Chapter 42: Unleashing Five Times the Power

In the courtyard, on the stone table, sat three large bowls of medicinal decoction. Each bowl was dark brown with an extremely bitter medical fragrance wafting from it.

Lin Zheyu braced himself, lifted a bowl, furrowed his brows, and gulped it down in one breath. As the decoction entered his stomach, its medicinal power spread rapidly. The dense medicinal energy made Lin Zheyu’s body grow feverish. Without Origin Force to strengthen his body and consume the energy, he would have suffered from over-supplementation, leading to damage in his kidneys and internal organs.

Setting the bowl down, Lin Zheyu paused briefly, then lifted the second bowl and drained it in one gulp, followed by the third. The three bowls contained the combined medicinal power of eight sets of Blood-Nourishing Bone-Fortifying Decoction.

Lin Zheyu intended to use this chance to directly push his strength into the Blood Qi Realm. That way, even if circumstances turned against him, he would still have the means to venture beyond the city.

He sat cross-legged on the ground and sent out a thought:

Use four units of Origin Force to enhance the Golden Goose Technique!

Mysterious energy surged from deep within his cells, guiding the decoction’s medicinal power to nourish his body. Lin Zheyu’s mind wavered for an instant as he entered a familiar state. He began the long process of martial cultivation training, a ceaseless and unending endeavor.

Amid the relentless training, countless insights into the Golden Goose Technique emerged, making Lin Zheyu’s movements lighter and more agile. Each kick he unleashed carried terrifying force and was swift as lightning.

In the courtyard, Lin Zheyu’s chest rose and fell with the weight of his breathing. Using the Golden Goose Technique’s breathing method, his breaths grew deeper and more prolonged. The medicinal power of the Blood-Nourishing Bone-Fortifying Decoction, guided by the mysterious energy, rapidly strengthened his body and internal organs, making his viscera even more resilient.

Now, with each breath, he could draw in vast amounts of air, infusing his body with oxygen and allowing for even fiercer attacks. The cultivation progress of the Golden Goose Technique surged rapidly, leaping from 3% of the Third Stage to 100%, advancing into the Fourth Stage. It continued to rise until it reached 13%, where it finally stopped.

Within Lin Zheyu’s body, blood surged swiftly as threads of essence and qi seeped from his cells, merging into his blood and circulating throughout his body. As the essence and qi flowed with his blood, the two became ever more closely bound, gradually fusing.

Lin Zheyu slowly opened his eyes, fatigue clouding them, his spirit faintly dazed. He shook his head and only recovered after resting for a moment.

It seems I cannot use too much Origin Force at once, or my mind will not be able to bear it,

thought Lin Zheyu.

Using four units of Origin Force at once and remaining in that state for so long had consumed a tremendous amount of his mental strength.

[Heaven Rewards the Diligent]

[Name: Lin Zheyu]

[Origin Force: 2]

[Skills: Barbaric Ox Fist (Competence: 5%), Golden Goose Technique (Fourth Stage: 13%), Tortoise Breath Grand Method (Third Stage: 0%), Sixfold Saber (Initiation: 18%)]

Lin Zheyu adjusted to his current state, feeling an ineffable sense of wonder. As the blood in his body coursed swiftly, strands of crimson energy materialized. That was the power of blood qi.

Blood qi was the crimson energy born from the fusion of essence, qi, and blood under the guidance of spirit and mind. It was the foundation of martial cultivation and the very source of a warrior’s strength.

Only when essence, qi, and spirit reached their peak, when muscles were full, bones were firm, and the body was strong inside and out, could blood qi energy be swiftly generated within.

Many martial artists were stuck at Perfection of the Organ Forging Realm because their spirits were not strong enough to sense essence, qi, and blood, let alone merge them into blood qi energy.

For example, Senior Brother Han Mo had been trapped at Perfection of the Organ Forging Realm for years, unable to break through to the Blood Qi Realm, because his spirit and mind lacked strength, and his perception was not sharp enough.

Only in battle, when his essence, qi, and spirit converged into a single thread, could he faintly sense blood, essence, and qi. But Lin Zheyu, having repeatedly broken through his bodily limits, possessed physical and mental resilience far beyond ordinary people. With the aid of Origin Force and with that special state, he had easily broken through into the Blood Qi Realm.

The Fourth Stage of the Golden Goose Technique! So this is the Blood Qi Realm!

Lin Zheyu felt utterly amazed.

Unable to hold back, he stood up, walked to the center of the courtyard, and assumed a stance to begin training. He wanted to test how far his strength had advanced after breaking through to the Blood Qi Realm.

His figure darted swiftly through the courtyard, whipping up gusts of wind. His speed had at least doubled compared to before. He leapt into the air and lashed out with a whip kick into empty space. His trousers crackled with sharp snapping sounds.

Blood qi was a wondrous energy that allowed muscles to unleash attacks far beyond the body’s natural limits. He infused blood qi energy into his right leg and lashed out at a wooden stake from a distance. The gale howled as his strike landed. With a sharp crack, the wooden stake exploded apart. The small reserve of blood qi energy he had just built up was completely drained.

Staring at the shattered wooden stake, Lin Zheyu was floored.

So strong!

That strike just now unleashed five times his body’s normal strength, and the force of the gale blasted the wooden stake apart.

No wonder Master Liang said that the gap between the Blood Qi Realm and the Organ Forging Realm was immense, with Perfection of the Organ Forging Realm being like a child before the Blood Qi Realm.

The three realms of Muscle Forging, Bone Forging, and Organ Forging existed only to lay the foundation of martial cultivation. Only by stepping into the Blood Qi Realm did one truly begin walking the path of martial cultivation. With blood qi as support, it was as if a new power source had been born within a warrior’s body, allowing them to unleash attacks beyond the body’s natural limits.

If one had not gone through the realms of Muscle Forging, Bone Forging, and Organ Forging, the body would never be able to withstand the eruption of blood qi energy,

pondered Lin Zheyu.

He sat cross-legged as new blood qi energy slowly seeped out from his blood, the process agonizingly slow. He carefully analyzed the newly gained blood qi energy's characteristics.

An hour later, he opened his eyes and activated the Tortoise Breath Grand Method. In an instant, all traces of blood qi fluctuations on his body vanished without a trace. With his strength concealed, the sharp edge in his gaze faded as well, and he appeared once again to be only at the Bone Forging Realm.

"This Tortoise Breath Grand Method is truly formidable. The blood qi energy in my body is firmly locked within my blood, not a single wisp escaping. Moreover, in this state, I can still cultivate, and the energy produced is even purer than normal. What an extraordinary technique this is!" sighed Lin Zheyu in admiration.

He wondered where Master Liang had obtained this technique. Its value was beyond comparison to the Golden Goose Technique. He suspected that Master Liang had likely never trained the Tortoise Breath Grand Method to the third stage; otherwise, he would not have told Lin Zheyu not to devote too much effort to it.

After advancing to the Blood Qi Realm, Lin Zheyu finally comprehended the profound mysteries of the Tortoise Breath Grand Method’s third stage. Back when he was only at the Bone Forging Realm, no amount of cultivation could allow him to succeed. Now that he had reached the Blood Qi Realm, he could finally continue cultivating the third stage.

The Tortoise Breath Grand Method could actually purify blood. It must be known that the transformation of blood qi depended on its purity. In other words, by cultivating the Tortoise Breath Grand Method to the third stage, he could increase the success rate of blood qi’s transformation.