The Human Emperor (1-200)

C33: Dragon Bone Art

The Body Tempering Pill could boost a person’s stamina and strength significantly. However, what Wang Chong truly needed it for was for his training of the Dragon Bone Art.

There was a total of three types of techniques to cultivating one’s bones. They were namely Dragon Bone, Tiger Bone, and Panther Bone. Other than the three, the other methods were all considered unorthodox.

Of these three bone tempering techniques, Panther Bone was the most common and its training method was the easiest to find. In comparison, Tiger Bones was much harder and only royalties and powerful nobles had it. Furthermore, it was normally treated as a treasure and it was exclusive to the clan or family, never leaked out to outsiders.

The Dragon Bone was even rarer than that, even the clans of the dukes had no access to it. It was closely confined to the royal family and they were strictly forbidden from leaking the manual out.

Rumor had it that the Dragon Bone Art was a bone tempering technique the ancient Yu the Great created for his descendants. After the Xia Dynasty was destroyed, the Shang Dynasty took over the heritage. From then, it passed down to the Zhou Dynasty, then to the Han Dynasty before reaching the Great Tang.

Many people probably hadn’t heard of this ultimate art.

Wang Chong only happened to chance upon the precious Dragon Bone Art. Even though it was only the very basic of body tempering techniques, body tempering techniques formed the core of one’s martial arts.

In his previous life, due to his laziness, he wasted an entire four years and missed the optimal age for tempering one’s bones. In the end, no matter how hard he trained and how much guidance he received from the experts of the Central Plains, he was still limited by that. Eventually, when he reached Saint Fighter realm, he found himself unable to take a single step forward.

This was a great regret to Wang Chong. His failure in his previous life also had something to do with this.

In this life, when he got a chance to start anew, Wang Chong could finally make up for this regret of his. With the Dragon Bone Art, he would be able to break the limits of his previous life and reach even greater heights!

Boom!

Wang Chong rested for a brief moment before punching outward. Along with this punch, a burning wave gushed from Wang Chong’s mouth downward, spreading to the rest of his body.

Footwork, palm strikes, body bending, and stretching… What Wang Chong was practicing was no ordinary punching technique. Rather, he looked like a dragon which was stretching its body on the ground.

《Dragon Bone Art》 was a skill that emulated the movements of a dragon to pump one’s blood to guide an external Origin Energy source within the body so as to stimulate the acupoints within one’s body, thus changing the physique of a martial artist, evolving from a ‘Mortal Bone’ into a ‘Dragon Bone’!

‘Root bone’ was the foundation of all martial arts, and it determined one’s future. A person with good root bone was able to achieve much more with less effort whereas a person with inferior root bone would find his future achievements limited.

Thus, even though the 《Dragon Bone Art》 was in no way an earth-shaking ultimate skill, and it didn’t bring a martial artist the ability to flip mountains and part oceans, Wang Chong still valued it highly.

Peng!

In the blink of an eye, Wang Chong’s right hand converted from a fist to a palm and he advanced forward. His movements resembled the motion of a ferocious tiger descending a mountain. Suddenly, another fist whipped outward and a sonic boom sounded in the air. A powerful might gushed forward into the space before Wang Chong.