That night, Qin Yu was sitting cross-legged in his room.
Every night, Qin Yu would operate the Ancestor Dragon Technique to transform nature's spiritual energy into Inner Strength, which he would then disperse, while also allowing his muscles to absorb this Inner Strength. Tonight was the same, and Qin Yu began to circulate the Ancestor Dragon Technique.
One could see...
Torrents of nature's spiritual energy rapidly swirled around Qin Yu, the quantity was frightening. Because there was so much, it formed a green, fog-like substance that seemed to enwrap Qin Yu completely, making his figure appear hazy within the green mist.
Spiritual Energy Materialization!
The legendary "Spiritual Energy Materialization"!
Had any Inner Family expert or Innate Expert witnessed this scene, they would have been stunned. The rate of absorption of spiritual energy also naturally represented the speed of one's Cultivation progress. To reach "Spiritual Energy Materialization," the Cultivation rate had reached a terrifying level.
Legend had it that Upper Immortals' speed of absorbing spiritual energy had reached "Spiritual Energy Materialization," yet even Innate Experts could not achieve such a state.
Yet now, it was happening to a sixteen-year-old youth who practiced Outer Strength.
At that moment, Qin Yu's face was flushed red, and his body trembled slightly as if under great stimulation. Even beads of sweat emerged on his forehead, his facial expression a mix of pain and astonishment, while the surging spiritual energy continued to flood into his body.
"How can this be, so much spiritual energy," Qin Yu's inner shock was indescribable.
When he circulated the Ancestor Dragon Technique, the spiritual energy between heaven and earth was obediently absorbed by him at high speed. However, this spiritual energy was too obedient, too easy to command, so... Qin Yu suddenly absorbed more than ten times the usual amount of nature's spiritual energy.
"Could it be because of that Meteor Tear?" Qin Yu naturally thought of this, but he immediately chuckled bitterly, "Heavens, are you trying to take my life?"
At this moment, the surging spiritual energy within Qin Yu poured into his meridians, just like how normally a pathway could only accommodate three people abreast. Now, however, there were ten people walking side by side, and it was a continuous, unending influx. One could imagine how crowded it was.
And Qin Yu's meridians, now, were especially congested, with the excess spiritual energy completely blocked within the meridians.
"Absorbing too much of nature's spiritual energy is not a good thing, what am I to do?" Qin Yu felt a tearing pain in his meridians. He tried hard to circulate the spiritual energy within them, but there was so much of it that he found it difficult to control.
It's like a drill sergeant easily controlling a hundred people's movements, but when asked to control a thousand by himself, he'd be unable to direct them.
"So painful, am I going to die from my meridians shattering?" Qin Yu inwardly smiled wryly, "I originally thought that mysterious Meteor Tear was a treasure, but now it seems it's my disaster. Such an amount of spiritual energy is enough to burst my meridians."
Qin Yu could distinctly feel every single meridian in his body sending out waves of pain.
Qin Yu's meridians had become accustomed to the amount of spiritual energy they dealt with before, and now, suddenly increased tenfold, how could they withstand it? The meridians were completely filled, and seemed about to burst. Qin Yu could only watch this happening without any way to stop it.
"Sssss..."
One of the meridians finally could not bear the pressure and tore open.
"No good!" Qin Yu's complexion instantly turned deathly pale.
"Sssss..." Moments later, meridians throughout his body successively began tearing open.
"Father, I thought I was of some use and could help you; but now it seems... I am still worthless." Qin Yu felt desolate inside, yet when facing death, he felt neither fear nor grief.
"Perhaps in death, father would grieve for me," Qin Yu somehow had this inexplicable thought.
However, while Qin Yu was indulging in these scattered thoughts, the Meteor Tear on his chest emitted streams of clear flow once again. That mysterious current immediately spread throughout his entire body. Whatever energy that mysterious current was, it effortlessly reformed the torn meridians.
And the newly formed meridians were also much broader than before.
