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Chapter 175 The Yin Bridge, the Yin-Yang Eyes! (Two Chapters Combined)

After trying to practice the "Extreme Yin Body Refining Technique" only once every night for a period of time, Chen Miao still couldn't withstand the torment of those few minutes of rising Yang energy every day.

Even if he only practiced it once, Chen Miao couldn't endure the pain for long.

Based on this situation, Chen Miao felt that the improvement of the "Extreme Yin Body Refining Technique" would be very slow for him.

But it's impossible for Chen Miao to give up.

So Chen Miao began to think about what else he had besides the Ice Heart state that could help him cultivate the Extreme Yin Body Refining Technique.

This search led them to the state of temporarily storing negative emotions.

Chen Miao initially intended to temporarily store this state of negative emotions, to temporarily store the negative emotions he experienced when his body was in excruciating pain during the rise of Yang energy.

If those negative emotions were temporarily stored away, it would likely help to improve pain tolerance.

This approach does have some effect.

When pain occurs, Chen Miao immediately stores away the negative emotions that may arise.

For a moment, Chen Miao breathed a sigh of relief, but then the excruciating pain returned!

The temporary storage of negative emotions only stores the negative emotions at that particular moment; it cannot store negative emotions that arise later.

When the yang energy rises, the pain Chen Miao experiences is uniform.

In other words, even if Chen Miao persists until he has reached nine-tenths of the progress before using the negative emotion storage method, he will still experience the same pain in the last tenth.

This left Chen Miao somewhat helpless.

After that, when Chen Miao was releasing those temporarily stored emotions, an idea suddenly came to him.

Since we cannot temporarily preserve the emotions generated by the pain at that time, can we use another emotion to release them when he is in pain?

Use a different emotion to distract yourself during body training!
Could this alleviate the pain?
Simply put, it's about risk hedging and fighting fire with fire!
With this idea in mind, Chen Miao began to try it out.

However, negative emotions are not something that can be created at will.

Chen Miao watched sad movies for most of the day, and finally, at the end of one of the movies, he was so moved that he cried.

Then, he stored away his saddest emotions.

On the second day, as the yang energy rose, Chen Miao suddenly burst into tears as the pain struck.

It's not pain, it's sorrow!
Moreover, emotions, once released, are not instantaneous but continuous until Chen Miao has fully processed them.

In this way, Chen Miao successfully withstood the rising yang energy for the first time and completed a body refinement for the first time.

Although Chen Miao was still a little sad sitting on the ground after it was over.

After that, Chen Miao continued to use this method to cultivate the "Extreme Yin Body Refining Technique".

However, after using it too much, the movies that could move Chen Miao were gone, and the effect of watching it a second time wasn't very good!

Fortunately, after several complete body-refining sessions, Chen Miao's body adapted to the pain, or perhaps his will was tempered and strengthened.

Even if he runs out of negative emotions later, Chen Miao can get through it with his own willpower.

Two months later, Chen Miao no longer needs negative emotions to continue practicing the body-refining technique twice until the yang energy rises.

With that, Chen Miao finally understood.

The most difficult part of the "Extreme Yin Body Refining Technique" is the initial learning stage.

As long as you can get through the initial period and allow your body to adapt to the tempering of extreme yin and yang, the pain afterwards will be within a tolerable range.

So if Chen Miao hadn't had that brilliant idea of ​​using poison to fight poison, it's unknown how long it would have taken to even get started.

In fact, you can't even get started!
As for what the "Extreme Yin Body Refining Technique" brought to Chen Miao after two months of practice.

Chen Miao used to only be able to do five pull-ups, but now that number has tripled to fifteen, and he can also sustain long-distance running for longer periods.

The progress doesn't seem significant, and it's even less than some people who exercise regularly.

However, Chen Miao did not do any other training besides the "Extreme Yin Body Refining Technique".

That's the scariest part; if you add specific training, the effect will definitely be even better!
Moreover, there is always an upper limit to how much exercise an average person can do, and the body parts they can exercise vary.

However, the Extreme Yin Body Refining Technique trains all parts of the body, and its upper limit is unknown!

Perhaps, in the end, Chen Miao's physical body could rival that of a flying zombie?

This wasn't just Chen Miao's wild guess; after all, the "Extreme Yin Body Refining Technique" was created by the compiler of the "Extreme Yin Corpse Refining Technique."

It's very likely that it's being compared to the flying zombie.

This also made Chen Miao have high expectations for the "Extreme Yin Body Refining Technique".

The progress of the "Extreme Yin Body Refining Technique" is encouraging, and the progress of the Nine Apertures is even more outstanding.

Chen Miao's first acupoint, the sublingual yin bridge, had already acquired the corresponding ability after a full month of nourishing yin.

This ability gave Chen Miao an additional insidious method: injuring people with his breath!

Within a two-meter radius, Chen Miao could mobilize the Yin energy in the Yin Bridge under his tongue and spray out a cone of Yin energy.

The more Yin energy contained within the Yin Energy Cone, the greater its power.

Chen Miao had tried leaving only a trace of Yin energy in the Yin Bridge, while expelling all the rest.

