Chapter 929 - 749: Nine Apertures

The Five-Colored Spirit Essence was only about a foot long and five to six inches high, resembling deer antlers that branched out, its surface transparent but its interior murky, somewhat resembling coral found under the sea.

However, it rhythmically flashed five different lights: light white, dark white, light blue, deep blue, and silver, clearly indicating it was not an ordinary object.

Lou Yi grasped the Five-Colored Spirit Essence with his right hand, its touch cool and silky, with a slight elasticity.

In his mind, he recalled the Treasure Absorption Technique taught by Zhou Xinghai.

’Sacrifice blood to it, drive the convergence of divine sense, and channel its energy into the wound, integrating with the physique...’

At Lou Yi’s fingertips, a drop of crimson blood, resembling a gem, appeared and fell upon one of the ’antlers’ of the Five-Colored Spirit Essence.

In an instant, the Spirit Essence’s brilliance intensified, more than ten times stronger than before.

Soon after, a thin mist of green emerged from his forehead.

At times, it transformed into a soaring eagle in the air, at times into a spinning treasure bottle, and at times into a leisurely flying golden cicada.

This was merely a trivial fragment of Lou Yi’s spirit.

As this fragment of spirit connected with the Five-Colored Spirit Essence, Lou Yi immediately sensed the celestial object’s curiosity, fear, longing, and joy.

A divine object inherently possesses spirituality and can’t be viewed as a mere mortal inanimate object.

After a brief spiritual exchange between Lou Yi and the Five-Colored Spirit Essence, he seemed to have gained its trust.

The Spirit Essence began to ’buzz’ and vibrate, with numerous ’antlers’ gently swaying back and forth.

Meanwhile, a faint white mist evaporated from the ’antler’, soon to dissipate into the air.

In the palm of Lou Yi’s right hand, a thin scarlet crack appeared silently.

Facing the direction of the white mist, it released an absorption force.

Preventing the mist from dispersing immediately, instead it transformed into a trail of light smoke, rushing towards Lou Yi’s wound.

As the white mist first entered his body, Lou Yi furrowed his brows.

Cold, unprecedented cold, far more potent than any cold poison he previously encountered!

Though nothing seemed unusual with the mist in the air, its entry into the human body triggered a significant chemical reaction.

Instantly, a layer of visible frost appeared on Lou Yi’s body surface; his brows had white flakes, and his hair was laden with ice shards.

Of course, given Lou Yi’s now formidable physique, the white mist posed no trouble.

The mist swiftly coursed through his body, seemingly undergoing continuous cleansing by his qi-blood, gradually transforming into a relatively gentle energy.

Eventually, this energy reached his fourth divine acupoint, the Coiling Dragon Acupoint, where it was entirely absorbed by the acupoint.

In the Attribute Panel, the cultivation progress of the acupoint steadily advanced.

Four Acupoints (525/600) → Four Acupoints (526/600)...→ Four Acupoints (599/600) → Four Acupoints (600/600)

After the Coiling Dragon Acupoint reached perfection, three-tenths of the Spirit Essence’s ’antlers’ turned dry white, covered with fine cracks, evidently ’sucked dry’.

With the four acupoints perfected, the next step was locating the fifth acupoint.

To most people, finding acupoints is the most difficult task, the vast majority of Martial Artists spend their lives without locating all acupoints.

However, Lou Yi previously cultivated the Knowledge Storage Technique to the Great Success Realm, allowing him to easily locate all divine acupoints during this period.

The other five divine acupoints are: Zhe Long, Wandering Dragon, Kang Dragon, Qiu Dragon, and Rising Dragon.

The remaining white mist drifted to the entrance of the Zhe Long Acupoint but couldn’t enter.

Outside the Zhe Long Acupoint was an invisible gateway, blocking the mist’s entry.

The mist continually tried to penetrate, akin to ’knocking’, hoping to open the tightly shut acupoint.

Seeing this, Lou Yi understood that the overall amount of mist was insufficient, hence unable to open the gateway.

But the problem arose, with just a wisp inside his body, he felt extremely uncomfortable, verging on freezing to death.

Increasing the dosage might lead to being frozen to shards before reaching the Zhe Long Acupoint.

At this point, Lou Yi comprehended why among past generations, so many True Martial Realm completions acquired the Five-Colored Spirit Essence, yet few succeeded in breaking through.

Many even perished halfway through the breakthrough.

Of course, the Spirit Essence was dangerous to others merely due to their inadequacy in cultivation and physique toughness.

Currently, considering Lou Yi’s physical robustness, even a Great Demon would struggle to compare.

