Chapter 142: Whale Swallowing the Four Seas, Gonggong's Fist!

Huh~

Inside the camp tent, Qin Shuo suddenly opened his eyes.

Pain!

Excruciating pain!

Pain piercing the marrow, pain piercing the heart!

It felt as if his entire body had been crushed by wheels, and even his soul, under that punch, had exploded into powder!

He was terrified beyond measure.

Even though he had cultivated divine abilities and his will was as firm as vajra, facing that punch which condensed the power of the Four Seas, fear and shock still arose involuntarily in his heart.

Strong!

Too strong!

Is this the might of the ancient god-man?

Commanding the power of the Four Seas!

Under that punch, the earth sank, the heavens shattered, and everything was reduced to dust.

Overbearing, tyrannical, utterly unstoppable!

Such power, such might...

Qin Shuo's heart pounded like a drum, beating violently without cease, filled with fear and excitement.

At this moment, he looked as if he had just been fished out of the water, his clothes soaked with cold sweat, his face deathly pale and frightening.

Yet his eyes were smiling, filled with excitement.

His spirit sank into the Taotie Cauldron.

Qin Shuo immediately saw the text appearing beneath the Buzhou Stone Box:

【Ingredient: Buzhou Stone Box】

【Grade: Divine】

【Current refinement progress: God-Man Will First Layer, Whale Swallowing the Four Seas, Gonggong Fist!】

【Only with the intent of Whale Swallowing the Four Seas can one shake the power of Buzhou!】

【The Taotie Cauldron currently lacks sufficient energy, unable to perform a second refinement!】

Boom!

At the very moment those texts appeared.

In Qin Shuo's sea of consciousness, a colossal blue whale, boundless and endless, suddenly emerged.

At the instant this giant whale appeared, whether it was the Vajra Buddha Nature, or the pure spirit of the Howling Moon Demon Spirit, or even the Golden-Bearded Taotie on the cauldron's wall, all trembled in unison.

This giant whale was so huge it had no bounds, yet its body seemed somewhat illusory, like a bubble that would shatter at a touch.

"Is this... the divine intent of Gonggong's Whale Swallowing the Four Seas?"

Seeing the blue whale, Qin Shuo involuntarily recalled what he had seen in the illusion earlier—a blue whale occupying half the sky, swallowing and spitting out the Four Seas.

"Try it!"

Qin Shuo's eyes blazed like torches, frighteningly bright.

Without any hesitation, he directly sank his spirit into that giant whale.

In an instant, Qin Shuo felt as if he had returned once more to the Buzhou Mountain Battlefield, seeing that punch of Whale Swallowing the Four Seas.

But this time, he was not merely seeing it—he felt as if he had replaced Gonggong, executing that punch capable of gathering the power of the Four Seas.

Splash splash splash~

Still the sound of surging tides.

But this time, it was no longer the sound from the illusion.

Rather, it was the sound in reality, as he, with Gonggong's will, moved the power of Heaven and Earth.

As the intent of Whale Swallowing the Four Seas continuously flowed in his heart.

Qin Shuo discovered that Heaven and Earth seemed to have turned into a vast ocean, and he, like a giant whale, began to swallow and absorb the surrounding energy.

Splash splash splash~

Like surging tides, stirring up sea winds.

Suddenly, a fierce wind rose in the mountains and forests, blowing the Demon Suppression Division's tents into loud flapping.

If someone at this moment looked down from afar, they would see these winds all rotating with Qin Shuo's tent as the center.

It was as if there were a sea eye there, swallowing and exhaling the airflow between Heaven and Earth.

"Indeed, it is so!"

Feeling the changes in the surrounding airflow, Qin Shuo confirmed his inner guess.

Whale Swallowing the Four Seas does not truly swallow all the water of the Four Seas into the belly, but is an overbearing method of mobilizing the power of Heaven and Earth for one's own use.

And in the Buzhou Mountain illusion, when Gonggong mobilized the power of the Four Seas and the tidal waves appeared, that should be the manifestation of his will reaching a certain realm.

Just like Yue Shan's Thunder Strike Gang Qi, which looks like lightning and thunder, but is actually an anomaly produced when gang qi merges with Martial Dao Will, not true lightning and thunder.

"Since one can mobilize the power of Heaven and Earth, can it also be used to gather the Essence of Heaven and Earth?" Qin Shuo pondered.

The Essence of Heaven and Earth is a refined substance that wanders between Heaven and Earth, extremely scarce.

Even if Qin Shuo used the supreme Dragon-Elephant Breathing Method to gather it, the efficiency would be so low as to make one's hair stand on end.

But Whale Swallowing the Four Seas is different—he does not gather the Essence of Heaven and Earth through the Heavenly Meridian breathing, but instead, with spiritual will, forcibly and violently plunders the Essence of Heaven and Earth.

Think it, do it.

