Swoosh!!!

As three bone blades extended from the gaps between his four fingers,

a cold, threatening gleam flashed from the mirror-like bone blades.

Wang Ye’s eyes lit up,

It actually worked!

He reached out, attempting to cut the corner of the wooden table in front of him with the three bone blades. The moment the blades sliced through the wood, the solid wooden table corner was instantly severed, falling to the ground with a clatter.

Wang Ye felt like he hadn’t exerted much force,

yet the wooden table was effortlessly cut through.

This sharpness undoubtedly surpasses over ninety-nine percent of the blades currently available on the market.

It’s like a top-tier blade that has been finely honed with a five-thousand-grit whetstone.

However, those who have sharpened a blade should know that a blade with only one characteristic—sharpness—cannot cut through thick solid wood furniture. Only blades with some heft and a bit of bluntness, like axes or chopping knives, can cleave thick wood.

Those finely-honed blades that can slice a strand of hair often cannot cleave wood because they are too light, and their edges, being too sharp and thin, are prone to chipping. If you tap the edge forcefully, the blade is ruined. Therefore, in martial arts novels, the protagonist’s Profound Iron Heavy Sword is unsharpened because a heavy sword without a sharp edge can exert its greatest power.

Yet, the bone blades emerging from Wang Ye’s palm possess both of these opposing traits simultaneously. This means his bone blades maintain excellent hardness even when extremely thin, a phenomenon only possible through the synthesis and compression of high-hardness metals within Wang Ye’s body.

Though not comparable to Adamantium from Marvel, it’s good enough.

However, what puzzled Wang Ye the most was why the bone blades he grew were so incredibly sharp—does his body contain a whetstone?

He once again attempted to control the remaining chromium elements in his body to grow other bones, testing the limits of his skeletal development ability.

Wang Ye removed his shirt, gritted his teeth, and suddenly drove all the free chromium elements within his body.

In an instant, terrifying bone spurs protruded from his spine, and his teeth extended into sharp points, resembling shark teeth, capable of crushing any object with a mere bite.

Notably, his arms became akin to those of a kangaroo, possessing a certain curvature.

This curvature allowed his arms to act like springs, making his punches faster and more forceful.

Maintaining this form, he suddenly punched, and a sonic boom echoed instantly.

Boom!!

During the testing, Wang Ye discovered that he could seemingly control the developmental shape of his bones at will, turning his palms into tiger-like padded paws or shaping his head like a sharply pointed figure similar to a certain Arnold from Changshu. It was as if shaping clay with his mind.

And because this was entirely controlled by consciousness, the precision was extremely high,

comparable to the highest precision machining tools in the world, which explained the sharpness of his bone blades.

This test result filled Wang Ye with uncontainable joy. Previously, he thought this ability was somewhat of a mediocre development,

but now it seemed this trait was essentially a superpower, allowing him to conjure a weapon sharp enough to slice through metal effortlessly, at any time and place.

When not carrying weapons, suddenly drawing a high-hardness blade from his palm would definitely catch the enemy off guard.

After testing bone fabrication, Wang Ye continued to experiment with retracting the newly grown bones back into his body.

A competent superpower must have the ability to extend and retract,

like Wolverine, who could retract his bone blades into his body at any time.

This would allow him to move through human society normally, without being seen as a monster.

Since his acquired trait came from cultivating the Bone Shrinking Skill, he reasoned he should be able to retract the bones as well.

Wang Ye held his breath and concentrated, focusing on making his palm smaller.

Clack...

Amidst a faint dissolving sound, his palm bones actually began to slowly shrink.

A joyful expression appeared on Wang Ye’s face as he increased his concentration, and simultaneously, the speed of his palm bones shrinking grew faster. As his palm gradually returned to its normal size,

his body also instantly had an additional amount of free chromium elements, ready for his use at any time.

At the same time, the abnormal bones that he had grown in various parts of his body started retracting too. The three bone blades that had erupted on his fists gradually withdrew back into his body; with a fivefold speed increase, it would indeed match Wolverine from the movies.

After retracting all the abnormal bones, Wang Ye moved his body slightly.

His skeleton indeed reverted to its pre-developmental state,

and all the retracted abnormal bones were converted back into free chromium elements,

stored throughout his body.

With just a thought, Wang Ye could summon these chromium elements again, transforming them into new abnormal bones.

This demonstrated that he truly could control the increase and decrease of bones at will, and it wasn’t taxing at all; however, as Wang Ye observed, the speed of retracting bones was somewhat slower than the speed of growing them. If it took half a minute to grow three bone blades, retracting them would take a minute.

So, when in a crowd, it’s best not to summon the abnormal bones,

otherwise, if discovered, there wouldn’t even be time to retract them.

Despite certain drawbacks, Wang Ye was very satisfied with the ability’s outcome. Setting aside the drawbacks, this ability, which allowed him to morph various bizarre bones simply by consuming metal, could almost be described as metal manipulation.