[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-devouring-evil-exterminating-demons-across-all-h":3,"chapter-devouring-evil-exterminating-demons-across-all-h-devouring-evil-exterminating-demons-across-all-h-chapter-134":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Devouring Evil, Exterminating Demons Across All Heavens",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2267079,4426,"Chapter 134: Burn Through Fertile Soil, the Yellow Sprout Spontaneously Grows","devouring-evil-exterminating-demons-across-all-h-chapter-134",134,"\u003Cp>Feng Jianhua blinked in surprise: “You want to learn internal cultivation now?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Not necessarily now—just taking a look first.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu Tianshu said, “After fighting Li Guangzong, and today with Wang Bo, and the troubles I ran into during interrogations—I’ve developed a stronger curiosity about internal cultivation.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He spread his hands. “Besides, I’m already tangled in this matter and want to see it through, but I have no local connections—I might as well focus on what I’m good at.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yuan Chongxiao said, “That’s easy…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wait.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feng Jianhua interrupted the vice-principal, his gaze sweeping the surrounding walls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those paintings still hung on the walls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Little Chu, I’ve watched you train these past few days, but just observing isn’t enough.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feng Jianhua extended a hand. “Shake hands, how about it?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu Tianshu had no objection—he summoned three-tenths of his strength and reached out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As their palms met, he felt the other’s grip tighten slightly, so he added more force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their palms slowly tensed from relaxed to taut.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feng Jianhua’s palm slowly emitted a faint green glow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu Tianshu’s palm, originally turning a steel-like blue-black, gradually reddened, and faint hums echoed between his finger bones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hah!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feng Jianhua laughed. “I’ve got decent resilience, Little Chu—don’t hold back.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu Tianshu raised his eyebrows. “Alright, then, Principal, watch out.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His five finger joints suddenly expanded; half his body vibrated with a deep hum as he gripped hard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A detonation rang out where their hands met; the air around their palms visibly warped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feng Jianhua’s white hair lifted, his eyes brimming with dense green light, his whole body radiating brilliant luminescence, ethereal and otherworldly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu Tianshu felt his grip sink into a tangle of countless ox-hide tendons, all pulling and straining.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a fleeting moment of warm softness, resistance surged violently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>SNAP!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His fierce grip had barely dented the other’s skin—and now he was being thrown back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Not bad!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu Tianshu beamed, stepping half a pace forward instinctively.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feng Jianhua, like a repelling magnet, slid back half a step, maintaining the original distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Enough, enough.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The principal raised his hand. “I’ve tested enough.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Your brute strength—ah, your cultivation of force—is nearly reaching the realm of pure essence and hardened qi, where fullness transforms.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu Tianshu frowned. “What does that mean?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ancients believed internal cultivation was the process of using one’s own essence and qi to harmonize external energies and make them one’s own.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The purer your essence, the higher the quality of your internal force.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feng Jianhua said, “Many today cultivate internal force, but first train strength until they hit a bottleneck, then switch to internal cultivation. Yet strength training is mostly dynamic, while internal cultivation leans toward stillness.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This shift between dynamic and stillness can take anywhere from ten days to five years.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But there are those who achieve such mastery in strength training that their essence becomes utterly pure—even dynamic methods become as refined as stillness.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Such people, the moment they encounter an internal cultivation method, can produce internal force the same day.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu Tianshu smiled. “So you’re testing whether I’ve reached that level.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feng Jianhua sighed. “You’ve already stepped onto that tier—and precisely because of that, I think you shouldn’t be looking at other internal cultivation manuals right now.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu Tianshu frowned. “Why?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Because your fist technique already carries traces of internal cultivation.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feng Jianhua said, “If I’m not mistaken, the fist method you practice is from the age of the Qi-Refiners.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu Tianshu blinked. “Huh?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But my fist form was compiled by Ming Dynasty people from another world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How could refining and improving it make it older?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It seems you don’t know the full story.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feng Jianhua smiled smugly. “But I won’t be wrong.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Most believe internal cultivation descended from the Qi-Refiners—but that’s not entirely true.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Later internal cultivation barely improves the body permanently, but the Qi-Refiners’ power nourished the flesh from the start—the stronger their power, the stronger their bodies.