Legend of the Rage God

Advancement part 2

Holding a Spiritual Crystal, Jaden absorbed the Spiritual Qi inside the Spiritual Crystal while removing all of Profound Qi in his body, and pushed forward to the third Meridian furiously.

“Bang!”

A thud came from the glabella on Jaden’s forehead.

His Qi Pool, which was once only as big as a basketball, immediately expanded tenfold and became as big as a vat of water. It looked just like a bathhouse pool, which was about one square meter in diameter.

Now, his Qi Pool would be regarded as a real Qi Pool.

“This is the cultivation of the Mid Stage of the Qi Condensing Realm!”

“This is just the very beginning of the Mid Stage of the Qi Condensing Realm. I don’t have much Profound Qi left inside. Of course, I can progress now. If I fill my Qi Pool through practice, the Profound Qi inside my body will be expanded by 10 as well.” Jaden felt so excited for making his great martial cultivation progress.

The Qi Pool would also be expanded with a new higher realm, which of course, could hold more Profound Qi.

If one could not break through to a new realm, his Profound Qi would never increase, even with 10 years of practice. That was because the capacity of the Qi Pool was fixed for each realm and it could only hold a certain amount of Profound Qi in reserve.

At the Mid Stage of the Qi Condensing Realm, impurities from inside the body were carried out of the body through the pores. The impurities looked like a layer of black slime and gave off a slight odor of rotten fish.

Jaden immediately fetched a pail of warm water. After bathing, he put on a clean suit and immediately went back to cultivate.

While holding a brush pen in his hand, he smoothly drew a human figure on the scroll.

Later, he drew the 36 meridians of the human figure according to his memory alone. The traveling routes for all of these meridians were different from one another.

They had one thing in common though—the 36 Meridians all gathered together in the Qi Pool in his glabella.

The first time that Jaden read through the first level of the “Rage God Body Transformation Technique, he saw this very same “Graph of Meridians” on it without any explanation. It just could be self-perceived.

The more superior level exercises one practiced, the more Meridians he would open and the faster the running speed of Profound Qi inside his body.

“The exercise methods for the Inferior Class of the Human Stage can only open up seven of the Meridians.”

“According to the ‘Rage God Body Transformation Technique’, there are traveling routes for the 36 Meridians. Each one will increase the practicing Meridian and help strengthen the Body of Cultivator. If all 36 Meridians are opened, could I even imagine how strong the Body of Cultivator would be?”

The word “Realm” in “Qi Condensing Realm” referred to the specific extremity of the Meridians.

“I’ve opened up three Meridians now belonging to the Mid Stage of the Qi Condensing Realm. In order to break through to the Advanced Stage of the Qi Condensing Realm, I’ll have to open up at least three more Meridians.”

Jaden rolled up “The Graph of Meridians” and put it on the stone table.

One had to first fill his Qi Pool with Profound Qi if he wanted to reach the advanced stage of the Qi Condensing Realm.

If he practiced in the usual way, he would need one and a half months to fill his body and his Qi Pool with Profound Qi, even with the help of Spiritual Qi from the Spiritual Crystals.

Jaden could not wait that long, so he decided to take his Energy Pill.

An Energy Pill was worth 1,000 silver coins. For ordinary warriors, it was a rare treasure. Even the younger children from medium-level families found it hard to get an Energy Pill.

Jaden had bought 10 at a time, by which his cultivation could be improved quickly.

An Energy Pill was as small as a pearl and had a light scent. A plume of Spiritual Qi could be seen flowing on the surface of the Pill with the naked eye.

He put an Energy Pill in his mouth.

A moment later.

“Bang!”

The Energy Pill exploded inside his body and turned into a cloud of Pill Spirit, moving up and down inside of him.

The three Meridians took in the Pill Spirit at a fast speed. Traveling inside his body for a large circle, gathering vital energy, the Pill Spirit then turned into Profound Qi and then was stored in the Qi Pool.

Although Jaden tried his best to absorb the Pill Spirit, there was still 40% that ran out of his pores, which meant that he took in only 60% of the Pill Spirit of the Energy Pill.

He had spent all day transforming that 60% into his Profound Qi. Vex helped a lot in the transformation.

