Standing Tall Requires Breath

As the Tao Rong Iron merged with Zhou Qing's Aura Field, it emitted a hazy, radiant glow, displaying auspiciousness amidst its myriad colors.

Tang San and Xiao Wu felt comfortable all over, and their Soul Power became much purer, even showing signs of a breakthrough.

Tao Rong Iron slowly approached Zhou Qing, eventually dissipating into gas that entered Zhou Qing's eyes, ears, mouth, and nose.

Zhou Qing unconsciously sat cross-legged on the spot, his Innate Internal Scripture Chart circulated and his Blood Circulation System pulsed. The two combined, and black and white energy emerged and entered from the Acupoints all over Zhou Qing's body, endlessly.

As the heart pounded, a peculiar rhythm spread, affecting Tang San and Xiao Wu, causing them to unconsciously enter a state of cultivation.

In the blink of an eye, an hour had passed.

The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm by the lake sensed Tang San and Xiao Wu's situation using its Spiritual Detection skills, but when it looked at Zhou Qing, everything was blurry, and its Spiritual Power was actually blocked.

"Is Zhou Qing the chosen one of the Douluo Continent? What's going on now? He can't even detect me with my Spiritual Power? The Primordial Beginning Refined Iron... what kind of treasure is that?" Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was full of doubts, but she was determined to build a good relationship with Zhou Qing.

With that talent and opportunity, even without his help, he could probably cultivate into a god!

In the future, he might even need to rely on Zhou Qing's coattails!

at this time.

Tang San awoke from his cultivation and discovered that his Soul Power had reached level nineteen, directly breaking through level three!

Xiao Wu's talent for cultivation was even better. After this round of cultivation, her Soul Power broke through more than four levels, reaching level nineteen, which was on par with Tang San.

However, the two of them didn't have time to get excited. They just quietly watched Zhou Qing, who was still in a state of cultivation. Countless Heaven and Earth Energy converged on him and were rapidly refined and strengthened by the black and white Pure and Impure Qi Soul Power.

Rumble!

The heartbeat was like thunder!

Boom!

The contraction and expansion of those blood vessels is exactly like the sound of a bell!

Whoosh!

The blood flowed like a torrent!

In the blink of an eye, another hour passed. The Pure and Impure Qi on Zhou Qing's body separated. The turbid energy descended, sank to the bottom of the sea, and was stored in the Yongquan; the pure energy rose, entered the Heavenly Court, and was placed at the Baihui.

At this moment, Zhou Qing finally opened her eyes, which shone like stars.

For some reason, Tang San felt that Zhou Qing's eyesight had surpassed his own at this moment, reaching a level comparable to that of a mustard seed.

"Zhou Qing, what level has your Soul Power reached?" Xiao Wu asked hurriedly.

Level 20.

Zhou Qing realized that he had reached a bottleneck, and if he did not obtain the next Soul Ring, he would be unable to make any further breakthroughs in Soul Power.

"Tang San and I are both level 19, only one level away from you," Xiao Wu said proudly. "The difference in Soul Power between us is only one level!"

"Have you refined that piece of Tao Rong Iron?" Tang San wanted to see the true appearance of the Tao Rong Iron.

"Um."

Zhou Qing nodded, spread out his hands, and the Pure and Impure Qi appeared, merging into a perfectly round, pitch-black sphere. "Just as you said, this thing is more like a gas. When it gathers, it takes shape; when it disperses, it becomes gas. It can exist separately in my Baihui Acupoint and Yongquan Acupoint acupoints."

"During the refining process, I also recorded the number of times this thing entered and exited my acupoints, a total of 13,500 times. Most of the Heaven and Earth Energy that I drew in during my previous cultivation was used to refine this Tao Rong Iron."

"I feel that with just a thought, I can control this piece of iron and transform it into any shape."

As soon as he finished speaking, the Tao Rong Iron in Zhou Qing's hand transformed from a perfectly round sphere into the image of Tang San, even down to the color.

