Chapter 303: The Meridian Opening Arrives

Lu Yu's gaze was firmly locked onto the Realm column.

At this moment, he still had 190 million Potential Points remaining, and after some deliberation, he decided to continue assaulting his meridians.

There were two reasons: first, whenever a point was successfully opened, the most significant increase was in True Qi, and while the improvements to the three basic attributes of Constitution, Strength, and Agility were relatively less prominent, they were like mosquito legs—even if small, they were still meat; bit by bit, it all added up, and it was ultimately beneficial.

Second, and this was the more critical point: he possessed a large number of Cultivation Methods, yet he had not had the time to practice most of them.

Although most of these were not body-refining Cultivation Methods, if their effects were stacked together, they would be quite considerable.

What's more, there were Cultivation Methods among them like the 【Dragon Elephant Prajna Art】 that could significantly increase the Strength attribute.

"The fifth meridian, it should be the Meridian Opening, right?" Lu Yu tried hard to search his memory for relevant information.

He remembered that in the early stage of the Vein Refining Realm, one needed to open four meridians in sequence: the Yang Wei Vessel, the Yin Wei Vessel, the Yang Qiao Vessel, and the Yin Qiao Vessel.

Only when these four meridians were all opened could a Martial Artist be considered to have officially stepped into the middle stage of the Vein Refining Realm.

And upon reaching the middle stage of the Vein Refining Realm, one only needed to open two more meridians: the Meridian Opening and the Belt Vessel.

The Meridian Opening had a relatively large number of acupoints, totaling 14, while the Belt Vessel had far fewer, only 9.

Even adding the total number of acupoints for both together, it was only 23, which was less than half the number of the four meridians in the early stage.

However, one must not underestimate the difficulty of opening these two meridians because of this.

According to the exchanges and sharing among the many Pulse Refining Martial Artists in the Association, the difficulty of opening the Meridian Opening and the Belt Vessel was two to three times that of the four meridians in the early stage!

If one's luck was poor, a single acupoint could potentially trap a person for several months.

Once these two meridians were successfully opened, a Martial Artist could smoothly enter the Vein Refining Late Stage, and then they would have to face the greatest challenge among the Extraordinary Meridians—the Ren Vessel and the Du Vessel!

Without a doubt, the Ren Vessel and the Du Vessel were the most difficult of the eight meridians.

Take the Ren Vessel, for example; it required opening as many as 24 acupoints, more than any of the previous six meridians.

From this, it is not hard to imagine what a massive amount of True Qi was required to completely open the Ren Vessel. However, the Ren Vessel was not even the meridian with the most acupoints.

So, which meridian had the most acupoints?

That's right, it was the Du Vessel.

As the last of the Extraordinary Meridians to be opened, it had the highest number of acupoints, totaling 28!

Don't look at it as only 4 more acupoints than the Ren Vessel; the amount of True Qi required to completely open the Du Vessel was at least twice that of the Ren Vessel! Many Martial Artists in the Vein Refining Late Stage were stuck on a certain acupoint of the Du Vessel, unable to make any progress.

However, everything has two sides.

The more acupoints that needed to be opened, the more Origin True Qi would be increased after a successful opening, and the True Qi increased by the corresponding mental cultivation method would also increase accordingly.

"As long as there are enough Potential Points, whether it's the Meridian Opening, the Belt Vessel, or the Ren and Du Vessels, none of them are a problem." Lu Yu pondered to himself.

He even had a bold guess in his heart.

With his powerful Mental Power, even without the help of Potential Points, relying solely on the True Qi within his own body to assault the acupoints, he might be able to successfully open the Extraordinary Meridians.

Of course, he also knew that this method took too long and was really unnecessary.

As soon as the thought arose, a surging, massive wave of True Qi erupted within Lu Yu, like a roaring beast, whistling and galloping forward.

Almost in the blink of an eye, it successfully broke through the first acupoint.

【Consumed 15 million Potential Points, opened the Youmen Acupoint of the Meridian Opening】

【True Qi +49】

【Constitution +15】

【Strength +16】

【Agility +14】

A series of information instantly appeared in his mind.

"True Qi value increased by 49 points."

Lu Yu calculated silently in his heart that if all 14 acupoints of the Meridian Opening were opened, the Origin True Qi provided would be about seven or eight hundred points, almost equivalent to the sum of the Origin True Qi provided by the first three meridians.

