Chapter 115: Qi Transformation, Discriminating Qi

Qingyuan Fist Village.

In the courtyard where the Great Leader lived, Li Fei stood in the courtyard in the posture of a Heaven-Gang One-Qi Stance, closing his eyes and adjusting his breathing.

Shangguan Xiao was watching not far away.

Today was September 24th, and more than ten days had passed since Zhang Mingze was killed.

After Li Fei caused the second 'Market Entrance' incident, he completely completed his cultivation of 'Breaking Mental Obstacles', and his mental power crossed the threshold of the Qi Transformation stage.

What he had to do next was to take a large amount of elixirs every day, let the Steel Armor implant in his body grow rapidly, and wait for the power of the implant and the power of the body to cross the threshold of the Qi Transformation stage, stimulating the Innate Qi; then he would be considered to have successfully broken through the realm.

Because he couldn't explain to Hao Yi why he could break through so quickly, Li Fei would run to the Qingyuan Fist Village every night during this period to ask his Martial Aunt Shangguan Xiao to guide his cultivation.

Shangguan Xiao was Hao Yi's Junior Martial Sister, the two shared the same lineage, and she herself was a Dao Foundation stage powerhouse, so guiding Li Fei was more than enough.

Soon, Li Fei slowly opened his eyes and stopped standing in the stance.

"How is it?"

Shangguan Xiao, not far away, asked.

Li Fei looked at her: "According to the visualization method taught by Martial Aunt, I can already feel a heat flow surging in the Steel Armor implant, but this heat flow seems to be bound by something, and I can't burst it out from the implant according to my will."

Shangguan Xiao nodded: "Hmm, the heat flow you perceive is the prototype of Innate Qi. What you need to do next is to constantly try to let this heat flow break free from the shackles and burst out from the implant."

Mental power cannot make the implant and the martial artist's own physique strengthen out of thin air; it can only stimulate the implant to accelerate growth. So during this period, Li Fei would take a large amount of elixirs every day, using elixirs to strengthen the implant, while simultaneously feeding back to himself.

In ten days, he not only finished eating all the 300 Force-Transforming Pills and 500 Grass-Returning Pills he bought before, but also bought an additional batch of elixirs to take, which allowed the power of the Steel Armor implant to completely cross the threshold of the Qi Transformation stage, and afterward, his own physique also crossed this threshold.

Now Li Fei's total number of Blood Souls had increased to 115!

Now his body, mind, and the power of the implant had all crossed the threshold of the Qi Transformation stage, and he only needed to fuse the three to stimulate the Innate Qi and officially become a martial master at the Qi Transformation stage.

Li Fei was trying for the first time at this moment, coordinating the three forces according to the visualization method taught by Shangguan Xiao. Although he didn't successfully stimulate the Innate Qi in the end, he had already mastered the method, and success was only a matter of time.

"You already know the method. You can practice it yourself every day from now on. Do you still want to spar today?"

Shangguan Xiao asked.

Li Fei glanced at his Myriad Blood Bead; it was only 3% of energy away from upgrading.

Taking a large amount of elixirs during this period plus sparring with Shangguan Xiao allowed the Myriad Blood Bead to absorb a large amount of energy.

So he said to Shangguan Xiao:

"I want to practice."

"Fine, go get your blade."

Shangguan Xiao said.

Li Fei walked to the side and took out the Ghost Severing from the wooden box.

He walked to the center of the courtyard with the blade and said to Shangguan Xiao:

"Martial Aunt, please."

Every night during this period, he would spar with Shangguan Xiao to temper his martial arts skills and also to familiarize himself with the combat power of a Dao Foundation stage powerhouse in advance.

Of course, the most important thing was that he could have a Dao Foundation stage powerhouse provide energy for the Myriad Blood Bead every day.

As Li Fei's voice fell, his figure swelled abruptly, his height grew to two meters three, and he turned into a small giant with copper-colored skin.

After activating 'Tyrant Body', Li Fei held Ghost Severing and rushed toward Shangguan Xiao.

