My Profession Can Be Infinitely Upgraded: Chapter 58

The vast force pressing down from the young woman's sword used Jiang Xuan's arm as a fulcrum and, through the Cosmic Cycle Circulation of the Nine-Breath Qi-Absorption Art, instantly spread throughout his limbs, bones, and apertures.

Even so, he still had to take the blow head-on. But having his entire body's sinews, bones, and apertures bear it together was naturally different from relying on his arm alone.

"Bang!"

After that strike, Jiang Xuan's entire body shuddered violently. The apertures around him buzzed, his blood and qi churned, and a trace of blood seeped from the corner of his mouth. Yet he had ultimately endured the blow by sheer force.

"Eh?"

The sight startled the young woman as well. Clearly, she had not expected Jiang Xuan to withstand her strike.

Under normal circumstances, Jiang Xuan would have been somewhat surprised himself. He would also have discovered that his Nine-Breath Qi-Absorption Art had quietly advanced amidst this desperate situation.

[Your Nine-Breath Qi-Absorption Art has advanced. Current level: Fourth Realm: Expert]

The quiet advancement of Jiang Xuan's Nine-Breath Qi-Absorption Art was by no means a forced breakthrough at death's door.

Bound by the Dao Foundation Contract, this cultivation art had reached a perfect one-hundred-percent compatibility with him—perhaps not even its creator could have achieved such ultimate harmony.

That perfect compatibility, that opportunity as though tailor-forged for him, had directly reduced the difficulty of cultivating this art by countless times.

Half a month ago, when he had first entered Four Seasons Valley, this cultivation art of Jiang Xuan's had already reached the Third Realm.

Afterward, whether sitting, lying down, walking, or sinking into deep sleep, the art continued circulating silently and imperceptibly, steadily improving. Each circulation often increased the system's displayed cultivation progress by not merely one point or two, but two