Lingzhang

Chapter 24: Hot Blood Opens the Meridians

How could there be monsters?
Yue Hanzhang was really confused.

With the strict and meticulous operating mechanism of the base city, let alone the truly alienated beasts, even the cats and dogs that may have alienation tendencies under the radiation of the extraordinary Taoism will be strictly controlled at the first moment.

This is the foundation for the seal array to be transformed into a strong city and protect trillions of people after it is set up.

But why, in such a strong city, one day I would actually stand before the mouth of a monster and experience such a life-and-death crisis?

Yue Hanzhang stared blankly at the darkness deep in the alley, as if there was another world hidden inside.

After a few breaths, the impressive dark golden light never reappeared.

Yue Hanzhang then staggered out of the narrow alley step by step, backwards, and almost ran towards the patrol station.

Halfway through the run, Yue Hanzhang seemed to have thought of something. He gritted his teeth, turned back, and broke into another narrow alley. Under Uncle Zhou's dazed gaze, he carried Uncle Zhou on his back and continued running back.

It was not until the father and son walked out of the Xunfeng Division that Yue Hanzhang whispered some advice to Uncle Zhou on their way back to the shantytown.

Yue Hanzhang did not say anything about the monster, which almost shook the foundation of a city's talisman formation. Yue Hanzhang just said that he encountered the beast deep in the alley.

In the end, the wild beast was narrowly scared away, but this meant that the ring road on the outskirts of the city was no longer safe. Therefore, we advised Uncle Zhou not to come to work for at least a few days until the news that the wild beast had been captured spread, or until no one died in the next few days!

Such statements are shocking enough.

In fact, even with such a statement, Uncle Zhou didn't quite believe it.

But seeing that Yue Hanzhang still had a lingering fear on his face, it didn't seem fake. Even his grey work clothes had been soaked by the sweat that had flowed out of him in an instant.

Living in a shantytown and working in the dark side of a city, if Uncle Zhou hadn't been properly vigilant, he would never have lived to this age.

So no matter how much he didn't believe it, Uncle Zhou still agreed to Yue Hanzhang's persuasion, and didn't go to work for a few days. He also promised Yue Hanzhang that he would inquire about the news through his connections and ensure his safety as soon as possible.

Only then did Yue Hanzhang finally feel relieved.

In fact, this is how he persuaded Uncle Zhou, and he really thought so.

He will not come again until he is sure that the area is safe.

Even Yue Hanzhang would not take chances and run to other areas in the suburbs to work.

No matter how tempting the replenishment of the gilded thread ball was, Yue Hanzhang would not risk his life in the slightest.

The activation and replenishment of the nine gilded seals were enough to allow Yue Hanzhang to maintain his current progress in martial arts training for a relatively long period of time.

It’s best to lock the door as soon as you get home from school and never come out until dawn the next day!

With such thoughts in mind, Yue Hanzhang and Uncle Zhou returned to the community almost in silence for the second half of the journey.

Until he lay on the hardwood bed in the cement room, for Yue Hanzhang, this night's experience, which was far more exciting than cheating, still gave him an indescribable sense of unreality.

It gave him the illusion of being suspended in the clouds.

And as his thoughts gradually turned from clear to complicated and chaotic, he saw the terrifying gazes in the dark alley. Even though Yue Hanzhang had never seen the true face of the monster from beginning to end, the pair of dark red animal eyes kept surging out of his thoughts.

The scene seemed to be imprinted in Yue Hanzhang's mind.

This happened so frequently that it was not until a long time later that Yue Hanzhang finally fell into a difficult and drowsy sleep, exhausted both mentally and physically.
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And when Yue Hanzhang realized that the terrifying experience that night had brought about some different changes in him.

It was already daytime of the next day.

In the martial arts studio, Yue Hanzhang was swallowing a large bowl of rice and flour paste. It was strange that when he was strengthening his body foundation, even during the period of fastest growth and development, the nutrition provided by the school's food never made Yue Hanzhang feel hungry.

But when he woke up this morning, Yue Hanzhang had a rare urge to eat because of hunger.

You should know that Yue Hanzhang got out of school yesterday evening after having an energy meal, and after that he just did some physical labor. In terms of the amount of activity alone, it was not even as much as the consumption of a few palms of the unity of form and spirit.

But fortunately, the feeling of hunger was not strong and not unbearable.

At this moment, after the energy meal was swallowed, almost within a few breaths when Yue Hanzhang stretched his limbs, the warm heat instantly surged in his body.

At this moment, Yue Hanzhang had gradually tasted some unusual flavors.

And when Yue Hanzhang subconsciously followed his fiery state, stood in the Tianyuan position in the center palace, and started to practice martial arts.

Whoosh—whoosh—whoosh—pop!
With the roar of machinery, the music of martial arts infused his body and mind. Thousands of words merged into a boxing stance. Under the miraculous trend of ultimate skill, Yue Hanzhang took three steps and delivered three palm strikes in succession!
He stood there steadily, and apart from the shaking of his shoulders caused by the force-releasing technique, there was no sign of strain in Yue Hanzhang's posture.

The miracle of skill means that Yue Hanzhang's progress in martial arts has always surpassed his actual physical fitness.

But even if we push it back like this, it also means that Yue Hanzhang's physical fitness, after this night, has firmly reached the level where he can complete two palm strikes with brute force.

Even considering Yue Hanzhang's ease at this moment, perhaps his physical fitness has already squeezed into the category of the third palm.

Then, in the next moment, when Yue Hanzhang was still comprehending, he felt the warm current formed by the increasingly powerful energy and blood force, which flowed through his limbs and bones with far greater efficiency than yesterday, and consolidated the foundation of energy and blood throughout his body.

Moreover, the warm current flowing through his limbs and bones felt smoother and silkier than ever before.

This was a strange feeling that was hard to describe, and it made Yue Hanzhang think of the settings in the novels he used to see in his previous life, such as the congenital blockage of the human body's meridians.

The feeling of all the meridians finally being connected and the qi circulating through the body was similar to Yue Hanzhang's state of mind at the moment.

But when did such a change occur in my body?

Yue Hanzhang thought carefully and deduced forward bit by bit.

Then, Yue Hanzhang thought of the terrifying moments last night, and the moment when he faced those beast eyes, his blood surged like never before, and the force pumped by his violently beating heart almost ignited all the blood in his body!

passionate.

It was not until this moment that Yue Hanzhang realized that he had unintentionally achieved a very deep level of unity of body and spirit by standing still.

At that moment, the tremendous energy of the evening meal was refined in the boiling blood, which was why Yue Hanzhang was hungry this morning.

Perhaps, at that moment, the sweat was pouring out like a pig, and the blood was boiling all over the body, which really had some of the effects of bone-clearing and marrow-cleansing as described in novels.

“Higher efficiency…”

Muttering like this, Yue Hanzhang's mind began to no longer avoid it. On the contrary, through the unity of body and soul at this moment, he began to gradually recall his own terrifying state in his mind.

Indeed, in most of his past and present lives, Yue Hanzhang had never been more embarrassed than that night. Chao Gang's overwhelming aura made Yue Hanzhang feel unprecedentedly helpless.

The terrifying scene kept lingering in his mind.

But after making this discovery at this moment, Yue Hanzhang's idea was not only to move on from it, but also to go back and face it all.

Furthermore, he turned that terrifying moment into fuel for the boiling blood in his martial arts.

"Shocked...hot blood..."

(End of this chapter)