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Inner city.

In a courtyard.

This is the private courtyard that Gu Changkong arranged for Mu Yang on the day he arrived at the Demon Slaying Division in the prefectural city.

The courtyard wasn't particularly large; it was just a two-courtyard house.

But it has all the necessary rooms, including side rooms, main rooms, and stables.

In the very center there is a large training ground.

After dismissing the servants who were cleaning, Mu Yang sat alone in the courtyard, his consciousness immersed in the space in his sleeve pocket.

He currently has many seventh-tier items in his space, in addition to the ten True Qi Forging Techniques and two seventh-tier martial arts skills that he just exchanged.

There were also quite a few seventh-tier martial arts techniques plundered from the sleeves of Li Cang, Hu Hui, and Sheng Wu.

In addition, there was the corpse of a seventh-tier demon king, the Seawing Gull.

After thinking for a moment, Mu Yang took out a book that was glowing with purple lightning.

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[Equipped Item: Purple Thunder True Qi Forging Method (True Qi Martial Arts)]

[Rank: Seven]

【Equipment Effect: ①Perfect (White): The skill level of Purple Thunder True Qi Refurbishment Method has reached the perfect level.

② Purple Thunder True Qi (White): When using Thunder Attribute True Qi to activate martial arts, the power is slightly increased.

③ Purple Thunder Internal Organs (White): Tempering the five internal organs with Purple Thunder True Qi slightly increases their strength. If all five internal organs are fully tempered, this attribute will automatically upgrade to blue.

[Permanent fixation conditions: Equip this item for three years, or slay any monster of rank 7 or higher during the period you equip this item.]

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"Purple Thunder True Qi Refurbishing Method" is one of the ten True Qi Refurbishing Methods he exchanged for.

The reason for choosing this is simple.

Because when he exchanged it, this was the first seventh-tier martial arts manual he had ever obtained.

Unlike ordinary people who worry about the attributes of true qi or true qi, he, with his equipment slots, doesn't need to worry about these at all.

There's no need to even care about the order.

Anyway, they'll all be equipped eventually.

"Equipment, Purple Thunder True Qi Forging Method".

[Ding! The "Purple Thunder True Qi Forging Method" has been equipped!]

The book, gleaming with purple light, vanished from Mu Yang's hands.

Immediately afterwards, Mu Yang felt as if thunder rumbled within his body.

He immediately closed his eyes and focused his mind, letting his consciousness sink into his dantian.

Within his dantian, a vast amount of high-grade true qi swirled and flowed like thick fog settling in a valley.

However, after equipping the "Purple Thunder True Qi Forging Method", the dense fog-like true qi in the main dantian and the major body acupoints seemed to be drawn by an invisible force, all converging towards the center.

At the same time, his physical strength was also being rapidly depleted.

Mu Yang felt as if there were invisible flames in his dantian, constantly burning the gathering true energy.

The dense fog that had gathered was gradually being refined.

If the previous true qi was a gaseous state like thick fog, then the true qi formed after refinement is a very thick liquid state.

Condensing air into liquid, transforming air into qi!

This is the process that one must go through to break through from the sixth-level Enlightenment Realm to the seventh-level True Qi Realm.

For ordinary sixth-level martial artists, the breakthrough usually involves preparing a sufficient amount of pills or precious medicines to ensure that the process of tempering true qi will not fail due to insufficient essence, qi and spirit.

But Mu Yang obviously doesn't have this problem.

After all, he was physically strong, had great stamina, amazing recovery ability, and an equally exaggerated spiritual strength.

The amount consumed by the mere forging of true qi is not enough for him to recover naturally.

"Tick-tock."

A faint sound rang out from within the dantian.

A thick, dark purple liquid quietly appeared in Mu Yang's dantian.

The liquid was almost the same size as the previous true energy, but it was as thick as mercury, and its surface shimmered with light.

The first drop of Purple Lightning True Qi is born!

With the birth of the first drop of True Qi, the rate at which subsequent drops of True Qi were generated gradually accelerated.

With almost every breath, dozens of wisps of light true energy transformed into thick true qi, dripping into Mu Yang's dantian.

About two hours later, the last wisp of true energy in Mu Yang's body disappeared.

Instead, a deep purple aura of purple lightning filled most of the main dantian.

