Shen Luo's facial features contorted. His whole body was drenched in cold sweat. But, his two hands were tightly wrapped around the dantian in his lower abdomen. He refused to let go.
At this moment, the two strands of magic power in his dantian — one loose and one dense — suddenly clashed violently. His abdomen seemed to be beating a drum.
His dantian had never suffered such a big impact. At this moment, it was as if countless small knives were madly stirring inside.
Compared to this heart-tearing and lung-splitting pain, the tearing pain of his meridians and dantian was almost negligible.
He clenched his teeth tightly. But, he couldn't help but let out short and intermittent groans. His body trembled like a sieve. Sweat the size of soybeans continuously rolled down from his forehead.
"No wonder the Nameless Heavenly Book said that one must have strong willpower. This pain is simply unbearable!" This thought flashed through Shen Luo's mind. But, he still didn't have the slightest intention of giving up.
The conflict of magic power in his dantian continued to intensify. The pain also continued to rise.
Shen Luo was in so much pain that he couldn't straighten his back. His two hands that were covering his dantian were tightly clenched into fists. Even though his fingertips cut into his palms, he still firmly held on to his willpower.
Gradually, he discovered that the two strands of magic power, which were originally in a gaseous state, had a faint tendency to become less and less in the process of unceasingly colliding with each other in his dantian.
And, the originally increasingly intense pain also gradually subsided as the magic power became less and less.
"Could it be that my attempt failed and I suffered a backlash? Is the magic power that I cultivated with great difficulty going to melt?" At this moment, Shen Luo became somewhat anxious.
But, no matter how anxious he was, the conflict of magic power in his dantian didn't stop. The consumption of the two strands of magic power was also increasing. His dantian, which was originally filled to the brim, began to become somewhat empty.
Shen Luo's heart sank. The physical torture just now had turned into mental torture.
At this moment, the two strands of magic power that were fiercely colliding with each other in his dantian suddenly stopped. Then, an inconceivable scene appeared.
The two clumps of magic power didn't separate after the last collision. Instead, they merged with each other.
Inside his dantian, a dot of crystal light lit up. A drop of glittering liquid magic power emerged.
Rumble!
As soon as this drop of liquid magic power appeared, it was as if a spark had been thrown into the mountain of withered leaves. The other magic powers that were fiercely clashing with each other also began to intertwine and fuse, turning into drops of liquid magic power.
In the span of a few breaths, the mana in Shen Luo's dantian had completely turned into a liquid state. The pain of the sharp knife stirring quickly disappeared and was replaced by a scalding comfortable feeling, as if his dantian was soaked in hot water.
Shen Luo sensed the changes in his body and was pleasantly surprised.
It turned out that the intense clash of magic power from before was just a necessary process for condensing Qi into liquid. The magic power that had melted did not really disappear, but instead continued to condense and become more and more pure until it completely blended and finally liquefied.
Shen Luo secretly activated the Nameless Divine Art and stabilized his mind, stabilizing the mana in his dantian.
At this moment, he was still far from being able to relax. Liquefaction of the mana was only the first step in breaking through the fasting period. The real challenge was to condense the mana meridians. If he failed at this step, all his previous efforts would be wasted.
The so-called condensing of the mana meridians was to reconstruct the meridians that were connected to the dantian into completely new meridians that were nourished by the mana.
According to the Nameless Divine Art, each sect practiced different techniques and their methods of condensing the mana meridians were also different. Some were relatively gentle, but took an extremely long time. Some were unconventional and naturally had many hidden dangers. But the method recorded in the Nameless Divine Art was the most direct and also the most domineering one. That was to destroy the original meridians and then use mana to regenerate them.
The risk of destroying one's own meridians was no small matter. If one was not careful, one would be crippled at best. If one was not careful, one could even lose one's own life.
According to Shen Luo's cautious personality, he naturally preferred the safe method of flowing water style. But right now, he did not have that much time left for him. Most importantly, the Nameless Divine Art only recorded this method and did not allow him to choose.
Shen Luo took a few deep breaths, put away the distracting thoughts in his mind, and slowly closed his eyes.
As he continued to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth from the surrounding pool water to fill his dantian, he slowly mobilized the liquefied mana in his dantian, forming a whirlpool that began to rotate from slow to fast.
Not long after, a scorching feeling appeared in his dantian, and as the whirlpool spun faster and faster, the scorching feeling rose as if a ball of fire was burning in his dantian.
Shen Luo calmly moved his mind, and his dantian suddenly trembled. Strands of blue mana floated out from the center of the whirlpool, condensing into a blue ball of liquid the size of a thumb.
Then, the blue ball of liquid went up along his dantian, from the Hand Yangming Large Intestine Meridian of the Three Yang Meridian of the Hand, it directly passed through the back of his arms to the index fingers of both hands.
In an instant, his entire meridians were filled with blue mana.
"Break!"
With a low shout in Shen Luo's heart, the entire Hand Yangming Large Intestine Meridian of the Hand trembled violently, and all of it shattered inch by inch. A sharp pain came.
But at this moment, strands of slender blue silk emerged from the shattered meridians, entangling those shattered meridians fragments.
Exuberant vitality was emitted from these blue silk, and the shattered meridians were quickly restored. In a few breaths, a brand new meridian was formed again.
The surface of the newly formed Hand Yangming Large Intestine Meridian was faintly blue. It was a little bigger than before, and its toughness seemed to have improved.
Almost in the next moment, this meridian trembled again and shattered again.
However, the strands of blue silk that were full of vitality also emerged, and the shattered meridian was restored again.
But in the next moment, as if another cycle, the meridian trembled again …
Like this, it shattered and repaired again and again, and repeated nine times before it stopped.
A whistling sound like a dragon's roar resounded from his arms, and a sparkling and translucent blue light belt appeared on the surface of his back, and disappeared in a flash.
Shen Luo felt the boiling mana flowing freely in this new meridian, and his heart was incomparably excited. He obviously didn't expect that the whole process would be so smooth.
Although he couldn't see inside, he could feel that the entire Hand Yangming Large Intestine Meridian of the Hand Yangming Large Intestine Meridian had undergone earth-shattering changes. It had expanded by more than twice, and its toughness had also increased greatly. It was as elastic as a cowhide.
At this moment, if he were to use the same technique with both hands, the power would probably be more than twice as strong as before, and the casting speed would also be 10% faster. In addition, the meridian could also accelerate the absorption of the spiritual power of heaven and earth, and store mana like the dantian, increasing the mana capacity of the body.
According to the Nameless Heavenly Book, a newly born meridian was equivalent to one-tenth of the capacity of the dantian, and it would continue to expand as it was continuously nurtured in the future to store more mana.
"I hope that everything will go smoothly later," Shen Luo muttered to himself, and soon suppressed the excitement in his heart.
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