Chapter 082: Breakthrough, Late Stage of Body Refining

  "Wow!"

  Night, once again in Linzhou, East District, a simple standard room, with a long sigh, Xu Yu suddenly opened his eyes, feeling the energy inside him becoming full and boundless once more.

  The corners of his mouth finally revealed a faint smile.

  After parting with Luoxinying at noon, the rest of the time was calm and peaceful.

  And he, in the morning, all energy values had thoroughly recovered, relying on the effect of Treading on Air, what originally required eight hours of sleep to recover three energies' efficiency, had already been raised to more than two hours to recover three energies.

  So by just after lunchtime, he had already stored up six portions of spiritual energy and even raised his maximum spiritual energy to 54.

  54 is the prime of life, a new bottleneck in self-cultivation!

  But now he didn't care much about this second bottleneck and continued to merge his spiritual energy in the afternoon.

  First, he refined nine portions of first-rate spiritual energy, and then melted those first-rate spiritual energies into second-rate spiritual energy. The remaining eight or nine hours were spent continuously recovering.

  Until now, by nine o'clock in the evening, his energy was fully replenished.

  "Last time I broke through to the early peak of refinement, it only cost me a second-rate spiritual energy. It should be about enough this time too."

  After a moment of silent contemplation, Xu Yu directly targeted the second-grade spiritual energy in his mind and issued a fusion command.

  In an instant, a fierce pain burst out in his body.

  This time's pain was almost the same as when he first merged with the second-rate spiritual energy, and Xǔ Yú directly let out a loud "pa" sound, biting his teeth tightly again, his hands clenched into fists, his flat fingernails seeming like sharp blades at this moment, as if they could tear through skin at any time.

  But even though it was painful, he had mentally prepared himself for it and gritted his teeth to endure it.

  Moreover, with a hint of expectation, waiting for its own body to break through the bottleneck.

  In just a few seconds, a hint of doubt suddenly flashed in his eyes, which were originally full of expectation.

  Because of his previous self, the pain had just arrived and he directly broke through, but now more than ten seconds have passed, his body has made a crackling sound of brittle bones, but there is no tendency to break through in his body.

  He even had a strange feeling about it.

  It's like his body was pushing a door with all its might, and as he released all his energy, the door shook violently, giving him hope of opening it. Unfortunately, no matter how hard the door shook, it remained firmly welded to the ground.

  Don't push me away!

  "Not enough spiritual energy?!"

  In an instant, Xu Yu's originally puzzled eyes suddenly turned into a bitter smile.

  It turns out that wanting to break through the middle stage of cultivation requires at least a second-grade spiritual energy, and what I have is far from enough.

  It's not surprising, actually, the efficacy of this spirit is similar to that of a drug in some ways. If it's a drug that has never been absorbed by the body before, it will naturally have its greatest effect the first time.

  But if a body has taken a certain drug before, it will produce some drug resistance when taking it again.

  Not to mention, what he is rushing towards now is a bottleneck that is even deeper than last time, so it's naturally more difficult.

  Although he didn't understand at first, when he discovered the bottleneck in his body, under the impact of spiritual energy, he couldn't really break through, but only slightly shook. He endured the pain and took out a lot of food from the storage ring, quickly starting to merge.

  Since it's one stroke short of power, then continue to add power. One second-rate spiritual energy is insufficient, so let's merge another one.

  Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

  As time flew by quickly, in just a minute or two, Xu Yu's mind had nine more first-rate spiritual energies. Quickly merging these new spiritual energies into one second-rate spiritual energy.

  He didn't hesitate at all and merged into his body.

  Bang! Bang! Bang!!!

  A new surge of spiritual energy entered Xuyu's body, and in an instant, a crisp explosion sounded, while the originally unbearable pain also instantly rose to an astonishing degree.

  "Ah~"

  His entire body's muscles were strongly contorted together, and Yu's mouth suddenly let out a low, pained moan, because he really couldn't bear it anymore.

  Sweat beads layered densely, more like a stream, gushed out from his forehead, neck and back, flowing down rapidly.

  And in his body, that feeling of wanting to break through became even more intense and urgent.

  It was as if that hard-to-push door had been pushed open halfway, but unfortunately, just when it was about to be fully opened, the door suddenly bounced back with a loud bang.

  So after repeating this several times, Xu Yu was thoroughly dizzy, but still not enough.

  If it's said that previously, a second-rate spiritual energy was at work, then the door would be slightly ajar, and could be pushed open at any time. But now, it really is just a matter of a little bit more strength, just a tiny bit more effort, to truly open it, but every time, it's fiercely bounced back.

  This breakthrough in the middle of cultivation is actually insufficient with even two second-grade spiritual energies. Looking at it this way, at least three are needed to break through!

  In fact, this was mainly because his body had absorbed too much of the rich spiritual energy.

  He normally treats first-rate spiritual energy as food, and after a long time, even second-rate spiritual energy, which is a byproduct of the transformation of first-rate spiritual energy, has greatly increased his body's resistance.

  This resistance, when he normally boosts his energy, didn't appear, but in fact it all accumulated to the breakthrough of the bottleneck.

  Even if he is integrated in his daily life and has no resistance, it does not mean that it will never appear, but only that it has not yet accumulated to a certain amount.

  Even for other cultivators, relying on spiritual energy to cultivate, the improvement of their cultivation will also become slower and slower. The early stages are still okay, but when they reach a bottleneck or an even higher level, they will almost stagnate!

  Xu Yu is now in the middle of his cultivation, and on the entire path of cultivation, he can only be considered as being in the early stages.

  Otherwise, Lin Yan, a late-stage cultivator who had been absorbing the weak and almost negligible spiritual energy of the mundane world, would only need a pure first-class spiritual energy to have a good chance of breaking through. How could he possibly be so exhausted?

  It can be said that the spiritual energy within the secular world is now weak, compared to the top-notch spiritual energy that has merged with him, it's not just nine times weaker, nor eighteen times weaker!! Otherwise, the high-ranking cultivators in the secular world wouldn't be so pitiful.

  Of course, Xu Yu and Lin Yan also have a very important difference.

  Lin Yan's breakthrough was only a breakthrough in his single-minded pursuit of martial arts, but Xu Yu himself had achieved a dual breakthrough in both body and mind. The difference between the two was not simple, and strictly speaking, even if he had only reached mid-term breakthrough, it would be more difficult than Lin Yan's.

  However, even if it was painful, Xuyu still propped himself up and quickly merged the spiritual energy again, until his physical strength value was only 36 left. Without hesitation, he joined a new second-grade spiritual energy, and with the pain doubling again, a surge of breakthrough aura burst out from within Xuyu's body!

  Almost at the same time, his vitality value also started to soar upwards, jumping straight from 55, 56, all the way to 57 before finally stabilizing.

  As his stamina increased, under the endless torture, Xu Yu suddenly went black in front of him, and he fainted from the severe pain.

  But at the moment of fainting, his originally tense mind suddenly relaxed completely.

  It's over, although the process was a bit more difficult than expected, he finally broke through to the late stage of body refinement.

  The second update is here, I finally finished coding, sweating, and fortunately didn't disappoint myself or keep everyone waiting.

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