Chapter 188: Chapter 187 Start with Qianyuan Skill (Subscribe Please)
Chen Fan looked it over twice.
As expected, the plus sign after the realm indicates that consuming potential points will only increase the True Qi attribute.
The plus sign after body enhancement indicates that consuming potential points will only increase the constitution, power, agility, and spirit attributes, and cannot increase the True Qi attribute.
Chen Fan’s gaze fell on the 10 million.
Ten million.
Ten million can only strengthen once.
And the remaining potential points I have are only 2.5 million...
Turning back to look at the number of potential points needed to increase True Qi, it’s really cost-effective.
"Why not give it a try."
Chen Fan thought to himself.
He also understood the benefits of body enhancement.
For example, in the Entry Force Realm, each enhancement increases by 1.15 times.
And the last breakthrough earlier, all attributes increased by 1.2 times.
So, how much will the increase be for Qi Refining?
Chen Fan’s gaze fell on the realm, adding one hundred thousand points of potential value.
Instantly, he felt a huge surge of True Qi within his body, like a vast river, and his few threads of True Qi within him seemed insignificant like dust.
This huge surge of True Qi surged towards an acupoint, without any hesitation, directly hitting it.
"Boom!"
A loud bang.
The surge of True Qi flooded in like a river breaking its banks.
Then, it rapidly flowed back and disappeared where it appeared before.
The few threads of True Qi in his body rushed over eagerly.
Furthermore, a wisp of True Qi seemed to have appeared, and a slight warm current flowed within his body.
Chen Fan was quite surprised and quickly looked at the information in his mind.
[Consumed 100,000 potential points, opened the Jinmen Acupoint of the Yangwei Meridian]
[True Qi +1]
[Constitution +3]
[Power +2]
"Jinmen Acupoint of the Yangwei Meridian?"
He looked at the realm bar again.
Realm: Early Stage of Meridian Refining (0/120,000)
True Qi: 53
The realm was still in the Early Stage of Meridian Refining, unchanged, but the next consumption of potential points had increased to 120,000.
And the True Qi attribute had also increased from 52 to 53 points.
The constitution and power attributes below had indeed changed.
Chen Fan understood.
Adding points to the realm was not what he thought to be a breakthrough, but rather opening up the Eight Extraordinary Meridians.
The first meridian being impacted was called the Yangwei Meridian.
The Jinmen Acupoint was the first acupoint on this meridian.
And the situation that occurred in the body before should be the process of True Qi impacting the meridian.
Evidently, with such a large amount of True Qi, it should be no issue to open more than just one acupoint; perhaps even open the first meridian, and if bold enough, it might be sufficient to break through the Eight Extraordinary Meridians.
"It seems that the Qi Refining in the Meridian Refining Realm is about opening the Eight Extraordinary Meridians, increasing True Qi, enhancing True Qi while also improving body attributes. Additionally, it appears that it can also be enhanced through cultivating the Inner Power Heart Method."
Chen Fan looked at the Qianyuan Skill in the skill bar.
He wondered how this Inner Power Heart Method increases True Qi?
Is it like opening the meridians and increasing point by point?
Or is it like the earlier fist and kick martial arts, increasing by several times?
If it’s the former, then it can be learned at any time, but if it’s the latter, naturally the higher the True Qi value, the greater the increase.
"No rush, let’s use up all these potential points first."
Chen Fan’s mind moved, and he added 120,000 points of potential up.
In his Dantian, the huge surge of True Qi that had disappeared appeared again, flowing rapidly through the opened Jinmen Acupoint, arriving in front of the second acupoint, with no hesitation, it crashed into it.
Like crushing dry weeds and smashing rotten wood, the second barrier was instantly broken with no resistance against this level of True Qi.
[Consumed 120,000 potential points, opened the Yangjiao Acupoint of the Yangwei Meridian]
[True Qi +2]
[Constitution +3]
[Power +2]
"How fast."
Chen Fan marveled.
His body’s True Qi increased by two more strands.
He continued to click the plus sign, and instantly, the huge surge of True Qi appeared again, breaking through the third Shu Acupoint as before.
Next was the Celestial Width Acupoint, Jianjing Acupoint,
Counting the previous two times, the potential points consumed were 700,000.
The True Qi value increased by 15 points, and the original five strands of True Qi had now become six strands.
Constitution, power, including agility attributes, also increased, and the range was quite significant, generally approaching 30 points.
"It seems this Qi Refining is not as simple as imagined."
Chen Fan thought to himself.
The growth rate was too slow, opening an acupoint only added a few points of True Qi,
Although the potential points consumed were indeed not much.
"Keep going."
Chen Fan looked at the remaining potential points, more than 1.8 million, at this rate, opening a few more acupoints was not difficult.
[Consumed 200,000 potential points, opened the Touwei Acupoint of the Yangwei Meridian]
[True Qi +6]
[Constitution +5]
[Agility +3]
220,000 potential points, opened the Ben Shen Acupoint,
240,000 potential points, opened the Yangbai Acupoint,
...
[Consumed 320,000 potential points, opened the Chengling Acupoint of the Yangwei Meridian]
[True Qi +12]
[Constitution +5]
[Power +6]
[Agility +5]
"Surprisingly, three basic attributes increased at once?"
