Gu Fei sat cross-legged under a big tree in the courtyard, completely ignoring the other disciples in white who walked past him. Under the surprised gazes of these disciples, he operated the ancient body refining technique to heal his injured body.
As Gu Fei operated the technique, the surrounding spiritual qi gradually gathered around him, seeping into his muscles, bones, and flesh, slowly forcing the clotted blood from his internal injuries out of his body through his pores.
All the fourth generation disciples of the Taixuan Sect who lived in this courtyard were no longer surprised by Gu Fei's behavior. In their eyes, Gu Fei was a cultivation maniac who often injured himself all over.
Training the muscles and bones was the way to start cultivating this ancient technique. The spiritual qi of heaven and earth was, after all, a power from the outside world. However, in order to produce one's own strength from within the body, one had to use the spiritual qi of heaven and earth to stimulate the muscles and bones.
It was not until the sun was high in the sky that Gu Fei opened his mouth and spat out a mouthful of dark clotted blood. Only then did the aura in his body become smooth.
Wang Yuanzhi's palm strike had used the Five Ding Mountain Splitting Technique. Although it was a low-level Taoist technique, if one cultivated it to a high level, it would have the power to split mountains and split stones.
Gu Fei had suffered a blow from Wang Yuanzhi. His internal organs had been shaken and he had immediately suffered internal injuries. After operating the technique to heal himself, his injuries had also healed by eighty percent.
Gu Fei, who had cultivated the ancient body refining technique, had a very strong body recovery ability. The strength of his body was at least one or two times stronger than that of an ordinary cultivator.
Gu Fei stood up from the ground and looked up at the sky. "It's getting late. I hope I can still make it!" The Icy Jade Pool was a hundred miles away. Even if he did not count the time it took to catch the Jade Phosphor Carp, just the journey back and forth was enough.
Awakening Self, Transcending Mortality, Royal Void, Demigod, and Saint. There were five major cultivation realms. The Awakening Self was the first step on the road of cultivation for a cultivator. It was the stage where the potential of cultivation was awakened.
Among the millions of ordinary people, there weren't many who could truly cultivate and had the potential to become experts. The Self-Awakening Realm was a threshold. If one couldn't cross this threshold, it meant that he didn't have the potential to cultivate and didn't have the qualifications to become an expert. He would forever be an ordinary person.
Cultivators of this realm were considered to be cultivators who cultivated Dao techniques. Under normal circumstances, they could not fly in the air unless they used special methods, such as magic tools.
For people like Gu Fei, who cultivated the ancient body refining technique and walked the path of martial arts, if he wanted to fly in the air, he would have to cultivate to the Void Controlling Realm. Otherwise, he could only run on the ground obediently!
Walking out of the courtyard, Gu Fei went down the mountain.
The Icy Jade Pool was between two small peaks a hundred miles away. It was a strange place in the mountain range of Taixuan Mountain. The lake water was bone-chilling all year round, but it never froze.
Because the pool water was too cold, there were basically no aquatic creatures in the cold pool. However, in this bone-chilling cold pond, there lived a low-level demonic beast, the Jade Phosphor Carp.
How low-level was this demonic beast? It was so low-level that it had not developed spiritual intelligence. It only relied on instinct to absorb the spiritual energy of the world to carry out simple cultivation.
If there was anything special about this demonic beast, it would be that it was a little stronger, could spit water arrows from its mouth, and had a little attack power.
The people of Taixuan Sect caught this low-level demonic beast not for food, but for the demon beast core in the belly of the Jade Phosphor Carp.
After more than an hour of climbing over the mountains, Gu Fei appeared on a stone wall next to the Icy Jade Pool. Looking at the pool below and feeling the cold air blowing on his face, Gu Fei frowned.
He saw that the water was as calm as a mirror. The color of the water in the pool was not blue, but black. This meant that the water in the pool was very deep, so deep that the bottom could not be seen.
Looking around, the hundred-acre cold pool was so quiet that there was not a single ripple. It was like a piece of jade inlaid between two stone peaks. Around the cold pool, there were large and small rocks. This was a kind of black rock, as black as ink.
There were no green plants growing on the rocks, and there was no vegetation covering them. Only when he was about a hundred feet away from the edge of the pool did he see the greenery that should be present in the mountains.
The Icy Jade Pool could only be described as "dead silent."
Gu Fei took a deep breath and jumped up from the rock. Like an arrow, he jumped into the pool. On the surface of the water, there was no splash, only a circle of ripples.
The pool gave people a heavy feeling like mercury, and it was difficult to set off any waves. Even the ripples that spread out quickly disappeared on the surface of the water.
Although Gu Fei was prepared, the moment he jumped into the pool, he still felt uncomfortable. It was as if he was surrounded by ice water. To be exact, the water in the Icy Jade Pool was even colder than ice water.
