Chapter Fifty: The Mysterious Art of Heavenly Scripture

  Li Yatong was in a bad mood and her tone also carried a few points of harshness.

  Li Qitong said loudly: "Sister, things are not like that. It was Zhou Lin who provoked first, and Xia Chen just counterattacked. He is simply talking nonsense, don't believe me? Ask them." She pointed to the other guests at the gate.

  "That's enough, Yatong! I don't want to hear you defending him anymore." Li Yatong said angrily, coldly staring at Xia Chen, "You'd better not provoke me, otherwise I won't mind breaking your legs, you damned servant!"

  "Are you talking to me?" Xia Chen suddenly said coldly.

  His voice was icy and piercing, as if snowflakes were floating in it, and the temperature around him suddenly dropped rapidly.

  Li Yatong's shoulders shuddered, her face suddenly turned pale, and from Xia Chen's words, she felt a chill she had never felt before. This coldness was in her heart, penetrating deep into her blood. This seemingly ordinary young man suddenly seemed to have transformed into a different person, filled with murderous intent.

  In an instant, Li Yatong's anger disappeared cleanly, and she retreated a step back in shock: "What do you want to do?"

  Xia Chen glanced at her coldly and then shifted his gaze: "Qitong, the room you arranged for me, let's go take a look."

  He suddenly stopped calling her "Second Miss" and changed his term of address, but it came out naturally and effortlessly, as if it was always meant to be that way.

  Li Qitong opened her small mouth in surprise, but didn't say anything, and silently left with Xia Chen.

  Li Ya Tong suddenly bit her lip tightly, her face turned from pale to crimson, and her expression became very complicated, with a mix of shock, anger, but more humiliation.

  All she saw in Xia Chen's eyes was disdainful contempt!

  "Little dust, your eyes just now were so scary, I was almost frightened to death." Li Qiu Tong only patted her chest and sighed with lingering fear after the two of them had walked far away.

  Xia Chen smiled coldly, he had originally given face to Li Xiangtong and didn't want to bother with Li Yatong, but unexpectedly this woman didn't know what was good for her, so he couldn't always be accommodating.

  After a while, the two came to a small and exquisite courtyard, which was decorated like a pink lovely villa, with several houses scattered inside.

  "I'll live here, Xiaozhen, you can have that room over there, how's that?" Li Qitong pointed to the house on the far right.

  "Great!" Xia Chen nodded, Li Qiu Tong's residence was elegant and quiet, quite to her liking.

  Li Qitong called over a few servants to clean the house and then brought some daily necessities from her own room to settle Xia Chen down.

  At this time, the sky had already darkened, and after dinner, Xia Chen was alone in the house, so he began to cultivate.

  He closed his eyes and sat upright, introspecting himself. Under the subtle influence of the true energy, all the skin, muscles, tendons, and bones in his body were closely connected as a whole, forming an indivisible entity that shone brightly under his inner vision.

  As the true qi circulates deeply, a numbness and tingling sensation is faintly transmitted throughout the body's meridians, as if they are about to be forcibly expanded and opened up.

  The sixth stage of the Post-Heavenly Sixfold Refining of the Meridians is to open up all the meridians in the body, just like the fifth stage, connecting each part of the body into an organic whole, rather than being scattered as before.

  The process of breaking through is also a process of expansion. The degree to which the meridians expand determines how strong one's true qi cultivation will be after entering the six levels of later heaven.

  The fifth and sixth layers of the acquired realm are the watershed, because it is extremely difficult to open up and expand the meridians, so most disciples' cultivation stops at the fifth layer of the acquired realm. Although they are still cultivators, they are still ordinary people, and after decades, they will still become a pile of dry bones.

  And when cultivated to the sixth level of Xiantian, there is hope for promotion to the realm of Shentong, and in any sect, it is a key object of cultivation.

  The reason why the Orthodox School sets rules and regulations is that it does not accept disciples with a cultivation base below the fifth level of the acquired realm to enter the school, but rather lets them cultivate on their own. Of course, ancient Yuan Saints like Xia Chen are an exception.

  At this time, deep within Xia Chen's body, there were three glittering channels that pierced through each other, with a majestic and powerful aura vaguely visible inside, surging ceaselessly.

  This is the meridian in Xia Chen's body, and the meridian is between tangible and intangible. Even if the human body is carefully dissected, it cannot be seen, and can only be felt through inner vision of true energy.

  These three meridians have been expanded and opened, looking as thick as a bowl mouth. If there is a post-heaven six-fold disciple of the Zhengxuan sect who can see it, he will surely be scared to drop his chin.

  Ordinary post-heaven sixfold disciples expand their meridians, and having a thickness of about the size of a teacup mouth is already very good. Even if one has excellent innate talent, it's only as thick as an infant's fist, whereas Xia Chen's must be several times thicker!

  This means that once he enters the Post-Heaven Six Layers, Xia Chen's strength will be unimaginable.

  Connected with these three meridians, there is another meridian of the same thickness that appears and disappears, constantly emerging from within the body as Xia Chen's true energy breaks through.

  It's just that the speed of breaking through the true energy is extremely slow, like a turtle's pace, as if it were an icebreaker ship making its way forward with difficulty.

  Half a sound, with Xia Chen Dan Tian's true energy dwindling, the fourth meridian dimmed down.

