Breakthrough

"If your strength improves, perhaps it will be even more effective!" Ke Fei's face was ecstatic.

He predicted that at this rate, it wouldn't even take a month to break through the barrier.

Ke Fei let out an excited howl; trapped for over a decade, he would finally be able to see the light of day again!

Mu Qing was happy for him, but he also wanted to get out as soon as possible.

After exhausting his mental energy, he had been unconscious for a day. By now, the Mock Exam in the outside world had already ended, and he didn't know the specific situation or how Ling Fei and the others were doing.

Ke Fei snapped out of his excitement and hurriedly pulled Mu Qing aside to formulate some plans.

"You're only at the sixth stage of Blood Qi, and your Origin Force is still scarce. I'm going to make you break through!" Ke Fei said.

He was barefoot, extremely disheveled, and covered in grime.

Ke Fei ran around the graveyard until he reached a patch of weeds, where a terrifying power surged from his body. He reached out his palm, and a gale began to howl.

On that patch of weeds, a terrifying seal actually emerged, with dense symbols flickering—it was the power of the barrier.

But Ke Fei was fearless; the only things that could withstand him were the barrier and the tombstones. He could break any other seal.

Ke Fei's hunched body straightened, his white hair flying, and his aged face became incomparably majestic.

"Break!"

He roared, and countless storms gathered in his palm, shattering the seal on the weeds.

In the distance, Mu Qing struggled to open his eyes against the howling wind, only to discover that the weeds were crystalline and emitting a faint glow.

Ke Fei laughed heartily, his yellow teeth bared, as he pulled up all the weeds. One particular foxtail grass was unique, sparkling with starlight.

He grabbed the handful of weeds, walked over to Mu Qing, and said, "Eat them."

Mu Qing was stunned as he looked at the weeds.

Although these weeds were crystalline and looked extraordinary, he couldn't sense any energy from them.

The main issue was that Ke Fei's dirty hands had been holding them, making Mu Qing unable to bring himself to eat them.

Seeing the hesitation on Mu Qing's face, Ke Fei was displeased. He grabbed Mu Qing and restrained him with his mental energy once again.

The familiar mental restraint left Mu Qing wanting to cry; he couldn't move a muscle.

"You brat, I'm doing this for your own good. Just eat them all!" Ke Fei laughed loudly and stuffed all the weeds into Mu Qing's mouth.

The restraint vanished, and Mu Qing struggled to swallow the handful of weeds. The taste was incredibly bitter, a far cry from the Vermilion Fruit that melted in the mouth.

"You old geezer, what are you feeding me!" Mu Qing was furious. The weeds were bitter, tasted terrible, and had no effect.

Ke Fei chuckled and said, "This has to be combined with other things to have an effect."

Mu Qing had a bad premonition. He watched as Ke Fei walked over to a withered tree.

Ke Fei grinned, reached out his palm, and released countless storms from it.

Mysterious symbols flickered as a seal appeared, crystalline and desperately compressing the violent energy in Ke Fei's palm.

Boom!

A massive explosion occurred in this space. Ke Fei unleashed a destructive power, forcibly breaking the seal. The storm swept through, yet it didn't damage the withered tree in the slightest.

Ke Fei grabbed a branch of the withered tree and, with a crisp snap, tore it off.

Like the weeds before, this withered branch was crystalline and somewhat transparent, shimmering as if it were made of crystal.

Before Mu Qing could react, Ke Fei stuffed the branch into his mouth and forced him to eat it.

Unexpectedly, the texture of the branch was crisp. With a few crunches, as if he were eating potato chips, Mu Qing swallowed the entire branch.

A bitter taste spread across his taste buds again. Mu Qing frowned, but he could already feel an inexplicable power beginning to brew within his body.

This energy came out of nowhere, but it was still brewing and had not yet fully formed.

At this moment, Ke Fei's figure flickered again. He turned into a gust of wind and arrived in an instant before a tombstone. This was an anonymous tombstone covered in dense seals.

Ke Fei let out a sharp shout. Countless gales condensed in his palm, and his body glowed, erupting with terrifying energy in an instant.

The seal on the anonymous tombstone was destroyed in a heartbeat.

Looking from afar, Mu Qing was surprised to find a crow in front of the anonymous tombstone!

The crow was pitch-black like ink, appearing as if it were made of black jade, with a deep, faint luster flickering on its surface.

Ke Fei made his move. Just like the previous two times, storms brewed in his palm, and he unleashed astonishing power in an instant.

The energy in this space exploded. The crow also had dense symbols on it—it was a seal of the barrier.

With a crack, the seal shattered.

Ke Fei grabbed the crow and squeezed it hard.

The crow wasn't actually a living creature; its body shattered directly, turning into a pool of black blood.

Ke Fei returned to Mu Qing, extended his hand, and the black liquid, wrapped in his Origin Force, floated in mid-air.

Mu Qing's mouth twitched violently. That familiar, restrictive force was applied to him once again.

Ke Fei grinned, looking at Mu Qing with a sense of schadenfreude, and then sent the black blood into his mouth.

