Chapter 28: Strength and Qi Combined, One Hundred Thousand Jin!

Qi circulates through the Zhou Tian! The strength, thick as a flood dragon or python, roamed rapidly within his body. Although it was the first time he was performing it, the rich memories in his mind were like he had been immersed in this path for decades. The moment his body mobilized the strength, he entered a state of instinctive action.

It seemed as if a faint sound of thunder was ringing in the meridians within his body. A large pulse was opened up by the strength that penetrated it. As the large pulse was cleared, the strength immediately flowed unimpeded, circulating rapidly back and forth in the large pulse—sixteen Zhou Tian circulations in one breath!

Subsequently, Li Hao performed it a second time. This time it was even more proficient, and his body gradually synchronized with the memories.

Thirty-eight Zhou Tian circulations in one breath.

The third time, fifty-two Zhou Tian circulations in one breath.

The fourth time, the fifth time... until the seventh time ended, one hundred Zhou Tian circulations in one breath! The Hundred Flood Dragon Body was also called the Hundred Zhou Tian Body because when cultivated to Great Success, it could reach exactly one hundred Zhou Tian circulations, no more, no less! At this moment, Li Hao took a look at the panel and found that the cultivation there was no longer the Tenth Level of the Tongli Realm, but the First Level of the Zhou Tian Realm! Officially stepping into the Zhou Tian Realm, Li Hao felt that the strength roaming and galloping in this large pulse was full of tension. Compared to before, it was like a spine had suddenly appeared in his body, and his whole person had "stood up".

In action, he could circulate Qi through the Zhou Tian at will, exploding with strength far exceeding before! While Li Hao was happy in his heart, he continued to perform 'Primordial'.

Following the practice in his memory, he practiced from the Second Layer Star Body to the Third Layer Hidden Passage Body! With the practice, the strength in Li Hao's body surged even more fiercely, like the angry waves of a great river!

Li Hao discovered that this Hidden Passage Body also contained a Qi circulation technique, which was not inferior to the Hundred Flood Dragon Body in the slightest, and was even more terrifying! Li Muxiu hadn't told him, most likely because the old man hadn't studied this martial art deeply. After all, it was a body-refining thing, and added to the fact that it was a remnant chapter, the old man probably hadn't considered letting Li Hao cultivate it.

With the practice and familiarity time after time, Li Hao's body underwent great changes, and a second large pulse was slowly opened up within his body! Moreover, this large pulse was extremely firm and thick, and the strength it could accommodate far exceeded the first large pulse! This large pulse was also the core of the Hidden Passage Body—the Ghost Pulse! Through the description in the cultivation method, Li Hao knew that this Ghost Pulse had another alias in martial arts: the Taiyin Pulse! Li Hao looked at his cultivation. Although he had opened up a second large pulse, it was still the First Level of the Heavenly Cycle Realm and had not improved.

This Taiyin large pulse was like a hidden large pulse and did not belong to the calculation of other large pulses.

The Hundred Flood Dragon strength originally in the first large pulse also surged into the Taiyin Pulse, circulating back and forth between the two large pulses. However, the Hundred Flood Dragon strength, which almost filled the first large pulse, was like a small stream in the Taiyin Pulse, unable to even stir up a collision with the inner wall of the large pulse.

Sounds like thunder and tiger roars emanated from within Li Hao's body, like a dormant evil beast waking up, slowly opening its eyes.

The external force emitted by the galloping strength caused the dust around his body to be rolled away; within three feet, it was dust-free!

The insight into the Dao from the Third Stage of the physical body path gave Li Hao a very deep understanding of the two cultivation methods, and he immediately felt that the Qi circulation techniques of the two methods had overlapping and intersecting parts.

With a thought, he performed both cultivation methods at the same time. Soon, the two Qi circulation techniques interacted, and the strength was divided into two strands, chasing each other in the large pulse like two flood dragons.

As the number of times Li Hao practiced increased and he gradually became proficient, the two strands of strength also became entangled and fused together.

This was the interaction and fusion of cultivation methods!

The overlapping parts were covered, and the intersecting places became one, which resulted in his strength circulation speed becoming faster.

From one hundred Zhou Tian circulations per pulse, it reached one hundred and thirty-two Zhou Tian circulations per pulse! An increase of thirty-two Zhou Tian circulations in circulation speed!

This point already exceeded the Li family's top-tier Qi circulation technique, the 'Hundred Battles Zhou Tian Art'.

One had to know that except for the imperial family, this was one of the top Qi circulation techniques in Emperor Da Yu, something martial artists across the world yearned for and craved.

At this moment, as the strength roamed in the Taiyin Pulse, Li Hao discovered that a special force of extreme Yin and extreme cold was circulating in his body. If he cultivated certain techniques like the Cold Ice Palm or the Ice Soul Body, he could achieve twice the result with half the effort! After the cultivation ended, Li Hao prepared to check what this Taiyin Pulse was.

However, next, he continued to practice the third top-tier body-refining technique, the 'Dragon Cicada Vacuum Body'.

Only, compared to the first two, the Third Layer of this cultivation method was slightly inferior.

The Leaping Shell Body also contained a Qi circulation technique, but it only had seventy-two Zhou Tian circulations. In other words, cultivating this method alone could also help Li Hao break through to the Zhou Tian Realm.

Leaping Shell, using Qi to control strength, could allow for short-term hovering in the air.

One had to know that hovering was a power only possessed in the Ji Hun Realm.

However, the hovering distance of the Leaping Shell Body could not be compared to the Ji Hun Realm. It could only play some miraculous effects in some special combat situations, but the frontal combat power was not greatly improved.

