Chapter 213: Vortex Aperture

Liang Qu was not surprised that a mouthful of soup could bring over a hundred points of Water Ze Essence.

Since it was a gift from a great demon, it was very normal for the Water Ze Essence to be a bit more.

He was surprised by the taste of the soup.

Picking up the "fish bag," he drank another mouthful.

The rich, fresh fragrance rushed straight to his crown from his taste buds, exploding with a bang in the back of his head.

It was as if in the middle of deep winter, he was drinking the freshest fish soup while sitting around a warm fire.

Milky white soup floated with golden oil flowers, a little green onion floated, and from his stomach to his toes, he felt comfortable from the inside out.

No wonder the toad gave such a high evaluation!

Too magical; was this something that could naturally grow inside a biological body?

Liang Qu found it unfathomable, and when he came back to his senses, the "fish bag" in his hand was more than half empty.

Leave a little for the water beasts.

Resisting the urge to drink it all, he sliced off the Golden Gong Fish's fins with one knife.

The blade wiped over, revealing a row of soft bones as thin as onion threads, each emitting a faint golden light, like pine resin amber without bubbles.

Having eaten so many treasure fish, Liang Qu's knife skills didn't need to be mentioned; he quickly divided the Golden Gong Fish into fist-sized pieces.

Thin golden grease covered the blade, and he wiped it off with his finger, applying it to Wulong's nose.

The water well moved, and several beasts surfaced one after another.

Liang Qu took out a small porcelain cup, poured the juice from the fish bag into it, and fed it to each beast, letting them taste it together.

Cannot Move drank a mouthful and lay paralyzed on the ground, showing its belly.

Fist kept bubbling, and Round Head patted its belly.

A-Wei flew from this roof to that roof, and the Mirage Insect's body stretched out completely.

Only the fat catfish smacked its lips, as if it hadn't tasted the flavor, and it slid into its stomach as soon as it reached its mouth.

Refusing Fatty's idea of having another cup, Liang Qu poured in charcoal, found flint from the kitchen to light it, laid out a wire mesh, neatly arranged a layer of Golden Gong Fish meat, and set up a sand pot on the side, pouring in clear water and fish fins.

While waiting for the meat to cook, he took the opportunity to divide the internal organs.

Most of them were divided by weight, only the shark liver was cut into several pieces by him, one piece per beast, not letting them eat too much to prevent poisoning.

【Water Ze Essence +86】

【Water Ze Essence +92】

【Water Ze Essence +189】

The fish meat was snow-white, the fish skin slightly curled, the edges burnt golden-yellow; the skin was crispy and the meat was tender, melting in the mouth with a slight press, the juice filling the mouth, and a little bit of salt raised the entire flavor to a higher level.

The boiled fish fins were even more fragrant; the Golden Gong Fish looked like a shark, and its bones were the same, all soft bones, crunchy when chewed.

After more than half the fish was eaten, and some was divided among the six beasts, Liang Qu looked at the harvest of the entire Golden Gong Fish.

【Water Ze Essence +4582】

Was this the effect of a top-tier treasure fish?

Liang Qu's pupils shook.

He remembered that the Two-Life Flower had contributed over 5,300 points of Water Ze Essence; he hadn't expected that the Golden Gong Fish had contributed over 4,500, only 1,000 less than the Two-Life Flower.

Didn't that mean he had just eaten two great merits?

No, the Golden Gong Fish might not be the most top-tier treasure fish, just that the taste was too good, making the toad so fond of it.

How much was a large iron anchor worth?

The Great Shun had martial artists and all kinds of magical equipment, making mining much simpler.

Plus, casting an iron anchor had no technique, just pouring; the labor cost didn't need much, and the entire large iron anchor only cost Liang Qu a few dozen taels of silver.

Was there any business in the world more profitable than this?

Nearly a hundred times the profit!

The Golden Gong Fish entered his stomach, and the dryness in his abdomen suddenly spread throughout his body; his originally sluggish blood was like a large snake waking up from hibernation, swimming everywhere.

Too late to use the Water Ze Essence, Liang Qu ran back to the quiet room first to move his blood.

Galloping Horse had nine apertures, distributed in the front, back, top, bottom, and middle of the body, forming the image of the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams.