Just as he rushed out one step, he suddenly changed direction and leaped to the right.

Swish—

A bolt of lightning tore through the air, passing through the position where Li Fei had just been.

This bolt of lightning was like a long spear, which was shot out by Shangguan Xiao with a flick of her finger.

One of the implants she used was the Grade 3 medium 【Flash Spirit】, which, like Zong Guang's 【Lei Yu】, was a variant attribute—thunder attribute.

It was just that 【Flash Spirit】 was a whole grade higher than 【Lei Yu】, and Shangguan Xiao's degree of development of the implant was far beyond Zong Guang's, and she had already practiced the Flash Thunder Force, so the power of this lightning naturally could not be mentioned in the same breath.

This casual flick of Shangguan Xiao's finger shot out a Flash Thunder Force, with power comparable to a bullet!

Li Fei relied on the Steel Armor implant's danger perception to dodge this attack in advance, then completed a close-quarters approach and slashed over with one blade.

Shangguan Xiao raised her left hand to meet the incoming blade edge.

This Grade 5 alien weapon she gave Li Fei could be said to be able to cut iron like mud; even with the physical strength of a Dao Foundation stage powerhouse, it was impossible to block it directly with the palm.

Just as the blade edge was about to touch Shangguan Xiao's palm, a high-speed rotating translucent air vortex suddenly appeared in her palm.

This was the power of her other implant, the Grade 2 low 【Storm Bone】, which was also a variant attribute—wind attribute.

Martial artists who possessed implants with variant attributes were usually stronger than other martial artists in the same realm, and both implants Shangguan Xiao used to build her Dao Foundation were variant attributes, which made her combat power in the Dao Foundation stage extraordinary, which was why she could leave as she pleased when facing the siege of a group of experts from the Stop-Goe Academy back then.

At this time, she used a translucent air vortex to block the blade edge of Ghost Severing; this was the Storm Gang Force practiced by 【Storm Bone】.

After Li Fei slashed into that air vortex, the momentum of the blade was hindered, the blade edge was stuck by the force, making it difficult to break free, and Ghost Severing even had a tendency to slip out of his hand.

He rotated his body, drove his arm to exert force together, and simultaneously used 'Blood Rage', consuming 7 Blood Souls at once!

Having sparred with Shangguan Xiao for these days, Li Fei was quite familiar with this Storm Gang Force and knew how to exert force to break free most easily. At this moment, he relied on the power brought by 'Blood Rage' to forcibly break Ghost Severing free from the air vortex, and while taking advantage of the momentum to slash at Shangguan Xiao, he turned sideways to dodge another Flash Thunder Force.

Boom—

An air vortex appeared between the two, and then exploded with a bang, the powerful thrust pushing Li Fei away, making this slash of his fall through in the end.

Shangguan Xiao stepped forward and slapped Li Fei from the side.

Li Fei let the other party slap him, hard-carried the slap, and turned around with a horizontal slash.

Shangguan Xiao flicked her right finger, just hitting the blade body of Ghost Severing.

Hum—

This flick was like an exploding thunder, shaking the blade body of Ghost Severing so that it trembled constantly, and Li Fei's horizontal slash was broken just like that.

He was already accustomed to this and continued to slash at Shangguan Xiao.

The two sparred in this small courtyard, and for a time, the sound of wind and thunder was loud!

Ten minutes later, Shangguan Xiao stopped:

"Alright, let's stop here for today."

"Thank you for your hard work, Martial Aunt."

Li Fei bowed sincerely to the other party to thank her.

If it were just purely defeating Li Fei, it wouldn't be difficult, but every time Shangguan Xiao sparred with him, she was consciously controlling her force, managing to temper Li Fei's physique without truly hurting Li Fei.

This was very exhausting, especially since Li Fei spent at least half the time using the Myriad Blood Bead to share the damage and absorb energy, making him much more durable than ordinary martial masters.

