Chapter 3 - Elemental Profound Veins Activation
Suddenly, Lin Haoxue felt a huge pressure on her body forcing her to sit down.
However, the pain disappeared right after she sat down. Lin Haoxue was relieved since she no longer felt like she was in danger. Then she closed her eyes to look inside herself and saw that her dantian was still dark.
This result disappointed her. Just when she was about to leave her dantian all of a sudden it lit up. This was like a flash of lightning in the dark, lighting up everything for her to see, and now, she was able to see through the meridians and veins inside her body. This state implied that her profound veins were on the verge of being opened.
Immediately following this, Lin Haoxue felt an acute pain throughout her body, and she could see that there was a red compa.s.s-shaped object inside her dantian that was being peeled open by a slim stream of white Qi. She thought that this red compa.s.s-shaped object might have been a seal on her dantian. This was something that she had never discovered before because she wasn"t able to introspect and look inside herself.
As it was suppressed, the red compa.s.s stubbornly resisted wanting to occupy Lin Haoxue"s dantian.
However, that stream of white Qi was quite overpowering; therefore, it was pretty hard for the red compa.s.s-shaped seal to fight against it. This battle was being held inside Lin Haoxue"s dantian. As the owner of said dantian, she felt that it was too painful to even speak.
The aching got worse, and Lin Haoxue bit her tongue hard trying not to pa.s.s out.
Pain! Lin Haoxue from her previous life had felt such a thing before, but it was far from the intensity she was now feeling.
Compared to the present, the pain she had felt while practicing her martial skills in her previous life could be considered insignificant. Those were all external pains, and they couldn"t compare to what she was now feeling as this pain penetrated all the way to her bones.
It turned out that this red, compa.s.s-shaped object was the reason she had a waste const.i.tution. Lin Haoxue stayed awake and under introspection watched as the red compa.s.s-shaped seal was gradually pried away from her dantian. Even though she was in constant and agonizing pain, she gradually became a little excited.
It had been around half an hour, and the red compa.s.s-shaped seal had finally been forcefully removed. It was gradually kicked out of her dantian by the slim stream of Qi and now that white Qi thread occupied the center of Lin Haoxue"s ma.s.sive dantian.
After the seal was forced to leave Lin Haoxue"s body, she could clearly feel movement inside her dantian. It was the kind of feeling like just being freed from suppression.
In a flash inside her dantian emerged various colored elemental rings. There were eight colors in total: white, gold, green, blue, red, brown, cyan, and purple.
She was extremely clear what this signified. Unexpectedly, she possessed eight-colored profound veins which were represented by these eight elemental rings in her dantian. These eight interconnected rings revolved around that stream of white Qi that was in the middle of her dantian. How could such a turn of events not make one happy?
As it turned out she wasn"t a useless person but actually a heavenly genius that far surpa.s.sed normal people! Now she could become a profound cultivator!
How would those who had mocked her by calling her a useless piece of trash react now if they knew that she actually had eight-colored profound veins?
Suppressing the excitement in her heart, Lin Haoxue once again looked inside herself. Even though she had eight-colored profound veins, but the eight profound elemental rings floating in her dantian were too small and her dantian was too big. It looked like eight bright stars gathered in the boundless night sky. Which is why when those eight rings gathered in her dantian, it still seemed very empty.
Lin Haoxue vaguely remember that her sister once talked about cultivation methods. Cultivation was about absorbing external profound power to expand one"s circular elemental rings that were located in their dantian. Doing this would cause the light and shadow of one"s profound elemental rings to become denser and eventually reach the state of perfection.
At that moment, the light and shadow of one"s profound elemental rings would transform into something substantive, and they would officially become a profound cultivator.
According to the method in her memory, Lin Haoxue tried to absorb every elemental type of profound power from the external world.
But she discovered that in this icy cave there was only water elemental profound power, and she couldn"t sense any others.
But it didn"t matter, even if there was only one kind of profound power here, she would be able to focus on cultivating it without distractions.