  Xia Chen opened his eyes, let out a sigh, and thought to himself that it had already been half a month, yet he had only managed to unblock three meridians. Moreover, the further he went, the more difficult it became to unblock the meridians. He wondered when he would be able to unblock all twelve meridians - it seemed like he still needed external help.

  In fact, opening up three meridians in half a month is already an extremely surprising cultivation speed. Even if it's a disciple with exceptional talent, they may not necessarily be able to open up one meridian in a month.

  But for Xia Chen, after his promotion, the fifth day of Tianwu almost skyrocketed at rocket speed. In comparison, the sixth day of Tianwu's promotion seemed much slower.

  Moreover, Xia Chen's accumulation is extremely solid, and the later fivefold heaven has undergone two rounds of bone refinement. If we talk about cultivation, Xia Chen's current strength far surpasses that of the sixth heaven, so the difficulty of breaking through is also unprecedentedly great.

  After a moment of contemplation, Xia Chen took out three scarlet pills from his storage space and swallowed them in one gulp without even looking at them.

  This was his own refined Pulse Tempering Pill, which had a very good auxiliary effect on opening up the meridians. Originally, taking just one pill would have been enough, but Xia Chen steeled himself and directly took three times the dosage. After all, cultivating the Great Golden Body made his physical body extremely robust, so he wasn't afraid of the medicinal power backfiring.

  Then Xia Chen took out a snow-white round stone, which was exactly Yuan Shi!

  For half a month, he had not used the yuan stone and dan medicine. He had planned to rely on his own efforts to break through first, and only use external forces when all else failed, otherwise it would form a dependent habit, which would be very detrimental to his future cultivation. Moreover, the speed of yuan stone replication was also quite slow, with only three stones produced in half a month, and Xia Chen did not want to waste them.

  Holding the yuan stone, he felt the pulse of the dan body opening up, and with the release of pure energy, Xia Chen began to cultivate again. This time, however, he didn't need to absorb the ethereal yuan qi from the heavens through breathing exercises, but instead directly absorbed the abundant yuan qi contained within the yuan stone.

  Immediately, a powerful and pure yuanqi energy came from the palm of his hand, following the meridians, rushing into the dantian, almost in the blink of an eye, it transformed into a majestic true qi, which was more than a hundred times stronger than the yuanqi pill.

  Xia Chen suddenly felt as if his abdomen was on fire, his true energy was full, and he had a feeling of being about to burst. He quickly directed the true energy into his meridians.

  The fourth meridian, which was as difficult to break through as ice just now, suddenly lit up and broke through at a speed visible to the naked eye, withering everything in its path.

  Xia Chen hadn't even felt the sharp pain of expansion when a meridian had already been opened up halfway.

  Soon, the true energy reached the end of the meridian, and after a slight pause, it seemed to encounter a strong obstruction. However, with the continuous influx of subsequent true energy, like a mountain flood gathering before bursting, it soon began to overflow.

  With a cracking sound, the fourth meridian that had been stagnant for many days of cultivation finally expanded and opened up.

  Xia Chen's body moved slightly, and he felt as if a wall had been pierced inside him. The two places that were originally sealed off suddenly became unobstructed, and the flow of air and blood was smooth, with a kind of weightless feeling as if all things were empty.

  After clearing the fourth meridian, the surging true energy did not hesitate at all, and immediately rushed to the fifth meridian.

  Xia Chen's body trembled slightly, with a faint crackling sound coming from within. His true energy was fully expanding his meridians at an incredible speed, making him feel scorching hot for a moment before filling him with a comfortable sensation.

  After a long time, Xia Chen opened her eyes again, her expression calm, but her eyes were filled with joy.

  It was just one night, and two meridians were opened up, almost equal to the achievements of the previous dozen or so days!

  This yuan stone is really good stuff.

  Xia Chen put away the yuan stone and immediately felt his strength increase greatly, his energy surging throughout his body. He even secretly hoped that a powerful opponent would come to challenge him soon, so he could have a great battle.

  The current strength will definitely defeat the ordinary acquired sixfold without any suspense, but it's unknown whether it can defeat the acquired sevenfold, Xia Chen thought.

  The day after tomorrow is tenfold, and each upgrade is one level higher. The gap will be widened, especially after the sixth day after tomorrow. The gap between each level is even more obvious, making it increasingly difficult to challenge the next level.

  But even if he couldn't defeat a Seventh-Order cultivator, at the very least, he still had the strength to put up one last fight. Even if an Eighth-Order expert were to make a move, he should be able to retreat unscathed. This confidence was something that Xia Chen still possessed.

  Look out the window, it's already a dark night, but Xia Chen is full of energy and has no intention of sleeping. He wasn't tired to begin with, and his earlier cultivation had brought his state to its peak. Even if he didn't sleep for the whole night, he wouldn't feel the slightest bit of fatigue.

  With nothing else to do, Xia Chen took out the Tian Shu Qi Shu from his storage space. He had obtained this book during the day, but only now did he have time to flip through it.

  What can make the聚宝盆 convey a strange feeling, obviously won't be an ordinary object. However, after flipping through this ancient book for half a day, even turning it upside down to look at it, Xia Chen still couldn't figure out what was going on.

  No matter how you look at it, this heavenly book of magical techniques is just an old and tattered book. It records some unheard-of strange stories that can be read as a leisure book, but as a treasure, it's far from enough.

  Could it be that like the map, I couldn't see the secret because my cultivation wasn't enough? Xia Chen couldn't help but smile wryly. If that was really the case, then he would still end up with nothing.