Peak Xiantian, Acupoint Nourishing and Acupoint Opening

[In the eighteenth year, you successfully opened up the Yin Qiao Meridian of the Eight Extraordinary Meridians, and your strength also broke through to the Late Innate Realm.

With your successful breakthrough, the quantity and quality of the Innate True Qi in your body increased significantly again, which also caused your physical body to be strengthened by the Innate True Qi once more.

As your physical body was strengthened again, your martial arts aptitude also improved considerably, which greatly increased your cultivation speed.]

[In the nineteenth year, you successfully opened up the Yang Qiao Meridian of the Eight Extraordinary Meridians, and your strength also increased to the peak of the Late Innate Realm.

At this point, your Purple Haze Divine Skill has reached its limit, and you have officially begun to switch to cultivating the Sun Devouring Divine Art.

In the same year, you finally met Wei Xiaobao, the favored one of fortune.

At this time, he had already been conferred the title of First-class Loyal Brave Count by Kangxi for facilitating the signing of a peace treaty between the Qing Court and Russia.

However, these things have little to do with you. Your main goal now is to officially break through to the Grandmaster Realm.]

[In the twentieth year, after a year of hard cultivation, with the help of the perfected Sun Swallowing Divine Art, you successfully opened up the Yin Wei Meridian of the Eight Extraordinary Meridians, and your strength also broke through to the peak of the Innate Realm.

In the same year, Invincible Divine Fist Gui Xinshu and his wife, along with their son, bravely stormed the palace, wanting to assassinate Kangxi.

[This was the first time you encountered the top experts of this world, and you immediately curiously went over to watch.

Unfortunately, the result was very disappointing to you. The strongest, Gui Xinshu, was only at the peak of the Houtian Realm, and his wife was only at the Late Houtian Realm.

This immediately made you completely lose interest in the experts of this world.

As for what to say about overthrowing the Qing and restoring the Ming, what does that have to do with you?

You can't just get hot-headed and disregard your parents in this life, who gave birth to you and raised you, and go do something rebellious that would implicate your entire family, can you?

Because you did not intervene, Gui Xinshu and his wife, along with their not-so-bright son, still died at the hands of the Imperial Guards.

And in this process, Wei Xiaobao was indispensable, actually using his body to block a knife for Kangxi. Otherwise, Gui Xinshu and his wife might have really succeeded in the assassination.]

"There's a reason why Wei Xiaobao was eventually able to sit in the position of First-class Duke of Deer Cauldron. Even knowing that he was wearing armor that was impenetrable to swords and spears, not everyone could do that kind of life-risking escort."

Looking at the content that had just appeared on the subtitles in front of him, Zheng Qian muttered to himself in amazement.

After all, armor is inanimate, but people are alive. What if someone cut his neck? There's no armor defense there.

This was really risking his life to protect the emperor, so it's no wonder Kangxi would treat him so specially.

[In the eighth month of the twentieth year, Kangxi issued an edict to reduce the power of the feudatories. You advised him to gather his forces in advance to prevent King Who Pacifies the West Wu Sangui from taking desperate measures, and Kangxi adopted your suggestion.]

[In the twenty-first year, you successfully opened up the last meridian of the Eight Extraordinary Meridians--the Yang Wei Meridian, and your strength also increased to the very peak of the Innate Realm.

In the same year, Wu Sangui rebelled as you knew he would, and you were promoted by Kangxi to a fifth-rank Hanlin Academy Attendant Scholar for your meritorious advice.

But at this time, you needed to spend a lot of time every day accumulating Gang Qi, so you refused Kangxi's promotion on the grounds of illness and decided to resign and go home to 'recuperate'.

Although Kangxi felt it was a pity, he still agreed to your request.]

[In the twenty-second year, with the help of the Sun Swallowing Divine Art, you successfully accumulated a full forty-eight strands of Grandmaster Gang Qi in your Dantian Sea of Qi, and your total amount of Gang Qi also reached its limit.

Afterwards, you officially began to cultivate the Morning Sun Acupoint Nourishing Art to nourish the Baihui Acupoint.]

[Two months later, you successfully nourished the Baihui Acupoint into shape, and it took you a full eighteen strands of Gang Qi to completely open it up.

With the successful opening of the Baihui Acupoint, you also became a true Half-step Grandmaster.

At the same time, with the successful opening of the Baihui Acupoint, after you had fully recovered the Gang Qi in your body, you found that your total amount of Gang Qi had actually increased by a full nine strands, which was exactly half of the amount of Gang Qi you had consumed when opening the Baihui Acupoint.

The total amount of Gang Qi in your body also increased to fifty-seven strands.

However, your Dantian Sea of Qi could still only accommodate forty-eight strands of Gang Qi. The extra strands of Gang Qi were stored in your newly opened Baihui Acupoint.]

"It actually consumed eighteen strands of Gang Qi? However, the amount of Gang Qi increased after the acupoint was successfully opened is actually related to the consumption during the opening, which is good news..."

Looking at the subtitles that had just appeared on the screen in front of him, Zheng Qian's eyes lit up, and he muttered to himself in surprise.

As for why he was doing it in his heart? Naturally, it was because Lu San was still beside him. Although he couldn't see the light screen in front of him, he didn't want to be treated like a madman by the other party.

According to the Morning Sun One Qi Art, opening the first acupoint requires at least twelve strands of Gang Qi.

And the Zheng Qian in the simulation actually consumed eighteen strands, which is a full half more than the minimum requirement.

By analogy, when he opens the ninth acupoint, the total amount of Gang Qi required may be close to two hundred strands.

Of course, the greater the consumption, the greater the gains after the breakthrough.

If possible, he naturally hopes that the total amount of Gang Qi consumed when he opens the acupoints will be as large as possible.

But this is not up to him.

[With the Baihui Acupoint successfully opened, you began to nourish the second acupoint--the Shenque Acupoint.

This is a large acupoint located in the center of the navel on the abdomen, and it is the second acupoint recorded in the Lesser Heavenly Cycle Acupoint Diagram that you are cultivating.]

[As you cultivated, you found that opening the second acupoint was obviously more difficult than opening the first one, and it took you a full three months to initially nourish the Shenque Acupoint.

After that, it took you a full twenty-four strands of Gang Qi to successfully open it, and the total amount of Gang Qi in your body increased again by twelve strands, reaching sixty-nine strands.]

[In the twenty-third year, after spending nearly five months, you successfully nourished and opened up the Qi Hai Acupoint, which is a large acupoint adjacent to your Dantian Sea of Qi, located on the midline of the abdomen, one and a half inches below the navel.

Opening the Qi Hai Acupoint cost you a full thirty-two strands of Gang Qi, and the total amount of Gang Qi in your body also increased by sixteen strands, reaching eighty-five strands.

At the end of the same year, after spending a full six months, you successfully nourished and opened up the Jugu Acupoint, which is located in the depression between the collarbone and the scapular spine.

This is a duplicate acupoint, that is, there are repetitive large acupoints on both the left and right scapula.

Its opening difficulty is also more difficult than other large acupoints, requiring you to multitask, opening both the left and right shoulders at the same time.

Opening the Jugu Acupoint cost you a full sixty-nine strands of Gang Qi, far exceeding the consumption of a single large acupoint.

With the successful opening of the acupoint, the total amount of Gang Qi in your body also increased by thirty-five strands, reaching as many as one hundred and twenty strands.]