Flawless Body, Ten Million Pounds!

Flawless Body, Ten Million Pounds! When one reached the great perfection of the Circulation Realm, with 54 meridians, that meant an extra 4,320 circulations of power, or more than eight hundred thousand pounds of tremendous strength! However, the royal family possessed the "Eastern Wasteland Scripture," Great Yu's foremost meridian-opening art, which could open 62 meridians. The additional Circulation Realm power of those 8 meridians, once converted, only added around six hundred thousand pounds of strength.

But this was not Li Hao's limit.

The Yin Meridian, one meridian worth ten, was equivalent to 2,480 circulations, which meant close to five hundred thousand pounds!

In addition, the meridian-opening technique Li Hao cultivated was not only the Dragon River Divine Meridian. The Nine Revolutions Star Art was also a meridian-opening art, and beyond that, there were three mid-to-upper-grade meridian-opening techniques, as well as several low-grade meridian-opening techniques.

It was just that the meridians opened by those low-grade meridian-opening techniques were all the easiest Great Meridians to open. They were covered by the mid-to-upper-grade meridian-opening techniques and had no effect at all.

But the Nine Revolutions Star Art plus the three mid-to-upper-grade meridian-opening techniques had allowed Li Hao to open Great Meridians the Dragon River Divine Meridian had never touched. Therefore, the number of meridians he had opened now was 69! It had already surpassed the number opened by the royal family's "Eastern Wasteland Scripture"! Li Hao was not satisfied with this. Now, he planned to rely on his own comprehension of the physical body to deduce the fourth layer after the "Primordial Beginning" technique and break through the Profound Passage Body! "The first chapter gathers the powers of yin and yang in heaven and earth, the second layer is the stars of the heavens, and the third layer is the hidden meridians of the human body that are difficult to perceive. For the fourth layer, I hope to open the Yang Meridian and make the two meridians of yin and yang join!"

Li Hao's idea was not a wild fantasy. With his comprehension at the fifth stage of the Path of the Physical Body, in body refinement, he could already be considered half a grandmaster.

What was a grandmaster? Someone capable of creating martial arts of their own and founding a sect! Li Hao did not know how the original fourth layer of "Primordial Beginning" was cultivated, nor did he need to know. The Li Family had failed to gather the complete version for many years, so most likely it had long since been destroyed, turned into dust in history.

Since that was the case, he would continue writing a new chapter for this top-tier body-refining art!

Let the bright pearl no longer be covered in dust!

Several days later.

Beside Blackwater Demon Lake.

Li Hao sat outside the fishing platform. Suddenly, realization came to him. The blood and qi throughout his body surged, and his bones began to tremble faintly beneath his skin. The inner force in his body darted back and forth through the 69 Great Meridians. In the end, a vast surge of strength rushed to the crown of his head, as if it meant to squeeze his brain until it burst!

This was an extremely dangerous act, but Li Hao's control over his physical body had long since reached the finest detail. Even his ears could fold and seal themselves on their own. Every inch of his bones was as nimble as fingers, all of them able to operate and exert force!

There was only a rumbling sound, and his brain seemed to shake. Waves of swelling pain came over him.

Li Hao gritted his teeth and endured, until that force suddenly vented, as if it had found a gap. At last, it rushed out, then followed the other end of the opening back into his body, forming a cycle!

Brilliant light appeared in Li Hao's eyes, excited and thrilled.

At last, it was done! The Yin Meridian was a wandering meridian. At different moments, it would appear anywhere in the body, extremely difficult to seek out and grasp. That was why it was called a hidden meridian, also carrying the meaning of being as impossible to find as the netherworld.

But the Yang Meridian was fixed, located within the skull.

It was just that compared with the Yin Meridian, the Yang Meridian was even more dangerous instead. No one dared to attempt it. Once the opening failed, the light consequence was becoming an idiot or a cripple, while the severe consequence was the skull exploding in death!

Though one meridian was worth ten, to take such a huge risk for ten extra meridians' worth of strength—ninety-nine percent of people would not choose it.

Because basically everyone who tried had failed.

Unless they were certain martial-arts madmen, Peerless Prodigies, only then would they continue to carry out such a crazed act! At this moment, as the Yang Meridian was opened, Li Hao immediately sensed that the hidden meridian seemed to have found an anchor point. It no longer drifted everywhere, but gradually moved closer to the Yang Meridian, twining with it.

"Yin and yang joining. I'm willing to call the fourth layer Yin Yang... pah, Flawless Body!"

Li Hao called up the panel. As it shifted according to his will, the Primordial Beginning technique on the panel actually jumped to the fourth layer, and the name was also Flawless Body, minor accomplishment!

Li Hao immediately mobilized the two meridians of yin and yang, repeatedly circulating and transporting the strength within his body, growing familiar with it again and again.

Very soon, under the entanglement of yin and yang, there was faintly a special vortex-like power.

Through that qi whirl, Li Hao seemed to faintly glimpse a streak of Golden Light within his skull.

He wanted his strength to touch it, but found that it was extremely distant, so far as to be out of reach.

"Rumor has it that the human body has a total of 108 Great Meridians. If they were all opened, perhaps... I could touch that Golden Light." A feeling of enlightenment surfaced in Li Hao's heart.

This was the insight brought by the Path of the Physical Body. His rich memories of cultivation had given him an understanding of flesh and blood far beyond ordinary people.

Body refinement was absolutely not simple, and it was definitely not as the old man and the others had said, difficult to have any future. On the contrary, Li Hao felt that the level of body-refining techniques inside Listening Rain Pavilion was not high enough. Even a body-refining technique like the Thousand Dragons Sacred Body, placed on the sixth floor, could only be cultivated to the Soul Succession Realm at the fourth layer! But those other cultivation techniques reached straight to the peak.

