Chapter 115 - 114: To Bow Without Breaking
Goblin Village - Dusk
The days bled into one another.
What once was a solitary madness had become a shared ritual of pain.
Lumberling wasn’t alone in his brutal regimen anymore. Grokk, the towering Gnoll Bonehowler, joined him, day after day, night after night, each session a slow grind of flesh, muscle, and will.
They battered their flesh with stone, sprinted until collapse, and soaked in diluted poisons by moonlight. What had begun as reckless self-destruction now had shape. Purpose. Pattern.
And after months of failure, adjustment, and near-death experimentation...
They succeeded.
They forged the first layer of a new cultivation method. Crude. Brutal. Real.
They named it Bruteforge Body Cultivation Path.
Not born of Qi.
Not blessed by gods.