"Ah." Qin Yu was shocked in his heart, staring blankly at this scene.
It seemed... that Meteor Tear was not as simple as Qin Yu had thought.
However, for the spiritual energy that was ten times, perhaps even more than ten times greater than before, the newly formed meridians were still too narrow. After a moment, as the flow became too slow and the blockage worsened, the meridians once again tore apart.
This time, Qin Yu wasn't disheartened; he carefully anticipated the mystical flow of the Meteor Tear.
Indeed, the Meteor Tear did not disappoint Qin Yu, as another stream flowed out easily from the Meteor Tear. Wherever the stream passed, the meridians quickly healed at a clearly perceptible speed, and in a moment, the meridians were formed again, this time even broader than before.
Tearing, mending!
Even if you have an abundance of nature's spiritual energy, after repeated cycles of 'tearing, mending,' the meridians will eventually be able to withstand it all. Qin Yu ultimately succeeded, but the pain of the meridians tearing time after time was even more terrifying than the pain of cultivating Outer Strength.
A thick stream of Inner Strength poured into the Dantian and then spread into the limbs and bones. Qin Yu's entire body's muscles and tendons, like dry soil, continuously absorbed the Inner Strength. The more Inner Strength the muscles and tendons absorbed, the more transformative the change.
As time passed, the muscles and tendons absorbed less and less Inner Strength.
Two hours later, Qin Yu opened his eyes.
"Indeed, just as I expected. The greater the training volume, the stronger my muscles and tendons become and the more Inner Strength they absorb. My training volume the day before was more than ten times that of the past, and although I've only absorbed for two hours now, the amount of Inner Strength absorbed is about ten times that of the past," Qin Yu's face was covered in sweat.
The pain of the meridians tearing just now had soaked Qin Yu with sweat.
"With such a large amount of Inner Strength absorbed by the muscles and tendons, I now feel…" Qin Yu's legs shot out violently, making a whistling sound, and his fists kept punching, piercing the air in front of him, "I now feel… filled with power all over my body!"
Excitement shone in Qin Yu's eyes to the extreme.
After today's training, he could clearly feel the rapid pace of his own improvement.
"Two years, do I need them?" A confident smile lingered at the corner of Qin Yu's mouth. How much time it would take to reach the Postnatal Limit was just speculation. Only through real training and factual results could he speak.
Time elapsed.
Qin Yu began to train crazily, disregarding everything in pursuit of the utmost limit of nerve endurance each day. Even an Innate Expert, upon observing such madness, might be scared to death. Such training was simply lethal.
Wearing a three-hundred-pound weight, Qin Yu lifted several hundred pounds of giant rocks with both hands and then ran as fast as he could for an hour. Afterwards, he'd discard the stones and still wearing the three-hundred-pound weight, he would swim back and forth hundreds of times in the lake, and so on...
This was beyond human imagination and utterly incomprehensible. Could humans really endure this?
However, Qin Yu was full of life, with muscles getting tougher and more flexible each day, his speed increasing daily, and his eyes becoming increasingly sharp.
Qin Yu continued to wear a three-hundred-pound weight to test his one-handed strength, which increased from three hundred pounds to four hundred, four-hundred fifty, five hundred, five-hundred fifty, six hundred... seven hundred... But as his strength improved, it seemed there was no limit to Qin Yu's one-handed strength.
The Postnatal Limit, just seven to eight hundred pounds with one hand?
Regardless, in just one year, Qin Yu's one-handed strength far exceeded this so-called limit. His strength, speed, and even his body's resilience were constantly challenging the theoretical limits of Outer Strength on the Hidden Dragon Continent, with Qin Yu's progress showing no signs of slowing. And yet... Qin Yu could not feel a trace of Innate Spiritual Energy, which meant he remained a Postnatal Master.
Just how great Qin Yu's Postnatal Limit was, no one knew. In any case, the present Qin Yu could no longer be gauged by conventional wisdom. A miracle in the path of Outer Strength was being created by him...