darknovel Chapter 245 The Limits of Qi and Blood Control
Chapter 245 The Limits of Qi and Blood Control
Chapter 246 The Limits of Mastering Qi and Blood (Seeking Monthly Tickets)
Lu Hao looked at the brain nucleus with some complicated feelings. It appeared so simply, yet humans had been studying it for over a hundred years without discovering it.
This is why human progress slows down after reaching the seventh rank, and they can only gradually increase their spiritual power through the accumulation of time. It also means that humans at higher ranks cannot significantly increase their spiritual power, and at the eighth rank, they cannot condense non-fire matter.
Otherwise, if immortal matter existed, there wouldn't have been so many grandmasters who died in battle.
Truly, a single sentence of true scripture is worth a thousand volumes of false scriptures. Immediately following, Lu Hao began to use his power to penetrate and temper his brain core through the Three Jiao Gate.
Open all three Sanjiao Gates slightly, and once you reach the seventh rank, you can open and close the Sanjiao Gates at will.
From the three gates, three forces—blood, spirit, and life force—permeated out and began to converge towards the illusory point of light in the center.
Under the tempering of these energies, the brain nucleus began to undergo subtle changes. Lu Hao could also feel a cool sensation in his head. Although the brain nucleus was in the Sanjiao Gate, it was related to the brain. It was really strange.
No wonder humans have been studying it for a century without finding it. They've probably been studying the brain for a century, so how could they have imagined that the brain is actually located in the Sanjiao Gate?
The feeling of tempering the brain core was very comfortable, just like wearing a cool hat on his head. After tempering for about half an hour, Lu Hao felt his mental power fluctuate.
Upon opening the panel, I noticed that my maximum mental strength had increased by one Hertz.
One Hertz sounds like a small amount, but this was only Lu Hao's first tempering session, and it only lasted half an hour.
Based on this calculation, he can increase his Hz by 24 Hz per day, and by 720 Hz per month, which is almost enough for Lu Hao to advance to the next level.
However, this is the ideal situation. In reality, quenching becomes increasingly difficult and the effect weakens after increasing by several hundred Hz. Nevertheless, this result is still quite remarkable.
Before the brain core is discovered, it might take several days for a seventh-rank cultivator to increase their mental strength by one hectic rank.
If we had obtained the brain nucleus localization method earlier and then refined the brain nucleus, the number of high-level humans would have increased significantly, unlike the current situation.
The number of eighth and ninth-rank officials is pitifully small.
Moreover, it seems that the people in the underground caves don't know how to locate the brain core either. Their strength is entirely due to their abundant energy and large numbers.
The problem is that the method of locating the brain nucleus isn't exactly a top secret; it's just a matter of saying a few words. Yet, it hasn't been leaked out. There's probably a big problem here. Lu Hao stopped thinking about it. Anyway, he'd give the method to Zhang Tao in a few days. The final battle wasn't far off, and the blockade on this kind of thing probably wouldn't be so tight anymore. Otherwise, Fang Ping and the others wouldn't have obtained the Golden Body Nine-Stage Technique and related knowledge about the brain nucleus so easily in the original story.
Returning to the present, relying on his own tempering would be too slow, so Lu Hao began to try to materialize the killing points to see if they could be used to temper his brain core.
Lu Hao materialized the killing point at the Sanjiao Gate, and then followed the energy transport of the Sanjiao Gate towards the brain core.
The next moment, the killing points were perfectly integrated into the brain core. It seems that the killing points can indeed temper the brain core. This kind of energy is perfect.
Lu Hao experimented and found that using Kill Points to temper the brain core and increase mental power by one Hertz required one hundred Kill Points, and increasing it by one thousand would amount to one hundred thousand Kill Points.
Killing ten seventh-rank officials would mean killing ten seventh-rank officials...
This is indeed quite difficult. If you were to slowly refine it on your own, it would probably take more than a year to increase it to 3000 Hz and break through to the high level of the seventh rank.
It's much faster to use kill points. If I had 100,000 kill points right now, I could directly advance to the high-level seventh rank, and then temper my skull and marrow to forge a golden body.
Lu Hao is now feeling the pinch of poverty. If he didn't lack killing points, he would just use them to increase his mental strength. Killing a seventh-rank warrior wouldn't be difficult for him, but a seventh-rank warrior would cause too much noise and attract even higher-rank warriors. What he lacks now is a battlefield. The only suitable battlefield is the opening of the Nanjiang Underground Cave at the end of the year. When it opens for the first time, there will be no shortage of underground warriors on the other side.
With the humans holding off the eighth and ninth-rank enemies, I only need to take action to kill some seventh-rank enemies, which shouldn't be a problem. Besides, it's a newly opened dungeon.
There are plenty of resources there. We can seize one or two small mines and exchange them with the government for some higher-level spiritual energy treasures. That should be enough for our spiritual energy, and then we can prepare to forge our golden body.
Lu Hao planned to use kill points to increase his mental strength, and then rely on rare and precious materials to increase it further. He would soon reach 3000, and then he could begin bone tempering.
Having determined the location of the brain core, Lu Hao stopped refining it. His refining efficiency was simply too poor; he'd wait until he had a chance to kill someone. Lu Hao's gaze fell on the magic space on the panel.
As Lu Hao's consciousness landed on the Dharma-Exercising Space, he realized that after this breakthrough, the energy consumption for entering the Dharma-Exercising Space had decreased from one thousand to one hundred. This was a good thing, since Lu Hao only had more than three thousand killing points after the breakthrough, and he needed to reserve some for restoring his mental energy in battle.
Otherwise, Lu Hao wouldn't have dared to use the power of heaven and earth on a large scale in battle, as his spiritual energy was instantly depleted.
After entering the Dharma Space, Lu Hao brought up the control panel and discovered that the Dharma Space had also changed, but it was not visible from the outside. The Dharma Space now had 90% to 99% more mirror images. In the past, Lu Hao had been stuck at 90% mastery and could not improve.
The appearance of a higher-level mirror image means that Lu Hao's control over his Qi and blood can still be improved, even though the upcoming battle will use the power of heaven and earth.
However, mastering Qi and Blood is still very important. With a high level of Qi and Blood mastery, one can more quickly integrate the power of heaven and earth, and the attack using the power of heaven and earth will be more precise. Once the Qi and Blood undergo a qualitative change and the transition of the power of heaven and earth is complete, that's when the mastery of Qi and Blood will truly come into play.
At that time, you will be able to perfectly control your own Qi and blood, and even unleash an extraordinary burst.
Currently, he only has a 99% mirror image at most. The reason it hasn't reached 100% is probably because his current cultivation level isn't high enough, just like before when he was at the mid-grade level and didn't have a mirror image above 90%. Without dwelling on it, Lu Hao chose a 91% mirror image to begin the battle, assuming neither of them was affected by mental energy depletion.
The mirror image opposite was transformed by Lu Hao slightly faster, and this slight difference caused Lu Hao to be attacked by the power of heaven and earth while he was still in the process of condensing.
Instantly, over 200 liters of heaven and earth power struck Lu Hao, and his body was utterly unable to withstand it.
The next moment, Lu Hao died. Ever since his Qi and Blood Mastery level was raised to 90%, he had never felt death again.
He had almost forgotten what this feeling was like. This time, Lu Hao did not directly challenge the 91% mirror image. Instead, he chose a 90% mirror image to familiarize himself with the battle of the power of heaven and earth.
Only then can there be improvement; otherwise, you'll just be crushing your opponents every time without any real progress.