Chapter 553

Wu Wu Pifu felt a warm, comfortable sensation throughout his entire body; the unprecedented feeling of fullness and satisfaction made him somewhat intoxicated.

When he first began practicing internal energy, he actually didn't feel very good. At the start, there was pain at the entry points of his meridians, and the intensity of this pain gradually increased. At its most intense, there was even a feeling that his body was about to split open, as if some formless thing was expanding within him, giving him the illusion that he was physically growing larger.

At the same time, as internal energy was refined from within his body, he developed an extremely intense sense of emptiness, as if his entire body had been hollowed out. Hunger and drowsiness followed. Just as his entire mental consciousness began to blur, the first strand of internal energy entered his dantian, and this feeling began to gradually lighten. Then, as more internal energy gathered in his dantian, the sensation began to reverse; he became increasingly energetic, and his physical body felt more and more comfortable.

Under these sensory conditions, the swelling sensation of his meridians being breached seemed insignificant, and Wu Wu Pifu was completely immersed in this feeling of comfort and growing strength.

With the eight extraordinary meridians cleared, followed by all the other extraordinary vessels in his body, under Wu Wu Pifu's almost infinitely growing internal energy, no matter how blocked a meridian was, it was all directly pierced through. Even if this caused damage to the meridians, it didn't matter at all; Wu Wu Pifu's physical body and internal energy were already so powerful that wherever you were damaged, I would follow up and repair it.

Very quickly, all the eight extraordinary meridians of his entire body had been pierced through, and at this very moment, the internal energy in his dantian had already reached the level of approximately fifteen sixty-year cycles.

A so-called sixty-year cycle of internal energy is a unit of measurement for internal energy strength as described in the worldview of Huang Rong's world.

Depending on different aptitudes, different comprehension, and different martial arts, the amount of internal energy accumulated by each internal martial artist in one day is different. If an average martial artist practices average internal energy coefficient martial arts, the internal energy accumulated in one day is one day's worth. A monstrous martial artist using top-tier internal energy techniques might accumulate ten days' worth of internal energy in one day, while a dull martial artist using third-rate or even unranked internal energy techniques might accumulate less than one-tenth of a day's worth of internal energy in one day.

And one sixty-year cycle of internal energy is the amount of internal energy that an average martial artist using the most common internal energy techniques in the martial arts world would need to accumulate through sixty years of diligent study and hard practice.

At this moment, the amount of internal energy in Wu Wu Pifu's dantian would take such a martial artist nearly nine hundred years to practice and accumulate!

In the martial arts worldview known to Huang Rong, this is no longer a description of "unprecedented and unrepeatable"; it is directly something that transcends the limits of human imagination!

Huang Rong once heard her father mention many martial arts rumors. Her father was a supreme expert of the current age, the Eastern Heretic Huang Yaoshi, known as one of the Five Greats under Heaven, so naturally, he knew many secrets unknown to people in the martial arts world.

According to Huang Yaoshi, during the Northern Song Dynasty, a martial arts myth once appeared. He had no name or surname and lived in seclusion in the Shaolin Temple. He spent his days sweeping the Scripture Library, and no one noticed him until a major event that shocked the martial arts world occurred at that time. The Shaolin Temple was besieged by many martial arts experts, and this martial arts myth stepped out in the face of danger, immediately shocking the world. He was hailed as a unique martial arts Grandmaster and was very likely a living Innate martial artist.

It is said that this martial arts myth had a foundation of at least two sixty-year cycles of internal energy. His hallmark was a passive, constantly existing formless wall of energy on the surface of his body, known as "externalized Qi," which was formless but had substance, enough to withstand the attacks of the world's supreme experts, and even hidden weapons and powerful crossbows could not pierce it.

When telling this martial arts story at the time, Huang Yaoshi even demonstrated the quantity and strength of internal energy to his daughter.

Huang Rong's father, Huang Yaoshi, had a unique skill called the Finger Flicking Divine Art, which could condense Qi on his fingers. Once wrapped around a pebble or similar object, it was enough to shoot a hundred paces away, and could even pierce through leather armor in one strike. Huang Yaoshi's internal energy was close to one sixty-year cycle.

At the time, Huang Yaoshi lamented that the martial arts myth was said to have a three-foot wall of Qi. According to Huang Yaoshi's deduction, his internal energy had likely reached two sixty-year cycles, because internal energy is inherently deeper and stronger the more it is accumulated. One sixty-year cycle of internal energy and two sixty-year cycles of internal energy are not just twice as strong; it is very likely that the strength exerted is five times or even more.