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Though still not matching divine generals or mighty warriors, they didn’t need to gorge on spiritual resources like those warriors did…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Through Feng Jianhua’s explanation, Chu Tianshu finally understood the nature of the Qi-Refiners.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Qi-Refiners, after pushing strength training to its limit, ceased relying on spiritual resources, instead relying solely on a fleeting insight—that dynamic extremes reverse into stillness—to break through.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That tiny, half-intentional insight required no deeper knowledge of how internal force flowed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If they could break through, internal force would arise naturally; learning the internal cultivation path afterward was no problem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In ancient times, the primal was pure, the body perfect—burn through fertile soil, and the yellow sprout grows on its own!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The flesh was that fertile soil; the will to advance, that blazing fire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hence, later generations called this quality of power “Yellow Sprout True Qi.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The stronger the Yellow Sprout True Qi, the stronger the body—and even the spirit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was once a saying: “When the Yellow Sprout finally matures, the Three Flowers of Essence, Qi, and Spirit will bloom.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Three Flowers gathering at the crown, like an immortal—but even in the Qi-Refiners’ age, this was rare, known only through legend.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu Tianshu recalled the contents of the *Luohan Heartfire Fist Scripture*.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Luohan's foundation is solid, the mortal body enters Vajra Stasis; light and heavy, effortless, condensing the true essence—wondrously, a single point of Samadhi power arises!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So this Samadhi power… is the Yellow Sprout True Qi?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The martial arts of that Ming world all pursued “Threefold Unity”—a path strangely akin to the Qi-Refiners’.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Knowing this, Chu Tianshu now understood—he truly shouldn’t be reading internal cultivation manuals yet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was one step away from Samadhi power; what he needed was that unintentional, true insight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he studied internal cultivation manuals now, even without actively practicing, he’d risk distraction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he produced internal force before breaking through that threshold,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>purifying it into Yellow Sprout True Qi later would be far harder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Chu Tianshu still had the urge to train, Feng Jianhua and the others left him undisturbed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old principal stepped out, walked to the side of the building, and stared at his bedroom window.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>SHHH!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feng Jianhua leapt upward, his toe tapping the third-floor window, then ducked inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not bad.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aside from some cracks in the floor tiles, the bed was messy, and the TV screen was embedded with alloy shards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A human-shaped dent was sunken into the wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Overall, the room was intact!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feng Jianhua walked to the wardrobe, moved aside a few hanging clothes, and reached into a hidden compartment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside lay a book, five or six red-and-blue porcelain medicine bottles, and a knife.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“*Hate Heaven Art*.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feng Jianhua ran his fingers over the book’s cover.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the most powerful internal cultivation manual in their martial school.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The great roc spreads its wings, hating the sky’s low height, soaring nine thousand miles straight up.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Chu Tianshu’s talent were average or above-average, passing this manual would be fine—but his talent was too exceptional.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Better not harm him.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feng Jianhua thought, “I’ll use my authority to let him buy a high-grade manual from the Special Capture Bureau.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But first, I need to survive the Ghost Market.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old principal wondered whether to write a recommendation letter now, as a safeguard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huh—isn’t that bad luck? Like cursing myself to fail.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feng Jianhua fell silent for a moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Forget it—the paintings’ killing aura is nearly spent. Better go downstairs and clean the knife; it hasn’t been used in years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He set down the manual and picked up the knife.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Half the blade drawn, casting the old man’s face in dark golden light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sun neared setting, the western sky faintly yellow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Du Chen shaved his beard, wearing a white lab coat over a light blue shirt, standing before the floor-to-ceiling window, basking in the sunlight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even on snowy days, the sunset’s hue still painted faces a warm golden hue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Voices came from behind him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Bo is dead...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1319,"2026-06-19T20:45:51.976Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","e6640bcd5e2c632652b9b0103fab0d6129d6fc8876f3e83eb4597ea26f1cb9e7","devouring-evil-exterminating-demons-across-all-h-chapter-135","devouring-evil-exterminating-demons-across-all-h-chapter-133",155,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fdevouring-evil-exterminating-demons-across-all-h-cover.jpg"]