"Y-You... " Lionman Tong San looked at the remaining large bones of the magical beast in disbelief, "Xue Ying, did you really cut off all the meat and hide it? Where did you hide it?"
As he spoke, Lionman Tong San began to look around the restaurant, even kneeling down to check under the dining table and cabinets.
"Uncle Tong, I really ate it all," Dong Bo Xue Ying said helplessly.
"You ate it? Over ten thousand pounds of meat, and you, a person of your size, ate it all?" Tong San widened his lion eyes, "How can I believe that? Even a titled knight couldn't eat ten thousand pounds of meat in one meal."
Dong Bo Xue Ying was at a loss.
This time, every cell in his body was extremely hungry, which is why he needed to eat so much. In the future, even if he tried to eat, he wouldn't be able to.
"Uncle Tong, look." Dong Bo Xue Ying picked up a silver platter nearby and pressed it down with both hands. The platter quickly shrank, and after a few more presses, a silver metal ball appeared in his palm.
"This..." Tong San was speechless.
Dong Bo Xue Ying held the metal ball in his right hand and applied more force, and the silver metal slowly flowed out from between his fingers. Then, he clapped his hands together and rubbed them a few times, and the metal ball turned into a silver metal rod!
"How did you do that?" Tong San couldn't believe it. He and Zong Ling couldn't do that. He could crush a silver platter with one slap and deform a metal ball, but to make the metal flow out from his fingers and then rub it into a metal rod was too bizarre.
"I told you, I really ate all the meat of that magical beast," Dong Bo Xue Ying said helplessly, "Do you believe me now, Uncle Tong?"
"Believe, believe, I believe you now. Whatever you say, I believe. But how did this happen? How did you become so strong all of a sudden? This is... I just can't understand it." Tong San was completely baffled. Strength improvement usually follows a step-by-step process, from human-rank knight to earth-rank knight, from earth-rank knight to heaven-rank, and from heaven-rank to stellar-rank.
"You didn't even cultivate battle aura, and you're not even a human-rank knight, so how...?" Tong San couldn't comprehend.
"I am now!"
Dong Bo Xue Ying stood up, "Uncle Tong, wait a moment."
He then began practicing his boxing techniques in the spacious dining room. Each move was fluid, like flowing water, with power surging through his body. The power of the world continuously flowed into his body, and his muscles began to generate a mysterious force—this was... battle aura!
In fact, after eating all the meat of the magical beast, his body had already begun to generate some battle aura.
"Swish, swish, swish~" As Dong Bo Xue Ying practiced the "Flame Three-Stage Technique," the battle aura in his body increased, spreading through his muscles and bones, even into his skin and membranes. The mysterious power of the world continuously poured in, being converted into battle aura... his body was like a bottomless pit, absorbing the power of the world.
He practiced the battle aura technique over and over again.
At first, Tong San felt bewildered, shocked, and confused, but after an hour, he gradually calmed down. After two hours, he began to feel helpless.
"Why is he still practicing?"
"How long is he going to keep practicing?" Tong San looked at Dong Bo Xue Ying, puzzled and bewildered.
After all, practicing the battle aura technique isn't about the more you practice, the better. Before becoming a knight, one usually practices two or three times, and the body can't absorb any more. After becoming a knight... the growth of battle aura is very slow, with a daily absorption limit, so the number of practice sessions is also limited. Practicing for over two hours like Dong Bo Xue Ying was very abnormal.
"Rumble~" Dong Bo Xue Ying felt the battle aura surging throughout his body, and finally, the power of the world could no longer be absorbed.
"I didn't expect that once I broke through, I would become an earth-rank knight," Dong Bo Xue Ying thought, "Of course, my battle aura is at the earth-rank level, but my strength far surpasses that of an earth-rank knight."
According to the normal progression:
When the first thread of battle aura is generated in the body, one becomes a human-rank knight.
Subsequently, the battle aura nourishes the muscles and bones, gradually generating more battle aura in these areas. When the entire body is filled with battle aura, one becomes an earth-rank knight!