Lin Haoxue wasn"t disappointed at this revelation, she just absorbed the water elemental profound power.
After the water elemental profound power was absorbed into Lin Haoxue"s dantian, it entered into her water elemental profound ring.
The light and shadow of her water elemental profound ring slowly became denser and denser, and right when it started increasing in her water elemental profound ring, this caused a chain reaction.
The expanding of her water elemental profound ring caused the wood elemental and fire elemental profound rings to connect with one another. These two elemental rings slowly rotated and soon all eight elemental profound rings inside Lin Haoxue"s dantian started to tremble as well.
When the eight elemental profound rings inside her dantian started to float upwards, that slim stream of white Qi which occupied the center of Lin Haoxue"s dantian seemed to be activated in a flash. It then soared into the water elemental profound ring and wandered around it as if it were Jiao Long, the legendary dragon that controlled the rain and floods of heaven and earth.
Then it turned around and went into the wood elemental profound ring after which it flew into the gold elemental profound ring. The stream of Qi kept going in such a manner until it had pa.s.sed through all eight elemental rings. Afterwards, it came back to the light elemental profound ring and stayed motionlessly within it.
Just when that thin wisp of Qi stayed within the light elemental profound ring, all the elemental profound rings" light and shadow in her body expanded at a speed several hundreds of times faster than before. This sharp increase started so suddenly causing Lin Haoxue to be shocked senseless. If this kept up wouldn"t it shatter her whole dantian?
Lin Haoxue tried to use her will to slow this sharp increase of profound power. Fortunately, her will was enough and all the elemental profound rings slowed their rate of expansion. Even though their speed had slowed, the area that her elemental profound rings" light and shadow covered was still increasing. Lin Haoxue felt that her willforce was getting weaker and weaker and the Baihui acupoint on her head started to dully ache. Her willforce was soon going to run out.
Could it be that this energy really would break through her dantian and cause her body to explode as well? Lin Haoxue despaired because at this moment she lost all her strength to stop anything from happening, but right then, her profound elemental rings stopped expanding. Seeing this, Lin Haoxue was relieved.
The profound elemental rings that had stopped expanding now started to change. They transformed into a gas from their previous shape. Even though the change wasn"t very obvious, Lin Haoxue was extremely happy as she knew what this meant. Only when one"s profound elemental rings reached their peak state and transformed into a gas-like substance would she truly be recognized as a cultivator.
Her older sister took about five years to reach this level from when she was eight years old to thirteen years old. She didn"t expect that for her it would take less than an hour to reach full saturation of her profound elemental rings. How could this not make her happy?
It took around half an hour for the transformation of all her profound elemental rings to finish.
Right when she thought it was over, her profound elemental rings once more showed movement. By the time the process was finished, amongst her eight-colored profound veins, the profound power of seven of her elements had all increased four times until stopping.
However, her light elemental profound power was even more terrifying as it had increased a thousand-fold.
According to her estimates, her seven elemental profound powers should have reached the third layer of the Profound Pract.i.tioner realm while her light elemental profound power should be at roughly the ninth layer of the Profound Master realm.
However, this kind of sharp increase in strength which arrived so suddenly made her uneasy and secretly worried. If her foundation wasn"t good enough, her cultivation in the future might stagnate and be very hard to increase later on.
Thinking of this, Lin Haoxue used her willforce which had gradually started to recover to compress each of the elemental profound powers she had. She managed to compress her light elemental profound power down to the seventh layer of the Profound Master realm, but she wasn"t able to compress it anymore.
After doing this, Lin Haoxue felt relieved and stopped cultivating.
Knowing that behind her was still an ice wall, she tried to once more push against it, and when she merely touched the ice wall, the solid ice wall immediately turned formless and disappeared!
Even though she had such a steady and strong will, clearly seeing such a thing happen, Lin Haoxue felt so frightened that her state of mind almost collapsed.