#7 - Chapter 007: Supreme Dragon Bone, Half-Day Mysterious Pill
Jiang Ning returned to the bamboo house unhurriedly.
Surely, no one would suspect a cripple like him in the death of the蛟 snake, right?
Jiang Ning found an excuse to temporarily send Xiao Li away.
He was still very cautious.
Before he became a Saint, he didn't want anyone to know that his roots had recovered and that he could cultivate.
After all, if this were to spread, his good uncle would definitely not let him off.
For his own life, Jiang Ning had to be careful and lie low until he became a Saint and was invincible.
After comprehending many inheritances in the Stele Forest for more than a month, Jiang Ning had already learned a powerful secret technique.
It could completely hide his cultivation and aura.
This was also Jiang Ning's confidence in being able to pretend to be a cripple all along.
This way, he would not arouse jealousy or attract too much attention.
"Waste, live long!" Jiang Ning murmured.
Now he can live safely, entirely because he is a waste and poses no threat.
Jiang Ning prepared a wooden barrel for bathing, and then poured all the 蛟 snake blood he had collected into it.
"It would be even more perfect if the 蛟 dragon blood was poured into a precious cauldron engraved with runes, plus some precious medicinal herbs."
"However, I have completely comprehended the first volume of the 《Dragon Strength Suppressing Heaven Scripture》. Cultivation is twice the result with half the effort. Even with such poor conditions, I can barely succeed in body tempering, right?"
Jiang Ning said helplessly.
Indeed, the conditions were too bad.
Besides the 蛟 snake blood, there was nothing else.
The blood was extremely viscous and emitted a burst of stench.
Jiang Ning endured the stench and jumped into the wooden barrel.
Immediately, he began to circulate the Emperor Scripture's first volume, 《Dragon Blood Body Tempering》.
A blazing divine light completely enveloped Jiang Ning.
The 蛟 snake blood began to boil violently, and drops of golden liquid continuously floated into the air.
These golden liquids were the dragon blood extracted from the 蛟 snake blood.
The dragon blood was absorbed into Jiang Ning's body.
His body manifested dense and mysterious runes, radiating light, ancient and profound.
"Roar~"
A phantom of a true dragon hovered above Jiang Ning, constantly roaring.
Dragon might shook the nine heavens.
"Condense the dragon bones!"
Jiang Ning shouted loudly, frantically circulating 《Dragon Blood Body Tempering》.
The broken roots in his body, under the nourishment of the dragon blood, began to reorganize bit by bit.
Forming roots that emitted golden light.
This was the powerful dragon bone!
About an hour passed.
Jiang Ning's whole body's roots were finally successfully reorganized, all turned into dragon bones.
The roots were like iron, indestructible.
Boom!
A terrifying dragon might burst out from Jiang Ning's body.
With the dragon bones successfully forged, the speed of devouring spiritual energy was also beyond the reach of ordinary people.
Like a whale swallowing, it swept through the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, leaving nothing behind.
Jiang Ning ended his cultivation of 《Dragon Blood Body Tempering》.
"The dragon blood contained in the 蛟 snake blood is still too little."
"It's just enough to condense the dragon bones, but not enough to successfully temper the body and forge the supreme dragon body."
Although he did not forge the supreme dragon body, Jiang Ning was still very happy.
After all, the ruined roots had been completely restored and had become even stronger dragon bones.
Now, he could finally start cultivating.
Unable to restrain the urgency in his heart, Jiang Ning sat down and began to circulate his cultivation technique, devouring the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to cultivate.
Jiang Ning had comprehended many cultivation techniques in the past month or so, and there was no shortage of Heaven-rank techniques among them.
At this time, they finally came in handy.
Generally, a person can only circulate one cultivation technique at a time.
However, whether it was because he was cheating or not, Jiang Ning was actually able to simultaneously circulate all the cultivation techniques he had comprehended.
In this way, his speed of devouring spiritual energy was unimaginably fast.
The spiritual energy of heaven and earth was simply not enough for him to consume so frantically.
However, Jiang Ning had countless spirit stones.
A thousand spirit stones were taken out and piled up into a small mountain in the bamboo house.
Jiang Ning circulated his cultivation technique to refine the spirit stones and extract the spiritual energy from them.
A Qi Condensation Realm cultivator needs half an incense stick of time to refine a spirit stone.
And Jiang Ning circulated many techniques at the same time, and at least they were all Earth-rank techniques.
The speed of refining spirit stones was unimaginably fast.
A thousand spirit stones were soon completely refined by him.
Transformed into a vast and majestic spiritual energy.
The massive spiritual energy entered his body, almost bursting his body.
Like a balloon, it was bulging and round.
Jiang Ning wanted to cry without tears, was he going to explode and die?
He died before he could even start, just after recovering his roots and starting to cultivate.
If he had known, he wouldn't have refined a thousand spirit stones in one breath.
