Chapter Thirty-Three: Breakthrough

  "Could it be that something was done during the cooking process?" Li Muran's heart skipped a beat, although he didn't quite believe that the three Guo family members would harm him, but out of caution, he immediately thought of this possibility.

  He carefully examined the pot of soup, even sniffed it and tasted a bit, and found no problem.

  The three mouths of the Guo family are just ordinary people. Even Li Muran, who is familiar with the "Thieving Scripture", cannot see any extraordinary aspects in them. The problem must not be here.

  What's wrong with that? The refined and delicate aura of the demonic bird's essence, why would it suddenly want to violently collide with something?

  "Could it be my Kung Fu..." Li Muran suddenly thought of this and was both shocked and delighted.

  "A moment lost is gone forever!" Li Muran muttered to himself, and immediately sat down cross-legged on the ground, completely ignoring the anxious inquiries of the three members of the Guo family beside him.

  "What's wrong, Nameless?" asked Old Guo.

  "Nameless brother, why is your face completely red?" Yan Wu almost simultaneously asked, her voice full of concern and unease, almost to the point of tears.

  "Hey, aren't you going to die?!" Ying Ge's expression was also extremely anxious.

  However, Li Muran was still focused on his meditation, having reached a state of mind where he was neither happy nor sad, and had no desires or demands, so he didn't hear what the three members of the Guo family were saying.

  ……

  Li Muran's entire attention was focused on the warm energy inside his body.

  This surge of heat is wildly impacting a certain meridian on his chest, but here, it seems as if there's an invisible object blocking the way, preventing the heat from passing through smoothly.

  Li Muran did not stop the impact of this hot air, but instead mobilized his whole body's magic power to assist this hot air in impacting several major acupoints on his chest.

  The process was extremely painful. Li Muran's entire body was swollen with hot air, his skin turned bright red like blood, and the surface of his body was scorching hot.

  There are three major spiritual orifices in the human body, corresponding to Jing, Qi and Shen. Among them, Zu Qiao is the lock of the spirit, Xuan Zhong is the gate of the essence, and Dan Tian is the cave where Qi is stored.

  Opening the three spiritual orifices is an important step in the cultivation of low-level immortal cultivators. Each time one orifice is opened, it means that their cultivation has taken a big step forward.

  Among them, the ancestral orifice is opened to see the divine light, and then you can start to enter the practice, which is the initial stage of Qi Mo; when the Zhongzhong is opened, the original energy penetrates the whole body, it means that the middle stage of Qi Mo has been advanced; opening up the Dan Tian, the original energy can be stored inside, meaning that the later stage of Qi Mo has been advanced.

  Li Muran's cultivation had already reached the early peak of Qi Mo, but he encountered a bottleneck in his Gong Fa. The reason for this was that he had not yet opened up the Ling Xiao spiritual orifice.

  The Niwan Palace is in charge of "essence", and what Li Muran took just now was the essence of the demon bird, the essence of the essence, which happened to stimulate Li Muran's Gongfa bottle neck, intending to help Li Muran open up the Niwan spiritual aperture.

  This opportunity is extremely rare. Li Muran had seen in the classics that once the bottleneck of Gongfa was loosened, he must seize the opportunity to break through, otherwise he would miss the good chance and it would be even more difficult to seek a breakthrough next time.

  It wasn't long before, under the joint impact of the abundant yuanqi in his body and the demonic bird's pure yang energy, Li Muran finally felt that a seam had been opened up at the center of his chest. The scorching hot energy passed through this seam and transformed into strands of cool air, pouring into Li Muran's Eight Extraordinary Meridians and becoming part of his magical powers.

  That unbearable feeling was relieved a lot, and Li Muran's skin wasn't so scorching hot either.

  Breaking through the bottleneck is a process that can be long or short. Some people complete it in an instant, while others need to sit for three to five years before they can achieve great success. Now everything is proceeding in an orderly manner in the direction Li Muran had hoped for, and he is not anxious either.

  Just at this moment, Li Muran suddenly felt a delicate and soft object thrown into his arms, and he hastily opened his eyes to take a look.

  This look almost drove him mad!

  A girl with skin as white as jade, wearing only a tight-fitting bellyband, was nestled in his arms, breathing softly, her cheeks flushed pink, and looking extremely shy.

  "Swallow dance?" Li Muran was greatly shocked, hastily taking a deep breath and calming his mind.

  "Nameless brother, you're awake!" Yan Wu said softly, her face flushed bright red.

  "What are you doing?" Li Muran said in a low voice.

  Yan Wu's face turned bright red with shame, she didn't dare to look into Li Mu Ran's eyes, lowering her head and muttering: "You've been burning all over for a whole day and night, your lower body... is stiff and hard, Grandfather said you probably contracted the lust poison, if you can't balance your yin and yang, your life might be in danger, so..."

  Although her voice was barely audible later on, Li Muran understood and was suddenly at a loss for words.

  "What nonsense!" Li Muran said with a straight face: "Quickly put on your clothes and go out, almost disrupting my cultivation!"

  "Unnamed brother, are you really okay? I... that..." Yan Wu hesitated for a moment, then suddenly said firmly: "Yan Wu is willing!"

  "You're thinking too much!" Li Muran said with a wry smile: "I'm fine now, if you don't leave, I'm afraid something will happen!"

