He transformed from a fierce tiger pillar into a martial saint.

Chu Yang's eyes snapped open, gleaming brightly.

The Fierce Tiger Stance has moved beyond the tendon-tempering stage and entered the bone-tempering stage!

The Tiger Stance beginner level corresponds to the Ming Jin (manifest strength) level! It is divided into three stages!

Blood tempering! Tendon tempering! Bone tempering! These correspond to the early, middle, and late stages of Ming Jin (a type of internal strength cultivation).

Among them, tendon quenching is the most complex! Therefore, it is very difficult!

If you don't lay a good foundation for strengthening tendons, it won't be good for strengthening bones.

If one fails to properly temper the tendons and bones, even if one has cultivated qi and blood and reached the peak of Ming Jin (manifest strength), one will likely fail when attempting to break through to An Jin (hidden strength).

Many mid-stage Ming Jin disciples at Tiger Roar Martial Arts Academy need to spend months or even years tempering their tendons before they can enter the bone tempering stage!

Those who can complete the tendon tempering process in a few months are already people with excellent physical constitution, comprehension, and diligence in martial arts.

And Chu Yang only completed his tendon tempering a few days ago?!

It won't take more than ten days at most!

At that moment, a flash of inspiration struck Chu Yang.

[Illustrated Guide to Evolution]

Tiger Stance (Beginner - Bone Tempering 1/500)

Tiger Roar Fist (Beginner 239/500)

Mysterious Iron Body Technique (Minor Success 60/1000)

Three days ago, his Tiger Stance was still in the Tendon Tempering stage (178/300). After three days of hard work, he improved by 123 points! He has reached the Bone Tempering stage!

Tiger Roar Fist increased from 156 points to 239 points! That's a full 83 points higher!

Because the cultivation time for the Xuan Tie Body Technique was shortened and it had already entered the minor completion stage, Chu Yang's cultivation speed slowed down slightly, but even so, it still increased by 60 points! 20 points per day!

In other words, the total increase over these three days was 276 points! That's an average of 92 points per day!

Before he began practicing the Profound Iron Body Technique, Chu Yang devoted all his time to practicing the Fierce Tiger Stance and Tiger Roar Fist, increasing his skill level by about 30 points per day.

After Chu Yang practiced the Profound Iron Body Technique, his skill level increased to around 40 points.

Now, Chu Yang has advanced the Xuan Tie Body Technique to the minor completion stage. With two hours a day dedicated to practicing the Xuan Tie Body Technique, the combined improvement of the Fierce Tiger Stance and Tiger Roar Fist has reached more than 68 points.

"This is the benefit of physical tempering! My qi and blood, endurance, dantian, tendons and bones, skin and flesh, etc., have all been tempered."

"My blood and internal energy reserves are significantly higher than those of martial artists at the same level. In addition, I have tempered my tendons, bones, and flesh, which not only gives me better defense but also promotes my blood, tendon, and bone tempering training during the initial stages of the Fierce Tiger Stance—a virtuous cycle!"

"However, I'm afraid only I can do this. Very few other martial artists would dedicate so much energy to extra training! Especially body tempering techniques, which are extremely time-consuming and difficult to master!"

"Continue your cultivation at this frequency and according to this plan!"

Chu Yang thought to himself.

As his cultivation level increased, and because he was cultivating at the peak of his technique, his energy consumption was far beyond what other martial artists could match.

Chu Yang calculated the consumption of the medicinal liquid.

As for himself, he originally only received two bottles of medicine from the martial arts school, then received four bottles from the Shen family, and bought ten more bottles at cost price. In addition, Chu Yang also obtained three bottles of medicine from Xu Shengzhi.

So far, he has used up five bottles of the medicine and has fourteen bottles left.

"However, now that my cultivation level and strength have improved, my physical strength has increased, and the intensity of my subsequent cultivation techniques has also increased, my demand for qi and blood has also increased. If my current dietary supplements remain unchanged, one bottle of medicinal liquid can no longer fully support the qi and blood consumed by my cultivation for a day."

"Right now, it takes about one and a half bottles of medicine a day to meet my needs. Fourteen bottles of medicine, plus the remaining six bottles I got from the martial arts school... that's about twenty bottles, which should be enough for about thirteen days."

