Chapter 68: Rank Thirty, Breaking Through the Meridians
Although the world's origin energy could not compare to Zhang Peng's cultivation ground, Chen Ming still relied on his innate talent bonuses and his Meditation Method to raise his spirit power by five ranks in a single year, becoming a Rank 29 Spirit Grandmaster. In his fourteenth month here, he reached the threshold for breaking through to Rank 30.
At this point, Chen Ming was not even ten years old, and it had only been two years since his Spirit Awakening.
Because he focused on the quality of his spirit power and also spent time cultivating external techniques, Chen Ming's cultivation speed was certainly slower than if he had simply accumulated spirit power through mindless devouring. Even so, if this rate of progress became known, it would be enough to scare a crowd to death.
Normally, when a Spirit Master reached their current limit, they would immediately obtain a spirit ring. However, because of the Container Theory that Chen Ming had proposed earlier, as well as the Meridians within his body, he did not break through right away. Instead, he began gradually clearing the other Meridians in his body.
Among the Eight Extraordinary Meridians, the Ren and Du Meridians were considered the easiest to locate. Chen Ming did not take long to find them. However, he soon encountered the same problem as Zhang Peng. The Ren and Du Meridians were completely immovable under impact.
Attempting to break through the Ren and Du Meridians was equivalent to testing all the Meridians in the body at once. If the other Meridians had not been cleared, the efficiency of impacting the Ren and Du Meridians would drop sharply.
Thus, Chen Ming could only settle for the next best option and begin trying to break through the other Meridians.
Among the Eight Extraordinary Meridians, the Ren and Du Meridians could only be cleared last. Since the Girdling Meridian and Penetrating Meridian had already been cleared, only four remained before Chen Ming: the Yin Qiao Meridian, Yang Qiao Meridian, Yin Wei Meridian, and Yang Wei Meridian.
These four Meridians consisted of two Yin and two Yang. Clearing one would cause the Yin and Yang Qi in the body to change, so after clearing one Meridian, it was best to clear the corresponding Meridian as soon as possible. After some thought, Chen Ming chose the Yin Wei Meridian and Yang Wei Meridian.
"Qiao" implied agility, while "Wei" implied maintenance. Clearing the Yin and Yang Qiao Meridians could improve lower limb strength and agility, while clearing the Yin and Yang Wei Meridians could adjust the balance of Yin and Yang Qi in the body and resolve stagnation between the internal organs. This would be of great help to Chen Ming's cultivation, so they took priority over the two Qiao Meridians.
Maintaining his Rank 30 cultivation, Chen Ming began devouring large amounts of energy and various medicines given by Zhang Peng, stuffing the energy into his body. Using an inefficient but steady method, he gradually explored the locations of the Meridians and attempted to clear them.
Three full months passed like this.
After consuming five or six Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Beasts and several rare herbs, Chen Ming's accumulation finally reached its limit. With Zhang Peng's assistance, he cleared his Yang Wei Meridian and Yin Wei Meridian one after another.
The clearing of these two Meridians improved Chen Ming's physical fitness by about twenty percent. The flow of spirit power in his body also became faster, and both his cultivation aptitude and cultivation speed received a significant boost.
Especially as his Yin and Yang attributes began to move toward balance, Chen Ming's Spirit seemed to undergo a slight change as well. Although it was still deathly still and filled with Death Qi, it now vaguely radiated a faint yet tenacious vitality.
If there was one problem, it was that after clearing the two Wei Meridians, Chen Ming's originally fixed cultivation circuit had to be replanned and modified.
To maximize the effect of the newly cleared Meridians and prevent the spirit power in his body from falling into chaos, Chen Ming spent another month completely updating his Meditation Method into a suitable version.
Once everything was ready, Chen Ming began searching for his third spirit ring.
After a detailed inspection, Zhang Peng made a reasonable judgment for Chen Ming.
"Your body is already close to that of a high-level Spirit Ancestor. The maximum limit you can carry is probably a little over eight or nine thousand years."
"A Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Beast is a truly high-level Spirit Beast among the Spirit Beast race. Its spirit ring will also undergo a qualitative change. Not only is the energy inside far greater and more violent, but when absorbing the spirit ring, you will also face a mental shock. There is a huge difference between a nine-thousand-nine-hundred-and-ninety-nine-year spirit ring and a ten-thousand-year spirit ring."
"Even if you take the Heavenly King Heart-Protecting Pill, you cannot attempt to directly absorb a ten-thousand-year spirit ring as your third spirit ring."
"Ideally, your third spirit ring should come from a Spirit Beast over eight thousand years but under nine thousand years."
"Do not worry too much about the difference of one or two thousand years. With your talent, you may even compete for the position of Saint within the Holy Spirit Cult in the future. By then, you will most likely obtain the Cult's secret method for upgrading spirit rings. With that secret method as compensation, your spirit rings can be strengthened further."
"As for your fourth spirit ring, by then, you should be able to absorb one between twenty thousand and thirty thousand years…"
At this point, Zhang Peng clicked his tongue.
"Truly terrifying. Calculating it this way, will you be able to carry a hundred-thousand-year ring by your seventh spirit ring? Such talent is already comparable to that person."
The person Zhang Peng thought of was naturally Mu En.
Two yellow, one purple, three black, and three red. That spirit ring configuration, even among the original Shrek Seven Devils who had accepted the God Trials back then, was second only to Sea God Tang San. Moreover, Mu En had not received any acquired increases to his spirit ring years.
Over the past ten thousand years, countless geniuses had appeared on the Douluo Continent, but Mu En's spirit ring configuration was the most outstanding in ten thousand years, without question.
Many people once believed that this Radiant Holy Dragon could reach a Realm no one had achieved in ten thousand years. But in the end, Mu En disappeared just like the countless Seniors of the past ten millennia.
At Zhang Peng's signal, Chen Ming took his pack and began weaving through the primeval forest in search of a suitable target. Zhang Peng remained hidden behind him, observing Chen Ming's every move as an assessment of his cultivation during this period.
If one had to name the best place for hunting spirit rings, it would naturally be the Star Dou Great Forest. But that did not mean excellent Spirit Beasts could not be found outside the Star Dou Great Forest. Some Spirit Beasts that lived in special environments might not even exist within the Star Dou Great Forest.
For example, Spirit Masters with lion-type or tiger-type Spirits rarely chose the Star Dou Great Forest first when obtaining high-year spirit rings. Instead, they would usually try to find suitable Spirit Beasts elsewhere and only go to the Star Dou Great Forest as a last resort.
After all, due to the existence of the Beast God Di Tian, many Spirit Beasts that were not weak were suppressed or marginalized to the point where they could not survive to a high enough age within the Star Dou Great Forest. Furthermore, because Spirit Masters had continuously hunted there for ten thousand years, many rare and powerful Spirit Beasts had nearly gone extinct in the Star Dou Great Forest.
Finding a spirit ring should have been a long journey.
However, half a month later, Chen Ming found clues in a corner of the forest.
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