Room A, Pure Heart Pavilion.
Yi Yang opened his eyes.
The panel visible only to him displayed the results of tonight's cultivation.
[Wood-Nurturing Longevity Art · True Astral Realm (hundred-meridian astral communion) (4,850/2,000,000)]
His cultivation of the hundred-forged body, which marked the early true astral realm, had finally reached completion. Yi Yang's strength had now taken another great leap.
The quality of the blue-green true astral force within him was completely different from last night.
Previously, his Yi Wood true qi had circulated along his fascia. Now it wound around his meridians, bones, and flesh, saturating every part of him with astral energy.
This was the hundred-forged body, which strengthened the physique of a true astral realm expert.
Upon reaching the mid true astral realm, the speed at which Yi Yang's true qi circulated through his meridians more than doubled.
The instant his hundred-forged body reached completion, astral force continued tempering his body along his cultivation pathways.
It advanced deeper along his meridians, surging into a martial artist's thirty-six main meridians and widening the channels through which true qi flowed.
Hundred-meridian astral communion was the goal of the mid true astral realm.
Once this was accomplished, astral force would seep from his flesh into his meridians, connecting his entire body into a unified whole.
As his qi and blood circulated, a humming like a vibrating bowstring would sound within him.
At that point, astral energy would no longer be limited to protecting his body. He could deliver it through his punches and kicks, making it hard or soft at will, unleashing tremendous force within the space of an inch and splitting mountains and shattering stone as easily as breaking through rotten earth.
Sensing the changes within himself, Yi Yang stood and stretched.
As he moved, every joint in