Chapter 52: Great Perfection of the Qi Refining Realm

This caused Li Mu to hastily exit his cultivation state and come to his sea of consciousness to take a look.

As it turned out, not looking would have been fine.

Upon looking, he was startled!

Just then, Li Mu had just drawn lightning into his body,

He saw.

In his sea of consciousness, the names on the Heavenly Dao Treasure Scroll exploded one after another like dominoes!

Li Mu originally wanted to make quick progress, using this lightning to temper his flesh.

But he hadn't even tempered for over three minutes.

Li Mu hastily gave up!

Nothing else...

This damn lightning is too overbearing, right?

My dear mother!

If I'm not careful, I'll have killed ten people!

Li Mu's scalp went numb.

In this situation, how could he dare to continue practicing!

Before, Li Mu didn't have a clear concept of the exploding names on the Heavenly Dao Treasure Scroll.

Now, Li Mu clearly knows this isn't just name explosions!

This is clearly a brain explosion!

Just now in the cave, the miserable sight of those two young Tianfeng disciples whose heads exploded right before his eyes is still vivid in his memory!

If Li Mu were to really let loose and cultivate frenziedly.

If he's not careful, once all the stand-ins above are dead, wouldn't it be Li Mu's own head that explodes!

Thinking of this, Li Mu couldn't help but shudder violently, breaking out in a cold sweat all over.

However.

Although tempering the body with lightning is fraught with danger and extremely overbearing, risk and reward are still proportional.

With a thought, Li Mu called up the system panel and looked at the several unread messages above.

【Ding!】

【System detected host cultivating Landmine Dao Technique, gained Hundredfold Heavenly Dao Blessing!】

【Congratulations, host, gained Hundredfold Gain!】

【Ding!】

【Congratulations, host, Landmine Dao Technique cultivated to level 3】

How long has it been?

At most, I've only used a day, and I've already cultivated the Five Jade Thunder Scripture to the third layer!

After exiting his cultivation state, Li Mu then noticed.

This Five Jade Thunder Scripture is divided into five parts.

They are the Heavenly Thunder Dao Technique, Landmine Dao Technique, Water Thunder Dao Technique, Divine Thunder Dao Technique, and Societal Thunder Dao Technique.

And what Li Mu cultivates is precisely the Landmine Dao Technique from the Five Jade Thunder Scripture!

Landmine, it governs earthly qi, nourishing all things.

It can nourish a cultivator's flesh and primordial spirit, making them breathe together with the earth and share fate.

Although the Dao-robed elder gave him this Landmine Dao Technique chapter, it is not the complete work.

Its power is far less than one-thousandth of what is described at the beginning!

Even one-ten-thousandth!

This is like a martial art that is only a semi-finished product, with countless deficiencies.

However, this Landmine Dao Technique is highly compatible with the Eight Nine Mysterious Art that I practice!

The Eight Nine Mysterious Art essentially takes heaven and earth as a furnace, the universe as an incarnation, and the body's acupoints as stars for cultivation.

By continually clearing the star apertures, the cultivator's body gains vast, boundless true qi, thereby constructing a primordial universe incarnation within!

But wanting to clear more star apertures!

First, as the vessel for the star apertures, the flesh must be strong enough!

If the flesh is not strong enough, rashly clearing the star apertures.

Then the flesh would first be blown apart by that vast, boundless true qi!

This is why, even with the Heavenly Dao Blessing, Li Mu's progress in upgrading the Eight Nine Mysterious Art remains slow.

But now that he has the Landmine Dao Technique, a method specially for tempering the body.

I think this will greatly speed up my upgrade of the Eight Nine Mysterious Art.

To level up faster to twenty, clear twenty star apertures, and awaken my second divine ability!

Li Mu clenched his fists excitedly, his heart surging with excitement as he thought.

Afterward, Li Mu dared not rashly draw lightning to temper his body, but instead honestly cultivated the Landmine Dao Technique.

Nowadays, the number of my enemies is still insufficient, and they're not durable either!

I must absolutely not act impulsively!

"..."

Not long after.

In the night sky, countless stars vanished, and the far horizon began to show a hint of fish-belly white.

A night passes in the blink of an eye.

In the Yunshan Secret Realm, atop an unnamed peak.

Li Mu, floating in midair, is now bathed in violet thunder!

