Chapter 35: Washing the Marrow and Cutting Through the Pulse

  At this moment, Ji Luo was deeply trapped in a predicament, her hands tightly wrapped around herself, her teeth clenched, as if enduring some great pain.

  Sweat poured down his face, and his pale golden eyes were filled with infinite pain, shocking to behold. It was hard to imagine what kind of pain could make even Garo unbearable.

  In the morning, after talking with Azure, Garro returned to his room and began to think for himself. In fact, this idea was born after healing Huer in the morning.

  Coming to this world, wanting to save Bingyue requires even greater power, beyond the power of ordinary alchemy, absolute alchemy. Unfortunately, one's spiritual power seems to have reached a certain limit and has not been able to take it to the next step, so it is necessary to strengthen oneself through other means. Among them, the most suitable are internal energy or inner strength.

  Unfortunately, I don't have meridians in my body, so both methods are temporarily ruled out. However, after undergoing physical therapy with Hutter this morning, I was inspired to realize that although the alchemy body cannot be changed, there is still a lot of room for development through spiritual power. I completely didn't notice how much potential the alchemy body has.

  Her eyes slightly closed, her spiritual power once again permeated her entire body, conducting a more meticulous probe. This time, it wasn't just about other aspects, but more importantly, an exploration of the composition of her own body.

  At that time, the advanced materials, after a long period of smelting and fusion, produced this body now, in other words, the current body can't find any existence of the original materials at all, whether it's diamond, gemstone, pearl, everything has been transformed into other substances. The last inspection only checked the physical condition, but this time we need to inspect something deeper.

  "Sure enough..." After a ten-minute examination, Garo confirmed that his body had indeed become special. First of all, the outer body was covered with a substance similar to Kona blood drill, so it couldn't be changed, but strangely, he couldn't find any trace of Yajiro Kokoro and Hato Akai's existence at all.

  On the other hand, it's a good thing that one's body can still change internally, and one can completely open up the meridians with strong spiritual power, so as to start learning Xiāo Mó Jīng again.

  However, relatively speaking, doing so would pose another problem, that is, changing one's meridians, which is something no one has ever done before. After all, the human body isn't a material object, and what kind of situation might arise is unknown to anyone.

  Karlo's hands fell weakly, he needed to think carefully about it. After all, once failed, what would happen was definitely unpredictable. If failed, the best result would be his internal organs twisted, and if exceeded the body's endurance, there would only be self-explosion.

  "What to do then... The only way out..." Gallo was clear that there was no other method except this crazy decision.

  "I've gambled, Bing Yue, I will definitely save you." Jia Luo raised his hands and quickly moved his index and middle fingers. In a few seconds, a faint light appeared, and with each movement of his hand, the light seemed to split into threads, like nails, firmly fixed on his body.

  Soon, Gallo's body was like being filled with needles, very eerie.

  Both hands firmly press the temples, starting to infuse spiritual energy throughout the body, beginning to expand the meridians.

  Unexpectedly smooth, the spiritual force is like a clear stream, slowly and steadily starting to spread throughout the body, following the just-set "milestone" to start flowing, creating line after line of meridians.

  Soon, the eight extraordinary meridians in his body began to take shape, and intuitively, it felt absolutely suitable for cultivating internal energy. However, strangely, Galo's heart felt a little uneasy.

  "It's strange, too strange. How can it be so smooth? It doesn't feel right. According to the principles of alchemy, this should be a violation of the fundamental laws, how can it be done so easily?" Gallo was puzzled, but now she couldn't stop, all her spiritual power was being used at full force, and could only pray.

  Very soon, the meridians were fully opened, and Galo relaxed his breath. Anyway, the first step was very smooth, and next came the fixation and consolidation of the meridians.

  Suddenly, Gallo's whole body shook, and a tearing pain spread all over his body. "Ah..." Even Gallo's strong mental power could hardly bear the pain!

  His body arched, unable to maintain its original movement. This kind of pain, as if it were going to tear the human body apart, spread from the depths of the nerves. Even shouting out loud became a luxury at this moment.

  "How... did it end up like this..." His body curled up, Garo wrapped his arms tightly around his shoulders, trying to dispel the pain with compressive force, but it had no effect whatsoever. This pain was absolutely not born from his flesh, but emerged from the depths of his soul.

  In this way, the body will absolutely not be harmed at all, but relatively, this stimulation from the soul is even more dangerous. If it can't withstand it, Gallo will only die.

  "Is... that... so...?" Galo barely moved his body "Soul... alchemy, is it to make the soul... bear punishment?"

  Shaking, he sat up "Damn it... I... will absolutely not... admit defeat."

  Karlo's ten fingers had sunk deeply into his arms, blood mixed with sweat flowed onto the bed sheet, a hoarse roar echoed in the room.

  After an unknown amount of time, Gallo felt the pain begin to subside, and with a great effort, he sat up. The bed sheet was stained red with blood and sweat. Gallo forced himself to examine his body, fortunately, his meridians had not collapsed, and his efforts had been half successful. Next, it depends on what happens next.

  The spasms of pain were still continuing, but compared to just now, they had become tolerable. He sat up with his legs crossed, and with both hands dancing in the air, he began to experiment with the first layer of the Washing Marrow Scripture's mental technique.

