Qi Strength Unification, One Hundred Thousand Jin!

Qi Strength Unification, One Hundred Thousand Jin!

Qi flowed through the heavenly circulation! Strength as thick and powerful as a flood dragon python rapidly roamed through his body. Though this was only his first time using it, the wealth of memories in his mind made it feel as if he had been immersed in this path for decades. The instant his body mobilized that strength, it entered a state of instinctive action.

A faint rumble of thunder seemed to ring through the meridians inside his body. A Great Meridian was opened up by the strength that had pierced through it, and as the Great Meridian was cleared, his strength instantly flowed without obstruction, cycling rapidly through the Great Meridian. Sixteen circulations in a single breath!

Afterward, Li Hao performed it a second time. This time, he was even more practiced, and his body gradually synchronized with his memories.

Thirty-eight circulations in a single breath.

The third time, fifty-two circulations in a single breath.

The fourth time, the fifth time... all the way until the seventh time ended, one hundred circulations in a single breath! The Hundred Dragons Body was also called the Hundred Circulations Body precisely because, when cultivated to great completion, not one more and not one less, it could reach exactly one hundred circulations! At this moment, Li Hao glanced at the panel and discovered that his cultivation was no longer at the tenth level of the Power Through Realm, but the Circulation Realm, first level! Having officially stepped into the Circulation Realm, Li Hao felt the strength roaming and surging within this Great Meridian, filled with tension. Compared to before, it was as though his body had suddenly gained an extra spine, and his whole person had "stood" upright.

With every movement, he could casually circulate qi through the heavens and erupt with power far surpassing before! As joy rose in Li Hao's heart, he continued by performing Primordial Beginning.

Following the rehearsal in his memories, he cultivated from the second layer, Star Body, to the third layer, Profound Passage Body! As he practiced, the strength inside Li Hao's body surged even more fiercely, like an enraged river in roaring waves!

Li Hao discovered that this Profound Passage Body also contained a Qi Circulation Method, not at all inferior to the Hundred Dragons Body, and even more terrifying! Li Muxiu had not told him, most likely because the old man had not studied this martial art in depth. After all, it was something for body refinement, and on top of that, it was an incomplete fragment. The old man probably had not considered letting Li Hao cultivate it.

As he rehearsed it again and again and grew familiar with it, Li Hao's body underwent tremendous changes. A second Great Meridian was actually slowly opened inside him! Moreover, this Great Meridian was extremely solid and thick, able to contain strength far exceeding the first Great Meridian from before! This Great Meridian was also the core of the Profound Passage Body, the Profound Meridian! Through the descriptions in the technique, Li Hao knew that this Profound Meridian had another name in martial arts: the Yin Meridian! Li Hao glanced at his cultivation. Although he had opened a second Great Meridian, he was still at the first level of the Circulation Realm and had not advanced.

This Great Yin Meridian was like a hidden Great Meridian, not included in the calculation of the other Great Meridians.

The Hundred Dragons strength that had originally been in the first Great Meridian also surged into the Yin Meridian, cycling back and forth between the two Great Meridians. Yet the Hundred Dragons strength that had almost filled the first Great Meridian was like a small stream inside the Yin Meridian, unable even to surge and collide against the inner walls of the Great Meridian.

Sounds like thunder and tiger roars came from inside Li Hao's body, like a vicious beast awakening from hibernation, slowly opening its eyes.

The external force radiating from his surging strength swept away the dust around his body. Within three feet, not a speck remained!

The Entering the Dao insight of the third stage of the Path of the Physical Body gave Li Hao a profound understanding of both techniques. He immediately sensed that the Qi Circulation Methods of the two techniques had overlapping and interlacing points.

With a thought, he performed both techniques at the same time. Very soon, the two Qi Circulation Methods actually began to interact. His strength split into two currents, like two flood dragons chasing each other through the Great Meridians.

As Li Hao practiced more and more and gradually grew skilled, the two streams of strength also intertwined and fused together.

This was the interaction and fusion of techniques!

The overlapping portions were covered, and the interlacing parts became one. As a result, the circulation speed of his strength became even faster.

From one meridian with one hundred circulations, it reached one meridian with one hundred and thirty-two circulations! The operating speed increased by thirty-two circulations!

This had already surpassed the Li Family's top-tier Qi Circulation Method, the "Hundred Battles Heavenly Circulation Art."

One had to know that aside from the imperial clan, this was one of Great Yu's top Qi Circulation Methods, something martial artists throughout the world yearned for and sought.

At this moment, as his strength roamed through the Yin Meridian, Li Hao noticed a special power of extreme yin and extreme cold flowing through his body. If he cultivated certain techniques such as Frozen Ice Palm or Ice Soul Body, he could achieve twice the result with half the effort! Once his cultivation ended, Li Hao planned to look up what this Yin Meridian was.

However, next, he continued to practice the third top-tier body-refining art, the Dragon Cicada Vacuum Body.

Only, compared to the previous two, the third layer of this technique was slightly inferior.

The Leaping Shell Body also contained a Qi Circulation Method, but it only had seventy-two circulations. In other words, cultivating this method alone could also help Li Hao break through to the Circulation Realm.

Leaping shell, controlling force with qi, could allow brief suspended flight.

One had to know that hovering in the air was a power possessed only by the Soul Succession Realm.

However, the hovering distance of the Leaping Shell Body still could not compare to the Soul Succession Realm. It could only produce some miraculous effects in certain special battle situations, while its frontal combat power did not increase much.