Within that violet thunder, his flesh is cloaked by a layer of golden filaments, making him, from a distance, look like a bronze figure forged by the heavens, radiant with golden light!

Li Mu's brows exude a deep, unhurried authority and oppressive pressure.

The air around him seems frozen, emanating a momentum beyond what others can match.

The Dao robe elder stared blankly at Li Mu, his face awash with shock, and said, "Thunder shields the body, flesh bathed in golden light!"

"This…"

"This is precisely the symbol of having reached the extreme of the Qi Refining Realm's body‑tempering stage!"

"Sss!"

"This youngster, at the moment he broke through the Ten Grade Lian Qi Realm, forged an unparalleled foundation for himself!"

After his sigh, the Dao robe elder shook his head and chuckled.

"Five layers in a day!"

"What extraordinary, peerless talent!"

"With celestial Qi suffusing his body and divine thunder from the Nine Heavens tempering him, his flesh has already been driven to the extreme of body‑tempering."

"Such a supreme foundation forged by the mighty forces of heaven and earth—Li Mu's future potential is beyond imagination."

The Dao of cultivation has nine heavens!

In the second heaven, the Refining Qi Realm's three minor shackles correspond respectively to the three stages: solid core, vein cutting, and body‑tempering!

Finally, the eight veins unite, yielding jade tendons and iron bones!

Formally breaking through the Concentration Realm!

However, an ordinary Refining Qi cultivator may find completing these three steps not difficult.

But someone like Li Mu, who forges an unparalleled foundation, is a rarity among billions.

One could say!

Today, the shock Li Mu gave the Dao robe elder surpasses the sum of all shocks the elder has witnessed in his past hundred years.

Whether it was Li Mu displaying his divine power, causing his engraved spirit‑tablet relic to explode on the spot!

Or his current cultivation of the Landmine Dao Technique, three layers a day, instantly breaking through the Ten Grade Lian Qi Realm, reaching the extreme of body‑tempering, forging an unparalleled foundation!

One could say.

Li Mu's very existence repeatedly reshapes the Dao robe elder's worldview!

Seeing Li Mu slowly awakening from his cultivation state.

The Dao robe elder's delighted expression fades, returning to his original still‑like ancient well, a solemn face.

"Huh…"

"I didn't expect the Landmine Dao Technique to be so mysterious and wondrous!"

"It actually let me surge forward and directly break through the Ten Grade Lian Qi Realm!"

"The only flaw in this perfection is that my Five Thunder Jade Book is also incomplete."

"But compared with the gains of this cultivation, a single word can describe my current feeling."

"That is…"

"Refreshing!"

Li Mu's mind flickers, pulling up the system panel to view the newly arrived unread messages.

【Ding!】

【System detected: host cultivated the Landmine Dao Technique, gaining Tenfold Heavenly Dao Blessing!】

【Congratulations, host, you have gained Tenfold Harvest!】

【Ding!】

【Congratulations, host, Landmine Dao Technique successfully upgraded to lv: 5!】

【Ding!】

【System detected: host successfully drew thunder into the body, gaining Hundredfold Heavenly Dao Blessing!】

【Congratulations, host, you have gained Hundredfold Harvest!】

【Ding!】

【Congratulations, host, successfully upgraded Purple Thunder Sword Technique to lv: Max, reaching the Extreme Realm!】

【Ding!】

【Congratulations, host, cultivation realm successfully broke through the Ten Grade Lian Qi Realm!】

【Ding!】

【Congratulations, host, successfully broke through a minor shackles, gaining one Thousandfold Heavenly Dao Blessing opportunity!】

Just as Li Mu's heart was still immersed in the joy of breaking through the Qi Refining Realm's Great Perfection, the Dao robe elder's indifferent voice suddenly sounded beside his ear.

"Hmph!"

"What a reckless youngster!"

"Although the Five Thunder Jade Book is merely a fragment I happened upon."

"But do you know that Heavenly Thunder represents the supreme power of the heavens!"

"The Five Thunder True Method is indeed the supreme Dao law of the world!"

"Dao law's heavenly might—none is stronger than this method!"

"How many cultivators in the Qian Kun Realm have ever dreamed of it?"

Hehe…

Li Mu was also provoked by the robe‑clad elder's words into endless mockery.

Indeed!

The rant I just made really sounds like I'm getting a bargain while playing innocent.

