105: Top Secret: Black Water Bone Training Method

There isn't a significant difference between low-level Cultivation Techniques for forging bones and those for forging tendons.

However, for Advanced Cultivation Techniques, the difference is vast.

Chu Qing flipped through the Secret Manual and found that this Cultivation Technique could forge a hundred bones.

Among bone-forging Cultivation Techniques, it was considered mid-to-high level.

But Chu Qing was not satisfied.

He read books and the lecture notes of the Martial Instructors, knowing that top-tier Cultivation Techniques could forge over two hundred, even over three hundred bones.

“Dean, I want something better!”

The Dean sighed to himself. How long had Chu Qing been at the Martial Academy? Not properly cultivating his tendons, but prematurely forging bones, was utterly foolish.

But… he had made a promise.

He had to fulfill his word.

“There are more Advanced Cultivation Techniques, but you can’t Cultivate them!”

Chu Qing wondered, “They’re all bone-forging Cultivation Techniques, why can’t I Cultivate them?”

The Dean said, “Some Cultivation Techniques require Silver Tendons to Cultivate.”

Chu Qing smiled, “That’s no problem, I’ve already forged Golden Tendons.”

The Dean was stunned.

Golden Tendons in just over two months?

Could he be a Young Master of a Prominent Family?

Thinking of this, the Dean exchanged it for another Cultivation Technique.

【Furnace Skill!】

This Cultivation Technique was much more powerful, capable of forging 206 regular bones.

Chu Qing looked at it and was quite satisfied.

But he wanted something even better.

“Dean, is there anything even better?”

The Dean pondered for a moment and said, “If you forge a hundred Golden Tendons, I have a Cultivation Technique that can forge three hundred bones!”

“If you forge two hundred Golden Tendons, I have a Cultivation Technique that can forge 365 bones!”

“If you forge 365 Golden Tendons, I have a top-tier Secret Inheritance bone-forging Cultivation Technique!”

“So, young man, tell me, which Realm can you reach?”

Chu Qing smiled and said, “The top-tier Secret Inheritance bone-forging method!”

The Dean… Chu Qing… “Young man, don’t lie.”

“Otherwise… people will die.”

Chu Qing chuckled, “How could I lie?”

The next second, he fully activated his Golden Tendons.

Golden patterns appeared on his hands, face, chest, back, and other areas, covering his entire body.

The Dean stared at him intently, not blinking.

One minute… three minutes… Chu Qing dispersed the golden patterns.

The Dean let out a long breath, then lowered his head, covered his face, and chuckled.

One minute… five minutes… The Dean laughed for a full ten minutes.

Chu Qing waited silently.

After a long while, the Dean looked up, his withered face full of smiles, saying, “365 Golden Tendons!”

“It’s been thirty years. Besides Madam Shi, Yu Ji, who got lucky ten years ago and forged 365 Golden Tendons, you are the second.”

“Did you also eat a dragon tendon?”

Chu Qing shook his head, “No!”

“But, eating dragon tendons can forge Golden Tendons?”

The Dean was surprised and remained silent for a long time.

“Impossible, if you didn’t eat a dragon tendon, how could you forge full Golden Tendons at such a young age?”

“Even the Prodigies from the main city couldn’t forge that many Golden Tendons at your age.”

“You… did your ancestors prosper?”

Chu Qing shook his head and explained, “Dean, I don’t rely on my ancestors; I rely on my own hard work.”

Eating salty pearls diligently counts as hard work, right?

The Dean suddenly laughed freely, “Yes, anyone who forges full Golden Tendons relies on hard work.”

“I was too attached to appearances.”

He no longer pressed Chu Qing on how he forged his Golden Tendons.

Instead, he explained the previous question:

“dragon tendons are mysterious. As long as a Martial Artist eats one, with a sufficient Cultivation Technique and a little effort, they can forge 365 Golden Tendons.”

“Perhaps, there’s even a possibility… never mind, let’s not talk about dragon tendons.”

“Shiji County has only produced one in thirty years, and Yu Ji ate it.”

Chu Qing… The Dean overturned all the boxes, and from the bottom, he took out two boxes, handing them to him and saying:

“These are two Secret Inheritance bone-forging Cultivation Techniques.”

“One is a common Secret Inheritance, and the other is a top-tier Secret Inheritance.”

Chu Qing’s heart stirred, and he said, “Can both forge 365 Golden Bone?”

The Dean nodded and said:

“If you choose the common Secret Inheritance, I can give it to you for free.”

Chu Qing nodded.

The Dean continued, “As for the top-tier Secret Inheritance, you need to do something for me.”

Chu Qing pondered for a moment and said, “What’s the difference between the common and top-tier Secret Inheritance?”

The Dean thought for a bit and said, “Those who Cultivate the top-tier Secret Inheritance can suppress those who Cultivate the common Secret Inheritance with a single hand at the same Realm!”

Chu Qing was astonished, “The difference is that great?”

