Chapter 103

Master Guan said: "Don't mess around! The Tenth Spring Navel acupoint has always been just a legend; we aren't even sure if it really exists."

"That's right, we aren't even sure if the Tenth Spring is the Navel acupoint." Master Guan said.

Master Lingwei said: "Youyi, you are already very strong! After opening the Ninth Spring, you have a total of one hundred and eight trace veins, and you can't find a second one in history. It is said that Chan Hai Guan Wu only has one hundred and seven."

Master Guan said: "Forge all the trace veins into gold, and then break through to the Five Seas. I guarantee that looking at the world, no one at the same realm will be a match for you in one move; there's no need to die trying to break the Tenth Spring."

Li Youyi seemed to have listened, not continuing to study the Navel acupoint, but peeling away the blood mist to reveal the brilliant sea area where Tang Gu Sea was located, absorbing the light of the Fusang Divine Tree to continue forging the golden trace veins.

Thinking in his heart: "The more golden trace veins I forge, the more times I can withstand the Spring-Breaking Needle. This Tenth Spring must be impacted with all my might."

The fourth day after the Medicine Flag large ship departed from Jiuli City.

Because it was traveling downstream with full sails, the speed was as fast as a galloping horse.

The sound of the wind whistled in his ears.

Li Youyi stood proudly on the corridor outside the cabin, holding a gilded horse-slaying saber about 1.5 meters long, activating it with Ancestral Field dharma Qi. The saber's golden light surged, shining like the divine sun.

"Whoosh!"

A saber strike was swung, the golden edge leaving the saber and falling onto the water surface seven or eight zhang away.

The river surface exploded with a boom.

Hidden Twenty-five, leaning against the cabin pillar next to him, twitched the corners of his mouth; this strength was too perverted. Also at the Nine Springs Ancestral Field realm, he felt he would be cleaved by Li Youyi in one strike!

How many strikes could a Nine Springs Yang Shenjing or a Nine Springs Zuo Qiu Ling withstand from him?

On the ship, the servants, guards, and maids of the Medicine Li tribe looked sideways, treating Li Youyi as a Five Seas Realm cultivator.

Li Youyi stroked the saber body and praised: "Good saber, if only I could cultivate a saber technique at the Heavenly Dao Law Convergence level!"

This low-grade dharma artifact-level horse-slaying saber was collected from the Coffin Sea Pavilion treasury to deceive people.

"Congratulations, congratulations, Brother Sima for breaking through to the Five Seas."

Zhao Zhizhuo wore a bamboo hat, his face covered by black gauze, not revealing his true appearance.

"Who said one must be at the Five Seas Realm to unleash this strike?" Li Youyi was in high spirits; over these past few days, he had forged three more golden trace veins, bringing the total to fifty-eight, and his combat power seemed to have improved slightly.

Zhao Zhizhuo was slightly stunned, unable to help but think of the rumors currently circulating outside that Li Youyi, with a mortal body, had combat power comparable to a Hundred-Vein All-Silver Pure Immortal Body.

Could the rumors actually be true?

One must know that because of this rumor, many forces were looking for him, wanting to invite him to gather medicine in some special areas of Burial Xianzhen.

"How is the recuperation going?" Li Youyi asked.

Zhao Zhizhuo said: "Just right."

Li Youyi brought Zhao Zhizhuo into the cabin, closed the doors and windows tightly, and handed him a black cloth bag: "Since the first lung lobe has healed, let's try to see if we can recover the first gas sea first."

"It's starting now, where is that senior?"

Zhao Zhizhuo suppressed the excitement in his heart and asked.

Li Youyi said: "That senior is traveling with us! With his cultivation and methods, even if he stood in front of you, you wouldn't be able to see him. But some secrets are not for you to know right now; you must wear this black cloth bag to seal your perception."

Zhao Zhizhuo naturally trusted Li Youyi, and after sitting down, he put the black cloth bag directly on his head.

The five realms of the Five Seas Realm martial cultivator are cultivating five gas seas.

