Right now, Zhang Ruochen’s body possessed nineteen meridians, which was already considered quite outstanding among martial artists.
With a cultivation of the middle extreme position of the Yellow Extreme Realm, he was able to fight against a martial artist of the Grand Circle of the Yellow Extreme Realm.
If he was able to open up twenty-seven meridians when he broke through the Yellow Extreme Realm Great Extreme Position, how powerful would his combat power be?
Taking the first portion of the Marrow Cleansing Liquid, he spent half an hour to open up the twentieth meridian.
Taking the second portion of the Marrow Cleansing Liquid and spending two hours, the twenty-first meridian was opened up.
Taking the third portion of the Marrow Cleansing Liquid, it took four days to open up the twenty-second meridian.
Taking the fourth portion of the Marrow Cleansing Liquid, it took half a day to open up the twenty-third meridian.
The greater the number of meridians in the body, the more difficult it would be to continue opening up meridians.
After opening up four consecutive meridians, Zhang Ruochen consumed most of the True Qi in his Qi Pool, and his whole body ached with a feeling of exhaustion.
He stopped for the time being and did not immediately go to open up the twenty-fourth meridian.
He took out a San Qing True Qi Dan and took it into his mouth, using the Dan Qi to recover the depleted True Qi in his body.
After a quarter of an hour, the true qi in the qi pool was completely restored, and his entire body was filled with strength again.
Zhang Ruochen placed the meridian diagram of the Nine Heavenly Bright Emperor Scripture in front of his body and carefully observed it.
The running routes of the thirty-six meridians in the diagram had long been remembered by Zhang Ruochen incomparably firmly, and even if he closed his eyes, they could still appear clearly inside his mind.
In his last life, Zhang Ruochen had only opened up a total of thirty-three meridians, and the other three, no matter what, could not be opened up.
Those three meridians were the Chakra Pulse, Blood Spirit Pulse, and Soul Pulse.
All three meridians were incomparably subtle, exceeding the knowledge of the average martial artist and even transcending the Martial Dao. Otherwise, with Zhang Ruochen’s natural talent in his previous life, it was impossible for him not to be able to open them up.
The Chakra Chakra, was a martial artist’s wheel of years.
Commoners only knew that trees would grow a circle of annual chakras, however, after cultivating the Nine Stripes Ming Emperor Scripture, Zhang Ruochen knew that martial artists could also cultivate annual chakras.
Only martial artists who had opened up chakra veins inside their skin could cultivate annual rings.
Each layer of Annual Chakra was a layer of skin armour.
For every additional year of cultivation time, the annual chakra would increase by one layer, and the skin’s defence would follow suit.
A martial artist’s year wheel was incomparably thin and could not be seen with the naked eye.
Even if one cultivated for a hundred years and cultivated a hundred layers of annual rings, the thickness of the skin would still be no different from that of an ordinary person. The defence of the skin, however, had already reached an incomparably terrifying level, and could definitely be made impervious to swords and spears, and difficult to melt with flames.
Blood Spirit Vein, refers to the meridians connected to blood.
Blood was liquid, and trying to cultivate a gaseous meridian in liquid blood was completely beyond the knowledge of normal people. Even Zhang Ruochen wondered if the Mind Vein really existed.
The Soul Vein was even more mysterious, according to the Nine Heavens Bright Emperor Scripture, it was a meridian that existed in a martial artist’s soul, connecting the martial artist’s physical body and soul.
Once the Soul Vein was cultivated, the martial artist would be able to see his or her soul, and could even have his or her soul go out of the body. With a single thought, the soul could fly thousands of miles away and see what was happening thousands of miles away.
The Chakra Vein, Blood Spirit Vein, and Soul Vein were too mysterious and beyond the knowledge of a normal martial artist, so Zhang Ruochen had not been able to open up these three meridians in his last life.
In this life, however, Zhang Ruochen couldn’t let go of any opportunity to improve himself, if he was able to open up these three meridians, his physique would definitely be even more powerful than in his last life.
