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After testing the little dragon's abilities, Mu Yang looked at the various items in his sleeve pocket.

Two methods for building the dantian, three fourth-tier martial arts techniques, one method for opening the meridians, four fifth-tier martial arts techniques, various pills, and ninety-seven qi-storing crystals.

To be fair, the Qi-storing crystal is indeed a good piece of equipment, but the effect of only increasing true Qi by one hundred strands is still too low in cost-effectiveness.

After thinking for a moment, Mu Yang took out four Qi storage crystals from his sleeve pocket.

"I wonder if the effect of the gas storage attribute will be better after the quality enhancement."

He placed one energy storage crystal in the main slot of the enhancement panel and filled the other three into the material slot.

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[Ding! Detected that the main body's tier is 4 and the lowest affix quality is white; the material's tier is 4 and the lowest affix quality is white. The enhancement conditions are met. The quality of any affix on the main body will be upgraded!]

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The three gas storage crystals in the material slot were like fine sand blown by the wind, turning into tiny particles and merging into the gas storage crystals in the main enhancement slot.

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[Ding! The main item—the Storage Crystal—has been enhanced, and its attribute quality has been improved!]

[Gas Storage (White) → Gas Storage (Blue)]

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【Equipment Effect: ①Qi Storage (Blue): Increases the maximum amount of true qi in the dantian by 300 strands.】

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Then, Mu Yang repeated the process, consuming another twelve Qi storage crystals to enhance three Qi storage crystals by one level.

Finally, after consuming sixteen storage crystals, a storage crystal with a +2 enhancement was obtained.

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[Equipable Items: Energy Storage Crystal +2]

[Rank: Fourth Rank]

【Equipment Effect: ①Qi Storage (Purple): Increases the maximum amount of true qi in the dantian by one thousand strands.】

[Permanent fixation conditions: Equip this item for eight days, or slay any fourth-tier or higher-grade monster while equipping this item.]

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Mu Yang held the gas-storing crystal in his palm, which had no obvious changes in appearance but whose effects had increased tenfold.

"Increasing the maximum amount of true qi by one thousand strands at a time, that's not bad!"

Although there may be some minor losses in the process, it is obviously more cost-effective than equipping all the equipment slots with ordinary storage crystals and delaying the equipment of other items.

As for losses?

At worst, he can take on more high-level Xuan-rank missions and kill the monsters recorded on the map along the way.

In this way, exchanging some gas storage crystals is not difficult at all.

Even disregarding what will happen later, the three fifth-tier demonic creatures in his possession alone are worth at least three low-grade Earth-level merits.

That's enough to exchange for 150 gas storage crystals.

Therefore, his concern is not that he doesn't have enough storage crystals, but that he simply doesn't have enough spare equipment slots.

"We still need to kill more demons!"

After silently sighing, Mu Yang placed the +2 enhanced storage crystal into his equipment slot.

In an instant, it was as if a major meridian had been opened in his dantian, expanding the space to the size of a thousand strands of true qi.

After that, Mu Yang did not continue to strengthen the Qi storage crystal, but instead took out three books of different styles.

These are the "Mysterious Ice Dantian Construction Method", the "Green Bag Dantian Construction Method", and the "Green Bag Meridian Opening Method".

The former was exchanged by Mu Yang at the Demon Slayer Armory, while the latter two were unexpected finds in the Poisonous Swamp.

With the acquisition of two Dantian construction techniques, Mu Yang's true qi gained two more attributes.

One is the ice attribute, which is outside the Five Elements; the other is the Qingnang True Qi, which has special effects.

It is worth mentioning that the Qingnang True Qi is not a true qi with the five elements attribute, but a kind of true qi without attributes, similar to the Pure Heart True Qi cultivated by Yuan Yuan, which has special effects.

It can accelerate the healing and recovery of injuries, and also has a certain toxin-inhibiting effect.

After equipping himself with the Dantian Construction Method, Mu Yang took out the "Qingnang Meridian Opening Method".

"Equip the 'Qingnang Tongmai Method'."

[Ding! The "Qingnang Meridian Opening Method" has been equipped!]

Auxiliary pulse count +3!

Strength increased by 7.5 jin!

Total True Qi increased by 1500 strands!

At this point, Mu Yang has connected all nine auxiliary meridians!

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【已装备物品：1.青壳蟹妖尸首+、2.蛟龙尸首+、3.储气晶石+2、4.《玄冰丹田构筑法》+、5.《青囊丹田构筑法》+、6.《青囊通脉法》+】

Current number of available equipment slots: 0

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After glancing at the empty equipment slots, Mu Yang slowly stood up and went to Xiao Hei's side.

He didn't take Xiao Hei with him in the morning because he was going to hunt blue-shelled female crabs in the middle of the river; instead, he left it in the stable in the yard.

"Here, take this."

With a casual wave of his hand, Mu Yang sent a stream of pale red water, mixed with crab meat and demon blood, into the stable's feeding trough.

This is a stream of water containing the shattered claw meat of a blue-shelled female crab and the blood of a small dragon demon.

After collecting the corpses of the little dragon and the green-shelled mother crab, Mu Yang thought of Xiao Hei and casually collected it as well.

"Whoosh—!"

Seeing its owner feeding it, Xiao Hei let out a happy neigh and began to eat heartily.

Don't be fooled by the fact that it's just some scraps of flesh and blood; it's still a fifth-tier demon.

The rare blood of the dragon is even more sought after.

For Xiao Hei, who only has a mid-stage second-tier cultivation level, this is already a significant boost.

If you were to feed it a dragon whip or a whole crab meat, it might die from overeating before it could even digest it.

Soon, the scraps of meat and blood in the trough were licked clean by Xiao Hei. It raised its head, snorted contentedly, and the breath it exhaled condensed into a thin cloud of white mist.

A moment later, Little Black suddenly stomped its four hooves on the ground and let out a loud neigh.

Under Mu Yang's gaze, Xiao Hei's already dark fur became even darker, as black and shiny as the night sky.

A faint golden halo now appeared around those black eyes.

Along the edges of its four hooves, a layer of fine, hard scales grows, the color of which is even darker than its fur.

"Whoosh—!!"

Little Blackie reared up and neighed.

A pale white mist slowly swirled around its four hooves.

As the strange phenomenon occurred, Xiao Hei's aura suddenly changed.

Cultivation breakthrough, late stage of level two!

"Not only has his cultivation level broken through, but his bloodline level has also increased..."

Looking at Xiao Hei, whose appearance had changed slightly, Mu Yang thought to himself.

The hooves are covered in scales that resemble clouds and mist; this is a characteristic of the Cloud-Scale Horse.

The so-called Cloud Scale Horse is a rare branch of the Dragon Horse lineage within the precious horse family.

It is said that these horses have dragon blood in their bodies and dragon scales on their hooves. When they walk, they can ride the clouds and mist, and their speed far exceeds that of other horses in the same class.

Of course, Xiao Hei, who is only at the second level, is still a long way from being able to ride the clouds.

The thin layer of mist right now probably only has a slight accelerating effect.

"Speaking of which, if you keep feeding yourself like this, will you one day become a real dragon...?"

Riding a horse soaring through the clouds is obviously more exciting than riding a dragon soaring through the clouds.

"Huh?"

(Oh, me?)

Little Black's tiny eyes were filled with great confusion.

It's just a horse; transforming into a dragon or something like that seems a bit too difficult...

Mu Yang: How will you know if you don't try?