"Your talent in horizontal training kung fu is indeed rare; no wonder Senior Brother wanted you to cultivate 【Primordial Heaven Gold】."

Shangguan Xiao said with emotion.

If it were an ordinary martial master, having taken so many of her Storm Gang Forces and Flash Thunder Forces, they would have already collapsed, but Li Fei was like a person who was perfectly fine.

Li Fei didn't explain too much; he looked at the Myriad Blood Bead in his body:

【Level: 10 Level 1%

Blood Souls: 133

Blood Soul Skills: Blood Rage, Blood Sha

Transformation Skill: Blood Demon】

The sparring just now allowed the Myriad Blood Bead to successfully upgrade to Level 10, and this time the Blood Souls increased by 18.

With such a 'blood volume', if only talking about the strength of vitality, Li Fei was already no worse than an ordinary Dao Foundation stage powerhouse!

In the next few days, Li Fei would spend several hours every day trying 'Three Forces as One', and his situation was getting better each time.

September 27th, night.

Li Fei was still trying 'Three Forces as One' in Shangguan Xiao's courtyard.

He stood in the Primordial One-Qi Stance, closing his eyes and visualizing.

In his consciousness, the Steel Armor implant in his body was like a mighty long river.

This long river had branches, running through his entire body from top to bottom, and could reach any extremity of his body.

And right at the bottom of the riverbed of this long river, a heat flow was hidden, like red magma.

Li Fei was constantly trying to draw this 'magma' out from the bottom of the riverbed.

Gradually, the red magma broke through the riverbed and began to gush upward!

As the magma began to gush, it was like a chain reaction, and magma erupted from under the various tributaries of the long river.

In the courtyard, Li Fei, who was standing in place closing his eyes and visualizing, suddenly shook his body, and a dark golden aura suddenly sprayed out from all the pores of his body.

Shangguan Xiao, who was on the side, saw this scene, her face full of joy:

"It's done!"

The dark golden aura sprayed out from Li Fei's body was the Innate Qi!

She took a step forward, instantly arrived at Li Fei's side, pointed a finger at Li Fei's chest, and said in a deep voice:

"Calm your heart and guard the Qi, and slowly guide this aura to flow through your whole body according to the method I taught you before."

As she spoke, she took action to assist Li Fei in guiding the Innate Qi that had erupted in his body for the first time.

At this time, one could see how important it was to have a good teacher to help with martial arts cultivation.

If it were Li Fei completing the breakthrough by himself, with no one watching on the side, he might have caused himself internal injuries because he couldn't properly guide the Innate Qi in his body.

The most critical thing was that the effect of the Innate Qi erupted for the first time on the transformation of the body was the best. If one could smoothly guide the Innate Qi to flow through the whole body at this time, it would make future martial arts cultivation smoother.

Ten minutes later, with Shangguan Xiao's help, Li Fei successfully guided the Innate Qi to flow through his whole body, completing the first strengthening of the body by the Innate Qi.

He felt warm all over his body, as if soaking in a hot spring, very comfortable.

After the aura completely calmed down, he slowly opened his eyes and bowed to Shangguan Xiao:

"Many thanks to Martial Aunt for guarding the path."

Shangguan Xiao smiled and helped him up:

"Why be polite with Martial Aunt? Congratulations, you are now a martial master."

Successfully stimulating the Innate Qi, Li Fei was considered to have stepped from the Body Breaking stage into the Qi Transformation stage and could be called a martial master.

Next, when he broke through to the middle stage of Qi Transformation and practiced the force, he could be called a Force-Practicing Martial Master.

"You broke through to the Qi Transformation stage by way of 'Breaking Mental Obstacles'. Your mental power is far stronger than that of an ordinary martial master at the Qi Transformation stage, which will make your control over the Innate Qi stronger and will also make your cultivation speed faster."

Shangguan Xiao said to Li Fei.

"I heard Senior Brother say that martial artists who complete the breakthrough by way of 'Breaking Mental Obstacles' have a cultivation aptitude in implant compatibility that can be raised by at least one major grade! For example, if your compatibility is Grade B-minus, then after completing the breakthrough, your implant growth speed can at least be comparable to someone with Grade A-minus aptitude."

