Chapter 10: Breakthrough

Liu Xiaolou calmed down, rested for half a day, and began to prepare for clearing the Neiting acupoint. The Xiangu acupoint is the place where spiritual energy stays, the energy pool for accumulating true qi, so the preparation he has to do is actually to accumulate true qi in the Xiangu acupoint energy pool.

On this barrier, Liu Xiaolou knew the truth that haste makes waste, so he didn't blindly impact the Neiting acupoint, but extracted all the spiritual power contained in the three spirit stones in his hand, converted them into true qi in his body, and accumulated them in the Xiangu acupoint energy pool.

After the three spirit stones were extracted, they turned into fragments and dust, and at this moment, the Xiangu energy pool was like a reservoir blocked by a dam, the water level was getting higher and higher, and the momentum was getting stronger and stronger.

Until the moment the "dam" couldn't block it.

Liu Xiaolou finally opened the gate to release the water, letting the strong true qi rush toward Neiting, surging and echoing in the Neiting acupoint barrier, washing back and forth, and then rushing through, surging toward the Lidui acupoint.

The Neiting acupoint manages qi and stops pain, and resolves mental diseases. After passing this barrier, Liu Xiaolou's brain shook, and he felt that his mind was much clearer, and his insight into the surrounding cave was three points higher.

The last acupoint of each meridian is the most difficult to clear. It is not only related to this acupoint, but also related to the state. This state is mysterious and mysterious. Sometimes it is like being in the Gobi desert, sometimes it is like a storm, or a breeze, or a flash of inspiration, and it is called insight by cultivators. Liu Xiaolou, who had experienced the life-and-death moment of the Jinping Shanzhuang, had already grasped this insight, so the biggest difficulty was passed. The rest was to wash the acupoint barrier with true qi continuously.

After an unknown number of days, when the Lidui acupoint was broken by spiritual power, he felt that his whole person was calm and calm, smooth up and down, and faintly had a feeling of floating and flying. Of course, the so-called floating and flying was purely an illusion, far from reaching such a level. But according to the Three Mystical Scripture, cultivating to this point, at least he would not be troubled by gastrointestinal discomfort.

Cultivating for ten years, until today, Liu Xiaolou finally cleared four meridians and entered Qi Refinement Stage 3.

Qi Refinement Stage 3 requires looking back to clear the second meridian of the three yin of the hand—the hand Jueyin meridian.

The hand Jueyin meridian has only nine acupoints on each side, but every acupoint is a big acupoint, which are Tianchi, Tianquan, Quze, Xi Sect, Bai Jian Shi, Neiguan, Daling, Laogong, and Zhongchong. All nine major acupoints have energy pools, which are rare meridians among the twelve meridians that accumulate true qi. To clear this meridian, more spiritual power is required than any previous meridian.

Liu Xiaolou mobilized the true qi accumulated in the energy pools of the four meridians of hand Taiyin, hand Yangming, foot Taiyin, and foot Yangming that had been cleared, trying to impact the first acupoint of the hand Jueyin meridian, Tianchi, but found it more difficult than difficult. The true qi of each place can only move freely in the four meridians, which is already rare. This is the so-called responsibility of guarding the land, and it cannot be replaced by other labor.

It's a pity that the spirit stones have been exhausted, so he can only think of other ways.

If he came from a famous sect, there would be no worry about spirit stones, Liu Xiaolou sighed endlessly.

Taking out the spirit herb and looking at it for a moment, he couldn't understand it. He was ready to leave the customs and find someone outside to see what kind of spirit herb this was, whether it could be taken directly, or exchanged for spirit stones.

He didn't know the years in the cave, but Liu Xiaolou estimated that since the millet rice cakes he brought had long been eaten, and the fat fish brought by Big White had been eaten for dozens of them, it must have been two months. Those Dongyang Sect cultivators shouldn't be searching in Wulong Mountain for so long, right?

He returned along the original path, carefully poked his head out from the tree hole, and felt his scalp numb. He reached out and pinched, but it was a big centipede that had just fallen on his forehead.

This big centipede was more than a finger long, wriggling constantly. Although it was not a spirit object, the huge mouthparts were extremely sharp, comparable to knives and swords. It was the earth dragon unique to Wulong Mountain.

Liu Xiaolou had suffered from this kind of centipede before. Even with his Qi Refinement Stage 2 skin, he couldn't block the bite of an earth dragon. After being bitten, it was immediately a bloody mouth. At this moment, pinching the earth dragon, his heart stirred, letting it bite on the back of his hand, but it only bit a white mark, and he was very satisfied in his heart.

This is the significant effect of the Three Mystical Scripture, cultivating both inside and outside, surface and interior are the same.

While clearing the meridians, he is also casting the body.

Flicking the earth dragon away, Liu Xiaolou drilled out of the tree hole and walked quietly toward the mountain.

At this moment, it was near noon, and it was getting more and more sultry. I think it should have entered the dog days, but I don't know which dog day it is. A meridian that accepts coolness from the outside has been added to the body, and the feeling of sultriness has been reduced a lot.

And when running on the mountain road, it was much easier than before. Between leaps, every step was a foot longer than before. If that young Han from the Dongyang Sect came to chase him again at this time, Liu Xiaolou had the confidence to make him unable to see his back.

Before returning to the mountain, he went down the mountain first. This is the habit of rogue cultivators in Wulong Mountain. Liu Xiaolou arrived at the entrance of the village at the foot of the mountain, chatted with some aunt and some nephew, and went to Uncle Tian's house to inquire in detail. It turned out that he had been in seclusion for more than two months this time!

As for the cultivators who entered the mountain before, they were indeed from the Dongyang Sect, but they seemed to have found the wrong target. The focus was on his sworn brother Wei Hongqing. Wei Hongqing did not participate in the Heroic Assembly and had long run away without a trace, so naturally, they couldn't find him. After searching in Wulong Mountain for more than half a month, they found nothing and had long left.

So Liu Xiaolou felt relieved and returned to Gan Zhu Ling with peace of mind.

After two months of absence, the fence wall was still firmly standing there, not damaged, because every wooden stake was deeply rooted in the ground, and the foundation was extremely solid, but weeds were overgrown, the highest had climbed to the top, and like the courtyard, plus the dilapidated thatched cottage washed by heavy rain, it showed a bit of desolation and ruin.

Liu Xiaolou went to the bamboo forest to cut some long bamboo, cut it into sections, and repaired the thatched cottage on the beam.

The big white goose didn't know when it rushed back, looking up at the master repairing the house on the beam.

Liu Xiaolou scolded: "Don't be idle, hoe the weeds!"

So the big white goose lowered its head, pecked the grass with its flat beak, the action was not slow, and after a while, it cleared a piece of open space.

This beast, say it is not a spirit object, it can often understand human language and do human things; say it is a spirit object, it cannot quench the essence of the sun and moon, and cannot absorb spiritual power. Even if it steals good things, it is useless, turning into poop and pulling it out, and there is no change that a spirit object should have.

Just treat it as a companion, this Three Mystical Sect, only he and it depend on each other for life.