Chen Xian was speechless. In three years, his lungs and viscera had been injured fifty-six times.
He had thought that once he grasped the Breathing Technique, deducing the subsequent cultivation methods would go smoothly. Yet it was just as arduous!
He endured the twisting pain in his internal organs and the numb, aching soreness in his limbs.
"Continue deduction!"
After sixty months of ceaseless deduction day and night, you developed seventy-one cultivation methods, failed sixty-eight times, and succeeded three times. You selected one cultivation route and renamed the Breathing Technique the Ox Demon Golden Flame Technique. Martial Art: Ox Demon Golden Flame Technique (Not Initiated) Experience: 702 points
Chen Xian endured every kind of agony, drenched in cold sweat. Looking at the notification that appeared on the panel, he finally let out a breath of relief.
Nine years had passed, and he had finally deduced a cultivation method for the Surging Origin Realm.
With 702 experience points left, it should be enough to bring him to the peak of the Surging Origin Realm, right?
The thought filled Chen Xian with excitement.
Once the pain faded, he opened his eyes and glanced at Ding Chen, Wang Yan, and Qin Fei.
The four of them lived in the same tent.
The three were cultivating Blood Moving, and blood energy had already surfaced around their bodies.
Seeing this, Chen Xian did not disturb them. He rose quietly and stepped out of the tent. After loosening his limbs outside, he found a place where he would not affect the others.
He prepared to improve the Ox Demon Golden Flame Technique.
According to the guidance of the Ox Demon Golden Flame Technique, Surging Origin meant using the Origin Qi in one's acupoints to force open the fifteen Origin meridians throughout the body.
During the process, there might be a shortage of Origin Qi.
After twelve months of arduous training, you opened one-third of your first Origin meridian. After twenty-four months of ceaseless training day and night, you opened your first Origin meridian, the Conception Vessel.
Boom!
As Chen Xian looked at the panel notification, his entire body suddenly trembled. From the crown of his head to his perineum, a powerful current surged and crashed about, making all the blood essence in his body boil.
In an instant, abundant power churned within his body.
Chen Xian clenched his fists. He had roughly the strength of ten tripods.
"Continue!"
After sensing it carefully for a moment, Chen Xian continued opening his meridians.
After thirty-six months of opening meridians day and night, you opened four Origin meridians throughout your body and entered the Surging Origin Realm. Realm: Early Surging Origin Experience: 558 points Lifespan: Seven years and seven months
As he looked at the panel notification, Chen Xian's eyes lit up when they fell on his lifespan.
Just as expected!
As his realm rose, his lifespan would regain its spring.
Chen Xian stretched his limbs, his mood soaring.
He glanced at the sky. It was still early.
Chen Xian continued improving himself.
After thirty-six months of opening meridians day and night, you opened twelve Origin meridians throughout your body and reached major attainment in the Surging Origin Realm. Realm: Major Attainment Surging Origin Experience: 270 points Lifespan: Forty-two years and nine months
"Hahaha...!"
Seeing his lifespan restored to forty-two years and nine months, Chen Xian threw back his head and laughed excitedly.
At that moment, Origin Qi roiled endlessly within his body, distorting the air around him.
"What are you so happy about?"
Ding Chen's voice came from behind him. Chen Xian immediately stopped laughing and turned around.
Ding Chen and the other two stood at the tent entrance, staring at him curiously.
Chen Xian smiled and uttered two words. "It's open!"
The three of them were like monks standing ten feet from the bell—completely baffled. They shook their heads speechlessly, turned around, and went back into the tent to continue Blood Moving.
Chen Xian did not mind. Riding that momentum, he continued improving himself.
After thirty-six months of arduously opening meridians, you opened all fifteen Origin meridians throughout your body and reached perfection in the Surging Origin Realm. Realm: Perfected Surging Origin Experience: 162 points Lifespan: Seventy-three years Martial Art: Ox Demon Golden Flame Technique (Initiated)
Boom!
In an instant, dark golden Origin Qi coursed through Chen Xian's fifteen meridians. Not only that, it burst out through his body, scattering dark golden sparks that carried an intensely scorching aura.
