Three Dantians

Three Dantians

When he had cultivated the Nameless Art before, it had been like lacking any driving force, utterly motionless. Now it suddenly moved. Could this Beardless Grass help his bloodline evolve?

If that was true, then he had struck it rich!

The more Bloodline Factors he had, the faster he cultivated. As long as he could continuously improve his bloodline, surpassing his past life would be just around the corner!

Realizing this, Nie Yun could scarcely conceal the excitement in his heart!

"Brother Nie, helping me activate my Bloodline Factors makes you no different from my reborn parent. This is our family's special Message Token. If there's anything you need, just send your power into it, and I'll know!"

Unaware that Nie Yun had sunk into thought, Feng Xiao immediately handed him a small token.

Runes coiled around the token, and it was stamped with densely packed Demon Race characters. One glance was enough to tell that it had been made using Demon Race methods.

Many of the Demon Race's methods were unfathomable. While humans fought the Demon Race, they also borrowed quite a few of their secret arts. This Message Token was one such thing. Each person held one; as long as a message was infused into it, the other party could receive it. It was exceedingly convenient.

"Since Brother Feng is so generous, I won't stand on ceremony!" Casting aside his thoughts, Nie Yun accepted the token.

"You're too polite, Brother Nie! Now that my Bloodline Factors have been activated and my strength has reached the fifth level, it's time to reclaim my rights. Farewell!" Seeing the youth accept the token, Feng Xiao let out a breath of relief and clasped his fists.

Feng Xiao was the Feng Family's sole heir, and his status was extremely high. Yet over the past few years, because he had been unable to activate his Bloodline Factors, he had faced doubts. Many people had taken the opportunity to stir up trouble and strip him of considerable authority. Now that his Bloodline Factors had been activated and his Five Dantians were revolving, it was time to clear out the garbage within the clan!

"Please." Judging from Feng Xiao's attitude toward him, this man valued loyalty and righteousness. Once he gained greater power, he would certainly be of great help. Thus, Nie Yun did not stop him.

Whoosh!

With a flip, Feng Xiao shot out of the courtyard and vanished into the night before long.

"Let's see what exactly is going on with this Beardless Grass!"

Once Feng Xiao had gone far away, Nie Yun hurriedly carried the Beardless Grass into his room, sat cross-legged on the bed, and began studying it carefully.

"Hm? It seems what caused the Nameless Art to revolve wasn't the Beardless Grass, but the flowerpot beneath it!"

After studying it for a while, Nie Yun finally discovered something amiss.

A thousand-year Beardless Grass possessed even greater spirituality than a thousand-year Pengxin Snow Lotus. By all reason, such a spiritual medicinal herb could never be planted in a flowerpot; otherwise, it would certainly flee. Yet not only was it in the pot, it was thriving luxuriantly. How could that not be strange?

Could this flowerpot be a treasure?

With a thought, Nie Yun plucked the Beardless Grass and placed it into a jade box specially meant for storing it. He removed the soil from the flowerpot and began examining it.

Several large characters were written on the bottom of the flowerpot. They were neither a language he knew nor Demon Race writing. Every stroke was balanced and upright, carrying a heavy, imposing majesty!

As his palm approached those characters, the Nameless Art within him stirred once more, its speed abruptly increasing considerably!

"It seems the sudden activation of the Nameless Art is related to these characters..."

At last understanding, Nie Yun gently pressed his hand against the writing and used the special power contained within it to slowly circulate the Nameless Art.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

As soon as the Nameless Art began to revolve, the strange sensation he had experienced before reappeared. Golden light flickered within his Qi Sea, and with two soft pops, two broad-bean-sized Bloodline Factors abruptly appeared and slowly grew.

"Two?"

Seeing two additional Bloodline Factors suddenly appear in his dantian, Nie Yun was startled!

He had thought that even if circulating the Nameless Art could generate bloodlines, they would emerge one by one. He had never expected two to grow at once!

