On the second day since Young Miss Huang Biren had gone to the party, she was expected to return to the Huang mansion, but she didn't. People thought she might have decided to stay at the palace for one more day, so no alarms went off. The only one who thought differently was the white wolf, who knew the young miss didn't change her plans so casually. To make things even more difficult, the patriarch had also left the capital and wasn't expected to return for at least a week.
The wolf was worried about the human, but it tried to push this worry down as much as possible so it could begin its new cultivation. That night, the wolf tried out its technique for the first time, and it was not disappointed as it had been on the previous occasions when its self-made techniques left it on the brink of death. This time, it was able to gather the surrounding world qi and absorb it into its body without any issues. It then began to circulate the qi through its meridians before directing it into its source core, located near its belly button. Finally, it directed the purified qi into its bones.
When the qi entered its source core, the wolf felt as though it had transcended. Its very being was rejuvenated, raising its talent for cultivation and also increasing its cultivation realm. All of its senses became heightened, giving the wolf a feeling of seeing and knowing all. Its bones grew harder, and the wolf felt as though they had become unbreakable. This was all due to a single circulation of the technique, and yet the increase in cultivation was far beyond what the wolf had expected. Throughout the night, the wolf cultivated as though there was no tomorrow. Whenever its cultivation made even a small increase, it felt like all its dreams were close at hand.
When the sun finally came out, the white wolf opened its eyes. In them, one could see excitement mixed with the flames of vengeance. The wolf had created its technique with inspiration from human cultivation, so some similarities couldn't be avoided. The wolf had entered the Bone-Forging Realm, the first realm of human cultivation. The wolf was no longer on the cultivation path of beasts. It hated humans, but it had to admit that their cultivation path seemed better, at least the levels it had seen so far. This wasn't to say the white wolf had found no issues with the human path.
When humans cultivate, they absorb origin qi from the world. Origin qi is just a small component of world qi. Humans cultivate using origin qi not because it's the most powerful, but because it's one of the easiest to control and doesn't harm the human body. Demonic beasts, on the other hand, absorb world qi without choosing any of its components; they simply use the world qi itself to cultivate. The white wolf speculated that a demonic beast in a certain cultivation realm is far more powerful compared to a human in the equivalent realm. With this speculation, the white wolf created a technique that could use world qi for cultivation while still following the human principles of cultivation, which seemed to be more thought-out and organized for maximum growth in power.
The white wolf didn't know what the consequences of this untested technique would have on its body and mind, but it didn't care. It was still too focused on vengeance to analyze things carefully. If it had, it would have realized that it wasn't the first to try merging the beast and human cultivation paths, and it would have wondered why no one had ever succeeded.
Although early Bone-Forging was not a massive increase in cultivation, one had to remember that it was achieved in a single night. In the days that followed, the wolf cultivated day and night, taking only short breaks to check if the young miss had returned. Two more days went by, and Huang Biren was nowhere to be seen. At this point, the white wolf had reached mid-Bone-Forging, making its bones as hard as iron. The only thing the wolf worried about was the young miss, and this worry for a human female made it feel as though it was betraying its heart of vengeance. To calm its mind, the wolf convinced itself it was only worried about her because she was its meal ticket in the Huang mansion, but the worry didn't go away completely.