Chapter 4: Humanoid Tyrant Dragon
The golden crow sets in the west, the moon rabbit rises in the east, time slips away like sand between fingers, quietly flowing by.
Spring goes and autumn comes, flowers bloom and fall, in the blink of an eye it's been three years.
In the courtyard, in the lotus pond, Yun Zhongzi sat cross-legged in the pavilion as usual.
"I've reached the peak for the eighth time in the Wuliang Daojing's Building Foundation chapter!"
His face is as calm as an ancient well with no ripples, his expression serene. But looking at him, he's so delicate that it makes people want to pinch his little cheeks, he's too cute.
For the realm of cultivation, he had long been familiar with it in his heart. First and foremost was building the foundation, laying the groundwork, which can also be said to be cultivating Qi, nourishing Qi, cultivating Yuan, filling up Qi and blood, divided into nine levels.
The foundation is the Golden Elixir, where dragon and tiger converge, condensing energy into elixir. Only then does one truly enter the threshold of cultivation; further up are the Embryonic Breath, Union of Body, and finally the Earthly Immortal Realm of the terrestrial immortal.
With Yun Zhongzi's foundation, if the heaven and earth's primordial energy is sufficient, he can reach the peak of building his foundation within half a day. However, in order to nurture his physical body and solidify his foundation, he has no choice but to cultivate slowly.
"The infinite mysterious skill is particularly unusual. When starting to refine the body, it requires close cooperation with the infinite Taoist scripture. Once the foundation is reached, the true yuan in the body will be dispersed throughout the body, and the infinite mysterious skill will be circulated to temper the body. After nine times, the mysterious skill of refining the body will establish a good foundation for the flesh. Afterwards, the connection between the two skills will be much less, and they can be cultivated separately!"
In his heart, Yun Zhongzi had already thoroughly grasped the foundational parts of these two cultivation methods. What surprised him most was that the True Yuan produced by cultivating the Wu Liang Dao Jing had no attributes and no special properties. At first, he was puzzled, thinking that such a powerful cultivation method shouldn't be like this. Later, after experimenting, he discovered to his astonishment that the True Yuan in his body could transform into any attribute and absorb various spiritual energies.
Powerful transformation, infinite inclusiveness, reminded him of the primordial chaos.
Only Chaos Qi has such properties, unfortunately, his body's True Yuan is far from being as powerful as Chaos Qi.
Even so, it still thrilled him.
"I still remember when I first reached the peak of foundation building, dispersing the true yuan in my body throughout my entire being, operating the mysterious skill to refine my body, tempering my physical and spiritual energy, increasing the pure power of my flesh. At the same time, expanding my meridians, only leaving a small amount of the most refined true yuan within my dantian. At that time, with just one punch, the sheer force reached the power of 10,000 jin, far surpassing the strength that ordinary martial artists could possess!"
Clouds in the heart of the mind wave, and martial artists, is a stage in the world's martial arts training.
In this world's cultivation system, apart from magic, there is also martial arts.
Martial artists refine their bodies, strengthen their muscles and bones, and are the initial stage of martial arts. They are divided into nine levels, and when they reach the peak, one punch can exert a force of 1,000 kilograms, extremely powerful, far surpassing ordinary people.
Further up is the warrior, nourishing the original energy, opening up the meridians, and making the original energy form a cycle of circulation in the body, also divided into nine layers. At its peak, it can burst out with 3,000 jin of tremendous power, quite extraordinary.
After the warrior is the martial artist, what is called a master is one who can teach and enlighten, establish a martial arts school, and is considered a minor expert. However, for special warriors, their strength can reach tens of thousands of catties, or even hundreds of thousands of catties are also possible.
Then there are Wu Zong, Wu Wang, Wu Huang and Wu Di, these realms can only be imagined by ordinary people.
Magic and martial arts temper the body, but develop oneself slightly differently. Practitioners of magic can be called magicians.
The magician cultivates spiritual power, absorbs magic, and then constructs a magic array to achieve the purpose of attacking and defending. In particular, Yun Zhongzi doesn't know much about it.
In Yun Jia's home, there were very few books about magic, and he also didn't have any sources to learn from.
