I Am Immortal in Great Yu

Chapter 235: Chapter 96: Second Grade

[Tribulation Points: 10,099]

"So it takes 10,000 Tribulation Points to reach the Second Grade Realm?"

Fang Rui looked at the glowing "Nourishing Body Skill" in the Cultivation Technique section of his panel and made up his mind to upgrade it tonight.

He summoned a few Killing Bats and Black King Bees, instructing them to be extra vigilant in guarding the area, then entered his secret chamber.

"Let’s begin!"

With a thought, his consciousness focused on the panel, and he pressed the ’+’ sign after "Nourishing Body Skill."

BOOM!

As ripples spread across the panel’s surface, the ’+’ after "Nourishing Body Skill" flickered and vanished. A vast, cool current of energy emerged from the void and poured into his body.

At that moment.

Fang Rui felt himself enter a profound state, free of thought and care, as countless insights about the Nourishing Body Skill flowed through his mind like a river.

Unlike previous breakthroughs where all changes occurred internally, this time, the vast, cool current of energy actually burst out of his body. It transformed into crystalline blue strands of light that coiled around him, sometimes darting out, sometimes retracting, weaving in and out unpredictably.

Ninth Grade Skin Grinding, Eighth Grade Muscle Strengthening, Seventh Grade Bone Forging, Sixth Grade Enlightenment, Fifth Grade Marrow Cleansing, Fourth Grade Blood Exchange, Third Grade Refining the Organs—every part of his body that had been enhanced through these successive upgrades began to expel stubborn, residual impurities under this cleansing wash. The impurities solidified on the surface of his skin, forming a layer of gray filth.

That’s right. The Second Grade of Martial Arts was Purity!

At the same time.

The Extraordinary Network within his body, constructed when he broke into the Upper Three Grades, spontaneously manifested. True Qi coursed rapidly through it, surging and churning, gradually changing from colorless to the pale cyan of ancient wood as it began to sublimate into another form of energy.

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After a full two hundred breaths, the strands of light coiling around Fang Rui began to diminish, eventually disappearing completely.

CRACKLE!

At a certain moment, the gray filth on his skin abruptly shattered.

"I’ve reached Second Grade!"

Fang Rui opened his eyes. The Extraordinary Network, activated during his breakthrough, had not yet receded. With a flick of his sleeve, a cyan brilliance coiled around him, sweeping the filth away to one side.

"It feels like I’ve been completely reborn," he murmured.

Indeed, Fang Rui was different now. Although his appearance hadn’t changed in the slightest and his skin hadn’t become fairer, he just exuded a sense of cleanliness.

Especially when his Extraordinary Network was active, he looked even more otherworldly, so ethereal and detached that it seemed he might ascend into the heavens at any moment.

If one had to describe that ethereal, otherworldly aura, it could be summed up in a single word: Immortal.

’This change is too conspicuous.’

Fang Rui, however, frowned. He thought for a moment, silenced his Extraordinary Network, and consciously suppressed this change.

A miraculous scene occurred.

Just a moment ago, he had been as eye-catching as the bright moon in the sky. Now, he suddenly became ordinary—even more so than before.

This ordinariness was not a matter of appearance or aura. If one had to describe it, it was his very presence, which seemed to have been abruptly diminished.

’Being too ordinary isn’t good either.’

With a thought, a faint light flashed around Fang Rui, and he instantly returned to his original state, looking no different than he had before the breakthrough.

"This is fine now."

He nodded in satisfaction and looked at his panel.

[Name: Fang Rui]

[Tribulation: 99]

[Cultivation Technique: Nourishing Body Skill (Unparalleled)]

[Realm: Second Grade (Purity)]

[Skills: Fang’s Medical Skill (Perfection), Beast Taming Technique (Minor Achievement), Feng Shui Skill (Minor Achievement), Life-taking Saber Technique (Perfection), Rapid Trace Step (Perfection), Disguise Technique (Minor Achievement), Thirteen Throws of the Flying Swallow (Great Success), Xue Family Spear (Uninitiated) (+), Mountain-Splitting Saber Technique (Uninitiated) (+), Divination Skill (Uninitiated) (+), Stealing Skill (Uninitiated) (+), Agricultural Scripture (Uninitiated) (+), Carving Skill (Uninitiated) (+), Culinary Skill (Great Success)...]

[Divine Techniques: Immortality (Gray)]

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"An Unparalleled-level Nourishing Body Skill?"

An understanding dawned in Fang Rui’s mind. ’If there might be others in the world who could achieve the Mastery-level of the Nourishing Body Skill, then Unparalleled-level means that in the vastness of Great Yu, in all the world, there is no one who can compare to me in this one Cultivation Technique.’

At this point, he had used his Tribulation Points to raise the Nourishing Body Skill to an unbelievable level.

’So, what are the specific changes now that I’ve broken through to the Second Grade Purity Realm?’

Fang Rui closed the panel and carefully savored the changes. He suddenly activated his Extraordinary Network, raised his hand, and pinched his fingers together in mid-air. A translucent, pale cyan lotus flower appeared at his fingertips.

"Go!"

He waved his sleeve.

The translucent, pale cyan lotus spun and flew over two zhang away to the other side of the room. It settled over the top half of a flickering candle, merging with it like a lampshade and transforming it into a ’Treasure Lotus Lamp,’ causing even the light it emitted to turn pale cyan.

This change lasted for a full seven or eight breaths before the illusory lotus popped like a soap bubble and vanished.

"If the Third Grade, Refining the Organs, produces True Qi, then the Extraordinary Energy produced by the Second Grade, Purity, can be called True Essence!"

"Compared to True Qi, which can leave the body for a distance of one zhang, True Essence is more condensed and can travel three zhang!"

Fang Rui murmured, beginning to test the properties of his True Essence.

When the Extraordinary Network was active and True Essence circulated, the enhancement effect on his physical body was a full thirty percent greater than it had been at the Third Grade.

Furthermore, in terms of healing injuries and suppressing poisons, it was also significantly stronger than True Qi.

"The True Essence born from the Second Grade Purity Realm can be seen as a purified and sublimated version of True Qi—a superior version. Good, very good!"

Fang Rui nodded slightly. "It seems there isn’t a single Second Grade Martial Artist in all of Huaiyin Prefecture City. Does that mean I’m now the strongest individual fighter in the entire prefecture?!"

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