[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-immortal-path-among-the-stars":3,"chapter-the-immortal-path-among-the-stars-the-immortal-path-among-the-stars-chapter-46":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Immortal Path Among the Stars",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2319978,4537,"Chapter 46: The Power of the Breathing Method","the-immortal-path-among-the-stars-chapter-46",46,"\u003Cp>Behind the Black Tiger Boxing Hall, in a certain grand hall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Master Tian sat calmly on a high-backed chair, sipping his tea unhurriedly; after hearing a flurry of footsteps, he set the teacup aside and said softly:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ziying, you’re back.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Father, I’m back—and I got the book back too.” Outside the hall, the tall woman stormed in and thrust the book directly toward him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You gave him the entire Breathing Method?” Master Tian took the book from his daughter and asked calmly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That brat is too cunning—he kept insisting this technique was a cultivator’s body-strengthening method, so I had no choice but to hand over the entire incantation.” Tian Ziying spoke through gritted teeth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Heh, nine times out of ten, he’s telling the truth. Only a cultivator’s body-strengthening method could produce such effects—lifting the Black Tiger Fist to this level all at once.” Master Tian spoke dismissively, opening the illustrated book in his hand; on the first page was clearly drawn the first of the Four Tiger Strikes, a small figure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Father, I say just seize him and force the truth out of him—why bother with any exchange?” The tall woman asked, puzzled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What do you know? Though young, his earlier strike matched my strength exactly—and he’s a cultivator. Even if his cultivation isn’t high at this age, he might be from some cultivator family. Our boxing hall has backers, but we’re still mere mortals. If we can avoid offending him, we should.” Master Tian said softly, still studying the illustrated book.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then I suppose that’s all we can do. The first level of the Black Tiger Breathing Method is fine, but the second requires a secret potion to train. He only has the incantation, not the formula—he can’t possibly train the second level, let alone the third.” The tall woman suddenly laughed merrily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We only agreed to exchange the method and its incantation—we never promised the accompanying secret potion. How is that cheating?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Besides, even if he could find the potion, the second level of the Black Tiger Breathing Method requires that specific substance to train—but that substance is extremely rare even among cultivators. If it were easy to obtain, how could your father have been stuck at the first level for so many years...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hmm, this method seems a bit difficult...” Master Tian murmured, flipping through the book, one hand subtly mimicking the movements, his brow slowly furrowing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How difficult could it be? I saw him perform the entire form from the illustrations.” The tall woman said, surprised.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You couldn’t train it now—not even I can manage it easily!” Master Tian’s expression grew grim.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The tall woman...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two months later, on a nondescript hilltop outside Tongzhou City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu sat bare-chested atop a massive boulder, hands loosely resting on his knees, eyes closed, his chest rising and falling at an eerie, irregular rhythm, while a faint rumbling echoed from his abdomen, growing louder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, he opened his mouth and expelled a thick, milky-white mist; then he inhaled sharply, and the surrounding air reversed course, sucking back the white mist—and nearly half the nearby air—into his belly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Boom.” “Boom.” “Boom.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Three thunderous crashes echoed in Wang Yu’s chest; his muscles writhed, veins bulged, and his bare body swelled like a balloon, a massive tiger-head pattern emerging on his back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He rolled to his feet, his eyes glinting faintly with crystalline light, then unleashed a storm of punches and kicks; his body continued to swell, growing larger and larger, until within moments he stood as a near-two-meter-tall miniature giant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Boom-boom-boom!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu dropped into a horse stance, shook his shoulders, and his arms blurred into invisibility—yet the air around him erupted in a continuous chain of explosions like firecrackers. When his thick arms reappeared, a violent gale suddenly tore through the space around him, rolling waves of air surging outward in all directions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his enlarged form, he unleashed over a dozen “Sonic Fist” strikes in one breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, he felt a delusion: that any early-stage Qi Refining cultivator he’d ever seen could be shattered by a single punch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Huff.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu opened his mouth again, and a large cloud of white mist poured from both nose and mouth; his body rapidly deflated, returning to normal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Exit hyper-synchronization mode.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The crystalline light in Wang Yu’s eyes faded; he felt a searing, burning sensation in his lungs and chest, and inwardly marveled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the power of the first level of the Black Tiger Breathing Method!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Master Tian had claimed this method was extremely difficult to train—but under hyper-synchronization assistance, Wang Yu had mastered the first level in just two months, and its effects differed drastically from Master Tian’s: he hadn’t gained any insight into the “True Meaning of the Black Tiger,” yet his body’s strength had surged dramatically.