Qi and Blood: 111 Calories!

The heavy Alloy Gate slowly closed behind us.

Zhang Weimin and Wei Tianlong had already left, and the cultivation room returned to calm.

Gu Ci turned around, and surprisingly, the corners of his mouth turned up slightly.

"That Zhang Weimin guy, although he asked me to be your teacher, he's still a bit stuck in his ways. True geniuses... don't care about age!"

"White Emperor, one of the Starfield Martial Gods of the Human Federation, took the college entrance examination at the age of fifteen and won the top score in the Federation Top Scholar, entering the Federation Martial Academy, one of the three major Federation academies, and ultimately becoming one of the Starfield Martial Gods!"

His voice echoed in the empty room.

"The 110-card barrier isn't easy to break, but each additional card can greatly enhance Martial Artist's potential."

As soon as he finished speaking, he took a specially designed refrigerated box, gleaming with a cold metallic light, from his Storage Bracelet and placed it on the floor.

Click.

The lid was opened, and a bone-chilling cold instantly filled the air.

Ten specially made crystal tubes filled with a scarlet, viscous liquid lay quietly in a deep blue cryogenic gel.

Each potion seemed to seal away a raging Anomalous Beast from Primordial Era; just looking at it, one could feel the terrifying, immense energy contained within.

"The energy in each dose of Intermediate Qi and Blood Potion is beyond the absorption of an ordinary Quasi-Martial Artist!"

Gu Ci's gaze fell on Chen Fan.

"Your task is to absorb them all within seven days."

He paused, then emphasized, word by word:

"To break through the 110-calorie limit on your Qi and Blood, external energy is crucial, but at the same time... it will cause significant damage to your physical body. If you succeed, your Qi and Blood will naturally strengthen and repair your body, but if you fail..."

Gu Ci, but Chen Fan understood what she Gu Ci next.

There was no fear in Chen Fan's eyes; he simply nodded calmly, "I understand."

Gu Ci glanced at Chen Fan and said softly.

"The process will be extremely painful, a thousand times more painful than anything you've ever experienced in a gravity chamber."

Gu Ci took the first vial of medicine out of the refrigerator and handed it to Chen Fan. A layer of white frost had condensed on the surface of the cold crystal tube, creating an eerie contrast with the scalding scarlet liquid inside.

"I will watch over you and make sure you don't die, but that's all. You have to bear all the pain yourself."

Chen Fan took the cold crystal tube, and without the slightest hesitation, unscrewed the cap, tilted his head back, and drank the scalding, lava-like scarlet liquid in one gulp.

The moment the medicine entered his throat, an extremely violent and intensely hot energy exploded in his esophagus, stomach, and even his limbs!

Chen Fan's skin turned blood red in an instant, billowing steam rose from the top of his head, and the veins all over his body bulged out like countless ferocious dragons, writhing wildly under his skin.

"Ugh!"

An barely suppressed growl finally burst forth from deep within Chen Fan's throat.

He endured the excruciating pain of his body being torn apart inch by inch from the inside out. Without even having time to adjust his posture, he crossed his legs and sat heavily on the ground, frantically circulating the "Star-Transferring Blood Art".

Boom!

The cold and domineering Star Power was forcibly drawn from the Void, like a silver river flowing from the heavens, pouring into his crown chakra.

At the same time, the intense and wild medicinal power surged through his meridians like a mad, prehistoric beast!

One hot and one cold!

Instead of neutralizing each other as expected, the two diametrically opposed extreme forces stirred up an unprecedented storm within Chen Fan's body, a storm powerful enough to destroy everything!

The icy Star Power attempted to suppress and freeze everything, while the fiery medicinal power sought to burn and melt everything.

Chen Fan's meridians instantly transformed into a battlefield where these two god-like and demonic forces clashed!

His body trembled violently under the frenzied onslaught of these two forces, his jaw clenched tightly, and blood was already seeping from the corner of his mouth.

But he ignored all of that.

He forcefully controlled these two destructive forces, twisting them into one, and smashed them into the unbreakable 110-calorie Qi and Blood barrier deep within his Qi Sea Dantian!

"Bang!"

A deafening roar, seemingly emanating from the depths of the soul.

Chen Fan's body jolted violently, as if struck by lightning.

The barrier trembled violently under the onslaught of energy, emitting mournful cries of unbearable strain, yet it remained as solid as divine iron, showing no sign of breaking.

On the contrary, Chen Fan himself experienced a momentary blurring of consciousness and a sweet taste in his throat under the terrifying backlash.

"Puff!"

A mouthful of scalding hot blood, which he could no longer hold back, gushed out of his mouth.

Before the blood even hit the ground, it was instantly vaporized into a blood mist by the high temperature emanating from his body.

Crimson blood began to slowly seep from his eyes, ears, mouth, nose, and other seven orifices, making him look like a demon returned from hell.

Consciousness nearly collapsed under the extreme pain.

In the corner, Gu Ci stood with his arms crossed, his expression cold and indifferent, as if everything happening before him had nothing to do with him.

But those fists hidden in the shadows had already clenched tightly without anyone noticing.

Seven days later, in the A-Level Gravity Training Room.

Time seemed to stand still here. Chen Fan sat cross-legged in the center of the room, no longer resembling a human being.

His skin was dry and cracked like parched earth, covered with dark red cracks, as if it would crumble into dust at the slightest touch.

He had already swallowed all ten Intermediate Qi and Blood Potions.

At this moment, he was clinging to his last breath entirely by his unwavering will to live.

In the shadows of the corner, Gu Ci remained motionless, but his expression was somewhat complicated.

For seven days and seven nights, he witnessed firsthand how this nine-year-old child struggled on the verge of collapse time and time again, forcibly repairing his torn meridians only to be overwhelmed by the increasingly violent effects of the medicine.

"That's enough..."

Gu Ci's Adam's apple bobbed, and his hoarse voice almost escaped his lips.

That's enough. With such a foundation, even if it stops at 110 calories, it's enough to make it stand out from its peers. There's no need... really no need to risk your life.

This is why Gu Ci didn't tell Chen Fan that there was still a path ahead until Chen Fan realized that his Qi and Blood could continue to improve.

This road... is just too difficult to walk on!

Out of the hundreds of billions of people in the entire Human Federation, only two or three hundred people have ever done it.

Just as Gu Ci was about to lose control and forcibly interrupt this suicidal trial...

"Ah!"

A roar that sounded inhuman burst forth from deep within the throat of that charred body.

Chen Fan suddenly opened his eyes, and those eyes, which should have been dim, were now burning with an almost manic, dazzling light.

"Break for me!!"

"Snap!"

The 110-calorie constraint on Qi and Blood shattered instantly at that moment.