The five gas seas are located in the five lung lobes within the human body.

The reason the Five Seas Realm is difficult to break through, and many martial cultivators have to rely on Five Seas Pills, is that the most important factor is that the inner-born world is difficult to unfold.

The "Ancestral Field" is also an inner-born world; the reason Li Youyi was able to easily open it was because he possessed the spatial treasure, the Buddha Relic.

By the same token, to help Zhao Zhizhuo support his withered first gas sea, he had to rely on external spatial power.

Li Youyi pressed his fingers toward the position of Zhao Zhizhuo's lung lobe where the first gas sea was located, the center of his brows gradually brightening, activating the Dao Ancestor Taiji Fish with spiritual light.

A gentle spatial power diffused from the Buddha Relic, transforming into circles of spatial ripples that entered Zhao Zhizhuo's lung lobe along his fingers.

"Whoosh!"

The gas sea that had withered for over a decade slowly expanded.

Zhao Zhizhuo seemed to be enduring great pain, his body trembling violently, but he tried hard to control his body from moving or shaking randomly.

The expansion process lasted for a full quarter of an hour.

The gas sea in the lung lobe stabilized, neither expanding further nor shrinking and rebounding; the process was much smoother than Li Youyi had imagined.

Hiding the Dao Ancestor Taiji Fish, he patted Zhao Zhizhuo on the head, and the black cloth bag was opened.

Removing the bag, Zhao Zhizhuo was bleeding from his nose and mouth, but his expression was incomparably excited, searching everywhere for the trace of that senior, and finally knelt on one knee before Li Youyi, weeping bitterly, unable to say a word.

Only when his realm was truly regained did he finally believe everything was real, rather than another midnight illusion.

Li Youyi helped him up: "It's just recovering the first gas sea; you are a person who has lived for almost sixty years, why is your state of mind so poor?"

"I thought... I simply didn't believe I could return to the Five Seas Realm... excuse me, excuse me!" Zhao Zhizhuo said.

Li Youyi said: "Don't worry, that senior is traveling with us; the next five gas seas will all be recovered one by one."

Zhao Zhizhuo nodded uncontrollably: "No wonder you dare to travel with Seeing Yao Yin; with that senior around, what do you have to fear? Even if she is a jackal or a tiger, what can she do to you?"

Li Youyi said: "That senior said your first gas sea is a full two squares in size, not bad!"

Zhao Zhizhuo wiped away his tears and laughed: "Generally speaking, the first gas sea of a martial cultivator who breaks through to the Five Seas from Seven Springs is almost one square in size. Eight Springs breaking through to Five Seas is two squares; there's nothing to be proud of."

Li Youyi said: "Then how big is the first gas sea of a Nine Springs ordinary person?"

"At least three squares! As for those Hundred-Vein All-Silver Pure Immortal Bodies, it is said they can reach four or five squares. Also at the first level of the Five Seas, the combat power is worlds apart." Zhao Zhizhuo said.

Li Youyi had a rough idea in his heart and asked: "To heal the second lung lobe, is the blood crystal cost even higher?"

Zhao Zhizhuo nodded: "My second gas sea is about four squares. I estimate it will need three or four blood crystals."

Li Youyi had indeed scraped together a sum of money at the Long Forest Gang, but he had many places to spend money himself, and just raising the seven Phoenix-Winged Moth Emperors gave him a headache, so he didn't dare to be extravagant at all.

Sensing Seeing Yao Yin had come outside the door.

Li Youyi pushed open the door, blocked her, and asked very directly: "Do you have money?"

Seeing Yao Yin was startled by him and nodded instinctively: "How much do you need?"

"How much do you have?" Li Youyi said.

Seeing Yao Yin said: "My mother left me quite a few industries, which can be used as collateral for some."

"What about blood crystals?" Li Youyi said.

"Wait for me a moment."

Seeing Yao Yin hurried away.

When she returned, she held a wooden box the size of a palm, handing it to Li Youyi.

