A prefecture city was different from Jade Water City.
The prefecture city was prosperous, a place where crouching tigers and hidden dragons abounded.
He had been invincible in the county town of Jade Water City, but that might not be the case once he reached the prefecture city.
When he had forced Ou Tian Hao to reveal the cultivation method for the Heavenly Crippling Foot, he had also asked about the cultivation method for the realm after the Blood and Qi Realm, as well as the strength of the prefecture city's martial artists.
The realm after the Blood and Qi Realm was called the Meridian Opening Realm.
Opening meridians meant using true qi to expand the meridians within the body.
Once the meridians were expanded, the capacity for true qi and blood qi increased severalfold, allowing them to circulate more smoothly.
Stimulated by true qi and blood qi, a martial artist's physical qualities—strength, speed, and the like—would improve further.
Moreover, once the meridians had expanded, the true qi they released would become even more powerful.
Meridians could be divided into primary meridians and extraordinary meridians.
There were twelve primary meridians: the three hand yin meridians, three foot yin meridians, three hand yang meridians, and three foot yang meridians, collectively known as the "Twelve Primary Meridians."
There were eight extraordinary meridians: the Governing, Conception, Thoroughfare, Girdling, Yin Heel, Yang Heel, Yin Linking, and Yang Linking Meridians. Collectively known as the Eight Extraordinary Meridians, they governed, connected, and regulated the Twelve Primary Meridians.
The Meridian Opening Realm began with the Twelve Primary Meridians.
As for which meridian one began with, that depended entirely on the martial arts one excelled at.
Some martial artists specialized in fist and palm techniques, so they began with the three hand yin meridians or the three hand