Chapter 4: Cultivating the Body

  "To possess countless divine powers, one must first have a strong self, abundant energy and blood, to break through the demonic realm. With your current state, having attained spiritual intelligence, you've already entered the realm of refined demons."

  A golden light gate floated in the air, and below it was a rolling long river. The long river surged and foamed, emitting bursts of medicinal gas, with grayish-black water. Inside the river, there was a five-foot-long emerald green snake floating up and down in the rolling medicinal water.

  "The refined body is the realm of cultivation at this time, and there are nine levels of refinement. Each upgrade will bring about a transformation like rebirth. Your current strength is too weak to undergo intense training, so you need to use the Medicine River to wash your marrow first."

  "This Medicine River is made from the countless spiritual medicines collected by my ancestors, and can wash the marrow and cut the bones, nourish injuries and eliminate fatigue. If one can soak in the Medicine River for seven days, they can achieve the first level of Body Refining, the realm of Practicing Skin."

  Listening to Huang's introduction, Xiao Ji seemed to have understood a bit more.

  In the demon beast clan, those who have gained spiritual intelligence and possess certain powers are called essence demons. Once they break through the ninefold refinement of their bodies, they can impact the realm of the demon path. If successful, they can be called demons, possessing innate divine abilities, even controlling earth, water, wind, and fire, soaring above the nine heavens, truly becoming legendary existences.

  Martial arts has always been Xiao Ji's goal, and now this world is truly the world of the strong, which is also the world Xiao Ji yearns for. For the inhuman extreme training of his previous life, there is no difficulty that can stop Xiao Ji from becoming stronger.

  Feeling the stinging pain on his skin as he stood in the Medicine River, Xiao Ji closed his eyes and began to circulate the breathing technique of the Dragon-Tiger Bone Refining Fist. Instantly, the rolling medicinal energy flowed along Xiao Ji's skin and surged into his meridians and blood vessels.

  The medicinal energy is wildly spreading in Xiao Ji's meridians, and the terrifying power instantly splits Xiao Ji's delicate meridians, squeezing out the impurities within.

  At the same time, the thick and dense medicinal power envelops the ruptured meridians and repairs them to be even wider and more robust.

  Xiao Ji originally only felt a stinging pain from his skin, but after running the Dragon and Tiger Bone Refining Fist's mental technique, he suddenly felt intense tearing pains spreading throughout his body.

  That intense pain spread throughout Xiao Ji's body, causing his body to tremble slightly.

  "Huh?"

  Tian Qi Huan gazed at Xiao Ji with an unusual look in his eyes.

  "What's going on? It seems that the violent medicinal energy has surged into Xiao Ji's skin, but this is impossible. The medicinal energy in this pool can only improve the skin and cannot enter Xiao Ji's body on its own."

  Hao felt extremely strange, but he still made his move. He couldn't let Xiao Ji be torn apart by the violent medicinal energy.

  A golden light enveloped Xiao Ji and penetrated into his body, quickly protecting Xiao Ji's heart meridian.

  That surging medicinal energy impacted Xiao Ji's meridians, but was blocked by a layer of golden light. It could never enter Xiao Ji's inner chamber and could only impact and expand within his meridians.

  Although it was extremely painful, Xiao Ji, who had undergone extreme training, could still endure it.

  And so, seven days passed.

  "Alright, the seven-day period is up. Let me see what changes you've undergone." The golden light gate floating in the sky gazed at Xiao Ji in the Medicine River, revealing a hint of a smile.

  He didn't expect that Xiao Ji would endure the intense pain of his meridians being struck for seven days, not making a single sound.

  Like many people in the past, they have all soaked in this medicinal water before, but many of them can't even withstand ordinary soaking. It's worth noting that although the stinging pain brought by the medicinal river is not unbearable, withstanding the impact of wave after wave of stinging pain is not so simple to bear.

  Many humans couldn't even last for an hour and jumped out of the Medicine River. Most people only lasted one or two days, but a small number of exceptionally determined individuals with unshakeable willpower could endure the impact of the Medicine River for seven whole days.

  But like Xiao Ji, there isn't one who can endure such intense pain from the medicinal energy impacting his meridians in the Medicine River.

  It's not that humans can't withstand such suffering, but rather there are no humans who can introduce medicine into their bodies and train their meridians.

  In the Medicine River, one can only cultivate once.

  Once unable to withstand the impact of the medicine river, it will be impossible to use the medicine river to enhance physical strength again. Because the body that has withstood the impact of the medicine river will produce drug resistance. Once unable to successfully cultivate once, there will be no more opportunities to cultivate with the medicine river.

  But there are also limitations to cultivating in the Medicine River. Once cultivation is full for seven days, the body will also develop medicine resistance and cannot borrow the power of the Medicine River to cultivate again, so Haoyue would let Xiao Ji soak in the Medicine River for seven days.

  Xiao Ji leaped out of the medicine pool and found that his strength had increased significantly, according to his past life's standards, he should now have over 100 jin of strength.

  "Not bad, your body has already broken through the first level of Refining Body in the Medicine River, the realm of Tempering Skin. You have entered the second level of Refining Body, the realm of Tempering Muscle." The sky's Hao gazed at Xiao Ji and said.

  "Hmm, now I can take you to the second place of cultivation, follow me."

  Hao finished speaking, his entire body radiating a sharp golden light, passing over Xiao Ji and floating forward.

  Xiao Ji didn't say anything, feeling the faint power in his body, and followed Huang to walk towards the gate.

  Passing through the gate is the residence that Xiao Ji saw when he first arrived here.