After refining all of that 60% Pill Spirit, the Profound Qi in his Qi Pool doubled.

“I opened up only three Meridians, so the transformation speed of the Profound Qi is still too slow, as 40% of it is lost. If a warrior is in the late stage of the Qi Condensing Realm, he can transform all of the Pill Spirit of the Energy Pill into Profound Qi without any waste.”

“Forget it! As long as I can make rapid progress with my cultivation, spending more silver coins is worth it. Based on the potency of the Energy Pill, I can fill my Qi Pool with Profound Qi with only four more pills.”

Luckily, Jaden now had plenty of silver coins and did not need to worry about money. Otherwise, he would be unwilling to buy even one Energy Pill with 1,000 silver coins.

Instead of taking a second Energy Pill, he stopped his practice and went back to his room.

It was just noon at the moment.

Jaden did not disturbed his servents. He fetched a bucket of warm water and took it back to his room.

He was not going to take a normal bath, but a medicated bath.

For a warrior, practicing with only Profound Qi was not enough. He also needed to practice his martial skills.

Jaden bought five more portions of the Refining Powder, each of which cost 1,000 silver coins.

He poured one portion of the Refining Powder into the barrel.

“Chi!” A white smoke floated up from the barrel.

Jaden sat cross-legged in the center of the barrel. His head was submerged under the liquid.

The liquid was as hot as boiling water and it bubbled up and released pockets of steam.

A sharp pain shot across the surface of his skin. Later on, that sharp pain permeated into his flesh and blood, and then into his marrow and into his five internal organs.

The burning pain ran through his body. If he were any other warrior, he could not possibly bear this pain and would have jumped out of the barrel.

Jaden was as solid as a rock, sitting cross-legged on the bottom of the barrel without any changes to his facial expression. He endured this pain of his flesh silently.

Only by experiencing the most difficult hardships could one rise above the ordinary. Jaden hunkered down underwater peacefully and calmly. He transferred the Profound Qi in his body to the three Meridians.

The pain lessened with each cycle of the Profound Qi.

He could not hold his breath to practice underwater for too long due to his current level of martial cultivation, so he had to come up from the water to breathe every five minutes.

After two hours, the pain had almost disappeared. A flow of cool air came into his body to regenerate it. The feeling was so pleasant that it almost made him moan.

“Crash!”

Jaden stood up and wiped himself dry. He stood in front of a mirror, stared at his own body, and nodded.

The 10-day practice and the alleviation from the medicated bath had strengthened his body to some extent.

Four days ago, he was at the beginning stage of Qi Condensing Realm. Who could have even imagined, however, that only four days later he would have attained the cultivation of the Mid Stage of the Qi Condensing Realm?

It was a miracle!

“That’s not enough! The Mid Stage of the Qi Condensing Realm is only the beginning!” With a sharp look in his eyes, Jaden clenched his fist.

After putting on his clothes, he took a Blood and Vitality Pill and continue his practice.

The reason why he could attain the Mid Stage of the Qi Condensing Realm in merely four days was not only because he had Martial Arts experience in his last life, but also because of the help of Vex.

He could practice three times longer than the other warriors with the help of Vex, which was his unique advantage.

“Bang!”

“Bang!”

“Sky Titan!”

Jaden bent his legs, stepped out, and punched. Every punch gathered the power of each muscle and every bone.

After the medicated bath, one needed to use the fist technique in order to integrate the medicated effects into the body, thus transferring it into their own power.

Jaden spent the next few days mainly practicing inside every three days.

William knew that Jaden had just started cultivation and he needed to seclude himself for refining, open up his Qi Pool, wash his marrow, and break out of the channels. Therefore, he did not get involved with him, but simply asked Mera to take good care of him. Who becomes his personal maid.

He still continued to buy Blood and Vitality Pills for Jaden. It was a feeling beyond description. Jaden was greatly moved by selfless love.

Gradually, Jaden was accepting his identity in this life and saw William as his real father.

“Why don’t we tell the Master, truth? He would be overjoyed if he knew that you are a real warrior now,” said Mera.

“Not now. I want to surprise her at the Annual Clan Assessment. Apart from that, I don’t think I’m strong enough now. I need to be even stronger,” said Jaden.

Mera now knows a lot of Jaden’s secrets.