Chapter 103: Forced Breakthrough
"Bang!" Yun Kang fell quickly, blocked by a rock in the middle, and then fell heavily on the stone ground.
This fall made his blood surge, only to feel that his internal organs were churning, and even his nasal cavity was extremely sore, and a faint blood vessel burst open.
He hurriedly adjusted his breathing, closed his eyes tightly, and bent his body to lie on his side, trying to relieve the impact of his bones. Soon streams of nosebleeds flowed out, and then a tight throat squirted out a cloud of blood mist from the mouth.
"Ahem. Yunkang lay dizzy for a while, and it took two minutes before he recovered, coughed violently twice, and spat out a mouthful of blood.
He grinned and took a few deep breaths, secretly sighing that he was really a cheap life, he didn't suffer serious internal injuries when he fell down so high, and it may be that the foundation left by Xiuxian is good, but the skin and bones hurt so much that he couldn't even straighten his waist.
Don't complain about the sky or the earth, only complain about yourself and don't give it your strength.
Yun Kang rubbed his aching muscles and took out a flashlight from the Dragon Swallowing Ring, and the light swept around. I saw that the four walls were tightly blocked, and a big black rumbling hole exploded overhead, and the air inside and outside formed a convection, and a gust of cold wind blew in.
Yun Kang immediately understood that he had obviously fallen into a secret room, and it was closed.
He struggled to sit up, and saw colorful pictures painted on the four walls, which turned out to be the purple-clothed girl who appeared in the hallucination just now.
The portrait of the girl was like a panacea, and the pain in his body was suddenly relieved a lot.
Yunkang stood up and used a flashlight to illuminate it, and couldn't help but admire that the person who painted the mural was very good at Danqing, and outlined the girl's face, figure, and eyes very expressively.
"It's beautiful. He couldn't help but say to himself, the girl's purple clothes were flying, her eyes were smart, her smile was full, and there was a hint of playfulness in her expression.
Yun Kang stared at the mural blankly, his mind was all attracted by the girl in the painting, and he almost forgot where he was.
After a long time, a cold wind blew in, and Yun Kang couldn't help but shiver. Only then did he come back to his senses, and hurriedly took out his mobile phone from the dragon swallowing ring, and carefully took pictures of the image of the girl on the mural.
"Click, click. The camera lens flickered, waiting for Yunkang to finish all the murals around. But there was a sense of loss in my heart.
Yun Kang sighed secretly, this girl was obviously an ancient person, if only he could see a real person.
Although he has lived for thousands of years, he has no relationship with this ancient girl.
Yunkang knows that it is useless to think too much, and he is also asking for trouble. He reluctantly withdrew his gaze. Put your phone away carefully, and then look around at the secret room.
The space here is not large, half smaller than the cave he has been to, but the four walls and the ground are flat bluestone, and the architectural decoration is much more upscale than the humble alchemy cave.
The four corners of the secret room were carved with four high platforms of white marble, and Yun Kang walked up from the stone platform of the first step, and found that the bronze basin on the high platform was filled with lamp oil, and the wick was as thick as a finger, and it had burned out by a third.
He raised his hand and shot a fireball, and the oil lamp lit with a "whew". Brighten up the surroundings.
The oil lamp is bright and bright, and the area that illuminates is larger, Yunkang took advantage of the situation to light up the oil lamps on the four high platforms, and then look at the murals in the secret room, the bright colors flicker in the fire shadow, the girl in purple seems to be alive, and every action expression is vivid and eye-catching.
He easily took his eyes off the fresco, and saw that there were many broken stones in the middle of the chamber, all of which had fallen from the top of his head.
There is a square stone block. It was placed in the most conspicuous place, because it was partially hidden by a pile of rubble, so Yun Kang didn't notice it just now.
The texture of the square stone block is the same as that of the four corner platforms, and it is also made of white marble. It looks simple and solemn.
Yunkang's flashlight swept to the white marble stone, and found that there were many patterns and patterns of the mythical beast Pixiu carved on it, and the shape was very mysterious, with an ancient and desolate charm.
Although leaving the secret room was the most important thing at the moment, Yun Kang couldn't help but be curious in his heart, and wanted to know what this big square stone was.
He walked over to the rocks. Stretched out his arm and measured it, about a meter square. Leaning down to look at the Pixiu figure on the stone, I saw that the color was white, Pixiu's little belly was bulging, smiling, and a pair of wings.
He looked at it several times, but couldn't figure out what to do, and looked down at the four sides of the stone, where there was a shallow crack.
Yun Kang's eyes suddenly lit up, and his heart was happy, haha, it turned out that this was not a stone, but a stone box.
The light around was very bright, so there was no need for a flashlight to illuminate, Yun Kang couldn't suppress the joy in his heart, put the flashlight into the dragon swallowing ring, and then exerted all his strength and pushed the lid on the stone box hard.
