Text-based martial arts: A nighttime rendezvous with the gang leader's wife in a dilapidated te

The icy lake water will thrill you at this moment!

The "Fish Leaping Over the Dragon Gate" technique is slowly unfolding from the depths of your heart this time.

[The special skill "River Carp Rising Waves" is activated!]

That cold, initially repulsive water suddenly felt like an inseparable part of you.

You often wonder, who exactly is Long Qingyu? She's clearly quite young, so how could she create such a miraculous cultivation method at such a young age?

You may not know, but you do know that without Long Qingyu, you probably wouldn't have made it this far.

Your body slowly sinks into the water; in the pitch-black depths, it seems you can't see much.

At this moment, your mind seems to have completely sunk into this deep water, feeling the pressure of its current.

[You feel your body begin to slowly sink. If it weren't for the mental techniques of the "Fish Leaping Over the Dragon Gate," you would probably be swimming upwards already at this depth.]

Finally, you've hit the bottom.

This is the shallow area of ​​East Lake, only twenty or thirty meters deep.

However, for you, this is the best spot to experience the Canglan Dinghai Stake!

Your eyes closed, and your legs plunged into the mud and gravel beneath your feet.

[Your palms are outstretched, forming a very peculiar pose, your legs like the roots of an old tree!]

[Your arms and body begin to sway gently, accompanied by the water flow, and your entire body begins to move underwater.]

At this moment, you suddenly have a strange feeling; it's as if you've transformed into a stone pillar at the bottom of this lake! Firmly embedded within the heart of the lake's water.

[System Notification: You are currently practicing the "Azure Sea Stabilizing Stance," and the mental technique's characteristic "Submerged Current" is in effect. Your inherent constitution and comprehension are fixed at +2.]

A miraculous change occurred.

The suffocating water pressure, guided by the Canglan Sea-Stabilizing Pillar, seemed to transform into thousands of tiny forging hammers.

They are no longer a deadly threat, but rather something that relentlessly assaults every inch of your skin and flesh.

[You have entered a water depth of over six zhang (approximately 10 meters) with immense pressure; your Canglan Dinghai Zhuang training speed will increase by 50%!]

[Cultivating the Canglan Sea-Stabilizing Stake...]

【…】

The icy lake water is squeezing your flesh from all sides. Experience gained from the "Azure Sea Stabilizing Stake"! Current progress: Level 0, 8%.

Finally, after about five minutes, the experience gained from the Canglan Dinghai Stake on the screen changed!

5 minutes, 8% improvement!

So, if I calculate it this way, it should take me about an hour to complete the basics of the Canglan Dinghai Stake.

Of course, this is only in theory; in reality, there are other effects as well.

Your stamina is decreasing...

Stamina! Chen Xuan glanced at his attribute panel:

【Chen Siming】

Age: 16

[Title: Seeker of the Dao] [Fate: Defying Fate]

[Realm: None]

[Practical Experience: 30] [Potential Points: 1594]

[Innate Talent: 5+2] [Comprehension: 0+2]

[Agility: 0+2] [Strength: 0] [Luck: 0]

[Qi and Blood: 168/170] [Stamina: 6/14] [Internal Force: None]

[Status: Fatigue (You need some rest or food to restore your strength.)]

[Summary: Severe imbalance in academic performance.]

Yes, practicing the Canglan Dinghai Stake underwater is extremely physically demanding.

Unfortunately, all of his attributes were transferred to his physical constitution, causing his strength to drop to zero, leaving him with only the initial 14 points of stamina.

Chen Xuan sighed helplessly; he still didn't have enough attributes to allocate.

In particular, if any one of the three attributes—physical constitution, agility, and strength—breaks by more than 3 points, the attribute boost provided by the family heirloom jade pendant will decrease by 1 point.

There's nothing we can do about it.

In fact, this is already due to the fact that the "Carp Leaping Over the Dragon Gate" technique, with its "River Carp Swimming in the Waves" characteristic, greatly reduces the consumption of physical strength in the water!

Otherwise, I'm afraid I'd only need a minute or two of practice to figure it out.

Fortunately, Chen Xuan had made ample preparations for his trip!

Before your strength was completely exhausted, you withdrew from your stance and emerged from East Lake like a swimming fish.

You wiped your face, went to the shore, and lit a fire.

Take out the prepared sesame seed cakes, devour them in no time, and your stamina will quickly recover.

You felt your strength had almost fully recovered. Glancing at the sky, you realized there was still a long time before nightfall. Without further hesitation, you jumped back into East Lake!

At this rate, you have a good chance of completing the basics of the Canglan Dinghai Stake before nightfall!

The silt at the bottom of the lake once again became the soil in which you took root. Your heartbeat, submerged in the water, slowed even further, only rhythmically leaping once every few breaths.

Underwater, things are becoming increasingly familiar to you!

This time, your actions were exceptionally skillful and swift!

[This water pressure, enough to overwhelm human internal organs, is something only you can withstand. In other words, this is a body-training paradise exclusively for you!]

[Cultivating the Canglan Sea-Stabilizing Stake...]

【…】

The icy current from the bottom of the water lashes against your spine. Experience gained from the "Azure Sea Stabilizing Stake" skill! Current progress: Level 0, 24%.

Your stamina is decreasing...

Time passed by, bit by bit, at this moment.

Chen Xuan stared intently at the screen.

He was genuinely afraid that his physical strength would deplete and he might exhaust himself to death or drown in the East Lake.

And it was during this period of time that...

The experience points of the Canglan Dinghai Stake are also increasing little by little.

[Take a breath, replenish energy...]

[Level 0, 48%...]

[Take a breath, replenish energy...]

[Level 0, 72%...]

[Level 0, 90%...]

[Take a breath, replenish energy...]

[Level 0, 99%...]

at last!

As time slowly turned, the clock in the dormitory struck 6 o'clock.

And then, the game's continuous subtitle prompts finally appeared before our eyes.

Time passed, and all was silent.

Even in the darkness of the lake's bottom, your movements remain as methodical as ever.

The terrifying water pressure, enough to cause ordinary humans to bleed from all seven orifices and rupture their lungs in moments, was, at this moment, perfectly transformed into the best elixir for tempering your flesh and blood through the combination of the Canglan Sea-Stabilizing Stake and the Fish Leaping Over the Dragon Gate Technique!

Underwater is your world! It's your paradise!

At this moment, the tempering you've undergone by Deepwater has finally reached a qualitative leap!

You feel that the sluggish feeling at the bottom of the water completely disappear at this moment!

Your strength, as if forged underwater, has undergone a subtle transformation that even you yourself cannot comprehend!

[System Notification: Canglan Dinghai Stake upgraded to Level 1 (Beginner)!]

Although the effect on your improvement is negligible, theoretically speaking, you have finally stepped into the first realm of martial arts and begun your formal body-refining journey.

[You have broken through to the first level of Body Refinement, the 'Flesh Refinement' realm!]