’No need to rush the Cyan Flood Dragon Posture.’

’I’ll replicate the Cyan Flood Dragon Skill once.’

After Su Qing replicated it, his vision went black.

A young body is a wonderful thing. He was out cold in an instant.

...

「The next day.」

Su Qing woke up to find himself still lying on the blue-gray bricks of the floor.

The sky had grown overcast.

A bone-chilling wind blew against his face.

"Has winter arrived?"

Su Qing silently felt the heat coursing through his body.

After starting his Cultivation, he wasn’t even very afraid of the cold anymore.

The Wang Family servants no longer entered his room, not after he’d told them he didn’t need to be waited on.

"I can’t believe replicating the Cyan Flood Dragon Posture would be so agonizing!" Su Qing took a Great Replenishing Pill from his bundle and ate it.

Even with so many buffs stacked...

He was still knocked out from night until morning.

After thinking for a moment, Su Qing took all his worldly possessions and left the Wang Family estate through a side gate.

He left the Wang Family.

Then he left the County City.

Su Qing returned to the outskirts where he used to practice his martial arts.

The dilapidated house was still there.

Without a second thought, Su Qing threw the bundle he was carrying onto the ground.

He released his two Demonic Puppets to stand guard.

He ate another Great Replenishing Pill.

Su Qing practiced the Cyan Snake Posture.

The Cyan Snake Posture was just a few dozen Skill Level points away...

From a breakthrough.

He didn’t want to practice the Cyan Flood Dragon Posture yet. ’What if the growth from this breakthrough is lost?’

So, Su Qing had to achieve his breakthrough with the Second Layer Cyan Snake Posture first.

「Afternoon.」

Su Qing was drenched in sweat.

Host: Su Qing.

Realm: Ninth Layer of Body Tempering [Second Layer Cyan Snake Posture (Evolution): Mastery (999/1000)]

—

Host: Su Qing.

Realm: Tenth Layer of Body Tempering [Second Layer Cyan Snake Posture (Evolution): Minor Achievement (0/2000)]

...

A violent pain erupted in his body as his qi and blood circulated rapidly.

"Not good."

Gritting his teeth against the pain, Su Qing grabbed a handful of Great Replenishing Pills from his bundle—about six or seven of them.

He swallowed them in one gulp.

Immediately after, an even more intense pain wracked him, and his body felt as if it were on fire.

He began to transform continuously.

The pain made Su Qing want to scream, but in the end, he just clenched his jaw tightly.

「Half an hour later.」

A large amount of dark, stagnant blood seeped out of Su Qing’s body.

The dark blood was held back by the skin he was shedding, making him look like a person covered in oozing pus.

It was a disgusting sight.

"Is it finally over?"

Su Qing touched his skin and, sure enough, felt the layer he had shed.

He gently tore it off.

It was like breaking out of a chrysalis.

"Tenth Layer of Body Tempering?"

"I thought I’d go straight to Body Tempering Perfection."

Su Qing couldn’t help but sigh.

His consciousness focused on the Tenth Layer of Body Tempering in his Synthesizer.

[Tenth Layer of Body Tempering: Can only be achieved by breaking through one’s limits]

"Just how strong am I now?!"

Su Qing had no idea how powerful he had become.

He looked at a thick tree trunk, one that would take a person to wrap their arms around.

He threw a hard punch.

CRACK—

The immense force shattered the trunk, sending the upper part flying several meters.

"This strong?"

"To send a trunk like this flying... that must have taken an incredible amount of force, right?"

Su Qing stared at the splintered stump.

He couldn’t help but marvel at his own strength.

His hand didn’t even hurt after throwing that punch. That was a testament to his strength.

"It’s time. Cyan Flood Dragon Posture."

Su Qing picked up two Great Replenishing Pills in one hand.

And ate them.

Following the movements of the Cyan Flood Dragon Posture, he began to practice.

[The Cyan Flood Dragon Posture has retained the foundation from the Second Layer Cyan Snake Posture.]

[The Cyan Flood Dragon Posture has inherited 30% of the Skill Level from the Second Layer Cyan Snake Posture.]