"Whew!" pushed hard a few times, but the stone cover didn't move. Yun Kang frowned, and had to sweep it up with his divine sense, and found that there was a layer of True Qi seal on it, and he had to use a large amount of True Qi to open the lid.
Yun Kang was suddenly a little surprised, and the fire in his heart was even stronger, if there is a True Qi Seal, it must be an immortal cultivator, could it be that this stone box was left by an immortal hundreds of years ago? There must be something good in it, you don't need to guess to know it.
He walked around the stone box, looked at the True Qi Seal again, and couldn't help but be a little discouraged. This seal requires at least three layers of Qi refining power, otherwise there is no way. But he has only refined qi at the first level, and he can't open it alive or dead.
Yunkang was entangled in his heart, whether to give up or not to give up, he had to make up his mind.
Ever since he re-entered the path of cultivating immortals, he felt that it was extremely difficult, he couldn't find the treasures of heaven and earth, and he lacked pills and spirit stones, so it was not easy to break through even the first layer of qi refining.
He looked around the secret room, this ancient immortal should also be a treasure collector, and the things left for future generations may be related to cultivation, and the stone box has a seal on it, which is very likely to be a magic weapon or something.
Yunkang's expression was solemn, if he gave up, he was really unwilling. The magic weapons he used before were all confiscated by the old man's master, and now he doesn't even have a decent weapon in his hand, if he gets a decent immortal magic weapon, it will definitely be worth the trip, so he is willing to fall twice.
But what should I do if I can't open the seal, use the first layer of refining qi to unlock the seal, it's because the mantis arm can't do it myself, and I can't even lose a layer of skill.
Yun Kang thought for a moment, his eyes slowly froze, and he shook out a string of spirit stones from the Dragon Swallowing Ring, and the only way to break through for today was to use a forcible breakthrough.
Break through forcibly and upgrade two levels in a row to open the seal of the box.
In normal times, Yunkang would definitely not be so reckless. But after thinking about the specific situation, he felt that it was very feasible and could definitely try it.
Because he had cultivated to the Jindan stage before, his body had been washed and forged. The power of the dantian and meridians was already very strong, and a large amount of true qi rushed into it in an instant, so there was no need to worry about the dantian exploding.
Moreover, Pei Yuan Dan has already eaten it, and he has not had time to condense it, so he can just use his strength to break through. The most fortunate. He had just obtained a bunch of spirit stones, and with the medicinal properties of Pei Yuan Dan, it was enough to break through to the third layer of qi refining in one go.
Yun Kang went through all the conditions in his mind, and with his powerful Penglai Gong Method, he was completely in line with the opportunity to break through.
It's just that he's never tried to break through two levels of skill in a row, especially for re-cultivation, I'm afraid it's a big challenge.
If the challenge fails, he may have to abolish even the first layer of Qi refining, but if the challenge is successful, he will have the experience of continuous breakthroughs. In the future, there is no need to climb up the ladder. If conditions permit, you may be able to move up two or three levels at once.
"If you fail, you will fail, and it's a big deal to practice again. Yunkang said to himself, he is not afraid of itching when he has lice, isn't it just a layer of qi refining, what is there to be nostalgic for.
Regardless of success or failure, in short, he wants to say goodbye to the first level of qi refining, and he doesn't want to linger in low-level skills.
Yunkang figured it out in his heart, and was immediately full of fighting spirit and immediately put it into practice. He sat cross-legged against the stone box. Adjust your breathing, and then place the spirit stone around you in a circle, so that you can absorb the aura more fully.
Immediately afterwards, he also pinched two spirit stones in his hand, allowing the spiritual energy to slowly enter from the meridians in his hand.
"Whew!" Yunkang closed his eyes. Slowly transport the qi of the dantian, breathe deeply and exhale, and pour the aura into the eight veins of the body.
After Ren Du's second pulse was smooth, the aura went straight from the dantian to the top of his head, and instantly circulated in the body for a week, after repairing all the injured internal organs and blood vessels. and introduced a stream of spiritual energy into the meridians of the body.
"Puff, puff, puff-" The Pei Yuan Dan in Yun Kang's body played a huge role, and the absorption of spiritual energy was very rapid, and in less than ten minutes, three spirit stones had already been sucked dry by the dantian and shattered into a puff of fly ash in the palm of his hand.
The aura absorbed enough, and with the cooperation of Pei Yuan Dan, the true qi of the dantian also soared, constantly rushing the meridians all over the body, and faintly had the potential to break through the barriers.
But the real anger was too fierce, Yun Kang tried this kind of deadly breakthrough method for the first time, only to feel a burst of pain from the dantian and meridians, his teeth clenched, and he was almost about to give up.
