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Chapter 53 Secondary Coagulation
time flies.

Several months have passed in the blink of an eye.

Wu Ming had been working under the Night Patrol Division of the Censorate for several months. During these months, he only encountered thieves twice during night patrols. The group chased and surrounded them, eventually capturing one and letting one escape.

Apart from that, he did not encounter any trouble in the past few months, and Wu Ming basically immersed himself in cultivation.

The Shenxing Division has far more martial arts manuals than the Seven Martial Alliance's outer hall martial academy. There are more than twenty kinds of spear techniques below the Unity Realm alone. Wu Ming even saw a few spear techniques that require reaching the Unity Realm to practice.

With the Falling Leaf Spear Technique as a foundation and his extremely keen senses, Wu Ming also practiced and studied other spear techniques whenever he had free time. He eventually mastered a total of seven spear techniques and integrated them all.

He could sense that he had vaguely touched the threshold of the unity of skill and technique. However, the unity of skill and technique required the internalization and unification of body, mind and technique to form an unparalleled explosive force. This explosive force could not be withstood by a body that had only coagulated blood once. At least two coagulations were needed to strengthen the skin and membranes of the body. Therefore, two coagulations were the foundation of the unity of skill and technique.

The Department of Cautious Punishment.

In a room about three zhang square, Wu Ming sat cross-legged in the center. The room was empty except for the Crimson Python Spear placed in front of him. This was a place in the Cautious Punishment Division specifically used for cultivation, and there were hundreds of similar rooms.

At this moment, Wu Ming was holding a meal in his hands. The meal was steaming hot. It was a clay pot containing stewed Mangniu demon meat, as well as many unidentifiable medicinal herbs.

This is an eight-treasure medicinal diet.

"Let's try the effects of this medicinal diet."

Looking at the eight-treasure medicinal cuisine in the casserole, Wu Ming felt a pang of regret.

This medicinal meal is worth a full hundred taels of silver, which is almost the food for an ordinary family of three for a year. It can be described as the ultimate luxury!
Even now, it took him a long time to accumulate enough money, countless times of gambling at the North Street casino, to finally buy this share.

Since entering the Department of Cautious Punishment, he has received a dose of Seven-Flavor Blood-Nourishing Powder every month, and he buys his own medicinal tea. He has never stopped taking it. He also eats Mangniu demon meat every day, and his accumulated blood energy is incredibly abundant.

soon.

Wu Ming devoured the eight-treasure medicinal food in the casserole like a whirlwind. For a moment, he felt as if he had swallowed a burning ember, the heat spreading from his abdomen to his limbs and bones.

The potent tonic power spread throughout his body, causing Wu Ming's skin to turn slightly red, and beads of sweat to fall from his forehead. His body felt like an inflating balloon, with every piece of flesh swelling up.

"call."

Wu Ming took a deep breath and closed his eyes. For a moment, he felt his heart fire burning fiercely. The intense heat made him feel as if he were in the deepest hell, being roasted by a fiery demon. A feeling of unease surged up, making his thoughts somewhat chaotic and making it difficult for him to concentrate and gather his blood and qi.

"This is what is meant by pure Yang blood and intense Qi, with a heart fire that is difficult to extinguish..."

Wu Ming muttered to himself.

Unlike the first blood clotting, in the process of a martial artist moving towards the second blood clotting, the blood and qi in the body must be thick enough to meet the standard for attempting the second blood clotting, so it is necessary to continuously accumulate blood and qi.

However, excessive blood and qi can also cause excessive heart fire, leading to various feelings of irritability. This is especially true as one gets closer to the critical point of blood clotting. Therefore, the step of blood clotting is not something that can be easily overcome.

For example, some people may fail several times in a row during the second blood clotting process, until they fully adapt to the blood energy in this state and can suppress their inner restlessness before they can successfully cross this threshold. Blood clotting failure is also very common for martial artists.

but.

For Wu Ming, this feeling of intense inner fire and restlessness was nothing to worry about. He didn't even need to activate the Lin Word Technique; he simply suppressed it with his spiritual power, and the restlessness in his heart immediately disappeared without a trace, becoming calm.

"Gathering blood and condensing qi."

Wu Ming remained calm. Although his body was like a furnace with raging blood energy surging everywhere, his mind was not disturbed in the slightest. In this tranquil state, he gradually calmed the violent blood energy and returned it to his dantian.

After all the chaotic blood energy in his body was drawn into his dantian, the intense and powerful blood energy in his dantian expanded to its limit, causing a slight bloating and pain in his lower abdomen.

"Bao Yuan Shouyi."

Wu Ming kept his mind unchanged, but his thoughts shifted, manipulating the abundant blood and qi in his dantian. He focused on the oneness of the primordial energy, using the formless and intangible 'one' as the core, and began to slowly rotate, flowing like a pill.

Under his guidance and manipulation, the blood energy swirled and flowed faster and faster until it broke through a certain limit. Finally, a brand new wisp of blood energy emerged in the very center of the dantian. This wisp of blood energy was significantly stronger than the previous blood energy. As soon as it appeared, it immediately began to devour the other low-quality blood energy in the dantian like a whirlwind.

soon.

All the low-quality blood energy disappeared, replaced by a more vigorous crimson blood energy, like a red flame flickering in the dantian.

At this moment, Wu Ming finally slowly opened his eyes and took a deep breath.

Secondary clotting.

It became.

"The most difficult part of this second blood coagulation is that when the blood energy is extremely thick, it will become more and more restless and difficult to control. It may even affect one's own will and generate inner demons. That's why some people fail to coagulate blood, deplete their blood energy, and have to start over from scratch. This back and forth will waste a lot of time, so much so that they lose the opportunity to break through to a higher level."

Wu Ming felt the changes within his body and muttered to himself.

For martial arts cultivation, the most important thing is time. The younger you are, the easier it is to accumulate blood and qi, and the more opportunities you have to reach higher realms. As you get older, it becomes increasingly difficult to accumulate blood and qi.

The impact of secondary blood clotting, if it fails, will not cause any internal injuries, but most of the blood energy that has been painstakingly accumulated will be lost. It will take time to accumulate it again. Those who are not talented enough will have their cultivation progress greatly delayed if they fail several times. Even if they eventually succeed in secondary blood clotting, they will not have the opportunity to clotting blood for the third time in the future.

In comparison,

He completed the second stage of blood clotting directly, taking less than a year. This speed and efficiency are comparable to those with 'above-average' abilities. Of course, he was able to do this because of the strength of his divine soul.

"No wonder cultivating Taoist arts and refining one's soul requires subduing inner demons and maintaining a pure and tranquil mind. Similarly, cultivating martial arts also requires tempering one's martial will. If one's will is not strong enough, one will be affected by the restlessness of blood energy and generate inner demons at the final stage of breaking through to the point of blood coagulation. Moreover, the higher the martial arts realm, the stronger this influence will be."

"The saying 'the higher the righteous path, the greater the evil path' applies not only to the Taoist lineage but also to the martial arts lineage."

(End of this chapter)