It is midsummer, and even in the northern region, there is a hint of heat in the air.
On the outskirts of the wild forest, on the top of a remote hillside.
Gao Yuan's eyes were slightly closed, and he sat cross-legged on a flat stone that protruded less than one meter from the ground and was surrounded by bushes.
At this time, he was facing the rising sun and running the Grandmaster-level Kaiyuan Changchun Gong with all his strength.
Under the influence of the exercise, the pores all over his body are dilating, and in conjunction with his mouth and nose, he is absorbing the energy of the surrounding world with an astonishing efficiency.
"Gulu!"
He swallowed the Guyuan Pill stuck between his teeth in one gulp. After the medicine was released, it quickly turned into a stream of heat in his chest and poured straight into the innate air sea.
The latter has more than doubled in size compared to when he first entered the Kaiyuan Realm. At this time, under the influence of this heat flow, its rotation speed suddenly surged.
Lines of innate essence emerged from the center of the cyclone like springs and quickly merged into the meridians around his body.
It is cleverly mixed with the energy of heaven and earth that has been absorbed into the body, and as the exercise circulates around the world, it turns into wisps of new true energy.
There was no joy or sadness on Gao Yuan's face. While maintaining the rhythm of his breathing, he guided the newly born true energy to move rapidly according to a special path to continuously purify it.
Then, under his guidance, the innate sea of qi was poured back along the meridians.
As these wisps of pure true energy flow in, the cyclones that make up the innate sea of air become thicker and thicker. While their rotation speed continues to accelerate, the nature of the cyclones is also quietly changing.
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evening.
The sun still hangs diagonally in the sky, emitting endless light and heat.
On the hillside, Gaoyuan sat cross-legged on the rocks. His movements were the same as in the morning, as if he hadn't moved all day.
He stretched out two fingers, quickly picked up a Solid Yuan Pill and put it into his mouth, and then entered the cultivation state again.
As the twelfth Solid Yuan Pill turned into a ray of pure energy and poured into the innate air sea, streams of innate essence erupted from it again.
Compared with the morning, although the innate sea of air rotates quickly at this time, it appears to be unusually thick, and there is an inexplicable charm in the operation process.
Not long after, the newly transformed true energy flowed back into the innate air sea again under the guidance of Gao Yuan.
At this moment, as if a certain boundary had been broken, a mysterious wave suddenly came from within the Xiantian Sea.
Then the high-speed rotating cyclone suddenly began to collapse inward in a strange rhythm.
In the blink of an eye, its size has shrunk by nearly 20%!
During this process, the innate essence emitted from the center of the innate air sea increases instead of decreasing. Under the circulation of the exercise, it is transformed into more true energy and continues to be fed back.
"Buzz!"
A moment later, along with an illusory buzz that reflected the void, as the volume of the innate sky sea continued to shrink, its surface began to tremble violently.
It brought about an astonishing tide of energy and spread to the surroundings, stirring up the power of heaven and earth within a radius of several hundred meters.
Fortunately, this abnormal oscillation did not last long and soon calmed down, and the innate air sea that was the source of the fluctuations also stabilized.
Compared with before, although its size is more than half smaller, it looks much more solid, and the speed of innate essence production is also much faster than before.
Gao Yuan slowly stopped his power, looked up to the sky and exhaled a breath of turbid air.
"It took more than five months, and I finally broke through to the second level of Kaiyuan Realm!"
He did not stand up immediately, but concentrated on sensing the changes after his breakthrough in cultivation.
"After the transformation of the Xiantian Sea, the speed of the Zhoutian movement has increased by nearly 30%. Now it is estimated that it only takes about fifteen minutes to complete a Zhoutian cycle! Well, the true energy capacity has also increased a lot, about 40%!
By superimposing the two phases, my battery life has at least doubled, and this does not include the changes brought about by purifying the true energy!"
Then he subconsciously wanted to mobilize the power of his spiritual thoughts to look inside, but suddenly felt that as his cultivation level improved, the power of his spiritual thoughts also grew a lot.
He unfolded his spiritual thoughts and expanded with all his strength to the surroundings.
However, he discovered that the range of his spiritual thoughts reached an astonishing thirty meters, and when transformed into a tentacle, it could also extend to nearly eighty meters!
Although I had long known that spiritual consciousness would continue to improve with the advancement of cultivation, I didn't expect it to improve so much. The increase was almost 50%!
If there could be such a big increase every time you advance...
He did a little mental calculation. Doesn't it mean that at the peak of Kaiyuan Realm, the power of divine thoughts will be dozens of times stronger than when it was at the first level of Kaiyuan Realm?
If the power of spiritual thoughts were to be strengthened to such an extent, I'm afraid you wouldn't even have to do anything to kill people. You could crush many people to death with just the power of spiritual thoughts, right? He murmured with some emotion.
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I looked up at the sky. Although it was almost six o'clock in the afternoon, the sun was still high.
