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This is bad.. I really did not expect this to happen at all..
Wengg!
Duan Li consumed a grade 5 elixir but quickly shook his head after. It appears that the extent of his injuries was far too severe that the rate of recovery was outmatched even with the medicinal effect from the Violet Recovering Dust grade 9 pill helping him!
d.a.m.n it!
"You brat! Hurry up and think of something! Aren"t you so awesome all these while? If you don"t have a way to save yourself, you will become a crippled!" Dugu Liubai said in a hoa.r.s.e voice, indicating that the situation was really serious.
Kuh!
"Was there really no other way but to use that elixir? I only have one.. " Duan Li thought to himself and gritted his teeth as he soon came to a decision.
Better a waste of an excellent elixir than ending up a crippled!
Wengg!
"T-That is.. a grade 7 elixir?! Where did you get that? Hurry up and consume it!" Dugu Liubai finally saw a glimmer of hope. After all, an elixir was far more potent than a medicinal pill such that, an elixir of grade 7 was even effective on immortals like them, much less on Duan Li!
Furthermore, he was shocked that Duan Li had something so rare at hand, because an elixir of grade 7 and above, unlike a pill, was extremely difficult to concoct, and even if there was one, its price would be astronomical!
Gulu gulu gulu..
In a single mouthful, Duan Li swallowed the contents of the elixir whole. Immediately after, his body started to glow brightly and he felt warm all over.
Wongg!!
The chain-reaction injuries in his meridians slowly halted together, before his bloodied right arm began to take shape once more, as if he had grew out a new bone with a speed that could be seen by the naked eyes.
It"s working!
However, he soon found out that although the extreme pain had started to subside, his meridians still refused to be healed even with all the medicinal effect being compounded on him!
"How can this be?" Duan Li started to panic.
All I did was just to try out new technique, yet why does it turn out this way instead?
No, I need to calm down!
All-Seeing Eye ability activate!
Wengg!!
"Hmm?" after making a closer inspection, he found out that his spiritual Qi flow, albeit almost undetectable, was actually in a state of disarray!
Because he cultivated all three of his dantians, there were naturally 3 different flows. While it appears that the three of them did not have any sorts of problem at first glance, after a few cycle per breath, there would be ripple effect that caused the flow of these 3 to coincide with one another!
Since every cycle was extremely fast, noticing the problem was naturally quite difficult too. Thus, when Duan Li realized this, he forcefully slowed down his Qi cycle to find ways to solve this problem.
For some reason, every few random cycle, all 3 of his Qi flow would ripple erratically!
Dugu Liubai that was inspecting Duan Li"s condition by his own means suddenly snapped his fingers together as he finally realized what the problem was.
"I see what the problem is now! No wonder I found it weird that even with a grade 7 elixir, your meridians still did not heal!" he said.
"Stop absorbing spiritual Qi from your surroundings and let all 3 of your dantians run empty! There were traces of temporal s.p.a.ce phenomena diffused into your meridians that disrupted your Qi flow, that"s why they continuously tried to rupture your meridians!" he explained.
Hearing this, Duan Li nodded and swiftly diffused out his spiritual Qi into his surroundings instead of taking in more.
Huuu!!
Slowly, his pale complexion started to become better until he no longer had any shred of spiritual Qi inside all 3 of his dantians.
Then, his ruptured meridians began to heal with the potency of the grade 7 elixir that still lingered within his body!
"You nearly turned cripple there, so next time, don"t be too reckless and try things out without any sorts of precaution!" Dugu Liubai sternly reprimanded Duan Li.
However, when he thought about it, perhaps Duan Li wasn"t actually in the wrong but..
His control technique that he imparted to Duan Li!
After all, that control technique was meant to be used by normal cultivators, not someone with three dantian and some extra meridians and pathways bridging for shortcuts that he knew nothing about!
Therefore, since he can"t possibly know that in advance, he can"t be blamed for it as well. If he knew, he would not dare to teach Duan Li a technique that wasn"t compatible with the cultivation method of the latter!
Still, to be able to cultivate with all three dantian, he had never heard of such a thing before!
One might think that an extra two dantian would just boost a cultivators prowess by two or three times when compared to a normal cultivator, but it was not as simple as that!
Just a single dantian would be enough to have a cultivator the chance to ascend to immortality and possibly beyond should their prospect and fate was at the right condition, but three?
The future of this fellow was practically boundless!
Exhaling a mouthful of air, Duan Li wiped off the sweats on his forehead as he stood up.
He then turned to Dugu Liubai and clasped both of his fists together as he bowed.
"This junior would like to express his sincere thanks to Lord Guardian Dugu for the a.s.sistance in resolving the conflict within my body!"
Duan Li really thought that he had made a terrible mistake back there of being too presumptuous. This experience serves to remind him that cultivation was ridden with dangers and must not be treated lightly!
Had he been alone while executing such a technique and facing the backlash without the Lord Guardian by his side, whom had managed to identify the crux of the problem for him to resolve, unless a miracle occur, he would be done in by his own carelessness.
Just thinking of that possible outcome had his bones turned chilly and his body to shiver!
...
After a round of being reprimanded by the Lord Guardian whom after that gave out numerous advices, warnings, stories of cultivators whom turned cripple by a single mistake and more, Duan Li was finally spared.
"Remember, next time, if you must use the control technique to unleash that level of attack, don"t go for more than 50 percent if you don"t want to experience this incident again! Until you managed to find ways to integrate the control technique with your 3 Qi flows within your body, I would advice you against using it at all!" Dugu Liubai said.
Knowing that the concerns of the old man in front of him was sincere, Duan Li listened and nodded respectfully towards the latter.
While he might have special circ.u.mstances that made him possible to surpa.s.s the old man before him in less than a year, experience and wisdom was something that he could not hope to match against the latter at all.
Therefore, he chose to take all the advices from the Guardian to his heart.
As the old saying goes, "Listen to those with experience first."
"Hmph! As long as you understand your own mistake and not consumed by your own ego, you would only continue to soar even higher from today onwards!" Dugu Liubai turned around as he rubbed his nose slightly.
Placing his hands behind his back, he then said, "Alright, now that you know how to use the control technique, just apply some of it to any of your movement arts slightly, and you can already move significantly faster than before!"
Duan Li nodded. He had been re-absorbing spiritual Qi from the surrounding while he was being reprimanded earlier on, and with the help of Dilong and Zhulong, his recovery was even faster and had already reached half of his full capacity.
He also noticed that, the old man doesn"t seemed to realize the existence of both of these Elemental Spirit Origin besides him, and Dilong told him that it was because they refused to let their existence be known towards the Guardian that the latter can"t see nor sense them.
"Let"s continue on our journey then!"
Suuu!! Suuu!!
Along their travel, Duan Li cupped his chin together as he thought about something.
"The prowess behind that fist from before was on an entirely different level.. even its visuals was far too different than the Nine Fists Shattering Meteor.."
That settles it then!
I"m going to name the fist art something different.. let"s see..
"Doomsday Calamity Fist!"
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