"After infusing the true yuan into my body for the first time, I once again cultivated the Boundless Dao Scripture. Taking this moment as the starting point, with only a small amount of true yuan remaining in my dantian as the foundation, when I reached the peak of building the foundation again, the true yuan within me, whether in terms of quality or quantity, was twice that of the first time. Even the width and flexibility of the meridians inside my body, as well as the size of my dantian, were all twice that of the first time. However, after infusing the true yuan into my flesh, the increase in power was much less than before!"
Yun Zhongzi let out a gentle breath, and only after his second rebirth did he truly feel the terror of building foundations with the Infinite Dao Scripture.
The second time the foundation is built, whether it's the quality and quantity of the true yuan, or the width and flexibility of the meridians, as well as the size of the dantian, are all twice that of the first time, exactly twice.
The third time was twice the second, until now, the eighth time to rebuild the foundation peak, is still twice the seventh, if it continues like this, when reaching the ninth time will scatter the true yuan into the flesh, and after re-cultivating back, will be 512 times the first time, terrifyingly abnormal.
Such a foundation is completely comparable to the people born in the prehistoric era of Honghuang.
"A terrifying technique, forging an unparalleled foundation!"
Yun Zhongzi, however, did not have much joy. The deeper the foundation, the more terrifying the consumption of resources would be. If he continued to cultivate quietly in the Yun family, it would be a pipe dream for him to reach the Golden Dan realm even after another two or three years.
As his cultivation deepened, the amount of heavenly and earthly spiritual energy required also grew larger. The density of spiritual energy here was fundamentally insufficient to support his cultivation.
"Let's proceed with the eighth tempering first!"
Clearing his mind of distractions, Yun Zhongzi began to circulate the True Qi throughout his body, channeling the boundless and majestic River of Truth through the network of meridians, dispersing it into every part of his flesh, bones, blood vessels, and internal organs. At the same time, he circulated the infinite mysterious skill, refining his body.
A massive aura, a rolling wave of energy fluctuations, he was like a volcano on the verge of eruption, extremely terrifying.
Even Cloud West Crazy and Cloud North Tiger, who were watching from a distance, were shocked and revealed a look of horror.
"The aura he emits is too terrifying, even I can barely withstand it!"
Yunbei Hu was shocked and stuttered.
"This kid has broken through again, otherwise there wouldn't be such a huge energy fluctuation! But what kind of cultivation method is he practicing that's so terrifying? And who is this master of his that he speaks of? Could it really be a divine spirit roaming the heavens?"
Yun Xi suppressed the shock in his heart and muttered to himself.
At that time, when Yun Zhongzi started his cultivation, in order to dispel the worries of his family members, he fabricated a lie: at the time of his birth, an old man with white hair and beard appeared in his dream, admiring his extraordinary talent, opening up his spiritual wisdom, and later becoming his master, transmitting the supreme divine powers in his dream.
In this world where gods truly exist, the phrase "Kumonji" was easily accepted by his family.
Darkness has passed, light has appeared.
The cool morning breeze is extremely refreshing.
Yun Zhongzi opened his eyes, stood up with a collected posture, clenched his fists, and the air in his palms exploded with a thunderous boom.
A storm of power surged through his body, from his bones and internal organs to his skin.
"My pure physical strength has now reached 300,000 jin!"
300,000 catties, which is 10,000 jin, the power of 10,000 jin, extremely terrifying, simply a human-shaped violent dragon.
Thirty catties are equal to one jin, this is a unit conversion that everyone knows.
"In terms of boundary comparison, the foundation-building boundary is equivalent to the three boundaries of martial artists, warriors, and martial masters in this world! However, even the strongest martial master at the peak can only possess a strength of 6,000 jin. Even if one has an extraordinary encounter or innate talent, it's already impressive to reach 20,000-30,000 jin. With my current power, even if I were to face hundreds of peak martial masters, they would absolutely not be my match!"
Yun Zhongzi is being too modest. To say nothing of the peak of martial arts, even if there were a hundred or so masters at the peak, they would probably still be unable to withstand him!
"Infinite Mystical Power, besides the terrifying increase in physical strength, there is also a strong defense and abundant vitality, as well as powerful life force!" Yun Zhongzi clenched his fists tightly, gazing at the white light in the east, his eyes shining brightly. "With my rebirth miracle and the heavenly-defying technique, this life, I will definitely break through to the realm of the Saints and return to my original world, let's take a look, what exactly happened back then?"