With two more Bloodline Factors, he now possessed three dantians, just as he had in his past life. It was like a car having three engines—how could his cultivation speed not be fast!

Creak! Creak!

The two Bloodline Factors fully took shape, and the Nameless Art stopped revolving once again.

Opening his eyes and looking at the flowerpot in his hand, Nie Yun's expression immediately turned strange.

The profound characters from before had vanished completely at some unknown time. The whole flowerpot no longer carried that imposing aura either, as if in the blink of an eye, it had become an ordinary piece of junk.

"The reason the thousand-year Beardless Grass could be planted here must have been these strange characters!"

After studying it for a while longer, Nie Yun thought to himself.

The reason the thousand-year Beardless Grass could be planted in such a tiny flowerpot must have been related to those strange characters. Otherwise, this spiritual herb of heaven and earth would likely have fled not long after it began growing.

"The Nameless Art can actually absorb these characters and help me activate Bloodline Factors. If I want to generate more bloodlines in the future, where am I supposed to find more of these characters?"

After thinking for a long time without reaching any conclusion, Nie Yun cast the matter from his mind.

Now that his Bloodline Factors had emerged, the urgent task was to open up his dantians!

He had previously considered opening a dantian specifically to nurture pill fire. Now that he had three dantians, and one of them possessed a pill-fire attribute, it was the perfect time to put that plan into action.

After an unknown amount of time, Nie Yun exhaled and opened his eyes once more.

"Success! I didn't expect to recover my past-life talent so quickly—the Noble Grade Bloodline! The dantian for nurturing pill fire has also been successfully opened. Combined with my experience from my past life, this dantian can nurture spiritual energy when idle, then form pill fire whenever I want to refine pills. Cultivation and pill refining won't interfere with each other! I've also arranged uses for the other two dantians. Just what level of cultivation art is the Nameless Art? How can it be this powerful?"

Feeling the three dantians float within him like three brilliant planets, Nie Yun nearly threw back his head and let out a long cry!

If he had not been an old monster who had lived for several hundred years, with a disposition long since tempered into calmness, he would likely have leaped up on the spot!

"Three dantians, three blazing furnaces. I'll now charge straight into the fourth level, the True Qi Realm!"

With his dantians formed, Nie Yun struck while the iron was hot and directly charged toward the fourth level of the Qi Sea, the True Qi Realm!

Rumble!

With the cultivation experience of two lifetimes, coupled with the overwhelming power of three dantians, all the spiritual energy in his body was soon refined, the false cast away and the true retained, successfully transforming into true qi!

"At the early stage of the fourth-level True Qi Realm, combined with my battle experience from my past life, no one of the same level should be able to defeat me. Even against disciples at the peak of the True Qi Realm, I can fight! With this strength, I can be considered someone of standing even in the inner branch of Nie Mansion!"

Having successfully broken through the bottleneck and smoothly advanced to the fourth-level True Qi Realm, Nie Yun knew that he now had some capital among the younger generation of the family.

Disciples of the family's outer branches were generally within the first three levels of the Qi Sea. Reaching the third level before the age of twenty was considered decent talent! Inner branch disciples could at most reach the peak of the fourth level. Those who reached the fifth level, True Qi Body Egress, were already considered management-level figures in the family!

As for family elders, they were basically at the sixth level, the Forming Gang Realm. At this level, true qi could be released outward to form indestructible protective qi, a qualitative leap beyond the first five levels. Only with such strength could one truly step into the ranks of the powerful!

For a great clan like the Nie Family, passed down for who knew how many years and one of Luoshui City's Four Great Families, there were likely only twenty or thirty experts at the sixth-level Forming Gang Realm when counted carefully! This showed just how difficult it was to reach such a level!

Of course, this also showed just how monstrously talented his father had been back then!

Before the age of twenty-five, he had already reached the seventh level of the Qi Sea Nine Heavens, the Weapon Armor Realm. Such cultivation speed could rank among the records of Luoshui City's history!