When the entire body is filled with battle aura, and it condenses to form a battle aura source in the abdomen—the dantian qi sea—this is the heaven-rank knight.
When the battle aura in the dantian qi sea condenses into a liquid state, one becomes a stellar-rank knight. The liquid battle aura undergoes a qualitative change, no longer being just fierce but also flexible, combining hardness and softness. This battle aura can even form a tough protective layer on the surface of the body, which is why stellar-rank knights can ignore countless arrows. The defensive power of this battle aura layer is very high, and the liquid battle aura can more deeply nourish the body, strengthening it.
When the liquid battle aura further condenses into a virtual dantian, the battle aura becomes even more magical and powerful, even penetrating the delicate organs and making deeper changes to the body. This is the silver moon-rank knight.
And the heaven-rank knight?
Must reach the realm of unity with heaven and earth, then use the power of the world to advance to the titled knight level! The titled knight is completely above the silver moon-rank, with an astonishing gap, capable of killing a silver moon-rank knight with one move. The titled knight represents the peak of human limits, and some extremely powerful ones can even fight with extraordinary beings and survive.
They are just one step away from the extraordinary.
"My muscles and bones are perfect, so I don't need to nourish them slowly; I can immediately advance to the earth-rank knight level," Dong Bo Xue Ying thought, "The next step is to open the battle aura source, which requires gradual accumulation of enough battle aura."
"Xue Ying, Xue Ying." Seeing Dong Bo Xue Ying stop, Tong San called out.
"Ha ha, Uncle Tong, follow me." Dong Bo Xue Ying smiled happily and left the dining room, leaping down from the main building. Tong San quickly followed.
Soon,
The two arrived at the training ground, which was currently empty of any servants.
"Xue Ying, why did you come to the training ground?" Tong San was puzzled.
"Don't be in a hurry, Uncle Tong." Dong Bo Xue Ying walked to the side and picked up a long spear he usually used, which weighed fifty pounds and was the best spear in the entire Snowstone Castle.
Dong Bo Xue Ying held the spear and stared at the alchemical dummy in front of him.
Tong San watched with bated breath, understanding that his nephew was about to show his strength. He wanted to see how powerful Xue Ying's spear techniques had become.
"Swish."
The spear moved, turning into a blur.
The spear shadow struck the alchemical dummy, which made a series of "puff, puff, puff" sounds.
In a brief moment, Dong Bo Xue Ying retracted the spear.
"So fast, Xue Ying, your spear techniques are so fast I can't even block them," Tong San was amazed by the speed of Xue Ying's spear techniques. Then he looked at the alchemical dummy, his eyes widening. The dummy was covered with countless holes, and the holes formed the words "Impressive, right?"
"You can pierce holes in it?" Tong San's eyes widened.
This alchemical dummy couldn't be damaged by anyone below the stellar-rank!
"Let me show you something even more impressive!" Dong Bo Xue Ying suddenly unleashed the latent power within his body, and a faint red aura appeared around him. A fierce aura surged, making Tong San feel a sense of fear. Dong Bo Xue Ying swung the spear, and the spear rod bent into an exaggerated arc. "Peng~" The first loud sound, the alchemical dummy trembled and developed cracks. "Peng~" The second loud sound, the dummy's body shattered and flew apart, only the lower half, which was fixed to the ground, remained.
"Peng!" The third loud sound, the spear struck the base of the dummy.
Snap!
The spear broke completely, and the lower half of the dummy also shattered.
Dong Bo Xue Ying looked at the broken spear in his hand, which he had used for a long time, and was surprised that it couldn't withstand the force and broke.
"Brother, I'm back!" His younger brother Qing Shi's clear voice came from a distance.
Dong Bo Xue Ying looked up at the sky, which had darkened.
"Uncle Tong, Qing Shi and Uncle Zong are back. Let's go have dinner first. After dinner, I'll tell you and Uncle Zong everything," Dong Bo Xue Ying smiled. If it were anyone else, they would be completely baffled, but fortunately, he had read enough books, and one of them had a very brief record of this.