Chapter 552: Meridian Expansion

Everyone saw with their own eyes that Ye Liuyun placed these three beasts into the Xuan Kong Shi for cultivation. Normally, people who are not close would not be put into another's storage space; that would be equivalent to entrusting one's life to another.

This shows that the relationship between these three beast tribes and Ye Liuyun is not ordinary; at least they absolutely trust him and can entrust their lives to him.

Inside the Secret Realm, the battlefield between Lei Ming and Yu Haotian has already expanded to a radius of several dozen li.

Within the battlefield, besides Yu Haotian's released frenzied fighting spirit, there is also the demonic qi of Lei Ming and the Earth Demon Dragon; the sky is filled with bloody lightning, and the ground has already been frozen.

This one person and two beasts are evenly matched; once they start fighting, they cannot be stopped.

Suddenly, Lei Ming's aura surged to its peak, and even the air was filled with the scent of lightning. Bloody lightning sparks darted wildly through the space.

"Thunder Dragon Calamity Annihilation!"

Lei Ming unleashed her ultimate move. At this moment, her surroundings were not only covered in black demonic qi, but also filled with bright red bloody lightning; the horns on her head glowed with piercing blood lightning, her scales tightly covered her body, bringing a chill, and the huge thunder dragon's body lunged straight at Yu Haotian.

Meanwhile, the Earth Demon Dragon, cooperating by withdrawing its body, raised its tail, and behind Lei Ming poured its demonic qi into her, increasing her impact force, making her impact speed and strength even greater.

"Overbearing Hegemony Under Heaven!" Yu Haotian did not dare to be negligent; he also unleashed his ultimate move to counter this combined attack of Lei Ming and the Earth Demon Dragon.

"Boom—crack..."

The entire battlefield trembled incessantly; true essence roared, blood thunder blasted, centered on the point where they collided, within a radius of ten li, nothing remained—everything was blown to ashes by the aftershocks of true essence.

The Earth Demon Dragon stood to the side, eyes wide open, staring without blinking, awaiting the result.

Not long after, the true essence dissipated. The corners of Yu Haotian's and Lei Ming's mouths showed bloodstains; obviously they had fought to a standstill.

"Ouch! I'm in pain! Little Earth Dragon, quickly take me back into the Xuan Kong Shi to heal and cultivate."

Lei Ming immediately transformed into human form, summoned the Earth Demon Dragon, and had it carry her back to heal. As she left, she shouted to Yu Haotian: "Next time we get a chance, let's fight again!"

Yu Haotian also laughed heartily: "Exhilarating! Let's fight again next time!"

In that battle just now, he finally fought to his satisfaction. Now he also needs to hurry and heal his wounds. Although his injuries are not serious, who knows what circumstances he might encounter later.

Martial cultivators must always be prepared for battle to deal with sudden unexpected events.

When Lei Ming and the Earth Demon Dragon returned, Ye Liuyun was at the critical point of his breakthrough.

They also did not dare to make a fuss, obediently hiding to the side to recover.

One core pellet of the Double-headed Shadow Snake had been completely absorbed by Ye Liuyun, and its energy had accumulated sufficiently.

Moreover, Liang Xue sensed that Ye Liuyun was about to break through, so she accelerated the gathering of spiritual qi. At the same time, she herself stopped absorbing and gave all the spiritual qi to Ye Liuyun.

Inside Ye Liuyun's body, true essence surged forth from the core pellet, impacting all his meridians; this is the final step of impacting the realm.

Once the true essence receded, it began to compress within the core pellet, condensing into true essence of higher quality.

This is also a process of expanding the meridians, widening them; however, it is extremely dangerous—if not controlled properly, the meridians could be directly ruptured.

Ye Liuyun's divine sense inwardly observed, watching the meridians throughout his body, while he fused his physical strength, bloodline power, and soul power into the true essence, thereby strengthening the fusion of these powers.

No one taught him this method; he simply felt that, during the breakthrough, fusing several powers would strengthen the existing fusion of powers.

This also counts as his attempt, but he did not expect it to turn out well by accident. Although he had never seen how disciples of great clans or sects break through, at this moment he happened to do the same thing.

Moreover, he did it even better than them—a fusion of all four powers throughout his body. After the power fusion during the breakthrough, future fusions of various powers will become faster and more convenient.

Soon, Ye Liuyun's meridians were widened by another factor of two. Previously he had simply gone with the flow, never paying attention to the width of his meridians. After this widening, he felt that the speed of circulating his true essence and the speed of absorbing spiritual qi had both increased manifold.

"It seems I still have many shortcomings in my cultivation!"

Ye Liuyun, feeling emotional, sometimes self-mocked, wondering how he had cultivated to this point. Everything relied on his own groping, not knowing right from wrong. It was simply practicing wherever he could, improving wherever he could, and in a muddled way he had cultivated to the eighth level of the Heavenly Gang Realm.

After the meridians were widened, the true essence receded back into the core pellet; at this moment the true essence was compressed even more solidly—the originally full core pellet had now become half-empty.

Next came Ye Liuyun's frantic absorption of spiritual qi to replenish his true essence.

The entire process lasted three days. The effect of the Xuan Kong Shi was also indispensable in Ye Liuyun's cultivation path; without it, he could not have broken through so quickly.

Just as Ye Liuyun had just finished replenishing his true essence, Long Nv also began her breakthrough.

Ye Liuyun had already stopped cultivating at this point. Worried that Long Nv lacked sufficient spiritual qi, he took out many spirit stones and placed them beside her for her to absorb.

"Xue'er, thank you! You should also hurry up and cultivate, striving to break through another level."

Although Ye Liuyun had just been cultivating, he could also feel that Liang Xue had given all her spiritual qi to him.

He also took out many spirit stones and placed them beside Liang Xue to aid her breakthrough.

Liang Xue smiled with relief, not being polite with Ye Liuyun, and immediately began cultivating.

As soon as Liang Xue entered the cultivation state, Ye Liuyun felt that her speed of absorbing spiritual qi was two to three times faster than Long Nv's, showing how strong her bloodline's affinity for spiritual qi is.

Therefore, Ye Liuyun took out even more spirit stones, piling them beside Liang Xue, to let her absorb as much as possible.

To Ye Liuyun, the function of these spirit stones is to provide cultivation for himself and the people around him.

Upon reaching the Heavenly Gang Realm, each breakthrough of a level requires a large amount of spirit stones. Therefore, Ye Liuyun this time almost took out the spirit stones from half a day's mineral vein, allowing Liang Xue and Long Nv to absorb freely.

With these spirit stones, their breakthrough speed will be even faster.

After arranging for Liang Xue and Long Nv, he glanced at Lei Ming and the Earth Demon Dragon; these two fellows were also cultivating, so Ye Liuyun did not disturb them and directly exited the Xuan Kong Shi.

Outside the Xuan Kong Shi, Yu Haotian was cultivating not far away.

He had only been cultivating outside for a short time, so at this moment his true essence had not yet recovered.