The Ultimate Star

Southern Expedition Seal

Edric could even feel that the outer joints of his little fingers began to crack with a sound of crackling as the force was constantly pressing on them. He was in so much pain that he could hardly breathe. 

There were more and more cracks on the joints, and more and more beads of sweat were on Edric's head. He was already trembling slightly, obviously due to the pain.

Seeing him endure it so much and not give up, Nan Faye nodded and thought to himself: In Ousai, you are a very strong person.

The energy consumed in refining the joints is very huge, so Nan Faye would replenish some of it every once in a while. When he was replenishing the energy, he could also feel the changes in the joints inside. 

At this time, two-thirds of the little finger bone had been shattered. As long as he put in a little more effort, it would be completely shattered, and then enter the crushing stage.

As a piece of bone at the end of Edric's little finger broke into pieces, Nan Faye said, "Okay, the first stage is complete. Now you push the bone fragments to the edge of your finger, and we will work together to press them back and forth and crush them into powder."

Edric followed his instructions and slowly directed the energy to move the fragment to the edge of his finger. Nan Faye suddenly increased the force of the energy he injected externally, directly wrapping the fragment. His strength was much greater than Edric's, and also more domineering.

Edric groaned, but this time he endured the double pain of fracture and skin compression.

Another minute passed, and the work of refining the little finger joint was basically completed. Edric also felt that the pain was a little bit less. Nan Faye was still injecting energy to do the finishing work. 

Suddenly, he felt a huge energy coming, which directly squeezed the energy he had injected into Edric's body out of his body. At this time, his body was leaning forward, pinching Edric's fingers, but he was staggered by this huge force and fell directly backwards.

Edric quickly helped him up and asked, "What's wrong?"

"It's okay, it's okay." Nan Faye was still in shock, but said very happily.

At this time, the fingers of Edric's right hand had no bones, so they collapsed on the back of his hand. But the strange thing was that the fingers did not deflate. On the contrary, they were a little more bulging than before.

Nan Faye pinched it and found that there were no bones. He could pinch it to the bottom, but when he let go, it would immediately expand again, as if it was filled with gas.

Nan Faye said, that was the saturated power supporting it. When the strength was strong enough, there would be no problem in walking, running and fighting.

Strangely enough, when the bones were gone, the pain in the fingers immediately subsided a little, and there was no longer the stinging pain just now.

"I thought about what you told me about the bone marrow. You can use the bone marrow of your little finger as the axis and build a few circles of force storage layers around it. This will ensure the safety of the bone marrow and increase the thickness of the force storage. From the outside, it still looks like a skeleton and will not arouse suspicion." Nan Faye said, "When you reach the external stage and have the force-sifht, you can also see the situation inside your body. If you feel that they are of no use, you can refine them. Look at me, the only things I have in common with you are lungs, stomach, large and small intestines, muscles, cells, and a brain."

The Osais were perfectly evolved people. Their stomachs were mostly used to store some medicine. They had no heart and no blood vessels. Their body metabolism depended entirely on their internal energy, and the movement of their limbs is controlled by the brain and nerves. Since they had no red blood, if they were pierced, they would release four colors of energy as blood.

Hearing about internal vision, Edric's heart moved. He looked at the skull covered on his left hand and thought: If I could look inward, wouldn't I be able to see what is under this skull?

It seemed that he needed to work harder to break through to the external stage. Edric couldn't even wait.

The golden-haired ape outside was still dismantling the cave wall. Edric didn't have much time left. After enduring the initial pain, the progress below was unusually smooth. Within ten minutes, Edric was able to move his little finger, although the movement was very slow, as if his little finger was paralyzed.

After more than half an hour, the numb feeling disappeared, and Edric finally felt the power in his little finger. He was able to command it perfectly and jumped up without any excitement.

