Luo Water Lake.
Beneath the thick ice.
Within the azure lake water.
"Glug glug glug—"
A figure sat cross-legged in the lake, strings of bubbles occasionally rising around him as though fish were blowing bubbles.
That figure was Jiang Ning.
Whenever he trained his fists to exhaustion and depleted his qi, blood, and stamina, he needed to come into the water to nourish his body and restore himself.
At this moment, nourished by the lake water, his condition had long since returned to its peak.
His essence, qi, and spirit were full, and his stamina abundant.
So he once again let the inner breath in his dantian erupt within his body, allowing it to rampage wildly through him.
The inner breath within him now followed no pattern, darting chaotically through the Eight Extraordinary Meridians and Twelve Regular Meridians, continuously forcing open tiny branches of meridians throughout his body.
Meridian branches that normally could not be perceived were also forced open under these circumstances.
In an instant.
The meridians in his body began to tear apart, internal bleeding began, and his five viscera and six bowels also suffered damage under the impact of the rampaging inner breath.
If an ordinary person reached this point, even if they did not die, their vitality would suffer grave damage. Their meridians might even all snap, making it difficult to circulate inner breath ever again.
This was the most serious kind of qi deviation.
The surging inner breath had completely lost control, rampaging through his body and turning everything into a complete mess.
Yet before his powerful self-healing ability, along with the nourishment of being in the water, the countless wounds in his body healed at incredible speed, breaking apart and healing over and over.
The branches of his meridians were continuously torn apart, then