The Dean laughed:

“For trash Martial Artists who can’t forge full Golden Tendons and Golden Bone, a difference of one or two major Realms is not a big deal.”

“But for top-tier Martial Artists who have forged full Golden Tendons and Golden Bone, even a slight difference can mean the difference between life and death.”

“Do you think the difference is big?”

Chu Qing understood and quickly said, “I want the top-tier Secret Inheritance!”

With his profession panel, he wanted the best.

As for the conditions?

Why not agree?

He had already agreed to one condition for the One-legged Instructor, so one more for the Dean wouldn't hurt.

The Dean said happily, “Good!”

“After I give you this top-tier Secret Inheritance bone-forging method, you must help me with one thing.”

“But… this isn’t something you need to do now, but you must help me when you have the ability in the future.”

Chu Qing nodded.

The Dean made him swear to heaven and earth.

Chu Qing, a Transmigrator, didn’t care about swearing and readily did so.

Seeing him so eager, the Dean was even happier.

He gestured for Chu Qing to open the box.

【Black Water Bone Forging Method】

Chu Qing flipped through it, becoming more excited with each page.

This Black Water Bone Forging Method was several times more detailed than the Toad Skill he had previously seen.

After reading the Black Water Bone Forging Method, Chu Qing realized that the difference between Secret Inheritance and Secret Inheritance was truly vast.

At the tendon-forging Realm, the differences in Secret Inheritances were not significant; they all involved mobilizing major tendons, increasing Foundation, and enhancing Cultivation, among other characteristics.

However, once one entered bone-forging, differences emerged.

Common Cultivation Techniques simply couldn't forge Golden Bone, or could only forge Golden Bone in a few parts of the body.

Common Secret Inheritances could forge all Golden Bone, but they were just Golden Bone.

But top-tier Secret Inheritances forged Golden Bone differently.

The Black Water Bone Forging Method forged Golden Bone wrapped in black patterns, known as Black Gold Bone.

The characteristics of Black Gold Bone were slightly stronger than ordinary Golden Bone.

Once all 365 Black Gold Bone were forged, there would be even more special mysteries.

However, it wasn't written in the manual.

Chu Qing was curious and pressed the Dean about what mysteries would emerge once the Black Gold Bone reached Perfection.

The Dean said expressionlessly, “When my Golden Bone reached Perfection, I only then obtained this Secret Inheritance, so I don’t know what mysteries it holds.”

Chu Qing… He continued to flip through the Cultivation Technique.

Once… three times… The Dean was not in a hurry, waiting for Chu Qing to ask questions.

He had already prepared to guide Chu Qing in Cultivating the Black Water Bone Forging Method for the next month.

Only when Chu Qing realized the profundity of the Cultivation Technique would he propose his conditions.

The result:

After reading it more than ten times, Chu Qing suddenly put down the Secret Manual and closed his eyes in thought.

Because his profession panel was flashing:

【Top-tier Bone Forging Secret Inheritance: Black Water Bone Forging Method (Uninitiated) — Thousand practices daily, apply Secret medicine daily, three years to initiate — Forge 365 Black Gold Bone】

【Promotion Conditions — 1: Ten liang of Black Gold, 2: A thousand portions of nourishing salve, 3: Drink three tons of ink】

Chu Qing’s mouth twitched.

The promotion conditions made him apprehensive even before initiating the Cultivation Technique.

Just thinking about drinking three tons of ink, he felt his stomach bloat.

As for the nourishing salve, a thousand portions were required as a starting point.

Normally, it would take him two to three years to accumulate enough.

What surprised him even more was this thing called Black Gold.

He knew what gold was.

What was Black Gold?

Gold smeared with ink?

“I hope it’s not something as rare as a dragon tendon.”

His thoughts raced.

Chu Qing adjusted his mood and decided to try Cultivating.

Tendon forging required martial arts techniques.

Ordinary bone forging also required martial arts techniques.

However, Secret Inheritance bone forging did not require martial arts techniques; it only required mobilizing the major tendons.

The top-tier Black Water Bone Forging Method was even more so.

He mobilized his major tendons… one… two… ten… One minute later:

He found that he could only mobilize fifty Golden Tendons to exert force.

Fifty Golden Tendons subtly wriggled, and streaks of golden patterns emerged.

As the Golden Tendons wriggled, an unusual power was released, subtly vibrating the bones.

And this was only the initial nourishment of the bones.

The longer this process continued, the easier it was to forge Advanced bones.

To forge true Iron Bones, Copper Bones, or even Golden Bone, one needed to shatter the bones piece by piece, then use the corresponding major tendons to connect and heal them.

Only a certain level of major tendons could forge a certain level of bones.

Therefore… Cui Moyang, Madam Shi, and the others would say that 365 Golden Tendons were the true Foundation.

If the Foundation was weak, no matter how powerful the Cultivation Technique obtained later, one would still fall behind a step.

One step behind, and always behind.

At this moment, Chu Qing once again felt how important these 365 Golden Tendons were.