Humanoid Ferocious Beast

Shen Che slowly opened his eyes and stood up.

He could feel the True Qi within his body, which had become sluggish from pushing against the bottleneck, now surging and flowing at an unprecedented speed.

He faced the empty space in front of him and casually threw a punch.

He didn't use Vajra Zen Fist, just the most ordinary straight punch.

Where his fist passed, his sleeve instantly took on a layer of crimson, like a red-hot iron brand.

A high-pitched Dragon's Roar exploded along with the fist wind.

BOOM!

The air in front of him was forcefully blasted apart by the fist's energy, creating a vacuum.

A violent surge of air swept outwards, kicking up dust from the ground and forming a dirt dragon several feet high. It roared as it slammed into the wall, causing the entire room to shake.

Shen Che looked at his fist, lost in thought.

Tiger Roar Golden Bell Shield: Primarily defensive, its core is passive counter-shock, attacking by defending.

Dragon's Roar Iron Shirt: Primarily offensive, its core is active armor penetration, unstoppable, and it also carries a mind-shattering effect.

One offense, one defense, they complement each other perfectly.

With 1500 Time Value remaining, Shen Che decided to cultivate on his own with the Meridian Opening Pill first, and use Time Value when he encountered a bottleneck.

Having made up his mind, he took a bottle of Meridian Opening Pills from the wooden chest and swallowed it.

The immense medicinal power exploded within his body like a mountain flood.

For an ordinary martial artist, a bottle of pills like this would cause their meridians to rupture inch by inch.

But Shen Che's meridians had already been tempered a thousand times by the Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill and Tiger Roar Golden Bell Shield, their toughness far beyond what it used to be.

He guided this violent medicinal power, mixing it with his own extremely high-quality golden True Qi, and launched an assault on the sixth main meridian.

Day one.

The sixth True Meridian was opened.

A new power surged from his limbs and bones, his physical strength increasing by ten thousand jin out of nowhere.

Day two.

The seventh True Meridian was opened.

Day five.

The eighth True Meridian was opened.

Day ten.

The ninth True Meridian was opened!

In just ten days, he had broken through four meridians.

If this cultivation speed were to spread, it would be enough to shock the entire martial arts world of the Great Jing Dynasty.

The medicinal power of the Meridian Opening Pill, combined with his transformed True Qi, produced astonishing results.

At this moment, nine True Meridians were open within his body, True Qi flowing like great rivers.

His physical strength had reached a terrifying level.

Only three more meridians remained until the completion of twelve True Meridians in the True Meridian Realm.

However, when he swallowed another bottle of Meridian Opening Pills and attempted to break through to the tenth True Meridian, he encountered trouble.

The medicinal power entered his body like a clay ox entering the sea.

The barrier of that main meridian was stronger than he could have ever imagined. No matter how he attacked, it only trembled slightly.

His cultivation speed suddenly dropped to freezing point.

Shen Che stopped.

He understood that from the tenth True Meridian onwards, the difficulty of opening them would increase exponentially.

With normal, slow cultivation, it would take at least half a year to a year to open them.

He couldn't wait that long.

"System."

Shen Che's consciousness sank into his mind.

"Modify the time for opening the tenth True Meridian."

[Opening the tenth True Meridian requires 200 Time Value. Do you wish to consume it?]

"Consume."

[Time Value -200]

[Remaining Time Value: 1300]

As soon as he finished speaking, a powerful force emerged from the void, pushing his stagnant True Qi to violently collide with the barrier.

Crack.

With a crisp sound, the tenth True Meridian shattered.

Shen Che didn't pause.

"Modify the Time Value for opening the eleventh True Meridian."

[Opening the eleventh True Meridian requires consuming 400 Time Value. Do you wish to consume?]

"Consume!"

[Time Value -400]

[Remaining Time Value: 900]

Another muffled thud, and the eleventh True Meridian was opened.

"Continue."

"Modify the Time Value for opening the twelfth True Meridian."

[Opening the twelfth True Meridian requires consuming 800 Time Value. Do you wish to consume?]

"Consume."

[Time Value -800]

[Remaining Time Value: 100]

Hum--

The moment the last main meridian was opened, Shen Che's body trembled violently.

The twelve main meridians formed a perfect circulation within his body, and the speed at which True Qi surged was several times faster than before.

A pale white glow seeped from his skin. Twelve clear meridians manifested on his body's surface, like twelve small white dragons, coiling around him, circling endlessly.

The air in the room became stagnant due to this majestic aura, exuding immense pressure.

True Meridian Realm, twelve meridians perfected!

Shen Che felt the surging power within him. The three newly opened True Meridians had brought him a full thirty thousand jin increase in raw strength.

His current pure physical strength, with a single arm, had reached one hundred and seventy thousand jin.

This number was already very close to Yan Hong's at the Primal Force Peak back then.

The True Meridian Realm had reached its limit. The next step was to break through to the Primordial Qi Realm.

Shen Che did not slacken in the slightest. He immediately guided the ceaseless surging True Qi within his body, following the methods for breaking through to the Primordial Qi Realm, and began to attempt a qualitative change of his True Qi, refining it into Qi.

However, he soon discovered something was wrong.

His Horizontal Training True Qi was progressing at an infuriatingly slow pace during its transformation into Qi.

It was like comparing a pot of clear water to a pot of mercury. Both were being heated to evaporate, but mercury's difficulty was a hundred or even a thousand times greater than water's.

His True Qi, due to the transformations of the Tiger Roar Golden Bell Shield and the Dragon's Roar Iron Shirt, had a quality far exceeding that of ordinary martial artists' True Qi, refined and condensed to an absurd degree.

This resulted in his True Qi transformation being more than ten times more difficult than others'.

"Damn it."

After analyzing the reason, Shen Che couldn't help but curse.

Was this a good problem to have?

He estimated that at this snail's pace, even with Time Value acceleration, the remaining 100 points would be insignificant.

Unless he could obtain a "Qi Condensing Pill" from the Demon Suppression Division's Treasury, which cost a steep two thousand Contribution Points each.

Combined with the pill's power and further modification with Time Value, there might be a chance for a rapid breakthrough.

He didn't have enough Contribution Points, so this path was temporarily blocked.

Shen Che didn't dwell on it. His mind raced, and he immediately thought of another path.

Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill!

The cultivation speed of this technique was directly related to the depth of one's internal energy.

He had now reached True Meridian perfection, and the quality of his Horizontal Training True Qi was terrifyingly high. Wasn't this an excellent foundation tailor-made for the Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill?

The path to advancing to the Primordial Qi Realm was blocked, so he would push the path of physical strength to its extreme first!

Having made up his mind, Shen Che sat cross-legged once more.

Following the methods of the Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill, he began to slowly convert the crimson-gold Horizontal Training True Qi within his body into Dragon Elephant Qi, tempering his tendons, bones, skin, and membranes over and over.

Time passed, day by day.

Half a month later.

Within the quiet room, Shen Che's body was like a red-hot furnace, radiating astonishing heat.

The Dragon Elephant Qi within him had already reached its absolute limit.

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