manynovel Chapter 10: First-rate Internal Force, Comprehensive Improvement
Chapter 10: First-rate Internal Force, Comprehensive Improvement
Chapter 10: Top-notch Internal Force, Comprehensive Improvement
Three days later, at dawn, Chen Yi was squatting in the corner of the dissection room wiping his instruments when he suddenly heard light footsteps outside the door.
A slight thought stirred within him, and his icy blue inner energy quietly circulated. His internal energy and blood had been quietly hidden deep within his body's acupoints, with only one-tenth remaining visible.
"Is this the place?"
Li Yudie frowned as she surveyed the blood and flesh scattered on the ground. Her plain white dress fluttered without wind, and as the pressure of the seventh level of Qi Refining swept over Chen Yi's aged figure, he staggered back two steps at just the right moment.
Lin Youyou paused, her hand holding the jade box pausing, her gaze suddenly brightening as it fell upon the ice-blue heart with its intricate patterns on the table:
"This Xuan Shui Turtle has actually mutated! Uncle Chen, you actually managed to solve it."
"Fairy Lin, you flatter me. This old man dares not be addressed as such by a fairy." Chen Yi bowed slightly, feigning fear.
"Uncle Chen, you used to hold me when I was little!" Lin Youyou said playfully, blinking her eyes.
"Please, fairy, take back your title. Just call me Old Man Chen," Chen Yi insisted.
He could hardly imagine the uproar that would ensue if word got out that Lin Youyou, who had just broken through to the Innate Realm and awakened her spirituality, called him Uncle.
"Well, alright. A couple of years ago, my dad said you might not live much longer, but I never expected you, Old Chen, to have such a miraculous recovery."
This mutated Xuan Shui Turtle's defense is almost superior to that of a mid-grade demon beast. You were able to break free from it. You truly deserve to be called a master demon-slaying expert back in the day!
Old Chen, our demon-hunting team is missing a seasoned expert in dissecting demon beasts. Would you be willing to come and help me?
"If you're willing to come, I can guarantee you'll recover to the level of a second-rate martial artist within two months, and even advance to the ranks of a first-rate martial artist!"
"Fairy Lin, you flatter me. When this Xuan Shui Turtle came into our hands, its shell was already loose. It was thanks to the tireless efforts of several young brothers over the past three days that we were able to unravel it. I, the old man, only benefited from being the team leader and didn't actually contribute much."
"With my old and frail body, helping the fairy would only make things worse."
Chen Yi took a step back and shook his head in refusal. He remained unmoved by the reward Lin Youyou had promised.
Lin Youyou suddenly took two steps forward, her breath almost brushing against Chen Yi's face. The girl's fingertips lightly touched Chen Yi's wrist, and a subtle fluctuation entered Chen Yi's body, as if she were probing something.
Chen Yi dared not breathe and took a step back. "The old man's hands are stained with the blood of demonic beasts. He dares not defile the fairy."
"Uncle Chen, you weren't this timid when you held me and taught me how to peel snake gallbladders back then~" Lin Youyou said with a breath as sweet as orchids.
Li Yudie suddenly chuckled, "Youyou, stop being naughty. This old servant was clearly injured by demonic energy. It's already a miracle that he's recovered to his current state of health. Let's go back and not make things difficult for him."
Lin Youyou stared at Chen Yi suspiciously for a few more moments before reluctantly leaving.
"Sister Li, I have a feeling that there's something wrong with this old Chen, but I can't quite put my finger on it."
We've tested it; this mutated Xuan Shui Turtle's defense is comparable to a high-grade demonic beast. How could an ordinary human martial artist possibly break through it?
"There's no need to delve into it further. Opportunities in the cultivation world are as numerous as hairs on a cow. He's just a mortal martial artist; perhaps he's stronger, or perhaps he has a unique method for dissecting turtle demons."
But ultimately, he's just an old, mortal man, of little value, insignificant to either of us, and not worth the effort to search for.
You'll understand once you become familiar with the identity of a cultivator.
We are ultimately from a different world than them.
