Immortality Begins with Breathing Exercises

Chapter 159: Chapter 87: Qi Blood Like a Tiger

Three hours later.

It was already noon.

The temperature rose significantly again today, with the golden sunlight pouring down, walking outside in long sleeves would soon make one feel unbearably hot and roll up their sleeves.

Lin Zheyu leaned against the corner of the wall, his chest rising and falling.

Breaking through a limit took him an entire morning.

As his physique became stronger and endurance increased, the time required to break through limits grew longer.

[Heaven rewards diligence]

Name: Lin Zheyu

Source Power: 2

Skills:

Wild Bull Fist (Perfection)

Six Harmonies Blade (Great Success 10%)

Golden Swan Skill (Seventh Layer 92%)

Ten Thousand Armies Step (Fifth Layer 6%)

Poison King Body (First Layer 0%)

Turtle Breath Skill (Third Layer 4%)

”After reaching the Qi Blood Three Transformations, I should be able to gain two units of source power every two times I break through my limits, right?”

Lin Zheyu looked at the data in his consciousness and said to himself.

Currently, on average, he gained about 1.33 units of source power with each limit breakthrough. Once he reached Qi Blood Three Transformations, gaining 1.5 units of source power from a limit breakthrough didn’t seem excessive, did it?

After resting for more than ten minutes and refining a few strands of qi blood power, Lin Zheyu’s stamina recovered considerably.

He stood up to stretch his muscles and bones, and fetched 16 packs of medicinal powder from the house.

Currently, his stock of medicinal powder was running low, with only 26 sets of herbal powder left in the house and more than eighteen hundred taels of silver.

After the news of the chaotic army capturing Baohe City arrived, the prices in the city surged, and now the materials for a single set of Blood-Nourishing and Bone-Strengthening Soup cost almost twenty taels of silver.

This price was too expensive, nearly doubling compared to the beginning.

Even with Lin Zheyu having nearly two thousand taels of silver, he was still somewhat hesitant to spend it.

It was too expensive, it was practically robbery.

Originally, with his current savings, he could fully cover the cost required to advance the Golden Swan Skill to the eighth layer to perfection.

But with skyrocketing prices, Lin Zheyu felt a bit uncertain.

Advancing to the Qi Blood Two Transformations requires the materials for eight sets of Blood-Nourishing and Bone-Strengthening Soup, and for Qi Blood Three Transformations, probably ten sets will be needed.

Lin Zheyu estimated that advancing the Golden Swan Skill to the perfection level of the eighth layer would require about fourteen units of source power.

In total, this meant needing one hundred and forty sets of materials.

At current market prices, that would require two thousand eight hundred taels of silver.

”I have to be thrifty with it.”

Lin Zheyu said to himself.

Looking at the sixteen sets of medicinal materials on the stone table, he pondered for a moment and then put two sets back into the house.

Fourteen sets of materials would be enough for his advancement, but at that time, the qi blood power within his body would likely not recover much, requiring him to rely on a lot of eating to replenish it.

But that wasn’t a problem, since food was much cheaper than medicinal materials.

”Can food be used as an alternative to medicinal materials as an energy source for advancing source power?”

This thought suddenly surfaced in Lin Zheyu’s mind.

If medicinal materials can do it, then there’s no reason food can’t.

However, ordinary food contains low energy content, needing a large amount of food for one unit of source power to meet the energy requirement.

But a large amount of food exceeds the effective range of source power.

When utilizing source power, the mysterious energy that emerges within the body has a limited range of effect.

Lin Zheyu had tested this before by pouring medicinal powder into a large tub, immersing his hand inside.

When using source power to advance, not all the medicinal powder in the tub was absorbed.

Only the medicinal powder within a twenty-centimeter range around his hand had its medicinal energy absorbed.

When the whole body was immersed, the range was even smaller, with only the medicinal powder within three centimeters from the body surface being drawn by the mysterious energy.

If food is to be used as energy, it must contain highly concentrated energy like medicinal materials.

Otherwise, it wouldn’t meet his demands for rapid energy absorption.

Lin Zheyu took a deep breath, purged the distracting thoughts from his mind.

He poured the medicinal powder into a wooden basin, added water, and used his hands to stir it evenly.

’Use two units of source power to enhance Golden Swan Skill.’

The thought was transmitted outward.

Lin Zheyu’s mind felt hazy, entering a special state of consciousness.

His spirit entered a mysterious consciousness space and began endless training.

The progress of the Golden Swan Skill accelerated rapidly, soon reaching the perfection of the seventh layer, entering the eighth layer, and continuing to advance rapidly.

The Golden Swan Skill advanced from the early stage of the seventh layer to the eighth layer, spending about eleven units of source power in the process.

This equated to approximately eleven years of endless cultivation in the consciousness space without using supplementing medicines.

During this long time, Lin Zheyu gradually integrated the Ten Thousand Armies Step into the Golden Swan Skill.

Lin Zheyu’s own talent was exceptionally outstanding, even without using source power for enhancement, his talent amazed Liang Song.

Such strong talent, after ten years of crazy cultivation, gradually merged the Ten Thousand Armies Step into the Golden Swan Skill.

Lin Zheyu’s lightweight skill became increasingly ethereal and elusive, with a faint sense of the ephemeral feeling of Duan Yu’s Ripple Step from his previous life, making his movements hard to predict.

At the same time.

Lin Zheyu’s body was undergoing a transformational change.

Qi Blood Three Transformations was a crucial threshold, also known as Qi Blood Like Tiger.

With the continuous purification and enhancement of the qi blood, upon reaching a certain limit, a qualitative change occurred suddenly.

Lin Zheyu’s entire body of qi blood twisted into a single strand, seemingly gaining a sense of spirituality, and as it flowed with his body’s blood, it made a faint roar like a fierce tiger.

A few breaths later.

Lin Zheyu opened his eyes from his mental daze and exhaled a long breath of turbid air.