Martial arts ascend to the gods

Chapter 357 Debt Forgiveness

Rao Mingxian asked, "I've seen the Demon Bag Garden. Back then, during the Heavenly Rank Examination, the demon's main goal was to build the Demon Bag Garden, right?"

"Ah."

"I just can't understand it. How could a demon influence the joint entrance exam of eighteen schools?"

"Don't ask what you shouldn't ask."

"Okay. Brother Shen, you're not still bothered by what happened back then, are you?"

Shen Jun glared at Rao Mingxian and said, "I didn't know we were family back then. Now that you've revealed your identities, don't say such irrelevant things."

Last year, Zhou Leng, Rao Mingxian, Deng Zhijue, and others, under the protection of Chief Instructor Huang Jingqiu, went to hunt down members of the Demon Worship Cult.

In a deserted village, they were ambushed by Shen Jun.

Zhou Leng killed someone there. Although Rao Mingxian was not very strong, he also participated in the battle. It was also there that Rao Mingxian and Shen Jun met for the first time.

"By the way, Brother Shen, it seems that Madam Xiyan also knows Zhou Leng."

"What did she say?"

Rao Mingxian hesitated for a moment, then said, "I cannot speak carelessly about Madam's orders."

Shen Jun rolled his eyes at Rao Mingxian.

Rao Mingxian then asked, "Was the person Zhou Leng killed in the deserted village last time a relative of Senior Gong Futing, a master of innate cultivation?"

"Ah."

"When will Senior Gong Futing take his revenge?"

"Don't ask useless questions!"

Shen Jun rolled his eyes at Rao Mingxian and strode forward.

The next day, Zhou Leng participated in the first shift of training as usual.

After finishing his cultivation, Zhao He invited Zhou Leng to have a drink at the Tree Man Tavern that evening, but Zhou Leng declined, citing his injury as the reason.

On that day, Lou Feiqiong arrived at the Tree Man Demon City base, where Zhao He personally welcomed him.

Zhou Leng continued his cultivation without a care in the world.

An increase in ordinary spiritual energy can only accelerate the accumulation of Star Phoenix Feathers, but it cannot increase the daily limit.

After cultivating in the White Mist of Life, the daily limit for cultivating Star Phoenix Feathers increased significantly.

You can accumulate a full 15 sticks every day, which is more than three times the normal amount of practice.

Once you advance to the Innate Blood Strike level, your daily upper limit will be even higher.

Cultivating in the tree root cave not only allows the Star Phoenix Returning Heaven Technique to grow faster, but also other cultivation techniques, and even the speed of compressing true qi is several times faster than usual.

Among them, the fastest cultivation method is the Star-Gazing Technique.

After mastering the Star Phoenix Rejuvenation Technique, Zhou Leng devoted all his time to cultivating the Star Gathering Technique.

One cycle, one hour.

Two loops, three loops, four loops...

After five full cycles, I felt full.

Without the support of life force, one can only practice a maximum of 3 cycles a day.

"It seems that physical activity also includes all endurance. In the past, my body would not have been able to withstand such high-intensity training."

Before reaching the Innate Realm, one cultivates the Star-Gazing Technique to the point of mastery, after which one gets stuck and cannot improve further.

After advancing to the Innate Realm, one's cultivation level begins to progress towards the Lesser Completion Realm, but very slowly.

He has only been in the Tree Man Base for five or six days, and has already achieved minor success in the Star-Gazing Technique.

One reason is that his internal strength foundation is solid; he had already reached the divine level in internal strength before.

One reason is that the remnants of the Zhenhai map and the ancient river jade tablet significantly enhance the cultivation effect by creating the atmosphere of a cosmic tsunami.

Finally, there is the life force here.

The difficulty of achieving minor mastery of internal energy is far greater than that of achieving minor mastery of the Heavenly Tide Palm.

Zhou Leng focused his mind on his dantian, sensing the total amount of true qi.

A martial artist measures the total amount of true qi in the Innate Realm by using the average total amount of true qi of a newly promoted Innate Realm martial artist as a benchmark and estimating it by multiples.

