The Bad Guys: Playing the Fake Li Xingyun at the Beginning

But when Li Xingyun practiced the Nine Nether Mysterious Heaven Divine Art and turned the internal force left in Yuan Tiangang's heart into his own use, remember that it was turned into his own use, not refined. These internal forces were still extremely hard and masculine, and could only be used by him, not a part of his body.

Of course, he couldn't do it.

When Li Siyuan used the same trick again to absorb Li Xingyun's internal energy, what he absorbed was not the internal energy of the Nine Nether Mysterious Heavenly Divine Art that he practiced, but the internal energy left by Yuan Tiangang.

This is easy to understand, because Li Xingyun himself is an empty shell with nothing to absorb.

But the internal force left in just one heart was enough to blow Li Siyuan up alive, causing him to go insane on the spot, and he was killed by Li Xingyun and Zhang Zifan.

The situation Su Ming is facing now is much better than Li Siyuan's, but it is not an easy task to refine it in a short period of time.

Soon, he began to feel a swelling and pain in his tendons and veins. With his current strength, it was still a bit difficult for him to refine such a huge amount of internal energy. The internal energy he had accumulated was only more than ten years. To refine a half century of internal energy was like using a small horse to pull a large cart.

Hot beads of sweat dripped down, Su Ming's internal organs were burning, his skin was hot, mist rose above his head, his face was red, and his blood was surging all over his body, as if a piece of red-hot charcoal was forcibly stuffed into his body.

"No, my foundation is too shallow. It will take at least half a month to refine such a large amount of internal energy." He was ecstatic just now, but became worried in the blink of an eye.

If this happened to someone else, it would be a great joy, but it might not be the case for him.

It was hard for him to imagine what kind of changes would happen in the court if he disappeared quietly for half a month, especially at this critical juncture when the court was preparing for the imperial examinations and selection of concubines.

At this point, force is no longer a problem for him, because he cannot catch up with Yuan Tiangang in a short period of time. Otherwise, Su Ming will defeat him and the rest will be easy.

If I could get more internal strength, Yuan Tiangang would no longer be able to threaten his life.

I want to control my own destiny...

In the blink of an eye, Su Ming's thoughts were jolted by the expanding internal force, and he couldn't help but start to have wild thoughts. The internal force that he had moved with great difficulty also became stagnant and scattered, as if it was about to collapse.

Oops!

The next moment, he reacted and quickly focused his mind, trying to keep his spiritual clarity. This was the influence of the inner demon caused by the rapid increase in his power.

In the original drama, Li Siyuan also experienced similar effects after absorbing Li Xingyun's internal energy. The most obvious point was that he became arrogant. He knew that someone was going to deal with him, but he still stepped into the game and was successfully killed.

Think about who Li Siyuan was before. He was an old coin who had been hiding until Yuan Tiangang's death. Everyone looked down on him, which led to his rise to prominence.

As a person in a high position, a gentleman will not stand under a dangerous wall. How can he use a beautiful jade like himself to touch a stone?

At that time, Li Siyuan occupied the Central Plains and was the Son of Heaven. He was about to be crowned emperor, and he had every right to do so. However, it was not Li Siyuan's style to go to the mountain of tigers even though he knew there were tigers there.

That was the aftereffect of him absorbing the internal force of the Tiangang Jue, but in the eyes of those who practiced cultivation, this was a kind of inner demon.

Before this, Li Siyuan was cautious and kept a low profile all his life. This cautious emotion had been suppressed in his heart for a long time. Over time, it became his inner demon and the shadow of his spiritual consciousness.

Under normal circumstances, it might not have any impact on him.

But if you take a wrong step, there will be no recovery.

Even Yuan Tiangang also has inner demons, and his inner demon is his obsession to revive the Tang Dynasty.

It’s just that Yuan Tiangang’s state of mind was too high, and he suppressed these emotions deep in his heart for three hundred years.

In the martial arts, such distracting thoughts need to be constantly cleared from the mind with great wisdom and perseverance during practice, and they must be suppressed, expelled, or even destroyed to prevent them from disrupting reason and hindering cultivation.

This allows the mind to remain firm, calm, bright and transparent at all times, and to cultivate courageously and diligently. In the words of Zen Master Shenxiu: "The body is a bodhi tree, the mind is like a bright mirror, always wipe it diligently, and don't let it be covered with dust."

Su Ming has always had an inner demon, and his inner demon is Yuan Tiangang. At this moment, he could not control his own skills, and was troubled by the inner demon for a while, and his internal strength almost went out of control.

Fortunately, he reacted in time, suppressed his mind and spirit, and regained his clarity of mind.

Next, Su Ming carefully guided his internal energy and tried his best to refine it.

However, after an hour, his body temperature still did not drop, and his boiling blood made his face red and uncomfortable. And he had only refined less than one twentieth of that huge internal force.

The swelling sensation in his tendons and veins became more and more intense. If this continued, his tendons and veins would not be able to hold on before he could refine the internal force. Then, he would be exploded by this huge amount of internal force.