"Let's use it for ten days first. After ten days, we'll make further plans and purchase a batch of the medicine."

Having made his plans, Chu Yang stopped thinking about it and immediately began to rest.

The next day, Chu Yang arrived at the Tiger Roar Martial Arts School and practiced for half a day as planned.

However, when I went to the cafeteria for lunch, I found that the way Lingyu was cooked had changed, and it no longer tasted like the one Chen Shishi made.

He went to collect the medicine, which was distributed by Li Chen, a senior disciple of the Inner Court with Dark Strength.

After finishing my training at the martial arts school in the afternoon.

When Chu Yang left the martial arts school, he saw Wang Mengzhao and Liu Dongliang rushing back to the school, looking travel-worn.

"Greetings, Senior Brother Wang! Senior Brother Liu!"

Chu Yang greeted the two men with a cupped-hand salute.

However, the two seemed distracted. After giving a brief reply, they headed straight for the inner courtyard.

"Hmm? Wang Mengzhao's arm seems to be injured, and Liu Dongliang's ankle seems to have some problem too..."

Considering that the two people's breathing was still somewhat disordered just now, Chu Yang guessed that they might have been fighting someone.

However, since they won't talk about this, I absolutely mustn't ask them, lest it involve some private secrets.

Inside the outer courtyard, everything seemed normal.

However, the outer disciples also sensed something unusual.

Under these circumstances, the outer disciples dared not discuss the matter rashly.

Chu Yang, on the other hand, continued to cultivate according to the plan without any distractions.

This situation continued for five consecutive days.

He also discovered new problems.

My progress in advancing the Tiger Stakes has slowed down.

"Previously, I was in the tendon-strengthening stage. The cultivation technique required less qi and blood, and overall, it was less difficult to cultivate. So, as long as my qi and blood were sufficient, I could advance more than 10 points a day when cultivating in a perfect state."

"But now I have entered the Bone Tempering stage and am a standard late-stage Ming Jin martial artist! The various consumption and difficulty increases are more than I expected. Now, with the same amount of training time, the progress of the Fierce Tiger Stance has decreased to 30 points."

[Illustrated Guide to Evolution]

Tiger Stance (Beginner - Bone Tempering 182/500)

Tiger Roar Fist (Beginner 401/500)

Mysterious Iron Body Technique (Minor Success 185/1000)

Tiger Roar Fist is, after all, a technique, but its progress has not slowed down.

Regarding the Xuan Tie Body Technique, Chu Yang continued to practice according to the established plan, reducing the practice time, but the progress was still the same as when he first reached the minor success level, which can be considered to be the one with the highest input-output ratio.

"I never expected the speed of practicing the Fierce Tiger Stance to decrease so much..."

"Could it be that the medicinal liquid is no longer sufficient to meet the needs in terms of providing qi and blood? Is a more advanced medicinal liquid required?"

Chu Yang thought to himself.

If others knew that Chu Yang was still not satisfied with their improvement, they would probably all be devastated!

It's another early morning.

Just as Chu Yang was about to enter the martial arts hall, a voice rang out.

"Junior Brother Chu Yang!"

The person who arrived was Shen Junhao.

Chu Yang cupped his hands to Shen Junhao: "Senior Brother Shen! You've rarely come to the martial arts school these past few days."

Shen Junhao nodded and said, "My concubine is currently trying to save her pregnancy. She's been quite overwhelmed with work."

Chu Yang was somewhat surprised to hear Shen Junhao's words.

Although he went to the Shen family last time, he did not talk to Shen Junhao about his private life, and he rarely heard about it otherwise.

Hearing Shen Junhao's words, it's clear that he not only has a legal wife, but also a concubine! And now, the concubine is pregnant!

Chu Yang said, "It seems that your wife's pregnancy is safe, Senior Brother Shen."

Shen Junhao shook his head and said, "No!"

After a slight pause, Shen Junhao said in a low voice, "Junior Brother Chu, it seems you don't know the news yet? Or perhaps Master only told the disciples in the late stage of Ming Jin."

The peak of Ming Jin is essentially the late stage of Ming Jin, just at the extreme of Ming Jin!