And at this moment, Wu Wu Pifu's internal energy had already reached over fifteen sixty-year cycles, and with the complete piercing of the eight extraordinary meridians, it was another qualitative change in the total amount of internal energy!

The more meridians pierced, the more the total amount of internal energy would undergo a qualitative change with each one pierced.

Then, Wu Wu Pifu's internal energy naturally flowed toward the Conception and Governor vessels. In less than a minute, the final Conception and Governor vessels of the eight extraordinary meridians were all pierced through. At this very moment, the total amount of internal energy had reached around eighteen sixty-year cycles...

Wu Wu Pifu was also ignorant and fearless. He originally had no understanding of internal energy, and what Huang Rong taught was only the most superficial internal energy breathing method. Generally speaking, it was just to temper the martial arts patience of beginner children. If one wanted to practice one year's worth of internal energy with this level of technique, it would likely take a high-aptitude person more than five years of hard practice. Basically, after practicing for half a year or a year, once the Master saw the character and patience of the beginner child, they would change them to an advanced internal energy technique.

At the same time, no one had ever started by attacking the eight extraordinary meridians when first practicing internal energy, and it was even more impossible to clear all eight meridians at once and pierce through the extraordinary vessels. Yet, all of this was a natural occurrence for Wu Wu Pifu.

When he had meditated to this point, the threat in the sky seemed to have materialized. Countless thick mists gathered in the sky, then gradually formed a spiral vortex. The amorphous thick mist seemed to have life, and a passage was slowly opening.

And Wu Wu Pifu still sat cross-legged in meditation. His eight extraordinary meridians were completely pierced, and his internal energy circulated without end. This vast internal energy had nothing left to pierce, so naturally, it gathered toward his brain.

The reason the Conception and Governor vessels are the final points of the eight extraordinary meridians is that they have already opened the Jade Pillow point on the head and the Hundred Meetings point on the crown of the head. This already involves the most mysterious human brain. If one suffers from qi deviation, the mild result is madness, and the severe result is sudden death. Therefore, from ancient times to the present, opening the Conception and Governor vessels has been regarded as the hallmark of internal energy mastery.

As for the Life-Death Barrier, it is somewhat mysterious. It does not involve the acupuncture points on the body's surface, but the Mud Ball Palace deep in the brain. This involves the Sea of Consciousness, the Upper Dantian, and is also where Wu Wu Pifu stores the Sleepless Spiritual Light.

When the internal energy pierced into the brain, Wu Wu Pifu's perception suddenly shifted from his physical body to his Sea of Consciousness. Sure enough, he saw brilliant, glowing gaseous Qi pouring into the Sea of Consciousness from the void, and then the Sleepless Spiritual Light shone in the air, echoing with this glowing gaseous Qi.

The negativity in his Sea of Consciousness suddenly surged naturally. The negativity seemed to have been stimulated by something and rushed wildly toward the Sea of Consciousness, but it was completely blocked by the "tigers" devoured by the Tiger Demon Art. Although the "tigers" wailed one after another and were corroded, especially the world fragment "tiger" that had existed the longest, it had less than one-tenth of its total amount left.

However, with the tigers blocking it, the negativity was still perfectly suppressed, and it did not affect the resonance of the light in the Sea of Consciousness in the slightest.

After the resonance, the glowing gaseous Qi gradually purified and condensed, changing from a gaseous state to a liquid state. Then, it flowed out from the Sea of Consciousness, re-entered the meridians, and went down to the Lower Dantian. After this tempering, internal energy flowed into the Sea of Consciousness endlessly, and after condensing Qi into liquid, it rolled back into the Dantian. In just a few dozen seconds, all the internal energy in Wu Wu Pifu's body was liquefied. The internal energy in his meridians was no longer a vague, ethereal thing, but had truly become a peculiar liquid that was half-matter and half-energy!

Once all the internal energy was liquefied, a new node was added to his Great Heavenly Circulation, which was the Upper Dantian Sea of Consciousness. And until this moment, Wu Wu Pifu's internal energy had gone from clearing the eight meridians, clearing the extraordinary vessels, and breaking through the Conception and Governor vessels, to piercing through the Life-Death Barrier!

His internal energy was already at the legendary level of the Life-Death Barrier!

