"Ouch, you're... pant... hurting my heart..."
"Don't care!"
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"Sigh... why can't I breakthrough?" Mo Fan let out a frustrated breath. "I've been trying to break through the Initial Element realm since Su Yan left with the sword six hours ago, but I am not making any progress! Even the slightest improvement and yet I feel that I'm almost there! Something is missing! Ah, it's so frustrating!"
"Sigh..." Mo Fan sighed, getting up from his lotus position. "I should just go to do something else... maybe I'll have an enligthening..."
"Maybe forging something with that Red Hind Bear's bones will help me..."
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~Clang~
~Clang~
~Clang~
"Pant... these bones really are hard, I'm trying to carve some Fire Runes on them... pant.. to augment their fire capacities, but the chisel isn't entering in them... pant... even though I am striking it with the hammer with all of the strength I've got..." Breathless and soaked in sweat, Mo Fan muttered to himself.
"Sigh... and what am I even doing with these bones? I haven't even melted them to do any weapon, armor, or anything else... today I'm not getting anything right... first the bottleneck in cultivation and now I'm even wasting some precious material... and it's not like I am even getting any enlightment to break through the bottleneck either..." And so, Mo Fan finally stopped trying to carve the bones and started to put away everything. "I should just stop for today and take a day of rest..."
"Maybe tommorow I'll try again... atleast, I hope to get some inspiration to understand what to do with these bones..." Mo Fan, demoralized, then put his shirt on and started to walk towards the stairs of the workshop to reach his room when he realized something. "Wait... bones? Carving runes onto bones?"
"Does that mean that I can carve runes into my own bones?" Mo Fan's eyes immediately shone with excitement before, taken by the adrenaline, he immediately ran off to his courtyard. "This is the fucking enlightment I was looking for!"
Now in his courtyard, Mo Fan instantly sat once again in a lotus position and closed his eyes, concentrating. With incredible control, the golden-haired guy started shaping his Internal Qi into sharp little chisels, and then he pushed those against his bones, beginning to carve them. "Rudimentary runes... I should carve mainly rudimentary runes on my bones, maybe even some gathering runes to accelerate a bit my Qi gathering speed if my skeleton can endure it without falling apart..."
"The lndestructible Turtle Rune to increase their toughness..." Mo Fan carefully controlled his Internal Qi chisels to carve a turtle like rune on his bones, and then above it, a bull like one. "The Rampaging Bull Rune to increase their attack power..."
"The Thunder Qilin Rune to increase their agility..." The golden-haired guy continued to carve runes after runes, imbuing his Sun Qi in each one of them.
He went at it for about five minutes before his entire skeleton structure showed any sign of collapsing. "I should stop now, but... If I want to reach the martial peak, I should take some risks, right?"
Determined, Mo Fan didn't stop there, and instead went on to link every single rune he had carved with connecting runes. As soon as he started doing that, cracks began to appear on his bones, causing him unimaginable pain.
"Fuck! My skeleton structure is... pant... collapsing, I have to... pant... hurry up!"
His shoulder dislocated. "Fuck! Just a little bit more, body! Just endure it a little bit longer, please!"
Then his arms. "Fuck! Just an instant!"
And then even his rib cage. "I'm almost there!"
And just as his spine cord was about to dislocate as well, Mo Fan finished to connect all of his runes together, a huge surge of Qi immediately arose inside of his body, washing all of his muscles and bones. "What's this huge surge of Qi? I expected some energy to be created because of the runes connection, but not this much... Wait... I am breaking through the Initial Element realm!"
And so, Mo Fan immediately activated his Sun Body Scripture, thus starting to absorb inside of his body the Sun's scorching Qi and mixing it with the breakthrough's Qi. Soon, the bones that were dislocated immediately returned to normal. His entire skeleton structure and flesh started to become stronger and stronger, and the runes Mo Fan had just carved began to even take it the breakthrough's Qi together with his.
A thin golden aura started to envelop Mo Fan's entire body, but as more time passed, it only got bigger and bigger, its sheer power even causing a roaring storm of scorching flames of twenty meters radius around the guy to manifest. If one were to enter the tempest of fire even briefly, he would instantly burn to death!
"This... is too much power! Why is the Qi increasing entering my body by the second? What the fuck's happening? I never absorbed so much Qi when using the Sun Body Scripture! At this rate, my body won't be able to handle all of it! I'll have to close my acupuncture points!"
Mo Fan closed his acupuncture points and he stopped absorbing the Qi from the outside and focused on digesting the Qi he had already taken inside. "Yes... pant...If I keep going like this... pant... I should be able to absorb all of the Qi... pant... even that outsid-"
But just as he thought that it was working, the Qi from the outside forcefully broke through his acupuncture points and entered his body once again. "Fuck! What the fuck should I do now?!"
Trying with all of his strength and willpower, Mo Fan accelerated as much as he could his Qi digestion speed, but that wasn't still enough. If that kept going like that, soon his body would explode just like a balloon when too much air enters into it!
"Right! The Yang Swirling Secret Art! I integrated it into the Sun Body Scripture to speed up its absorbtion speed by swirling my Qi around my acupuncture points but if I do the same things by swirling my Qi in the Dantian, my digestion speed should accelerate by leaps and bounds... yeah, maybe it will work!" Mo Fan began doing it, and to his surpise, it was really working! The Qi rapidly entering his body was being digested with a speed even superior!
Soon, the blazing storm began calming down as it was being devoured with unexpected rapidity by Mo Fan until, together with the golden aura, it completely disappeared... Mo Fan broke through the Initial Element realm!
...to be continued
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Remember to check my other work "Uniqueness Emperor" and "Nano Machine: The Player"