Then, the Tang San- shaped figurine transformed into Xiao Wu's appearance, and under Zhou Qing's mental control, it actually began to move like a living person, only its eyes were lifeless, like a puppet.

Zhou Qing placed the controllable Xiao Wu figurine on the ground. The ten-centimeter-tall Xiao Wu rapidly grew larger until it was identical to Xiao Wu, much to the astonishment of Tang San and Xiao Wu.

Xiao Wu rushed forward and squeezed the life-size figurine that looked exactly like her. She found that apart from the blank expression, the figurine was almost identical to her own body.

immediately--

Xiao Wu grabbed Zhou Qing by the collar and said fiercely, "Swear to me that you won't turn this thing into my likeness again! Otherwise, I'm afraid you'll use my body to do weird things!"

"Hey! Who would do that kind of thing to a washboard?" Zhou Qing protested. He preferred mature women and had no interest in flat-chested lolis!

"Ah~ I'll kill you!"

Once again, Xiao Wu was subjected to a derogatory term for being flat, and she shook Zhou Qing frantically.

"Oh dear, I've said the wrong thing again."

Zhou Qing let Xiao Wu vent for a while, then broke free, put away the life-size Xiao Wu figurine, and let it return to the state of Pure and Impure Qi, which resided in his Baihui Acupoint and Yongquan Acupoint acupoints respectively.

"So you mean your Tao Rong Iron can be transformed into anything?" Tang San asked.

"That's theoretically true."

Zhou Qing nodded. "Inanimate objects and living objects can both transform, but when they transform into living objects, they look very dull."

"How's the consumption?"

Xiao Wu calmed down and asked about the issue of Soul Power consumption.

"Um... how should I put it? It doesn't seem to consume Soul Power."

"Does that deplete Spiritual Power? Or Qi and Blood?"

No, not exactly.

Zhou Qing shook his head. "I can make it change in countless ways with a single thought, and I don't feel any consumption at all. If I had to say what consumption is, it might be when I turn it into a weapon to fight the enemy that I would consume physical strength?"

"So amazing?" Xiao Wu Dharma Form that something existed in the world that didn't require any energy.

But Tang San thought it was possible.

Tao Rong Iron is formed under the influence of the Pure and Impure Qi, and can even be said to be an aggregate of the Pure and Impure Qi.

Pure air rises and becomes heaven!

The turbid air descends to become the earth!

Heaven and earth endure, the universe is eternal, and isn't Tao Rong Iron equivalent to the constant universe? The person who refines it only needs to control it with their mind, and the Tao Rong Iron, like a small world, will naturally transform the Pure and Impure Qi within it, without requiring the controller to expend additional Soul Power.

When Tao Rong Iron existed in Qing Ge's body, it was divided into Pure and Impure Qi: clear and turbid. The clear qi was located at Baihui Acupoint, and the turbid qi was located at Yongquan Acupoint. Doesn't this correspond to the myth of Pangu creating the world with his head reaching the sky and his feet on the ground?

Furthermore, the Pure and Impure Qi circulated around Qing Ge's body for 13,500 breaths, which precisely corresponds to what is described in the * Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon * and the * Classic of Difficult Issues *:

[A person takes 13,500 breaths in a day and night, with the pulse circulating 50 times throughout the body.]

After obtaining this Tao Rong Iron, Qing Ge used his pure energy to reach the sky and his turbid energy to tread the earth, so that the pure and turbid returned to their proper places. He then used thirteen thousand five hundred breaths to circulate it, making his whole body stable.

However, Tang San also believed that this Tao Rong Iron had not yet truly taken shape like the Ruyi Golden Cudgel in the myths and legends of his previous life Zhou Qing himself needed to use the operation of the Innate Internal Scripture Chart and his own body as a furnace to refine it through nine cycles, so that it could be truly forged into a Ruyi Weapon!

I just don't know how long it will take to succeed...