Among them, there were three fields, three passes, and three apertures, three realms, corresponding to the initial, middle, and upper stages of Galloping Horse.

If all nine apertures were opened, it was another honorable title: Ultimate Realm.

Such a division wasn't because three in a group were easy to distinguish, but because the improvements of these three layers were different.

The Upper Dantian, Middle Dantian, and Lower Dantian were the front body, all belonging to Yin; Yin was the soft eye, focusing on collection, a place for health preservation, contained within, transforming the whole body.

With all three fields opened, martial artists could use the aperture passes to move Qi, doubling the efficiency of cultivation, which could not be compared to the four-stage period.

Therefore, a qualified cultivation method, not to mention including the thirty-six paths of bridge-building in the Wolf Smoke Realm, at least had to include the three-field aperture passes; only then could it be called a qualified lower-tier cultivation method.

If it didn't even include the three-field aperture passes, it could only be an unranked, common road item, not even getting a lower-tier evaluation.

And the Tail Gate, Clip Spine, and Jade Pillow passes were the back body, all belonging to Yang; Yang was rigid, focusing on opening, a place for operation, should be extended outward, protecting the body.

With these three passes opened, the martial artist's mastery of themselves would be greatly improved, able to release Qi externally, doubling the power of martial arts.

Liang Qu was currently at this stage; in other words, he was already a middle-stage Galloping Horse martial artist.

With the opening of the Viscera Pass, he jumped directly to the middle stage of Galloping Horse; if he said it out, he didn't know how many people's jaws would drop.

Liang Qu was even already impacting the fifth aperture pass—the Clip Spine Pass.

The position of the Clip Spine Pass was between the two shoulder blades, in the spine bone parallel to the "Middle Dantian" in the front and back.

This place was the center of "momentum"; it was at the connection point of the two shoulders. Ordinary people's two shoulder blades protruded, not only affecting the stretching of momentum but also hindering the operation of the Governor Vessel.

If one could pull the back and arch the arms, the shoulder blades would retract, the spine would be round, the two arms would expand, and the Governor Vessel would be clear, only then having the momentum to contain everything.

It was a pity that without the help of Mysterious Qi, the difficulty of opening the aperture increased by more than ten times.

Until the energy of the Golden Gong Fish meat was exhausted, Liang Qu's body was steaming with sweat, but the Clip Spine Pass was only loosened, without any feeling of being on the verge of collapse.

The further one went in cultivation, the harder it became.

Many people spent their whole lives struggling in the four stages of skin, flesh, bone, and blood; being able to enter Galloping Horse, one could become a master in a town and leap across classes.

Liang Qu wasn't annoyed either, communicating with the Ze Tripod, and added the accumulated Water Ze Essence to the fusion degree.

He hadn't used the over 2,000 points of Water Ze Essence from the Mermaid Tears before; this time, he added it along with the Golden Gong Fish's to the fusion degree and continued to move his blood.

Closing his eyes and meditating, the sun slanted to the west.

【Ze Rong Ze Spirit fusion 30%, comprehended innate skill—Vortex Wave.】

Liang Qu opened his eyes.

Vortex Wave?

What was the use?

Communicating with the Ze Tripod.

【Tripod Master: Liang Qu】

【Refined Ze Spirit: Ze Rong (Cyan) (Fusion Degree: 35.6%)】

【Ze Spirit Favor: Martial Path Divine Power First Layer (River Master Emperor); Ying Dragon Pattern: First Layer; Tian Wu: First Layer】

【Innate Skills: Water Leap, Water Breathing, Water Prison, Riding Water and Waves, Deterrence, Vortex Wave】

【Water Ze Essence: None】

【River Favorability: 1.0001】

【Commanding Water Beasts: Horned Wood Cyan Crocodile, Majestic Tiger Catfish, Rock Turtle Crab King, Twin-Winged Sky Water Centipede, River Dolphin King, Mirage Insect】

【Evaluation: Ze Rong Ze Spirit originates from the great Lord of the Huai Vortex. After unremitting efforts, its supreme authority has unlocked a mysterious corner for the insignificant you.】

【Vortex Wave: Can open a vortex aperture to store water vapor, accommodating it in the body, which is one-thousandth of the water control ability.】

One-thousandth?

Liang Qu made a rough calculation, his mouth twitching.

Eight tons? ===== CHAPTER 214 =====