But immediately, Li Mu hurriedly changed the subject, saying, "Senior, so you haven't left yet?"

You should know.

My sudden enlightenment this time lasted a full day and night.

So, the robe‑clad elder before me, whose cultivation is profound and unfathomable, apparently in a nascent soul stage, actually protected me for a whole day and night?

The robe‑clad elder merely glanced at him lightly and said, "Help someone to the end, send the Buddha to the west."

"Since then, I will pass this Five Thunder Jade Book to you!"

"What needs to be explained to you will naturally be explained."

"Although the Five Thunder Jade Book you practice is an incomplete fragment, it only contains records of the Landmine Dao Technique."

"But it's not just the Landmine Dao Technique!"

"Including the Purple Thunder Sword Technique you cultivate and all thunder‑type arts, if you wish to truly refine them to the Extreme Realm!"

"All of that requires going through a process: drawing thunder into the body!"

"Draw thunder into the body?"

"Senior, are you sure…"

When he heard the words "draw thunder into the body," he recalled the moment he was just struck by lightning.

Li Mu felt a vague ominous premonition in his heart, yet he forced himself to ask.

"Exactly!"

"It's drawing thunder into the body!"

The robe‑clad elder nodded affirmatively.

"Before drawing thunder into the body, the cultivator can only mobilize thunder power at most as Qi mixed with thunder attributes!"

"It cannot manifest the true one‑ten‑thousandth power of thunder!"

"Throughout history, cultivators of thunder methods are like fish crossing a river—numerous, yet only a few succeed!"

"If you wish to master the true thunder method of this matter!"

"You must draw thunder into your own body, which is extremely dangerous."

"A slight slip and the thunder will lose control, injuring the cultivator."

"That's why."

"Earlier, when I protected you, I saw the thunder strike you and did not intervene."

"Because this is the necessary path for you to practice the Landmine Dao Technique!"

"Even if I now step in to shield you, you will eventually face this yourself!"

"When that time comes, without me beside you to protect you, you might not even manage the basic entry of the Landmine Dao Technique!"

"Fortunately, you lad have great luck and destiny, and can actually endure the thunder‑tempered body!"

Listening to the robe‑clad elder's preachy tone…

Even, between the lines, Li Mu could faintly hear a hint of smugness.

This made Li Mu glare at him in irritation, silently cursing in his heart.

"Yes!"

"You are pretentious!"

"You are remarkable!"

"You didn't shield me!"

"If it weren't for the many sacrificial bodies prepared on my Dao Treasure Scroll that day, you could have been sprinkled with cumin and eaten as barbecue!"

However, the robe‑clad elder wasn't just talking nonsense to Li Mu.

And indeed, that was the case!

After just being struck by lightning, the Purple Thunder Sword Technique truly surpassed the Great Perfection realm, upgrading to lv: Max and reaching the Extreme Realm!

Just as when I first refined the Seven Absolute Blade Method to the Great Perfection.

Yu Lao then Slash a strike, allowing Li Mu to comprehend the Seven Kill Grand Form.

This likewise let Li Mu surpass the Great Perfection, upgrading to lv: Max and reaching the Extreme Realm!

The robe‑clad elder seemed not to notice Li Mu's glare; after reaching out and patting Li Mu's shoulder,

"But the thunder you introduced into your body today is at most just ordinary thunder!"

"At most, it can only help you refine a technique of the Purple Thunder Sword Technique's level to the Extreme Realm."

"But if you want to refine the Landmine Dao Technique to the Extreme Realm, ordinary thunder can only get you started; only heavenly thunder can let you step into the Extreme Realm!"

Speaking that, the robe‑clad elder's expression suddenly grew solemn.

"Within the nine continents of the world, there exist some heavenly thunders born of the cosmos' creation!"

"But these heavenly thunders are extremely violent, rarely encountered under normal circumstances."

"And even if you see them, it is extremely hard to make them your own."

"After all, to control heavenly thunder you must draw it into your own body, which is extremely dangerous."

"A slight mistake and your spirit and soul will be destroyed, leading to an irrecoverable fate of ten thousand eons!"

"Immortals cannot be saved!"

"But once you can harness this heavenly thunder and turn it to your own use…"

"Then you will be the true colossal pillar in the Qian Kun Realm who can truly control a swath of heaven and earth!"