Blood-Qi Beyond the Limit, Martial Foundation Establishment

Chen Jue returned home, but the knot in his heart still refused to loosen.

Unable to calm his mind through stance training, he could only practice the Six Directions Saber Art in the residential courtyard, venting every scrap of rage into each movement as if possessed!

The ordinary residents had never seen such a spectacle. Terrified, they scattered and hid in corners to watch.

Chen Jue practiced again and again without pause. Only when he was drenched in sweat and his mind had grown muddled did he finally detonate all the fury in his chest into an unprecedentedly furious slash!

"Zhang Wei! Die for me!"

Whoosh!

Chen Jue leaped forward and chopped down with his saber. Inner and Outer Six Harmonies merged into one; saber qi carved a channel through the dust on the ground, erupting with a crack like the sky splitting apart.

[While practicing the Six Directions Saber Art, you gained a flash of insight and developed the saber art trait "Six Harmonies as One."]

Seeing the golden words flowing across the Diligence Rewards Log, Chen Jue froze.

What was a "saber art trait"?

Not understanding, Chen Jue gripped his saber and gave it an experimental swing.

In an instant, a feeling of inspiration descended upon him. The slash he swung united his heart, intent, and qi, gathering the strength of his shoulders, hips, elbows, knees, and limbs. It carried an overwhelming momentum capable of splitting edges and cleaving steel, unstoppable against all obstacles.

Suspicious, Chen Jue swung again. The result was still the gathering force of Inner and Outer Six Harmonies—heavy, powerful, and accompanied by a chilling whistle as it tore through the air.

"So this is 'Six Harmonies as One'?"

Joy rose in Chen Jue's heart. So-called Six Harmonies as One transformed the force-generating techniques of Inner and Outer Six Harmonies into a passive skill, allowing every slash he made to unleash the maximum damage of the Six Directions Saber Art!

"Just wait, all of you! Before long, I'll let you learn why the Horse King has three eyes!"

The rage in Chen Jue's chest subsided somewhat. He sheathed his saber and returned home to continue his stance training.

At this moment, the blood qi throughout his body was incomparably abundant, having long since broken past the limits of the Blood-Qi Realm.

Yet the Diligence Reward Talent, where "not a single drop of sweat is shed in vain," allowed his blood qi to continue growing steadily. It even burst capillaries, leaving many speckled blood moles across his body.

Toward evening, Ms. He Yin returned home. Having just changed out of her high heels, she started a video call with someone.

"Qingqing dear, look. Was Auntie right or not?"

"My young master is exactly the kind of ascetic cultivator who knows nothing but training from dawn till dusk!"

Ms. He Yin held up her phone, fitting both her own face and her son's handsome face into the frame.

"Poor me, becoming an empty-nest elder while still so young. If Qingqing dear doesn't come visit Auntie soon, Auntie will be depressed..."

His mother had always been so unbecoming for her age.

Though Chen Jue's forehead was lined with black, he could only force out an awkward smile for the camera.

"Good evening, Miss Pei."

"Good evening, Brother Chen."

On the other end of the camera, Pei Qingying wore her long hair loosely pinned up. Her delicate face was rosy and radiant. She wore a pure white gauze jacket dotted with green over a matcha-green gauze skirt, making her look both innocent and adorable, with a touch of bewitching charm.

Chen Jue found himself staring in a daze. When he came back to himself, he realized his lapse in manners and hurriedly pushed his mother away. "Move it, move it. Don't interfere with my training."

"Tch!" Ms. He Yin shot her dense son a disdainful look.

With such a straight-laced blockhead, how was he ever going to find a wife?

She turned the camera toward the three dishes and soup on the dining table and said to Pei Qingying, "The young master's cooking is barely passable. Otherwise, Auntie would've swept him out the door long ago."

"Brother Chen isn't eating?" came the question from the other end.

"Hehe, don't mind him. He already ate... After all, the young master never waits for anyone when he eats."

At eleven fifty-eight that night, Chen Jue took the Martial Foundation Establishment Pill on time.

The moment midnight arrived, the Diligence Rewards Log refreshed on schedule.

[Over the past day, you performed stance training for 5 hours, practiced the Six Directions Saber Art 30 times, consumed two High-Grade Qi-Nourishing Capsules and one Martial Foundation Establishment Pill, and comprehended the force-generating technique "Six Harmonies as One"...]

[Today's evaluation: Training day and night without cease. Diligence Index: 2 (3).]

