Surpassing limits

A little more time passed that had long surpassed the time that was given by Ki so Isaac notified Rashida and the blood shadow group to begin tracking Ki's whereabouts.

After they followed the road and reached the location of the horse and carriage they continued to track the footsteps into the forest.

They continued to slowly survey the surroundings and followed the footsteps deeper into the forest towards where the fight between Ki and the northerners took place.

Not far away from the site of the battle they found a bag that had been carefully placed by a tree.

They opened the bag and removed a map with a circled area written on it.

Rashida took the map and began to read it and turned to the blood shadow group and ordered. "The master has wrote down the location of the battle site but it is marked as dangerous so we need to carefully approach and keep a lookout from a distance. If there are no signs of her being injured or anything then we have to wait for the final outcome."

Rashida and the blood shadow group continued to move to the location of the battle but as they reached the location they were met with the sight of a dark green mist enveloping the surroundings and a small figure that seemed to be sitting within it accompanied by a tall figure standing guard.

Within the mist Ki was undergoing a great change, the insides of her body felt like they were being stabbed by thousands of tiny needles all at once.

Even her blood vessels felt they were on the verge of rupturing and her internal organs were also greatly affected by the poisons effects.

Her whole body was undergoing a process of destruction and rejuvenation further tempering her inside and outside at the same time another step further.

Ki focussed most of her energy on building and strengthening the foundation on her internal organs, blood vessels, meridians and bones.

Once she had reached the limits and built herself a strong enough foundation to built upon she sent the remaining poison away from her insides with her qi and the help from her silkworm Gu to eat any lingering parts within her body.

The rest of the poison was sent towards her muscles, tendons and skin and continued the process of strengthening and tempering them further with the help of the blood Buddha qi arts body strengthening part.

Her poisonous qi also began to be tempered further by the poisonous body strengthening recipe and some of it began to help increase her white poison qi's effects and lethality even further.

The first stage of the body strengthening art was to temper the muscles, tendons and skin before reaching the transcendent stage.

After surpassing the transcendent stage begins the bone tempering and storing blood qi within the bones.

As the martial artist is in between the transcendent stage and the unrestrained realm or already has broken through they need to undergo a bone metamorphosis.

The blood qi builds up and tempers the bones until it reaches a stage of where it is eventually broken down and then able to create a new set of bones within the body just like undergoing a bone metamorphosis.

The final stage is tempering the internal organs after reaching the unrestrained realm and then the blood vessels and meridians upon reaching the bright realm.

Although the stages are put forward like that the first stages continue to be strengthened more the further along the practice has progressed.

The reason why Ki mentioned to others in her previous life that they would have to destroy their martial arts and start again was because the body they had built up from training to their current realm was more difficult to break down, build a solid foundation upon and temper than a weaker or immature body.

Especially a martial artist that had already undergone a bone metamorphosis as they could not undergo the bone metamorphosis stage of the blood Buddha qi arts body strengthening section.

Thanks to the large amounts of blood and vitality collected over the many years plus the blood and the highly poisonous blood collected during the battle it helped Ki to take an unexpected step forward to surpassing her limits and build a strong foundation for when she begins the next stages of strengthening her body.

The more potent effects of the poisonous body tempering recipe brought forth a high risk but high rewards to Ki and take another step forward.

Although her skin, bones and tendons had already surpassed her current stage and limit and had broken past the transcendent stage she still suppressed her current qi level to avoid breaking through too early while her body was still too immature.

She estimated that while she could continue to strengthen her body and build upon her foundation in strengthening her bones she should have to suppress her current realm for around another year.

The closer she was to her teens the better she was able to make the best use of her bodies full strength so she chose to wait to break through to the transcendent realm and suppress her realm until she felt her foundation was solid enough.

Several hours passed by and finally the poisonous mist had completely dispersed and entered Ki's body.

The red lights flickered on the runic patterns on her arms and then went out after the poisonous mist had dispersed.

After enduring the pain and experiencing both mental and physical exhaustion after splitting her consciousness to both endure the pain and control the poison in her body but using her mystical arts to control the blood mists for a long period of time she finally lost consciousness.

Her body fell backwards among a pile of bodies as all of the mists had dispersed and the body of the corpse puppet remained where it stood as if it was only following the instructions it had been previously given.

The people on the outside of the danger zone looked on with worry in their eyes as they saw her body fall backwards and stop moving but they knew that they could not enter so they chose to keep guard of the surroundings and make sure there were no unexpected actions to harm her.