Chapter 37: Strength of Two Bulls
Song Changming briefly reviewed the content of the evaluation. Compared to last year, this year’s annual evaluation is clearly more outstanding.
While the available rewards are not vastly different from last year, they are all somewhat better.
For example, last year you could only receive an extra thousand days of life reward, this year it has become two thousand.
Martial arts experience rewards have also increased from one hundred to three hundred points.
𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖
An additional attribute point has been added.
Among the three options, Song Changming already had it in mind, and need not think further at this moment.
Just like last year, he still chose to consume life to gain martial arts experience.
Right now, he urgently wants to compensate for his shortcomings in body refining cultivation, which is currently his weak point.
If he were to confront martial artists with average strength now, he might still rely on his sword skill at the Great Success Realm to suppress the enemy.
But if faced with martial artists of great strength, like Liang Chuan Mountain who has high body refining cultivation and simultaneously possesses sword skill at the Great Success Realm.
To face them head-on and win is nearly impossible.
Previously he was just a Patrol Guard, at most with an assistant status in the Patrol Guard team; his sword skill strength was more than enough.
But now he is the Patrol Captain, merely having sword skill is somewhat lacking.
He wants to use two consecutive years of annual rewards to forcibly erase the years or even decades-long disparity in body refining cultivation with others!
Confirm the acquisition of the second reward.
Very quickly, the more than seven hundred days of life span he accumulated this year was consumed entirely, along with a part of the life span accumulated from the previous year.
His current total life span has changed to thirty-six thousand six hundred fifty days.
Though the reduction in life span is somewhat painful, Song Changming thinks it’s still worth it.
He invested all three hundred points of martial arts experience without hesitation into the hardest-to-train Great Strength Bull Demon Skill.
Come on, qualitative change!
Then.
That two hundred experience value cap was instantly breached.
Immediately following, just like last time, a whirlwind started in the courtyard centered around him.
The energy between heaven and earth seemed to pour into his body continuously, setting him alight completely.
The scorching sensation spread to every inch of skin, tendons, muscles, blood, organs, and viscera.
The unspeakable pain made him clench his fists tightly with knuckles standing out.
Having gone through the forced elevation of body refining cultivation once, he knows enduring pain at this moment is a necessary process.
Sweat from his entire body seeped out from every pore, flowing freely, soaking his clothes, along with a rising steam of white vapor.
Unknown for how long, the painful process finally receded like a tide.
"Phew!"
Song Changming exhaled deeply, knowing it’s done!
Taking off the wet shirt, revealing skin glowing with oil, a broad chest, sturdy arms, and sculpted abs like a work of art.
Power, as if limitless power brewing within him, ready to explode!
Especially his tendons and bones received the greatest enhancement and refinement, like a body forged of steel bones, the biggest source of his immense power.
The first feeling after Song Changming stood up was weighty.
The Great Strength Bull Demon Skill mainly forges bones, practiced in-depth, surely makes the bones heavy as mountains and hard as iron.
Now, he gradually begins to experience the changes brought by this skill.
On the panel.
[Great Strength Bull Demon Skill: Strength of Two bulls (220/300)]
Strength of Two bulls it is!
Song Changming tried to lift a block of square black iron wrapped with heavy iron chains in the courtyard.
Found it easy and effortless.
This iron plus chains weigh nearly two thousand jin in total!
Even just a day before, he could barely move it, but cannot lift it easily like tonight.
According to saying, Strength of Two bulls can counter a force of two thousand seven hundred jin.
Estimating based on his current condition, even if there is some discrepancy, it should not be too much off.
With such bull strength wielding a sword, the power is boundless!
Aside from the bull strength, Song Changming’s physique in other aspects also has significantly strengthened, although not as notably as his bull strength.
He can distinctly feel the texture of his skin becoming more resilient. If he continues training, perhaps he could cultivate an indestructible Vajra body immune to sword and gun attacks in the future.
In contrast, the improvement in flexibility and agility of his body is the smallest.
This is also the shortcoming of the Great Strength Bull Demon Skill, strong in muscles and bones, weak in agility.
Of course, this shortcoming is not irremediable.
Song Changming simply needs to continuously practice his set of high-level Light Body Skill, to fill in this body refining gap, and may even turn it into an advantage.
Among all this, it just requires him to spend more time and energy.
Overall, his current body refining degree may not be much inferior to those like Liang Chuan Mountain and Zhao Dezhi who have trained in body refining for over a decade!
Moreover, after achieving Strength of Two bulls, the three hundred martial arts experience points he gained also filled most of the subsequent experience bar.
Only eighty points of experience are needed before he can proceed to make another breakthrough.
If he focuses on practicing this Great Strength Bull Demon Skill next, willing to expend a large amount of money, it probably won’t be too long before he can break through again.
Then, his strength would level up further.
While pondering, Song Changming suddenly felt unbearable hunger, hurriedly going to the kitchen to add a midnight meal.
This meal filled several jin of meat in his stomach, finally suppressing the rising hunger.
No doubt, since practicing martial arts, his appetite has been increasing day by day, becoming a veritable big eater, with digestion and absorption capability also becoming extraordinary as the body refining cultivation improves.
After eating, Song Changming still felt his spirit quite full, with no sense of sleepiness, so he decided to continue consolidating himself.
After the abrupt elevation of body refining cultivation, he needs a period of adaptation to regain meticulous control over his body.
Particularly, he needs to adapt to this bull strength within him.
Yet practicing with enthusiasm, when he realizes, it’s already early next morning, the sky turning white.
Song Changming practiced a whole night, forgot to sleep and rest, even during which he fed the two little puppies in the dog kennel milk twice.
"Changming, why up so early today?" Song’s Mother walked out of her room, somewhat surprised.
She always gets up the earliest, to prepare breakfast.
Today the sun seems to have risen from the west.
"Made little progress in martial arts, so with excitement, woke a bit early," Song Changming didn’t directly mention staying up all night, avoiding worrying and nagging from Song’s Mother.
After breakfast, Song Changming went out the door.
He planned to go to the Patrol Armor Bureau for a nap.
But just as he arrived at the Patrol Armor Bureau, he was called by Liang Chuan Mountain, who was in the middle of busy affairs.
In the Cabinet, Liang Chuan Mountain, wearing dark-colored official uniform, showed a certain aura of authority.
"Recently, Nine Bends Association’s actions have become increasingly rampant, especially since my appointment, causing public discontent. What do you think about this?" Liang Chuan Mountain, straightforwardly, asked Song Changming, his confidant.
Song Changming instantly understood.
A new official must establish their authority; it seems his superior has found the target for the first act of authority.