Suddenly, Su Ming opened his eyes, and a hint of cruelty flashed in his eyes.

Fight!

Immediately, Su Ming was no longer obsessed with refining this internal force, but instead channeled all of this internal force into the Tanzhong point in the middle dantian, greatly reducing the burden on his own meridians. He then dispersed the internal force that slowly overflowed from the middle dantian into the unoccupied meridians throughout the body, running and refining it, and guiding it to the lower dantian qi sea.

At the same time, this internal force is divided into two parts, one part remains in the Dantian for further refining, and the other is used to open up the acupoints throughout the body.

There are a total of 365 acupoints in the human body, and Su Ming, with his skills at the peak of the Great Heaven Realm, has only opened less than half of them.

The level of martial arts is not only related to the depth of the martial artist's skills, but also closely related to the acupoints that are opened.

If skill is software, then the acupuncture points and meridians that are opened are hardware. If the skill is profound, the software will naturally be strong. However, if the software is strong but the hardware cannot keep up, even if the software is the most advanced, the hardware cannot support it and can only play a small part of its role, or even crash and shut down.

On the contrary, the better the hardware, the more software can be run, the faster it runs, the more power can be accumulated slowly, and even various natural treasures can enhance internal power. But it is not so easy to open up the acupuncture points.

The highest level of martial arts cannot be reached simply by accumulating internal strength.

If possible, Su Ming did not want to open up the acupuncture points at this time, because it was a bit risky. He still wanted to be down-to-earth and take it step by step.

But if he didn't use this risky move, he would never be able to get through this level.

Chapter 116 Breakthrough to the Great Heaven Level

With his mind made up, Su Ming calmed his mind and mobilized most of his internal energy to attack the unopened acupuncture points in his body.

With such a huge amount of internal force to help him, Su Ming even has the confidence to open up more than 350 main acupoints.

The reason why it is not all of them is that among the 365 main acupoints in the human body, there are several major acupoints whose locations are extremely critical and are related to the fundamental life of the human body.

These acupoints are extremely dangerous when opening them. If you are not careful, you will injure the Niwan Palace, the brain, and other important parts such as the internal organs. In the mildest case, the internal strength will be damaged. In the worst case, it will cause retrograde flow of Qi and blood, possession of the mind, meridian rupture, epilepsy and death, etc. Especially in the Ren and Du meridians, once an accident happens, I am afraid that the person will die suddenly on the spot. It is really not advisable to open them lightly.

What's more, the internal force used to open up the acupoints is not obtained through one's own cultivation, and the control is not precise. It can be used to open up ordinary acupoints, but if it is used to open up vital acupoints that are vital to life, the risk is so high that no normal person can afford it.

If this inner force was not a reward from the system, it would be moderate and peaceful, full of vitality, very gentle, not extreme at all, and would not cause damage to the meridians.

If it were the most rigid and yang internal force, or the most yin and evil internal force, he would never dare to do this!

Because that is not saving lives, but seeking death!

Su Ming's consciousness mobilized his internal energy and rushed towards the blocked acupoints. The huge amount of internal energy formed a torrent of internal energy. At the beginning, the blockages of dozens of acupoints were no match for this tremendous internal energy. They were broken in the blink of an eye without any hindrance.

Every time he opened an acupoint, Su Ming would leave a trace of internal force to nourish the acupoint to prevent damage.

It was not until he opened up more than thirty acupoints that he felt obvious obstruction and stagnation, but this still could not stop Su Ming. The huge torrent of internal force was dispersed to various acupoints, causing his body temperature to gradually drop, and soon returned to normal.

His meridians had also recovered and no longer felt swollen. Noticing the changes in his body, Su Ming finally let go of the worry that had been weighing on his mind. At least he had saved his life.

Then, he used his internal energy to continuously impact the acupoints. The acupoints of the human body are unobstructed when we are born, but as time goes by, the impurities breathed in from the outside world and the impurities ingested by the human body continue to gather in the body, causing the originally unobstructed acupoints to become blocked.

Under the continuous impact of wave after wave of huge internal force, those acupoints blocked by stubborn impurities were still successfully broken open, but the speed of opening up inevitably decreased slightly.

Soon, three hours passed, and more and more acupoints in Su Ming's body were opened. Two hundred and ninety-seven, two hundred and ninety-eight, two hundred and ninety-nine, three hundred...

Suddenly, after opening up the 300th acupoint, he felt a shock all over his body, and he felt a lot more comfortable. His internal organs and meridians trembled slightly, and the internal force left in the acupoints naturally poured out, forming a spider-like white mist of true energy that connected together and spread throughout the meridians and acupoints in an instant.

Everything is different!

The originally independent acupoints were connected by the pure internal force to form the human body's internal circulation. If it is said that when Su Ming was refining the internal force before, the true energy in his body could only take several separate paths, they were not connected and each operated independently.

