Reborn Conceited Soldier

This was Sikong Banyu's first time seeing the essence of this spiritual energy on Earth. Even the spiritual energy contained in hundreds of thousands of years of medicinal herbs could not be compared with it. The purity of this spiritual energy was like a spirit medicine absorbing spiritual energy, how could Sikong Banyu not be happy?    

    

It had to be known that because of the lack of spiritual qi, his cultivation was like a lump in his throat. He couldn't spit it out, nor could he swallow it down.    

    

As the saying goes, if the heavens do not cherish the opportunity given by the heavens, then it would be opposing the heavens. However, Sikong Banyu wasn't blinded by the pure spiritual energy and forgot where he was. It was good to have a higher cultivation, but the condition of cultivation was that one needed to survive. If even that was gone, what was the use of cultivation? He did not forget the spiritual aura he felt when he stood on the body of the terrifying Nine-infant.    

    

With my current cultivation, at the late stage of Bone Refining, my two arms have already been refined one by one, and now there are only the bodies and heads of my legs left. Without further ado, it will only take a day or two, and with this spiritual energy, I will definitely be able to reach the Great Perfection of the State of Perfection.    

    

He paused for a moment, his gaze sweeping past the fierce looking corpses, and did not stop, immediately sitting down cross-legged. Perhaps, he did not have as much time as two days, but if he could train a bit, then his strength would increase by one level, and at that time, even if he had to face the King Worm in the Nine-infant's body, his odds would be higher.    

    

Sikong Banyu did not even think about it, this kind of dangerous situation could cause a person who just started cultivating with a mottled mindset and was unable to calm their heart. However, for a reborn great cultivator like him, it was a very simple matter.    

    

The moment he started channeling the Stone-breaking Arts, an endless amount of spirit energy rushed into Sikong Banyu's body from the body of the Nine-infant below. He enjoyed this pleasure greedily, as if he had just met a rain after a long drought.    

    

Spirit energy was the power of the world, and cultivators could not directly use it. It required a change in cultivation techniques, a change in cultivation realm into inner breathing, a change in Spirit Stage into Genuine Essence, and a higher level of Profound Stage into spirit energy. Now, Sikong Banyu's cultivation limit could only be transformed into inner breathing. However, that was not important. What was important was that it was a steady stream of inner breathing.    

    

After the inner breath was fully accumulated, Sikong Banyu did not stop and immediately began to refine his bones. In the previous period of intermittent training, Sikong Banyu's Bone Refining had already completed the refining of 64 bones in his arms. In the previous period of intermittent training, along with some elixirs, Sikong Banyu's Bone Refining, he had already completed the refining of 64 bones in his arms.    

    

Many of the initial cultivators didn't understand. Logically speaking, 64 pieces of arm bones should only take up a third of the entire skeleton. So why was it that after refining the arm, one would reach the late Bone Refining stage? In fact, all of the cultivators' cultivation base in the Bone Refining stage were in his hands. As far as martial arts was concerned, there was a saying that only two doors could be cleaned, and one could only beat someone with one's feet. But cultivators were different, because they would not be like ordinary people who practice martial arts and study skills. They would be looking at the great dao, and skills are only a part of it, and as their cultivation increases, their understanding of the heavenly dao will become clearer and clearer. Then, studying skills will be walking down the small path, so no one would do that.    

    

As for the Bone Refining Realm cultivators, aside from the supplementary moves of the Bone Refining Art, they were completely relying on their own strength. Like Sikong Banyu, apart from the three moves of the Stone-breaking Arts, although they still had the Son of Heaven's Sword Dao, they rarely used it. Although its power was terrifying, but if it consumed too much energy, sometimes it would still cause the enemy to lose a thousand of their own, who would be willing to use it? Therefore, it could be said that cultivators of the Perception Realm, or to be exact, cultivators of the Bone Refining Realm, possessed superior battle prowess.    

    

The bones refinement in the legs, torso and head was merely done for the sake of entering the Spirit Stage and laying the foundation. Although it is said that after the refinement of the bones was completed, the cultivator's fighting strength would also increase greatly, but compared to that, the Spirit Stage was what the cultivators cared about the most, because after entering the Spirit Stage, the inner breathing would become like a Genuine Essence. That was the true path of cultivation, and he dared to call himself an unwavering cultivator.    

    

Sikong Banyu guided his inner breath and headed towards his legs. The steps of refining bones, from his hands to his feet, then his torso, and finally his head, was publicly accepted as the best sequence of refining bones. Sikong Banyu had already started not refining his bones for the first time, so he was naturally familiar with the route to refine his inner breath and began to refine the ten-fingered bone on his feet.    

    

There were a total of 62 bones in the legs of a human body, which was two less than the total of his arms. The two hundred and six bones in the human body, as well as the legs and hands, made up more than half of the total amount. The bones in the human body, as well as the legs and hands, took up more than half of the total quantity, as the fingers and bones in the main hands and feet were more or less thin.    

    

But the pain... The pain was still the same. After all, this body was no longer the powerful existence he once was, but instead a body that came from an ordinary person step by step. However, it now belonged to him.    

    

The abundant spiritual energy was being absorbed by Sikong Banyu in a steady stream. Sikong Banyu was in a happy and painful state, although he had always been paying attention to the changes in his surroundings to prevent unexpected accidents, he did not notice that the scales on the body of the Nine-infant that looked shiny and deep, had quietly dimmed down.    

    

With enough spiritual energy, Sikong Banyu's bone-refining speed was very fast. Previously, it was a thousand-year-old snow lotus and a ginseng, allowing Sikong Banyu to finish refining the bones in two short days. That was because he needed to absorb spiritual energy from the elixirs and then transform it into inner breathing.