Grinding Cultivation Toward Martial Saint

The lakebed.

"About four years of strength growth!"

Jiang Ning had digested the twenty-year-old Thunder Fruit and slowly opened his eyes, which immediately revealed a look of surprise and joy.

For an ordinary Fifth Grade Internal Strength Realm martial artist, a twenty-year-old Thunder Fruit could only increase about two years of strength.

But in his case, it had doubled to four years.

The effect was doubled.

That meant, on him, one Thunder Fruit could be used as two.

How could he not be delighted!

The next moment.

The fifty-year-old Thunder Fruit suddenly appeared in his hand.

"Based on just now's experience, this Thunder Fruit could increase my strength by ten years!"

Thinking of this, Jiang Ning felt immensely satisfied.

Ten years of strength.

How many decades does one have in a lifetime?

Even for a Grandmaster, it's but two sexagenary cycles of lifespan.

Such a fruit equalled the ten years of strength accumulation of an ordinary Fifth Grade martial artist.

At this moment, Jiang Ning had a more profound and concrete understanding of the importance of resources.

Even the highest talent, how could it compare to the magic of such resources.

Jiang Ning sighed inwardly.

Then, after a few big bites, the fifty-year-old Thunder Fruit entered his belly.

He immediately visualized a furnace in his mind, transforming himself into the furnace, beginning to refine the fifty-year-old Spirit Fruit in his belly.

In less than the time it takes to drink a cup of tea.

"About ten years of strength!" he opened his eyes, his expression joyful.

The continuous growth in strength, accumulating about fifteen years of strength, made him feel that the Inner Breath accumulated in his Dantian had reached a considerable value.

Compared to the previous improvement, it was also quite significant.

At this moment, by his own feeling, he estimated that he had more than fifty-five years of pure strength.

"Almost possessing the strength of a full sexagenary cycle!!"

He smiled.

Then, a Thunder Fruit with thunder and lightning patterns appeared instantly in his hand.

This was also the symbol of a hundred-year-old Thunder Fruit.

The old turtle watching this scene couldn't help but drool.

What it really wanted from the Thunder Flood Dragon's lair was the Thunder Fruit, wasn't it?

The Thunder Fruit, as a Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure, although most evident in the Thunder Flood Dragon due to attribute compatibility, increasing its Dao and demonic power significantly.

But for it, the effect was also extraordinary, similarly bringing a significant increase in its Dao and demonic power.

It now barely had two hundred years of Dao.

Once it absorbed the hundred-year-old Thunder Fruit in front of it, its Dao could increase by at least fifty percent, adding over a hundred years to its Dao.

One day in the future, should it reach a thousand years of Dao, it could then condense a Demon Core, becoming what is known as a Great Demon.

Immediately, it saw Jiang Ning looking over and quickly averted its gaze, focusing on munching on the fish head in front of it.

To the side.

Jiang Ning saw the old turtle's sneaky glances and couldn't help but chuckle to himself, his gaze returning to the Thunder Fruit before him.

The hundred-year-old Thunder Fruit would inevitably cause a profound transformation in his Inner Breath, granting him more than a sexagenary cycle's worth of strength.

He bit into it.

Crackle and pop—

Thunder Light burst forth from the Thunder Fruit, instantly illuminating the dark lakebed around him.

Jiang Ning couldn't help but grin, his mouth feeling numb.

"This thing, an ordinary martial artist wouldn't be able to endure it!"

He dealt with the hundred-year-old Thunder Fruit quickly and painfully, with no thought of savoring it.

Once the whole fruit was in his belly, his tongue could not taste anything.

Because his tongue was completely numb.

And at this moment, he also felt tingling and a numbing sensation coming from his stomach.

As the Thunder Fruit entered his belly, with the movement of his stomach and the digestion by the gastric fluid, the Medicinal Power and Power of Thunder and Lightning contained in the fruit began to surge into his organs.

The next moment.

Jiang Ning closed his eyes again, visualizing the furnace in his mind.

Boom—

Fierce flames seemed to rise within him.

Crackle and pop—

At this moment, clear sounds of thunder could be heard resonating from within his body.

The bursting Power of Thunder and Lightning began tempering his organs, and as the Medicianal Power refined, wisps of misty Inner Breath emerged from the Dantian, swirling into the sea of clouds there, causing ripples and surges.

At first, it was sparse, like the first drops of a spring rain.

In a blink of an eye.

It formed a scene of myriad threads.

The continuous growth in strength made the ocean within the Dantian surge with waves, emitting rumbles.

It was hard to know how long it had been.

Maybe one breath, ten breaths... maybe even longer.

The scene within the Dantian suddenly changed.

Gone was the previous turbulent ocean scene, transforming into an endless expanse of silence.

Inner Breath as profound, this descriptor's greatest meaning was not the phenomenon in the Dantian, but the overwhelming pressure when the Inner Breath erupted, as if facing the abyss, filled with trembling and fear.

At this moment.

Jiang Ning felt the Inner Breath in his Dantian suddenly come to peace, and he realized immediately.

In this moment, he possessed sixty years of pure strength.

The eruption of sixty years of strength was enough to unleash earth-shattering might.

With sufficient Inner Breath, even when faced with an army of ten thousand armored soldiers, all composed of beginner-grade martial artists, he could slay them through and through.

Afterward.

He stilled the miscellaneous thoughts in his mind and continued to refine the hundred-year-old Thunder Fruit within him.

After a long while.

Jiang Ning finally slowly opened his eyes.

"A sexagenary cycle's worth of strength growth!!"

He felt extremely shocked in his heart.

One fruit had accomplished a sexagenary cycle's worth of strength growth.

He wouldn't have dared imagine this before, but now it had truly happened within his body.

This also meant that the strength he now possessed had surpassed a hundred years, nearly reaching an astonishing two sexagenary cycles' worth of strength.