“The Chakra Vein is the most likely to exist among the three meridians, so perhaps there is a chance to open it up successfully.”
Zhang Ruochen stared at the meridian diagram and fully comprehended the “Wheel Vein”, wanting to open up this meridian in his skin.
After spending nine days, Zhang Ruochen also had some comprehension and mobilised his true qi to surge towards the skin, but he could not succeed, instead, he got himself bruised all over.
“Could it be that the Chakra Vein doesn’t exist at all?” Zhang Ruochen’s entire body was covered in beads of sweat, soaking his clothes through.
In the Qiankun Divine Wood Diagram, a voice rang out, saying, “Young boy, it’s not that the Chakra Vein doesn’t exist, it’s just that you’re using the wrong method.”
“My method is wrong? Then what kind of method is correct?” Zhang Ruochen said.
“If you release this seat, this seat will tell you. Don’t worry, this seat doesn’t have bad intentions, even if it wants to do you harm, isn’t there still the Qiankun Divine Wood Diagram suppressing it? With just a thought from you, you can take this seat back into the diagram.” That one voice said.
Zhang Ruochen’s thought moved, and the Qian Kun Divine Wood Diagram immediately flew out from his brow.
Cupping the Qiankun Divine Wood Diagram in his hand, he injected his true qi and unsealed it, releasing that one giant black cat.
“Now you can say it! How can I open up the Chakra Vein?” Zhang Ruochen said.
The black giant cat said, “The answer is in your hands.”
“My hands?”
Zhang Ruochen looked towards the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood in the scroll, and suddenly, seemingly enlightened, he said, “Heaven Receiving Divine Wood?”
The black giant cat nodded and said, “If you think of yourself as a person, you naturally cannot open up a chakra. If you think of yourself as a tree, perhaps it won’t be difficult!”
Hearing these words, Zhang Ruochen’s heart flashed with a light, finally stepping out from within his previous blind spot, and immediately sat down on the ground, staring at the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood in the scroll, imagining that he was the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood.
For two days in a row, Zhang Ruochen’s body did not move at all, just like a ten thousand year old divine tree, even his breathing seemed to stop.
At this moment, he had entered a metaphysical realm, and under the dictates of his unconscious mind, he swallowed a bottle of Marrow Cleansing Liquid into his stomach and immediately began to open up his chakra veins.
An hour later, Zhang Ruochen’s skin surface exuded a faint layer of halo.
A thin white line that flowed across his skin was like a large net that wrapped his body.
“It was actually really opened up by him! Nima, the Chakra Vein actually exists?” The black giant cat’s eyes widened in utter astonishment.
In fact, it didn’t even know about the Chakra Vein, it just wanted Zhang Ruochen to let it out, so it just blurted it out.
“It worked!”
Zhang Ruochen was incomparably excited, finally opening up the Chakra Vein successfully.
A light-like meridian travelled through the skin.
As long as he operated his true qi, the surface of his skin was like an additional layer of invisible armour. Even if he stood there without moving, ordinary blades simply couldn’t pierce his skin.
This was the twenty-fourth meridian!
Zhang Ruochen’s confidence increased greatly, and he immediately continued to open up his meridians to impact the Yellow Extreme Realm Great Extreme Position.
It took another four days to open up a total of twenty-seven meridians, finally reaching the Yellow Extreme Realm Great Extreme Position.
After the realm breakthrough, the capacity of the Qi Pool expanded by another ten times.
“Twenty-seven meridians, that’s really great! As long as I continue to work hard, I will definitely be able to surpass my last life. With my current strength, I reckon that I can send a martial artist in the Great Circle of the Yellow Extreme Realm flying out with a single punch.”
A martial artist in the Grand Circle of the Yellow Extreme Realm could burst out with the strength of twenty-five oxen.