He nodded with satisfaction, feeling that such a large consumption of Potential Points was worth it; the magnitude of the improvement was indeed much greater than before.

Following this trend, if he reached the final Ren and Du Vessels, perhaps opening just one of them would increase the Origin True Qi by over a thousand points.

In the blink of an eye, Lu Yu waved his hand again and invested a large sum of Potential Points.

【Consumed 16 million Potential Points, opened the Tonggu Acupoint of the Meridian Opening】

【True Qi +50 points】

【Constitution +16】

【Strength +14】

【Agility +14】

As Lu Yu clicked again and again, the value of the Potential Points on the panel dropped sharply like a waterfall.

【Consumed 23 million Potential Points, opened the Siman Acupoint】

【Constitution +13】

【Strength +17】

【Agility +16】

However, when Lu Yu prepared to assault the meridians again, he found there was no reaction within his body.

At the same time, a line of small text appeared in his mind:

【Insufficient Potential Points】

"Gone so quickly?" Lu Yu opened his mouth slightly, his face full of surprise.

He felt as if he hadn't clicked many times, yet 190 million Potential Points had actually been used up just like that.

After checking carefully, he found it was indeed the case; now there were less than 20 million Potential Points left. And the Potential Points required for the next meridian opening were as high as 24 million.

"To be short by just this little bit, it's really a pity." Lu Yu couldn't help but feel a trace of regret.

Although he still had two or three bottles of Top-grade Blood Qi Pill on him, at most, these pills could only provide a little over two million Potential Points, which was clearly far from enough.

"Forget it, I'll just have to wait for another opportunity," he shook his head helplessly.

After all, even if he gathered 24 million Potential Points, it would only be enough to open one more acupoint. Counting the ones opened previously, that would be ten in total, and there were still 4 acupoints in the Meridian Opening left to open.

Lu Yu's gaze fell back onto the panel:

Realm: Mid-stage Vein Refining

True Qi: 3210/2140

Level: 29

Constitution: 9,800

Strength: 10,200

Agility: 7,900

Spirit: 187,000

Potential Points: 20 million

Experience Value: 2000

Although only nine acupoints had been opened, his Origin True Qi had already risen from the previous 1,600-plus points to 2,140 points, and his total True Qi had also successfully broken through 3,000 points.

The corners of Lu Yu's mouth lifted slightly, and he thought to himself that this was quite a coincidence.

One must know that the 【Cloud-Piercing Arrow Technique】 possessed two active Skills.

One was Wind Chasing Arrow, which consumed one thousand points of True Qi to double the flight speed of the arrow; the other was Piercing Clouds and Splitting Rocks, which consumed three thousand points of True Qi to increase the power of the arrow by three times.

Three times the power! With this, he had gained another powerful trump card.

Not only that, the higher the total amount of True Qi, the higher the activation level of the Martial Skill 【Overlord】.

After all, this Martial Skill was restricted by two factors: one was the amount of True Qi in the body, and the other was Mental Power, and his Mental Power was undoubtedly more than sufficient.

"It's a pity that the Experience Value is not enough; otherwise, the True Qi in my body would definitely be more than this," Lu Yu sighed softly.

He secretly made up his mind that no matter what, he would go out to hunt Fierce Beasts to obtain Experience Value tomorrow.

As for today...

He picked up his phone and took a look, discovering that it was already past six in the evening.

At this moment, a new message on his phone caught his attention.

Lu Yu clicked on it with curiosity and saw that it was an email sent by the Awakened Association.

The email informed him that the Cloud Jade Fruit he had previously purchased at the Association had arrived at the Yongan City Awakened Association.

"It seems my True Qi can be improved quite a bit again," after reading the email, a smile appeared on Lu Yu's face involuntarily.

It was just that he was also a bit curious in his heart: just how much Origin True Qi could this Cloud Jade Fruit increase?

After all, he had spent 20,000 points to purchase it; to be honest, the price was truly not cheap.

However, he did not get up immediately to retrieve the Cloud Jade Fruit, because before that, there was still one matter waiting to be handled.

Lu Yu took out another phone from his Space Item and clicked to enter the Martial Arts Association.

As soon as he logged in, he received quite a few messages, including emails from the headquarters and some private chat messages from members.