When Zhou Lengna came out of Hundred Peaks Valley, he had not yet advanced to the Innate Realm, but the total amount of Star-Gazing True Qi had already reached twice the amount of Innate True Qi.

After advancing to the Innate Realm, the total amount of True Qi increases to five times the amount of Innate True Qi.

Now, having achieved minor success in the Star-Gazing Technique, my true qi has reached a full nine times the amount of innate true qi.

The growth of true qi in the Star-Gazing Technique was not originally this much, but the comprehension of the Zhenhai Remnant Map and the Ancient River Jade Stele doubled the total amount of true qi.

The current total amount of true qi is approaching the point where it can circulate throughout the body in an inexhaustible manner.

With a little more improvement, one can move on to a new level of cultivation.

True Qi is in perpetual motion.

The blood in the human body is constantly flowing.

True Qi, that works too.

True Qi is in constant motion. Whether eating, sleeping, or running, True Qi will continuously flow from the Dantian along the meridians and blood vessels according to the path of the Star-Gazing Technique, and finally return to the Dantian.

This process continues uninterrupted. Unless battles or cultivation result in additional consumption, the total amount of true qi will remain at around 90% and will not continue to decrease.

This process is equivalent to automatically cultivating the Star-Gazing Technique.

At the same time, unlike normal cultivation, some of the true energy will dissipate into the body.

Under the perpetual motion of true qi, all true qi will be integrated into the body without any leakage, strengthening the body.

This is extremely taxing, requiring a massive amount of internal energy in the dantian and rapid recovery capabilities.

Basically, martial artists only begin to experience the perpetual motion of true qi when their muscles and bones reach the innate stage. Only after experiencing the perpetual motion of true qi for a long time, and the physical body being completely "permeated" by true qi, combined with the flow of internal energy, can one advance to the level of a grandmaster.

Because after becoming a Grandmaster, one's entire body is transformed by Qi.

If a master's body is not permeated with true qi, the effect of qi transforming the whole body will be greatly reduced.

One of the main goals of Chen Shouhu and others who stayed at the Innate Realm for many years was to use true qi to perpetually permeate their entire bodies.

The more thorough the process, the better the results.

Zhou Leng's total amount of true energy was so great that his recovery speed was also extremely fast.

Judging from the current situation, as long as one obtains the ancient tree fossil and further enhances physical activity, one can achieve perpetual motion of true qi.

Qi-based and Blood-based unique bodies can also enhance the perpetual motion effect of true qi, but both are harder to obtain than Body-based unique bodies.

"We can try to get the Blood Body from the Dragon Clan."

"My Qi Body is currently entirely dependent on Senior Tree. But it hasn't increased at all after all this time..."

"Once the siege is over, we'll go find the ancient tree fossils."

"However, my advancement in the Star-Gazing Technique was a bit too fast."

“Generally speaking, one has to wait until the Bone Forging stage to achieve the initial stage of Innate True Qi before one can reach the minor stage. I haven’t even reached the Blood Vibration stage yet, and I’ve already reached the minor stage while still in the True Liquid stage. I’m afraid even Zhang Xinglie can’t catch up with me. His strength lies in his Innate Martial Body.”

"As expected, I improved faster during the True Liquid Innate stage, but he improved faster when we entered the Bone Forging and Muscle Forging stage."

The benefits of achieving early mastery of the innate stage are numerous. Not only is the total amount of true qi greater and its intensity stronger, but the cultivation speed of all martial arts will also be accelerated.

The most obvious benefit is that it compresses true qi with extremely high efficiency.

The compressed true qi during the True Liquid stage has a vague "compression ratio".

Only by compressing the original density of true qi to ten times its original value can compression be completed.

Only in this way can true qi be completely transformed into true liquid.

Now, Zhou Leng's compression ratio is about 5.5, and the density of his true qi is 5.5 times that of before.

Unfortunately, the Compressed Qi Elixir was all consumed.

I'm a little reluctant to sell other things to exchange for it.

But there are no other sources of income, and the money has all been spent.

"I'm poor..."

Zhou Leng thought silently, then went to sleep.

After getting up early in the morning, I still went into the first shift of cultivation, bathing in the white mist of life.

After finishing his cultivation, he walked outside and saw Lou Feiqiong there as well.