"Hehe, Youyou will listen to her older sister~"
The conversation between Li and Lin as they left was overheard by someone with ulterior motives.
The words of cultivators naturally carry more authority.
Chen Yi didn't become stronger; he simply regained some of his strength from his youth and possessed a special technique for dissecting turtle-type demonic beasts.
In the days that followed, almost all first-tier demonic beasts, such as the Xuan Shui Turtle, the Black Scale Turtle, and the Turtle-Snake Beast, were sent to Chen Yi for processing.
Some even contain mid-grade demonic beasts.
Chen Yi kept humbly saying that he couldn't handle something that big; the task was too arduous and he couldn't complete it.
I managed to finish it, albeit barely.
His men were all exhausted and had smoked a lot of opium.
Chen Yi also appeared extremely tired.
Inside, he took the opportunity to drastically improve the quality of the internal energy in the Turtle Breathing Technique and refine its operational method.
In just about ten days, he managed to extract the spiritual essence of several turtle-like demonic beasts.
He has already elevated the Turtle Breathing Technique to a top-tier internal skill capable of being cultivated into an innate technique.
Chen Yi renamed the Turtle Breathing Technique to "Turtle Breathing Secret," making it a technique of the same level as "Gathering Qi Secret."
With these two techniques improved to this point, Chen Yi has reached the limit of the spirituality of the demons he can currently access.
Chen Yi now understands that his improvement in cultivation techniques and internal energy quality is not due to his own enlightenment, but rather because the innate spirituality of demonic beasts inherently possesses the rules governing the operation of such cultivation techniques and internal energy. He has simply intercepted these rules by taking over the spirituality.
In these ten days, he had completed the initial accumulation of internal energy, reached the second stage of the Turtle Breathing Technique, and had already formed internal force within his body.
The water-attribute internal energy, cool and nourishing, nourished his internal organs and meridians. The Breath Concealment Technique allowed him to hide his full strength within his deepest acupoints.
Ordinary cultivators at the early and mid-stages of Qi Refining do not possess externally projected divine sense, making it impossible to scan them remotely and thus difficult to discern their true level.
The generation of internal energy significantly improved all his physical qualities, making him as light as a swallow. He once secretly tried it and found that he could sprint 100 meters in less than six seconds.
"The Li family isn't safe. If something happens, I can't defeat demonic beasts or cultivators, but at least I can run fast."
Chen Yi was very satisfied with the improvement in his internal strength.
At the same time, his qi and blood strength also increased rapidly.
After ten days of absorbing demonic power and consuming two Qi and Blood Pills daily,
Now his vital energy has covered his entire body, and he has already begun to condense his protective aura.
This is the standard for becoming a first-class martial artist.
Unlike ordinary first-rate martial artists, Chen Yi's blood and qi power, enhanced by the spirituality of the demonic creature, is of exceptionally high quality.
Even against an ordinary innate martial artist, he could withstand three to five moves.
With his current strength, he wouldn't suffer any harm when dealing with mid-grade demonic beasts.
In the Spirit Wheat Field, the Iron Bull Insects in the ground would be precisely captured and pierced to death by his Qi before they even emerged from the soil.
These past few days, the demonic beasts processed by Chen Yi have not been fully perfected in terms of either demonic power or spirituality. Under normal circumstances, they might have been discovered by cultivators.
But now the number of monsters in the lake is countless.
Hundreds of cultivators from the Li family all took to the field, and in a short time, they were all killed.
During this period, the cultivators of the Li family all had beaming faces.
Even a first-tier demonic beast is worth a considerable amount of spirit stones.
The lake that the Li family occupies is where the monsters return at this time of year, and it's also their harvest season.
There are an unusually large number this year.
Chen Yi's workload has now increased to two monsters a day, and he still can't finish dealing with them.
The manager personally instructed Chen Yi, wishing he would work overtime without rest at night.
Chen Yi, on the other hand, would go to the embankment by the lake on the edge of the town every day to take a look.
The water level at the dam is rising higher and higher.
Chen Yi also scouted out more than three escape routes beforehand.
Sure enough, half a month later,
problem occurs.
(End of this chapter)