Chapter 151: Two Methods Reflect Each Other, Waves Rise in the Sea Market

Supreme True Loach Golden Scale Wonderful Method (Fragmentary): 0/108 (Refine acupoints to exchange blood, essence and Qi do not decline; each opened acupoint increases strength by thirty catties; consume three hundred catties of blood food daily; one acupoint can be opened every hundred days)

Chen Ci withdrew his gaze from his personal panel and felt the small cluster of Essence Yuan in his lower abdomen, which seemed both illusory and real, like a chicken egg; he felt it trembling slightly with his breathing, just like a living thing, possessing quite a bit of mystery.

According to the Force Path method, only after obtaining this cluster of Essence Yuan Qi can the cultivation technique be considered entered, allowing one to begin refining new acupoints using blood, Qi, and Essence Yuan.

However, this Supreme True Loach Golden Scale Wonderful Method did not seem as powerful as imagined; one could even say it was remarkably weak. Each opened acupoint only increased strength by thirty catties. Even if this fragmentary manual were practiced to the Perfected state, it would only increase strength by a little over three thousand catties. Regarding a wonderful method said to be no less than the Primordial Spirit, Chen Ci held a tiny bit of skepticism.

It was not that he, Chen, was boasting, but if he encountered a Hundred Acupoint Cultivator whose only means was three thousand catties of strength, Master Chen could beat that fellow to death in minutes without much effort.

The only advantage was that the cultivation of this method was truly fast, even twice as fast as the Three Yin Qi-Eating Method. In just the time it takes for the river to flow east for thirty years, he could practice this fragmentary manual to the Perfected state and become a Force Path Hundred Acupoint High Cultivator.

Chen Ci vaguely felt that the reason the Building Master bestowed this method upon him might be for this very reason.

"Supreme True Loach, Golden Scale Wonderful Method Acupoint True Diagram"

Chen Ci seemed to have realized something; he stood up and moved his limbs, feeling that his physical body was quite different from before. Not only was he full of energy, but the muscles and bones all over his body seemed to have become a bit sturdier. After thinking for a moment, he took out the Spirit Iron Short Sword from his sleeve, dispersed the protective True Qi on his arm, and stabbed it into his arm.

A slight sense of resistance came from his right hand, but under the reinforcement of True Qi, the Spirit Iron Short Sword easily tore a small wound on his left arm, causing bright red blood to flow out.

He silently closed the panel and remained silent.

The 'blood food' required by this method actually referred to raw meat and fresh blood; if it were cooked, the effect would be greatly diminished, which made Chen Ci, who had just begun practicing this method, frown deeply. Could those so-called Siding Warriors who had lost their sanity have contracted some kind of madness, or had their brains been parasitized by some evil insects, leading to such an end?

Chen Ci suddenly discovered that he might have underestimated the difficulty of practicing this method.

How to put it? The practice of this Force Path method, although it did not require drawing in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and only needed blood food, actually ran counter to the Human Path Fire. Even among Side Door Cultivators, few could accept a life of eating raw meat and drinking blood daily. Moreover, Force Path cultivators fused True Qi into their flesh and blood, practicing only the physical body's blood, Qi, and Essence Yuan; naturally, they had no spells or divine abilities to assist them in refining Spirit Pills to aid their cultivation.

Eating Nurturing Life Pills like meals, thirty or forty pills a day, the body couldn't take it either.

Even that cluster of Essence Yuan had decreased by about one-tenth. If he wanted this small wound to be as good as new, he would probably need two or three more portions of blood, Qi, and Essence Yuan.

Chen Ci slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air and drank a bowl of Nurturing Essence Life Soup on the table in one gulp. His face turned red, and as his body became filled with essence and Qi to the point of overflowing, Little Chen also stood up proudly, looking around. Master Chen could only forcibly suppress it, his eyelids drooping, his mouth and nose inhaling and exhaling, and then he moved the blood, Qi, and Essence Yuan from his lower abdomen to begin refining acupoints at the Spine Great Dragon.

To be precise, it started from the Kidney Pass, moving up along the spine to open up the same Essence Yuan acupoints as the golden scale thin loach on the True Form Diagram.

