Su Yuanzhen

Chen Yan did not stop.

Instead, he struck while the iron was hot, continuing to draw on the dense spiritual energy within the Spirit Stones to repeatedly temper his meridians.

He needed to further strengthen his foundation.

Among Qi Condensation Realm cultivators, some had meridians as fine as threads, with their true qi flowing like a gentle stream; others had meridians as broad as creeks, with their true qi surging like a tide.

Even after entering the Martial Spring Realm, the breadth of one's meridians still determined how high a cultivator's ceiling could be.

Ordinary cultivators usually waited until they entered the Spirit 통 Realm before beginning to refine and temper their meridians.

That was because, given a Qi Condensation Realm cultivator's ability to control true qi, tempering the meridians was practically impossible.

Only after entering the Spirit 통 Realm, when the strength of one's Spiritual Sense had greatly increased and one's control over true qi had multiplied, could a cultivator safely refine and temper their meridians.

But by then, a cultivator's meridians had already taken their final shape. No matter how much they were refined and tempered, they could no longer make much progress.

Chen Yan's situation, however, was different.

His meridians had only just opened, making this the ideal time to refine and temper them.

Chen Yan spent more than ten hours using fine strands of spiritual energy to refine and temper his meridians hundreds of times. The total amount of true qi his meridians could hold had already grown to more than ten times what it had been before.

This improvement meant that Chen Yan, who was currently only in the early stage of the Qi Condensation Realm, could now trade a few blows with Martial Spring Realm cultivators.

It could even allow him to unleash certain