Martial Saint through Reading

"The physical body is reborn, like shedding one’s mortal shell and rising anew from the ashes, achieving near perfection in training and development."

"To advance further, one must consolidate all Qi and Blood Power into the chest, gathering it to form a sea..."

Various pieces of information about breaking through from the Bone Marrow Cleansing Realm to the Sea of Qi Realm flashed through his mind.

"Qi and blood gathering into a sea..."

The Qi and Blood Power dispersed throughout the meridians and acupoints, the five viscera and six bowels, skin, flesh, tendons, and bones, seemed like children away from home responding to a mother’s call, all converging towards the chest.

The Qi and Blood Power from the Qi Blood White Bead occupying Chu Ming’s Ninth Meridian also drifted towards the chest.

Hundreds and thousands of strands of Qi and Blood Power clogged in the chest, restless and boiling, like fish thrashing in a flood about to burst.

The gathering of Qi and Blood Power grew increasingly abundant, gradually showing signs of fusion and cohesion.

From the fish-like strands of Qi and Blood Power, they condensed into tusked Exotic Beasts.

To open up the Sea of Qi, a massive Qi and Blood Power is needed to impact the major barrier of the Sea of Qi.

And that is why a reborn physical body is necessary.

The impact of Qi and Blood Power on the major barrier of the Sea of Qi unleashes terrifying might, which an un-reformed body could not withstand.

Therefore, this process is extremely painful.

Each impact feels like monstrous waves crashing against the chest.

Some can break through this barrier and open the Sea of Qi within a day, but others may take ten days, even up to a month.

Some, with weak wills, might lose their lives at this pass.

According to the cultivation techniques Chu Ming had acquired, the more perfect the bodily reshaping, the faster the Sea of Qi can be opened up.

Chu Ming’s deduced [Mountain and Sea Primordial Body Technique] is more profound than the Sea of Qi Realm cultivation techniques he obtained.

Theoretically, the reshaped body would be more perfect, and the speed of breaking through faster.

But...

One day, two days, three days...

Time seemed to accelerate, passing swiftly.

It also seemed as if time had been forgotten, as if the very concept of time did not exist.

Chu Ming did not succeed in breaking through in a day, nor in ten days, and after a month, he remained seated motionlessly.

[Mountain and Sea Primordial Body Technique] provided him with a perfectly reshaped body, but also imposed another shackle.

The opening of the Sea of Qi relates to the perfection of the body’s reshaping, as well as to the amount of Qi and Blood Power within.

The former indeed accelerates the breakthrough speed under the premise that the breakthrough seeker’s Qi and Blood Power is roughly the same quantity.

It is called a Sea of Qi because the Qi and Blood Power fuse into one, residing within.

Therefore, the more Qi and Blood Power, the larger the Sea of Qi that must be opened.

In Chu Ming’s body, with nearly five times the robust Qi and Blood Power, a corresponding fivefold Sea of Qi must be accommodated.

And this is merely his own Qi and Blood Power, without counting the Qi Blood White Bead that forms the Ninth Meridian, for which the Sea of Qi must reach a terrifying tenfold.

The difficulty of opening a tenfold Sea of Qi is not as simple as increasing tenfold.

Even though [Mountain and Sea Primordial Body Technique] perfectly aligns with him, and the reshaped body is nearly flawless, the difficulty of breaking through is still far beyond others.

By dozens of times, or even hundreds of times possibly.

Winter recedes, ice and snow melt, spring’s delights gradually fade...

Two months later.

Upon the mountain peak, dust has settled thickly, as if upon a stone statue, the figure moves.

Chu Ming slowly opens his eyes, under the clarity is a depth like the Cold Abyss.

The curve of his brows and lightly arched corners of his mouth seem to narrate a tale.

He has finally taken that step.

In the chest, at the heart’s position, the Qi and Blood is like a sea, an initially opened sea already ten times the size of others’ Sea of Qi.

"National Guardian Realm...Sea of Qi Realm..."

Chu Ming smiled slightly, brushing off the dust on him.

Over two and a half months, through hardships, iterating and refining [Mountain and Sea Primordial Body Technique], diligence does not disappoint the dedicated.

[Mountain and Sea Primordial Body Technique · Sea of Qi (Sea of Qi)]

[Progress: 17/100]

Though in the early stage of the Sea of Qi, a tenfold Sea of Qi surpasses middle stage Sea of Qi cultivators.

But his breakthrough also differs from others.

The Qi Blood White Bead transformed into the Ninth Meridian still exists within.

And...just like in the Bone Marrow Cleansing Realm, the Qi and Blood Power stored inside could rival the total Qi and Blood Power within.

Now, the Qi Blood White Bead, having undergone over two months of Qi and Blood Power cleansing, transformed again, its stored Qi and Blood Power comparable to the tenfold Qi and Blood within the Sea!

Meaning, his Sea of Qi is not tenfold that of others, but it reached a staggering twentyfold.

"Twentyfold..."

This twentyfold Sea of Qi, not just initially, he estimates through the cultivation technique’s iteration, can be maintained continually, even growing.

Chu Ming walked out of his secluded cultivation place, looking at the revived nature, in high spirits.

Without a Primordial Artifact, walking upon the void as if treading the clouds.

Now having broken through to the Sea of Qi Realm, it is time to attend to proper matters.

First, he must visit the Yan Imperial Mausoleum in the North Snow County of the Qin Dynasty, since before the breakthrough, the Cold Abyssal Flame in the Ring of the Dark Flame Monarch was almost exhausted from refining materials and needed replenishment.

After replenishing the Cold Abyssal Flame, he planned to investigate the matter of the Blood Bead.

Even though his Martial Arts and Primordial Qi had both reached the Sixth Realm, the Blood Bead still incited greed and desire from deep within, indicating the bead is certainly extraordinary.

...

Qin Dynasty, North Snow County, at the foot of Yan Mountain, Rock Concealment Village.

"Returned."

The silver-haired elder was leaning on the doorpost as Old Man Shi walked in with a tight face.

"Judging by your appearance, still haven’t found him."

Old Man Shi shook his head: "That boy seems to have vanished into thin air."

"Alas..." Granny Yin sighed, "We’ve already wasted three months here."