Opening it, it was actually a blood crystal the size of a fist, crimson all over, inside which seemed to flow liquid blood; the quality was naturally far higher than the one Li Youyi had bought a few days ago.

Blood crystals were one of the most important minerals in the world, said to be formed by blood deposited underground, and were essential precious materials for martial artists to refine their bodies, pharmacists to refine pills, array masters to set up arrays, and rune masters to draw runes... and so on.

In some top-tier trading levels, blood crystals were even used as currency.

The blood crystal in the wooden box was absolutely priceless, and Li Youyi was truly embarrassed to take it, saying: "Name a price!"

Seeing Yao Yin laughed: "No need, it's a gift."

Li Youyi watched her graceful and slender back vanish at the corner, closed the door, and just as he turned his head, he saw the "admiring to the point of prostration" look in Zhao Zhizhuo's eyes.

"Amazing!" Zhao Zhizhuo exclaimed.

Li Youyi's face sank: "Amazing what, it has to be repaid. You repay it!"

"Fine, this favor, count it as owed by me, Old Zhao."

Zhao Zhizhuo took the blood crystal from Li Youyi's hand, checked it, and was moved: "This can already be called a priceless treasure, enough to compare to ten of the blood crystals from a few days ago, healing two lung lobes is a piece of cake. Forgive me for being blunt, but this Miss Yin is afraid she has a huge plan! Without a plan, why would she easily give such a heavy treasure?"

"Stop talking nonsense, take the blood crystal and hurry up to heal your wounds."

After sending Zhao Zhizhuo away, Li Youyi's mind was unsettled; to deal with Qi Shanshan, or rather Chan Hai Guan Wu, he had to be fully prepared. She was the number one person in the Lingxiao Life Realm a thousand years ago!

Releasing the seven Phoenix-Winged Moth Emperors and cutting off a jin of purple Cistanche to place on the table, Li Youyi instructed them to guard the cabin and not allow anyone to break in.

The seven little ones had extremely tough bodies; after eating a belly full of soil and stone in the ash region, they had forcibly digested it and were completely fine.

Over these two days, after eating two jin of purple Cistanche, their bodies finally showed changes.

The outer layer of their backs, the colorful wings, were the first to grow a section, radiating a brighter and more divine light.

But the inner membrane wings clearly needed more precious medicine to grow.

They were currently in the stage of transformation.

"Whoosh—"

Releasing spiritual light and mental power from the center of his brows, he activated the Dao Ancestor Taiji Fish.

Li Youyi entered the blood-mud space.

"Master Guan, why is this gas sea of the Ancestral Field only about the size of two squares? How much dharma Qi can this store?" Li Youyi asked, very puzzled.

A moment later, Master Guan's voice sounded from the ground: "The Wind Mansion and the Ancestral Field are two living inner-born worlds, true treasure vaults. Their value will only be reflected once your cultivation reaches the fifth realm of the Five Seas Realm."

"When first opened, all martial cultivators' Wind Mansions are very small, only able to store enough dharma Qi to unleash one martial art technique."

"The size of the Ancestral Field is not fixed! Most people's Ancestral Fields are the size of a square foot, able to store enough dharma Qi to unleash a dozen martial art techniques."

"Of course, like the Hundred-Vein All-Silver Pure Immortal Body Yang Shenjing you fought, he could unleash dozens of techniques at the Nine Springs Realm. I guess the size of his Ancestral Field is several times that of an ordinary person."

Li Youyi had been silently calculating: "Most Nine Springs ordinary people's Ancestral Fields are only a square foot. Then aren't I dozens of times larger than them? I can unleash hundreds, thousands of techniques? Calculated this way, it doesn't seem small."

Master Guan was silent for a long time before saying: "Large, of course it counts as large. After all, those Seven Springs martial cultivators' first gas sea in the Five Seas Realm is almost only one square, even smaller than your Ancestral Field."

