Chapter 107: The Arrival of the Polar Opposite

  Wherever he went, it was like wildfire.

  Spiritual energy surged and churned, like clouds rolling in the vast sky, shocking waves crashing against the shore, its momentum fierce and violent, as if it would burst all the meridians and orifices inside Nie Kong's body.

  "Boom!"

  In a sudden, intense shockwave, the frequency of Ling's spiritual orifices trembled even more rapidly. A tearing pain spread from the center of the orifices, extending throughout his entire body in an instant. The intense pain grew wave after wave, causing Nie Kong's skin to shudder ceaselessly.

  Sweat beads the size of beans kept pouring out of pores, and soon, sweat gathered on the spine and chest, forming a small stream that soaked a large area of the bed sheet.

  "Ah!"

  "Ah!"

  Nie Kong's breathing grew more and more urgent, the air coming out of his nostrils seeming to no longer be the turbid Qi within his body, but two streams of scorching flames.

  Nie Kong's skin gradually turned crimson.

  A scorching breath centered on Nie Kong's body spread out in waves, causing the room temperature to seem to rise by several degrees.

  The hum of the cicada's wings grew louder and clearer.

  Nie Kong remained silent, his right thumb and index finger still rotating the Heaven Needle at an increasing speed, seemingly unaffected by the changes in his body. However, the bulging veins on his forehead, his tense physique, and his gritted teeth revealed the immense pain he was currently enduring.

  Nie Kong had not anticipated such a situation either.

  After feeling the invisible barrier in the Qihai, Nie Kong originally thought that the spiritual power contained in the Foot Shaoyang Gallbladder Meridian and the Foot Jueyin Liver Meridian would be enough to support his breakthrough. However, when those spiritual powers began to melt and dissolve, Nie Kong discovered that they were slightly insufficient.

  Insufficient spiritual power means that this breakthrough will be a failure. Seeing that the distance to the ninth rank of gathering spirits is only a tiny bit away, Nie Kong cannot bear to give up like this.

  Moreover, in the afternoon, he also solemnly swore to Nie Qingfeng and Nie Qinghong that he could reach Juxian Ninth Rank tonight. This statement will surely spread out, if he is still stuck at Juxian Eighth Rank tomorrow, wouldn't it be self-defeating, ruining his own painstakingly built image?

  Then, Nie Kong decisively increased the stimulation of the nine major hidden holes, causing the expansion and contraction amplitude and frequency of the meridians to continue to rise on the original basis. As a result, when the spiritual power reaches the Ling Shen San Que through the meridians, it will produce an even more powerful impact force.

  At this point, Nie Kong had already exceeded the limits of what his body could endure. After all, it was because his body was remade with medicine and hadn't undergone long-term tempering, so his current physique wasn't even comparable to his previous life's body that hadn't experienced spiritual power cleansing.

  Otherwise, it wouldn't be so painful. However, a sharp sword is forged from whetting, and the fragrance of plum blossoms comes from bitter coldness. Without experiencing wind and rain, how can you see a rainbow?

  Nie Kong could only grit his teeth and persevere.

  "Uh-huh."

  After a few minutes, Nie Kong's body shook violently, and he finally couldn't help but let out a stifled hum from his nose, with tiny, sparkling red dots seeping out of the pores on his skin.

  That's not sweat, it's blood!

  Nie Kong clearly felt the emergence of fine cracks in the meridians within his body, and some small blood vessels even began to rupture. Under the "Nine Turns Golden Needle Technique", Nie Kong's senses were greatly enhanced, and he could even clearly "see" the entire process of the meridians cracking open and the blood vessels bursting.

  That pain almost instantly increased several times over.

  Forehead, arms, thighs... blue veins bulge, twisted and jumping wildly, like a fat earthworm wriggling non-stop, desperately trying to drill out of the skin.

  Nie Kong's teeth chattered with a crisp sound, probing the state of his Dantian Ling Shen San Jiao, now on the verge of a breakthrough, just a little bit! Just a little bit more!

  At the critical moment, spiritual power began to weaken again.

  It's just a little short!

