Twin Dimension Yin-Yang Mirror: Attaining immortality through the martial path
Chapter 239 - 209: Lianhua Breakthrough, 180,000 Jin

Chapter 239: Chapter 209: Lianhua Breakthrough, 180,000 Jin

"Rest? That’s impossible," he said.

Zhou Ping’an returned to his dwelling.

He removed a square tile from the floor and found an exquisitely beautiful small jade vial in a hollow beneath it.

There was also a yellowed piece of paper.

The vial was painted with a plum blossom so vivid it seemed almost to drip with color.

As soon as he unscrewed the cap, an extremely pungent medicinal fragrance filled the air.

This was the precious medicine given to him by the Green Lady during their first encounter at the Washing Flowers Pavilion.

It was called the Mysterious Yang Pill.

Doubting his ability to carry physical items through his travels across days, Zhou Ping’an worried about damaging his precious materials and medicines; thus, he had opted to hide them in the most primitive way possible.

According to the Green Lady, the main ingredients, the Morning Sun Flower, was very hard to find.

She too had come across the formula and pills by a fortuitous inheritance from a previous Divine General.

Consuming one pill would enhance a level of "Purifying World Lotus Body," indispensable for those who practiced this divine cultivation technique.

The lady was bold and had invested heavily during their first meeting.

Zhou Ping’an could roughly guess her intentions.

However, regardless of her reasons, whether or not to cooperate was entirely within his control; therefore, there was no need to feel conflicted.

Firstly, the precious medicine was needed, so he accepted it without hesitation.

"I had always feared that excessive bursts of power would overwhelm my body and injure my foundation," he thought.

"Moreover, given my uneasy relationship with the Green Lady at that time, I was also concerned she might have tampered with the pills...

Now, there is no need to worry.

After training the Life and Death Impermanence Needle Technique to the level of Seventh Level Completion, either the volume of vital energy or death energy I could output within a given unit of time wasn’t overpoweringly strong, but I could still easily neutralize most poisons in the world."

"Furthermore, having cultivated the Five Desires Demon Art to the Fourth Realm and achieved the Seventh Level of the King of Light’s Golden Body, my indestructible body could now withstand greater explosive power."

Thinking it over, Zhou Ping’an stared at the bright red pill in his hand.

He swallowed it in one gulp.

...

As it turned out,

the Green Lady was indeed sincere about cooperating.

There was nothing wrong with the pill.

The moment it entered his stomach, it became a blazing flame.

The fire ignited without harming the internal organs; instead, it infused into his Qi-Blood, touching the most micro parts of the blood particles...

Boom...

Zhou Ping’an seemed to hear a thunderous roar in his ears.

He discovered that his blood was burning fiercely, like gasoline set on fire.

His body uncontrollably expanded in all directions.

A vast and vigorous power surged forth.

"Indeed, my caution was justified. Without an extremely robust body, I simply couldn’t have withstood it."

Uncontrolled, numerous small red lotus patterns emerged on Zhou Ping’an’s body surface. His femoral muscles and bones stretched and then compressed again, elongating and flattening at intervals.

It was like a red-hot iron block being forged and shaped countless times.

"Purifying World Lotus Body, Third Level, breakthrough," he announced.

Zhou Ping’an did not dare delay.

Immediately, he ignited his Mind Wish Power Silk Threads, visualizing the Karma Fire Red Lotus.

His brain operated at overclocked speed.

His body struck various extraordinary poses, and his hands cycled through the Nine Seals.

He also muttered the Lotus Sutra...

As the hand seals and the sutra verses synchronized, he felt the erupting magma-like energy gradually lose its ferocity.

It transformed into a huge lotus flower, enveloping his body.

The abnormal turmoil within his blood gradually vanished.

Only the blood-red lotus remained, shrinking to the size of a fingernail, and merged into the Danchung acupoint on his chest.

One thought exploded, and another lay dormant.

"What a Purifying World Lotus Body," he thought.

At Zhou Ping’an’s will, faint red lotus marks emerged on his face; just as his body was about to swell, he forcibly compressed it through the power of his muscles and bones, maintaining his original form.

Suddenly, he threw a punch.

A thunderous boom rang out as his fist was launched, but he contained it with a masterful Jin Operation technique.

Though the full force of the punch hadn’t burst forth, a massive void and dark mark had already appeared right in front of his fist.

The air around whistled as it surged toward the void.

Crack...

A slight sharp sound.

The air in front of him crystallized into shiny white fragments, scattering in all directions.

A white trace shot out three meters towards the door and then suddenly vanished.

It lingered for over a second before disappearing.

"After breaking through to the Blood Exchange Realm and sacrificing my heart, I tested my strength previously and found it to be around twelve thousand Jin,

which is substantially stronger than the ten thousand Jin force of those who complete the Fifth Viscera Realm in other cultivation methods."

"Now, using the Purifying World Lotus Body for a twelvefold strength augmentation, that makes a hundred and forty-four thousand Jin, nearly one hundred and fifty thousand Jin of force."

"The most outrageous part is that this is still just the Third Level of the Purifying World Lotus Body.

No wonder the Green Lady said that those in history who reached the Fourth or Fifth Level were called Red Lotus Divine Generals...

Charging into battle and slicing through enemies is easy as flipping one’s hand.

Merely having a Divine General can secure an entire prefecture."

Zhou Ping’an quietly did the calculations, understanding why those who cultivated this technique were revered as Divine Generals.

This world’s cultivation techniques.

When at the Mortal Rank Ninth Refinement...

Generally speaking, one should externally refine sinews, bones, and skin, and internally refine the viscera, blood, and marrow. These first six levels primarily increase one’s Qi strength, which is the basic strength of the body.