But the Second Layer of the Dragon Cicada Vacuum Body was quite powerful. Previously, when he was at the First Stage of the physical body path, Li Hao only practiced to the Second Layer Small Success. Now, the Second Layer, the Crouching Dragon Body, was at the Perfection level! This brought him terrifying strength like a dragon or elephant, a pure physical strength increase of at least twenty thousand jin! Li Hao estimated that his pure physical brute strength at this moment was about fifty thousand jin.

That's right, it was that exaggerated.

At this moment, at the Third Stage of the physical body path, Li Hao could roughly feel the state of his body even without needing to try a test. If he cooperated with the Qi circulation in his body, combining strength and Qi, he could explode with about one hundred thousand jin of strength! One circulation of strength was the strength of one tripod.

At this moment, Li Hao circulated one hundred and thirty-two Zhou Tian circulations, which was one hundred and thirty-two tripods; two pulses meant two hundred and sixty-four tripods!

Each tripod was two hundred jin, a full fifty thousand jin or so.

Such strength was enough to easily blow up an ordinary Zhou Tian Realm perfection with one punch.

An ordinary Zhou Tian Realm perfection with ten pulses and ten Zhou Tian circulations was the lowest level of the Zhou Tian Realm, basically with no hope of impacting the Ji Hun Realm, and the strength was only one hundred tripods, which was about twenty thousand jin.

And at the First Level of the Zhou Tian Realm, ten Zhou Tian circulations per pulse was equivalent to only increasing strength by 2000 jin. Although compared to the 3600 jin of strength of an ordinary Tongli Realm, it was considered an increase close to doubling, but divine blood users doubled their strength in the Tongli Realm, reaching 7200 jin of strength, and with Tongli perfection, they could fight a normal Zhou Tian Realm First Level! This was the power of divine blood users.

Moreover, this did not include the improvements brought by additional techniques, cultivation methods, etc.

After all, which martial artist hadn't learned two handy techniques?

Not to mention the background and family assets of divine blood users; the level of their cultivation methods could never be low, so the gap was even greater. An ordinary divine blood user at Tongli perfection could easily defeat martial artists around the Second or Third Level of the Zhou Tian Realm by relying on techniques.

Some monsters could even fight across levels to the Fourth or Fifth Level! And by the time they reached the Zhou Tian Realm, the gap brought by cultivation methods and cultivation resources would cause an even greater gap in martial power and cultivation speed.

Just the two supreme Qi circulation and pulse-opening techniques of the Li family, when simultaneously reaching Great Success, meant one million jin of strength at Zhou Tian Realm perfection! And the weakest was only twenty thousand jin, a gap of more than fifty times!

However, ordinary Zhou Tian Realm perfection martial artists rarely cultivated only the weakest method of ten Zhou Tian circulations; that was the lowest bottom line.

Everyone had some opportunities. Even if they didn't, by relying on their own struggle and wandering, or even joining the army, they could obtain intermediate-grade Qi circulation methods and intermediate-grade pulse-opening martial arts with eighteen pulses.

Like the Li family's Yuan-character Battalion, which was a battalion name once led by the ancestor, any soldier who could be selected into the Yuan-character Battalion could cultivate superior-grade Qi circulation methods and pulse-opening martial arts. When brought out, they were all strong in the same realm. Therefore, the ten thousand troops of the Yuan-character Battalion surpassed an ordinary army of one million!

Li Hao felt the galloping strength in his body, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

The terrifying improvement brought by cultivation methods far exceeded divine blood. After all, divine blood could only be stimulated to double the base 3600 jin of strength in the Tongli Realm, but cultivation methods could not.

For him now, a mere increase of three thousand plus jin of strength was not worth mentioning.

"Not counting the attack characteristics of Tiger Pressure, Flying Stage, etc., and the Sea Without End sword technique, just in physical combat, I should now be able to easily defeat an ordinary Zhou Tian Realm Tenth Level wandering martial artist. But compared to those Zhou Tian Realm perfection soldiers in the Yuan-character Battalion, I'm still far behind." Li Hao muttered to himself.

Those soldiers in the Yuan-character Battalion were all tigers of Emperor Da Yu, and the Yuan-character Army was even more synonymous with the god of death among the demons in Yanbei.

Once they set out under the Yuan-character flag, demons and monsters would be terrified. The reason was that the superior-grade Qi circulation methods and pulse-opening martial arts they cultivated gave them five hundred thousand jin of strength at Zhou Tian Realm perfection!

What kind of terror was ten thousand such soldiers setting out? Not to mention that the Zhou Tian Realm was only the weakest realm in the Yuan-character Battalion.

"Right now, I can barely spar with the soldiers of the Third or Fourth Level of the Zhou Tian Realm in the Yuan-character Battalion, but they have rich combat experience, and I might not even be their match."

Although the improvement was huge, Li Hao's heart did not swell.

He then fused the Qi circulation technique of the Third Layer of the Dragon Cicada Vacuum Body. By erasing the overlapping and covered parts, his Qi circulation speed increased again, reaching one hundred and forty-three Zhou Tian circulations per breath! It was fifteen Zhou Tian circulations more than the 'Hundred Battles Zhou Tian Art'. By the time he reached Zhou Tian Realm perfection, that gap would have accumulated to be very large.

But, compared to the imperial family's 'All-Heavens Zhou Tian Art', it was still much inferior.

Li Hao subsequently practiced all the other numerous upper, middle, and lower body-refining techniques several times, reaching the point where his memory and body were completely synchronized.

This caused his physical strength to receive a not-insignificant increase, reaching about fifteen thousand jin. After all, it was the intersection and sum of dozens of cultivation methods. In addition, all parts of his body were greatly enhanced; his vision, hearing, skin perception, etc., were all strengthened several times over.

When facing an enemy, these would have a significant impact on the outcome of the battle.

Subsequently, Li Hao searched for information about the Taiyin Pulse within the tower.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 29 =====