Body refiners were not valued for many reasons. Aside from the difficulty of cultivation, Li Hao also believed the absence of techniques was one of the reasons.

The body-refining techniques collected by the Li Family were already so few, let alone other places?

Li Hao looked at the panel. The original Flawless Body, minor accomplishment, had now become great accomplishment! The convergence of the Yin Yang Dual Meridians seemed to connect all the Great Meridians throughout his body, able to instantly condense and coordinate the strength in every Great Meridian, as if erecting a Dragon Spine within him! Li Hao tried it out and suddenly threw a punch.

With a whoosh, the fist wind was like a tiger's roar, actually pressing the surface of the water several zhang ahead into a slight depression, while at the same time raising rippling waves seven or eight meters in diameter! If this punch landed solidly, it would be no less than a cannonball falling into water and blasting up sky-shaking spray!

Li Hao was slightly stunned, and shock appeared in his eyes.

Through the meticulous sensation of his physical body, he knew just how terrifying the power of that punch just now had been.

Under the condition of condensing the power of all the Great Meridians in his body, his strength had increased by a full fold! One had to know that at this moment, with his Yin Yang Dual Meridians condensed, plus the 69 Great Meridians he had originally opened, it was equivalent to 89 Great Meridians.

Each Great Meridian had 248 circulations, and the strength of his entire body had already reached four million five hundred thousand pounds!

With a doubled burst, that was close to nine million pounds!! This was already almost at the divine strength of ten million pounds. Even a true dragon in the Circulation Realm could not possibly possess such ferocious power.

Even a royal genius, mastering top-tier circulation and meridian-opening techniques, would only have two million pounds of strength. Unless the other party also activated two Great Meridians, if it was only a single one, they would not possess the ability to instantly condense all the Great Meridians throughout the body and erupt with double strength! "No wonder Ninth Uncle was so terrifying. With two meridians converging, power could instantly double. Too terrifying."

A strange light bloomed in Li Hao's eyes. He did not dare imagine just how fearsome it would be if all 108 meridians in his entire body were opened! One had to know that an ordinary Circulation Realm cultivator only had twenty thousand pounds of strength.

Although that was the lower limit, the very lowest of existences, and ninety percent of those at the tenth level of the Circulation Realm had at least more than a hundred thousand pounds of strength, compared with Li Hao, the gap was still far too great.

"With my current strength, even those elite tenth-level Circulation Realm soldiers of the Yuan Character Camp could be easily crushed!"

Li Hao thought inwardly.

The elites of the Yuan Character Camp had no more than five hundred thousand pounds of tremendous strength at the tenth level. Before him, they were no different from small children.

Royal geniuses were four times the Yuan Character Camp soldiers, while he was four times the royal geniuses! Li Hao withdrew his fist and regulated his breathing.

Having just erupted with the doubled power of yin and yang, he felt that his physical strength had also been consumed quite heavily. He could not use it often, but in a critical clash, it was enough to kill with one strike! After his body recovered and relaxed, Li Hao looked toward the demon lake, but did not see Second Master's figure. He had said he was going to look for traces of the Old Dragon in the demon lake. Who knew where he had found his way to?

This demon lake stretched thousands of li in all directions, its waters deep and heavy. With a demon dragon hidden inside, it really was hard to detect.

Just then, a faint movement suddenly came over.

Li Hao's ear twitched, and he abruptly turned to look. Among the withered yellow fallen leaves, he saw a snow-white figure swaying, as if hiding.

His figure flickered, and he flew before this figure. It turned out to be a snow-white little fox, looking about the same size as a newborn puppy.

He looked carefully a couple of times. There was no demonic qi on the little fox, so it seemed to be an ordinary wild fox.

"Little thing, how did you run over here? Where are your parents?"

Li Hao bent down and picked the little fox up from the fallen leaves.

There was a smear of orange-red on the little fox's ears, as if it were a cross between a white fox and a red fox. When Li Hao picked it up, it immediately pushed at him with its little paws, struggling and resisting.

Li Hao placed it in his hand and looked around, but did not see any sign of a big fox. Could this little thing have sneaked out of its den on its own?

Seeing this, Li Hao placed it on the ground again and waited for its parents to come find it.

The little fox crawled with difficulty through the fallen leaves. It was too small, its movements slow and clumsy, not nimble at all.

Li Hao smiled and paid it no more mind, returning to the lakeside to continue fishing.

Before long, a figure flew back. It was precisely Li Muxiu.

The moment Li Hao saw his two hands empty, he knew the search for the dragon demon had failed. Over the past half year, the old man had already searched countless times. Clearly, that dragon demon was also extremely cautious and cunning. After all, to be able to cultivate to the point that Li Muxiu had his eye on it, it had at least several thousand years of life.

"Hmph."

Seeing Li Hao's grinning appearance, Li Muxiu snorted coldly in annoyance and flicked his sleeve. "And you? Air force?"

"Caught a small one, Power Through Realm," Li Hao said with a chuckle.

Li Muxiu rolled his eyes and grew even angrier.

By the time the sun was thinning against the western mountains, Li Muxiu could only hurriedly hook a Power Through Realm fish demon, eliminating the risk of going empty-handed, before bringing Li Hao back to Qingzhou City.

Before they left, Li Hao saw that the little fox had crawled somewhere farther away and still had not been found by a big fox. He had the old man help take a look. In the end, the old man searched around and found only a pool of blood and some snow-white fox down. Judging from the scene, the big fox had already been eaten by some demonic beast.

Such things were common in the wild. Li Hao sighed, found the ignorant little fox climbing around everywhere, and carried it back to Qingzhou City with him.

Among the withered yellow fallen leaves of the Mountains and Rivers Courtyard, from then on, there was an added touch of snow-white.