in-ten-million kind of figure.’
’Even in a bustling metropolis like White Jade City, where countless Cultivation Resources were gathered, not many Bone Marrow Cleansing Grandmasters had emerged.’
’Of course, in White Jade City, aside from the Bone Marrow Cleansing Grandmasters cultivated by the Great Zhou Imperial Family, there were others in the same realm who had pledged their allegiance.’
’The Alliance Leader of the Pharmacist Alliance, for instance, was both a Top Level Pharmacist and a master in the Bone Marrow Cleansing Grandmaster Realm, yet even a talent like him had pledged allegiance to the Great Zhou Imperial Family. Although it was publicly framed as a partnership, it revealed the profound depths of the Imperial Family’s power.’
Now, Yang Chan had also completed his accumulation. Although he didn’t have a Bone Marrow Cleansing Pill to aid him, he possessed a far better method: Potential Points.
’What the world saw as a bottleneck was, to him, simply a matter of Potential Points. Failure to break through just meant he didn’t have enough. All he had to do was add more.’
Yang Chan had chosen this secret chamber on a desolate mountain to prevent the powerful aura from his breakthrough to the Bone Marrow Cleansing Grandmaster Realm from attracting unwanted attention.
Back at the Cyan Yuan Sect, Yang Chan was known as an Intermediate Pharmacist whose Martial Arts Cultivation was merely at the External Refining Steel Realm. It would be unwise to expose his true abilities.
’Breaking through at the Cyan Yuan Sect wasn’t a good option, either. People would inevitably investigate, and he would still fall under suspicion. That would be a bad outcome.’
Thus, using the excuse of going into seclusion, he had left the Cyan Yuan Sect once more.
Liu Xuan’s previous breakthrough had generated a tremendous aura, so Yang Chan wasn’t completely confident he could conceal all of his.
’Especially since he would most likely complete the first Bone Marrow Cleansing instantly, the resulting aura would probably be even more powerful. The Breath-Concealing Magic Array he had set up might not be effective enough to handle it.’
As for his Meditation and Breath Holding Technique, even though he had raised it to the Tier Four Master Stage, which made his breath concealment far more powerful, he still wasn’t confident he could completely suppress his aura during the breakthrough. This was especially true since he would likely complete the first Bone Marrow Cleansing instantly, a feat he was even less certain he could hide.
Therefore, on top of all these other measures, Yang Chan had also dug several escape tunnels out of the desolate mountain. This was a precaution against the unexpected, giving him multiple escape routes to leave from if the need arose.
He probably wouldn’t need them, but Yang Chan was preparing for the off chance that some powerful expert who enjoyed roaming the mortal world happened to be nearby and find him.
It hadn’t happened on his previous excursions, but Yang Chan prepared for the possibility anyway.
’Sometimes, it was better to be cautious. Especially now, with the Black Dragon still slumbering, he was down one of his protective measures and naturally needed to be even more careful.’
For now, the aura around Yang Chan remained unchanged. He was waiting for midnight to arrive. As soon as his Potential Points refreshed, he would immediately consume the new points, force a breakthrough in his Flood Dragon Demon Breath Method, and ascend to the Bone Marrow Cleansing Grandmaster Realm.