The weakest martial artist? One punch and he's leveled up a whole realm!

The scene changed; the corridor disappeared, replaced by a street shrouded in smoke.

A person emerged from the mist. He was not tall and wore a faded shirt with the cuffs rolled up to his elbows, revealing several shallow old scars on his forearms.

It was Ye Zhenghe.

He stopped not far in front of Ye Xiao.

First, he looked down at his hands, then looked up at the distant horizon.

He paused for a moment before speaking, "Do you remember that road?"

His voice was very soft, as if he were talking to some distant memory, his tone calm and slow.

"The road I showed you."

Ye Xiao did not answer.

He knew that road.

In his memory, it was when he was very young that his father held him on a hillside and pointed to a ridgeline in the distance, saying, "That road leads to the other side of the mountain."

He didn't understand at the time, but he vaguely felt that it was a very far place.

"Where have you gone?" the figure asked.

The wind rustled the hem of his shirt, making a slight sound.

"Or are they already heading back?"

"They're still walking," Ye Xiao said, his voice low, "but they're not turning back."

The figure nodded, seemingly unsurprised by the answer, then turned and walked back into the mist.

The streets and alleys disappeared, and the surroundings became empty again.

The next person to appear was Su Muyun.

When Su Muyun appeared, Ye Xiao's heart skipped a beat.

She came to him.

"Ye Xiao, you've lost a lot of weight."

Su Muyun's voice was soft, tinged with heartache.

Ye Xiao shook his head: "I'm fine."

Su Muyun asked, "If this were the last time we ever met, what would you want to say to me?"

Ye Xiao spoke each word as if he had made up his mind many times over.

"Marry me."

"I do."

Su Muyun took the initiative to open her arms to Ye Xiao, trying to hold him.

"But you are not her."

Ye Xiao pushed Su Muyun away.

The moment the words are spoken.

Su Muyun vanished like smoke, a faint smile playing on her lips.

........

Suddenly.

Ye Xiao felt a sharp pain in his right palm!

The sudden sting startled him awake!

He looked down and saw that his previously empty right hand was now tightly gripping the Extreme Demon Martial Bone!

The fine cracks on the surface of the bone simultaneously glowed with a dark red light.

Like a long-dormant volcanic egg suddenly awakening upon contact with the temperature of life!

The initial sensation was coolness.

A chill seeped into his skin from his fingertips, slowly climbing up his finger bones, like countless fine threads piercing his flesh at the same time.

The coolness lasted for a few seconds, then it started to get warm.

There is no transition period between cool and hot weather.

One moment it was bone-chillingly cold, the next it turned into scalding heat!

The dark red power seeped from his finger bones into his wrist, like molten iron flowing into a mold through a pipe.

The temperature was so high that he instinctively wanted to pull his hand away.

But he could no longer open his fingers!

Because that bone was pressed against his palm, like a red-hot iron button, slowly and continuously melting into his flesh with high temperature.

Amidst his pain, Ye Xiao's lips curled into a mocking smile.

"Is this how demonic energy corrupts?"

"When they realized they couldn't disturb my mind and will, did they resort to this kind of physical torture to force me to submit?"

Fine beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.

Sweat slid down his forehead, lingered for a moment on his chin, and then dripped onto the ground.

The dark red power had already passed through the wrist and entered the forearm.

He could clearly sense its path.

It advances along the main trunk of the meridian, like an army marching through a narrow canyon.

The walls of the meridians along the way are like clay bodies repeatedly baked by high heat.

at the same time.

Dark red lines appeared on the surface of his arm skin.

Those lines appear beneath the skin along the direction of the meridians, like red-hot iron wires slowly traveling through the deep layers of flesh.

The color of the pattern varied in depth, rising and falling in sync with the rhythm of his heartbeat.

When the heart is beating fast, the lines are a striking dark red, like a newly forged iron bar.

When the heartbeat slows down, they darken, turning into a deep brown that is almost black, like charcoal about to go out.

And this is the symbol of the magic runes!

The demonic energy has already begun to merge with Ye Xiao's body!

【Ding! 】

[You have successfully absorbed the Extreme Demon Martial Bone. (Progress: 1/12)]

[Gain attributes!]

[Spiritual Enhancement: +100%]

Mental Resilience: +5%

[Mental Damage Reduction: +5%]

Skill Damage: +100%

[Cultivation Efficiency: +200%]

[Gained passive skill!]

[All-Seeing Eye: Instantly perceive the location and status of all living beings within a 1,000-meter radius! (Perception range increases with mental strength)]

When Ye Xiao noticed the distribution of the first wave of fusion rewards.

He realized it.

He has taken the first successful step in this fusion of the ultimate demonic martial bone!

This means that his body has finally begun to integrate the power of the Extreme Demon Martial Bone!

This immediately gave Ye Xiao a strong sense of confidence.

This made him more determined to resist the erosion of demonic energy during the fusion process.

Followed by.

What he found unbearable was the burning sensation inside his bones.

That dark red power had already penetrated deep into his bones.

It was as if an inextinguishable fire had been ignited inside his bones.

He could feel his bone marrow being slowly evaporated, compressed, and reshaped by the high heat.

The old tissue is peeled off and decomposed under high temperature.

Then new material precipitates, deposits, and fills the dark red power.

This process cannot be stopped.

He can only endure it.

Ye Xiao clenched his teeth tightly.

The muscles in the jaw began to tremble due to prolonged exertion.

Finally, after he got through it.

The fusion progress between the body and the Extreme Demonic Martial Bone has accelerated once again!

【Ding! 】

[You have successfully absorbed the Extreme Demon Martial Bone. (Progress: 2/12)]

[Gain attributes!]

[Mental Range: +100%]

[Mental Penetration: +10%]

[Mental Critical Strike: +10%]

[Mental Critical Damage: +100%]

[Cultivation Efficiency: +200%]

[Gained passive skill!]

[Resonance with the Sages: Each time you break through to a higher realm, a wisp of the cultivation insights of past masters is automatically released to help stabilize your state of mind (limited to once per realm)]

From this, Ye Xiao had already noticed something amiss.

If the fusion of the Chaos Martial Bone focused on enhancing Ye Xiao's combat strength and abilities.

Therefore, the skills he has mastered through the fusion of the Extreme Demonic Martial Bone are all related to his functionality and cultivation.

Each rib is clearly responsible for a different function.

The time that follows.

Ye Xiao chose to grit his teeth and persevere, upholding his willpower.

Regardless of the demonic energy that invades him, it tries to tempt, oppress, attack, and torment him in various ways.

Ye Xiao chose to stay true to himself and remained steadfast.

【Ding! 】

[You have successfully absorbed the Extreme Demon Martial Bone. (Progress: 3/12)]

[You have successfully absorbed the Extreme Demon Martial Bone. (Progress: 4/12)]

【….】

[You have successfully absorbed the Extreme Demon Martial Bone. (Progress: 11/12)]

at last.

That force finally reached the entrance to his chest cavity.