Chapter 385: Chapter 385
The group continued eating, chatting about the upcoming December Demon Nest event.
Suddenly, Xu Qingfeng let out a strange cry, attracting everyone’s attention.
Meng Chuan looked at him in confusion, wondering what had gotten into him again.
"Lao Meng, Lao Meng!"
Xu Qingfeng picked up his phone and asked him curiously,
"Is your business so broad now that you even started teaching the Five Elements Fist?"
Meng Chuan realized, oh, it’s just that small matter...
On the screen, his figure was methodically practicing the Drilling Fist.
While practicing, he explained it aloud. Updates are released by 𝔫𝔬𝔳𝔢𝔩⚫𝔣𝔦𝔯𝔢⚫𝔫𝔢𝔱
"I just uploaded it recently. Don’t just watch the free content, buy a subscription, and support a brother."
"No problem, say no more."
Xu Qingfeng, being a newly-advanced Xingyi Martial Artist, mainly focused on the Eight Trigrams but had also dabbled in the Five Elements.
At first, he started with the Water Attribute Drilling Fist, and after achieving Perfection, he switched to practicing the Eight Trigrams.
Seeing Meng Chuan’s fist demonstration, he couldn’t help but admit, it was really damn impressive.
He was about to click purchase when suddenly a link popped up in the video.
[Please visit Xiaohuang’s shop for a purchase, with an additional 15% discount!]
Besides the fist skill videos, there was a variety of products from the Boundless Martial Arts, an endless array of them.
Sigh, Lao Meng has started milking the cash cow...
Roughly looking, the sales are not low at all; he’s really made a fortune.
"This cash cow is so easy to milk, I want to milk it too!"
Time flies like an arrow, and the days and months swiftly pass by.
In a flash, it’s November 4th, exactly two months left until Meng Chuan’s first Demon Nest conscription.
Recently, the temperature has changed suddenly, becoming unusually cold.
This chill seems to have arrived earlier and more intensely than in previous years.
In Yong’an, the daytime temperature is already zero degrees, and pedestrians on the streets have started wearing warm clothing early.
As for Lishan Mountain, even the phoenix trees that cover the mountain have shed their leaves early, with the biting cold wind.
Meng Chuan was still wearing a short martial arts jacket, coming out from the pill room with a slightly rosy complexion, unaffected by the weather at all.
Not to mention his physical strength, just the terrifying four thousand points of Qi Blood could easily resist this extreme cold.
"I’ve only got fourteen hundred credits left, but with two Qi Armor Spirit Pills, it’s enough for me to cultivate until the Six Orifices Transformation..."
Although the credits have drastically decreased, his cash on hand keeps rising.
The Earth Essence has continuously nourished his tendons and bones, but the thickness of his wallet hasn’t changed, staying at around fifty million.
He has the short video platform to thank for this; every month recently, a million transfer comes into his account.
Just enough to cover the cost of purchasing a True Spirit core.
A small part is from Xiaohuang’s affiliate marketing, but the majority is from his fist skill video coaching.
As his reputation steadily grows, positive feedback keeps increasing.
His teaching income is climbing steadily.
Recently, Meng Chuan plans to take some time to record a Pile Skill tutorial.
His Human Posture is also at the Limit Breaking level; once the tutorial is online, it will surely receive explosive positive reviews.
"It’s just a pity that precious martial arts resources can mostly only be exchanged through battle achievements and university credits..."
But Meng Chuan understood this and knew why it was so.
The first reason is "strategic control."
The Great Chu officials need to ensure high-level resources are prioritized for frontline fighters who can suppress the Demon Nest, and maintain the battle achievements exchange system to accurately meet combat readiness needs;
The second reason is that the special training system at Martial Arts University requires credits to bind students, effectively solidifying their practical foundations;
The third, and most important, is providing ordinary genius martial artists a way to stand out.
Using credits and battle achievements as hard barriers to high-end resources fundamentally curbs capital’s erosion on the martial arts system.
This time, going to the Demon Nest, "this poor student" is determined to achieve his goal.
He is determined to earn a significant amount of battle merits, and no one can stop him.
Back at Huaqing Pool.
Meng Chuan received a package brought down from the mountain by Chu Yanhu.
Bought through the Boundless internal channels, it was a set of Healing Pills.
Total six [Cloud Water Pills].
Recently, sales of various Healing Pills within the United University have surged by at least 50%.
All purchased by newly-advanced martial artists preparing for next month’s Demon Nest.
The Demon Nest is dangerous, the battle situation chaotic with prolonged combat, no one can guarantee they won’t get hurt or be caught by surprise.
Meng Chuan thinks the same way.
When executing police tasks, he could still "put on an act."
This time heading to the Demon Nest, to be absolutely safe, he’s also making a heavy investment.
Now Meng Chuan’s body is so strong that ordinary healing pills are useless to him.
He was reluctant to buy Martial Arts Pill level from the United University channel with credits.
So he turned to Shen Shuo’s connections.
Through President Wang of the Yong’an branch, he got this set of Healing Pills at cost price.
Meng Chuan spent 24 million, feeling the pinch.
But this set of Great Pills, sold for about 40 million on the market by Boundless.
Because Cloud Water Pills are rare, they can treat internal injuries and spiritual damage, making them a rare healing companion for martial artists’ Demon Nest expeditions.
The normal market price is second only to pills that assist martial arts cultivation.
With the intensifying situation at the Demon Nest, prices have increased slightly, reaching nearly on par with [Qi Armor Spirit Pills].
However, these pills have a weakness; their effects only work internally and cannot treat external injuries.
If they had internal, external, and spiritual efficacy, the price would be even higher.
But this isn’t something Meng Chuan minds much.
