Chapter 158- Going Past The Nascent Warrior Part 2

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This time, Liu Guanyi had started the organs refinement on four organs at a time. This was possible due to the impeccable control of his inner energy and his extensive experience as a martial warrior.

Because of this, in just a little less than ten years, Liu Guanyi had managed to smoothly complete the second stage of the nascent warrior and reached the third stage, the bone refinement.

In the third stage of the nascent warrior, a martial practitioner was to refine and reform all of the bones in their body. This was particularly important since they had refined and renewed their muscles and tissues in the first stage.

Without strong enough bones to support them, those powerful, dense, and hard muscles could tear down and crumble apart their entire skeletal system. This was why after finishing the second stage of the nascent warrior, a martial practitioner couldn't rest at all to quickly start the next refinement, the bone refinement.

Bones were separated into two major types according to their density and hardness. They were the soft bones or cartilage and hard bones or osteon. From the two major types, bones were separated into a few more branching types.

However, in the Martial Way, the few branching types weren't that important to keep in mind as they didn't really matter. Only the understanding of cartilage and osteon was really needed for Nascent Warriors to pass the bone refinement.

The bone refinement started from the osteon as the hard bones were the ones who supported the body and not the cartilage. Hence, it was necessary to improve and refine them as soon as possible before they broke down from the pressure of the refined muscles that wrapped them.

Refining the bones was different compared to muscles and inner organs.

They were much tougher than those fragile organs to break down with just the inner energy and although it was still possible for Liu Guanyi with his impeccable control, doing it would consume too much of the inner energy that would be needed to refine it in the first place.

That was why, a Nascent Warrior needed to do a lot of bone conditioning by themselves, such as hitting a hard metal, falling from a high altitude with their body, colliding their own bones together, or anything that would help create bone tears.

To be honest, the third stage was much easier than the second stager or even the first stage.

As long as Liu Guanyi trained his body diligently and routinely did the refinement process for every single day without skipping, which he had always been doing anyway, he could smoothly proceed through this stage.

In fact, just a few years ago, Liu Guanyi had just completed the entire process of bone refinement and passed the stage with a far greater result compared to what he did back then.

That was why when Liu Guanyi had a duel against Adori just before they took the 75th-floor test, he had simply crushed her so hard effortlessly.

With the amount of inner energy he had in his body and his strengthened muscles, organs, and bones, Adori could only scratch him despite using her all.

Thus, it was now the time for Liu Guanyi to face and overcome the last hurdle before he could finally step into the next realm, to the next path of the Martial Way…

The last step…

The brain refinement!

Yes, the one single organ in the human body that was even more important than the heart itself. The one that was still irreplaceable even with the best modern technology that was available on earth.

Although the heart was a vital organ for any creature, with the great technological improvement of medical science, it was now possible to have a heart transplant procedure. However, the brain certainly wasn't the same and was still very far away.

This was happened due to the importance of the brain to a creature or a human. Not only it was the place where every biological process of the body was controlled, but it was also the place where memories and information were kept.

The brain was the center of command for the body, losing it meant that every single system process of the body both unconscious processes, like the heartbeat, and conscious processes, like moving the hand, would become impossible.

To put it simply, the body would shut down and the creature would die shortly.

This was why brain refinement was the last, hardest, and also the most important stage of the Nascent Warrior.

In this stage, a Martial Practitioner had to refine all of their brain cells with the inner energy.

However, since the brain cells were incredibly important for the human body, the process of the refinement had to be done gently and perfectly over a long period of time.

This would put a Martial Practitioner's patience, endurance, and most importantly, fine-tune control over the inner energy into a true life or death test.

If a Martial Practitioner slightly messed up in the process of refinement, they could develop a mental problem or a brain problem that was hard to be solved even with the inner energy.

If they seriously messed up in the refinement process, they could develop a serious mental problem or a severe memory loss, or even deadly brain damage that could lead to death.

This was why it was very hard to overcome the last stage of the Nascent Warrior and there were countless talented and ambitious young Martial Warriors that had been stumped on this particular obstacle and had their ambition extinguished forever.

The last stage of the Nascent Warrior truly put the Martial Warrior's determination and willpower to the test whether they wanted to sacrifice it all to have a chance to advance to the next path or be satisfied with what they had achieved and stopped walking forward to enjoy the fruit of their efforts.

However, whatever they would choose, they would still face the same risk of death. The difference was only the latter being coming a bit later than the first. This was because of the imbalance that would happen inside a Martial Practitioner's body.

If they stopped refining and walking forward on the Martial Way before their body reached a perfect balance, their body would develop an imbalance later on slowly but surely.

An imbalance that could destroy their body and decrease their lifespan.

This was why the Martial Way was a treacherous path.

Once someone had walked on it, they couldn't back down from it anymore.