"Again!"
He drove the surging force of qi and blood through his body and charged at the second profound gate once more.
Though he had already struck it once, the vast power within him had not diminished by much.
Moreover, the Purple Sun Vermilion Fruit's medicinal power had yet to run dry. It was still continuously providing him with fresh momentum to break through.
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
As the surging force within him continued to batter the gate, muffled thuds rang out one after another from Shen Mo's body.
The process continued for a full hour.
"It's open." Shen Mo had been sitting motionless, like an old monk in meditation. Suddenly, his whole body trembled, and he opened his eyes, which brimmed with joy.
After an hour of battering, the second profound gate within him had opened.
[You successfully broke through and opened the profound gate of your middle dantian. Your dantian has taken shape, and your strength has surged. With two dantians open, your combat strength far surpasses that of cultivators at the same level.]
"The middle dantian!"
Looking inward, Shen Mo saw two qi vortexes turning in unison within his sea of qi, complementing each other.
"Having two dantians open is already an excellent aptitude, one in a hundred among those in the Qi Gathering Realm."
Though Shen Mo was satisfied, he did not stop there.
He felt he still had a chance to try again!
"Since two dantians are open, I should naturally try to open the third profound gate as well!"
The number of dantians formed in the Qi Gathering Realm determined a cultivator's potential—and even combat strength—for a long time to come.
This was true not only in the Qi Gathering Realm. Even in the Spirit Sea Realm, cultivators with multiple dantians were