But the second layer of the Dragon Cicada Vacuum Body was quite powerful. Previously, when he was at the first stage of the Path of the Physical Body, Li Hao had only cultivated it to minor completion of the second layer. Now, however, the second layer, Crouching Dragon Body, was at the consummate level! This brought him terrifying, berserk strength like a Dragon Elephant. It was a pure increase in physical strength, at least twenty thousand jin of great force! Li Hao estimated that his raw physical brute strength alone was now around fifty thousand jin.

That was right, it was just that exaggerated.

At this moment, with the Path of the Physical Body at the third stage, even without testing it, Li Hao could roughly sense the state of his body.

If he paired it with the qi circulating inside him, achieving Qi Strength Unification, he could erupt with around one hundred thousand jin of force! One circuit of strength circulation equaled the power of one cauldron.

At this moment, Li Hao circulated one hundred and forty-three circuits, which was one hundred and forty-three cauldrons. Two meridians made two hundred and eighty-six cauldrons!

Each cauldron was two hundred jin, a full fifty thousand jin or so.

Such power was enough to easily blow apart an ordinary consummate Circulation Realm cultivator with one punch.

An ordinary consummate Circulation Realm cultivator with ten meridians and ten circulations was the lowest grade of Circulation Realm level, basically with no hope of assaulting Soul Succession. Their strength was only one hundred cauldrons, which was around twenty thousand jin.

And at the first level of the Circulation Realm, one meridian with ten circulations was equivalent to only increasing strength by 2,000 jin. Although compared to the ordinary Power Through Realm's 3,600 jin of strength, it was close to a doubling increase, those with divine blood had double the strength in the Power Through Realm, 7,200 jin of force. At the consummate Power Through Realm, they could fight and kill ordinary first-level Circulation Realm cultivators! This was the strength of those with divine blood.

Moreover, this did not include the additional increases brought by techniques, cultivation methods, and the like.

After all, what martial artist had not learned two signature techniques?

Not to mention that with the background and family resources of those with divine blood, the level of their techniques absolutely could not be low, making the gap even larger. An ordinary consummate Power Through Realm divine-blooded cultivator could rely on techniques to easily defeat martial artists around the second or third level of the Circulation Realm.

Some monsters could even fight across four or five levels! And once one reached the Circulation Realm, the gap brought by techniques and cultivation resources would create an even greater difference in martial power and cultivation speed.

Just the Li Family's two ultimate arts, one for qi circulation and one for opening meridians, if both reached great completion, would grant one million jin of strength at the consummate Circulation Realm! As for the weakest, they had only twenty thousand jin, a gap of more than fifty times!

However, ordinary consummate Circulation Realm martial artists also very rarely cultivated only the weakest method of ten qi circulations. That was the lowest bottom line.

Everyone had some opportunities to a greater or lesser extent. Even if they did not, by relying on their own struggle and wandering, even by joining the army, they could obtain a mid-grade qi circulation method, as well as a mid-grade meridian-opening martial art for opening eighteen meridians.

For example, the Li Family's Yuan Character Camp was a camp designation once led by their ancestor. Any warrior selected into the Yuan Character Camp could cultivate high-grade qi circulation methods and meridian-opening martial arts. Taken out individually, they were all powerful figures in the same realm. Thus, the ten thousand soldiers of the Yuan Character Camp surpassed an ordinary million-strong Great Army!

Li Hao sensed the surging strength within his body, and a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

The terrifying increase brought by techniques far exceeded divine blood. After all, divine blood could only stimulate and double the Power Through Realm's base strength of 3,600 jin, but the increases brought by techniques could not be doubled.

To him now, a mere increase of over three thousand jin of strength was not worth mentioning.

"Not counting attack traits like Tiger Pressure and Flying Section, nor the Boundless Sea Sword Art, if it's just physical combat, I should be able to easily defeat unaffiliated martial artists of the jianghu at the tenth level of the Circulation Realm. But compared to those consummate Circulation Realm warriors of the Yuan Character Camp, I'm still far inferior," Li Hao thought inwardly.

Those warriors of the Yuan Character Camp were all fierce tigers of Great Yu. Among the Demon Race of Northern Yan, the Yuan Character Army was even synonymous with death itself.

Once they marched out beneath the Yuan Character banner, demons and devils all lost their courage at the mere sound of the wind. The reason was that the high-grade qi circulation methods and meridian-opening martial arts they cultivated gave them five hundred thousand jin of strength at the consummate Circulation Realm!

How terrifying was it for ten thousand such warriors to go to war? Not to mention, the Circulation Realm was only the weakest realm in the Yuan Character Camp.

"Right now, I can only barely spar with third- or fourth-level Circulation Realm warriors of the Yuan Character Camp. But they have rich combat experience, so I might not even be their match."

Although his improvement was tremendous, Li Hao's heart did not swell with arrogance.

He then fused the Qi Circulation Method of the third layer of the Dragon Cicada Vacuum Body as well. After erasing the overlapping covered portions, his qi circulation speed increased again, reaching one hundred and forty-three circulations in a single breath! That was fifteen circulations more than the Hundred Battles Heavenly Circulation Art. A gap of fifteen circulations in one meridian would accumulate into an extremely large difference by the time one reached the consummate Circulation Realm.

But compared to the imperial clan's All Heavens Heavenly Circulation Art, it was still far inferior.

Next, Li Hao practiced the many other upper-, middle-, and lower-grade body-refining arts several times as well, until his memories and body were completely synchronized.

As a result, his physical strength gained another considerable increase, reaching around fifteen thousand jin. After all, it was the interlaced sum of dozens of techniques. In addition, every part of his body was greatly enhanced. Vision, hearing, skin perception, and so on had all been strengthened severalfold.

When facing an enemy, all of these would have a considerable impact on the outcome of battle.

Afterward, Li Hao began searching through the building for information regarding the Yin Meridian.