I'm afraid it will be at least an hour before dark, enough for me to rush home!
Because "A Brief Overview of the Lower Three Realms" describes that when a Kaiyuan Realm monk breaks through, it will disturb the vitality of heaven and earth within a certain range.
With such vague words, Gao Yuan naturally did not dare to break through near his home. The hilltop he was on at this time was about four hundred miles southeast of his home.
This place is remote and rarely populated. He spent most of the day yesterday traveling nearly two thousand miles before choosing a secluded place specifically for his breakthrough.
Putting away the medicine bottles scattered on the ground, Gao Yuan took one last look around, and then with a thought, his whole body rose up in the wind, turning into a blue light and shadow and flying towards the distant sky.
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Racing along the way, with the afterglow of the setting sun, Gao Yuan finally returned to the underground stronghold deep in the wild forest before dark.
The vegetable and meat porridge that I cooked when I went out in the morning has cooled down after a day, so it is just right to eat in the hot weather of midsummer.
He had a hearty meal of homemade second-level monster meat jerky, and then came to the training room as a habit.
After more than two months of improvement, the training room is no longer as empty as it was when the stronghold was newly built.
Following the structure of the gym on Earth, and with the help of the mountain rat's nails, he successively added various stone equipment, including dumbbells, barbells, rowing machines, large and small gantry frames, butterfly machines, etc.
Feeling the qi and blood energy accumulated in his body due to eating a large amount of second-level monster meat, Gao Yuan took a stance and quickly started the set of strengthening exercises.
In fact, as early as more than a month ago, he could already perform a complete set of movements in a coherent manner.
Since then, he has maintained the frequency of exercising twice a day. After eating a large amount of second-level monster meat every day, his physical fitness has entered a period of rapid improvement that lasted for twenty-three days.
Today, his body's strength, flexibility, coordination, reaction speed, ability to resist hits, etc. have all made qualitative leaps!
Among them, his strength alone has increased several times. The specially made stone dumbbells in the training room weighing 400 kilograms can now be easily lifted with one hand.
You know, he has just reached the threshold of body training described in the body training method. From this, he can also imagine the grand scene after the body training is completed. Just thinking about it makes his blood boil.
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After the daily training, Gao Yuan simply washed up, then came to the lounge, lay down on the stone leisure chair, and took out the cyan mask.
After more than two months of preparation, coupled with today's breakthrough in cultivation, he felt that his strength had improved a lot.
During this period, he not only 'deduced' all the talismans he had mastered during Qi training to the second level, but after completing the practice, he immediately used 'analysis' to upgrade the proficiency of these skills to the master level!
Later, with the help of the 'deduction' function, the 'Wind Curse' was deduced again in the direction of increasing the casting speed, and a brand new spell 'Wind Curse' was obtained.
As he mastered more and more second-level master-level skills, he gained a very deep understanding of the principles of spell casting.
And this understanding reached its peak after he upgraded his newly mastered 'Wind Curse' to the master level.
As we all know, in the process of casting spells, specific incantations and fingerprints are required.
Based on the inherent concept formed by reading the inscriptions on the earth, Gao Yuan initially thought that these incantations and handprints themselves had a special power, and the caster could use this to mobilize the vitality of heaven and earth within the legal domain.
However, the casting logic of the 'Wind Curse' broke his concept.
Especially after the 'Wind Curse' was promoted to the master level, he realized that whether it was a spell or a seal, its essence was to 'modulate' the fluctuations of his own soul.
And with the help of changes in soul fluctuations, it affects the power of divine thoughts, and then causes specific changes in the power of true energy to match a certain 'rule', thereby mobilizing the vitality of heaven and earth, and finally making the spell take shape!
Therefore, if the power of one's spiritual thoughts can be directly changed to match the needs of the spell to be cast, then the spell caster can bypass the process of chanting the spell and forming seals and cast the spell directly, thereby achieving the so-called
'Heart mantra' status!
Of course, this instant-like ‘heart curse’ state also has corresponding disadvantages.
After all, the strength of Kaiyuan Realm monks' spiritual thoughts is limited. Compared with the 'Curse and Seal' mode that gradually affects the power of divine thoughts through changes in soul fluctuations, the 'Heart Curse' mode is simple and efficient, but it does not affect the power of divine thoughts.
The power consumption is large.
In addition, the amount of real energy that can be mobilized per unit time is limited, so the power of the spell cast in the 'heart spell' mode is weaker than normal.
But no matter what, when dealing with emergencies, the 'Heart Spell' has an irreplaceable advantage due to its almost instantaneous nature!
As for the shortcomings of the consumption of spiritual thoughts and the weak power, they will also be improved as his cultivation realm improves, the running speed of the true energy and the power of divine thoughts are greatly improved!
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Putting away his divergent thoughts, Gao Yuan put the cyan mask on his face and came to the 'Exile Camp' again.
Now that his strength has been greatly improved, it is time for him to officially start his promotion to the 'Exile Mask' as planned!