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He sat back on the boulder, pulled out the yellowed book recording the Black Tiger Breathing Method, and reopened it to study it closely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After some time, he closed the book, his expression thoughtful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his view, the first level of the Black Tiger Breathing Method was simply a strange breathing rhythm designed to draw vast quantities of air into the body, continuously polishing the internal organs and strengthening the entire physique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In short: turn the human body into a giant balloon, and by repeatedly inflating and deflating it, increase its resilience and thickness, making it more durable and explosive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To scientists from Blue Star, this was pure nonsense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Human lung capacity is limited; no matter how hard one breathes, one cannot inhale excessive air, let alone distribute it throughout the entire body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even among Blue Star martial artists, though “hard qi” techniques existed, they were fundamentally about toughening the body’s exterior—unrelated to any true “qi,” and no one had ever discovered “internal force” as a cultivated energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this world was a cultivator realm, saturated with supernatural forces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had merely followed the book’s instructions, attempting its complex breathing rhythm—long inhales, short exhales, rapid breaths, slow breaths—and after only a few tries, he had genuinely begun inhaling astonishing volumes of air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This gave him confidence in the Qi Refining method, allowing him to train relentlessly for the next two months until he fully mastered the first level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, to ordinary people, this was impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The human internal organs are fragile; without direct guidance from a senior, even with the mysterious breathing method’s protection, inhaling too much air too forcefully could easily injure the body, while inhaling too little yielded no training effect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But with hyper-synchronization assistance, he could precisely control his breathing intensity based on his body’s condition, ensuring every breath entered within a strict limit—maximizing training effect without causing damage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even so, each time he trained the Breathing Method, he felt as if countless blades were lightly scraping his internal organs during inhalation—painful, itchy, and nearly unbearable; he nearly quit several times.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, under hyper-synchronization, though he couldn’t actively sever pain nerves like Taiyuan could, he could regulate muscle contraction and blood flow to reduce some of the agony, allowing him to persevere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His body, already enhanced by bloodline awakening and the Four Beasts Diagram, was already comparable to Master Tian’s after mastering the first level; now, with the first level activated, his raw physical strength alone could crush Master Tian—and with hyper-synchronization further refining muscle control, he could grow even larger and amplify his explosive power further.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What amazed Wang Yu even more was that he noticed a thin, faint “qi membrane” subtly forming on his skin after activating the Black Tiger Breathing Method.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This “qi membrane” possessed astonishing defensive power: completely transparent, colorless, formless, enveloping his entire body, invisible to the naked eye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He tested it by slashing directly at his arm wrapped in the membrane with a sharp blade—the blade bounced off, unable to pierce it at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu was extremely satisfied with this effect: it meant that upon activating the Black Tiger Breathing Method, his body was covered in an invisible, impenetrable armor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This made him even more eager to see the power of the second level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But unfortunately, though he had fully comprehended the second-level incantation under hyper-synchronization assistance, two items mentioned within left him baffled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One was the “sha energy” referenced in the second-level incantation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Starting at the second level, the breathing no longer involved ordinary air, but this “sha energy,” which must be cultivated and stored within the body long-term.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to the book, there were many types of sha energy, each offering different benefits depending on its nature.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The second was the accompanying potion, “Heshasan,” required to be taken during second-level training; without it, prolonged exposure to sha energy would cause the internal organs to rot and die.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had never heard of either, and none of the books he’d collected contained any record of them. Master Tian must have deliberately or accidentally tricked him—even if he went to ask, he’d likely get nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu felt frustrated thinking of this, but then remembered the difficulty he’d given Tian Ziying with the Four Tiger Strikes, and his conscience pricked him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had trained the Four Wolf Sprints first, then achieved full bloodline awakening before he could barely manage the Four Tiger Strikes; Master Tian and his daughter would almost certainly be unable to train them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With this thought, he abandoned the idea of returning to the Black Tiger Boxing Hall. If he had the names, he could find clues to sha energy and the potion later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having made his decision, Wang Yu leapt down the hill and entered a small wooden hut halfway up the slope, sitting cross-legged on a crude wooden bed to practice breathing and absorption.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After his deal with Tian Ziying, fearing she might discover she couldn’t train the method and come after him, he had fled Tongzhou City that very night and built this temporary shelter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, he intended to break through the long-standing bottleneck of Yin Water Method Level Two and reach Qi Refining Level Three as soon as possible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The method? Naturally, continue practicing the Yin Water Method incantation, relentlessly refining his spiritual energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More than ten days later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the hut, Wang Yu, seated in meditation, suddenly shuddered; a surge of spiritual energy far stronger than before erupted from his body. He opened his eyes, a joyous smile spreading across his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just now, he had successfully broken through the Level Two bottleneck of the Yin Water Method and entered Qi Refining Level Three.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But before he could examine his body’s changes, his smile vanished; he hastily closed his eyes and resumed meditation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The spiritual seed within him, once stable, now began frantically devouring his spiritual energy, initiating a mysterious transformation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Yu was both startled and delighted.\u003C\u002Fp>",1787,"2026-06-20T15:44:30.991Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","5e51611944e4a7cc41dc6ca3d976fa73905f37bac93978b9bf2de17b3fade81d","the-immortal-path-among-the-stars-chapter-47","the-immortal-path-among-the-stars-chapter-45",530,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-immortal-path-among-the-stars-cover.jpg"]