His meridians, sinews, bones, flesh, and skin all felt searingly hot.
"Fire Origin Qi?"
Chen Xian narrowed his eyes slightly. It made sense. The Blood Flame Ox Demon Technique had carried a fiery aura from the very beginning, and when it became the Breathing Technique, even condensing acupoints had been scorching hot.
When he looked again at his seventy-three years of lifespan, he naturally grew excited.
Still, the fact that the Ox Demon Golden Flame Technique had only reached initiation surprised him somewhat.
As he carefully examined the Ox Demon Golden Flame Technique, Chen Xian narrowed his eyes. "Open the Origin meridians, break the Jade Sea?"
He had already perfected Surging Origin.
Yet Origin Qi continued to race through his fifteen meridians, with nowhere to contain it.
Every time it reached his lower abdomen, it had to crash forward with all its strength several times before it could continue surging.
Chen Xian stared at the translucent three-dimensional figure in his mind and suddenly understood.
At the same time, wild joy surged through his heart.
So-called breaking the Jade Sea meant opening up the human body's dantian.
He had also heard of the dantian in his previous life. Daoists spoke of sinking Qi into the dantian, even dividing the human body into the upper dantian, middle dantian, and lower dantian.
Breaking the Jade Sea referred to the dantian. Once Origin Qi broke through the Jade Sea, it could be stored within, cultivated and stored at any time, allowing a martial artist to possess inexhaustible Origin Qi.
Looking at the remaining 162 experience points.
Chen Xian fully mobilized the Origin Qi in his fifteen meridians, intending to break open the Jade Sea in one burst and reach the next realm, the Jade Sea Realm.
After twenty-four months of ceaseless cultivation day and night, your attempt to breach the Jade Sea failed.
Seeing the panel notification, agony instantly flashed across Chen Xian's face.
The translucent three-dimensional figure appeared in his mind once more. Streams of light raced through its body and slammed against the cluster of light at the lower abdomen.
The process was agonizing!
"Continue!"
Chen Xian gritted his teeth against the pain and continued breaking the Jade Sea.
After thirty-six months of ceaseless cultivation day and night, your Jade Sea loosened, but the attempt failed. After sixty months of arduous attempts, the gate of your Jade Sea shattered. A hundred streams returned to the sea, and you entered the Jade Sea Realm. Realm: Early Jade Sea Experience: 42 points Lifespan: One hundred and five years
Boom, boom, boom...!
In an instant, Chen Xian's body shook violently. Waves of rumbling filled his ears, followed by dark golden flames erupting from his body and setting his clothes ablaze.
Moreover, his sinews and bones emitted sounds like grinding metal. His blood energy churned, and lines resembling flowing gold glimmered across his skin and flesh, a terrifying sight to behold.
He could not see his own Jade Sea, but through his Origin Qi, he could sense it. Once it rushed into the Jade Sea, the Origin Qi became exceptionally exuberant, like children returning home to a harbor sheltered from the storm.
He had no mind to look at the panel notifications. He closed his eyes and felt the surging Origin Qi within his body.
As the Origin Qi churned, a powerful current shot straight toward his forehead.
"Ah!"
With a low roar, Chen Xian abruptly opened his eyes. His flame-wreathed palm struck the ground. With a deafening bang, a deep palm print was blasted into the earth.
Within a one-meter radius around the palm print, the ground was charred black, with flames still flickering.
Inside the tent, Ding Chen and the other two were startled and rushed out one after another.
When they saw the charred palm print on the ground, all three wore expressions of utter shock.
"Damn, is that Chen Xian?"
Wang Yan's gaze shifted to that figure, and he froze!
Soon, people from the other tents were also alarmed. They emerged one after another and looked toward Chen Xian.
Cao Fang and Xue Qishan ran over and asked, "What happened?"
Ding Chen and the other two did not answer. They merely stared at the figure slowly rising to his feet.
The two hurriedly looked as well. They saw that the figure was blackened all over, his clothes burning with dark golden flames. A terrifying aura spread from his body, carrying a scorching heat wave that filled them with dread.
"He is... Chen Xian?" Xue Qishan and Cao Fang gaped wide.
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