Chapter 153: Increasing the aptitude grade
So, the next morning, he fully recovered and got up.
He began to practice arduously again as the wounds continued to open up on his body non-stop, and he saw Bai Lixue synthesizing and refining spiritual beasts in her spirit bones.
After recovering twice from his wounds during the morning, Tang Yin stopped practicing as he realized that Bai Lixue was about to finish.
Although his clothes were all stained with blood, he did not care.
He simply went about throwing sword attacks back and forth as he tried to practice how sharp his attacks were.
And so, an hour passed until Bai Lixue stood up and looked at a Tang Yin who was jumping up and down, practicing his sword techniques while constantly breaking trees and rocks.
She looked at him from the side and smiled.
'His way of attacking is as unique as ever. But it seems like his sword got sharper... Did he get better?' She thought doubtfully as she stared at Tang Yin and took a good look at how sharp his attacks were with a smile.
After practicing for a moment, in concentration, Tang Yin noticed that Bai Lixue had finished, so he stopped and jumped over to where she was.
"It seems your attacks have become sharper, Tang Yin." She said and then looked at his blood-stained clothes. For a moment, she was scared, so just before Tang Yin could react, she spoke again, "Did something happen? Why are you so blood-stained?" she asked somewhat scared.
Tang Yin shook his head with a smile as he stroked her head a little.
"Don't worry, I'm just practicing a sword technique with a dangerous recoil and I got injured several times, but I'm almost healed from all those wounds. Let's keep hunting." Tang Yin said and started pulling her again so that she wouldn't ask any more questions.
So, soon, both of them started hunting again all over the area.
They moved forward quickly as they cut down any panther, ape, bear, or snake they saw along the way.
Hours later, at night, the two of them stopped at a cave and began arduously cultivating again.
This time, the two were increasing the grade of their spirit bone skills, as they had managed to hunt a large number of spirit beasts.
And so, the hours passed until they finished and went back to hunting.
The process was repeated for several days as they continually advanced throughout the huge spiritual forest.
The number of spirit beasts they had killed in a week had amounted to hundreds as their spirit bones gradually took on a different color.
And during that journey, they arrived at the third area of the spirit forest.
Here, the fights became a bit more complicated, as the beasts were quite powerful, but still, they easily managed to hunt between the two of them.
They moved in a very coordinated manner as if they had practiced those movements for many months or years, so they were able to hunt many beasts of the fourth and fifth realms. And so, they had spent 3 weeks in that place.
"Tang Yin, this time we have a great harvest." Bai Lixue said with a big smile as she looked at the great number of spirit beasts around her and around Tang Yin.
"Haha, I think we should be able to raise everyone to green grade this time. I don't think my calculations will fail." Tang Yin replied, and she nodded firmly.
"Although I don't understand why your spiritual bones increase faster than mine..." She said softly with a smile.
Tang Yin shrugged with a smile.
It was obvious that would happen. He had more experience in this than she did. As someone with experience, he could get the most out of every spirit beast's body.
"It's okay, don't complain. Get to synthesizing, I've already prepared the occultation arrays." Tang Yin said, and she looked at the cave entrance.
"I still say no one would have trouble seeing..." She replied doubtfully.
She couldn't see any occultation arrays, even if she was seeing the arrays there.
Did they really work? She thought.
But Tang Yin smiled helplessly.
"Girl, your eyes are special. You must have some kind of power in them to see through my arrays." Tang Yin replied and immediately began to synthesize.
She looked at him and smiled, then began to synthesize.
And so, spent the night until the next day...
Both of their cultivation also increased that night after being stagnant at the same level.
They both increased two levels within their realm. Tang Yin to the seventh level, and Bai Lixue increased to the third level.
After a while, they both got up.
"Hahaha, Tang Yin look!" said Bai Lixue happily as she summoned her spiritual bones and moved them back and forth.
The green color shone on all of her spirit bones, and anyone could tell that they were much more resilient than before.
They looked powerful and moved with a lot of spiritual energy back and forth.
Tang Yin nodded.
"Congratulations, you finally made it." Tang Yin said, and she nodded happily.
"You make it you too?" she asked, and he nodded as he summoned a spiritual bone and moved it a little out of his hand, then moved it to his right and launched a strong blow of spiritual energy that hit the walls of the cave with intensity and pierced it.
"It's powerful, your attacks are always so unpredictable but powerful." She said in surprise at seeing this, and he smiled.
"You have improved in this month, but you can improve more. Come, let's go get the spiritual herbs and so on to pass the mission, I want to teach you some things." Tang Yin said, and she then quickly ran after Tang Yin.
"What do you want to teach me?" She asked curiously.
"How to move your spiritual bones in a more versatile way. Previously I have been explaining quite a bit to you, but this time I will teach you better." Tang Yin replied, and soon, they were both running through the forest again, then stopped for a while, while Tang Yin had her start cultivating.
Teaching her a special and different cultivation technique.
As they moved along, Tang Yin instructed her, and they grabbed spiritual herbs back and forth.
They had been grabbing in each of the areas, as the spiritual herbs they were sent to find were diverse, so they already had several.
In addition, they took the opportunity to hunt the spirit beasts of the quests, as Bai Lixue continued to learn, she was gradually improving, and with her learning ability, her improvement speed became visible to Tang Yin easily.
'This girl is a genius.' That was all he could think of as he watched her learn this fast.
In just a few days, she had managed to understand a good portion of the special technique Tang Yin had taught her.
And after a few more days, they both found themselves on the bank of a river, sitting side by side, while Bai Lixue leaned a little on Tang Yin's shoulder, staring at the river.