Grinding Cultivation Toward Martial Saint
Chapter 662 - 37: One of the Earthly Fiend’s 72 Transformations, Divine Skills!_2

Chapter 662: Chapter 37: One of the Earthly Fiend’s 72 Transformations, Divine Skills!_2

All directions were filled with endless flames.

The flames burned his body and mind, making him feel the fire permeating every inch of his being.

Suddenly.

The great fire dissipated.

The scorching sensation vanished in an instant.

"Gurgle—"

He sank into the endless seabed.

Everywhere he looked, there was the dark sea floor and infinite waves.

In the water, he seemed to turn into a small boat rocked by the currents, a boat with no control of its own.

At this moment, water and fire ceaselessly fused together.

It was as if he moved from the water into a sea of fire, and from the sea of fire back into water.

It is unknown how much time passed.

It could have been a moment, or it could have been years, or even an eternity compressed into an instant.

Water and fire fused, co-existing, transforming into a grinding wheel.

Half of it was red, red as fire.

The other half was black, black as water.

At this moment, the red and black colors, the forces of water and fire, became incredibly balanced, forming a grinding wheel that slowly rotated.

Jiang Ning suddenly returned to normal.

He slowly opened his eyes.

At this time.

Moonlight enveloped him, casting overlapping shadows.

The torches standing by the shore had burned out.

On the lake surface.

A Dragon Carp, its scales golden and red, with a fin like a stroke of sunset, was blowing bubbles in the direction of Jiang Ning.

"Young master, you are awake!" Lv Yi’s voice reached his ears.

Jiang Ning glanced at Lv Yi, who was standing twenty feet away, eyebrows furrowed with concern. He couldn’t help but smile.

"It’s fine, no need to worry!"

"I just had an insight, my spirit soaring beyond the heavens!"

Lv Yi patted her chest, letting out a long breath of relief.

"I knew it!"

"I just saw a red and black vortex rising from your body, red as endless flames, black as infinite waves, and it scared me to death, as if at any moment I’d be swallowed and turned to dust by this vortex."

"But I knew as well that this must be the phenomenon of your divine skill achieving success."

Jiang Ning laughed: "It’s not quite achieving divine skill, just gaining something in my heart!"

At this moment, Jiang Ning couldn’t help but feel secretly pleased.

The breaking limit of Water and Fire True Strength allowed him to grasp the Water and Fire Force.

Its power is like a grinding wheel with a crushing effect.

He named this power the Water and Fire Grinding Plate.

Now, he had achieved the first level of the Water and Fire Grinding Plate.

The first level’s power reflects in the spiritual world.

Mastering this level of power also confirmed his hypothesis.

By breaking the limit of Water and Fire True Strength, he could grasp the Water and Fire Force.

And Water and Fire True Strength is a superior martial art, far above the Chopping Wood Blade Skill, an unorthodox martial art, or the Five Animals Fist, a lower-level martial art.

The force of superior martial arts can influence a wider range of heaven and earth, amass a greater total amount, and increase the efficiency of marrow refining.

[Skill]: Water and Fire True Strength (Three times limit-breaking 3/4000) (Traits: Water and Fire Immortal Clothes, Water and Fire Control, Stone Boiling)

[Stone Boiling]: One of the Earthly Fiend’s 72 Transformations Divine Skills, an alchemical technique with extraordinary control over heat and manipulation ability.

Seeing the description on the panel, Jiang Ning was momentarily stunned.

"Earthly Fiend’s 72 Transformations?"

"Stone Boiling Divine Power?"

The next moment.

With a thought, he instantly summoned flames out of thin air through his mastery of water and fire.

"Transform!"

He spoke softly.

The flames burning in front of him instantly transformed into a phoenix at his command.

This kind of transformation, merely a thought, required no elaborate control; the fire naturally turned into a vividly lifelike phoenix.

"Transform again!"

He uttered words like commands.

The shape conjured by flames instantly changed, taking the form of a five-clawed true dragon.

"Transform... transform... transform..."

He kept trying, the flames transforming nearly without any pause.

Swimming in water, flying in the sky, crawling on the ground, burrowing in the earth...

The flames continually morphed into living forms, just with a thought, instantly completing various transformations.

The entire process was incredibly smooth, achieving true heart-guided actions.

After a moment.

He moved his thoughts again.

The flames in front of him instantly split, transforming into three hundred and sixty-five threads, matching the number of Grand Circulations.

Every thread formed by the flame was of the same thickness and length.

"Truly strong!!!"

After conducting various tests, Jiang Ning felt a heartfelt exclamation.

