What does my ancestor's pregnancy have to do with me, a mere servant?

Lin Yuan took the jade slip from between his eyebrows, held it in his palm, and remained silent for a moment.

Then concentrate your mind.

Ahead, lines of small golden characters appeared.

Name: Lin Yuan

[Cultivation: Late-stage Foundation Establishment (Completed); Body Cultivation: None]

[Fifth-Rank Alchemist: 0/1000000 (Points can be added)]

[Rank 7 Spirit Plant Master: 0/1000 (Points can be added)]

[Rank 7 Talisman Master: 0/1000 (Points can be added)]

[Rank 7 Artifact Master: 0/1000 (Points can be added)]

【Formless Transformation Technique: Perfected (No points can be added)】

[Thousand Evolutions Corpse Control Technique: Perfected (Cannot be upgraded)]

Available attribute points: 232658

Two hundred and thirty thousand attribute points.

These numbers may seem numerous, but Lin Yuan knew clearly what the cost was behind each point.

The past two weeks of relentless, day-and-night arduous training had left me pale and exhausted.

Lin Yuan's gaze locked onto the stat allocation option after "Seventh-Rank Refiner".

A thought crossed my mind.

One thousand attribute points are consumed.

The knowledge reserves of a sixth-grade weapon refiner flooded into his mind and took shape in his sea of ​​consciousness. His understanding of the characteristics of various spiritual materials deepened, the precision of his control over the heat improved by a level, and his judgment of the structure of the weapon blank became more subtle and perceptive.

But this is far from enough.

The fifth rank is the minimum requirement for the "Hundred Refinements of Mortal Bones Technique".

Lin Yuan stared at the line of text on the panel: [Rank 6 Weapon Master: 0/100000 (Points can be added)].

One hundred thousand points.

This is money he earned through hard work.

Lin Yuan gritted his teeth.

The thought crossed my mind again.

100,000 attribute points deducted.

boom--!

Lin Yuan's sea of ​​consciousness suddenly trembled violently. A massive flow of information, like a flood bursting its banks, forcefully broke through the gates of memory and poured into the depths of his soul.

The basic structure for forging blanks.

The properties and refining methods of various materials.

Thousands upon thousands of failed and successful attempts at fine-tuning the heat.

Precise control of the rhythm of quenching and tempering.

How does the spiritual fire cut into the material along its texture? How does it instantly destroy impurities with extremely high temperatures? And how does it lock in the material's essence with low temperatures?

The vast knowledge of weapon crafting that would normally take decades or even centuries to fully comprehend was crushed, reassembled, and forcibly etched into Lin Yuan's soul in just a dozen breaths, becoming his innate instinct.

The tremors subsided.

Lin Yuan slowly opened his eyes.

His temples throbbed, and a dull ache throbbed deep within his consciousness. This was a lingering effect of absorbing a massive amount of information in a short period—but he was used to it. Every time he underwent a large-scale data point allocation, he felt the same way; it hurt, but he could just bear it and it would pass.

My gaze refocused.

The small gold text on the panel has been updated.

[Rank 5 Artifact Master: 0/1000000 (Points can be added)]

Fifth-grade weapon refiner.

He has reached the minimum cultivation threshold of the "Hundred Refinements of Mortal Bones Technique".

Lin Yuan lowered his head and spread out his hands.

Before him, these two hands were just two hands. Five fingers, distinct knuckles, fair skin, just the ordinary palms of a cultivator.

But it's different now.

With the blessing of a fifth-grade weapon refiner and the Hundred Refinements of Mortal Bones Technique, he was given a brand-new "clairvoyance" ability.

It's not that they can actually see through the skin and flesh, but rather that the weapon refiner has the ability to judge the structure of the materials.

Just like a top-notch weapon refiner who can pick up a piece of ore and immediately see the texture, impurities, and load-bearing structure inside.

When Lin Yuan looked at his hands now, he no longer saw just flesh and blood.

Instead, it is an extremely complex prototype of a ritual implement, composed of a skeletal framework, muscle fibers, a network of blood vessels, and meridian patterns.

The framework structure composed of twenty-seven metacarpal and phalangeal bones clearly shows which bones are the main load-bearing points and which are the weak points.

……

There are hidden injuries somewhere.

There are impurities accumulating there.

It sees right through.

Lin Yuan clenched his fist, then relaxed it.

It was a strange feeling. It was as if, from this day forward, he truly understood his own body.

A slight thought.

"laugh."

A ball of jet-black flame shot out from his palm.

He formed a hand seal, and the black flames at his fingertips instantly lengthened and widened under the guidance of the incantation.

The flames, like two black serpents, climbed upwards along his palm, clinging to his skin.

Passing over the wrist.

Past the forearm.

Past the elbow joint.

In the blink of an eye, two jet-black fire snakes tightly enveloped his entire left and right arms. A ghostly blue aura flowed across the surface of his arms, as if they were covered with a layer of cold armor.

Following the weapon-refining and tempering techniques in the cultivation method, Lin Yuan guided the extreme cold power of the Netherfire into his body.

The extreme cold penetrated through the pores of the skin.

Like countless cold steel needles thinner than a hair, they instantly pierced the epidermis and reached the muscle.

Lin Yuan's facial muscles twitched suddenly.

excruciating pain.

It far exceeded his expectations.

This isn't the pain of being burned by flames. It's not the sharp pain of high temperature scalding the flesh.

Lin Yuan gritted his teeth and persevered, channeling his divine sense at full power.

With the skill of a fifth-grade weapon refiner, he divided that vast divine consciousness into hundreds of extremely fine threads, like an invisible net, cutting into the flesh along the meridians.

Adjust the penetration intensity of the ghost fire.

This process is exactly the same as controlling the temperature of the spiritual fire during weapon forging.

The heat must not be too high. If the extreme cold pressure exceeds the critical value, the meridians will freeze and rupture, rendering them unusable.

The heat shouldn't be too low either. If the extreme cold doesn't reach the critical point needed to remove impurities, it's just a waste of time freezing your arm, yielding no benefit other than pain.

On

Under Lin Yuan's precise and meticulous control, the extreme cold pressure of the Earthly Fiend Netherfire was firmly suppressed to a point of extreme equilibrium.

This occurred in the instant before the physical body completely collapsed.

"Click...click click..."

The bones in his arms made a teeth-grinding grinding sound under the extreme cold.

Deep within the bone marrow, wisps of grayish-black impurities were forcibly frozen, then forced out of the bones, seeped into the muscles, and were gradually squeezed out of the body through the pores.

The whole process is like immersing your body in molten cold iron and placing it on an anvil to be mercilessly forged thousands of times by heavy hammers.

The time it takes for an incense stick to burn.

The black flames slowly died down and retreated back into Lin Yuan's body.

Lin Yuan was panting heavily, his forehead covered with a fine layer of cold sweat.

He looked at his arms.

The arms, which had appeared somewhat pale due to overexertion, now had a more solid texture.

A very thin layer of grayish-black ice-like dirt seeped from the surface.

The meridians on his arm were thicker than before, and the speed at which spiritual energy circulated within them was noticeably faster.

[Immortal Cultivation: Late Stage of Foundation Establishment (Perfected); Body Cultivation: First Level of Body Tempering]

Although only the arms were tempered, the resulting improvement was felt throughout the entire body.

My body felt warm and comfortable, an indescribable feeling of ease.

This method is clearly very suitable for him now.

Lin Yuan hesitated for a moment, then the Netherfire spread along his arms, down to his lower back and thighs.

……