Natasha's progress

As the sky turned bright, a ray of morning sun shone through the narrow passage of the village, and it fell on Natasha who was practicing.

As always, Natasha, had gotten up early before dawn to practice.

She was extremely excited at the moment, as her mana circulated through her skin, her skin started tightening and loosening on her body.

It might have been her imagination, but she thought that she heard the sound of a steel string being tightened as her skin loosened.

After a while she felt relaxed all over, and her strength had became stronger.

She had officially completed her skin refining for real now!

"As long as I refine my bones into golden bones, I won't be weaker than the supreme geniuses."

Natasha was so excited that she raised her hands and clenched her fists.

She felt like she could even block swords with her bare hands!

"This is just how it feels after the completion of skin refining, only the most basic stage of the lowest realm!"

"I am too excited, I should calm down today and start practicing bone training tomorrow!"

Natasha concluded her practice session, picked up a hoe, went to weed out the vegetables, fed the chickens, relaxed her mind, and prepared for tomorrow's training session.

She still remembered Matthew's instruction to balance work with rest and to keep a level head.

Matthew got up, washed up, and came out of the room.

To his surprise, he found that Natasha was not practicing!

This was his first time seeing Natasha not practicing in the morning since she became his student!

"What's the situation? Has she given up? Did she realize that she was corned?"

Matthew contemplated running away for a while.

"It doesn't make sense though. She was practicing hard yesterday, why would she suddenly give up?"

Based on his understanding of Natasha these days, he knew that Natasha was a stubborn, so it was impossible for her to give up so suddenly.

Matthew decided to go to the chicken coop to look for her.

He found that the chickens had just been fed, after searching for a while, he found her hoeing in the vegetable, so he walked over.

"Good morning teacher!"

Natasha greeted with a sunny smile.

"Good morning to you too. It is good that you can keep a level head and take care of the vegetable garden in such an orderly manner..."

Matthew took a look at the vegetable garden and was a little surprised.

All the weeds were removed, the vegetables were growing well, even better than those that he himself had grown!

"It's all because of your good teachings!"

Natasha said with a naive smile.

"Why did you come to the vegetable garden to weed early today?"

He had come to find out why she didn't practice this morning after all.

Looking at her, she didn't look like she had given up on practicing.

"I am just following your advice combine work with rest."

Natasha replied respectfully.

Hearing this, Matthew let out a sigh of relief.

'Sure enough, she hasn't give up yet. She was just relaxing her mind.'

Matthew e showed a happy smile and said:

"Good! Good! I am pleased that you took my advice to heart."

Natasha was immediately excited and secretly thought to herself:

'Sure enough, my decision to take a rest was the right one!'

"Keep a good attitude, don't be arrogant or impetuous, and you will achieve something!"

Matthew offhandedly encouraged with a few words before turning around and leaving.

He walked around the village, and saw that since the last old man in the village passed away, all the houses in the village had become deserted.

He had converted several houses into chicken coops, but the rest were desolate and overgrown with weeds.

"How did Natasha pass through the Evil Forest? Are her three guards very strong or was it just luck?"

"I can't stay trapped in this village forever, I have to think of a way to get out of here. But the only way lies with that little girl..."

Matthew walked while lost in thought.

"I might be the most miserable transmigrator!"   

Matthew sighed.

...

The next day.

Before dawn, Natasha had gotten up to practice.

"Mana should seep into the bones, and temper the bones... It is slightly different from skin refining, but it's pretty much the same..."

"My goal is to, at the very least, refine golden bones. Only by refining the golden bones can I compare with the supreme geniuses."

Natasha's eyes were firm

"Although he didn't say it, the teacher definitely hopes that I can refine mine into golden bones."

"Only if I can match the geniuses of ancient times, can I be worthy of being teacher's successor!"

"As for the diamond bone, we'll talk about when we get there. "

"I will try my best, after all, if I can become a diamond bone refiner, I will definitely surpass the supreme geniuses!"

The problem is that diamond bones are too difficult to refine, and it cannot be achieved by talent and persistence, so Natasha's first goal is to refine it into a golden bone!

She circulated her mana and began to make it seep into her bones, it went very slowly at first.

At a certain moment, she felt a weird sensation on the bones all over her body.

It was as if there were countless ants biting her all over, the pain came with a numbing and itchy sensation.

She felt very uncomfortable!

"Is this what it feels like to refine bones? It is definitely different from refining the skin!"

Natasha's forehead was covered in cold sweat, as a few words resonated in her mind: "perseverance, talent and persistence".

"No wonder it is said to be difficult to refine gold bones!"

She could foresee that the deeper the mana seeps, the more discomfort and pain one would feel!

The bones all over the body were numb and itchy

Although she felt very uncomfortable, she grit her teeth and persisted, her eyes were firm as if she would persist even if the sky would start falling the next second.

Fortunately, as the mana continued to seep in, and the initial stage was passed, the pain, numbness, itching, and overall discomfort began to weaken.

What followed was a feeling of tempering in the bones all over her body, the feeling was similar to what she experienced while tempering her skin membrane, but much more intense.

The progress of mana seeping into the bones for tempering was very slow.

For now, it could only stay on the surface of the bones and could notpenetrate further into the depths of the bones.

At this moment, Natasha realized that the difficulty of bone refining was beyond her initial estimates.

"No wonder those who can refine golden bones are so rare."

Matthew came out of the room and saw Natasha holding a squat with sweat looming on her forehead.

He couldn't help but nod.

'Sure enough, a stubborn person would not give up easily.'

When Natasha saw Matthew nodding from the corner of her eye, she suddenly became excited in her heart.

'Teacher must be showing his approval for my persistence!'

'I can't let him down! Persevere! Persist! No matter how severe the pain is, I must persevere and never give up!'

Natasha encouraged herself in her heart, and continued to temper the bones.

As the mana continued to seep in, and more and more mana covered the bones, the previous feelings of discomfort gradually disappeared completely.

However, a feeling like sand rubbing against her bones appeared appeared.

Natasha was drenched with sweat, but she grit her teeth and continued to practice without saying a word.

She didn't know how much time had passed, but the feeling of sand rubbing against her bones became more and more intense.

Natasha felt that she could no longer bear it.

Mathew, who had been lazily sitting under the shade of a tree, looked up at the time and then said to Natasha:

"You should go cook, it's getting late!"

'what is with this kid today? Does she want me to starve?'

Natasha suddenly felt relieved when she heard this.

She quickly withdraw her mana from the bones, and the feeling of sand rubbing against her bones gradually disappeared.

At this moment, she felt very moved:

'Teacher must have seen that I have reached my limit, so he said that to let me relax.'

"Yes, teacher!"

Natasha finally had the energy to respond.