Immortality Begins With Internal Breathing-Chapter 293: Battle, Improve (I)

Morning arrived on a soft breeze. The sky was overcast, the sunlight muted, as if the day were holding its breath.

Inside a wooden house within a certain courtyard of Wuji Manor, Lin Zheyu was trying to sense that faint trace of golden blood qi with keen interest.

Is a transformation about to occur? Could the true limit be all the blood qi in the body transforming into a golden color?

He could sense that within this faint golden blood qi was an extremely terrifying energy, far more fearsome than ordinary blood qi. If one day all the blood qi in his body were to transform into gold color, then even without following the traditional path of martial cultivation, he would be unprecedentedly powerful. There was originally no road in the world. When many people walked the same path, it became a road. This was something a great figure from a previous life had once said. 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

Lin Zheyu deeply agreed. He was currently walking such a distinct martial cultivation path. If he could truly make it work, he would become incomparably powerful, and perhaps even capable of standing shoulder to shoulder with Grandmaster realm martial artists while still a Marrow Refining realm martial artist. Lin Zheyu tried to control the faint golden blood qi within his body and gather it together, but in the end, only two strands of golden blood qi were formed.

"There's still too little. I will unlock the Ninefold Origin Lock Art first."

The qualitative change of blood qi was already complete, so it was time to release it. He poured out the slightly blackened water from the basin and refilled it with fresh water. During the recent breakthrough, he had consumed five sets of Blazing Flame Blood-Burning Powder, and even that had not been enough.

The blood qi within Lin Zheyu's body had not recovered to the current limit of his physique, which was a sign that the medicinal strength was insufficient. Advancing from the ninth transformation of blood qi to the tenth consumed far more energy than he had imagined. He took out the leather medicine pouch containing Blazing Flame Blood-Burning Powder and poured in roughly three fifths of it, an amount equivalent to three sets of Blazing Flame Blood-Burning Powder.

After finishing his preparations, Lin Zheyu took a deep breath.

"Release the Ninefold Origin Lock Art!"

His hands rapidly formed seals as his fingers struck toward the acupoints across his body. In an instant, vast life energy surged forth. This was the second stage of the Ninefold Origin Lock Art, which only sealed life energy.

"Release again!"

After unlocking one stage of the Ninefold Origin Lock Art, Lin Zheyu did not hesitate and continued circulating the technique to release the final stage. In an instant, surging blood qi carrying immense blood qi energy poured forth from every acupoint in his body. The moment everything was fully released, Lin Zheyu immersed both his hands in the basin, closed his eyes, and transmitted a thought.

Use 1 unit of Origin Force to cultivate the Violet Thunder Blood Condensing Technique.

Vast and mysterious energy surged forth.

Lin Zheyu's mind wavered for a moment as he fell into a mysterious consciousness space and began ceaseless cultivation. The side effects caused by the Ninefold Origin Lock Art were completely resolved the instant he entered this space. The life energy and blood qi energy merged perfectly into his body.

Lin Zheyu could feel that the limit of blood qi within his body had increased once again. As cultivation continued, the blood qi that had previously weakened due to the fusion of blood qi without qualitative change began to rise rapidly. With blood qi that had undergone ten qualitative changes as the foundation, this cultivation session was far easier, and there was no need to retrace the path of qualitative transformation.

After several breaths, Lin Zheyu opened his eyes and let out a long breath of turbid air. The instant his eyes opened, the blood colored dragon that had surged outside his body vanished back into him.

Let me test the strength of this golden blood qi energy.

After releasing the Ninefold Origin Lock Art, the blood qi within his body returned to a peak state and even improved further. After gathering all the golden blood qi together, there were roughly twenty strands. It was not many, but it was enough for him to test things out.

He stepped into the courtyard. Lin Zheyu took a step forward as two strands of golden blood qi power surged separately into his legs. The Golden Goose Technique was unleashed, and his blood qi power erupted violently. Lin Zheyu shot forward in an instant and came to an abrupt halt just before colliding with the courtyard wall.

"So much explosive power!" Lin Zheyu was somewhat shocked.

The explosive force of golden blood qi was far fiercer than that of ordinary blood qi. After testing the golden blood qi, he separated several strands of ordinary blood qi and channeled them into his legs. When the Golden Goose Technique was used, his body shot forward. However, when compared to just now, the speed was much slower.

Lin Zheyu tested it back and forth three times. Through direct comparison, he arrived at a rough estimate of the strength of golden blood qi. In terms of energy density, the golden blood qi was roughly ten times stronger than his blood qi after ten qualitative transformations. Because of this astonishing density, its explosive power was extremely terrifying. At the same level of blood qi energy, attacks unleashed using golden blood qi were far more formidable.

"This is truly unbelievable. If all the blood qi in my body transforms into golden blood qi, I'll be more than tenfold stronger than I am right now."