Chen Fan was a bit surprised, then wanted to click the plus sign again, only to find that the potential points were gone.
More than 2.5 million potential points were used to open twelve acupoints, and the True Qi value increased by 78 points.
Constitution, power, and agility attributes increased by nearly 200 points.
Spirit attribute remained unchanged.
He looked at the panel,
Realm: Early Stage of Meridian Refining (0/340,000)
True Qi: 131
The next time breaking through the meridian needed 340,000 potential points.
Chen Fan frowned, the required potential points didn’t seem much, but accumulated, it was quite a number.
It was just like at the beginning, only needing 100,000 potential points to break through meridian once.
Now, it had become 340,000.
"I wonder how many acupoints are there in the Yangwei Meridian in total?"
Chen Fan thought to himself, if it’s only half of the progress, then the potential points required to open the last acupoint would likely be over 500,000.
Keep in mind, this Yangwei Meridian is the first of the Eight Extraordinary Meridians, and the remaining seven must undoubtedly require more potential points.
Especially the Ren and Du Meridians.
Although he didn’t know the exact location of these two meridians, considering previous wuxia novels, many people did not manage to open these two meridians in their lifetime.
Now that the potential points were exhausted, breaking through the meridian had to stop here.
"Not necessarily."
Chen Fan suddenly had an idea.
Not everyone has a panel; the Meridian Refining Martial Artists in the association should be relying on the True Qi within their bodies to break through the meridians.
When True Qi is exhausted, either they will sit in meditation to restore True Qi or take True Qi pills to replenish True Qi and continue to break through the meridian.
Then maybe he could also try this method?
He closed his eyes, feeling where the next acupoint to be opened was.
He then carefully controlled a thread of True Qi within him, and attacked the acupoint.
With a "boom,"
The thread of True Qi struck the dam and disappeared without a trace.
"Gone?"
Chen Fan was somewhat surprised, and carefully sensed again, indeed he could no longer feel the thread of True Qi.
And the acupoint being attacked had loosened quite a bit, a few more impacts with True Qi and it would be broken.
"Let’s go again."
Chen Fan controlled two threads of True Qi to attack the acupoint fiercely.
The acupoint suddenly loosened a lot.
Chen Fan was delighted and quickly activated another thread of True Qi.
"Crack!"
The acupoint was instantly broken through, and a strand of True Qi came into being.
"Success!"
Chen Fan rejoiced.
It seemed his guess was correct, this method was feasible.
Total consumption of less than four strands of True Qi, successfully broke through the thirteenth acupoint.
It went smoother than expected.
The panel showed the changes again.
Realm: Early Stage of Meridian Refining (0/360,000)
True Qi: 108/144
"So it consumed 36 points of True Qi?"
Chen Fan looked at the True Qi section, corresponding to the previous consumption.
Therefore, the 108 in front is the usable True Qi, and the 144 behind should be the total amount of True Qi.
"It looks like the True Qi within me can break through another one or two acupoints?"
Chen Fan’s lips curved slightly, gaining experience, this time he directly controlled three strands of True Qi and charged forward.
True Qi fiercely collided with the acupoint.
Within a breath, three strands of True Qi disappeared without a trace, and the fourteenth acupoint loosened considerably.
Chen Fan again controlled three strands of True Qi.
"Crack!"
A crisp sound.
The fourteenth acupoint was broken.
Realm: Early Stage of Meridian Refining (0/380,000)
True Qi: 70/158
"It consumed 52 points of True Qi."
Chen Fan took a glance.
And the total True Qi increased to 158 points.
"I wonder if seventy points of True Qi can break through the next acupoint, anyway I’m free now, might as well try."
After resting for a bit, he controlled three strands of True Qi once again and attacked the next acupoint.
The three strands of True Qi were quickly exhausted, and the acupoint only loosened by approximately one-third.
"Looks like it’s not enough."
Chen Fan muttered, nonetheless, he used the remaining 40 points of True Qi, the acupoint significantly loosened more.
True Qi exhausted.
"I wonder if this acupoint remains in this state, next time 30 points of True Qi will break it, or will it gradually recover."
Chen Fan thought.
If it’s the former, it’ll be much better.
But intuition told him the latter had a higher probability.
Luckily, he had enough time to observe.
Additionally, breaking through the meridian using True Qi wasn’t easy.
His amount of True Qi could at most break through three acupoints, and to completely recover would likely need a day.
Furthermore, the difficulty increases with each subsequent break through.
Ordinary Meridian Refining Martial Artists might find breaking through one acupoint a day remarkable, and it’s unknown if breaking through the meridian bears the risk of failure.
"We’ll see step by step, now that potential points are exhausted, the next step is to improve martial arts."
Chen Fan’s gaze fell on the skill bar, there were a total of four martial arts that could be cultivated in the Meridian Refining Realm.
Heart method, [Qianyuan Skill],
Archery, [Cloud-piercing Arrow Technique],
Fist technique, [Tiger Subduing Fist],
And one body refining martial art, [Golden Bell Shield].
The first three martial arts could be cultivated immediately; Golden Bell Shield required a three-day unlocking period.
"Let’s start with Qianyuan Skill."
Chen Fan thought.