Promise!

Chapter 157, Opening the Meridians
On November 28th, the Shen family in the south of the city was at the main base of the Medicine King Gang.

As dusk settled, snowflakes the size of goose feathers danced wildly in the air, falling on the rooftops with their green tiles and eaves, and on the flowerbeds where all the flowers had long since withered.

In one corner of the courtyard, two or three wintersweet trees are blooming in the snow, next to an octagonal pavilion.

Inside the pavilion, Zhuang Jin sat cross-legged. At a certain moment, he suddenly opened his eyes, and his aura dissipated, causing the snowflakes that were drifting by to be shattered and exploded into mist as they spun around.

'So it really didn't work?'

He had previously considered that if he didn't actively break through after completing the accumulation of the twelve meridians, he might be stuck like other martial artists who were blocked by bottlenecks, causing the Black Fiend Technique to stop refining essence and thus solve the problem of having offspring. Now it seems that this won't work.

'I had never experienced a situation where I completed a certain level of accumulation but didn't break through. After this attempt, I discovered that even after completing a certain level of accumulation, if I didn't choose to break through, the Black Fiend Technique would still squeeze out the body's potential, refine the essence, and transform it into internal energy...'

'Because I have already completed the accumulation of the twelve meridian realms, and my internal energy has been refined and condensed to the extreme of this meridian realm, any excess internal energy can only dissipate on its own.'

Zhuang Jin carefully observed, sensed, and pondered, and finally understood the reason: 'When other martial artists encounter a bottleneck and are stuck at a certain level, it probably triggers an effect similar to a fuse blowing, activating the body's self-protection mechanism and putting the Black Fiend Technique into a 'dormant state.' In this state, the Black Fiend Technique's extraction of potential and refinement of essence will be at its lowest power. However, since I don't have a bottleneck, this 'fuss' won't trigger the body's protection mechanism, and the Black Fiend Technique will continue to extract potential and refine essence at high power.'

"Constantly squeezing out your potential and forcing your body to continuously release energy not only depletes your potential but also burdens your body with the generated internal energy, which you can only actively consume... This is fine in the short term, but if it goes on for too long, too much internal energy will accumulate and cause problems... I don't have a bottleneck, but if I'm not careful, my internal energy might spontaneously enter the eight extraordinary meridians!"

If this happens, it's a serious problem!
The order in which meridians to open first and which to open later is very important and must be coordinated with the meditation techniques... Reversing the order not only poses unknown risks, but also makes the techniques incompatible, which is tantamount to going into qi deviation!

"The natural order is constant; everything has two sides, and that's the only drawback I have—I don't have any bottlenecks to overcome."

Zhuang Jin secretly estimated that she could control this situation if she suppressed it for three to five months: 'It's just unnecessary. Not only would it needlessly diminish her potential, but it also wouldn't solve the problem of having offspring. It's truly a losing proposition.'

"Also, on the night of the fourteenth of last month, Sun Mingbi and I joined forces to kill Fu Honggang, the head of the Medicine King Gang in the south of the city. This has certainly drawn a lot of hatred... Although Sun Mingbi delivered the final blow, with him taking the lead, I was still second in line... Now, with Zhong Yi watching over me, I'm relatively safe, but I'm not one to place my hopes on others. Breaking through my own limitations and achieving my own power is what brings me the most peace of mind!"

He sighed inwardly, determined not to wait any longer and to break through to the Meridian Opening Realm today. He immediately closed his eyes, mobilized his inner energy, and headed towards the Chong Meridian, one of the eight extraordinary meridians, outside the twelve regular meridians.

Swish!
For ordinary martial artists, this major cultivation bottleneck, an insurmountable chasm, was easily broken through by Zhuang Jin without any hindrance. His inner energy instantly entered, flowing along the Chong Meridian acupoints, ascending to his head and descending to his feet, permeating his entire body...

At this moment, under the regulation and control of the Chong Meridian, the twelve primary meridians became as one, and the internal energy flowed as if wound up, accelerating several times over. The blood and qi in the body were also mobilized and interconnected, surging and growing as powerful as a river. If, in the Qi Condensation Realm, the meridians were opened one by one, and even at the Twelve Meridians Realm, the connection between the twelve primary meridians was not very close, then now, with the Chong Meridian opened and this 'Sea of ​​Twelve Primary Meridians' coordinating and connecting them, the twelve primary meridians were unified as desired, allowing them to truly begin to connect as one.

boom!boom!boom!boom!boom!
Zhuang Jin's heart pounded, and his steady, powerful voice could be clearly heard several feet away. His blood and qi surged, causing the surrounding temperature to rise subtly, and the falling snowflakes melted silently.

Within the unseen body, the internal energy is rapidly circulating, compressing and condensing, leaping towards a higher level, and undergoing an unprecedented qualitative change!
After a full cup of tea's time.

Swish!
Zhuang Jin opened his eyes, his spirits high and his eyes gleaming with a sharp light.

He felt his current state was better than ever before. He stood up and carefully experienced the changes in his body. At a certain moment, he gently raised his hand. Such a simple movement seemed to have a strange charm. The next moment, the snowflakes falling within a foot above his palm froze instantly. Then, they seemed to fall into a special field, floating and swirling within it.

This is absolutely amazing!
It should be understood that if it were Ming Jin (manifested force), these snowflakes would simply shatter into pieces; if it were An Jin (hidden force), it would be unable to support their weight at all. At this moment, this is another kind of force besides Ming Jin and An Jin.

It is... the Transformation Realm!
'At the Meridian Opening Realm, internal energy leaving the body is no longer considered either overt or covert force, but a fusion of both, transformative energy that can be both hard and soft, overt and covert, achieving perfect harmony… It also breaks the nine-inch limitation of the Perfected Black Fiend Palm, allowing it to leave the body a foot away!'

'And... martial arts intuition!'

Zhuang Jin experienced this strange feeling. His body's vision, hearing, and sixth sense influenced each other, as if a new sense had been added. This feeling was extremely peculiar. The world became clearer at this moment... just like someone who used to be severely nearsighted and could only see things blurry, but now he had recovered.

He opened his eyes wide, observing everything with keen insight. He could clearly see the finest dust on the ground, the swaying antennae of ants in the corner, and the different shapes and delicate textures of snowflakes on the treetops outside the pavilion under a microscope. In addition, he could hear the movement of the air, the snowflakes cutting through the air and falling, and the petals of the winter plum falling.

"Not only that,"

Even with her eyes closed, Zhuang Jin could still sense many things. That mysterious and indescribable 'presence', seemingly related to the strength of her qi and blood, was not perceived through sight or sound, but directly 'perceived'!

For example, at this moment: In my martial arts intuition, I can clearly see the martial artists patrolling outside, not only their positions and states, but also roughly distinguish their realms, whether they are from the first to third level, the fourth to sixth level, the seventh to ninth level, or the tenth to twelfth level, as well as the extremely strong aura that is even stronger than mine and is approaching at great speed.

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(End of this chapter)