Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely Chapter 1314 - 430: Emergence from Seclusion, Hairpin Ceremony and Blunders, Great Xia’s Splendor and the Eve of an Explosion

Star-picking Platform, Enlightenment Lotus Platform

Seated cross-legged with eyes shut tight, Xia Hong's body radiated intense flames. A towering dark red skeletal form, close to six zhang in height, hovered behind him, its surface covered in patterns resembling molten gold, giving off an aura of profound mystery.

His breathing grew more rapid and forceful, causing the golden patterns to shine even brighter, as if fueling the relentless expansion of the dark red skeletal form.

The shadowy skeletal form behind him continued to grow steadily.

Though the pace was incredibly sluggish, advancing inch by inch, it was undeniably lengthening and broadening, with the aura from the swelling dark red skeletal form turning ever more fearsome.

The skeletal form now stood at nearly six zhang tall.

This latest surge of growth brought it right up to the six zhang mark.

Yet that final inch gap caused Xia Hong's breaths to come heavier, the agony twisting his features more sharply.

"Huh... huh......"

With medicinal energy flooding his body at an accelerating rate, a muffled groan escaped him, as a sphere of white light burst from his forehead, fragmented into a portion that wildly poured into him alongside the medicine.

Buzz!

A thunderous roar detonated within Xia Hong's mind, the dark red skeletal form behind him blazing with intense light once more, surging past that final inch in a climactic breakthrough.

"Six zhang skeletal form, success!"

His eyes snapped open, flames around him erupting skyward and doubling in size, while the warming radius, previously limited to 500 meters, rapidly stretched further.

500 meters... 600 meters... 700 meters... 900 meters... 1100 meters... 1300 meters... 1500 meters.

The Inner City of Great Xia spanned just over five kilometers in depth, with a three-kilometer radius now fully enveloped, allowing Xia Hong to sense nearly every stir within the Inner City.

"The warming range has tripled from before, but how about the power boost..."

Xia Hong balled his fists lightly, gaze fixed on the open sky over the Star-picking Platform, eyes gleaming with sharp light, then thrust his fist upward toward the heavens.

Fist winds exploded forth, morphing straight into roaring flames like a fire dragon roaring skyward, followed instantly by a deafening sonic boom echoing across the firmament.

Boom......

From the epicenter of the Flame Dragon Fist Wind, a five-li radius above the Inner City saw not just snowflakes obliterated but all nearby chill banished, creating a stark vacuum akin to a nuclear blast's purge.

Buzz......

Whirr whirr whirr......

Shock waves rippled outward over a dozen li, drawing back the scattered air into a ferocious swirling vortex as they expanded.

Setting aside the Inner City's uproar for now, Xia Hong stared intensely at the clouds churned by his punch high overhead, his eyes alight with exhilaration and wild joy.

"40 Jun, tripled—no, prior to that pivotal surge, my base power was just 12 Jun, making it over three times, nearly 3.5 times the boost—that's insanely powerful, insanely powerful..."

Fervor burned in Xia Hong's eyes right then.

One Jun matches 100,000 jin, with 100 Jun forming 1 greater Jun, so a single Jun roughly equals 10 million jin, tens of millions of jin—a force beyond mere numbers, stepping into a whole new realm of might.

This marks the Xianyang Level, where strength halts without advancing the cultivation stage.

For at Jun levels, pushing further demands insurmountable effort!

Xia Hong had dared hope for double, from 12 Jun to 24 Jun—that was his wildest expectation.

A 3.5-fold leap delivered an enormous shock!

Remember, this reflects only the raw strength gain.

"Before, I guessed Yang Zhun, Shangguan Yang, and Qin Feng were all late-stage Xianyang, yet now it appears they're merely mid-stage, and their mid-stage pales woefully against mine."

Slightly shifting, Xia Hong shut his eyes to feel the transformation in his skeletal form.

The most striking transformation in the bone appearance was undoubtedly its size, expanding from the original three zhang to a massive six zhang now; following that, the bone appearance's hue had become far more lustrous than before, while the patterns etched on it shifted toward a dazzling pure gold; and lastly, surrounding the bone appearance's exterior emerged a fresh layer of translucent meridian tissue.

Back in last September's fierce clash at Hongmen, Yang Zhun's bone appearance had sported a similar layer of meridian tissue around its edge, which Xia Hong once mistook for a marker of late-stage Xianyang cultivation—yet now, after his own breakthrough, he grasps the truth completely.

"Mid-stage reveals meridians, late-stage probably sprouts flesh, and at the peak, skin membranes form, letting the bone appearance battle body fully take shape—is that how it goes?"

A pensive look crossed Xia Hong's face as he examined the bone appearance's evolution.

Even without handed-down wisdom from his ancestors, cultivation unfolds in clear stages with patterns to trace, enabling him to make solid inferences.

Battle Body Talent differentiates right at the breakthrough to Cold Resistance Level, during the skin membrane reshaping phase, with all later power surges in that level tied directly to it;

War Body Bone Appearance begins its differentiation upon entering the Xianyang Level, and the ensuing strength boosts in Xianyang are profoundly linked to this as well.

Iron Bone at 3 Jun, Silver Bone 4 Jun, Gold Bone 5 Jun, Jade Bone 7 Jun, culminating in Bone Burning at 10 Jun—the power levels of these five phases remain vividly etched in his memory.