Mu Qing's expression changed instantly, his face twisting; the taste was truly unbearable, and the combination of the three items was simply beyond description.

Especially the black crow blood, which carried a bitter, foul stench.

Mu Qing felt that every time he opened his mouth, a putrid odor would spray out.

"Hahaha, kid, don't underestimate these three things." Ke Fei laughed heartily.

He explained that these three items were precious medicinal herbs within Lake Heart Island, but they had undergone changes due to the erosion of the barrier's power.

Although Ke Fei was not an expert in pharmacology, as a top-tier Martial Venerable, he was still quite knowledgeable about some simple medicinal materials.

Usually, if these three herbs from Lake Heart Island were consumed individually, there would be no change at all.

But once these three herbs were combined, they would brew a surging amount of energy that was very gentle and easy to absorb.

As soon as Ke Fei finished speaking, Mu Qing's body shuddered; he felt the power that had been brewing within him suddenly erupt, forming a terrifying torrent of energy.

This torrent of energy was like a burst river, flowing endlessly.

Mu Qing immediately sat cross-legged, eyes closed; he knew this energy within him was immense, and once absorbed, he would reap huge benefits.

The Blood Refining Technique within Mu Qing's body operated frantically, and he once again entered the Heaven and Earth Fusion State, determined to absorb all the energy within him as quickly as possible.

After Ke Fei's guidance, he had gained a profound understanding of his current realm.

Mu Qing even had a feeling that as long as there was enough energy, he could break through immediately and reach the seventh stage of Blood Qi!

And right now, the surging energy within his body was exactly what he needed.

In the Heaven and Earth Fusion State, Mu Qing's absorption of energy reached its limit; he could feel his cultivation level rising continuously, and the surging energy within him was being absorbed.

Ke Fei watched this scene with great interest, seeing Mu Qing sitting on the ground, with rays of light blooming from every pore on his body.

The energy was so thick that he couldn't absorb it all at once, causing it to leak out from his pores.

About ten minutes later, Mu Qing stood up abruptly; his aura had become much stronger, the kind of aura only present at the seventh stage of Blood Qi.

With Ke Fei's help, Mu Qing's speed of breakthrough was beyond anyone's imagination.

He had completely absorbed that surge of energy, and the realm he had just broken through to was once again surpassed, remaining very stable without any side effects.

A hint of joy appeared on Mu Qing's face; he knew that what Ke Fei said about him reaching the first-level bloodline and becoming a low-level martial artist before the College Entrance Exam was no empty promise.

At this rate of cultivation, he feared it wouldn't be long before he broke through again to reach the eighth stage of Blood Qi.

Mu Qing's body was currently filled with immensely thick Origin Force.

He came once again before an anonymous tombstone, the Origin Force within him surging wildly; wisps of light condensed between his palms, and the energy, rippling like water, formed a single droplet in his palm.

This water droplet looked plain and unremarkable, but upon closer inspection, one could find a symbol at its very center.

That was the core of the Myriad Water Barrier!

Mu Qing reached out and let the droplet fall onto the anonymous tombstone.

Sizzle!

Just like before, the moment the droplet touched the tombstone, it immediately kicked up billowing smoke.

The seal and barrier energy on the anonymous tombstone dissipated instantly under the corrosion of this droplet.

Dozens of seconds later, this anonymous tombstone became ordinary stone, and as a breeze blew past, it immediately crumbled.

Condensing a droplet of the Myriad Water Barrier consumed a significant amount of Mu Qing's Origin Force.

He sensed it carefully and discovered that he could not yet condense two droplets at the same time.

"Perhaps I will only be able to condense two droplets simultaneously once I reach the eighth stage of Blood Qi!" Mu Qing whispered to himself.

The profoundness of the Myriad Water Barrier was beyond the imagination of ordinary people; even though Mu Qing had grasped the essence of water, the consumption was still massive.

Mu Qing sat down again and began to recover his Origin Force.

He entered the Heaven and Earth Fusion State, and in this state, his speed of recovering Origin Force was extremely fast.

At the same time, Mu Qing immersed his consciousness into the fifth level of the Thunderstorm Fist.

Ever since he began practicing the Myriad Water Barrier, Mu Qing had unexpectedly discovered that practicing the Thunderstorm Fist had become so simple.

Especially with the help of the Heaven and Earth Fusion State, Mu Qing found practicing the fifth level of the Thunderstorm Fist to be a piece of cake.

He stood up and began to practice the fifth level of the Thunderstorm Fist.

Gusts of wind began to howl with his movements, and on his body, streaks of incandescent lightning flickered and danced.

Those leaping bolts of lightning condensed into four streaks of incandescent thunder power, which exploded in mid-air along with Mu Qing's movements.

With his current strength at the seventh stage of Blood Qi, the momentum of the Thunderstorm Fist he unleashed was astonishing; he was confident that he could completely defeat Liu Tianyu and Wang Haixuan.

Zzzzt.

The power of the lightning became increasingly dazzling, and recently, a fifth streak of thunder power had begun to condense on Mu Qing's fist.