He only felt that countless tiny bits of cold air, as if they had a mind of their own, went straight into his pores. The extreme cold made Gu Fei feel like his skin was being torn apart.
Circulating the ancient body tempering technique, the muscles all over Gu Fei's body faintly trembled, producing waves of heat to resist the unbearable chill.
Every muscle in his body, every bone, Gu Fei could control it freely.
The benefits of having a strong body were now apparent on Gu Fei's body. Among the fourth generation disciples of Taixuan Sect, Gu Fei was the only one who dared to enter the Icy Azure Pool without any Tao power to protect his body.
If it were any other fourth generation disciple, if they did not use their Dao to protect their body, they would probably be frozen and sink to the bottom of the pool.
The Jade Phosphor Carp grew in the cave walls of the Icy Jade Pool, so it was impossible to catch it by fishing. The only way was to go into the water.
Gu Fei quickly dived into the extremely cold water. As the depth increased, the light in the water gradually dimmed. When a hole appeared in the dark stone wall, Gu Fei stopped diving. With the weak light, he could see if there were any Jade Phosphor Carp in the hole.
If he dived any further, his eyes would lose their function. In the dark water, it would be difficult to catch the Jade Phosphor Carp.
After an hour, Gu Fei had searched over 100 holes, yet he didn't even see a single fish scale. Besides feeling depressed, he couldn't help but be slightly puzzled.
"Gulp!" A string of bubbles came out of Gu Fei's mouth. His body was strong enough to hold his breath in the water for half an hour. When he spat out a breath, it meant that he was going to come out of the water for a breath.
Gu Fei used his hands and feet to paddle in the water, swimming towards the surface.
"If I can reach the stage of Tendon Transformation and all my meridians are opened, holding my breath in the water for a few hours would be an easy thing to do." Gu Fei thought.
Breathing, diving again, and then searching. The commonly seen Jade Phosphor Carp seemed to have disappeared. Gu Fei felt that something was wrong.
When he came out of the water for a breath for the third time, and then dived into the pool again, he found a huge cave. The reason why it was big was because this cave was much bigger than the holes in the rock walls where the Jade Phosphor Carp hid.
The cave was two feet in diameter, and the cave entrance was circular. The walls were made of black rocks that looked like ink.
All the new disciples were warned that the Icy Jade Pool was bottomless, and no one knew where the huge cave in the underwater rock wall connected to, so they must remember not to go too deep.
The dark cave did not have the slightest bit of light. In the faint light from above the pool, it looked like a huge mouth that could swallow everything around it at any time.
Looking at the cave in front of him, Gu Fei felt an inexplicable pressure in his heart.
He carefully swam past the cave. However, at this moment, Gu Fei suddenly felt an undercurrent surging out of the cave, and the impact made him lose his footing.
Vaguely, in the dark cave, he saw two hazy spots of light quickly moving towards the cave entrance. Then, he saw more than ten strange fish about a foot long, glowing with a dark green light, rushing out of the cave like arrows, fleeing past Gu Fei in a panic.
That is …
These strange fish with jade-like scales were the Jade Phosphor Carp that Gu Fei could not find.
However, at this time, Gu Fei did not care about the Jade Phosphor Carp. He saw in the dark cave, a black shadow as thick as a water bucket, quickly rushing out of the cave, setting off a strong water pressure that hit Gu Fei's body. An indescribable pressure surged into his heart.
Demonic beast! Gu Fei's heart was greatly shaken. The bone-chilling cold pool water did not make his hair stand up, but now, all the hair on his body instantly stood up. Looking carefully, the two light spots that appeared in the cave were actually the two eyes of the demonic beast. They were the size of a fist, emitting a faint green light.
"Go!" Without thinking, the muscles of Gu Fei's whole body suddenly tightened, and then burst out. Using both his hands and feet, he desperately paddled upwards. The powerful muscle force acted on the water, and Gu Fei's body immediately rushed towards the surface of the water like an arrow leaving the bow.
In the blink of an eye, with a "whoosh" sound, a black shadow rushed out of the cave and rushed past Gu Fei's feet. That black shadow was more than ten feet long, and as thick as a water bucket.
The distance of a hundred meters was very short, but in the water, there was water resistance, and the speed of people's movement would become slower. With a rush, Gu Fei suddenly rushed up twenty to thirty meters in the water.
Under the situation of paddling with all his strength, Gu Fei only needed to burst out the strength of his body three times, and then he would be able to jump out of the water. But he could only burst out once, and he only had one chance to do so.
The muscles of his whole body contracted again, but before he had time to burst out, Gu Fei felt his waist tighten, as if he was tightly bound by a huge and incomparably tough rope. There was a burst of pain in his chest and abdomen, and the breath that he had held back immediately spurted out, making a string of bubbles and rising to the surface of the water.
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