Yun Kang immediately used his divine sense to stabilize himself, and hurriedly played a repair trick, gritting his teeth and persevering to the end. His internal breath kept turning, shaking off the fragments of flying ash on both hands, and then grabbed two spirit stones, continuing to absorb spiritual energy without interruption.
Trying to rush the dantian barrier again and again, Yunkang was soaked with sweat, supporting Lingtai Qingming with his divine sense, and the spirit in his brain was tense, and he didn't dare to relax a little.
The poor beasts in the array also noticed Yun Kang's abnormality, and knew that he was forcibly breaking through, so they held their heads and didn't dare to say anything, lest they disturb his cultivation, and the true qi they attracted went retrograde and went mad.
After a few more minutes, all the true qi gathered in the dantian meridians, running wildly.
The second layer of gas refining, the third layer of gas refining, the true qi is surging, like waves rushing onto the reef, constantly stirring and rolling. Yunkang transported the exercises one after another, trying to break through again and again, but he was always short of the last bit of strength, that is, he couldn't break the last barrier.
Suddenly, there was a "creaking" sound above his head, Yun Kang couldn't open his eyes, so he had to sweep up with his divine sense, and saw Shen Duo falling down a rope.
Shen Duo looked at Yunkang in surprise, and couldn't understand why he was sitting cross-legged on the ground, with his eyes closed and sweating all over his head.
"Yunkang!" Shen Duo shouted: "I heard an explosion, so I quickly came to find it, did you fall from it and get injured?"
Shen Duo's voice echoed in the emptiness, he slipped to the bottom of the rope, jumped to the bluestone ground with "poof", raised his eyes to look at Yunkang, and then found a stone box in the middle of the secret room.
Suddenly, a stone box was found in the secret room, and Shen Duo's eyes immediately lit up. He was bent on finding the treasure of the Witch King, but he had just gone around in a big circle outside, and he couldn't find anything. This chest looks very old, and it seems to have patterns on it, so it should be a treasure chest.
He stepped over to check, the stone box carved from white marble, with the pattern of a mythical beast depicted on it, was indeed an antiquity, and he could even feel a charm of ancient vicissitudes.
Yunkang used his divine sense to see him approaching the box, and he was very depressed, this box was obviously discovered by the master, did the stinky boy come to cut off the beard again, can you have a little first-come-first-served queuing spirit?
He saw that Shen Duo was very anxious, and the whole person was almost lying on the lid of the box, studying very carefully, and he was annoyed again. It's a pity that he can't speak now, otherwise he would have to jump up and scold Shen Duo.
Shen Duo stroked the Pixiu pattern on the stone box, looked at it carefully for a long time, and exclaimed: "This is the mark of the Witch Spirit King, I finally found it, it is the treasure he left to the Witch Gate, and the revival of the Witch Gate is hopeful, which is really good." His voice trembled, and he was visibly excited.
Yun Kang was very excited when he heard Shen Duo's voice, and he knew that something was wrong, wasn't it, the thing was determined to become a witch sect like this? It seems that this kid is determined to rob him of something.
The first time he grabbed Pei Yuandan, and the second time he had to grab the treasures in this box. Yun Kang was secretly annoyed, Shen Duo simply had no lower limit. As long as you say, "This is from the witch gate", you will take it directly, and you will not ask for other people's opinions.
What kind of bird is Wumen, especially to work against his cultivation, and he is still stumbling to the end.
However, Shen Duo said that the mark of the Witch Spirit King was the ancient divine beast Pixiu, which made Yun Kang wonder in his heart, is the Witch Spirit King a powerful immortal, using the mark of the Divine Beast Pixiu? If the True Qi Seal was left by him, I am afraid that the level of cultivating immortals is not low.
After thinking about it, it doesn't matter if he is high or low in the Witch Spirit King, anyway, this guy is no longer there, and the Witch Gate under his command is fragmented, and it has long been eliminated by history. The remaining conservatives like Shen Duo are bent on reviving the Wumen, and they are all fools' dreams.
There was a bang, and Shen Duo took out a shield magnet and smashed it the stone box.
Yun Kang hurriedly poked out his divine sense, and found that the jet-black shield magnet emitted a layer of colored light in all directions, instantly enveloping the entire stone box.
The stone box made a "boom" vibration sound, Yun Kang was extremely stunned, and suddenly understood Shen Duo's intentions, he was using the shield magnet to open the seal.
Is it tolerable or unbearable, Yun Kang didn't care about exhaling his true anger anymore, opened his eyes suddenly, and shouted: "Stop, don't move the box!"
The true qi in his body was agitating one by one, Yun Kang spread his arms, soared into the air, jumped to the top of Shen Duo's head, and kicked out a kick towards the door in front of him.
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(To be continued.) )