[Reward settlement.]

[You additionally gain the blood qi obtained from 10 hours of stance training + four Qi-Nourishing Capsules. Blood-Qi Realm, ninth level (112.3% → 115.1%).]

[You additionally gain 60 instances of Six Directions Saber Art experience and two instances of saber art enlightenment experience. Proficiency increased to (1870/10000).]

[You additionally gain the medicinal effects of two Martial Foundation Establishment Pills.]

[You have comprehended the advanced force-generating technique—"Whole-Body Force."]

The spirit stone in Chen Jue's hand shattered completely, while three-fifths of the spiritual energy in the second spirit stone was siphoned away as well.

The golden Diligence Rewards Log once again hovered above Chen Jue's head, devouring the spiritual energy around it as it lowered unbroken threads of golden light upon him.

Golden threads wrapped around Chen Jue's entire body. He felt boundless medicinal power emanating from his abdomen, seeping into his limbs and bones, transforming into torrents of blood qi that seemed ready to burst his veins as they surged relentlessly in every direction.

Chen Jue did not dare be careless. He hurriedly guided the blood qi toward his dantian.

As one of the human body's many hidden reservoirs, the Dantian Qi Sea was surrounded by an invisible membrane that blocked all energy from entering.

This membrane could dissolve blood qi and strengthen the body.

Therefore, only prospective martial artists whose blood qi had reached completion generally dared to use blood qi to strike at this place.

Otherwise, they would only be blocking their own martial path and needlessly increasing the difficulty of breaking through the Blood-Qi Realm.

Chen Jue's blood qi had already overflowed past its limits, and with the medicinal effects of three Martial Foundation Establishment Pills added on top, the so-called dantian membrane was nothing more than brittle paper scorched by fire, breaking at the first poke.

With his blood qi clearing the way, the blood vessels throughout his body were formally connected to the vast, boundless hidden reservoir of the human body—the Dantian Qi Sea.

Chen Jue rose and performed the final dance of the Primordial Unity One-Qi Stance. Using the perfectly rounded force of the stance technique, he controlled the surging blood qi throughout his body and poured it continuously into his dantian along its edges.

The blood qi slowly spiraled inward along the edge of the dantian.

Layer upon layer, it overlapped, compressed, and rubbed together, gradually forming a vortex of blood qi that grew ever hotter and higher in pressure the farther inward it went.

At this point, an ordinary martial artist could stop, stabilize the qi vortex, and use it as a foundation to forge a Blood-Qi Furnace of extreme heat and pressure.

But Chen Jue possessed far too much blood qi, far beyond the limits of an ordinary person.

Thus, without Chen Jue's consent, the medicinal effects of the three Martial Foundation Establishment Pills became like three tightening bands, instinctively driving the excess blood qi to compress frantically toward the center of the vortex.

Chen Jue could not stop it. He could only go with the current, continuously reinforcing his dantian with his abundant blood qi, frantically patching up the blood qi vortex as it collapsed inward.

He had a powerful premonition: if the unformed Blood-Qi Furnace in his dantian exploded due to failed Foundation Establishment, not even his bones would remain!

The pressure came crashing down like mountains and seas, cold sweat streaming down his forehead.

Second by second, time passed. Just as Chen Jue was reaching the end of his strength, the medicinal effects of the three Foundation Establishment Pills were finally exhausted.

Deprived of external force, the blood qi vortex stopped collapsing inward, and the temperature and density at its center finally stabilized completely.

Chen Jue was drenched in sweat, exhausted to the point of nearly collapsing.

Yet he still endured the fatigue of body and mind, solidifying the Dantian Qi Sea into a furnace body and the blood qi vortex into furnace fire, forging a human furnace capable of refining the spiritual energy of the outside world.

"It worked!"

Chen Jue let out a breath of relief, then collapsed straight onto his bed from exhaustion.

Now that his Martial Foundation Establishment was complete, he had broken free from the shackles of the mundane world. With every breath, mixed spiritual energy entered his body, was transformed through his blood qi, and fed into the dantian furnace in his lower abdomen.

The moment the spiritual energy entered the furnace, it was refined by the blazing blood qi at its center, merging with it to form all manner of strange true qi particles that shot outward in every direction.

At this moment, the furnace walls formed by the Dantian Qi Sea became natural high walls restraining those true qi particles.

They adsorbed all the mixed true qi particles onto the furnace walls, awaiting Chen Jue's call at any time.