A Mortal's Start in the Spirit Beast Mountain

Chapter 233 Body Refining Breakthrough

"Ugh—!"

Luo Ming shuddered violently, and caught off guard, he let out a muffled groan.

He felt as if countless tiny, spiky "insects" were crawling into every inch of his flesh, bones, and even bone marrow along with the torrent of energy, wriggling, gnawing, and scouring him!

It wasn't just simple pain, but an extreme torment that mixed numbness, itching, soreness, swelling, and ache, as if it were tearing his body apart and rebuilding it from the smallest detail. The veins on his forehead, neck, and the back of his hands bulged instantly, as if something alive was writhing under his skin. Large beads of sweat rolled down his face, and he was almost out of control.

"Guard your mind! Hold fast to your spirit!" The solemn and urgent shout of the Heavenly Mirror Hermit resounded like thunder in Luo Ming's sea of ​​consciousness. "This is the inevitable pain of the primordial power cleansing your bones and marrow, a transformation that must be endured! It is reshaping the foundation of your physical body. You must not interrupt it, otherwise all your previous efforts will be in vain, and there will surely be a backlash!"

Upon hearing this, Luo Ming bit his tongue hard, the intense pain bringing a sliver of clarity that forced him to suppress the roar of pain that almost escaped his lips. He endured the excruciating sensation of "ten thousand insects devouring his body" emanating from the deepest part of his body, a sensation that would drive an ordinary person to the brink of collapse. He desperately tried to control his consciousness, stabilize his mind, and guide the violent yet pure energy flow within his body, directing it along some mysterious trajectory.

To distract himself from the pervasive pain, he instinctively tried to circulate his main cultivation technique, but found that because his meridians were being reorganized, his magical power was circulating intermittently and he could not complete the Great Circulation.

"This spiritual transformation is actually quite closely related to the physical body. Why not try this body-refining technique?" His mind raced, and he began to practice the body-refining method of the "Myriad Spirits Blood Technique".

This attempt led to an astonishing discovery!

Under the pure, vast, yet strangely "gnawing" energy of the Wood Spirit Origin, his blood circulation speed during the cultivation of the "Myriad Spirits Blood Technique" increased several times over!

What's even more amazing is that in the past, when practicing body-refining techniques, especially relatively domineering techniques like the "Myriad Spirits Blood Technique," it was inevitable that minor hidden injuries would be caused to the body's meridians and internal organs, requiring time to slowly repair. This is one of the reasons why body-refining is difficult and progress is slow.

At this moment, the minor damage caused by the rapid movement of qi and blood and the impact on the acupoints is immediately enveloped and repaired by the vital wood spirit energy that follows closely behind. The repaired parts are even more resilient than before!

It was as if an invisible hammer was frantically pounding and forging his body, while at the same time a pool of life-giving spring was constantly nourishing and repairing it. Between breaking down and rebuilding, the efficiency of body refining reached an astonishing level!

However, while this boundless vitality nourishes us, a trace of intense heat that reaches directly into the soul is also ever-present within the flow of energy.

This intense heat did not burn his physical body, but it caused a slight stinging and irritation to his soul, as if he were under warm sunlight, but the sunlight was a little too dazzling.

Overall, however, the heat was still within a tolerable range compared to the vitality, and Luo Ming vaguely felt that the heat was also tempering his consciousness and even his eyes to some extent. Although the process was uncomfortable, it was not necessarily all bad.

"Good! Let's seize this opportunity and press on!"

Luo Ming felt much more at ease, knowing that refining the Wood Spirit Origin was not something that could be done overnight. According to the records, it often took several months to completely integrate and transform one's physique.

He simply calmed himself down, enduring the excruciating pain of transformation deep within his body and the slight burning sensation in his soul, while simultaneously focusing all his energy on circulating the "Myriad Spirits Blood Technique".

It greedily absorbed and refined the continuously released mutated wood spirit essence.

As Luo Ming gradually gained control of the refining process, he was even able to dedicate a portion of his mind to independently cultivate the Qianyang Fire Eye.

This is the benefit of having a strong spiritual sense; it allows one to multitask, or even multi-task.

Time slipped away quietly amidst the extreme pain and the rapid transformation of Luo Ming's physical body.

On Luo Ming's body, a viscous, grayish-black substance with a fishy odor began to slowly seep out. This was acquired filth and impurities forcibly expelled from the deepest part of his body by the Wood Spirit Source, showing initial results in the bone and marrow cleansing process. He ignored it, his mind completely immersed in cultivation.

Gradually, as the "Myriad Spirits Blood Technique" was further activated, a faint, almost tangible, dark red blood energy began to swirl and condense around his body, eventually forming a thin but tough blood-colored armor phantom that covered his entire body, radiating fierce blood energy fluctuations.

The scent emanating from his body also subtly changed, gradually transforming from an initial foul and filthy stench into a faint, calming fragrance of grass and trees, as if his entire being had transformed into a vibrant ancient tree.

At this moment, a profound and earth-shattering change is taking place within Luo Ming's body.

Originally, the main force flowing through his meridians was the metal and water-colored magic power cultivated by the Azure Nether Scripture. Although he also had an earth spiritual root, due to the nature of his cultivation method, he did not have much earth-attribute spiritual power.

At this moment, as the mutated wood spirit's essence completely merged and dispersed, the composition of the magic power within his body began to become complex and orderly.

First, the wood-attribute spiritual power slowly began to appear and grew stronger than ever before, becoming pure and active, almost merging with the original magic power, becoming inseparable.

Immediately afterwards, the fire attribute energy contained within the wood spirit's origin, which was strangely symbiotic with the wood attribute, was also released. It actually drew the fire spirit power between heaven and earth to converge towards Luo Ming's dantian. Although weak, it existed tenaciously, transforming into wisps of light red spirit power that merged into the torrent of magic power.

The spiritual power of the five elements—metal, wood, water, fire, and earth—was beginning to converge and circulate within his body in a mysterious way! Although the pale red spiritual power representing the fire attribute was the weakest and thinnest, the framework of the five elements had already been established.

These spiritual energies, each with its own unique properties, eventually converge in the dantian, slowly rotating around the golden core, and gradually forming a slow but already nascent cycle of mutual generation of the five elements!

As a result, his golden core, which was originally dazzling and sharp due to his main cultivation of the Core Formation stage technique "Tai Bai Xuan Dan Jue" in the Qing Ming Scripture, also subtly gained a warm, greenish luster and barely perceptible fire patterns on its surface, and its color became more restrained and profound.

Time flies in the mountains; in the blink of an eye, another six months have passed.

In another quiet room of the cave, Mingyue, who was meditating cross-legged, suddenly frowned slightly and opened her beautiful eyes.

She keenly sensed that the pure spiritual energy of heaven and earth within the cave was slowly and steadily flowing and converging towards the secret chamber where her master was in seclusion. Its speed and scale far exceeded what was needed for daily cultivation, but it was not the violent vortex of spiritual energy that one experienced when breaking through to a higher realm.

"The spiritual energy is fluctuating... Is Master about to emerge from seclusion? Or has he made another breakthrough somewhere?" A hint of joy and understanding flashed in Mingyue's eyes. "Master is already so powerful, yet he still cultivates so diligently. I can't fall too far behind."

She took a deep breath, suppressed her distracting thoughts, closed her eyes again, and focused more intently on her cultivation.

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