Li Fei was thoughtful after hearing this.

His initial comprehensive aptitude was Grade B-minus, but because of the Myriad Blood Bead, he had almost no upper limit in terms of endurance.

And in terms of compatibility, he had already taken quite a few Clear Insight Pills. After he took all the Clear Insight Pills in his hand, his aptitude could be raised to Grade B-plus.

And this had already reached the top; Clear Insight Pills could not raise a person's aptitude from Grade B to Grade A.

Now that Li Fei broke through to the Qi Transformation stage by way of 'Breaking Mental Obstacles', according to Shangguan Xiao's statement, he could get a bonus equivalent to one major grade in terms of compatibility.

That was to say, he could change from Grade B-plus to Grade A-plus!

Compatibility determined the speed of implant growth, and coupled with the convenience brought by the Myriad Blood Bead, Li Fei's cultivation speed in the future would be terrifyingly fast!

"Did Master also break through to the Qi Transformation stage by way of 'Breaking Mental Obstacles'?"

Li Fei asked curiously.

Shangguan Xiao nodded, her expression somewhat complicated:

"Yes, both you teacher and student walked this path."

She seemed unwilling to talk more about this topic, quickly changed the subject, and began to explain to Li Fei the various matters needing attention in the Qi Transformation stage:

"... Even for the same implant, because of different personal physiques and different cultivation processes, the Innate Qi stimulated in the end will also be different. Implants with five-element attributes have dozens of types of Innate Qi generated after reaching the Qi Transformation stage. First, they are divided into Yin and Yang according to the Heavenly Stems, among which Jia, Bing, Wu, Geng, and Ren are Yang, and Yi, Ding, Ji, Xin, and Gui are Yin."

"Jia Wood, Yi Wood, Bing Fire, Ding Fire, Wu Earth, Ji Earth, Geng Metal, Xin Metal, Ren Water, Gui Water, there are ten attributes in total."

"Besides this, Innate Qi is also divided into six types: True, Clear, Gang, Sha, Xuan, and Yuan. True Qi is pure, Clear Qi is light and agile, Gang Qi is domineering, Sha Qi is gloomy and treacherous, Xuan Qi is changeable, and Yuan Qi is thick."

"Your 【Steel Armor】 implant belongs to the metal attribute, so the Innate Qi practiced can only be Geng Metal or Xin Metal. As for the next six attributes, 【Steel Armor】 is definitely not destined for Clear Qi, Sha Qi, or Xuan Qi. Your Innate Qi can only be one of True Qi, Gang Qi, or Yuan Qi. Gang Qi is the most common, Yuan Qi is very suitable, and True Qi is the hardest to obtain."

Shangguan Xiao looked at Li Fei:

"Your master hopes you will practice the 【Primordial Heaven Gold】 Dao Foundation, so your Innate Qi is best to be Yuan Qi, so that you have a chance of success. If it is Gang Qi, then that last step of Dao Fusion will be very difficult."

Li Fei quickly digested this content and asked:

"Then what if it is True Qi?"

Shangguan Xiao smiled: "True Qi is the hardest type of Qi to appear among the six types of Innate Qi, because it requires sufficient purity, and martial artists have taken too many drugs in the process of cultivation, and the implant inevitably absorbs and precipitates many impurities, which leads to the Innate Qi stimulated also carrying some impurities, not pure enough, and naturally cannot become True Qi."

"If you can practice True Qi, then the probability of you practicing 【Primordial Heaven Gold】 can be increased by at least 30%!"

After saying this, Shangguan Xiao walked into the house and took out a Bagua stone disk.

She walked to Li Fei with this stone disk:

"I just perceived your Innate Qi preliminarily, but personal perception is not the most accurate. This is a Bagua disk specially used for discriminating Qi. Inject your Innate Qi into it and see what kind of Qi you practiced?"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 116 =====