Bone Tempering

Uses Bone Tempering Pills
== Cultivation ==
Bone Tempering Cultivation
Novel Chapter	Progress 	Manhua	Other notes
Chapter ? 	first mentioned 	 	
Chapter 413 	 	 	
Chapter 424 	4-tempering 	 	
Chapter 442 	10-tempering 	 	
Chapter 505 	20-tempering 	 	
 	complete tempering	 	
=== Bone Tempering ===
Bone tempering is not so simple. The actual benefits it will bring your body are so great that you can't even imagine it. Even for soul cultivators, tempering a different number of bones will still create an obvious difference. Furthermore, the bone tempering method I've chosen for us all is completely different from what you're imagining. 
Difference from normal method: when it comes to ordinary Bone Forging cultivators, the absolute majority only temper one or two bones. There are far fewer who manage to temper four bones, and those who temper eight bones are extremely rare. That's because it exhausts an endless amount of resources.
Bone tempering was using the medicinal pills' energy to completely purify the bones. The impurities in bones were the hardest to remove, so tempering bones was extremely important.
Only when the skeleton was sturdy enough could a body bring out its full power. With each bone he tempered, Long Chen felt his body strengthening.
That wasn't his power that was increasing. It was his physical body becoming stronger, allowing him to bring out more of his power. Only with a powerful body could a person bring out one hundred percent of their power.
Before bone tempering, if Long Chen had used too much of his power, then his own skeleton wouldn't have been able to endure it and would have broken apart.
When he fought, although he might feel like he was releasing his greatest power, in truth, that wasn't his greatest power.
His body would instinctively hold his own power back so as to not injure himself when fighting explosively.
That kind of instinct could not be changed as it was simply self-protection. Even if Long Chen was willing to throw caution to the wind and use his full strength, willing to destroy his own bones, that still wouldn't work. Instinct was instinct, and it was extremely difficult to control.
But now that he had begun bone tempering, it was no longer so awkward. As long as the skeleton was able to endure it, the body's instincts would allow a person to automatically bring out their greatest strength and would no longer hold back their power.
=== Bone Forging ===
Of Qi Condensation, Blood Condensation, Tendon Transformation, and Bone Forging, only the Bone Forging realm didn't rely on talent. Instead, it was a special realm that required people to throw in an ocean's worth of resources.
This realm was the one that required the greatest financial ability. Whoever had the money could get more resources and thus temper more bones.
For a Bone Forging expert, each extra bone they tempered would increase their strength. And so the difference between cultivators in the Bone Forging realm was incredibly large.
A four-temper expert might reach the late Bone Forging realm but still not be able to defeat a mid Bone Forging expert who had tempered eight bones.
So, the power of those in the Bone Forging realm did not depend on cultivation base, but how many bones they had tempered. This particular realm was one that depended completely on resources.
Even 108th monastery's peak Elders had only tempered eight bones. It was said that Tu Fang was the strongest of them and had tempered ten bones. As for the sect leader Ling Yunzi, no one knew for sure, but it was said he had tempered sixteen bones.
Each time you tempered a bone, the next bone would require twice the amount of resources as the previous bone. That was why the majority of top experts were all stuck at the eight-temper realm.
LC's bone tempering is different from others: he plans to temper more bones than others, complete tempering.
=== Complete Tempering ===
Complete tempering was extremely difficult and almost unheard of. Sixteen temperings were already the limit.
That was because a person's body could only bear so much energy from one kind of medicinal pill. In other words, the limit was sixteen bones. By the time you had tempered sixteen bones, your body would have formed a high resistance towards further Bone Tempering Pills. There was no way to temper a seventeenth bone.
Furthermore, the amount of resources required just to temper sixteen bones was already astronomical. A small sect would have to save up for millenia in order to accumulate that many resources.
Seeing their startled expressions, Long Chen smiled slightly and said, "Trust me. I'm not joking with you. There are people who undergo complete tempering. Mo Nian is already walking the path of complete tempering."
To completely temper every bone in the body, that was far too shocking. Meng Qi and the others had never even imagined such a thing. That had already surpassed any of their understanding.
"In truth, complete tempering is not as unimaginable as you seem to think. I trust that many sects all know methods to undergo complete tempering; they just don't use them," said Long Chen.
"One reason is the high cost. The other reason is that after a person has made the decision to undergo complete tempering, then they absolutely must temper every bone in their body. Only once they temper every single one of them can they advance to the next realm.
"If something unexpected happens to just a single bone and they don't succeed in tempering just that one, then in that lifetime, they would never be able to break through to the Meridian Opening realm. In other words, a sect would spend countless resources to create a single amazing Bone Forging expert, all for that investment to end there."
Hearing this, the four of them were all dumbfounded. They had never heard of this matter. As for Long Chen, he also wouldn't have known about this without his Pill Sovereign memories that gave him information about the Bone Tempering Pills.
When he had seen Mo Nian, he had sensed that his aura was incredibly condensed without the slightest bit leaking outside.
That was completely abnormal. No matter how high a person's cultivation base was, that was still something difficult to achieve. Furthermore, Mo Nian was not deliberately bringing about that situation.
At that time, Long Chen had realized that Mo Nian had decided to undergo complete tempering. That was the only way his aura would be so condensed.
== Story ==
Before entering the secret realm, Chu Yao and Meng Qi did not receive Bone Tempering Pills.
Chu Yao's master was in seclusion, and Meng Qi was supposed to get them, but they're all in the hands of Feng Xiao-zi. It's up to him to distribute them.
Hearing that, Long Chen snorted. That Wind Spirit Pavilion really was rotten. To place all the resources in the hands of one disciple, did they want others to go beg him?
=== Pill Tower ===
Only the Pill Tower had the pill formula for the Bone Tempering Pill. That was why it was monopolized and the Pill Tower could make so much profit.
Countless people had tried to research the Bone Tempering Pill's formula, but it was practically impossible. People found that whatever formulas they came up with would either fail to condense or wouldn't have any bone tempering effect.
The fact that Long Chen could refine Bone Tempering Pills shocked Shui Wuhen even more than his refining speed or his full furnace of high grade pills.
==References==
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