The hardest part of alchemy is fire control.

Next is the knowledge of pharmacology.

Knowledge of pharmacology can be achieved by diligently remembering every herb’s properties.

Even if you cannot create new prescriptions from scratch.

You can still stand on the shoulders of predecessors and adapt them for your own use.

However, fire control is different.

Fire control heavily relies on talent.

A slight fluctuation in heat may turn a cauldron of elixir into waste, or greatly reduce its quality.

And now, with the Stone Boiling Divine Power from the Earthly Fiend’s 72 Transformations, he directly masters the manipulation of flames to a terrifying extent.

"No wonder it’s superior martial arts, every new trait added is remarkable!"

Jiang Ning nodded with satisfaction.

Even though such a profound and mystifying fire control divine skill does him no good at present, and the thought of alchemy never crossed his mind, as it would waste time without significantly improving his strength.

Yet, possessing diverse skills is ultimately beneficial.

Then.

His gaze fell upon Linglong floating on the lake surface nearby.

At this moment, Linglong was still floating on the lake, gently flicking its tail fins like a rainbow.

Jiang Ning tapped Linglong, which was near the lake edge.

"Linglong, how about doing an experiment with you?"

"Okay!!" Hearing Jiang Ning’s question, the Dragon Carp immediately flicked its tail fins in response.

The next moment.

Jiang Ning looked at Linglong and gently tapped the Dragon Carp’s head again.

Suddenly, the Water and Fire Grinding Plate power burst forth.

In an instant.

The Dragon Carp rolled its eyes and fainted belly-up.

Jiang Ning: "..."

Seeing this scene before him, he felt somewhat speechless.

"It really suits being an ornamental fish!" he muttered to himself.

He didn’t expect that merely the first level of power outburst would cause Linglong to faint directly.

He then looked towards the courtyard where Jiang Li and Liuu Wanwan’s family were located.

"Forget it!" He shook his head, "I’ll experiment with Old Turtle tomorrow!"

Then he got up and went to sleep.

...

The next day.

Early in the morning, after freshening up, Jiang Ning called Old Turtle.

Jiang Ning: "....."

Seeing Old Turtle belly-up and fainted, he once again felt speechless.

"Master, I told you, it’s not that I’m weak, it’s that Master is too strong!!!" the Dragon Carp in the lake flicked its tail fins and surfaced, responding.

Jiang Ning hesitantly nodded.

"Is it really because I’m too strong?"

"Or is the Water and Fire Grinding Plate power too strong?"

[Skill]: Water and Fire True Strength (Three times limit-breaking 3/4000) (Traits: Water and Fire Immortal Clothes, Water and Fire Control, Stone Boiling)

He glanced again at his status panel, muttering to himself.

"Perhaps... I underestimated this cultivation technique."

"Being derived from the Water and Fire Treasure Book, maybe the Water and Fire Treasure Book has a very high rank among Ancient Immortal Dao techniques!!"

"The power of the Water and Fire Grinding Plate is stronger than I imagined!"

After pondering for a moment.

He shook his head.

"No matter, my priority now is to continue enhancing the Water and Fire True Strength and master the third level of the Water and Fire Grinding Plate power."

At this time.

Lv Yi had already arranged a suitable training environment for him.

By the lakeside, torches were aligned, their flames rushing skyward.

Jiang Ning sat cross-legged by the lake, once again activating Water and Fire True Strength, channeling the two extreme powers within him.

These two powers slowly rotated like a grinding plate inside him.

Under the grinding plate’s rotation, the Qi-Blood power was continuously drawn.

As the Qi-Blood power was consumed, the Water and Fire Grinding Plate grew stronger.

[Water and Fire True Strength Experience Value +4]

[Water and Fire True Strength Experience Value +5]

[Water and Fire True Strength Experience Value +4]

[...]

Lv Yi came out from Jiang Ning’s room, carrying bed sheets to be laundered, and hastily diverted her gaze after just one glance toward the lakeside Jiang Ning.

For with just that one glance, she saw a grinding plate rising behind Jiang Ning.

Expanding with a sky-covering stance.

As if about to swallow the world.

Just that one glance left her deeply apprehensive.

Yet her face was also brimming with joy.

"Indeed, Young Master achieved great divine success yesterday!!"

At the moment.

By the lake.

An old turtle lay stiff, belly-up and motionless.

The Dragon Carp in the lake had long since sunk to the bottom.

Given the lesson from last night, and looking just now briefly at the expanding, sky-covering stance of the water and fire, she was utterly terrified.