That time, Chen Miao left a hole the size of a finger and half a centimeter deep on his desk!

Chen Miao could have pointed out this problem with a pen, but the meaning of what Chen Miao said is not the same.

If Chen Miao wanted to, a single blast of Yin Qi Cone could blind the enemy on the other side!
Not to mention that once the quality of the Yin energy within his orifices improves, Chen Miao's burst of energy might be enough to pierce right through a person.

Moreover, the yin energy that has been nurtured by the orifices has a stronger yin-cold attribute than ordinary yin energy.

Even if an ordinary person is not physically injured, they will still be harmed by the cold and yin nature of the yin energy.

However, Chen Miao believes that the correct use of this yin energy should be in dealing with ghosts and spirits.

The ghost had no physical form, and with a breath of yin energy, Chen Miao even felt that it could directly shatter the opponent's soul!

It wasn't until this secret was cultivated that Chen Miao understood why Zhong Cai said that those who had entered the Yin realm would never look down on those who hadn't.

To deal with a ghost, a Yin cultivator who has entered the Yin realm may only need a breath of Yin energy, a slap, or a kick, while someone who has not entered the Yin realm will need talismans, peach wood swords, and various other methods.

This gap might be bridged with talismans and other external objects, but in reality, those who have entered the Yin realm are more likely to obtain talismans and such items than those who haven't!

The ability to expel yin energy was an unexpected bonus, but it wasn't the main reason Chen Miao cultivated this acupoint.

Cultivating this skill is to enhance the "Six Secrets of Subduing Truth".

In the past two months, although Chen Miao did not have the opportunity to use the "Six Secrets of Subduing Truth", he discovered another situation.

After developing Yinqiao, Chen Miao had a strange feeling when practicing the "Six Secrets of Subduing Truth".

This feeling told Chen Miao that he didn't need to recite the incantation completely to trigger its effect.

This feeling likely doesn't originate from the Yinqiao acupoint, nor from Chen Miao himself. It most likely comes from the "Six Secrets of Subduing Truth" itself, or perhaps from the mysterious power behind the Incense Burning Method.

Because after trying it many times based on his intuition, Chen Miao actually succeeded!
The longest mantra in the Six Secrets of Subduing the True Ones is the Mantra for Subduing the True Ones and Suppressing Evil.

"The sun rises brightly in the east. Where the divine power descends and burns, all ghosts lie in hiding. Anyone who dares to offend will be turned into dust and frost. With a single sweep of divine might, misfortune will be forever suppressed."

It has a total of thirty-two characters!

Even if Chen Miao practiced it very well, it would still take him two or three seconds.

But once Chen Miao mastered the new ability and became proficient in it, he made the evil-suppressing incantation take effect in just one second.

Because he only uttered eight words!
"He, sun, descend, ten thousand, dare, transform, god, eternal."

Eight characters, the first character of each phrase!

However, while reciting these eight characters, Chen Miao mentally went over the remaining unpronounced characters as well.

The speed at which thoughts turn is naturally far greater than that of reciting aloud. However, when you first start practicing, this method is actually slower because of improper coordination.

But as Chen Miao practiced and mastered the coordination, he was able to complete this rapid recitation of the mantra.

Chen Miao even felt that this situation would change as the Yinqiao acupoint was strengthened.

Perhaps in the future, Chen Miao will only need to recite the two words "suppress evil spirits" to activate the incantation!

Or perhaps, it's just this one word, "town"?

Although the enhancement direction deviated somewhat from Chen Miao's expectations, it wasn't weak. Moreover, this was only after one month of nourishing Yin; with more time spent nourishing Yin in the future, the effect might be even stronger.

Thus, Chen Miao finally understood the meaning of Zhong Cai's saying, "Don't bite off more than you can chew."

Specializing in one particular skill will increasingly enhance one's cultivation in that area.

This kind of strength is a qualitative change!
However, Chen Miao did not stop there; he decided to first cultivate all nine orifices.

So, on this night, two months later...

Chen Miao's second skill, the Yin-Yang Eyes, is complete!

After activating his Yin-Yang Eyes, the world in Chen Miao's eyes turned gray.

The world, which was originally colorful, turned into different shades of gray in Chen Miao's eyes.

Besides gray, there was another color in Chen Miao's eyes.

Light blue!
The yin energy particles that Chen Miao could previously perceive with his eyes closed can now be seen with his eyes open.

However, when Chen Miao closed his eyes, he saw particles.

When Chen Miao opened his eyes, he saw a thin veil, a pale blue veil that enveloped the entire night.

When Chen Miao gathered Yin energy, it was as if he were pulling a thin veil toward the point of convergence.

As the tulle gathered together, the blue in that area became increasingly intense.

Chen Miao noticed that the concentration of yin energy he usually gathered when drawing talismans was about light blue.

The strongest concentration of yin energy that can be gathered by the Yin-absorbing method is blue.

Beyond blue, Chen Miao believes there should be one or two more stages of color, such as dark blue.

Apart from this situation, Chen Miao has not discovered any other uses for the Yin-Yang Eyes.