Chen Ci grinned and stopped his self-mutilation. With a movement of his mind, the cluster of Essence Yuan in his lower abdomen grew hot and spat out a stream of blood, Qi, and Essence Yuan toward the wound on his left arm. In just a few breaths, the bleeding from the wound stopped, and it vaguely showed signs of healing.

Consume three hundred catties of blood food daily.

Supreme True Loach Golden Scale Wonderful Method (Fragmentary): 0/108 (Consume three bowls of this soup daily, one acupoint can be opened every hundred days)

If he hadn't obtained this Nurturing Essence Life Soup recipe from that Shengsi Qihuang Shenjun back then, this Golden Scale Wonderful Method would really have been difficult to advance.

Chen Ci took out the Spirit Nourishing Bottle and extracted five drops of Essence Refining. With a movement of his mind, the five little ones jumped down from behind and swallowed the five drops of Essence Refining into their bellies.

Another means of saving his life; how good.

Force Path methods were mostly passed down among the tribes of the Demon Kingdom, and the fact that the Divine Sect and Demon Gate cultivators lived in the north might also have something to do with this.

"This Supreme True Loach Golden Scale Wonderful Method is a bit evil."

An hour passed like this. Strands of blood, Qi, and essence from all over his body flowed into the Essence Yuan in his lower abdomen, were spat out again, and headed toward the Kidney Pass behind his waist, condensing into a small cluster before disappearing. Chen Ci trembled slightly, feeling that his body was unbearably hot, so he stopped the Force Path method and stood up.

Master Chen was very hot-tempered right now!

Supreme True Loach Golden Scale Wonderful Method (Fragmentary): 0/108 (Consume thirty-six of these pills daily, one acupoint can be opened every hundred days)

Chen Ci: "."

Taking a step back, even if the body could take it, other places couldn't.

Chen Ci exclaimed in wonder; the cultivation of this Force Path method was indeed based on the physical body. At the very least, its recovery from physical damage was far superior to True Qi. Perhaps as more acupoints were refined, the recovery ability would become even stronger. As long as it wasn't an instant death and the cluster of Essence Yuan in the lower abdomen didn't dissipate, ordinary injuries could be saved.

Chen Ci's heart suddenly stirred; he took out a Nurturing Life Pill, swallowed it, and after the medicinal power dispersed in his stomach, he clicked on the panel again and examined it for a few moments.

He didn't know if it was an illusion, but after practicing the Force Path technique, even his own Five Ghosts seemed to have become a bit more lively. This thought flashed through his mind, and Chen Ci took a deep breath and shouted in a low voice:

"Five Ghosts Possession!"

The five little ones happily burrowed into their master's body. Chen Ci instantly expanded—in the literal sense—his face turning dark green, ferocious and terrifying.

"Hoo!"

Chen Ci felt as if there was a thin layer of crimson mist before his eyes, and the narrow space of the cultivation room made him extremely impatient in his enlarged state.

The next instant, without any other thoughts, his right fist swung out violently.

Bang!

A wall shattered with a boom, and the entire cultivation room was in a mess.

Two breaths had passed. Chen Ci was like a punctured balloon, returning to his original state in the blink of an eye. He staggered and steadied himself against the wall, feeling the weakness in his body while recalling his state just now.

Although this temper was vented, doing this expansion and contraction every day... it was unbearable, truly unbearable.

Five Ghosts Possession Method: Entry/8/100 (Ghost power enters the body, physical body doubles, current duration two and a half breaths, every ten breaths, one can advance one point)

"Just now... did I lose focus?"

Chen Ci withdrew his gaze from his personal panel, glanced at the mess, and frowned slightly.

His cheap Shixiong was indeed right; the Force Path method really did help the Five Ghosts Possession Method. He had only just entered the door of this method and hadn't even opened a single Essence Yuan acupoint yet, but the Five Ghosts Possession Method had already made some progress. Although it was only half a breath, in terms of proportion, it was a full one-quarter improvement.

But this inexplicable act of tearing down the house indicated that he was already losing control of his thoughts. If this continued for a long time, even if he practiced the Five Ghosts Possession Method to a profound level, it would be useless if he couldn't circulate True Qi and practice the Qi-circulating techniques of the Five Accumulations Yin Demon Art.