  Nie Kong suddenly steeled himself, his right thumb and index finger pausing for a moment, while his ring finger, little finger, and middle finger slid down from the slender golden needle.

  "Hum!"

  Jin Zhen, Yu Ming, Tian Gong, Hei Ting and other eight major hidden acupoints simultaneously burst into a frenzy of excitement, the meridians in the body were like being injected with stimulants, thumping wildly, the last vestiges of spiritual energy within the Foot Shaoyang Gallbladder Meridian and Foot Jueyin Liver Meridian were forcibly elevated by an entire level.

  Hiss... Hiss... Hiss...

  Innumerable fine blood lines shot out from the pores, and the surrounding bed sheets, tables, chairs, and floor were instantly covered with starry bloodstains.

  "Boom!"

  Like a comet crashing into the earth, that spiritual power plunged into the acupoint with an unprecedented momentum. Amidst the deafening roar, the invisible barrier that had been barely holding on disintegrated with a loud crash.

  "Jiú líng jiǔ pǐn."

  Translation: "Nine grades of gathering spirits."

  That feeling of being wonderfully clear and floating as if in a dream only lasted for an instant, then Nie Kong let out a long breath as if he had been drained of energy, his fatigue surging like a tide, and his entire body suddenly went limp.

  However, this is not the time to rest. The wounds and pain of the meridians and small blood vessels that have been torn apart have not disappeared due to the breakthrough. What needs to be done now is to heal the wounds. If it is delayed until tomorrow, the difficulty of repairing the meridians and blood vessels will increase exponentially.

  The speed of rubbing the heavenly needle gradually slowed down, and Nie Kong's physical condition became calm. After a few minutes, Nie Kong's speed slowed down again and then accelerated.

  Second gear, third gear, fourth gear, fifth gear...

  After nearly two hours, Nie Kong had used the Nine Revolutions Golden Needle Technique to five revolutions, and the nine golden needles finally came to a gradual stop. When using the Nine Revolutions Golden Needle to treat injuries, the higher the number of revolutions, the more severe the injury was. Five cycles were already something that Nie Kong had only done twice in his past life.

  Six turns, was the limit of what Nie Kong could exert in his past life. As for seven turns, eight turns and the final nine turns, Nie Kong only knew the method, but had never tried it before. After all, the further back he went, the more internal energy would be consumed, with his physical condition at that time, the result of exertion would be fainting.

  "Hmm..."

  After his right thumb, index finger and the nine golden needles were completely still, and after that hint of flavor had completely dissipated, Nie Kong finally opened his eyes and let out a long sigh.

  He pulled out the golden needle and glanced at his body, which was covered in bloodstains, but he didn't mind. He focused his spirit inward, and a smile gradually appeared on his face.

  At this time, Nie Kong's meridians were abnormally wide, almost five times that of a normal person. The three spiritual orifices had also expanded significantly, allowing them to hold even more spiritual power. A large part of these changes stemmed from the suffering he endured tonight. If he had broken through as smoothly as before, his meridians would have been three times wider than usual after they were all unblocked, but now they had increased by a full five times!

  The Tianling Continent does not have the concept of meridians, but spiritual cultivation is always closely related to meridians. Therefore, spiritual masters usually use one word to describe meridians, that is "body transparency", the wider the meridian, the higher the degree of transparency, meaning the stronger the spiritual master's qualifications. However, the degree of body transparency is innate and cannot be changed later in life.

  Moreover, the spiritual continent's various spiritual exercises cultivate the "Three Spiritual Apertures", which only require a body transparency level that meets the minimum standard for cultivating spiritual energy. On this basis, the higher the transparency level, the better, after all, this represents each spiritual master's cultivation speed.

  According to Nie Kong's understanding, the congenital spiritual meridian is about 1.5 times that of an ordinary person, which is suitable for cultivation. Reaching twice is very good, three times is a genius, four times is like Nie Fenglei's super genius, and five times is "genius among geniuses", extremely rare.

  "Genius among geniuses."

  Nie Kong let out a silly laugh, and a strong sense of fatigue washed over him. His body straightened up and fell onto the bed, and soon, soft snores began to echo through the room...

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