C15 Acquired Stage!(1)

While forging his physique, the Body Transformation Pill also purged impurities from a martial artist's body. Lin Feng had devoted eleven days to cultivating and had refined a hundred of these pills, expelling a significant amount of impurities in the process.

"Even though I've refined a hundred Body Transformation Pills, I haven't fully absorbed their medicinal power. If I could, my Martial Body's strength would reach a new level!" Lin Feng mused.

He slept for a full day and night before awakening.

As he opened his eyes, dawn was breaking, and a warm glow streamed through the window, lifting his spirits.

Lin Feng stretched languidly, grabbed a bite to eat, and after freshening up, he stepped into the courtyard to practice his boxing technique. He was perfecting the Lin family's esteemed Yellow Rank technique: the Fire Lion Fist.

The air whistled with each movement. Lin Feng's fists might have seemed gentle, but they packed the force of a thousand pounds.

"Indeed, each punch I now deliver could fell a wild bull," Lin Feng concluded, a self-assured smile playing across his face.

Considering the formidable resilience of a bull, akin to an impenetrable fortress, Lin Feng's current Martial Body strength was such that no martial artist within the Foundation Establishment Stage could withstand his blows.

"Yet, my Martial Body's strength isn't sufficient. To reach the pinnacle of perfection, I must refine six bottles of Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid!" With that, Lin Feng sprang into action. He filled the room's wooden tub with water, then sealed the door and retrieved a white jade bottle.

Upon opening the bottle, a potent medicinal scent filled the air. The aroma was so invigorating that Lin Feng felt his senses clear and every pore on his body seemed to revel in delight.

"The Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid truly is extraordinary."

With meticulous care, Lin Feng decanted the Spirit Liquid into the wooden basin, ensuring not a drop was wasted, and set the bottle aside.

The addition of the Spirit Liquid transformed the clear water in the tub into a milky white concoction, with strands of dense spiritual energy gracefully wafting above.

"Conventional wisdom suggests that one can only absorb a bottle of Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid per day, but given the robustness of my Martial Body, I anticipate a swifter absorption rate." With that, Lin Feng plunged into the basin to commence the absorption of the Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid.

The Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid surged into Lin Feng's body through all 36 million pores, transforming into pure energy to reforge his physique. Bathed in the liquid's nourishment, Lin Feng's body underwent a gradual metamorphosis.

His bones turned a purer shade of white, and his meridians expanded. From the major organs, bones, and meridians down to the smallest cells, pores, and strands of hair, every part of him evolved incrementally. Under a microscope, one could observe a profound reorganization within each of Lin Feng's cells.

As his cells grew increasingly robust, so too did Lin Feng's Martial Body gain strength.

A day later, the murky water in the wooden tub had cleared, signaling Lin Feng's emergence from his deep cultivation state. The Spiritual Qi within his dantian swelled to its brink, teetering on the edge of a breakthrough.

"Now's the chance to ascend to the fifth level of Layer Five!" Lin Feng declared, drawing in the Spiritual Qi from the surrounding environment and channeling it toward his next realm. The room's ambient Spiritual Qi was rapidly depleted, funneling directly into Lin Feng.

With a look of astonishment, Lin Feng exclaimed, "My cultivation speed has skyrocketed, increasing by dozens of times! My strength has significantly improved. At this pace, after fully absorbing six bottles of Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid, I could fell two bulls with a single punch."

His fists clenched in excitement, Lin Feng then poured another bottle of the Spirit Liquid into the barrel.

Five days on, Lin Feng's room was once again the site of an extraordinary occurrence. Enveloped by the phantom of a lion, Lin Feng watched as the spectral beast, with its gaping maw, voraciously siphoned the Spirit Liquid's energy from the barrel. In mere moments, a vortex the size of a bowl formed before him, and the wooden tub's Spiritual Qi was drained clean.

"Could my Martial Body's potential truly be this immense?" Lin Feng mused, a hint of wonder in his voice.

Nearly five and a half days passed as Lin Feng absorbed all six bottles of the Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid. His prowess had now reached the ninth level of Foundation Establishment, a mere step from the Acquired Stage.

"Ordinary warriors might rely on an Acquired Pill to break through to the Acquired Stage, but with my ten bone meridians and the techniques from the Heaven-defying Meridian Map, I have more than a seventy percent chance of condensing Spiritual Power without it."

Lin Feng gave a silent nod and commenced the absorption of the surrounding Spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth. The essence swirled and rushed into his body with a frenzied intensity.