"Come on, continue. Let's speed up and energize your entire left hand. You have 2,000 kilograms of brute force. I believe you should be able to hold on after your left hand is energized." Nan Faye directly pulled Edric's hand and said.

"I think...ah..." Before Edric could finish his words, Nan Faye crushed Edric's entire left hand like a walnut. The severe pain almost made Edric faint.

Nan Faye was also helpless at this time. The cave wall outside was being smashed by the golden-haired ape and stone chips were falling down. If he didn't quickly turn one hand into a powerful one so that the hand could partially reach the external stage, he would not be able to practice his family's power-generating skills. 

If he was a little bit late, the golden-haired ape might break through the cave wall and come in to eat them alive.

Edric's scream also aroused the golden-haired ape's ferocity. It opened its mouth wide and roared at the two people in the cave with its fangs and claws bared, but it couldn't get in, so it could only howl but not take action.

After half an hour of crazy torture, all the bones in his left hand turned into powder and melted into his body. His left hand did not shrink because of the lack of bones. On the contrary, it expanded a little more than before the bones. Edric felt like he had done an overload of physical work. He was sweating all over and didn't want to move.

"Try to control your hands. Your body is quite different now. Your left hand should have entered the extroverted stage, with energy clearly flowing inside, but other parts of your body are still in the introverted stage. As a result, when you attack, you still can't see the outward-emitting light from your left hand." Nan Faye said with a smile.

Edric slowly raised his left hand, moved his wrist symbolically, and looked at Nan Faye with indignation in his eyes.

Nan Faye smiled and said, "I'm doing this for your own good. Look outside. If we don't speed up and that beast breaks in, we won't be able to survive."

"But what's the use of just one hand to gather strength? I still can't beat the golden-haired ape."

"That's not necessarily true. When you are able to command the attack, I will teach you the 'Southern Expedition Seal' that our Southern Expedition family is proud of. Then you will be able to defeat this beast." Nan Faye said with a smile.

"It's a deal. But what is the Southern Expedition Seal?"

"The Southern Expedition Seal is a unique skill created by my ancestors. In the Ousai Star Region, it has been granted the title of 'Crazy Skill of Energy' by the Ousai Temple, and it has gained great fame in Ousai. It can disrupt the flow of energy in a person's body, or block and kill them. It is a top-notch martial art."

In the Ouse star field, energy-generating skills were equivalent to ancient secret books, which could enable people to better exert the energy of energy-generating skills. The Southern Expedition Seal was a second-grade superior energy-generating skill with a total of eight styles.

When practicing it, a certain energy-generating foundation was required to unleash its top-level power.

For example, the first move of the Southern Expedition Seal: 'Open Sky Seal'. It required the strength of the basic external stage, with the power to split caves and shake the earth.

Hearing that there was a skill to learn, and it was a second-grade upper-level one, Edric sat up suddenly, and actually grabbed his left hand with his right hand, guiding it to move. 

Nan Faye smiled, it turned out that temptation was necessary to have motivation.

The power in Edric's body could only transform one hand for the time being. If he continued to transform bones, there would be no support from the power and it would shrink, which would be counterproductive. 

Next, Edric needs to continue to practice brute force to generate more internal power in his body. At some point, he may suddenly break through and reach the external stage.

Another half an hour later, Edric was able to shake his left hand easily. He followed Nan Faye's instructions and formed circles of energy around the bone marrow. When he pinched his left hand, he could see the smooth shape of the bones. Unless you looked closely, you couldn't tell anything different.

"Come on, try the difference between having bones and not having bones." Nan Faye pointed at the cave wall behind him and said, "Give it a punch and see how it goes."

Edric nodded, stood up, and punched the cave wall with both fists.

After two loud banging noises, his right hand left a very vague fist mark on the wall, which made Edric sigh that the quality of the rocks here was really good. 

On the other hand, his left hand made him dumbfounded, as his left fist had completely penetrated into the cave wall, leaving a fist mark of one or two centimeters in size.