BZZZ!
The next second.
As the Modification Points on the panel rapidly decreased,
within his body,
the hundred wisps of Demon Power he had gained from devouring the Electric Eel Spirit Monster unexpectedly dispersed, like a swirling cloud of mist.
If any other Spirit Monster saw this, they would surely be horrified.
This was a sign of one’s Cultivation dissipating.
Once the Demon Power in one’s body dispersed into this mist, it would scatter and vanish in a short time.
This would cause years of Dao Practice to be destroyed in an instant.
It could even cause them to fall from the level of a Spirit Monster back to their original state as a witless animal with only a faint glimmer of intelligence.
This was the one thing that all sapient Spirit Monsters found most unbearable and terrifying.
However,
faced with this situation,
Hu Qi was exceptionally calm.
He understood that this was a necessary part of the process.
Soon,
all the strands of Demon Power completely dispersed, leaving not a single trace of it in his body.
However,
the very next moment,
the swirling, dispersed mist reconverged, forming a small vortex.
At the same time,
the surrounding Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy surged forth frantically, pouring entirely into Hu Qi’s enormous black snake body.
Wisps of Demon Power began to re-form.
However, compared to the previous gray Demon Power, the newly formed Demon Power was pitch-black, like strands of hair, and significantly more solid.
’As expected. The Demon Power refined by the Demon Race, who rely on instinct to absorb Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy, is far too crude.
It’s simply no match for the power cultivated through a true Breathing and Qi Cultivation technique.
No wonder the Demon Race’s status in this world is so low, slaughtered at will by Human Race Cultivators and reduced to mere materials.’
Hu Qi’s gaze flickered.
He discovered that the quality of Demon Power produced by using the Breathing Technique was two to three times higher than the Demon Power he had condensed before.
He had created this Cultivation Technique.
Aside from making it appear on the panel so he could use the Crimson panel and its Modification Points to rapidly increase his strength,
he also intended to refine his own Demon Power, making it stronger and purer.
He just hadn’t expected the difference to be so vast.
In comparison, the Demon Power he had condensed before seemed far too insubstantial and crude.
If he fought a Human Race Cultivator of the same level, its power would be greatly diminished.
Not to mention that Human Race Cultivators also had various Magical Artifacts and Talismans.
If not for the Demon Race’s advantage—their innately superior physiques, which far surpassed the Human Race’s and allowed them to refine a greater quantity of Demon Power—
the gap would likely be even greater.
Soon, the Demon Power inside Hu Qi’s body began to grow frantically.
It broke through a hundred wisps, then five hundred, then a thousand.
Finally, it settled at ten thousand wisps of Demon Power and stopped growing.
At the same time,
within his body,
these surging strands of Demon Power rushed to every part of his body,
boring into his meridians.
A faint pain spread through him.
It felt like a mosquito bite.
After a short while,
the pain vanished.
Under Introspection, he saw that some of his originally small, blocked channels had been cleared.
One by one, the channels in his body began to emit a faint, fluorescent glow.
Qi Cultivation Late Stage, Meridian Passage Realm achieved!
If other members of the Demon Race, or even Human Race Cultivators, were to witness such a scene, they would surely begin to question their own existence.
Meridian Passage refers to using True Energy (or Demon Power) to open the body’s Eight Extraordinary Meridians.
It is the process of returning the self from a Postnatal to an Innate state.
A living being’s body only maintains an Innate state during gestation.
Once born, it is affected by the world’s Dirt Energy, causing some of the smaller meridians in the body to close and become blocked.
This situation
grows more severe over time.
Therefore, the older one is, the more difficult it becomes to break through to the Meridian Passage level.
At the same time, the pain during the breakthrough becomes more intense, like death by a thousand cuts.
Furthermore,
breaking through to Meridian Passage requires extremely high control over one’s power. The slightest carelessness
can easily damage the meridians, resulting in serious injury at best, or death at worst.
Some Human Race Cultivators, when breaking through to this level, will even go out of their way to find and refine Elixirs that protect and nourish the meridians.
The pockmarked old Daoist who was hunting the Mountain Spirit earlier was doing so for this very reason.
His claims of slaying demons and defending the Dao were secondary.
His main goal was to extract the Mountain Spirit’s flesh, blood, and soul to refine an Essence Pill that could strengthen his physique.
All for the sake of breaking through to Meridian Passage.
Even the Demon Race, whose physiques far surpass those of Human Race Cultivators, could not possibly achieve what Hu Qi had done and open all Eight Extraordinary Meridians in a single attempt.
The reason Hu Qi had it so easy, and felt so little pain,
was partly due to the Crimson panel, and partly due to this snake body of his.
From hatching out of his egg to reaching the Meridian Passage Realm, it had been, all told, less than a month.
The meridians in his body had not yet closed.
Hu Qi moved his body.
He found that he had grown a bit more, now reaching about thirteen meters in length.
Fortunately, the cave here was large enough that it didn’t feel cramped.
His gaze fell upon the panel.
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[Skill: Profound Scale Qi Absorption Record (Ninth Layer) △]
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[Modification Points: 1915 (20%)]
The Profound Scale Qi Absorption Record had reached the Ninth Layer.
This meant that Hu Qi had now broken through to the stage of Qi Cultivation Great Perfection.
The cost was the consumption of nearly thirty Modification Points.
Feeling the state of his body,
everything was fine; there were no signs of instability in his foundation due to the overly rapid advancement.
This was clearly because Hu Qi’s own arduous Cultivation, combined with this Qi Cultivation Technique, had laid a solid foundation for this body.
This was exactly what Hu Qi had hoped for.
His gaze fell to the space after the Profound Scale Qi Absorption Record entry.
He saw that there was still a Triangular Rune there.
However, compared to before, this Triangular Rune was now in a translucent state.
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