Qin Shuo immediately used the Heavenly Meridian to sense the refined substances wandering between Heaven and Earth, then executed Whale Swallowing the Four Seas, drawing them all into his body.

In an instant, his 365 major apertures all opened simultaneously, as if transformed into countless small sea eyes, frantically devouring the refined substances wandering between Heaven and Earth.

In a short moment, the True Essence he condensed with Whale Swallowing the Four Seas was already more than what he had painstakingly cultivated over the past half month or more.

The speed of condensing True Essence was hundreds of times faster than before.

Previously, when using the Breathing Method to gather the Essence of Heaven and Earth, he could only use the Hundred Meetings Acupoint, which had condensed the Heavenly Meridian, to gather, and then distribute it throughout the body.

But now it is different; all three hundred and sixty-five major apertures of his body can simultaneously be used to gather the Essence of Heaven and Earth.

The efficiency of condensing True Essence has directly increased by three hundred and sixty-five times.

That is, the essence of heaven and earth is sparse; if within the Divine Ability Secret Realm, with his current gathering speed, it would not take long before he could fill all three hundred and sixty-five major apertures of his body.

By then, with True Qi supporting him, his strength would surge greatly once again.

However, he soon realized the limitation of Whale Swallowing the Four Seas: it consumes an enormous amount of mental energy.

According to his estimation, if he used Whale Swallowing the Four Seas for cultivation, he could at most sustain it for one hour; any longer, his spirit would be damaged, affecting his condition.

After all, Whale Swallowing the Four Seas is originally a technique Gonggong uses when gathering power for battle; using it for cultivation is indeed somewhat mismatched.

But for Qin Shuo, this is already sufficient.

One hour a day already equals a month of arduous cultivation by other Condensing Truth martial artists.

If supplemented with demon pills or other great medicines, in the long term half a year, in the short term three months, he could achieve Condensing Truth Completion.

This cultivation speed, Qin Shuo can still accept.

Huh~

When his spirit felt fatigued, Qin Shuo decisively stopped the operation of Whale Swallowing the Four Seas.

After one hour of gathering the Essence of Heaven and Earth, the True Essence within his body had become more than ten times fuller than before.

Cultivation in the Martial Path is ceaseless effort day after day.

He also did not think he could fill the True Essence of all three hundred and sixty-five major apertures overnight.

He stirred the internal energy within his body, dried the sweat on his body, then sat cross-legged in meditation and fell into a deep sleep.

That night, he slept very soundly.

The next morning, just as dawn broke, the Demon Suppression Division's team continued their march.

After last night's battle, Qin Shuo's image in the eyes of the Demon Suppression Division Captains had become towering.

Although they did not personally witness that battle, merely hearing a few words from Pang Tong was enough to make them startled.

Not to mention anything else, just his feat of killing Situ Long with three punches was enough to cause a sensation in Mulin Prefecture, even Yunzhou City.

Pang Tong's attitude toward Qin Shuo also changed.

If before last night, Pang Tong merely regarded Qin Shuo as an outstanding rising star with exceptional talent, though he cherished talent, he felt no reverence.

But after last night, his positioning of Qin Shuo had completely changed.

This is evident from the road: he has been intentionally or unintentionally keeping pace with Qin Shuo.

In his heart, Qin Shuo now is already worthy of standing shoulder to shoulder with himself.

Although the other party is still merely a Cloud Dragon Captain, his rank is lower than mine.

But in this world where martial artists are supreme, the strong, strength, will always receive due respect.

Especially when returning to Yunzhou, if the news of his annihilation of Situ Long's bandits reaches the Demon Suppression Division,

given the Division Master's temperament, even if he cannot directly appoint him as Demon Suppression General, he will surely treat him with added courtesy, impossible to give only the ordinary treatment of a Cloud Dragon Captain.

Therefore, Pang Tong feels it necessary from now on to treat him as an equal.

Since even Pang Tong has undergone such a change, the Cloud Pattern Captains and Greedy Wolf Captains need not even be mentioned.

Only He Mingjing, who first met Qin Shuo, remains as shameless as ever, constantly pestering Qin Shuo to teach him the Divine Ability cultivation method.

For this, Qin Shuo naturally tells him to get lost.

Time passed, and more than ten days passed in a flash.

Qin Shuo's group finally left the territory of Mulin Prefecture and entered the area directly under Yunzhou City.

And just on the third day after they left Broken Temple Mountain,

A golden giant eagle carrying two figures descended from the nine heavens, landing steadily before the ruined temple on the mountain peak.

The golden eagle landed and transformed into a youth holding a feather fan, with an eagle-hooked nose.

What he carried on his back was a voluptuous woman in green robes and bare feet, and a muscular man half-exposed in chest, wearing a tiger skin.

"We came late; he should have just left this place not long ago." The green-robed woman spoke, her voice as ethereal and alluring as ever.