It’s just an external injury, and that’s the least of his worries.
Even if the Celestial Demon in the Demon Nest of Dengzhou has strong enough attack power.
Could penetrate the four layers of defense: True Qi, fierce visage, black membrane, and muscle, ultimately injuring him.
The force was heavily neutralized, hurting the skin, but with his body’s self-healing ability, he could recover quickly.
The purchase of Cloud Water Pills was mainly to guard against stealth attacks like void-type and spiritual attacks.
Although he has malicious perception and Tao Heart set up inside as defense.
Yet Meng Chuan’s nature is like walking on thin ice, cautious!
All six Cloud Water Pills are stored in a specially made sturdy transparent test tube.
Meng Chuan put it away and began today’s cultivation practice.
After finishing, he looked at the panel:
[Tao Heart Planting Demon: Third Level (66%) → (67%)]
Half a month ago, his fifth major orifice [Inner Pass] had successfully completed its transformation.
He introspected himself, contemplating the effects of Inner Pass.
After its transformation, it also drove the two major tendons along the arm, becoming even stronger, with a significant increase in the strength of his forearm.
Most crucially, this key point on the inner side of the forearm can now autonomously regulate the flow speed of Qi and blood.
This aspect provides considerable support in actual combat.
It was also the reason why, when facing Motohiko back then, the opponent could instantly use it to summon three bandit ghosts, focusing on the spear-tip cultivation technique.
After the transformation of this orifice, it became more tightly connected to the meridians, allowing his fist strength to be controlled more accurately.
Especially during continuous eruptions, it can buffer through the orifice to prevent meridian overload.
Then, his perception shifted to the lower part of his body, observing around three inches below the knees.
On the outer side of the tibia, precisely where the major orifice [Foot Sanli] rests.
After the transformation of the six major orifices, not one is useless.
All of them are infinitely valuable to the Martial Arts Family.
The transformation of this orifice enhances the spleen and stomach, replenishes the center, nourishes Qi, and can even delay aging, allowing a Martial Arts Family’s peak period to be maintained longer.
Even nearing a hundred years old, still maintaining strength.
While in combat, it can also explode with ninety-nine percent of Qi blood power.
At the same time, the transformation of Foot Sanli can lead to changes in the human digestive system.
Thus, the Martial Arts Family can use the [Qi] between heaven and earth to fulfill the body’s energy needs.
Like the Immortals in tales, dining on wind, drinking dew, not eating grains, nearly entering the realm of "Breatharianism".
But Meng Chuan believes there’s no need for that, unless in the midst of an enlightening punch, it’s still necessary to eat.
Just like sleep, eating is one of the few pleasures Martial Artists enjoy during arduous cultivation.
Regaining his focus, he continued to observe internally.
Foot Sanli, this orifice, is precisely the last orifice on his Limit Breaking path.
The raging river of Qi and blood flowed smoothly, lighting up five [Stars] one by one.
Until Foot Sanli, filling half, was slightly faded.
Meng Chuan contemplated quietly:
"This last orifice still lacks over two hundred Qi and blood points to be full.
A matter of ten days or so... It should be possible to resolve along with the proficiency in the precious Golden Body, no big problem."
By then, the "training" before his self-established trip to the Demon Nest is perfectly completed.
"Only to achieve perfection in the fourth layer of Tao Heart Planting Demon would take at least a few months.
If he could step into the second limit and then head to the Demon Nest, it should be manageable without needing to bulldoze through..."
Even the top level of a first-level Demon Nest is merely an Upper Rank Celestial Demon.
But life doesn’t offer such perfect coincidences, and Meng Chuan has already reached the limit of his capabilities.
Retracting his perception from the panel, Meng Chuan once again feels the flow of Qi and blood.
After a moment, he murmured to himself:
"Once reaching the Qi blood limit, handling excess Qi blood is pressing.
After the Demon Nest trip is over, it can’t be delayed any longer..."
Lately, besides adjusting his Martial Arts practice, Meng Chuan has also researched [Qi Blood Refining Art] for a short period.
This method, neither belonging to Martial Arts nor a secret technique.
It’s merely an ancient Martial Artist’s clever way of "squeezing" his own Qi and blood.
At most, considered a Martial Arts skill.
Meng Chuan attempted briefly, as described, repeatedly compressing and condensing 1 point of Qi blood, making it viscous like mercury.
When he tried to direct this refined Qi blood towards the bones.
Unexpectedly found that this bit of condensed Qi blood attached itself to the bone surface, slowly infiltrating the bone membrane like a living thing.
Due to the small amount of refined quantity, the rest of the sensation wasn’t deep.
It’s safe to say, it can only be observed when excess Qi blood is massively refined in the future.
See what kind of qualitative change the quantitative change can trigger.
Honestly, Meng Chuan is quite anticipative.
Wondering what effect the essence of Qi blood will have attached to the bones...
Another week has gone by, the day of enlistment draws nearer.
Meng Chuan stood in the courtyard, with a momentary descent of aura around him.
A faint "hiss" sound emerged, from heaven to earth, around his vicinity.
Qi and blood were pushed to the extreme, exploding thunderously!
Scarlet-red Qi waves spread circularly, impacting up to ten zhang, releasing invisible waves beyond.
Within the reach of the red, blazing Qi and blood nearly solidified mid-air.
In the next instant, transformed into nine dragon-like blood arcs, spiraling upwards, evaporating and distorting the air within ten zhang.
True Qi subtly flowed beneath the skin, restraining the dispersing Qi blood into a perfect sphere.
At this moment, where he stood, it seemed like a blood-red sun had risen.
This was his unique, nearly ten zhang cloud of Qi and blood!