Chapter 76

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Inside the Earth Cave, the dull impact sounds followed one after another.

Qin Shuo's body flashed with golden light; each impact made his golden light condense a bit more, and the refinement progress of his Longxiang Golden Body increased rapidly.

【Longxiang Golden Body (Entry 7812/)】

【Longxiang Golden Body (Entry 7817/)】

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As his cultivation gradually entered a good state, Qin Shuo discovered that his progress was also increasing rapidly.

Due to the abnormal gravity in the Earth Cave, which is about five times that of the surface, each of his impacts increased the refinement progress of his Longxiang Golden Body by five times.

If it weren't for the absence of the Song Family's Dinghai Stake here, otherwise this refinement speed could be doubled.

Moreover, his internal strength and qi were also rapidly growing.

Internal strength and qi, also called inner qi, are inner strength condensed to the extreme, with power more than double that of ordinary internal strength.

And internal strength arises from blood and qi, so as he rapidly condensed his qi, his internal blood and qi were also being rapidly consumed.

Fortunately, Song Yan had previously given him three bottles of Blood Qi Pills, ten pills per bottle.

Taking one Blood Qi Pill is enough to compensate for his cultivation consumption for an hour.

In the short term, he no longer needs to worry about insufficient blood and qi.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Qin Shuo was completely immersed in the refinement of the Longxiang Golden Body Divine Intent Map; once he felt his strength depleted, he immediately took a Blood Qi Pill to recover.

Gradually, on the hard rock walls of the Earth Cave, depressions began to appear—some were fist prints, some were shoulder impacts, and others were knee impacts and back protrusions.

These depressions became deeper and deeper as Qin Shuo repeatedly struck them.

One cun! One cun one! One cun two! One cun three! …

Qin Shuo seemed possessed, contemplating the Longxiang Intent in his mind; at times transforming into a golden dragon, overturning rivers and seas; at times transforming into a primordial savage elephant, treading mountains…

Finally, the golden dragon surged out from the vast sea, and the primordial savage elephant also leapt up from the barbaric wilderness.

The golden dragon and the savage elephant met in mid-air, chasing each other, forming a golden great sun, protecting Qin Shuo within it.

Boom!

Almost at the moment when the dragon and elephant merged, forming the golden great sun.

Outside Qin Shuo's body, all the golden light burst open simultaneously, transforming into a golden sun wheel appearing behind him.

This golden sun wheel is about the size of a washbasin, resembling a brilliant divine halo, pouring down brilliant golden light, protecting Qin Shuo at its center.

With the appearance of the golden sun wheel, the yuan magnetic field in the Earth Cave violently surged.

Almost all the mysterious substances rushed toward Qin Shuo, centering on him, forming a blue vortex with a diameter of two meters.

"Damn! Still not letting people cultivate properly."

Song Xuan's face was as black as a pot bottom.

Just now, those mysterious substances that originally surged toward him all ran away, having been sucked away by Qin Shuo.

Afterwards, he saw a scene that shocked him.

Qin Shuo bore a golden great sun, there frantically impacting the Earth Cave rock wall, vast amounts of mysterious substances emitting blue light, enveloping him.

Blue and gold intertwined, making Qin Shuo appear like a deity.

Song Xuan stared dumbfounded.

What cultivation technique is the other party practicing? Able to cause such a commotion in the Earth Cave.

If this were placed outside, with Qin Shuo's current appearance, it would probably cause some ignorant ordinary people to kneel and worship, shouting "Immortal!"

Not to mention ordinary people, even Song Xuan himself felt shocked and astonished.

Fortunately, that golden great sun seems unable to last long; after appearing for a moment, it suddenly exploded, turning into a golden light flood, carrying vast amounts of mysterious substances, and returning to Qin Shuo's body.

The next moment, a golden light burst from within Qin Shuo's body, transforming into a golden dragon coiling around him;

Then the golden dragon transformed, becoming a primordial savage elephant, impacting the Earth Cave stone wall together with Qin Shuo.

Bang!

The hard Earth Cave was shaken violently by this human-elephant unity's single impact.

Song Xuan opened his mouth wide, shocked beyond words.

This power!

Could it really have turned into an elephant……

Actually able to shake the Earth Cave?

You know, the gravity inside the Earth Cave is five times that of the outside; wanting to shake the Earth Cave is no easy task.

This impact, the force is probably nearly ten thousand jin.

Such tremendous force—can it really be mastered by an internal strength martial artist?

Not bad, it is an internal strength martial artist!

At this moment, Qin Shuo is still in the stage of internal strength transforming into qi, not yet having entered the meridian-opening stage, yet already possessing such tremendous force.

Once he enters the meridian-opening stage, what terrifying level will his strength reach?

Song Xuan dare not imagine.

"Drink!"