Perhaps only after encountering the ghostly figures will Chen Miao be able to discover the other abilities of his Yin-Yang Eyes.

But as for the ghostly creature, Chen Miao really didn't know where it was.

"Hmm? I remember I also have a black umbrella made of filth. What color would it be?"

"And talismans! Talismans are also considered extraordinary items. Do they also have colors?"

Chen Miao went to the bedroom and found the large cabinet with a combination lock that he had specially bought!
Before even opening the cabinet, Chen Miao could see a faint light seeping through the gaps in it.

When Chen Miao opened the cabinet door, what he saw was not just one color!
The largest black umbrella emitted a faint red light.

A pale purple light emanated from the spirit tablet next to the black umbrella.

As for the ordinary talismans and the corpse-controlling bells, they emitted a very faint purple light, just like the inferior Yin energy that Chen Miao had seen before.

After thinking for a moment, Chen Miao then summoned a high-quality talisman.

To his surprise, the light on the high-quality talisman was similar to that on the ordinary talisman!
It might be a little stronger, but it's hard to tell with the naked eye.

Is a high-quality talisman not even as powerful as the light emanating from a spirit tablet used to suppress the soul?

"why is that?"

Chen Miao then took out the Seven Star Peach Wood Sword.

Logically speaking, even if the Seven Star Peach Wood Sword is stronger than a high-quality talisman, the difference in strength is still limited.

However, the purple light on the Seven Star Peach Wood Sword was a level higher than that of the Soul-Suppressing Spirit Tablet, not to mention that it was far superior to a fine talisman!

"This isn't right."

Looking at these lights, Chen Miao pondered the relationship between them.

The different types of light weren't too hard to guess.

The red light is likely related to ghosts and spirits, while the purple light is either harmful to ghosts and spirits or a light that can suppress them.

Therefore, yin energy is blue, evil spirits are red, and purple is what restrains evil spirits.

Chen Miao frowned slightly.

If we look at it this way, aren't premium talismans a bit too underwhelming?
Suddenly, Chen Miao thought of something.

Immediately, he took out a Bloodlight Talisman from the talisman box and activated it.

He had drawn quite a few talismans in the past two months, but had nowhere to use them, so he didn't feel bad about using one now.

The purple hue on the activated ordinary Bloodlight Talisman is deeper, surpassing the purple glow on the unactivated premium talisman, but still not as strong as that of the Soul-Suppressing Spirit Tablet.

"Is this so..."

Chen Miao seemed to understand.

So he wrapped the blood-light talisman around the hilt of the sword, activating the entire Seven Star Peach Wood Sword!
In an instant, the purple light emanating from the sword became even deeper than before.

"Therefore, what I see is only the state of each item under normal conditions. After activation, these items will be enhanced to a certain extent depending on the situation at the time of activation."

"In that case, some talismans do indeed have no power when they are not activated."

"As for the talisman not being activated and still having a faint purple glow, it should be the materials used to draw the talisman!"

Materials like cinnabar and chicken blood are inherently believed to have protective and warding-off-evil properties.

Therefore, even if the talisman is not activated, it will still have some effect when drawn on it.

However, this effect is insufficient to harm the evil spirits!

Now Chen Miao understood.

Just as Chen Miao was about to cancel his Yin-Yang Eyes state, he remembered something and took out the Ghost Cube he always carried with him from his pocket.

In Chen Miao's eyes, the color of the Ghost Cube was light red!

"Red? Why is it red?"

Looking at the Ghost Cube, then at the black umbrella.

"Are ghost cubes filth? No, that's not right. There are a lot of ghost cubes in the Bureau. They are consumables, while no two filths are exactly alike."

Chen Miao suddenly thought of a word.

"Man-made filth!?"

Startled, he gained a clearer understanding of the Bureau's capabilities!

If filth can be created artificially, does that mean the Bureau can also create ghosts and spirits?
Shaking his head, Chen Miao stopped thinking about it. After all, he was still a newbie in the industry and couldn't understand some of the methods used by the Management Bureau and the Curse Cult.

After putting away the Ghost Cube, Chen Miao sensed the remaining Yin energy in his Yin-Yang Eyes.

"It can be turned on for about five minutes."

"It's usually enough."

"I wonder what will happen after the Heavenly Spirit Yin Aperture is nurtured."

Chen Miao suddenly felt a sense of anticipation for what would happen after the remaining acupoints were developed.

But Chen Miao didn't live to see that day.

The next day, his uncle gave him a task: to deliver something to his cousin who lived in Shannan City!
The food was made by my aunt.

Chen Miao also received a copy.

As for why Chen Miao was sent to deliver it, Chen Miao understood.

The uncle wanted him to get closer to his cousin; otherwise, if they only saw each other a few times during holidays, even the best relationship would gradually become distant.

My uncle didn't want it to be like this.

Therefore, Chen Miao did not refuse.

Chen Miao couldn't refuse this kind of care from his family, and he also enjoyed it.

After settling things at the museum, Chen Miao set off early in the morning for Shannan City.

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(End of this chapter)