Just when Jiang Ning was about to be unable to hold on, a line of text appeared in his mind.
【You are in cultivation, triggering the experience cheat, increasing cultivation speed by a hundred times.】
With the cultivation speed increased by a hundred times, Jiang Ning's speed of consuming spiritual energy naturally also increased by a hundred times.
The majestic spiritual energy in his body was consumed extremely quickly, completely resolving the risk of exploding.
【You are in cultivation, triggering the hundred-fold experience cheat, increasing cultivation speed by a hundred times.】
【You are in cultivation, triggering the hundred-fold experience cheat, increasing cultivation speed by a hundred times.】
...
This line of text frantically appeared in his mind.
Jiang Ning's cultivation realm was soaring at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Qi Condensation First Level!
Qi Condensation Second Level!
...
...
Qi Condensation Ninth Level.
Qi Condensation Ninth Level Peak.
Still continuing to break through realms, without the slightest momentum of being stopped.
Frantically circulating the cultivation technique, frantically absorbing spiritual energy.
Finally, Jiang Ning condensed a golden Profound Core in his dantian.
Boom!
A terrifying power burst out from his body.
Jiang Ning successfully broke through to the Profound Core Realm and stopped cultivating.
At this time, the sun was about to set, and Xiao Li was about to return.
"Entering the Profound Core Realm in half a day, this..."
Jiang Ning was shocked by his cultivation speed.
Such a speed could probably only be achieved by cheating, no matter how monstrous or talented a cultivator was.
A smile could not help but appear on the corner of his mouth.
At this speed of cultivation, was he still far from becoming a Saint?
However, the speed of consuming spirit stones was too fast.
In just half a day, he had consumed the annual salary of a second-rank official of the Great Xia Dynasty.
Of course, Jiang Ning didn't care, with the gold coin cheat in hand, there would be a continuous supply of spirit stones for him to cultivate.
Soon after, Xiao Li returned.
"Young Master, I seem to feel that you are different."
Xiao Li touched her small head and curiously looked at Jiang Ning.
Anyway, she always felt different, but she couldn't say where it was different.
Jiang Ning smiled slightly, "It must be that you, this little girl, felt wrong. How could I be any different?"
At this time, Jiang Ning realized the problem.
Having entered the Profound Core Realm in half a day, he was now bright-eyed, had a strong aura, and was incredibly full of energy in body and mind.
No longer the sickly, weak, and frail appearance he had before.
A strong person with good eyesight could tell at a glance that he was not a person without any cultivation.
It seemed that he had to pay attention in the future and pretend to be a weak and frail cripple when he was outside.
This way, he would not arouse suspicion.
...
The next day.
Jiang Ning heard that it was circulating in the ancestral land.
The 蛟 snake in the Prisoner Forest wanted to transcend the tribulation to become a 蛟 dragon but failed and lost its life.
Heavenly lightning and earthly fire were originally signs of the heavenly tribulation that could only appear during the tribulation.
After an investigation, the fall of the 蛟 snake was determined to be that it wanted to forcibly transcend the tribulation to become a 蛟 dragon.
With its fifth-order level, it was naturally impossible to succeed.
In the end, it failed and fell under the heavenly tribulation.
This relieved Jiang Ning.
He was afraid that it would be traced back to him.
Jiang Ning found Elder Bai.
"Elder Bai, yesterday the 蛟 snake transcended the tribulation, and heavenly lightning and earthly fire appeared. I almost lost my life. Let's switch to wiping the stone stele. It's safer this way."
Jiang Ning pretended to be very scared and said with lingering fear.
Now that his roots had recovered and he could cultivate, he naturally wanted to go to the Stele Forest to find more opportunities.
In the Stele Forest, there were many inheritances left by Saints.
Divine powers, Saint scriptures, powerful secret techniques...
However, after hundreds of thousands of years of accumulation, the number of steles was so vast.
Wanting to find supreme Saint scripture divine power inheritance was like finding a needle in a haystack, requiring a lot of luck.
In order to prevent enemies from stealing them, even the imperial Jiang clan did not know which stone stele was the inheritance left by a Saint.
Each stone stele was exactly the same, without any special features.
If one was lucky enough to encounter a stone stele with a Saint's inheritance, the discoverer was forbidden from revealing its specific location.
This could protect the safety of the Stele Forest to the greatest extent and prevent it from being stolen by enemies.
However, Jiang Ning was not in a hurry. Anyway, he had plenty of time to slowly search, and he would always find it.
Elder Bai chuckled, "Young man, I told you that the Prisoner Forest is very dangerous, right? Okay, you can continue to wipe the stone stele in the future."
Elder Bai did not make things difficult for Jiang Ning and agreed to let him continue to work in the Stele Forest.
Jiang Ning bid farewell to Elder Bai and continued to the Stele Forest to wipe the stone stele.
