blueteamnovel Chapter 117 Breakthrough at the Tanzhong Acupoint
Chapter 117 Breakthrough at the Tanzhong Acupoint
Chapter 117 Breakthrough at the Tanzhong Acupoint
Over the next twenty days, the atmosphere of violence outside Blackrock City grew increasingly intense, and all the squadrons of the law enforcement team began their monster-hunting operations.
With the Black Stone as a powerful tool, the previously unseen strange creatures became prey that walked right into their trap.
On Lin Wanzhu's side, they caught more than ten strange creatures in one fell swoop at Blackwater Beach and obtained more than a dozen black stones.
After receiving the new black stone, Su Yu, along with his two capable lieutenants Song Jing and Zhao Tie, made three trips to Qingxi Town.
Using the black stone as bait, they successfully killed five strange creatures, wiping out all the strange creatures in the Qingxi Town area.
Apart from necessary tasks, Su Yu devoted the rest of his time to martial arts training.
By taking Golden Scale Blood Aperture Pills daily, consuming large amounts of Earth Dragon Pig Beast meat, and engaging in frantic, relentless training, his martial arts progress finally achieved a new breakthrough on this day.
[Martial Arts]: White Ape Fist (Level 1) (Proficiency 3500/7000)
As he progressed past the halfway mark, the Tanzhong acupoint in his body burst open as if water had naturally flowed into a channel!
In an instant, the Tanzhong acupoint in the center of the chest collapsed like a star.
The feeling was as if a miniature vortex had formed inside the body, generating a terrifying siphon force that drew all the surging blood and qi into it!
As countless streams of qi and blood surged into his chest, Su Yu felt as if that area had transformed into a furnace, burning with surging qi and blood, like a coal exploding.
It wasn't just heat; it was a swollen, almost tearing sensation.
Su Yu gritted his teeth and persevered, without uttering a single groan.
As the blood and qi flowed through the body, the depths of the dantian also began to stir, continuously surging out more mysterious essence and energy.
With the support of powerful qi and blood, each heartbeat of his was accompanied by a deep rumble, as if a war drum was being struck inside his chest.
"Thump! Thump! Thump!"
The war drums beat, and the great river of blood and qi circulated and gathered in his chest, transforming his body.
He looked down and saw that his bare chest was undergoing a horrifying change at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The skin, which was originally fair and firm, was now flushed and red, with the fascia under the skin writhing and stretching wildly, as if an invisible pair of skillful hands were weaving all of this.
Soon, the skin on his chest, under the repeated washing and tempering of blood and qi, gradually revealed a white jade-like luster, full of amazing resilience and tension.
"call!"
Su Yu tried to adjust his breathing. With each rise and fall of his chest, the newly formed membrane produced a slight popping sound, like a fully drawn bow.
After an unknown amount of time, the burning sensation in my chest suddenly cooled down.
The acupoint at the center of the chest, which had transformed into a vortex, once again vanished from its solid state.
"It's over? The acupoint at the front of the chest has broken through?"
Su Yu slowly exhaled a breath of stale air, which shot out more than three feet in the cold air like a sharp arrow.
He stood up, feeling the strange sensation in his chest. Unlike the pure hardness of his limbs, which were like precious swords, the skin on his chest felt strangely soft and elastic. With a little pressure, he could feel a subtle resistance.
"Let's see how it goes!"
Su Yu didn't try his hand on any inanimate objects, but instead went directly to the weapon rack next to the training ground and pulled out a long hardwood stick used for practice.
He took a deep breath, focused his energy in his dantian, and with his right hand holding the stick, he thrust it hard into his own chest without any fancy moves. He used a full ten percent of his strength in this strike!
"Bang!"
A deep, muffled thud echoed through the courtyard.
The hardwood stick struck Su Yu squarely in the chest.
However, the expected excruciating pain did not come.
The moment the stick touched his skin, Su Yu felt the membrane on his chest tremble instinctively. The impact was immediately dissolved and dispersed by the resilient membrane as soon as it entered his body, and then disappeared like a mud ox sinking into the sea.
Immediately afterwards, a powerful counterforce erupted from his chest!
"Snap!"
The hardwood staff in Su Yu's hand was shattered into two pieces by the shock!
"What a brilliant force-dissipating and recoil-absorbing technique!"
Su Yu dropped the long staff and looked at his chest. Apart from a slight redness, there wasn't even a trace of white mark left there.
