CHAPTER 424: CHAPTER 094: SECOND BONE TEMPERING

Chen Nanchao led Li Weifeng to a corner courtyard within the city.

The courtyard had three entrances and exits, was large, and consisted of ordinary brick and wood houses. It served as the base for the South Xiang Adventure Team in the Underground Cave World.

There was no one in the courtyard.

This was normal, as the adventure team was essentially a fellowship. There were not many official martial artists within, perhaps only a dozen or twenty people, and everyone had their own work.

Moreover, not everyone was willing to bring their families to this dangerous world, thus the settlement appeared very empty.

"Most of the people here are out adventuring. Settle in here first and focus on cultivating. I’ll bring you into the team once you become an official martial artist."

The Underground Cave World is vast; the land explored by Pioneer City is perhaps just a corner of this world.

While facing the rival Celestial South City, the officials also have to explore and manage simultaneously, making it difficult to handle both completely.

This circumstance led to the emergence of social martial artists entering the Underground Cave.

By forming export-oriented exploration teams to gather various resources outside the city, they enhance the human foundation while weakening the forces of the cave humans if encountered.

In the Underground Cave World, it’s primarily guided by official power, with various miscellaneous adventure teams collectively constituting Pioneer City.

Of course, if confronted by a large-scale enemy attack.

Then all martial artists in the city, whether social martial artists or ordinary people living here, must unconditionally comply with official orders to organize and defend Pioneer City.

Chen Nanchao advised on some precautions, reassured Li Weifeng to cultivate here, left several Qi Blood Pills, and then hurriedly departed.

Not long ago, someone came looking for him.

Li Weifeng did not know what they discussed, but after that person left, Uncle Chen became anxious, promptly settling Li Weifeng at this base and hurried away.

Obviously, there was an emergency.

He was alone within the entire compound.

But that suited him perfectly.

"The entire population of Pioneer City, including ordinary people working here, serving soldiers, and various social martial artists, totals at least over a hundred thousand people."

"Now, my current level is too low. It’s best to improve my cultivation to become an official martial artist before considering leaving the city."

As of now, Li Weifeng was just a quasi-martial artist who had undergone one Bone Tempering.

Even incorporating some techniques to withstand First Grade and Second Grade official martial artists, it was certainly not lasting.

The most crucial task currently was to complete three Bone Temperings and elevate his level to an official martial artist.

Therefore, Li Weifeng maintained a habit of seclusion and focused intently on cultivation over the following days.

In the span of a few days, he barely left the courtyard, dedicating himself completely to cultivation.

The content of energy particles in the air of the Underground Cave World was considerable, and these energy particles could replenish the consumption during Qi Blood cultivation.

Thus, cultivation speed in the Underground Cave World was considerably faster compared to the Human World.

However, despite this, ordinary Low and Middle Grade martial artists still needed to consume elixirs to supplement themselves during Qi Blood cultivation.

Because the consumption speed during personal cultivation was evidently much faster than the speed of natural energy particles entering the body, making it impossible to maintain balance.

Li Weifeng was different.

High quality Spiritual Power endowed him with the ability to actively capture energy particles in the air into his body, supplementing qi and blood consumption during cultivation.

Sitting cross-legged in the bedroom, accompanied by the capture from Spiritual Power, the surrounding air seemed to form a subtle vortex. Tiny energy particles flowed into Li Weifeng’s body following the vortex and were refined by him on the spot, becoming materials to enhance his qi and blood power.

Gradually, through practice, Li Weifeng’s qi and blood increased at a visibly rapid pace.

"Looks like those Qi Blood Pills Uncle Chen gave may be spared."

Not knowing how long had passed, Li Weifeng, seated on the bed with eyes closed in meditation, opened his eyes, glanced at the elixir in front of him and murmured internally.

After several days of cultivation, aided by the powerful Spiritual Power, Li Weifeng finally completed the second Bone Tempering.

This seemed easy, but in reality, it was not at all simple.

The energy particles absorbed over several days, equivalent to elixirs, would require at least ten Qi Blood Pills to compensate for the consumed qi and blood during this period.

Bear in mind that ten Qi Blood Pills are already enough for a First Grade martial artist to elevate to a Second Grade martial artist in a short time.

The consumption was indeed astonishing!

It’s no wonder that the number of people completing Bone Tempering before achieving official martial artist status was so rare.

Such consumption, not to mention whether or not there are mineral resources at home, even with significant resources not every talent is excellent.

The mediocre, no matter how abundant the resources, find it difficult to complete the extreme quasi-martial artist stage of Bone Tempering.

"The second Bone Tempering already consumed so many resources. For the third one, it might require even more..."

Inside the bedroom, Li Weifeng pondered.

Though the body strengthens, Spiritual Power will gradually unlock.

But even with Spiritual Power unlocked, the effect in absorbing energy particles is limited, and the second Bone Tempering cost him over three days, and without elixir assistance, the third Bone Tempering would take at least over ten days.

This was not even the stage of official martial artists!

And among official martial artists, the span from First Grade to Ninth Grade is much larger.

With this, how much time would it consume?

"Simply relying on Spiritual Power to capture energy particles for cultivation is not feasible, to quickly become stronger, I can only consume more resources, I must find a way to make money!"

With this thought in mind, Li Weifeng decided to go out for a walk.

Securing the gate of the courtyard, he walked along the street.

He began to observe Pioneer City where he was situated.

Pioneer City was large, hosting over a hundred thousand inhabitants, approximately two-thirds were ordinary people.

These ordinary people basically worked in various service industries, but mostly were employed by the officials to cultivate various medicinal herbs and plants within the city.

The energy particles in the Underground Cave World were abundant, and the plants grown here also contained a substantial amount of energy particles.

It was said that the raw materials for the elixirs sold by the officials mostly originated from those native herbs and plants cultivated within the Pioneer Cities of various caves.

Some daring martial artists even reclaimed wasteland in relatively safe, secluded corners outside the city to harvest and sell to the government for cultivation resources.

"Perhaps, I can start agriculture here, mass-produce various materials, then sell them to the officials for resources?"

Having learned this, an idea crossed Li Weifeng’s mind as a wild thought.

In the Main World, he rose through agriculture.

Maybe in this world, he could try to prosper through farming as well?