Suddenly, Qin Shuo let out a low shout, shook his feet and twisted his waist, impacting the stone wall with his shoulder.

The joints on his body seemed to explode like thunder, crackling, bursting out strands of golden qi.

In an instant, his tendons, bones, and flesh all glowed, his two eyes like golden lamps, intimidating, brilliant and dazzling.

Song Xuan was completely stunned.

Faintly, he seemed to hear dragon chants and elephant roars emanating from within Qin Shuo's body.

A momentum as heavy as a mountain and as vast as the sea surged forth, carrying an indestructible, imperishable Vajra will.

【Longxiang Golden Body (Small Accomplishment 1/】

Looking at the prompt on the gluttonous panel, Qin Shuo's eyes brightened, like two radiant golden stars.

After a day and night of arduous cultivation, plus consuming a bottle of Blood Qi Pill and a vast amount of Mysterious Substance, his Longxiang Golden Body finally achieved Small Accomplishment.

At this moment, he only felt his whole body lighten, the pressure from the fivefold gravity in the Earth Cave completely dissipating, as if he were on the surface.

After his tendons, bones, and flesh absorbed a large amount of Mysterious Substance, their density surged, and his weight increased by several times or more.

Although his physique showed little change, he could feel that his weight had probably reached an astonishing level, his physical strength having become tyrannical to the extreme.

If he were to fight Fang Lin again, relying solely on his physical strength, he could easily blast him apart.

"This feeling is too wonderful!" Qin Shuo rejoiced inwardly.

Now, his condition was unprecedentedly good, his energy abundant, as if he had inexhaustible strength; a casual swing of his fist contained explosive power, enough to hard-resist a Tongmai Realm master.

"Longxiang Golden Body Small Accomplishment, even in this Songyang Prefecture City teeming with masters, I can count on having some self-preservation ability." Qin Shuo muttered to himself.

During this trip to the prefecture city, he had offended many: the Tian Family, branches of the Song Family, the Fang Family...

These were all major powers with Tongmai Realm masters holding them in check.

If it were before, having offended so many major families, his chance of safely leaving the prefecture city would be minuscule.

But now it is different.

With the Longxiang Golden Body protecting him, as long as he does not encounter someone like Song Tianhao, a Tongmai Realm peak expert, he is confident he can protect himself.

In the following days, Qin Shuo stopped cultivating the Longxiang Golden Body, instead beginning to stand in the Arhat Stance, refining Inner Strength and transforming it into Inner Qi.

The Arhat Stance, derived from the superior horizontal training martial art Arhat Golden Body, has a blood and qi tempering effect more than double that of the White Ape Stance.

Coupled with the aid of the Blood Qi Pill, Qin Shuo's speed of transforming Inner Strength into Qi could be said to be a thousand miles a day without exaggeration.

In the blink of an eye, three days passed.

The qi strength in Qin Shuo's dantian had already accumulated to the size of a fist, condensed and undispersed, extremely substantial.

According to the qi strength strength demonstrated by Fang Lin that day, this amount of qi strength was already sufficient to penetrate the entire Ren Meridian and enter the Tongmai Realm.

However, Qin Shuo tried several times, but only managed to break through a mysterious gate above the qi sea, the Divine Palace aperture.

This made Qin Shuo realize that, as his Longxiang Golden Body achieved Small Accomplishment, his meridians and mysterious gates had also become tough to an unbelievable degree.

The qi strength that ordinary martial artists could use to pierce an entire meridian could only open one mysterious gate for him.

This is a manifestation of his physical strength having become tyrannical to the extreme, and at the same time, a burden.

This means that breaking through to the Tongmai Realm will be much harder for him than for ordinary martial artists, requiring him to draw in much more blood and qi power to transform into qi strength.

But similarly, once he breaks through to the Tongmai Realm, his strength will undergo a surge, enough to overwhelm peers of the same level.

Because whether it is physical strength or the substantiality of qi strength, he far surpasses martial artists of the same level by a large margin.

"The tempering effect of the Earth Cave on me is no longer great; perhaps I can consider leaving seclusion."

Qin Shuo glanced at Song Xuan and Song He, who were huddled to the side, struggling to walk the stance, and began to think about his next plans.

Suddenly, his gaze fixed on the center of the Earth Cave, that entrance emitting blue light, leading deeper underground.

This entrance happened to be directly below the exit above, but was much smaller, with a diameter of about one meter.

All the Mysterious Substance in the entire Earth Cave was being emitted outward from this entrance.

"What exactly lies deep in this Earth Cave? It actually managed to create such a cultivation treasure land." Qin Shuo secretly thought.

With his current physical strength, descending another layer should pose no problem.

Such a strange place might very well hide some heavenly materials and earthly treasures.

Thinking this, Qin Shuo did not hesitate, his feet stomping hard on the ground as he plunged straight down into the deeper part of the Earth Cave below.