62: New trait of Dragon Claw: Reverse Dragon Scale

The way the Golden Cicada and Nine-Colored Plum melted in his mouth gave Yang Dian a misconception.

That is, all heaven and earth treasures that instinctively make people want to devour them are endlessly memorable.

But clearly, the earth core milk shattered Yang Dian's beautiful illusion.

As a drop of earth core milk, the size of his pinky finger, landed on his tongue, Yang Dian immediately felt a heavy, substantial sensation.

He instinctively made a swallowing motion.

After swallowing the earth core milk into his stomach, he felt as if a small sun had appeared inside him.

This small sun emitted an indescribable light and heat, as if it wanted to roast him from the inside out.

“Hiss~”

“No one ever said eating earth core milk felt like this...”

Muttering a complaint, Yang Dian instinctively tensed his body and began to circulate the Heaven and Man Unity Skill, distributing the energy emanating from the earth core milk... It was high noon, and the sun was shining brightly.

On the roof of the Special Administration Bureau building, under the scorching sun, Yang Dian finally completely digested the earth core milk and opened his eyes.

He tugged at his clothes, which felt as if they could be wrung out.

Feeling his Physique, which had more than doubled in strength.

And the Qi and blood in his body, which felt like a surging river.

Yang Dian called up his panel again.

——

Cultivation Technique:

Dragon Claw Hand [Trait: Bronze Sinews and Iron Bones, Progress: 83% (Cultivate and supplement with 25.37 energy to manifest the second trait)]

Grass Tread Flight [Trait: Swift as Wind, Progress: 77% (Cultivate and supplement with 21.97 energy to manifest the second trait)]

Iron Shirt [Trait: None, Progress: 63% (Cultivate and supplement with 37.61 energy to manifest the first trait)]

Hun Yuan Strength [Trait: None, Progress: 5.00% (Cultivate and supplement with 283.58 energy to manifest the first trait)]

Heaven and Man Unity Skill [Trait: None, Progress: 11.5% (Cultivate and consume 1056.69 energy to manifest the first trait)]

Energy: 346.66 (Increases by 1 point daily, but 0.7 points are absorbed by Dudu the jellyfish)

Martial Arts Realm: Sensing, grasping Qi and blood

Combat Realm: ?

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'No wonder I feel my strength has more than doubled; it turns out all five Cultivation Techniques have advanced.'

'It's just that the energy increase is a bit small.'

'One Golden Cicada increased energy by nearly 400 points, but one drop of earth core milk only increased it by just over 150 points.'

'Is it because the earth core milk contains substances that can enhance Physique and Qi and blood, or because I instinctively cultivated my Cultivation Technique, refining the energy contained within the earth core milk?'

After thinking for a while, Yang Dian stopped dwelling on it.

Anyway, even with the Cultivation Technique's improvement, the effect of the earth core milk was no less than that of the Golden Cicada.

But no matter how he calculated it, it was less cost-effective than just buying trifoliate orange.

'That's not right.'

'If I gave the energy I digested to Dudu, couldn't Dudu provide more starlight energy?'

'Calculated this way, the cost-effectiveness seems similar.'

Scratching his head, Yang Dian then patted Dudu, who had become a bit restless upon 'hearing' the word 'energy.'

'Don't rush, I'll share some energy with you tonight.'

The starlight energy provided by Dudu could enhance his foundation.

Yang Dian naturally wouldn't neglect it.

As for now?

Grinding out the three trait entries for Dragon Claw Hand, Grass Tread Flight, and Iron Shirt only required 85 points of energy in total!

Looking up at the scorching sun high in the sky, Yang Dian then took off the two strings of prayer beads from his wrist.

Yang Dian wearing the prayer beads was naturally not for aesthetics.

It was purely for the convenience of cultivating the Dragon Claw Hand!

Cultivating Grass Tread Flight required walking and running.

Cultivating Iron Shirt required finding someone to massage him.

So, he could only Cultivate Dragon Claw Hand first.

As for Little Sun?

Wait a little longer.

He would talk about it after he grinded out the second trait entry for Dragon Claw Hand!

'I wonder what the second trait entry for Dragon Claw Hand will be...'

