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On April 25, a joint operation with Southwest Falcon to reclaim the Hawkmouth Hydropower Station was finally carried out. The Southwest Falcon side sent out the most powerful and independent troop with a strength of over a thousand people, while Little Qingshan's self-rescue battalion was led by Chen Jing's personal commander, as well as the Green Dragon Legion's "1011" brigade and special battalions led by Wei Dong and Tian Yu.

To be honest, the main reason for the delay was that there were more than two hundred meat mountains in the northern part of Mianzhou, all the way to the Longmen Mountains. The meat mountain was placed between the end of December last year and the beginning of January this year. In the previous few times, the density of the meat mountain was about two square kilometers. This time, however, only 240 meat mountains, about five square kilometers, were placed in the vast area which extended from the northern part of Mianzhou to the northern part of the Longmen Mountains, which was about 30 kilometers to the north and the southern part of the mountain from the east to the west, which was about 40 kilometers to one thousand square kilometers. This time, he had raised it for more than four months, and the time was also double the previous period. Xiao's scouts estimated that most of them grew to more than twenty tons, with a few even approaching forty tons.

This group of meat mountain rescue camps had been collecting since the beginning of April, and it had taken them more than a week to complete the harvest. The bad news was that three mountains of flesh had disappeared, and of course the remaining cores were still there. He also found a black pearl about the size of a walnut and two smaller ones among the remaining cores. From this, it seemed that the core secrets that the rescue camp had protected with all their might could no longer be kept. Of course there was good news, that was after harvesting 238 beads, most of them were as big as an egg, some were as small as walnuts, and 8 of the beads were even bigger than a fist. What was even more gratifying was that he had harvested four egg sized and one walnut-sized grey beads. It seemed that Zhang Xiang had a guarantee to advance to the Second Order.

It took Chen Jing about four hours to bring his troops to the Hawkmouth Hydropower Station, but it was not difficult to get to the station, since the zombies in the western part of the city had all been eaten by the mountain of flesh. The trip only took them more than four hours. Of course, according to the original agreement, the 101st Regiment, which had arrived earlier, had camped in the open area below the power station, awaiting the arrival of the friendly troops.

In fact, a large portion of the zombies in the area they had entered into had also been eaten by the mountains of flesh. However, because the movement of the main force's march had attracted the zombies from the more east, although the main force's strength was also very strong, they still had to spend more than seven hours to reach the power station after two in the afternoon. They had to pay the price of more than a hundred casualties. In the end, it was thanks to Tianyu's support team that they were able to eliminate the more than one thousand zombies that were following them.

The Lanting River originated from the mountainous and vast Longmen Mountains. With a sufficient amount of water, it rushed out of the mountains between the Eagle Mouth Peak and Cloud Mist Mountain, heading towards the northeast.

Eagle Beak Peak was named because at the mouth of the Lanting River, there was a huge rock that was hundreds of thousands of tons, like an eagle's beak, extending from the mountain all the way to the heart of the Lanting River, causing the river water to flow out of the huge depression in the mountain before it flowed out of the hole. As a result, this boulder is known as the Eagle's Beak, and the mountain peak is known as the Eagle's Beak Peak.

In the nineties of the last century, the government built a dam about forty meters tall according to the special topography of the Eagle's Beak. It intercepted ten kilometers of river water upstream of the Lan Ting River, forming a reservoir with a depth of over thirty meters called the Eagle's Beak Reservoir, which was also known as the Eagle's Beak Lake. Of course, there are also three medium hydraulic generating sets with a capacity of 50 thousand kW installed on the dam

There probably weren't any zombies left at Eagle's Beak Power Station. That was because the commotion caused when Chen Jing and his group arrived had already lured over ten zombies down from above. Considering the space above the power station was not big, Chen Jing and Zhang Jianjun each brought a small elite team. On Chen Jing's side was the commander general's guard led by Zhang Xinlin.

On the left side of the dam, there was a five-storey office building. During the search, the team members also rescued two men, three women and five survivors. According to the survivors, since the power station was a large hydroelectric power station with a capacity of 150 thousand kilowatts, there were about 30 people on duty in the different departments at the time, while 8 people survived. One of them was eaten by zombies on the spot, while the remaining 7 survived in the room. Fortunately, the power station was far away from the city, so there was a small cafeteria. At first, the group of seven discovered that more than twenty zombies were gathered downstairs. Fortunately, after a few days, the zombies started to evacuate towards the mountains. A month later, the last zombie also left. Of course, although there weren't any zombies downstairs, the seven of them knew that zombies were in the surrounding forest, so they didn't dare to move for a long time. However, three months ago, two of them couldn't stand the loneliness anymore, so they ignored the other five and snuck down the mountain. However, half an hour later, the remaining five heard the screams of one of them as well as the howls of the zombies. However, the remaining five didn't dare to run anymore.