Zhao He was surprised that the two knew each other, so he suggested that they have dinner together that night.

Zhou Leng had already refused once, and considering that Lou Feiqiong had helped him, he hesitated for a moment before agreeing.

Zhao He was extremely pleased and patted Lou Feiqiong on the shoulder, saying, "Feiqiong still has a lot of influence. I invited him yesterday, but he ignored me."

Lou Feiqiong entered the second training session, while Zhou Leng and Zhao He headed towards the tree root cave. After taking only a few steps, a group of demon spirit masters approached from the opposite direction.

Some of the spirit masters went directly to the second shift to cultivate under the tree, while others stood outside the railing, waiting for the next shift.

"Zhou Leng?" Cang Feizhiyan was also waiting for the third shift when he saw Zhou Leng walking over quickly.

Zhou Leng gave a brief introduction to Cang Fei Zhi Yan and Zhao He. Seeing that the two had something to talk about, Zhao He tactfully left.

As they walked a short distance, his attendant turned his head and glanced at them, then said, "This Zhou Leng is no ordinary person. That Cang Fei Zhi Yan is so young, yet he's already a Primordial Demon Spirit Master; his status in the Demon Spirit World must be extraordinary."

Zhao He said, "Whether it's treants or demon spirit masters, although they are willing to make friends with humans, their relationships are usually quite ordinary. There is only one exception, which is the life-and-death bond forged through fighting side by side. Both those treants and this Azure Flame should have fought alongside Zhou Leng. That feeling between comrades-in-arms is different."

"It seems that Zhou Leng has had a lot of real combat experience. It's a pity that we are at the Tree Man Base and it's difficult to contact Blue Star, otherwise we would definitely be able to find out more information about Zhou Leng."

“There’s no need to investigate further. The people he associates with are all extraordinary. With Chen Shouhu and Lou Feiqiong backing him up, this man can’t be wrong.”

"I heard that after he left that day, Chen Shouhu called him into the martial arts hall alone and beat him half to death."

Zhao He sighed, "If Brother Tiger were willing to beat me up, I could pour him three days' worth of foot bath water. Unfortunately, I know quite a few alien races, but they are all bound by interests. I've never participated in a bloody battle, so I can't make comrades from other worlds like that."

Those two innate black dragons had a purely employer-employee relationship.

Zhou Leng borrowed another 100 million from his otherworldly comrade, Cang Fei Zhi Yan.

“When my next payment arrives, I guarantee I’ll pay you back. Five hundred and fifty million, not a penny less,” Zhou Leng said.

"We don't need to be so polite. If you're really short on money, it's fine if you don't pay me back. But you have to help me pass the Demon Spirit Trial."

"We will definitely do our best," Zhou Leng said.

"Starting from tenth place, for every place you rise, one hundred million of your debt will be forgiven."

"No need, let's keep things separate. You've already helped me a lot, and more importantly, I'll benefit from participating in the Demon Spirit Trial," Zhou Leng said.

“I have to motivate you. One hundred million Dragon Kingdom coins to move up one place is a huge profit,” Cang Feizhiyan said, looking around. “So many people have come to help this time, the situation is not optimistic.”

"There should be a major battle this time." Zhou Leng had learned a lot about the battlefield situation these past few days.

The two stood together and talked for a full hour before parting ways after the next training session began.

Zhou Leng glanced at Cang Fei Zhi Yan, who was meditating inside.

My social circle is small, but seeing Lou Feiqiong and Cang Feizhiyan in one day suggests that things are turbulent in the world of the Tree People.

I'd also heard that the Blood of Tyranny was coming.

I originally planned to slowly accumulate the Yuan-Gathering Pills, but now it seems I need to buy them as soon as possible.

So, Zhou Leng took the newly borrowed money and went to Martial Arts City to buy Baoyuan Pills, making a total of 90 pills. He would accumulate the remaining 10 pills slowly to avoid having too many left over.

The Tree Man Base doesn't have much stock, so it will be allocated from the Water Island Demon City Base.

After walking a few steps, Zhou Leng looked ahead and saw two more familiar faces, followed by a large group of martial artists, at least forty or fifty people.

(End of this chapter)