The Lord of Void and Real

Chapter 150: Chapter 149: Condensing Meridians

Shen Luo’s facial features contorted in pain, drenched in cold sweat. But both of his hands remained tightly wrapped around his lower abdomen’s Dantian, unwilling to ease the slightest bit of their grip.

At this moment, the two streams of mana in his Dantian engaged in a fierce conflict, causing his abdomen to rumble like a drum, emitting booming sounds.

His Dantian had never experienced such a colossal impact; it felt like countless small blades were stirring it crazily.

Compared to the current heart-wrenching agony, the previously endured pain from the tearing of his meridians and Dantian seemed negligible.

His teeth tightly clenched, despite his unbearable short gasps of pain. His body continued to shudder incessantly, and beads of perspiration the size of soybeans continued to roll from his forehead.

“No wonder the Nameless Heavenly Book mentioned the necessity of steadfast determination. This kind of torment is unbearable for an ordinary person!” Shen Luo thought to himself, but no intention of surrender arose within him.

The mana conflict within his Dantian intensified, intensifying the pain.

Shen Luo, doubled over, clenched his fists in the area above his Dantian, fiercely clenching his determination despite cutting his hand in the process.

Gradually, he noticed that the two streams of mana that were originally gaseous, seemed to be wavering less during the constant collision and conflict within his Dantian.

And the originally increasing agony began to subside as the amount of mana decreased.

“Could it be that my attempt has failed and has backfired, causing the carefully cultivated mana to dissolve?” With this thought, Shen Luo became slightly anxious.

Regardless of his anxiety, the conflict of mana within his Dantian did not subside. The consumption of the two increased, and the previously full Dantian started to feel empty.

Shen Luo’s heart sank, the physical torment just now transitioned into mental torment.

Just at that moment, at the location within the Dantian where the conflict was most fierce, something incredible occurred after the two violently colliding streams of mana suddenly ceased.

The two battling flows of mana, after their last bout of collision, did not separate as they had before. Instead, they merged as one.

In his Dantian, a trace of sparkling light emerged, followed by a droplet of radiant, liquid mana.

Boom!

When this liquid mana appeared, just like throwing a spark onto a pile of dry leaves, the other conflicting mana streams began to intertwine and merge continuously, transforming into droplets of liquid mana.

Within the space of a few breaths, all of the mana within Shen Luo’s Dantian had turned liquid. The knife-stirring pain swiftly disappeared, replaced by a warm comforting feeling. It left his Dantian soaked as if immersed in warm water.

Shen Luo was both surprised and delighted by the change in his body.

It seemed that the previously violent mana conflict was nothing more than a necessary process for condensing Qi into a liquid state. The dissolving mana wasn’t actually disappearing; it was continuously condensing, making it more and more potent until it ultimately completely amalgamated and liquified.

Shen Luo calmed his emotions by quietly running the Nameless Cultivation Technique, stabilizing the mana within his Dantian.

Now was not the moment to be complacent. The liquification of mana was merely the first step in breaking through the Grain Avoidance Stage. The real challenge, the refining of meridians, lay ahead. If that step failed, all his previous efforts would be wasted.

Refining of meridians meant to reconstruct the meridians connecting to the Dantian and nourishing them with mana.

According to the Nameless Heavenly Book, different schools and sects had different methods for refining meridians. Some were relatively gentle but took a very long time, while others took shortcuts but obviously held many hidden dangers. The method described in the Nameless Cultivation Technique was the most direct and domineering one. It required one to destroy the original meridians and then let the mana regenerate them.

Destruction of one’s meridians meant facing enormous risks. If one was not careful, it could result in disability at best and potentially even death at worst.

Given Shen Luo’s cautious nature, he naturally preferred the slow and steady way. However, time was a resource he did not have. Most significantly, the Nameless Cultivation Technique only recorded this single method, leaving him no room to choose.

Shen Luo took several deep breaths, cleared his mind of distractions, and slowly closed his eyes.

He continued to absorb the Heavenly and Earthly Spiritual Qi from the surrounding pond water into his Dantian, while gently channeling the liquid mana within his Dantian to form a vortex, rotating it from slow to fast.

Before long, a burning sensation arose within his Dantian. As the vortex accelerated, so did the burning sensation, felt like a fire was burning inside his Dantian.

Shen Luo responded calmly, causing his Dantian to shudder fiercely. Strands of blue mana floated out of the center of the vortex, forming a thumb-sized blue liquid droplet.

Next, the blue liquid droplet moved upwards from his Dantian, directly through his Hand’s Three Yang Meridians, which included the Yangming Large Intestine Meridian, into his arms and finger, as a surge of warmth started quickly flowing within them.

In an instant, the entire meridian was filled with blue mana.

“Break!”

Along with the shout in Shen Luo’s heart, the entire Yangming Large Intestine Meridian shuddered and shattered into pieces. Immediately, intense pain washed over him.

But at that moment, strands of blue silk materialized within the shattered meridian, entwining around the fragments.

There was a vibrant vitality radiating out from these blue strands. The shattered meridian swiftly recovered. Within a few breaths, a brand-new meridian was formed.

The newly formed Yangming Large Intestine Meridian emitted a faint blue light, expanded a bit more than before, and seemed to be stronger.

Almost the same instant after it was reconstructed, this meridian trembled again and shattered once more.

The silvery-blue strands full of vitality emerged again, initiating another swift recovery of the shattered meridian.

In the next moment, as if stuck in a cycle, the meridian shuddered again…

In this way, the cycle of shattering and reconstruction happened nine times before finally settling down.

A dragon-like roar echoed inside his arms. A transparent blue light belt emerged at the back of his body and then vanished instantly.

Experiencing the rampant flow of mana in this newly formed meridian, Shen Luo felt extremely excited. He didn’t expect the process to run so smoothly.

Although he couldn’t observe the changes internally, he could sense the profound changes that had occurred in the Yangming Large Intestine Meridian. The flow capacity had doubled, and it also became much more resilient, behaving like an elastic band.

If he were to use a technique through both hands at that moment, the potency would probably be more than doubled, and the casting speed would be 10% faster. Additionally, the meridian could accelerate the absorption of the Heavenly and Earthly Spiritual Qi. Like the Dantian, it could store mana, thus increasing his body’s mana capacity.

According to the Nameless Heavenly Book, the capacity of a newborn meridian is approximately one-tenth of Dantian’s capacity. With continuous nourishment, it could expand furthermore to store more mana.

“I hope everything goes smoothly from here on,” Shen Luo muttered to himself, quickly suppressing the excitement in his heart.