The higher one stood, the harder one fell. It was precisely because of this that his father had never recovered after his fall!

"The True Qi Realm puts me near the front among the younger disciples, but I'm still no match for a fifth-level Body Egress Realm expert. Besides, cultivating at this level mainly relies on accumulation. Even if all three dantians burn at once, I can forget about reaching the peak in less than half a year. This is the perfect chance to cultivate the Spirit Rhinoceros Body Refining Technique!"

The Spirit Rhinoceros Body Refining Technique was a Devil Race cultivation art focused mainly on tempering the body, utterly different from Qi Sea cultivation. The reason he had reached the peak of the Dantian Acupoint Realm in his past life and survived battle after battle was that even the Nine Revolutions Nirvana Art had contributed less than this technique!

Now that his dantians were continuously accumulating true qi on their own, there was no need to deliberately cultivate it. This was just the right time to practice this cultivation art!

"The Spirit Rhinoceros Body Refining Technique was created based on the Spirit Rhinoceros divine beast from Devil Race legends. Among all creatures, the Divine Elephant reigns in strength, the Roc reigns in speed, and the Spirit Fox reigns in intelligence. But when it comes to defense, perhaps no living being can compare to the Spirit Rhinoceros! The Spirit Rhinoceros Body Refining Technique tempers the body until it has no weaknesses and fears no attack!"

After recalling the Spirit Rhinoceros Body Refining Technique's general principles in his mind, Nie Yun calmed himself.

After an unknown amount of time, Nie Yun gave a bitter smile.

Though he had cultivated the Spirit Rhinoceros Body Refining Technique in his past life, such a high-level cultivation art could not be mastered overnight no matter how much experience he had. Even the simplest first layer could not possibly be completed in under a year!

Of course, once he mastered the first layer of the Spirit Rhinoceros Body Refining Technique, he would not need to fear even a peak Body Egress Realm expert. Its defensive power was so formidable that even if someone of that strength stood before him and attacked with all their might, they could not harm him in the slightest!

Invincible defense—this was the Spirit Rhinoceros Body Refining Technique's greatest advantage!

But one year was truly too long!

Nie Chao, whom he had beaten, was now neither dead nor alive. Nie Chaoxing had fled in disarray. He had killed Madam Shen Gui and several members of the Nie Zhang Branch... Though he had handled the aftermath fairly well and there were no problems for the moment, it certainly could not remain hidden for long. If he wanted to protect the branch and his family, he had to raise his strength as quickly as possible!

Besides, if he remembered correctly, a tremendous upheaval would erupt among Luoshui City's Four Great Families one year from now, resulting in countless deaths. To face this upheaval, it was also his duty to do his part!

With all these reasons combined, taking a full year merely to master the first layer of the Spirit Rhinoceros Body Refining Technique was simply too slow!

"Let's see if I can buy some medicinal herbs and prepare a body-tempering medicinal liquid!"

With a thought, Nie Yun recalled a method for rapidly cultivating the Spirit Rhinoceros Body Refining Technique. He slowly rose to his feet and walked out of the room.

Medicinal liquid was less effective than pills, but when it came to tempering the body, it was even more effective than pills. If he cultivated with such a thing, the Spirit Rhinoceros Body Refining Technique could likely be completed in less than a month!

The sunlight outside was dazzling. After one round of cultivation, he had not expected it to already be noon the next day!

Though he had not slept all night, Nie Yun was brimming with energy and did not feel the slightest discomfort. On the contrary, he felt refreshed and vigorous.

"Young Master, Young Master Yang Yan came looking for you. I've arranged for him to wait in the reception hall!"

The moment he stepped out of his room, he saw the steward Nie Chong walking over.

P.S.: Student Nie Yun has three dantians now—he's getting awesome. Shouldn't our recommendation votes and favorites get awesome too? Being half-dead like this really does a disservice to such a super expert with so many dantians...