  Yan Wu heard this and quickly put on her clothes, too ashamed to stay, and "escaped" out.

  "How is it?" asked Guo Lao and Ying Ge with great concern after Yan Wu came out.

  Yan Wu's face was flushed with excitement: "Wu Ming Ge woke up, he said he's fine, just meditating, and told me to wait without disturbing him."

  "I'm asking you!" Ying Ge whispered softly.

  The swallow's dance was continuous, shaking her head, both cheeks even redder, almost bleeding.

  ……

  After the swallow dance, Li Muran let out a long sigh. The previous move was truly extremely dangerous. If he hadn't had some composure, he would have almost lost control due to his surging blood and desire, ruining everything!

  His whole body was hot, because the essence of the demon bird had not broken through his Dantian; his lower body was as hard as iron, it was because a strand of yuan yang energy in his body was impacted and mobilized.

  This yuan yang energy is a pure and strong yang energy that only male practitioners who still maintain their yuan yang body possess. It's said to be very effective for practicing some pure and strong yang methods, so many cultivators keep their yuan yang body throughout their lives. Especially the monks from the Great Ming Temple, many of their powerful Buddhist methods require this yuan yang energy as a catalyst.

  Li Muran did not expect that his strange behavior would cause the three Guo family members to have such a big misunderstanding, and the situation just now was indeed embarrassing.

  However, Yan Wu was willing to sacrifice himself to save others, and this kindness still moved Li Muran deeply.

  "After breaking through, leave this place. Xianfan has differences, and it's better not to get too entangled." Li Muran thought to himself, he took a few long breaths, threw away his distracting thoughts, and continued to operate the Gongfa, impacting the Zhongzhong.

  Three days later, Li Muran suddenly opened his mouth and let out a long roar, turning the turbid air in his body into a flame that shot out of his body, then he opened his eyes.

  Nowadays, his vital energy flows smoothly inside his body, running through his chest and abdomen, making him feel incredibly comfortable.

  Li Muran looked at himself with satisfaction and nodded repeatedly.

  "Fortunately, it was a narrow escape. I didn't expect that this trip to the mortal world would unexpectedly help me break through the bottleneck of my cultivation method and advance to become an intermediate Qi Refining stage cultivator!"

  Originally, the Fa power in his body had reached saturation, and it was difficult for the meridians to bear more Yuan Qi. However, after the opening of the Zhong Ling aperture, his body seemed like a bottomless pit, capable of accommodating even more Fa power, allowing Li Muran to continue cultivating, further increasing his cultivation level, and practicing those higher-level magical techniques that required even more Fa power support.

  "A breakthrough in one's boundary is indeed vastly different!" Li Muran exclaimed with delight, and from his own feelings, before and after the breakthrough, he was almost like two different people!

  "This is just a small boundary promotion, from the air vein period to the spiritual tour period such a big boundary promotion, isn't it more change significant!"

  Li Muran put away his techniques and tidied himself up before walking out of the small hut.

  The three members of the Guo family were waiting in the outer room, each looking tired and worn out, clearly having not rested well. It seemed that for the past few days, they had been worried about Li Muran's safety and hadn't been able to sleep.

  "Nameless, you've finally come out!" Old Guo was overjoyed. He couldn't help but examine Li Muran up and down to see if he had suffered any injuries. The Li Muran in front of him not only appeared unscathed, but also seemed to have undergone a subtle change in demeanor, giving Old Guo an even greater sense of reverence.

  "Hey, you're still alive!" Ying Ge said with a light laugh, also beaming with joy.

  Yan Wu was also very happy, but she seemed to have thought of something, and after glancing at Li Mu Ran, she suddenly blushed bright red and lowered her head.

  "Thanks for the concern, but I'm fine." Li Muran smiled slightly and said to Old Man Guo: "Old Master Guo, the demon bird has been killed, and my sect's mission is also complete. Farewell!"

  Having said that, Li Muran nodded his head and was about to leave.

  "Hold on!" Old Guo hastily stopped Li Muran and said: "Actually, there's still a personal matter, I don't know if I should mention it or not!"

  "What's up?" Li Muran turned around and asked curiously.

  Guo Lao looked at Yan Wu with a glance, the latter was blushing and lowering his head, fiddling with the hem of his sleeves, looking both shy and nervous. Guo Lao saw this and let out a soft sigh, saying: "All these years, Yan Wu has been pining for you, your engagement..."

  Mr. Guo had not finished speaking, when Li Muran waved his hand to interrupt him and said lightly: "Let bygones be bygones, I am a cultivator now, everything is up to fate, don't force it."

  Li Muran immediately refused, but he couldn't help feeling a little moved. However, he was very clear that Yan Wu liked Zhao Wuming, the nameless brother who had taken care of her since childhood; and he himself was not Zhao Wuming, but only "borrowed" Zhao Wuming's identity.

  "Nameless brother, are you looking down on me?" Yan Wu asked with a pale face after hearing Li Muran's words.

  "Not really." Li Muran shook his head, and after a light sigh, he changed the subject and said: "I read a story in a book, why don't I tell it to you? Maybe after listening, you'll understand what I mean."

  "Please speak, Brother Wúmíng." Yàn wǔ nodded and said softly.

  "It was an ancient legend..." Li Muran said slowly.