Standing on a steep cliff, Situ Feng, looked into the distance with anticipation.
He was going to practice the Five Animals Boxing, and seek some prey along the way.
He was going alone, Xiaohe was left behind as she was still in meditation.
It had been almost half a year since he sensed his blood Qi and with the consumption of fruits and meat occasionally, he had already reached the peak of Third level of body refinement.
It was just that over the past half a year, his consumption was increasing greatly, while his blood Qi was increasingly denser.
His entire skin surface had been strengthened and tougher than a cowhide.
He could feel that the effect of blood Qi was becoming stronger with his strong it become.
The skin was able to gain most benefits, but the stronger the blood Qi become, other internal body organs also were being strenthened.
The first three ranks indeed increased his strength until he felt his body was going through some transformation.
Based on his grasp of the body refinement, the process occurs when his skin is refined to perfection and the Qi and blood is undergoing a change.
In the next period, it would probably be targeting his muscles and tendons. The only problem was the energy requirements also increase in the process.
Even though it was not a high level, this cultivation had allowed him to visit a lot of statues over the past two months.
Xiaohe has also benefited greatly from this, and today she was probably going to enter the second level of Body refinement.
Unlike before, Situ was very informed and could tell that without a technique, he might have to take far longer to reach the peak of Body refinement.
But he was no longer the same, he could start practicing the Five Animals Boxing anytime. What was even more interesting was that as long as she had the moves, the breathing rythm of the body would end up adapting to it, and speed up not only the consumption of energy, but also cultivation speed.
Five Animal Boxing was something he remembered from the Elderly Home. He had obviously been interested and learned something. But he was not trying to study it with the intent of taking it as his technique, he just knew it was impossible for him to create some technique.
From the information he had accumulated through the statues they had viewed so far, the technique they were supposed to create was a weapon technique.
In other words, means of attack. Only after leaning means of attack, could their cultivation speed be increased, and why this was, he didn't understand.
But he had already attempted this in the past few days, and the result was as he expected. It was was shocking, as the movements from the Five Animals Boxing seemed to seamlessly fuse with the breathing rythim he had gotten from the blood Qi.
But compared to the breathing rythim without a technique, it was difficult to maintain for long.
With the current situation he was in, he was qualified to claim he had gained some entry into body refinement. The moment he took his first step out of the cliff, his movements changed.
If anyone was observing Situ they would discover that his movements seemed ordinary, but more like he was walking in a swampy environment. Dragging his feet in the water, while moving, his legs and chest seemed to follow some kind of order. It was the breathing rythim, and the result was Situ feeling as though he was carying a heavy mountain on his back.
Every step he took seemed to cover similar distance and maintaining the same animated moves.
The moves that could be performed perfectly in his previous life seemed too difficult. He couldn't even complete the simple deer movements.
Just the pressure alone was making him have the illusion his legs would break if he dared to go any further.
It wasn't his first time and he persisted, but the pain was intensifying as time passed. The good thing was that his body didn't would end up getting better dus to the breathing rythim. It was very effective, but at the same time, his body become depleted of energy.
He has a small animal bad banging around his back, he would pull out a piece of dry meat and throw it into his mouth.
Moving down the mountain, he clenched his teeth during the entire journey as he kept shifting into five different movements.
The more he practiced the clearly he felt, the breathing method was changing, the more he practiced the Five Animals Boxing.
That was not all, his blood Qi seemed to ignite the blood in his body, causing intense heat to flow all around his body, and in turn his Qi and blood was purified.
The more he practiced the more he realized the technique was missing something, but he couldn't grasp it.
He stopped on his tracks lost in thought and realized he couldn't be able to go beyond this level, and the reason for this was simple.
He didn't understand anything about the five animals used to create this technique.
The breathing rythim might have transformed the Five Animals Boxing and even gave it a breathing method, but he didn't even have any understanding of the essence of this technique.