  At this moment, Haohao opened the door of the second room and floated in.

  Xiao Ji closely followed behind him and entered the door.

  This is a desolate stretch of land, with nothing on it, like an empty stone chamber. At the end of the stone chamber, there is a large stone gate. However, this gate is currently closed tightly.

  Xiao Ji looked at Huang with a puzzled expression and asked: "What should I do?"

  "Through that stone gate." Hao floated forward and opened the stone gate at the end of the stone chamber.

  Xiao Ji looked through the stone gate and saw that the interior of the stone gate was exactly the same as the current stone room. At the end of the stone gate, there was another stone gate that was identical to this one.

  Xiao Ji's heart was filled with doubts, but he still walked forward.

  Just as he approached the stone gate, he felt a massive gravitational pull coming from inside the stone gate, which instantly pulled Xiao Ji's body into the interior of the stone gate.

  Xiao Ji's skin came into contact with the ground, pulled by gravity. The friction between his skin and the ground produced a harsh sound, but Xiao Ji's skin didn't suffer even the slightest injury.

  The realm of tempered skin, as the name suggests, refers to the cultivation of one's outer skin. Once this boundary is broken through, it means that the cultivation of the outer skin is complete, and one possesses a powerful defensive ability.

  At this moment, Xiao Ji's skin, even if bitten by a great white shark, would not crack open. This is the difference between a refined body and an ordinary beast.

  Xiao Ji is currently in a stone room and finds that the gravitational force inside this space is much greater than outside.

  Xiao was tightly stuck to the ground, a strong gravitational force made him unable to move at all, as if his body weight had suddenly increased by more than ten times, and he couldn't move.

  At this moment, the stone gate of the stone chamber "banged" shut, and a voice came from Huan:

  "In the stone room you are in, there is a gravitational force 15 times that of the outside. I have a cultivation method here, you can cultivate according to it until your body fully adapts to this 15-fold gravitational force."

  Hao's voice had just finished speaking when a light point appeared in mid-air and instantly entered Xiao Ji's motionless head.

  In Xiao Ji's mind, a mantra of a kung fu technique suddenly appeared, called: Wu Xing Lian Ti Jue.

  Draw the power of the five elements of heaven and earth, penetrate through oneself, correspond to the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire and earth, making one's own strength greatly enhanced.

  Xiao Ji took a glance and understood that this was vastly different from the internal family fist's mantra.

  Neijiaquan emphasizes nourishment. Nourishing one's own meridians and internal organs, taking oneself as the mainstay, and borrowing the heavenly and earthly qi to regulate oneself, but overall relying on the energy produced by oneself to transform into inner power.

  But these five lines of body-refining techniques are completely different from the principles of internal martial arts. They rely entirely on absorbing the spiritual energy of the Five Elements of Heaven and Earth, incorporating it into one's own body, causing oneself to transform rapidly, possessing immense power.

  If it were in a world like Earth where spiritual energy is scarce, this cultivation method would never work. However, this isn't Earth.

  The spiritual energy here is abundant, and Xiao Ji can completely borrow the spiritual energy here to transform his own quality into a stronger one than before!

  Calm your mind and quickly get rid of the restless mood caused by physical immobility.

  Simultaneously run the Five Elements Body Refining Technique, absorbing the spiritual energy of the five elements - metal, wood, water, fire and earth - into one's body. Using the countless repetitions of the Dragon-Tiger Bone Fist breathing technique, this Five Elements Body Refining Technique is not particularly difficult.

  It is more difficult to determine which of the five elements one belongs to.

  Xiao Ji had no experience with snakes and did not know how to determine which of the five elements he belonged to. According to the Five Elements Cultivation Technique, when cultivating the Five Elements Cultivation Technique, the proportion of the five elements' spiritual energy absorbed into one's body must be: 40% of the element that one belongs to, 20% of the element that generates the element that one belongs to, 20% of the element that is generated by the element that one belongs to, 10% of the element that restrains the element that one belongs to, and finally 10% of the last element.

  If Xiao Ji Wu Xing is gold, then the gold element accounts for 40% of the total Ling Qi, gold gives birth to water, and the water element accounts for 25%, earth gives birth to gold, and the earth element accounts for 20%, fire restrains gold, and the fire element accounts for 10%, leaving the wood element with 10%.

  This is in the midst of the ocean, where water is abundant and fire is scarce.

  Most aquatic animals are water Wu Xing, Xiao Ji Wu Nai, can only follow the water Wu Xing into.

  Separate the metal, wood, water, fire and earth from the spiritual energy of nature, with water as the main element. The five elements converge into four to nourish the kidneys.

  Aquatic wood, wood five elements absorb two become half, nourish liver.

  Metal generates Water; Metal of the Five Elements absorbs two and becomes complete, nourishing the Lungs.

  Fire overcomes Metal, Fire of the Five Elements nourishes and generates half of it, nourishing the Heart.

  The remaining earth of the five elements is absorbed and transformed into one, nourishing the spleen.

  The five elements of metal, wood, water, fire and earth entered his body, but there was no other reaction. Xiao Ji let out a sigh of relief, it was indeed the case.

  Xiao Ji has been practicing Longhu Lian Gu Quan every day since last month, absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into his bones, tempering his physical body, which originally contained gold, wood, water, fire, and earth. Therefore, Xiao Ji's physical body should contain all five elements of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, and he can choose any one of them as his main element for cultivation.

  As an aquatic animal, it often lives in the deep sea, and of course, it is better to take water as its main behavior, Xiao Ji has already thought about it.

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