Chapter 411: New Martial Path [PART 2]
The exploded part healed instantly.
Xiang Yu thought to himself that this seemed to be the real problem.
Usually, internal energy was a weaker form of qi that strengthened the body in the Body Refining realms. After entering the Qi Gathering realm and gaining qi, which was far superior, the internal energy still remained, but qi became the dominant force.
With qi acting as the dominant power, even though internal energy continued circulating within the body, it didn’t interfere with qi’s functions.
But with him, as his qi grew stronger, his internal energy also grew stronger. In the end, there was never a clear dominant force. With both powers being such high levels, they could only claim separate territories and stay away from each other to prevent his body from exploding. The internal energy focused on his skin while qi remained in the qi pathways.
Although this meant he was physically stronger, this was actually quite a problem. He was only strong at the surface level - he was missing out on most of the benefits of body refining. It was fortunate he had noticed this early. If he had continued like this, his body would have become so strong that it would crush his internal organs. Even if he could heal them instantly, it wouldn’t be pleasant to watch.
Luckily for him, his internal organs were also quite strong thanks to his bloodline battles.
Well, now that he knew the problem, it was time to fix it. And he already had a plan in mind.
He thought to himself that later, when one unlocked the spiritual sea, their qi would become more gentle. But the internal energy kept getting more and more violent the stronger it became without something like the spiritual sea to calm it.
That’s why their collision resulted in explosions. For them to coexist, he needed to make them both calm.
Since he couldn’t get his internal energy into the spiritual sea - it was focused on the body - he decided to handle its situation within the body itself.
He concentrated deeply and began summoning all his internal energy, drawing it toward his dantian. Below his dantian, Xiang Yu started transforming his body. He created a solid core, then built millions of pathways from the core, threading through his entire body and connecting every part. The internal energy then flowed in and settled completely in the core.
The moment it did, the core began refining the internal energy, calming it and sending it back into his body through the millions of pathways he had made. The refined energy traveled all the way to every single cell in his body.
Now the problem was solved. The newly calmed energy wouldn’t interfere with his qi and would circulate through all the cells in his body, not just focus on his skin. This would allow much better control over his body.
His physical strength felt even stronger than before because he could use it more effectively now.
At the same time, his enlightenment ran out and he opened his eyes in the real world. He looked around and noticed the space-time distortions calming down.
He observed his core that was circulating his internal energy.
"From now on, you’ll be known as the Inner Core."
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Xiang Yu moved his hands. He smiled as he saw that he wasn’t disrupting space-time anymore. A sword formed in his other hand through void silk, and he sliced it toward his hand. The sword hit his skin and was deflected with a metallic clang.
This was really impressive. He had solved the main issue without losing his strength. Even better, he was now at the fiftieth layer of Body Refining.
||Senior brother, are you okay?|| Li Yao asked, releasing the space-time lockdown.
Xiang Yu smiled at her. She appeared on his lap, hugging him tightly. ||I was really scared,|| she said.
"It’s okay, I’m still here. Thanks for helping me," he said, patting her head. "Why don’t you go back first?"
She didn’t respond. He smiled. Well, maybe she was a little shaken up.
"Wife, I made a new body refining method. Do you want to learn it too?" he asked.
She continued hugging him. "Later," she said, returning to her base form.
"Okay..." he said, patting her as he observed the rest of the benefits from the Transcendent Dao Body upgrade.
After the upgrade, apart from the significant boost in physical strength, he had also received boosts to comprehension and enlightenment. His recovery speed was also enhanced.
With his current regeneration, any improvements were barely visible, so he didn’t pay much attention to it. But this time, it had a new benefit - also boosting his soul recovery.
He smiled, with this boosted soul recovery, he could dive deeper and deeper into the Absolute End to expand the genuine space in his spiritual sea.
There was also the usual body optimization, not only receiving combat optimizations but also energy refinement optimizations. The energy refinement optimization was quite compatible with the Stellar Constellation Physique and would help boost its reactor efficiency even more.
Finally, he received minor resistance to Heavenly Dao restrictions. He wondered what this meant. Were Heavenly Dao restrictions like having to ascend after reaching the Tribulation realm? After asking the Empress, she confirmed this.
He thought to himself that for him, it wasn’t all that useful since he was already invisible to the Heavenly Dao.
He then looked at the ability again and glanced at Li Yao, who had fallen asleep. He wondered if it could resist her Heavenly Way Law. If it did, it would become the most overpowered ability out there.
He sighed. Probably not. But this was just for now. The Transcendent Dao Body and the Heavenly Dao Body were extreme opposites, so maybe at some point, he would get some sort of resistance against the Law of Heavenly Way.
Though he didn’t know if he could bet on this much. Since extreme opposites always had ways to counter each other, maybe Li Yao would also gain something that could oppose him.
Well, he decided not to think about it for the moment.
Time to inspect the reset screen, though he didn’t think it would be all that interesting compared to the benefits he had already gotten.