With a hint of anticipation, Yang Dian sat there, twirling the prayer beads, from the height of the midday sun until the evening sun set in the west.

As the sun completely set and the afterglow still enveloped the earth, Yang Dian, who had been twirling the prayer beads all afternoon, trembled all over and finally stopped his movements.

“Reverse Dragon Scales?”

Looking at the second trait entry he had grinded out on the panel, Yang Dian paused, then raised his right hand, a flash of inspiration striking him.

“It seems, it’s like this...”

With a thought, the Qi and blood throughout his body began to surge towards his hands.

Wisp after wisp of bloody smoke emerged from his pores, eventually converging on his fingertips, firmly encasing them.

Once the smoke solidified, his five fingers had transformed into indestructible blood-colored Dragon claws, and his fingertips extended forward into sharp Dragon fingers, 3 centimeters long.

With a movement of his right hand, the still-surging bloody smoke gathered on his palm and the back of his hand, condensing into pieces of blood-colored Dragon scales.

The Dragon scales appeared piece by piece, starting from the finger and palm joints, extending backward along his forearm all the way towards his upper arm.

Unfortunately, Yang Dian hadn't practiced martial arts for long, and hadn't accumulated much Qi and blood.

The blood-colored Dragon scales growing backward along his arm only reached his elbow before Yang Dian's internal Qi and blood were almost completely depleted.

He bent his Dragon claw and tapped the Level 4 rebar on the rooftop.

A "clank, clank" of metal colliding echoed from the rebar.

Swallowing, Yang Dian instinctively applied force to his fingertips and scratched across the rebar, which was as thick as a wrist.

“Screech~ creak~”

A piercing scratching sound rang out on the rooftop, causing Lin Mo, who had heard the commotion and come upstairs, to instinctively frown.

He paced over to Yang Dian, who was squatting on the ground, and then instinctively widened his eyes:

“Holy crap!”

“What's wrong with your hand?”

“A secondary Awakening?”

“You can scratch such a deep mark on Level 4 steel?”

It was no wonder Lin Mo was surprised.

One had to know that what Yang Dian had almost clawed through was Level 4 steel!

Level 4 steel, which even small-caliber bullets could only leave a white dot on!

But what about now?

Yang Dian just scratched it with his finger.

Although it was a bit strenuous, he still left a mark on the rebar that was 9 centimeters long, 3 centimeters deep, and 0.5 centimeters wide!

If these claws were to grab a person.

Wouldn't it be a bloody mess, one body split into two, with just one claw?

Yang Dian clenched his blood-colored Dragon claw, making a "clink, clink" sound.

“Captain, this isn't an Awakening.”

“This is martial arts!”

“Ancient martial arts, Dragon Claw Hand.”

Saying that, Yang Dian then curled his fingers into a fist and slammed it towards the rooftop ground.

Bang~

Amidst a dull thud, Yang Dian's fist, as if punching through butter, directly penetrated the reinforced concrete.

Looking at the hollow left on the rooftop after Yang Dian withdrew his hand, and the broken rebar inside the hollow.

Lin Mo's eyebrows twitched continuously, his voice a little sour:

“Dragon Claw Hand, can it reach this level?”

Yang Dian stood up, and with a thought, dispersed the Qi and blood gathered in his right hand.

The Qi and blood scattered like smoke, then returned to Yang Dian's body through his pores, finally distributing evenly throughout his entire body, into every single cell.

Feeling that less than one percent of his Qi and blood had been consumed, Yang Dian's eyes held a hint of excitement:

“Captain, it's not just the Dragon Claw Hand!”

“I've also started cultivating the Heaven and Man Unity Skill!”

“Only with the Heaven and Man Unity Skill condensing Qi and blood could I master the Dragon Claw Hand!”

As he spoke, Yang Dian extended both hands again.

With his Qi and blood surging, blood-colored Dragon claws condensed from his fingertips, and blood-colored Dragon scales grew in reverse.

However, because his Qi and blood were dispersed, the Dragon scales only grew in reverse to his wrists before exhausting all of Yang Dian's Qi and blood.

“The true Dragon Claw Hand!”