The true energy was like a small pool of purple liquid, quietly suspended in the center of the dantian, with faint lightning snakes moving on its surface, and a faint purple light.

"Buzz~~"

Almost at the very moment when the last wisp of true energy transformed into true qi, that small pool of liquid spontaneously spread throughout the main dantian and the five major body acupoints.

Then, the Purple Thunder True Qi slowly merged into the dantian and body orifices, emitting a series of trembling sounds.

In an instant, Mu Yang felt his physical strength increase.

This is the power-enhancing effect of transforming the body's true qi into true qi.

As a full ten thousand strands of true energy merged into his body, Mu Yang felt his strength increase.

Seventh-order True Qi Realm, achieved!

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【已装备物品：1.《紫雷真罡煅烧法》、2.无、3.无、4.无、5.无、6.无、7.无、8.无】

Current number of available equipment slots: 7

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"An increase of 500 million jin is not bad."

Mu Yang looked away and clenched his fist.

When the body's true qi transforms into true qi, it means breaking through to the initial stage of true qi, which will bring a power increase of 500 million jin to the physical body.

For the vast majority of seventh-tier martial artists, this is a significant improvement.

But for Mu Yang, it was only so-so.

However, this is not over.

Although all of his tens of thousands of strands of true energy were transformed into true qi, the total amount shrank by more than half, leaving only less than 20,000 drops of true qi.

However, the "Purple Thunder True Qi Calcination Method" is not limited to calcination.

Just like the previous methods of equipping the dantian construction method, meridian opening method, and acupoint opening method.

As the True Qi was completely refined, the Purple Thunder True Qi, unique to the "Purple Thunder True Qi Refining Method," began to continuously emerge within Mu Yang's body.

In about half an hour, Mu Yang's empty dantian was filled with a vast purple ocean.

"A single True Qi Refining Method can actually provide 110,000 drops of True Qi!"

Mu Yang glanced at his dantian and body acupoints, which were almost completely filled, and was secretly shocked.

This number precisely represents the increase in the total amount of True Qi brought about by breaking through from the early stage of True Qi Realm to the late stage of True Qi Realm.

In the mid-stage of the True Qi Realm, each time one of the five internal organs is tempered, the main dantian will expand by 10,000 drops of True Qi.

Once the five internal organs have been tempered, the growth will be 50,000 drops.

The tempering of the six internal organs will amplify the body's orifices, resulting in a total amplification of 60,000 drops.

As for the consumption of tempering the five internal organs, each one consumes approximately 100,000 drops of true qi.

In total, it consumes approximately 110 million drops of True Qi, which requires exactly ten True Qi Refining Techniques.

For the other seventh-tier martial artists, this might be a massive amount of true qi that would take ten or even several decades to accumulate.

But for Mu Yang, it was simply a matter of finding a seventh-tier demon to help him.

"Keep equipping!"

Pulling himself back to reality, Mu Yang added all six calcination methods—"Gengjin True Qi Calcination Method," "Qingmu True Qi Calcination Method," "Canghai True Qi Calcination Method," "Xitu True Qi Calcination Method," "Xuanbing True Qi Calcination Method," and "Hunyuan Yiqi True Qi Calcination Method"—to his equipment inventory.

A torrent of powerful true energy of various colors surged forth.

The originally deep purple true energy changed color, sometimes turning into a radiant gold, sometimes into a bluish-green, and sometimes into deep blue, earthy yellow, and pale white...

Finally, after a full nine hours, the surging true energy transformed into a nearly transparent, colorless pool of liquid.

During this process, Mu Yang not only completed the tempering of all five internal organs, but also tempered two of the six bowels.

Not only did it increase the body's strength by 3500 million jin, but it also expanded the main dantian by 5 drops of true qi, and each of the five major body acupoints expanded by 4000 drops of true qi.

The total amount of True Qi increased directly from 133,000 drops to 203,000 drops.

Based on the calculation that each drop of true energy increases strength by 1,000 jin, this amounts to a full 203 million jin of blessing!

If we're talking about physical strength, then it's even more exaggerated.

After breaking through to the late stage of the True Qi Realm, Mu Yang's physical strength directly reached 31000 million jin.

The two combined equal the power of five oxen.