—

Host: Su Qing.

Realm: Tenth Layer of Body Tempering [Cyan Flood Dragon Posture: Entry Level (450/500)]

"It dropped all the way back to Entry Level."

Su Qing thought for a moment and decided to raise the Cyan Flood Dragon Posture to Mastery first.

The Skill Level had dropped so much, but at least his Realm hadn’t fallen.

While practicing the Cyan Flood Dragon Posture, Su Qing discovered that his Pile Skill was progressing very quickly.

In one hour,

it increased by ten points.

It would only take five hours...

to reach Mastery.

And so, Su Qing practiced from the afternoon deep into the night.

—

Host: Su Qing.

Realm: Tenth Layer of Body Tempering [Cyan Flood Dragon Posture: Mastery (0/1000)]

—

At the same time, Su Qing’s entire body grew hot,

as if it were being hammered.

His bones creaked and groaned.

「Ten minutes later.」

Su Qing finally let out a sigh of relief.

"This advancement doesn’t seem to have had a huge effect."

"But I can still clearly feel the changes in my body."

Su Qing silently waved his arm.

This kind of advancement was fantastic.

"Replicate the Five Qi God Demon Technique once."

Su Qing silently tried to replicate it in his mind.

Suddenly, it felt as if a hammer had smashed into his head.

His mind grew groggy, but he remained conscious.

He just desperately needed to rest.

"The Five Qi God Demon Technique... I can try synthesizing it."

It took an hour for Su Qing to recover and come to his senses.

"Even if it only becomes the First Layer, the effect will be doubled."

After silently assessing his Physique, Su Qing checked his Synthesizer panel again.

"No, I can speed up the leveling of my Synthesizer panel now."

"I’ll go grind some more first."

After he finished his thought, he stared at the weeds on the ground, a glint in his eyes.

[Synthesis Successful]

[Synthesis Successful]

...

Wake up, cut weeds, synthesize.

Cut weeds and synthesize.

Su Qing grinded nonstop for three days.

He worked nearly eighteen hours a day.

Three whole days.

On many of the surrounding hills, there wasn’t a single blade of grass left.

It was as if a swarm of locusts had passed through.

To avoid waste, Su Qing had been eating all the grass cakes that appeared from the synthesis.

Now, his mouth was filled with the taste of grass.

The mere smell of grass was enough to make him feel nauseous.

—

Host: Su Qing.

Realm: Tenth Layer of Body Tempering [Cyan Flood Dragon Posture: Mastery (0/1000)]

Synthesis Level 11 (321/1200) [Synthesis Success Rate +11%, Mutated +1%, Evolution +8%, Divinization +1%, Demonization +1%]

—

"The higher my Evolution Talent gets, the more different the grass cakes from my synthesis become. There are even some from forced synthesis."

For example, the forced-synthesis grass cake in Su Qing’s hand.

[Unknown Grass Cake: A product of forced synthesis. Removes impurities and keeps the essence. Increases satiety, and briefly and weakly boosts the body’s immunity.]

...

There was a whole pile of similar items.

The Mutated effect even produced a grass ball.

[Peaceful Sleep Grass Ball: The wearer’s quality of sleep will be improved by 50%.]

The probability of a forced synthesis had already risen to 11%, to say nothing of the Evolution Talent.

This was exactly the effect Su Qing wanted; it made the trigger rate higher.

"I’ve been working myself to the bone for days."

"The only thing left is to synthesize the Five Qi God Demon Technique." 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

"If I do nothing else and focus solely on replicating, I can synthesize about twice a day."

Su Qing thought about it. If he still couldn’t synthesize a version of the Five Qi God Demon Technique that triggered his Evolution Talent after three days...

...then he would have no choice but to cultivate the simple First Level Five Qi God Demon Skill.

In any case, he refused to believe that after so many synthesis attempts, he couldn’t trigger it even once for a First Layer synthesis.

"Replicate the Five Qi God Demon Technique once."

After replicating it,

Su Qing sat down directly on the ground.

His head was spinning; it was an awful feeling.

...