When Zhang Ruochen had just broken through the Yellow Extreme Realm’s Middle Extreme Position, he was able to burst out twenty-five oxen of power when he executed the Dragon Elephant Like Palm. When his cultivation reached the peak of the Middle Extreme Position of the Yellow Extreme Realm, he was even able to burst out thirty-six oxen of power.
Now, breaking through to the Yellow Extreme Realm Great Extreme Position.
Even if he didn’t use the Dragon Elephant Prajna Palm, a casual strike would be the power of thirty-six oxen. If one were to unleash the Dragon Elephant Prajna Palm, one would be able to reach the power of forty-nine oxen.
Zhang Ruochen’s strongest explosive power right now was forty-nine oxen, almost twice the power of an average Huang Polarity Realm Great Extremity martial artist.
Legend had it that the strongest power that a Yellow Extreme Realm martial artist could achieve was one hundred oxen, known as ‘Extreme Realm Power’, and no one could exceed this limit.
Even if the martial arts you cultivated were more powerful and your physique was more powerful, it was impossible to exceed that limit.
In fact, Zhang Ruochen had never seen anyone able to burst out a hundred oxen of power at the Yellow Extreme Realm. It could be infinitely close to a hundred oxen, and it was absolutely impossible to reach a hundred oxen.
In his previous life, at the Yellow Extreme Realm, at its peak, he could only erupt a power of ninety-four oxen.
“Junior Lang! I have to say, you’re already on the verge of catching up to this seat when you were young!” The black giant cat spoke loudly.
Zhang Ruochen gradually calmed his excitement and glanced towards that one black giant cat, saying, “Of the eight basic spatial inscriptions, I’ve now possibly inscribed six of them, point-type inscriptions, horizontal-type inscriptions, vertical-type inscriptions, tall-type inscriptions, line-type inscriptions, and flat-type inscriptions. However, the remaining two types of inscriptions cannot be inscribed no matter what, do you know what’s going on?”
“What? You can already inscribe six types of inscriptions? How could it be that fast?” The black giant cat shook its head vigorously, not believing Zhang Ruochen’s words.
In fact, before impacting the Yellow Extreme Realm Great Extreme Position, Zhang Ruochen had already been able to inscribe six basic spatial inscriptions. With three months of practice, how could there be no results?
Zhang Ruochen directly took out six sheets of spirit paper and used the inscription pen to quickly inscribe on top of the spirit paper, quickly inscribing the six inscription patterns and presenting them on top of the spirit paper.
The black giant cat climbed over and stared at the inscription patterns on top of the six sheets of spirit paper, nodded and said, ”Impressive! Sure enough, six basic spatial inscriptions! Of the eight types of basic inscriptions, you only have the ‘Zhang-type inscription’ and ‘Shrink-type inscription’ left to inscribe successfully now, right? It’s actually quite normal, ‘Zhang-type Inscription’ and ‘Shrink-type Inscription’ are already much more difficult than the other inscriptions, it’s impossible to inscribe them successfully that easily. Junior Lang, do you have any jade artefacts on you?”
“Jade artefacts?”
Zhang Ruochen was a bit puzzled, but he still took out one of the jade trigger fingers he wore on his thumb and placed it in the palm of his hand as he asked, “What do you need a jade artefact for?”
The black giant cat glanced towards that one jade trigger finger and nodded, saying, “The jade quality is quite good, it can be used for weapon smithing.”
“Weapon refining?” Zhang Ruochen said.
The black giant cat said, “That’s right, it’s weapon refining. You have learnt the six basic spatial inscriptions and can start refining the simplest spatial-type True Martial Treasure Weapon, the Spatial Ring. Under the heavens, only you can possibly refine it.”
“What is a spatial ring?” Zhang Ruochen asked.
The black giant cat continued, “It is to construct an independent space in the ring. If your spiritual power and cultivation are strong enough, you can even fit a huge mountain and a world in the ring. Of course, with your current cultivation, being able to open up a space the size of one cubic metre would already be amazing.”
