First Immortal of Destiny

Chapter 39 Body Tempering Ninth Stage

"Even basic Martial Skills, when cultivated to a high level, can still have great power."

Gripping the Dragon Sparrow Sword in his hand, Shen Mo's heart was filled with excitement.

But this excitement quickly faded.

A sense of emptiness surged up in his body and reached his heart.

"Ugh."

He let out a muffled groan, feeling a soreness that quickly spread throughout his body.

The sudden pain and fatigue made him unable to stand, and he ended up sitting on the ground.

"That last sword... depleted all of my True Yuan."

After examining his current state through internal vision, he let out a bitter smile.

In his state of enlightenment, he successfully unleashed an unprecedented sword strike, causing the experience points of the "Supreme Sword Technique" to skyrocket.

But at the same time, the required Spirit Power for this sword move was terrifyingly high.

He almost exhausted himself with just one sword.

It was because he was too excited that he didn't notice the depletion in his body.

Now, the side effects quickly manifested.

"Gurgle!"

He quickly took out a handful of self-made Qi-replenishing pills from his Qiankun bag and swallowed them like beans.

"Phew!"

As the medicinal power spread in his body, gradually permeating his Dantian and all his organs like spring rain, his depleted body gradually recovered its vitality.

"This sword move, although powerful and even surpassing the lower-grade Profound Arts, consumes too much."

"Without reaching the Qi Gathering stage and being unable to store a large amount of Spiritual Qi in the body, every time it is used, it is overdrawing the body."

While practicing and replenishing the depleted Spiritual Qi in his body, Shen Mo silently pondered.

Although the advancement in proficiency of the "Supreme Sword Technique" greatly increased his combat power and added a tremendously powerful killing move to his arsenal, his own Cultivation Base couldn't keep up. If he forcefully used it before reaching the Qi Gathering stage, he would be left without any combat power after unleashing this sword.

It was fine for daily martial arts practice, but if he found himself in a dangerous situation, using it once would exhaust all his strength, undoubtedly leading to death.

"Phew!"

As the power of the Qi-replenishing pill gradually manifested, the sense of emptiness in Shen Mo's body gradually dissipated.

But he didn't stop cultivating the "Heavenly Origin Technique".

Because at this moment, he felt that the Realm bottleneck in his body seemed to have undergone some changes after this moment of enlightenment.

During these days, the "Heavenly Origin Technique" had been his focus for improving proficiency, even though he didn't devote as much attention to it as he did to the "Supreme Sword Technique". Through daily practice, the "Heavenly Origin Technique" had successfully reached a state of integration.

After advancing to this Realm, the speed and efficiency of absorbing the Spiritual Qi of heaven and earth with the Heavenly Origin Technique were much faster than before.

With each inhalation and exhalation, there seemed to be a faint sound of a dragon's roar in his chest.

Invisible chains brought the surrounding Spiritual Qi of heaven and earth, continuously flowing into his body.

"I'm about to break through!"

As the Spiritual Qi continued to pour in, Shen Mo's blood and qi gradually began to boil.

This was a sign of an imminent breakthrough.

"Then let's start breaking through!"

He let out a long breath, his eyes firm, gradually guiding his Spirit Power to impact the bottleneck in his body.

Unlike before, this time his accumulation was extremely solid, and there was no trace of impatience.

Since staying at the Zhao family and breaking through to the Eighth Stage of the Body Forging Realm, Shen Mo has been determined to solidify his foundation through rigorous training, following Chen An's advice. Therefore, even though he felt his cultivation base growing and was capable of breaking through the realm barrier, he did not attempt it. Instead, he continued to compress and consolidate his foundation. Until now, his foundation has become stable, and he can no longer compress it further, so he allowed himself to break through.

"Crack! Crack! Crack!"

Inside his body, surging blood and qi began to boil without Shen Mo's suppression. The vast power of blood and qi, no longer deliberately restrained by him, burst forth uncontrollably. The obstacles that had hindered Shen Mo's breakthrough were crushed and obliterated by this overwhelming force.

A series of muffled sounds kept occurring within his body. Each sound represented the opening of a meridian that had not been fully connected. Under the impact of blood and qi, these meridians were completely opened.

"I have broken through to the Ninth Stage of the Body Forging Realm!"

When the tenth muffled sound fell, Shen Mo trembled all over. The already abundant qi in his body experienced a tremendous increase in power.

"Marvelous!"

Feeling the amplified power brought by the breakthrough, his mind swayed and remained in a state of excitement for a long time.

"Having reached this stage, it can be considered as reaching the final stage of the Body Forging Realm! Just a little more accumulation, and I can attempt to condense the Dantian!"

Shen Mo's eyes sparkled with a desire to try. "Chen Uncle told me that usually, when a cultivator reaches the Ninth Stage of Body Tempering, they are considered qualified if they have a strength of two thousand jin. I wonder how much strength I have now!"

Needless to say, Shen Mo has the blessing of destiny and has gone through substantial accumulation, so his strength is naturally much higher than that of normal cultivators at the same level. However, he still needs to verify the exact amount.

"Fu!"

After searching in his Qiankun bag for a while, he took out a pale blue talisman and activated it.

"Buzz!"

As soon as the talisman was activated, it turned into a large blue curtain that fell in front of Shen Mo.

This talisman is called the Power Testing Talisman, one of the commonly used talismans by cultivators. Its main function is to test the strength of a practitioner.

"Bang!"

As the curtain formed by the Power Testing Talisman appeared, Shen Mo did not hesitate and suddenly threw a punch.

The powerful force of his punch landed on the pale blue curtain, causing ripples to spread.

At the same time, a number appeared above the Power Testing Talisman.

[Strength exceeds: 3571 jin.]

"Over three thousand five hundred jin of strength." Shen Mo was quite satisfied with this data. "This means that my strength is nearly twice as strong as cultivators at the same level!"

The amount of this strength not only determines the size of his power but also reflects the accumulation of his physical body and the power of blood and qi.

Shen Mo's data can be considered outstanding.

"With my current accumulation and the Purple Yang Vermilion Fruit, I can already say that I am stable in the future when condensing the two major Dantians. If I have enough opportunities, I might even have a chance to condense all three major Dantians!"

At first, Shen Mo's highest goal was only to condense the two major Dantians, surpassing other cultivators and creating a better starting point for himself. But now, with his gradually perfect strength and accumulation, he couldn't help but have more expectations and ambitions for the future.

"Let's think about it later. For now, let's eat something!"

After this exciting daydream, his thoughts returned to reality.

He touched his stomach and felt a bit hungry.

The previous breakthrough and cultivation base advancement had consumed a great deal of Shen Mo's energy.

(End of this chapter)