Due to the advanced automatic safety protection equipment installed in the power station, the power station stopped automatically immediately after the accident and cut off contact with the outside world. As a result, all the equipment remained in good condition.

The integrity of the electric station naturally made Chen Jing and the rest extremely happy, however, when Chen Jing and Zhang Jianjun led the group back to the top of the dam, an accident happened. A huge water python about ten meters long suddenly sprung out of the Eagle Lake, engulfing the unprepared Chen Jing in the water, catching everyone around them unprepared. Zhang Xinlin and the other members of his guards jumped into the water anxiously, but how could they catch up to the water python? Before long, the water python carried Chen Jing and ran into the depths of Eagle's Mouth Lake.

Zhang Xinlin and the rest, as well as Wei Dong and the others who had caught up to them, were still unable to find anything even after an hour, so they had no choice but to send people to send the news back to headquarters. By the end of the day, You Ye and Lu Min, accompanied by Xiao Gang and the others, arrived at the power station.

The next day, the army of thousands of people busied themselves for a whole day, exterminating more than a thousand zombies that rushed over upon hearing the news. They searched the entire Eagle Lake, but to no avail. That night, other than Wang Lei, Zhang Xinlin, and their commander in chief's guards who were accompanying You Cai and Lu Min, the rest of the people returned to headquarters with a heavy heart. In addition, there was another person who stayed behind. This person was Zhang Zixin. She stayed behind in the name of accompanying Lu Min and Sister You Cai.

To be honest, when Zi Xin and her father recognized each other, she couldn't forget about Chen Jing calling her a silly lass. After two sleepless nights, Zi Xin knew that she had fallen in love with the man who wanted her to call him Uncle Chen Jing at first sight. Thus, when she heard that Chen Jing had been carried away by the water python, she had followed him over while crying.

As for Chen Jing, after he was carried into the water by the water python, he began to sink rapidly, 5 meters, 10 meters, 20 meters... As the water python, as he sank rapidly, 5 meters, 10 meters, 20 meters... Of course, the danger was still far from over. The water python's unceasingly increasing twisting power seemed to want to squeeze out all the bones in Chen Jing's body. Fortunately, after advancing to the Second Order, Chen Jing's body's resistance had greatly increased, thus he was barely able to resist the water python's huge twisting power for the time being.

An hour later, the water python brought Chen Jing into a hundred-meter-deep cave. Perhaps the readers were wondering where this hundred-meter-deep cave came from the 30-meter-deep Eagle's Beak Lake. Actually, aside from this water python that used the cave as its lair, no one else knew. Originally, in the Longmen Mountains, there were many limestone layers. Due to the erosion of water flow over tens of millions of years, there were many huge karst caves. However, there was a 200 metre deep karst cave located 2 km upstream of the dam. Originally, this cave was still more than 20 meters away from the surface. However, 20 years ago, there was a huge earthquake and a 2-meter-wide crack appeared at the top of the cave. It was unknown when this water python had used the karst cave as its lair.

As a result, when Chen Jing managed to withstand the pressure and started to improve, he used the Six Vein Divine Sword in his right hand to cut apart the water python. Who knew that after the water python evolved, it would also be a blessing in disguise, and by now, it was already a Level Two creature. The scales on its body were abnormally strong, making it impossible for the Six Vein Divine Sword to break through its defense. However, it was also because of this water python's bad luck that it had encountered a human who was good at using his brain.

Thus, when Chen Jing discovered how powerful the scales of the water python were, he immediately began to pry open the scales. However, the water python's scales were very sturdy, and Chen Jing only had one hand left to use. Thus, it took him over an hour to pry open a fist-sized scale. By this time, the water python had already returned to its nest. Of course, once the water python returned to its lair, it would enjoy its prey. Thus, not too long after Chen Jing had pried open the scales, the water python's bloody maw had shot towards him, swallowing him whole. In that critical moment, Chen Jing had stabbed his sword into the location where the scales had been pried open. The sharp sword of six meridians pierced deep into the body of the water python, causing red blood to immediately spurt out. The enormous pain naturally caused the water python to no longer be able to eat.

Taking advantage of the fact that the snake was dying, Chen Jing naturally did not show any mercy. He struck out with his right hand's five swords, causing some of the scales on the snake's body to disintegrate. Only a layer of skin remained on the snake's body. Under such great pain, how could the water python care about Chen Jing? He let go of Chen Jing and tumbled inside the cave. The huge impact finally broke the lower half of the water python's body. The water python, which had lost half of its body, continued to roll for about half an hour before it finally stopped.

