Volume 1 Chapter 8 Time Flies

  After dinner, the two of them came out of the restaurant. Sun Xiaolan didn't want to go home so early, so she suggested going for a walk outside before heading back, saying it would help with digestion.

  At this time, night had already fallen, the lights were shining brightly, people were coming and going on the streets, and some vendors were setting up stalls along the street, making it very lively.

  Two people chatted aimlessly while strolling on the sidewalk, feeling very relaxed.

  "After a meal, walk a hundred steps and live until 99." Sun Xiaolan gently rubbed her belly, with a look of satisfaction on her face.

  "Xiao Lan, you just ate too much, aren't you afraid of getting fat?" Zhao Rui joked from the side.

  "Don't worry, because I have a physique that doesn't get fat no matter what I eat. The girls in my dormitory are all very envious of me!" Sun Xiaolan slightly raised her head, with a hint of pride on her face.

  "So that's it! No wonder you were eating so desperately earlier, even more than me. So it's because you're not afraid of getting fat!"

  "Xiao Rui! You're talking nonsense! I clearly ate less than you!" Sun Xiaolan scolded, waving her fist in anger, pretending to hit him. Zhao Rui laughed and quickly ran a few steps forward, dodging away.

  The two of them parted ways after walking together for a while, then went to an internet cafe and surfed the web together before each returning home.

  It was already late at night, and the bright moonlight shone through the glass window into the room, as if a layer of white frost had been applied to the ground.

  Zhao Rui lay on the bed, propping up his head with his arms, and his mind was recalling the ups and downs of these days like a lantern slide, life and death, and he himself felt a bit unbelievable.

  "Who would have thought that gods and demons really exist in this world? It turns out that the myths and legends passed down from ancient times actually hide some truth behind them." He muttered to himself, his tone filled with a sense of wonder. "If I can successfully cultivate my powers, will I be able to ascend to immortality like the legends say? Hmm, if I can become immortal, what would the world of gods and demons be like?"

  Zhao Rui was lost in thought, his mind like a runaway wild horse, galloping wildly in all directions.

  After a while, he finally gathered his thoughts and sat up from the bed, straightened his posture, closed his eyes, and began to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, cultivating the "Eight Desolate Annihilation Technique".

  Zhao Rui had now entered the realm of pre-soul snatching, hoping that his strength could be further enhanced and he would soon enter the mid-term soul snatching.

  As a cultivator, every time you advance to a higher level, your strength will increase geometrically, but at the same time, the difficulty will also double.

  From the early stage of robbery to the middle stage of robbery, although it is only a promotion of one level, the realm of cultivation and the difficulty of cultivation are greatly different.

  Before the robbery of the soul, the true gas in the meridian flows, greatly enhancing Zhao Rui's explosive power, allowing him to break through the human body limit, lift hundreds of kilograms of heavy objects, and even make a full-force strike, crushing hard granite boulders.

  However, Zhao Rui couldn't freely control the true energy shooting out of his body, he had to combine it with his physical strength in order to exert its maximum combat power.

  However, if he reaches the mid-term of his cultivation, his power will undergo a qualitative change, and he will no longer be bound by his previous limitations. He can freely manipulate his true energy, harming people without leaving any trace. Even a falling leaf or a thin sheet of paper can become a terrifying weapon in his hands that can put people to death.

  If he reached the later stage of Soul Snatching, his power would be even stronger, and his true energy would automatically cover his entire body, making even bullets ineffective against him!

  Zhao Rui summoned the 15 light diagrams of "Ba Huang Lu Xian Jue" from his mind, then calmed down and eliminated all distractions, focusing his consciousness on the second diagram. He followed the method to sense the mysteries between heaven and earth.

  Slowly, the spiritual energy between heaven and earth began to gather around him, first in threads, then in strands, slowly seeping through his skin, through his bones, into his meridians. After a while, the speed of the spiritual energy pouring in began to accelerate, as if it was being torn apart by an invisible force, flowing in from all directions.

  The spiritual energy between heaven and earth flows into the elixir field through the meridians, and after repeated refining and extraction in this large crucible, it forms a cloud-like true energy, which then flows into the four limbs and hundred skeletons along the meridians, driving out the turbid energy bit by bit.

  The true energy circulates continuously in this way, flowing incessantly within the meridians.

  Zhao Rui felt as if he was floating on cloud nine, his entire body feeling extremely comfortable and relaxed, completely gone was the painful sensation of his meridians almost tearing apart from his previous cultivation.

  The spiritual energy between heaven and earth was continuously absorbed, and the true energy in Zhao Rui's body also grew continuously, circulating endlessly, finally flowing back into the dantian.

  The true energy in the dantian is floating and spreading like clouds and fog, expanding and growing stronger bit by bit, without any constraints.

  Zhao Rui used the formula on the second light diagram to bring out the true energy from his dantian, allowing it to flow along the meridians all the way to his fingertips.

  He could feel that the true energy was constantly gathering at his fingertips, growing stronger and stronger, but from start to finish, this true energy gathered at his fingertips, yet somehow it couldn't be shot out.

  It's as if there is an invisible wall in front of me, firmly blocking the way, no matter how hard I try, I can't make any progress.

  Zhao Rui knew that his Tao was not yet deep enough, and he couldn't break through this barrier to enter the mid-term of Soul Snatching. No matter how anxious he was, it would be useless, so he gave up trying and calmed down, focusing on absorbing the spiritual energy between heaven and earth to strengthen his own power.

  It wasn't clear how much time had passed when Zhao Rui slowly exhaled a mouthful of turbid air, opened his eyes, and came to from his meditative state.

  He found that the true energy in his body became stronger and stronger after cultivation. With a casual punch, a residual shadow with a sharp breaking sound flashed through the air, and he had no doubt that if this punch were to hit someone, it would absolutely be able to smash them into a pile of minced meat!

  Not only that, his senses also became more acute, his vision improved, and he could see farther and clearer. His hearing was also greatly enhanced, even the sound of his mother-in-law scolding Sun Xiaolan was clear to his ears.

  "Happy little Lan sister."

  Zhao Rui muttered a sentence with a bit of envy, Sun Xiaolan has parents to care for her, while he can't even find someone to talk to.

  It was already broad daylight, and the sunlight shone directly through the window onto his body, making him feel unbearably hot. Zhao Rui got out of bed and walked into the living room, looking up at the quartz clock hanging on the wall to confirm what time it was now.

  This is no big deal, but the quartz clock actually shows August 28th, which is the day to pay tuition fees for the new semester!

  "No way!"

  Zhao Rui rubbed his eyes, almost doubting that he had seen wrongly, because the day he started cultivating, there was still a week left before school started!

  However, the date on the quartz clock actually showed the 28th!

  Zhao Rui suddenly realized that he had unknowingly spent seven days in his cultivation.

  "This cultivation is really time-consuming, no wonder some cultivators inside close their doors for tens or hundreds of years."

  He loudly complained and hastily took the tuition fees, then went to the opposite door to call Sun Xiaolan, and they set off for school together.