Li Youyi said: "Then am I directly equivalent to a martial cultivator of the first level of the Five Seas Realm?"

"Of course it's not calculated that way; the grade of dharma Qi of a Five Seas Realm martial cultivator is far beyond what the Gushing Spring Realm can compare to, and the energy intensity is worlds apart. There is also combat intent, which also has a huge bonus to combat power." Master Guan said.

Li Youyi suddenly realized and said: "In other words, I am still far from being an opponent of a martial cultivator of the first level of the Five Seas Realm?"

Master Guan was stumped, his own martial arts system seeming to collapse, and he said: "That's also... not true; your current combat power, even without using those few powerful dharma artifacts, is not comparable to a Seven Springs Five Seas Realm first level."

Subsequently, he said in a fit of pique: "When you were at Eight Springs, you already fought with several sect leaders of the first level of the Five Seas Realm from the Long Forest Gang; don't you have your own judgment?"

This was the first time Li Youyi had seen Master Guan lose his temper, and he said: "I don't have a judgment in my heart; they are all at the first level of the Five Seas Realm, the combat power gap is too big!"

"Big, of course it's big, summarize it yourself in actual combat." Master Guan was speechless and didn't want to speak again.

Li Youyi secretly summarized that Master Guan's martial arts cultivation should be very high, but his state of mind and temper were a bit poor.

That jade dharma boat, over thirty meters long, was parked in the blood-mud space, always radiating jade-white precious light.

Li Youyi mobilized dharma Qi to activate it, but no matter how much dharma Qi surged in, it was like a stone sinking into the sea, and the jade dharma boat didn't change at all.

Master Guan said: "This is a transport tool for a Prefecture Overseer-level powerhouse, able to cross the Lingxiao Life Realm, traveling ten thousand miles a day is easy; it's not something your current cultivation can activate."

"Then what realm is needed?"

Li Youyi was very envious of this jade boat; driving it to fly through the sky and burrow into the earth, just thinking about it was a pleasant thing, enough to make all the martial cultivators in the world envious.

Master Guan said: "At least you must reach the peak of the Five Seas Realm."

"The fifth realm of the Five Seas Realm?" Li Youyi said.

Master Guan said: "That's right! Once you open the fifth gas sea, you can start cultivating the Wind Mansion and the Ancestral Field, expanding these two living inner-born worlds to the limit. It is possible they will transform into two gas seas larger than the fifth gas sea. By that time, the advantages of Eight Springs martial cultivators and Nine Springs martial cultivators will truly be revealed."

Li Youyi laughed: "Equivalent to the sixth gas sea, the seventh gas sea?"

"That's right." Master Guan said.

Li Youyi said: "Since there is the saying of living inner-born worlds, I suppose there is also the saying of dead inner-born worlds?"

Master Guan said: "The five gas seas of the lung lobes are dead inner-born worlds. They are as big as they are when opened, and will always be that big."

"Then I must cultivate the Tenth Spring Navel acupoint even more, so that when I reach the Five Seas Realm, I will possess eight gas seas."

Li Youyi became more excited the more he thought about it, his fighting spirit soaring, and he immediately sat cross-legged, performing the Jade Void Breathing Method, gathering all his perception into the Navel acupoint in his navel.

When impacting other spring eyes, Li Youyi could feel the barrier between his body and heaven and earth at the acupoint, subsequently constantly surging with the breathing method to grind it thin, and finally breaking it open to open the heaven-man channel.

But when his perception acted on the Navel acupoint, it was a dead silence there.

Comparing the barriers of other spring eyes to a thin wall, knocking on them produced a hollow sound.

And knocking on the Navel acupoint was solid; there was simply no possibility of breaking it open.

"I have fifty-five golden trace veins protecting my body; since knocking doesn't work, then I'll just smash it directly. Smashing it again and again, I'll always be able to smash it open."

The smashing he spoke of was, of course, not real smashing, but using the Spring-Breaking Needle.

Hearing this, all three masters were frightened.

(End of chapter)