I sat cross-legged and began my breathing exercises.
As I stirred the qi in my dantian, true qi instantly coursed through every meridian in my body.
I guided the true qi through a full circuit.
At the same time, I assessed my current cultivation.
I was in the middle stage of the Vitality Soul Realm. The barrier had already appeared, and the time for a breakthrough had come.
After stabilizing my meridians, qi, and blood, I began my breakthrough without hesitation.
But the Qi Soul Realm was already a fairly high realm.
Breaking through was no easy feat. Even though I had absorbed enough true qi, advancing still wouldn't be simple.
It was like holding an axe: to break through a realm, I had to chop down a tree.
Now I had an exceptionally sharp axe, one capable of cutting through that tree.
But even then, felling a large tree still required chopping at it, stroke by stroke...
So I mobilized my true qi and began pushing toward the next stage.
Once, twice, three times...
With every attempt, I could feel the barrier loosening.
I knew my breakthrough was within reach.
I didn't let up at all, hammering at the barrier again and again, battering the restraints...
With each assault on the barrier, my entire body grew scorching hot, and my veins bulged.
Only after a long time did the restraints finally loosen completely.
As I launched an all-out assault, the restraints barring the peak of the Vitality Soul Realm collapsed in an instant.
At that moment, it felt as though towering waves had erupted within the sea of my dantian.
There was even a resounding crack, and true qi poured endlessly into the blood sea of the new stage.
My entire body shuddered violently.
As the peak of the