In the past, even with the protection of his vital energy, this blow would have been enough to make him feel short of breath and even leave him with bruises.
"Is this the function of the Tanzhong acupoint in front of the eye?"
The breakthrough of the secondary acupoints is different from the four poles of the primary acupoints. Instead, it targets the anterior mirror acupoint Tanzhong and the posterior mirror acupoint Jiaji.
Breaking through these two points is like having a protective mirror, bringing about a qualitative change in the torso, allowing one to enter the realm of secondary acupoints.
"With this front mirror protecting my heart meridian, coupled with the defense of the Black Stone Body Tempering Technique, I should now be an absolute master in the first stage of acupoint cultivation. Ordinary first-stage acupoint masters can no longer even break through my full defense head-on!"
"Even the previous Sun Shi, with his Iron Armor Technique, couldn't compare to me now!"
"However, if someone attacks from behind or hits a vital spot, they will still be seriously injured."
However, Su Yu immediately shook his head. This was only under defensive conditions. In a real battle, he would not stand still and let himself be hit.
In a battle between masters, a single move can turn the tide of the battle. If you encounter an opponent with an equally strong attack, but you also have such a powerful defense, how could your opponent possibly be your match?
All I can say is that my combat strength is getting stronger and stronger!
East of the city, the Yang residence.
The atmosphere in the main hall was so oppressive it seemed to have frozen.
Yang Chongren sat upright in his armchair, staring at the steward kneeling below, his face so gloomy it could drip water.
"Master! That Qian family—they've gone too far!"
Manager Yang Quan covered his swollen cheek, blood still trickling from the corner of his mouth. As he spoke, he aggravated his wound, wincing in pain, but dared not stop crying out, "They not only forcibly lowered the price of Yun brocade by 30%, but they are clearly trying to wage a price war against us."
Even worse, they cut off Jinxiufang's supply channels! When I took a few guards to argue with them, the young master Qian didn't even say a word, he just beat us up!
"That's enough!"
Yang Chongren slammed the teacup down on the table with a loud bang, splashing tea everywhere. Yang Quan shuddered and stopped crying.
Yang Chongren took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the surging anger in his chest. Years of experience in the business world had taught him that impotent rage was utterly useless at this moment.
"Take the injured servants to the accounting office to collect their medicine money, and give each of them an extra two taels of silver for medical expenses. As for the shops—keep the managers calm for now, bring out the inventory to last a few days. The sky won't fall, so you can step back!"
"Yes—yes, Patriarch Xie," Yang Quan cried as he retreated.
After the hall door closed again, Yang Chongren wearily rubbed his throbbing temples, closed his eyes, and began to think.
Business rivals are enemies, and the Yang and Qian families, both engaged in the silk trade, were destined to be locked in a bitter struggle.
In previous years, when the Yang family was weak, he walked on thin ice and made concessions at every turn. With great difficulty, he built a business empire in the eastern business district of the city through years of hard work, opening more than a dozen branches and showing signs of becoming a rival to the Qian family.
But the marketplace is like a battlefield. The silk business in the east of Blackstone City is only so big. If the Yang family takes a bigger bite, the Qian family will take a smaller bite.
How could the Qian family sit idly by and watch the Yang family continue to grow stronger? Now they finally made their move!
"Heaven has forsaken the Yang family—" Yang Chongren looked at the caisson ceiling above him, a bitter smile playing on his lips. "In this world, force is ultimately the only thing that matters. What a pity for my son—"
Thinking of this, his heart ached even more.
To cultivate the family's future, he poured countless resources into supporting his son, Yang Gang. But that rebellious son was proficient in everything from eating and drinking to gambling and whoring, yet utterly ignorant of martial arts!
A while ago, he even deceived himself, saying that he was going to break through to the level of a martial artist, and he actually believed it.
If it weren't for his daughter discovering that her brother was lying, he would still be kept in the dark.
The martial arts school has already revealed the truth: Yang Gang will at most attempt the third stage of the martial arts journey, and his chances of breaking through to the next level are slim.
As for his two daughters, although they have attempted to break through to the martial arts realm twice, their chances of achieving it are slim.
Without him, the Yang family's future would be uncertain.
A sense of crisis coiled around his heart like a venomous snake.
"We'll talk about the future later; let's figure out how to get through this crisis first!"
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