When he finally managed to complete the Thirteen Forms of Posture Training in one go, this Body Refining Skill showed up on his attribute panel.
Initially, he thought that Body Refining Skills were different from sword skills in martial arts and could not rely on the panel to enhance realm levels.
But now it seems he just hadn't practiced this Body Refining Skill in full before.
The panel still had the initial progress bar of zero to one hundred.
Song Changming was already very familiar with this and knew he only needed to fill the progress bar to complete the Basic Level of this Body Refining Skill.
The daily evaluation's state rewards still had a bonus effect on his body refining results, so he was confident in his refining speed, at least faster than average people.
"Speaking of today, it is indeed time," Song Changming said looking at the darkening sky.
After today, he officially turned nineteen years old. His family hadn't prepared anything special, yet during dinner, his parents mentioned his birthday, so they still remembered the day.
Perhaps they would only pay a bit more attention during his coming-of-age ceremony at twenty.
After all, for ordinary families, everything was customarily kept simple.
A so-called birthday banquet was something those wealthy and powerful would orchestrate.
Nonetheless, every year at this time, the panel would still give him a small sense of ritual and an annual evaluation.
[Annual Evaluation: A year of modest gains, an attempt at martial arts, a new challenge, and successfully training a Low-level Blade Skill to the Minor Success Realm, thus defeating Tengya Mountain Bandit Army's minor head, Chen Beihu. Promoted to Patrol Guard at Houli Street Patrol Armor Bureau in Donglai County City. Parents' expectations increase, proud of you...]
[Please choose the annual reward.]
[1, Lifespan +1000, 2, Lifespan -500, Any Martial Arts Experience +100, 3, Lifespan -100, Attribute Point +1]
"Not bad, this year is finally not entirely meaningless and uneventful." Song Changming looked at this year's annual evaluation, feeling quite gratified.
Since starting martial arts training, this year did indeed yield significant results, and some extraordinary events took place in ordinary days.
This annual evaluation change from previous years is also expected.
Song Changming's main focus was on the annual reward section below.
It's always a choice out of three options each year, which was no exception this time.
The difference was, this time the evaluation was higher, making the rewards slightly different.
Option one, Lifespan +1000
Previously there had been a reward option for a one-time increase in lifespan, but it essentially increased a lifespan of about one or two hundred days at most.
But this time the lifespan reward days were as many as a thousand days, not a small number.
You should know that since he started martial arts training, with the need for 'Concentrated' or 'Heaven Rewards Diligence' states, the accumulated lifespan days all year round did not exceed a thousand days.
The second item was any martial arts experience directly increased by one hundred, the prerequisite being consuming five hundred days of lifespan.
This was a reward option that hadn't appeared before, after all, he had just started martial arts training this year, presumably leading to this random reward trigger.
Seeing this reward, Song Changming immediately thought of the Great Strength Bull Demon Skill he had been training for some time.
If this hundred martial arts experience were added to the Soul-breaking Saber, given the demand for two thousand total experience, it wouldn't be critical.
And if added to the Great Strength Bull Demon Skill, he could directly enter the Basic Level of this Body Refining Skill, greatly tempting him.
From practicing for some time, he finally understood what slow and steady meant.
The experience value of Great Strength Bull Demon Skill was extremely difficult to increase, only by two or three points after ten days.
At this efficiency rate, it would take at least more than a year to possibly complete the Body Refining Basic Level.
In his view, it's indeed too slow.
Now an opportunity to directly reach the Basic Level was understandably tempting.
As for the one-time consumption of five hundred lifespan days, it wasn't unacceptable.
After all, it originally needed to take over a year of body refining time, now this reward equivalent to helping him skip the long and tedious training process, directly gaining the result.
Regarding the third attribute point reward option, he was not unfamiliar.
Previously relying on this reward, he forcibly pulled his Root Attribute Talent to ten points.
Looking at the three annual rewards floating before him, Song Changming didn't think for too long and ultimately chose the second martial arts experience.
Now he wasn't in the same lifespan days deficit as when he first crossed over, since basically daily additions were likely, he directly abandoned this extra lifespan reward.
And the third attribute point reward, this opportunity to directly enhance innate talent was indeed quite rare.
But honestly, the difference with a bit more or less, he currently felt wasn't too obvious.
Anyway, there was a once-a-year annual reward, he could slowly enhance this later.
At present, the level upgrade of Great Strength Bull Demon Skill was likely to have an immediate power enhancement effect.
What he currently lacked was sufficient powerful martial strength.
Especially after becoming a Patrol Guard, he needed this power even more to protect himself.
On the surface, Donglai County City seemed relatively harmonious and stable with the Patrol Armor Bureau maintaining order.
But in this world rife with martial power, danger could come unexpectedly, and death could descend at any time.
Inadequate strength, even though Song Changming was related to the official family, he could still fall at the hands of fierce men like Chen Beihu.
After confirming the choice of the second reward, Song Changming's lifespan section was originally over thirty-six thousand eight hundred odd days, and immediately deducted by five hundred, becoming thirty-six thousand three hundred, a wrong calculation.
Song Changming only needed to ensure his lifespan stayed over thirty-six thousand.
He then poured all the freely distributable hundred martial arts experience into the Great Strength Bull Demon Skill.
The next instant, a colorful whirlwind suddenly gathered around Song Changming.
More surprisingly, this colorful whirlwind suddenly erupted amidst the room, as if being directed into his body.
Following this, like a flame in his body suddenly igniting, a scorching and fiercely hot super high energy washed through his entire body instantly, all limbs and bones.
Due to the abruptness, he couldn't help but shiver.
His skin began reddening, like a shrimp shell about to be cooked.
His pores expanded, a massive amount of sweat and grime constantly seeped out.
His muscles, bones, organs, blood vessels, every aspect of his body was undergoing different degrees of upheaval at this moment.
Song Changming just felt like an iron billet in a blazing furnace, constantly being tempered.
Constantly losing components, while new energy kept pouring into his body.
This process was uncomfortable for Song Changming.
Pain, scorching heat, numb itching, felt extremely tormenting.
No knowing how long had passed, but eventually everything calmed down.
The whirlwind around had disappeared for a while, and the violent anomaly within started gradually retreating.
This left Song Changming lying on the ground, like someone just experiencing drowning, panting heavily.
"Is it this intense..."