In the dead of night.
"It finally refreshed!"
Yang Chan looked at the new Potential Points on his panel and immediately allocated them to the Flood Dragon Demon Breath Method.
Yang Chan had been preparing for a long time to break through to the Cleansing Marrow Grandmaster Realm.
He had pushed his essence, qi, and spirit to their absolute limits, unable to advance any further in the Inner Refining Grandmaster Realm, before attempting the breakthrough to the Cleansing Marrow Grandmaster Realm.
’Allocate points!’
As Yang Chan spent the refreshed Potential Points, the aura around him began to change.
The Cleansing Marrow Grandmaster Realm was the result of the body being tempered from the outside in to a certain degree.
Experts of this level could retract their Essence Qi and Qi and Blood Power into every pore, locking in their body’s Essence Qi to prevent its loss. Simultaneously, their heartbeat, blood, and breathing would subtly change, their breaths becoming extremely long.
Compared to an Inner Master, an expert at the Cleansing Marrow Grandmaster Realm could go a whole day without breathing and be unaffected. This was because they could control their pores to complete the process, even allowing them to breathe underwater.
Martial Arts Cultivation at this stage was becoming less and less human.
At the same time, his Spiritual Power began to transform. The Martial Seal from his Visualization would also change, evolving into Realm Cultivation, like Sword Intent, the Wind Realm, or the Water Realm. This gave Spiritual Power a tangible quality, making it more powerful and granting it offensive capabilities.
Breaking through to become a Bone Marrow Cleansing Grandmaster was a process of strengthening one’s foundation, preparing for Blood Exchange, and ultimately, preparing to break the Human-God Boundary.
And now, after Yang Chan had spent the Potential Points, his aura was slowly changing. A powerful momentum erupted from him—a power that emanated from deep within his marrow, radiating from the inside out.
Meanwhile, his Spiritual Power was also gradually increasing.
The breakthrough to the Cleansing Marrow Grandmaster Realm went even more smoothly than Yang Chan had expected. Once the Potential Points were spent, the Flood Dragon Demon Breath Method was directly elevated to Tier Five Outstanding. This was the second Cultivation Technique he had raised to the Tier Five level.
After the upgrade, he could feel waves of Power penetrating deep into his marrow. It wasn’t just the Tempering from the Flood Dragon Demon Force; the Peng Demon Force he had previously cultivated was there as well. The two types of Power relentlessly tempered his physical body.
From his bone marrow, Five Viscera, and Six Viscera, to his muscles, bones, and skin—the Tempering began, starting from the inside and working its way out. Intense pain erupted at the same time. However, just as the sensation appeared, his Tai Chi Health Cultivation Skill and various other Health Cultivation Techniques began to circulate.
Streams of restorative energy soothed the intense pain, causing the torn tissues within his body to heal rapidly.
Yang Chan had anticipated this process.
He knew that upon breaking through to the Cleansing Marrow Grandmaster Realm, his body would undergo another round of Tempering. His physical strength would increase, and it could even be described as a qualitative transformation—one even greater than the metamorphosis from the Inner Refining of the Six Viscera to the Inner Refining of the Five Viscera.
This was an ascent of a whole Great Realm in his Martial Arts Cultivation; the transformation was naturally more profound.
This kind of advancement naturally required the Tempering of his marrow, bones, flesh, Five Viscera, and Six Viscera. It was a comprehensive Tempering, and it would bring excruciating, tearing pain.
Yang Chan had read accounts of this breakthrough, which said that one simply had to endure it. After all, for a Martial Arts Cultivator who had reached this stage, their pain tolerance was naturally far beyond that of an ordinary person.
For a normal person, this level of pain would be enough to kill them outright, as their tolerance was limited. But for a Martial Arts Cultivator, especially a Martial Arts Expert, it was nothing much.
The stronger one’s Martial Arts Cultivation, the greater their body’s endurance. Furthermore, their bodies had been tempered many times and were vastly different from the mortal flesh of ordinary people.
For instance, after completing the External Refining Copper Skin cultivation, ordinary weapons could hardly injure their flesh. In the eyes of a normal person, this was a powerful ability.
Yang Chan’s situation, however, was far better than most. The benefits of his Nourishing Body Technique cultivation were now on full display.
Few could match his body’s recovery ability. Pain of this degree had almost no effect on him.
The Tempering of Yang Chan’s muscles, bones, skin, Five Viscera, and Six Viscera stopped after reaching a certain point, but the process within his bone marrow was still ongoing.
Normally, when a Martial Arts Cultivator broke through to the Cleansing Marrow Grandmaster Realm, the Tempering of their muscles, bones, skin, Five Viscera, Six Viscera, and marrow would all complete at the same time. Their aura would then begin to shift, which was the sign of a successful breakthrough into the Cleansing Marrow Grandmaster Realm.
For Yang Chan, however, it seemed this was just the beginning.
’Just as I thought. I’m going to complete the first Bone Marrow Cleansing directly!’
Discovering this, Yang Chan was not alarmed but overjoyed, because it meant his predictions had been correct.
His body had been tempered to its absolute limit, and his marrow had already reached the state required for the first Bone Marrow Cleansing. Therefore, upon breaking through, he would immediately undergo it.
Cultivation in the Cleansing Marrow Grandmaster Realm consisted of three Bone Marrow Cleansings. After completing all three, one could attempt to break through to the Blood Exchange Martial Saint Realm.
One could say that the three Bone Marrow Cleansings were three stages of accumulating power, bringing the body to a state of perfect harmony and meeting the conditions for Blood Exchange.
Most people who broke through to the Cleansing Marrow Grandmaster Realm would not immediately undergo the first Bone Marrow Cleansing. Instead, they would accumulate power through subsequent cultivation, only performing the first cleansing after their bodies had been tempered to a certain degree.
This Bone Marrow Cleansing would permeate the entire body, improving one’s root bones and aptitude. It washed away impurities, purifying them and feeding that purity back into the body.
For an ordinary cultivator to reach this stage, it would require more than ten years of accumulation, and that’s with the help of various elixirs. Otherwise, the time required would be even longer.
The Former Sect Leader of the Cyan Yuan Sect, Liu Xuan, was a case in point. He knew that the chances of completing all three Bone Marrow Cleansings within the Cyan Yuan Sect were extremely low; only by joining the Merak Sacred Land would he have such an opportunity.
Thus, when the Merak Saintess extended an olive branch, he accepted without much hesitation.
The Taiyin Saintess whom Yang Chan had met, however, was different. She was also accumulating power, pushing her body’s Tempering to its limit, so that when she broke through, she too could complete the first Bone Marrow Cleansing directly.
This not only saved a great deal of time but also conserved a vast amount of Cultivation Resources.
Even for figures at the Saintess Level of a Holy Land, both time and Cultivation Resources were finite. Breaking through to a higher Realm within a limited time was the correct path.
Yang Chan was now walking this very path. He could feel his marrow being tempered throughout his body, as if his bones and marrow were being hammered. Waves of intense pain tried to surge through him, but they were repaired and the sensation nullified by the power flowing from his many Health Cultivation Techniques.
The whole process was quite fascinating!