The Golden Scale Wonderful Method assisted the Five Ghosts Possession Method, and the Five Ghosts Possession Method assisted the Five Accumulations Yin Demon Art, but both the Golden Scale Wonderful Method and the Five Ghosts Possession Method seemed to hinder the practice of the Five Accumulations Yin Demon Art, inexplicably becoming an impossible triangle.

"No, I have to find a bigger, more remote residence. I'm really afraid that one day I won't be able to control myself and crush the neighbors to death."

Chen Ci rubbed his temples, feeling a bit of a headache. He had no clue how to solve this irritable brother state and calm himself down. It seemed there was a reason why no one in He Mountain had been able to practice the Five Ghosts Method properly since the calamity, and it was no wonder that when He Mountain Apprentices were willing to risk their lives to test the method, those big shots all paid more or less attention to it.

They probably had a sense of curiosity, watching the fun.

"Calm the heart, focus the spirit—easy to say, hard to do. I'm afraid I'll have to rely on external objects to succeed."

Chen Ci shook his head, preparing to go to the Sea Market to find some pills and Dharma Artifacts to test their effects. In two days, he could also tentatively ask his cheap Lin Shixiong; perhaps because he practiced the Five Ghosts Method, the symptoms of such distracting thoughts were much smaller than others, or even almost non-existent.

"Heaven-sent Five Ghosts... Heh."

Chen Ci smiled dumbly and looked at the five little ones playing on the side. He didn't believe that his cheat, his diligence, sweat, and effort would be inferior to a heaven-sent opportunity, humph.

"Master Chen, what is this?"

He Cheng looked at the mess in the room, which looked like it had been demolished, and asked cautiously.

"It's nothing. Find me some people to clean up and repair it, and then find me a new residence. It mainly needs to be big, remote, and quiet. If it can be cheap and near the sea, that would be even better."

Chen Ci pointed lightly to the side. There were five jars of Peiyuan Yangshen Wine on the table, which Old Daoist Zhuang had specifically ordered, letting the courier from the Everything Building come to take them, saving Master Chen a lot of trouble.

Should he raise the price a bit?

Nowadays, he cultivates the Force Path Golden Scale Wonderful Method, and his demand for flesh and blood essence has skyrocketed; it was not easy for Master Chen to save a few portions to sell to his old employer, and the cost of this one jar of Peiyuan Health-Nurturing Wine is a full twenty thousand copper coins, with five jars bundled for four Spirit Pearls, meaning each jar only sells for eighty taels of gold—it is truly too conscientious.

After pondering for a moment, Chen Ci thought better of it; even if he raised it, it wouldn't be by much, and it would easily ruin his reputation, so forget it.

A conscientious merchant like him deserves to never get rich in his entire life.

Sigh.

"Very well, Master Chen."

He Cheng respectfully agreed and carefully picked up the five jars of wine, but he did not leave; he organized his words and spoke cautiously: "I should let Master Chen know that many outside guests have come to the Sea Market recently, and the patrolling masters in the Sea Market have also become much stricter; it is somewhat difficult for the tower to source small items like bones and remains, and I am afraid it will take over a month to return to normal."

"Bones... that is fine; in the future, just send aged beast bones instead."

Chen Ci understood as soon as he heard it; this was referring to things like human bones and corpses, and since others had put it that way, there was no need to force it, and waiting for a month would be fine.

"Many outside guests have come to the Sea Market?"

Chen Ci asked suddenly.

"Yes, many wealthy merchants from overseas and cultivator masters have come to the Sea Market; they are likely all here to join in the excitement of the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce."

He Cheng quietly observed Chen Ci's expression and replied respectfully with his head lowered: "I do not know if Master Chen has heard of the Four Seas Ruyi Treasure Money launched by the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce? There are wealthy guests in the tower acquiring this item at a price ten percent higher than the exchange rate in the Sihai Treasure Tower, so the tower owner asked me to ask you presumptuously: Master, if you or your friends and family have this treasure money you wish to sell, or if you wish to exchange for more of this treasure money, you can discuss it with my employer."

(End of this chapter)