After the water python died, Chen Jing, who had just recovered from the shock, floated in the karst cave, kicking and checking his injuries with his spirit sense. Luckily, apart from a few small cracks on his ribs, everything else was fine. After that, Chen Jing carefully examined his ribs with his spiritual sense. During the examination, Chen Jing discovered something unexpected: Originally, the meridians could not connect to the bones, but at this moment, on the ribs, several thin threads had grown out from the end of one of his meridians, deeply digging into the ribs. His Qi had entered the ribs through the thin threads, and the bones nourished by Qi were becoming crystal clear.

After that, Chen Jing used his spiritual sense to check other places and found that all of his Jing and Mai had more or less grown filaments, but most of them were still very short, far from penetrating into his bones.

Seeing this, Chen Jing's heart moved. He immediately sat down cross-legged and began to circulate his inner qi while using his divine sense to observe what was happening. Chen Jing discovered that when he circulated his inner strength, the filaments at the end of his meridians began to grow slowly. A few hours later, a small part of filaments entered into his bones, and the filaments at the wound on his ribs grew deeper into his ribs. The surface of his ribs also became crystal clear, and the cracks on his ribs started to heal as well.

Seeing the situation, Chen Jing was so happy that he couldn't get tired from training. He even forgot about the time.

Two days later, Chen Jing had stopped cultivating. All the threads from his meridians had drilled into his bones, and the wound on his ribs had long since healed.

After he finished cultivating, Chen Jing didn't know how long he had been underwater. He thought to himself, I should be going up now, or else the people outside would be extremely worried.

On the afternoon of the third day, Chen Jing finally climbed up the dike, but before he could steady himself, a wet figure rushed into his arms. Soon after, another figure climbed out of the water, staggered over, and started crying while leaning on Chen Jing's back.

Of course, Chen Jing didn't notice that another figure had climbed up from the water. However, this figure didn't run over to him, but instead bit his lips and stood there in a daze.

Chen Jing and his team returned to the camp at 1: 30 in the afternoon. As for why they came so quickly? The reason for this was that the highway leading to the power station had been broken through in the last two days. Naturally, Chen Jing's convoy only took half an hour to return to the headquarters of the self-rescue camp.

Of course, the gloomy headquarters of the self-help camp immediately became a sea of joy upon Chen Jing's return, and the sounds of firecrackers came and went one after another. To be honest, in Little Qingshan's eyes, Chen Jing was even better than Grandpa Mao. Seeing the enthusiasm of the people, the corners of Chen Jing's eyes started to tear.

That night, Chen Jing called Ouyang, Wei Dong, and Xiao Gang over to his home. Honestly speaking, when Chen Jing was underwater, he already knew that he had entered a brand-new realm, but what was it? Chen Jing, on the other hand, could not make sense of the situation, so he had to study it as soon as possible. At the same time, he had to take advantage of his own deep feelings to summarize his own cultivation experiences and find a path for the future.

After over a week of research and summarization, the four of them all agreed that this mental cultivation method should be called Bone Forging because the cultivation method was basically cultivating with the help of a huge water pressure to stimulate the energy of the filaments at the end of the meridians to strengthen and temper the bones. Therefore, the definition of Bone Forging should be very reasonable.

In fact, this process was completed by Yang Xue as early as last June. However, Yang Xue's method was completely different from Chen Jing's, Yang Xue's method was to absorb a large amount of energy, causing every cell in the body to reach the energy saturation state. Because the body cells surrounding the bone are oversaturated with energy, they overflowed into the bone, thus achieving the purpose of bone forging.

Chen Jing's method was a bit tricky. He used the threads of energy that grew from the meridians to send into the bones to achieve the goal of forging the bones.

Of course, although their methods were different, their goals were the same: to strengthen and refine their own bones, as the saying goes, 'all roads lead to Rome'. For example, in the Arena, Yang Xue relied on absolute strength to destroy an opponent, whereas Chen Jing was a martial arts master who relied on perfect techniques.

Compared to the fifth level, the sixth level, the Bone Forging Heart Technique, had a much lower word count. The key point was the method of luck in a specific environment (holding one's breath and extremely high water pressure).

After the Bone Forging Heart Technique was concluded, Wang Lei, Wei Dong, Xiao Gang, and more than a dozen Rank 2 experts from the rescue camp all went to the cave to test it out. To be honest, they didn't have to breathe in or out of the water to get used to the pressure, and it wasn't a problem for them to withstand the pressure of more than ten atmospheric pressure underwater for more than a hundred meters. Unfortunately, they still couldn't find any filaments growing at the end of their meridians even after a couple of days of training underwater. Later on, Chen Jing and others thought that everyone had not been in the meat training for long, and there might be a large difference in the amount and quality of internal Qi.