Chapter 10: Muscle refining

In case of Allen, The advantage of a peerless grade body refining and the Grandmaster level experience did wonders for him.

Coupling exercises with the body refining fluid made the fluid penetrate deep into the body. In the process, there was a lot of energy that was deposited in the various parts of the body.

The majority of the spirit energy was mixed with the water in the body. This made him somewhat understand why the system specifically suggested mixing water with the spirit cleansing fluid before consumption.

After all, 79% of the muscles are just water and there was plenty of energy mixed within.

After reviewing the process again, he got up from the bed and started performing the Muscle refining volume of body cleansing exercise.

Previously, even though he performed all the volumes of the enhanced body cleansing exercise, due to the incomplete cleansing, there was not much use and it only helped him deposit the energies in the corresponding body parts.

After the cleansing process, his body is like a infant's body that is easily moldable and has a high degree of adaptability. His body is very flexible and once tough moments became very easy for him.

He could even feel the movement of the special energy deposited in many parts of the body during the cleansing process.

As he progressed further into the muscle refining volume, there was a sharp pain in many parts of the body and his muscles started slowly transforming. The spirit energy undissolved in the muscles slowly started dissolving and is thoroughly mixed into the muscles.

The mixing of the spirit energy is changing the structure of the muscles to make them compatible with the spirit energy. This process is continuously tearing the muscles and rearranging them and spirit energy is mixed during this rearranging.

This is the first time Allen was experiencing such pain and he immediately felt like stopping.

But, he knew that if he really did that, that would waste all his efforts and even waste an opportunity for using the Grandmaster level virtual experience card.

Normal people who practice the muscle refining exercise will not experience such pain. They will slowly refine their muscles with either the spirit energy inhaled into the body through the breathing technique or through supplements having meager amount of spiritual energy inside them.

Some people with a strong will can also try taking supplements with a large amount of spirit energy. Though the supplements are costly, they are worth their price in the amount of time they can save.

But this kind of usage is not efficient and it takes a lot of time to complete the refining process.

But, time is the last thing that Allen can squander. So, sooner or later he had to experience the pain if he had to complete the muscle refining quickly.

By gritting his teeth, He persevered and through letting on a whimper now and then, he still completed the set of exercises.

After completing the muscle refining volume, he wanted to complete the next volumes corresponding to bone refining and organ refining so as to no waste the virtual experience card.

Even though those volumes will not have an effect on him for the time being, he can increase his expertise of the exercise.

In the end, his body couldn't hold on and fell down on the floor. The moment his body stopped performing the exercise, there was a violent twitching in his muscles and then came a tide of pain.

Allen soon lost consciousness.

The twitching continued even after he lost his consciousness and it slowly abated only after 15 minutes.

After sleeping in the same position for about an hour, Allen woke up with a sore body and slowly stood up.

There was a creaking sound from the wooden floorboard when he stood up.

He looked down suspiciously and saw that there were small and narrow cracks on the old wooden floor and it is releasing squeaking sounds like a rat that was being squeezed to death.

Allen hurriedly raised his foot and was about to leave the area but when he tried to move, he jumped almost 2 meters high close to hitting the ceiling.

"Shit! what's happening?"

"Ding! The host must remember that the Skeletal muscles are the ones that are mainly responsible for movement in the human body. As the Muscles of the host are just refined and there is a change in their properties, the same amount of nerve stimulation lead to an exaggerated response."

"The host is recommended to spend some time practicing small movements so that you will get used to the new muscle control. This exercise will become mandatory for all future exercises."

Hearing the system explanation, Allen calmed down and started moving his muscles slowly and tried adjusting his control. It took him nearly 15 minutes to properly have control over his body. Even though there are some slight problems, those are nothing worthy of his attention and he believed they will be sorted out with time.

He estimated that there was approximate increase of 50kg in his strength. Though he was supposed to be surprised, he felt that this is how it should be.

He realized a long time ago that he had been underestimating the system. Through out this past week, he been observing the various products in system store. Even though being poor didn't let him buy the items in there, just reading their descriptions had broadened his horizons.

So, he decided not to compare the system products with the products available in the Earth star federation. After all, According to the system, the Earth star is just a low-level martial civilization.

The flawless grade body refining potion is a product from an advanced civilization. The amount of research and the resource difference between can be compared to the size of the sun and moon.

Just considering the flawless grade body refining potion, In the Earth star federation, the main aim of such a potion is to cleanse the body of it's impurities and make it easier for future cultivation.

But the potion from advanced civilization can not only provide a better effect in cleansing the body but also help in muscle refining and the following processes.

The 50kg increase in his strength is considered a month's effort of hard work for a genius using normal supplements and all it took was a single session for him.

The most surprising thing is that he could feel that only about 2% of the spirit energy in the muscles is being consumed. He knows that the increase in strength is so drastic as this is the first time his muscles are being refined. The subsequent improvement might not be so high.

After feeling comfortable with his body, Allen drove his sweaty body into the bathroom and took a long and relaxing bath.

Soon, he went to bed after completing his academic work for the day.

....

The next morning.

Allen once again started the practice of muscle refining and pain started again but this time, he could barely contain it.

So, he persevered and completed the muscle refining. Gritting his teeth, he tried to practice the bone refining volume so as to increase the expertise but collapsed halfway through the exercise.

This time he did not lose his consciousness and he could feel his body continuosly twitching. His muscles are slowly absorbing the spirit energy and are transforming themselves.

This time it only took 10 minutes for the twitching to end and Allen regained his mobility.

After 15 minutes of adaptability using slow movements, Allen took a bath and went to school.

On the way, he checked his status using the system.

"Ding!

Host: Allen Mackrel ( Amos Redcloud)

Strength: 292kg ( Muscle refining, 6.5% absorbed)

Martial arts: Spirit suction exercise( Not initiated), Body cleansing exercise ( 86% proficiency), Enhanced body cleansing exercise (84% entry level), Rock fist ( Not initiated)

Bloodline: Fire Bird ( weak, inactive)

Energy points : 1.1251 EP

Wealth: 5,000 rups, Grandmaster level virtual experience card (90/100),Void eater bloodline( cannot be refined)."

Sure enough , the strength had increased by 92kgs in just 2 sessions of practice. He started anticipating what level he could reach by the time he finished the muscle refining.

He started pedaling even harder and the reached the school even faster than normal.

...

During the lunch break, Allen pulled Randal to a side and discussed the problem of his combat experience with him.

Randal, as the first genius in the Agar city high school is not just someone who has innate power. He had ample combat experience and frequently goes into wilderness with a team of elite monster hunters from the Giant eye consortium.

Randal is a genius solicited by the Giant eye consortium who signed a B level contract with them.

It is common for the elite organizations to solicit these geniuses by providing them with enough benefits. After all elite organizations need frequent injection of elites if they want to move forward and compete with others.