The rank of the cultivation technique varies, and so does the speed of cultivation.

However, once one reaches the peak of the sixth level and achieves perfection in the viscera, the strength will be around ten thousand jin, not varying much.

Take Lin Huaiyu... she solely practiced the Tidal Breath Technique and perceived the intricacies of Wave Stacking Jin and Submerged Wave Jin, the methods of utilizing strength, which are extremely detailed and profound, merging hardness and softness.

Her combat power, though higher than that of her peers by a lot,

essentially, in terms of basic strength, is also around ten thousand jin.

There is not much difference from others.

And that Elder Guangming, born in King of Light’s Temple, who practiced the King of Light’s Golden Body Technique, also had a basic strength of about ten thousand jin when he took action.

However, that old monk could amplify it with King of Light’s True Qi, approximately five times over.

When unleashing his full force in a sudden attack, he could reach an attack power of fifty thousand jin.

Of course, this is just a comparison of cultivation power.

In a real fight, various methods of discharging and borrowing force, as well as the variability of attack speed and the transformation of the hardness and softness, can also offset the implementation of strength.

This also involves the aspect of adapting to the opponent in combat.

The true basic strength is indeed ten thousand jin.

And now Zhou Ping’an, after assessing himself, found that his basic strength had already reached twelve thousand jin.

It’s quite unscientific, actually.

After thinking it through, Zhou Ping’an understood.

The reason he had already surpassed others in terms of strength at the Fifth Viscera Realm, even before the perfection of his viscera, was probably due to his combined practice of the Five Desires Demonic Cultivation and the King of Light’s Golden Body.

These two styles fundamentally boost constitution and defense, and their primary targets are not about increasing strength...

But then again, who says that with an increase in constitution and defense, strength won’t increase too?

Therefore, with the concurrent advancement of three techniques, his basic strength limit should have already been broken.

After achieving perfection in all five viscera, Zhou Ping’an estimated that his basic strength might reach an astonishing twenty thousand jin.

On such a formidable base, and then unleashing the Purifying World Lotus Body,

it’s imaginable that the ultimate destructive power he could release in a short time would be tremendously powerful, right?

"Enemies at the Minor Heavenly Cycle level would no longer be a concern; I could deal with them casually.

For those at the Grand Circulation level, capable of unleashing ten times the amplified attack power... I could also fight them, and even dominant them convincingly.

However, once True Qi cultivation reaches the Grand Circulation level, there might be many unique moves...

Such as long-range attacks, leaf stripping, acupoint targeting, pulse hitting, sound wave impacts, shadow fleeing shapes, etc., which should not be underestimated."

"Of course, once I complete the refinement of the five viscera with twenty thousand jin of basic strength, plus the eruption of the Lotus Body, I should be able to completely suppress a True Qi master of the Grand Circulation level."

Thinking of this, Zhou Ping’an felt greatly reassured.

However, he also felt somewhat regretful.

"Unfortunately, this technique cannot be used in prolonged fights, nor can it be used recklessly... It shortens one’s life, bro," Zhou Ping’an thought, recalling what Green Lady had said about the fate of those Divine Generals in history.

Force should not be exhausted, and always keep something in reserve.

What one gains, one also loses.

Until the drawback of life-shortening is thoroughly resolved, the "Purifying World Lotus Body" can only be used as a lifesaving trump card, not to be used at will.

Although he was still young, cherishing his time, because even one eruption might only damage a few months of his innate lifespan, it could not withstand frequent use.

If he were like those historical Divine Generals who treated burst modes as common as eating or drinking, continuously battling, he would inevitably end up with a shortened life.

The Life and Death Impermanence Needle Technique could indeed alleviate some of the explosive drawbacks of the "Purifying World Lotus Body."

The alleviation only slightly shortened the period of weakness afterwards.

It did not replenish the exhausted innate lifespan.

Zhou Ping’an realized this after trying it.

"My body can still hold on; it should be possible to advance to another level," Zhou Ping’an thought, recalling the pressure from the previous burst.

After cultivating a demonic technique and a Buddhist body-refining technique, his body’s robustness and resilience were sufficient to withstand the ultimate burst of power without damaging the body.

He might as well go all out.

He wanted to elevate the "Purifying World Lotus Body" to the Fourth Level.

...

This time, the consumption of Mind Wish Power Silk Threads was a total of eight thousand.

One Mysterious Yang Pill was still not enough.

He used two to cultivate the Red Lotus Sect’s Divine General Technique to the Fourth Level.

An attack power of fifteen times the basic strength.

While the multiplier increase might not seem significant,

just think about it; it is stacking based on his own strength, and you can understand the terror inherent in it.

Now, with a twelve thousand jin basic strength multiplied by fifteen, that makes one hundred eighty thousand jin of force.

"One hundred eighty thousand jin of force concentrated in Jin, plus Ninth Level Wave Stacking, goodness, even facing a steel mountain, I could probably knock off half of it."

"Just don’t know if it could contend with those on the Eighth Level Mortal Refinement and External Power Level?"

Having not seen it, it’s hard to compare.

Zhou Ping’an thought he still needed to be cautious.

When encountering the elderly masters from major sects and those of True Inheritance Rank, it would be wise to act conservatively.

However, it seems he had already offended more than one master of True Inheritance Rank.

His cultivation level is still insufficient; he needs to find a way to accelerate his cultivation.

Looking at the Mysterious Yang Pills he had used up,

Zhou Ping’an put cultivating elixirs back on his agenda.

For now, his body could only withstand fifteen times the burst.

As his cultivation progresses, or possibly when Five Desires Evil Art and King of Light’s Golden Body advance further, he should be able to withstand even greater burst strengths.

This matter is not urgent; one step at a time.

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