Lin Zheyu was deeply shaken by the conclusions drawn from the test. Blood qi was the foundation of martial cultivation and the root of a martial artist's strength. The stronger one's blood qi, the more terrifying the true strength that would be produced when advancing to the Marrow Refining realm and beyond.

I wonder whether any martial artists in those top sects have transformed their blood qi into a gold color. The top sects possess countless martial cultivation resources. If they pile them up with sheer volume, it might actually be possible.

However, this was nothing more than speculation. Martial artists at the Dragon Transformation were already exceedingly rare, let alone those who surpassed the limit of the ninth transformation. Even if such people existed, they would be few and far between. After finishing his test of golden blood qi, Lin Zheyu gathered the remaining strands together and began circulating the Ninefold Origin Lock Art.

As he raised the technique from the first turn to the sixth, he carefully controlled the process, sealing all the remaining golden blood qi into his acupoints. This kind of highly condensed, high-density blood qi energy was not something he dared to expose casually. Until he possessed sufficiently powerful concealment methods, he intended to keep it locked within his acupoints to prevent his secrets from being revealed.

Several minutes later, Lin Zheyu's forehead was drenched in sweat. Completely locking the golden blood qi into his acupoints placed extremely high demands on control. Fortunately, his control was strong enough, and he succeeded. He sensed his current strength. After entering the tenth blood qi transformation, even while maintaining the sixth turn, his remaining strength was still far greater than before.

However, this was not a major issue. After dispersing his blood qi throughout his body, the diluted strength was still far from his former ninth transformation state. With his mastery of the Tortoise Breath True Technique, being cautious should prevent discovery. This could be inferred from Elder Yang's words during his last meeting with Elder Yang and Grandmaster Huang Baizhong.

After finishing testing his strength, Lin Zheyu returned to his room to tidy up before heading out to the plaza where the arena challenge was held. After entering the arena challenge, he had to remain on the platform for a sufficient amount of time each day, either until he was defeated or until he achieved five consecutive days of victory.

When he arrived at the plaza, it was far livelier than yesterday. Today was the third day of the martial cultivation exchange, and after finishing their other affairs, disciples from esteemed families and sects had all come to join the excitement. As soon as Lin Zheyu stepped into the plaza, he heard discussions about himself.

"Haha, that Wild Man Luo actually lost to a commoner martial artist yesterday. I am dying of laughter. After hearing about it, I even skipped the banquet I had arranged with Miss Rong Siying just to come see this fierce character," a young nobleman said with loud laughter.

His name was Luo Dinglin. He came from the main branch of the Luo Family, yet his limelight had been overshadowed by Wild Man Luo, a talented member of a collateral branch. Because of this, Luo Dinglin harbored deep resentment toward him. Seeing Wild Man Luo suffer a setback made him quite pleased.

"Tsk. Give it up. You think you can actually get Miss Rong to meet you? You were probably turned away with a closed door and had nowhere else to go, so you came here to watch the fun." His companion mercilessly exposed his lie.

"Who says so? Miss Rong held a banquet and even invited me," Luo Dinglin shot a glance at his companion Hong Yuanjie and said with dissatisfaction.

"Hey, it must have been your brother who was invited, and you just tagged along. How are things going between your brother and Miss Rong Siying? Any hope of winning the beauty's heart?" Hong Yuanjie said with a grin.

"My brother did not go. He is a martial fanatic. He thinks women only slow down the speed at which he draws his blade and has no interest in them at all." Mentioning his elder brother, Luo Dinglin could not help sounding exasperated.

"I knew it. Your brother must not have gone and simply handed the invitation to you. Haha." Hong Yuanjie laughed loudly.

"Get lost." Luo Dinglin shot him a glare and stopped paying him any attention. He scanned the area, searching for the person who had defeated Wild Man Luo, Yue Qinghong, and Li Yin.

"There he is. He does not look like much. Are you interested in going up to try?" Luo Dinglin said with a smile toward his friend.

"No. I cannot even beat Wild Man Luo. Going up would only be asking for humiliation." Hong Yuanjie shook his head and looked at Luo Dinglin as he asked, "Are you planning to try?"

"I have no desire to go up and embarrass myself. But my brother might come. He is very interested in this Zhao Hao," Luo Dinglin said with a smile.

His brother practiced the Heavenlight Shadowless Saber, famed for its speed. When the blade moved, no shadow followed, and when light flashed, heads fell. Upon hearing that Zhao Hao, who had defeated Wild Man Luo, had cultivated his lightness and movement techniques to a transcendent level, his brother immediately became intrigued. He wanted to test whether Zhao Hao's speed was faster, or whether his saber was faster.

"Now this will be a good show. Luo Dinglong's fast saber is terrifying. Even with Wild Man Luo's powerful combat awareness, he could not evade it," Hong Yuanjie said with keen interest.