stjorthotic Chapter 17, Rank 3
Chapter 17, Rank 3
The next morning, Qin Fengqing arrived at the entrance of the cultivation room early in the morning. Li Changsheng was already waiting at the door. Upon seeing Qin Fengqing's arrival, he stepped into the energy room.
Qin Fengqing went to the front desk, where the teacher on duty was Song Yingji.
"The teacher will open the energy room for three days."
"Three days?"
Song Yingji was slightly surprised, but she still readily deducted 720 credits from Qin Fengqing's account. It was quite rare to see a student taking so many credits at once.
The information Qin Fengqing brought back this time earned him 1000 academic credits from the school and the military before he left the underground cave.
That's enough credits for this training; otherwise, the few herbs I sold wouldn't be enough.
Just as Qin Fengqing finished calculating the accounts, Li Changsheng strolled over.
Without wasting words, Li Changsheng said as he walked, "Go in. If things are beyond our control, don't force it."
Qin Fengqing nodded. The two quickly arrived at the door of the cultivation room, and Qin Fengqing stepped inside without saying a word.
Li Changsheng then operated the control panel at the door, and the wall of the cultivation room facing outwards became transparent.
Just after Qin Fengqing went inside and sat down cross-legged, several more figures appeared outside the cultivation room.
The former principal, Huang Jing, Wu Kuishan, Song Yingji, and Tang Feng all stood outside the door.
Seeing that Qin Fengqing had already sat down and started to regulate his breathing, Li Changsheng asked, "What do you think is wrong with this kid? He's clearly only at the middle stage of the third rank, but his qi and blood strength is much higher than other third-rank martial artists."
The top three on today's Rank 3 ranking list are all at the peak of Rank 3, but in terms of sheer strength of qi and blood, they're really not as strong as this kid.
Upon hearing this, Huang Jing said, "When that kid unleashed his qi and blood in the cave earlier, I sensed his bone tempering level; it's probably at the fourth level of bone tempering!"
"Four rounds of bone tempering? Isn't that just something that exists in theory? To bear 250 calories of qi and blood with a non-martial artist's body, I don't think anyone has ever done that before."
"My previous record was 222 calories, and then my body couldn't take it anymore," Song Yingji asked from the side.
Upon hearing this, Tang Feng also said, "He was a martial artist who had undergone bone tempering once before, but for some reason, he underwent bone tempering four times."
It must have been when he broke through to the third rank. Before that, when he was at the high level of the second rank, his blood and qi strength was no different from others.
At this moment, the old headmaster coughed a few times and then said, "Let's not talk about that now. Feng Qing has started his bone tempering."
Looking at Qin Fengqing, who had already begun tempering his bones, Wu Kuishan said, "Do you think it's possible to temper 26 bones at once? That would require a lot of blood and energy."
"We'll see. Since he's doing this, he must be confident," Li Changsheng replied.
Everyone started staring at Qin Fengqing.
……
In the training room, Qin Fengqing took off his shirt, assumed a stance for stance training, and began to practice the tempering technique.
His body trembled slightly, and his blood and energy surged throughout his body.
Qi and Blood: 1630 calories (1630 calories)
Spirit: 627 Hz (627 Hz)
淬骨：1块（92%）150块（91%），26块（45%——＊＊），29块（41%）
It is rare for someone to temper all 26 vertebrae at the same time; normally, they are tempered one at a time.
However, Qin Fengqing had already made up his mind to temper all the vertebrae at once.
As his body trembled, the Tempering Technique began to operate, and the meridians on the surface of Qin Fengqing's upper body became clearly visible and rapidly swelled up.
Qin Fengqing immediately focused all her attention on her spine, concentrating her qi and blood there. Soon, the spine began to swell at a visible rate.
……
Outside the door, Li Changsheng crossed his arms, scratched his slightly graying hair, and raised an eyebrow, saying, "If he does this, his own vital energy will only last for about an hour and a half."
Just then, Wu Kuishan suddenly said, "He's using his mental power to capture energy particles!"
Everyone perked up and looked over, but only Li Changsheng and Song Yingji had expressions of helplessness on their faces, and they couldn't see them.
While Qin Fengqing was tempering his bones with his qi and blood, he was also trying to use his mental power to meditate and capture these particles.
Wu Kuishan was somewhat surprised.
"This kid's mental energy is about to be released, at least 600 Hz or higher."
Qin Fengqing then continuously moved energy particles to replenish the energy consumed.
……
Half an hour later, Qin Fengqing had consumed more than half of his own vital energy, and then took out the cultivation energy stone he had prepared the night before from his pocket.
"This is! A cultivation energy stone, and its purity is so high!" Song Yingji exclaimed in amazement outside the cultivation room. Even he had never obtained such a large cultivation energy stone before.
"This should have been obtained by him in the underground cave this time. He was also being chased by a sixth-rank martial artist from the underground cave," Huang Jing said.
"We're so lucky!" Song Yingji exclaimed.
Qin Fengqing held the cultivation energy stone and continuously absorbed it to replenish her depleted qi and blood.
"Do you think he might have gone straight to bone marrow? He's undergone four bone temperings, so theoretically he should have already tempered his bone marrow."
The group looked at each other, realizing it was indeed possible.
Time passed slowly, and Qin Fengqing maintained his stance, continuously recovering his qi and blood and tempering his bones.
At this moment, the energy stones had been completely exhausted, and Qin Fengqing began to use the system's recovery ability.
Everyone was baffled by Qin Fengqing's current situation.
Even the two eighth-grade Golden Body Realm experts, the old principal and his colleague, could not sense the source of Qin Fengqing's blood and qi.
……
5 hours...
10 hours...
One day and one night...
Two days later, Qin Fengqing, who was in the cultivation room, was trembling slightly.
At this moment, Qin Fengqing had been cultivating continuously for 48 hours.
Even with Qin Fengqing's mental strength at this moment, he was almost unable to hold on.
Qin Fengqing felt dizzy at this moment. Even though her mental strength was still above 600 Hz, she was extremely tired.
On the third day, after 60 hours of tireless tempering, Qin Fengqing's bone tempering was nearing its end.
Qin Fengqing could feel her spine burning, her bones throbbing with excitement, and her blood boiling...
The next moment, Qin Fengqing's blood and qi surged violently, his bones cracked and popped, and his spine vibrated continuously.
"It's almost done!" A hint of joy flashed in Qin Fengqing's eyes.
Her spine was burning hot, and with each flow of qi and blood, she seemed to grow stronger. After flowing more than ten times, many impurities were expelled from Qin Fengqing's torso.
Qin Fengqing watched as her skin contracted and expanded repeatedly, each contraction and expansion making her skin even tighter.
The whole body is constantly undergoing transformation.
Qi and Blood Value: 457 calories (*** calories)
Mental strength: 325 Hz (630 Hz)
淬骨：26块（100%+）151块（91%+）29块（41%）
At this moment, the spine has been completely tempered.
The amount of vital energy and blood consumed in this cultivation was terrifying.
Even for grandmaster-level experts like Huang Jing, this is quite considerable, not to mention that Qin Fengqing also spent about half a pound of high-purity cultivation energy stone.