At this moment, his total internal energy had reached the level of thirty sixty-year cycles, and it was not formless internal energy, but tangible and substantial internal energy after complete liquefaction. Thirty sixty-year cycles of liquefied internal energy!?

After this vast liquefied internal energy circulated for several cycles, it actually gradually began to extend outward from his Lower Dantian, Middle Dantian, and Upper Dantian, as if there were invisible meridians outside his body as well, and this was the legendary opening of the Heaven-Earth Bridges...

But just at this moment, Wu Wu Pifu suddenly opened his eyes. Two divine lights shot out from his eyes, straight to a hundred paces away. At the same time, from the spiral mist above the sky, golden spheres began to appear, and the wormhole that had appeared before began to construct itself once again.

And Wu Wu Pifu just gave a low shout, his entire body's Qi and blood stretched, and his blood energy erupted. Its total amount increased by at least thirty percent, but this was not the most critical part. At his Dantian, internal energy erupted along with it. The eight extraordinary meridians, the Conception and Governor vessels, and the Life-Death Barrier had all been pierced, and internal energy spread throughout his body.

Huang Rong said with pleasant surprise, "Brother Wu Pifu, how is it? Have you practiced internal energy?"

Wu Wu Pifu laughed, his body shook, and internal energy erupted and penetrated through his body.

This power seemed like an extension of his physical body, and he could control it all with a single thought. He saw this internal energy gently brush past Huang Rong, like a breeze on her face, but when it touched the five old, weak, sick, and disabled people in the distance, it actually pushed them directly away, driving them more than three hundred meters away. During this period, Wu Wu Pifu didn't even touch them once.

Huang Rong opened her mouth wide. She suddenly recalled the interesting story her father had told her. That martial arts myth, the old senior, had a three-foot wall of Qi that was unprecedented in history, and now what was she seeing?

A hundred-pace wall of Qi!?

A three-hundred-meter wall of Qi!?

This was not all. Wu Wu Pifu didn't move his hands or feet, but slowly levitated into the sky out of thin air. When he levitated to a hundred meters in mid-air, he flicked his hand slightly, and the entire world suddenly rolled with a wave of flowing wind. In his haste, Huang Rong almost couldn't stand steady.

Wu Wu Pifu reached up with his hand, and a large patch of thick mist in the sky seemed to be rolled away by a giant hand, revealing a hollow area of at least tens of thousands of square meters.

This is... a Heaven-Shaking Human Immortal!!

"Hahaha!"

Wu Wu Pifu looked up to the sky and laughed, taking out the Heroic Spirit Shattered Blade. Under the infusion of internal energy, a blade light truly visible to the naked eye thrust forward, extending a full hundred meters away. A huge, brilliant blade shone brightly.

A hundred-pace wall of Qi, a Heaven-Shaking Human Immortal!

This was not over yet!

"... Rong'er, close your eyes!"

Wu Wu Pifu's voice came from the sky, sounding like thunder. Although Huang Rong was curious in her heart, she still obediently closed her eyes. And the five old, weak, sick, and disabled people in the distance also suddenly closed their eyes. At the same moment, they felt a premonition that if they didn't close their eyes, they would die!

No one knew what Wu Wu Pifu had done, but another brilliant light erupted. A peculiar set of clothing appeared on Wu Wu Pifu's body. Looking vaguely... it seemed a bit like a dress and white silk stockings?

But in the blink of an eye, Wu Wu Pifu took a set of work clothes out of his personal space and put them on. He frowned and looked at his entire body, finally nodding with satisfaction.

Only then did he look up at the sky and see that the wormhole had already formed. The tentacles behind it had been waiting for a long time. Their size had shrunk by thousands or tens of thousands of times, but they were still as large as a mountain, reaching out from the wormhole in mid-air and continuing to smash down on Wu Wu Pifu's head.

With a loud explosion, the huge shockwave turned into a shockwave and swept across the entire land. Huang Rong immediately made a decisive decision to unfold her different-dimensional space, but the five old, weak, sick, and disabled people were not so lucky. They were swept away by the shockwave again, bumping and flying everywhere.

And in the sky...

Wu Wu Pifu slashed diagonally with both hands, cutting the sky with one blade!

In front of him, the mountain-sized giant tentacle stood still, and then the next second...

The tentacle broke into two sections, the cut surface as smooth as a mirror!!

(End of chapter)