Upon this realization, the scarlet crack on Lou Yi’s palm enlarged dramatically, increasing the absorption force, transforming the previously drawn white mist into a large mass.

A vast amount of white mist poured into his wound, quickly forming a thick layer of ice over Lou Yi’s skin.

"Hiss..." Lou Yi couldn’t help but inhale sharply from the coldness.

The white mist couldn’t kill him, but that didn’t mean he wouldn’t feel uncomfortable.

The blood vessels, flesh and organs inside his body were all stiff, even his divine soul became somewhat sluggish, with a significant decline in response sensitivity.

Of course, the effect of such a large amount of white mist entering the body was pleasing.

They seemed to condense into a hemp rope, directly breaking open the tightly closed Zhe Long Acupoint, and continually rushing inside.

The Zhe Long Acupoint was instantly filled to half, and Lou Yi’s cultivation was skyrocketing like a rocket.

Five Acupoints (0/600) → Five Acupoints (10/600)... → Five Acupoints (580/600)

One portion of Five-Colored Spirit Essence almost allowed Lou Yi to perfect the fifth acupoint.

Fortunately, he still had four portions.

The perfection of the Five Acupoints, began refining the sixth acupoint, sixth acupoint perfection...

By the time the last portion of spirit essence was consumed, Lou Yi’s Ninth Acupoint, the Rising Dragon Acupoint, was also forcefully opened.

Although it wasn’t perfected much, there wouldn’t be any bottlenecks in the future, and reaching the Nine Orifices Perfection was just a matter of time.

"This is the Nine Orifices?" Lou Yi felt a bit stunned, always feeling it was a bit too easy.

However, feeling the vast qi-blood within him like a river, a smile appeared on his face.

"Qi-blood has more than tripled compared to before.

Previously, I was confident in solo-killing a mid-stage Golden Core and a mid-stage Great Demon.

Now, I’m afraid I could even wrestle with a late-stage Third Realm master?"

"Divine sense has also been significantly enhanced, although not as outstanding as physical cultivation, there’s no obvious disadvantage facing a true Third Realm anymore."

"The biggest change is the transformation of Gang Qi."

From Lou Yi’s fingertips, a black thread overflowed instantly, semi-transparent, full of texture, seemingly made of glass fiber.

The black thread flew towards a small hill ahead, then began to extend rapidly, winding around the hill.

’Sizzle!’

Lou Yi lifted it into the air, and the small hill was effortlessly sliced by this black thread.

It split into two segments, with the higher triangular segment collapsing to the ground, causing an earthquake and raising a great deal of dust.

"My previous Gang Qi manifested as a black mist.

Now, in terms of pure power without considering mystical aspects, it may not be much different from the Profound Light of the True Profound Martial Artist Wen Ye."

"Of course, there’s also something different, which is the attribute being too frigid."

Lou Yi looked at the hill which had been largely cut off to reveal a large expanse of flat land, now covered with a thick layer of frost.

"Perhaps, once I return to Han Sea, enduring the thunder tribulation could wash away this coldness, further enhancing its power."

"The immediate task is still to find a way back to the Vast Sea Realm quickly."

Lou Yi could break through to the Third Realm at any moment now, but he certainly couldn’t endure the thunder tribulation in this world.

According to some information recorded in ancient texts, it is known that the larger the world where cultivator or martial artist resides, the stronger their power after a breakthrough.

This True Profound Continent might not even be a complete world, so Lou Yi naturally wouldn’t choose to break through here.

However, Lou Yi’s strength has ways to increase even without breaking through his martial arts cultivation.

After he stepped into the Nine Orifices Realm.

The factions he previously offended, such as the Lion Seal, White Tiger Seal, and Ape King Seal, hurriedly sent an abundance of the sect’s secret collections for Lou Yi to choose from.

Many heavenly materials and earthly treasures couldn’t be put into a storage bag and had to be transported via spirit horse carriage.

Some sects even equipped as many as dozens of carriages, making Lou Yi wonder whether they had emptied the sect’s secret vault.

It’s no wonder the other party was so sincere.

Indeed, Lou Yi’s strength had transcended the mundane, practically becoming the local emperor of this world, wielding life and death power over everyone.

Of course, most treasures were of no use to Lou Yi, he was searching for those key items that could assist in talent breakthroughs.

Bit by bit inspecting, Lou Yi soon found several kinds.

"Fireproof Golden Toad Skin? This heavenly material and earthly treasure can be used to enhance Fire Resistance Talent."

"Divine Wind Dew, can be used to enhance Wind Stabilization Talent."

"Three-Life Vine... What is this, the poison can be upgraded again?"

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