  Once, twice, thrice, Galo had run it a good dozen times or more, and still hadn't managed to gather even the slightest bit of true energy. Was he going to fail again?!

  No, heaven has not abandoned Galo, a breath of air began to appear, transparent and very strange, almost imperceptible, Galo was overjoyed in his heart, it was really too good, he had finally succeeded!

  Transparent breath, this breath will never be forgotten, it is the unique energy of Xiǎo Qī Jīng that makes this breath surround and return to the Dantian.

  Ka Luo opened his eyes, raised his right hand, retracted his middle and ring fingers, circulated the internal energy, and with a flick of his wrist, two invisible energies shot out from his index and little fingers, punching two smooth, round holes in the wall.

  With a burst of air, breaking through walls is something that any strong person above level 7 can do in this world. However, being several meters away and relying solely on the airflow from his fingertips to create two holes is an extremely rare ability. Most importantly, the edges of the holes are smooth and rounded, as if they had been carefully polished, which is something even Houtarou couldn't accomplish.

  "Hmph, I've finally succeeded." Galo let out a sigh of relief. The power of the Washing Marrow Scripture was indeed beyond his imagination. He had always been stuck at the first layer, Breaking Body Boundary, but this time, he broke through to the second layer in one breath, reaching the boundary of the Spiritual Movement Realm. This feeling was absolutely different.

  "Hmm, didn't think it was that dangerous. From now on, it's better to do less of this kind of thing." Looking around, the entire room had been shattered by Gallo's aura, almost all the furniture had been smashed and scattered all over the floor, and the walls were covered with countless scratches.

  He got up from bed, the wound had healed, but his whole body was covered in blood. Gallo opened the door and what entered his eyes was a beautiful sunset.

  "It's already dusk." Unbeknownst to me, I've spent so much time.

  "Ah, Jiaor sister!" Suddenly, a voice came over "What's wrong with you? What happened? How could this be!?"

  Jia Luo turned her head and saw Bi Lian and You Zi's wife, the two little maids covering their mouths with both hands, clearly shocked.

  Lowering his head to take a look at himself, he found that the clothes on his body were damaged in many places and were all stained with blood, looking very bad.

  "It's nothing, don't worry about it, just a little unexpected. Oh, and isn't it almost time for the banquet? I'll go wash up and come back."

  Azure and the two of them walked up "Garo, are you really okay? You look terrible."

  "It's nothing, the wound has healed, just a small problem." Gallo smiled and said.

  Yu Lan took a look and confirmed that Gallo had no wounds on his body, but strangely, she felt that Gallo seemed to have changed somehow. His every move was filled with a special aura.

  "Right, since you're going to wash up, wear this afterwards." Lady Azure waved her hand and a maid behind her brought over a set of clothes.

  "Jia Luo looked at it, a white suit. I know you don't like wearing this, but after all, it's a banquet, and formal wear is necessary. However, this set of clothes doesn't have too much decoration, so I think you should be able to accept it."

  "Alright, I get it." Then took over.

  Half an hour later, Gallo appeared in front of Youlin, and the two people couldn't help but praise him repeatedly.

  The dress was indeed not heavily decorated, but after all, it was a formal evening gown, with a simple and elegant style, pure and elegant. The few gold edges were enough to show the characteristics of the dress, and when combined with Gallo's calm temperament, she looked like a beautiful and elegant chrysanthemum, attracting everyone's attention.

  "Too perfect, Miss Gallo. I think you're the focal point of everyone tonight." Yūrō's praise was heartfelt, as Gallo's temperament really matched this outfit perfectly.

  Jia Luo furrowed her brow, and she also discovered that, to say nothing of other things, just in terms of appearance, she was already eye-catching enough. After thinking for a moment, she took out a mask and covered the lower half of her face.

  "Let's just leave it at that, we have to be careful, this banquet is definitely going to have some special circumstances." Ignoring the two people's resentful gazes, Gallo refused to remove his mask no matter what.

  Sitting in the city master's carriage, he rushed to Pujit's mansion. Along the way, Galo closed his eyes and felt the special feeling brought by the second layer of Xiuxu Jing.

  "After things settle down here, I can finally focus on finding a job and starting my alchemy experiments. It's been so long since I arrived, but it feels like I've accomplished nothing. Sigh, I'm really sorry to Bing Yue."

  "But now it seems that finding a way to save Bingyue is still quite troublesome, experiments... equipment, materials, all cost money."

  *Sigh* "Forget it, let's talk about it later. If all else fails, I can just sell some of my works again. People in this world still seem to be interested in alchemy creations."

  As she was lost in thought, the carriage came to a stop, apparently they had arrived.

  Garo had just dismounted from his horse when suddenly all the nerves in his body seemed to tense up at once, and his movements also stiffened.

  "What a powerful spiritual strength, and yet it's filled with an air of arrogance... who is this? An enemy, or just another guest?" Galo took a deep breath, quickly drew a alchemy formation on his hand, completely isolating his own spiritual strength.

  "Let's go, it's time to enter." After making preparations, Gallo looked at the gate and said, "Let's meet this rare person. After all, this is my first time in this world, encountering someone with such a strong spiritual power."