Now, after these opened acupoints were connected to the meridians, they formed an overall network. This was the overall circulation of the eight extraordinary meridians. The torrent of internal force in his body kept circulating on this network, gradually merging into his own internal force, and even the internal force that was diverted to his dantian was merged into it.

Moreover, this process is very comfortable and refreshing. The internal force of the small trickle grows stronger in the process and turns into a small river.

At the same time, Su Ming felt that the bottleneck that had been bothering him had loosened. His skills had grown very slowly after reaching the peak of the Great Heaven Realm, as if there was an invisible barrier.

Now, this barrier began to loosen. His mind was shocked and he started to practice the Tiangang Jue mental method, moving the great circulation. The crystal clear internal force was compressed and condensed, turning into extremely strong and yang true qi.

When the internal energy accumulated over sixty years was completely refined, Su Ming also broke through to the Great Heaven Level and entered a new realm.

Suddenly, he opened his eyes, and lightning seemed to appear in the void, and the whole stone chamber seemed to be brighter.

"call……"

Su Ming exhaled a breath of turbid air, and felt as light as a swallow, his whole body smooth, and the feeling was better than ever!

Immediately, he stood up and clenched his fists. An invisible but tangible barrier appeared in front of him, covering three feet around his body. This was the protective air shield formed by the innate qi.

Before the breakthrough, this move was not enough for him and he could only last for half an incense stick and could not maintain it for a long time. Now, he can maintain it for two or three hours with some strength left.

Both the speed and quality of his Qi mobilization are far beyond the past. At this moment, he can beat ten of his opponents before his breakthrough!

Now, Su Ming just wants to say: Who else!

However, after a short while of being happy, he thought of that person again.

It only took sixty years of internal energy for him to break through to the Great Heaven Level. Yuan Tiangang has three hundred years of internal energy, which is five times the amount. How powerful is he?

Moreover, the breakthrough in realm is not a simple addition, but an exponential growth!

Thinking of this, Su Ming's inflated mood quickly cooled down, and he kept repeating in his mind: Don't drift, don't drift.

After a while, he regained his composure, and his spirit and energy were restrained, becoming the same as before. Only then did he open the mechanism and walk out of the training room.

The sky has brightened, the dazzling sunlight is shining, and the distant clouds are reflected like broken gold. The azure sky is clear and blue. The scenery is still the same, but the mood of people has changed.

After leaving the training room, Su Ming came to Qianqiu Hall. The imperial desk was once again filled with memorials. Memorials from officials from all over the Central Plains gathered here.

Some were memorials of greeting, some were memorials requesting tax reduction or exemption, and some were memorials reporting official business. They were complicated and confusing.

As usual, he came to the desk and began to review memorials. He was not proud of his breakthrough. Instead, he was more easily immersed in it, extracting useful information from the officials' memorials with more patience and keenness than before.

It seemed that this breakthrough brought him not only a leap in martial arts and combat power, but also refined his mind and brought his state of mind to a higher level.

After thinking for a moment, Su Ming suddenly smiled and realized that anyone who walks through the gates of hell will change, let alone him.

……

On the other hand, the news of the imperial selection soon spread throughout the world. In this era, Luoyang was the undisputed political center of the world, and any news coming from this city would attract the attention of interested people.

The selection of concubines was for the emperor's wedding.

Not only the aristocratic families were tempted by this, but also the military governors of the southern separatist regions were tempted and wanted to send their daughters to the palace to marry the emperor.

Chapter 117 Queen, Let’s Take a Rest

The princes of Chu, Wu, Nanping, Shu and other countries sent congratulatory messages to the Tang court, wanting to offer tribute beauties to participate in the selection, only because this was not only the emperor's marriage, but also a political event.

Today, the Central Plains has a strong military force that overwhelms the princes. The military governors of various places have many arrogant and powerful generals under their command, who are many levels stronger than the princes in the south.

Since ancient times, it has been a consensus throughout the world that strong armies come from the north.

During the period of Li Cunxu, if he had not acted too hastily, and with the support of Yuan Tiangang behind the scenes, he might have very likely achieved nominal unification. At that time, the southern princes had not yet developed the ambition to compete for the world.

It was not until Shi Jingtang ceded the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun and pledged loyalty to the Khitan that the North could no longer withstand the Khitan's offensive. Only then did the southern princes no longer remain in awe of the Central Plains and even want to compete for the world.

During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, the most chaotic period was the loss of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, when the Central Plains were trampled by foreign cavalry. It was then that people's hearts truly collapsed and order no longer existed. Unlike now, we can still maintain superficial stability.

While Su Ming was showing his prowess in the court and suppressing Li Siyuan, Yelu Abaoji was not idle either. During this year, he changed his previous strategy of heading south to the Central Plains and instead established a base in Mobei. He personally led the army to attack and destroy the Bohai Kingdom that occupied Liaodong.

The Bohai Kingdom emphasized both nomadic and agricultural life, and there were many people in the country who had fled from the Central Plains. The size of the Bohai Kingdom was very large, almost as large as that of the Khitan.