Enlightenment: Beginning as a Disposable Warrior

Around the ten black shadow figures, violent invisible power surged constantly, causing a raging gale and forming a small storm centered around the black shadow. This was the impurities from burnt power.

During this process, the size of the Strength Pill in the black shadow figure’s Dantian began to shrink, and the total amount of power started to drop continuously.

Su Mu’s eyes became increasingly bright. He sensed that the power left after the burning was actually stronger than before, and he was confident his inference was correct.

He didn’t care about short-term gains or losses in strength; since he was not mistaken, he would continue!

As time passed second by second, once the inner and outer flames dissipated, the Strength Pill in the figurine’s Dantian shrunk continuously until it was reduced to less than half its original size.

With a thought, the ten black shadow figures began to attempt to exert the Strength Pill within at that moment.

"Sizzle!"

The power burst forth from his body, and just as Su Mu thought he was about to succeed, the ten black shadows simultaneously lost control of the power surging out.

Once freed from the body, the rampant power resembled a fierce beast escaping its cage, with terrifying power yet uncontrollable, leaving Su Mu’s internal energy depleted within moments.

"If power is not under one’s control, no matter how mighty... it’s nothing more than a runaway horse, meaningless."

Where did it go wrong?

Su Mu’s eyes flickered, continuing to infer several times, but each result invariably led to losing control. Several black shadow figures were even hurt by the rampantly unleashing Gang Qi, which was not the outcome Su Mu desired.

At that moment, Su Mu stopped the aimless inference and began to continuously slow down the process of exerting power, from the gentle rotation of the Strength Pill within Dantian, power flowing through the meridians, to the transformation of power into the Gang Force flowing out.

Once calming down, Su Mu suddenly shivered, his eyes sharply focused on the two meridians within.

"Found it!"

Su Mu’s eyes sparkled with brilliance, suddenly enlightened, as years rolled back until the moment he mastered Dark Force.

"Dark Force, Yin Meridians... So, it’s all about the imbalance of power. Lone Yin cannot lead to birth, and lone Yang cannot lead to growth; only the union of Yin and Yang can lead to inexhaustible life!"

Upon achieving Great Success in Dark Force, Su Mu had once used power to connect the Ren Meridian among the Ren and Du Meridians. The Ren Meridian starts from the abdomen and runs along the center of the abdomen as the Yin Meridians, overseeing the Yin channels;

While the Du Meridian governs Yang, overseeing the Yang channels, both converging at three cun below the navel, which is where the Dantian is, connecting both can completely regulate Qi Blood throughout the body and balance Yin-Yang energy within and outside the body.

Ren and Du Meridians, recorded in ancient texts, are what’s commonly referred to as ’Heaven and Earth Bridge’!

At that time, Su Mu had speculated that Transforming Force after Dark Force could connect the Du Meridian, yet even after Pill Force it hadn’t happened; now recalling it, Su Mu found himself awakened from a dream.

Inspired, Su Mu immediately proceeded with inference by connecting Heaven and Earth Bridge, once Ren and Du Meridians were connected, Su Mu’s body trembled, intense brilliance erupted in his mind, extraordinarily fervent at this moment, instantly materializing completely.

Su Mu finally saw clearly the path toward Fifth Refining Force!

Rumble rumble rumble!

One after another, ten black shadows penetrated Ren and Du Meridians, connecting Heaven and Earth Bridge, Su Mu attempted to unleash Gang Qi again.

"Wha-wha-wha------"

Mighty power surged through Heaven and Earth Bridge, instantly emanating from his body, this time the unleashed Gang Qi did not lose control, as Yin-Yang circulated within the Heaven and Earth Bridge, the Gang Qi and internal power thoroughly solidified, forming an internal and external cycle.

Hence, the internal power also at this moment transitioned from quantitative change to qualitative change, as Gang Qi circulated, the Strength Pill within subtly began its transformation.

Initially, the exterior of the Strength Pill started transitioning to Gang Force, then from the outside to inside, during inference the Strength Pill reduced to less than half its original size shrunk once more, ultimately completely transforming.

The original Strength Pill, like a condensed metallic rock, utterly transformed into crystal clear, exquisitely crafted, akin to a peerless Treasure Pearl made of pure, transparent glass.

"Indeed, the human body is an endless treasure... the logic of Gang Force is nestled within it!"

Witnessing this scene, Su Mu showed a face of enchantment, unable to suppress a feeling of amazement.

Inference reached this step, the destiny harvested from Taiping Dao had been completely exhausted, the outlines of five black shadow figures became illusory, then faded away.

At this juncture, a confident Su Mu directly withdrew four black shadow figures, leaving only the last one to infer.

In the subsequent inference, the Gang Force Pill continued to grow robust, waiting until it returned to one-third of the original size of the Strength Pill, now exceeding Su Mu’s peak strength.

"Hoo-------"

Upon the strange rock, Su Mu slowly opened his eyes, exhaling a deep breath, two beams of brightness flowed in his profound eyes, revealing an expression of ecstatic joy.

"If the inference is correct... the Gang Force might reach nearly nine times the strength of Pill Force, if the Gang Qi can be freely commanded, perhaps it can form a protective barrier like a Daoist Cultivator!"

Yet, upon thinking further, Gang Force isn’t without drawbacks, it raises a ’problem’ as such.

"With Fire Sparrow Blood refining, the meridians after Fourth-Time Yijin can barely exert Gang Force, yet cannot fully withstand the continuous output of Gang Force... after mastering Gang Force and Fourth-Time Yijin, I must find the Secret Medicine for subsequent Yijin as soon as possible."

"Alas, sometimes being too powerful is also a problem."

Su Mu laughed and shook his head, as he stood up, suddenly heard a series of fine cracking sounds below, only to find the small half-person-high strange rock shattered into pieces, turned to powder by the residual waves of Pill Force from the previous inference.