The Name of Eternals

Chapter 34: Flawless Body, Millions of Pounds!

Upon reaching the peak of the Celestial Stage, having 54 veins results in an additional 4320 cycles of power, translating to more than eight hundred thousand pounds of force! However, the royal family possesses the "Eastern Imperial Scripture," the top vein-clearing technique of Dayu, allowing the opening of 62 veins, which accounts for an additional power of about 600,000 pounds.

But this is not Li Hao's limit.

The Taiyin Meridian, with one meridian equivalent to ten ordinary ones, amounts to 2480 cycles, which translates to nearly 500,000 pounds!

In addition, Li Hao practices not only the Dragon River Divine Meridian but also the Nine Revolutions Star Technique, along with three mid-to-upper vein-clearing techniques and several lower vein-clearing techniques.

However, the lower vein-clearing techniques only open the easiest main veins, which are overshadowed by the mid-to-upper vein-clearing techniques, rendering them ineffective.

Nevertheless, the Nine Revolutions Star Technique and the three mid-to-upper vein-clearing techniques allowed Li Hao to open up major veins that the Dragon River Divine Meridian didn't cover, so his current number of veins is 69!

This has already surpassed the number of veins opened by the imperial family's "Eastern Imperial Scripture!"

Li Hao wasn't satisfied with just this. Now, he plans to use his understanding of the physical body to deduce the fourth level of the "Primal Beginning" technique, breaking through the Ethereal Body!

"The first level converges the forces of heaven and earth's yin and yang. The second level involves the celestial stars. The third level concerns the body's barely perceptible hidden meridians. For the fourth level, I hope to open the Solar Meridian, uniting the Yin and Yang Meridians!"

Li Hao's idea isn't mere fantasy. With insights from the fifth level of the Body Cultivation path, he is already considered a half-master in the art of body cultivation.

What is a master? It is someone who can create martial arts and establish their own school!

Li Hao doesn't know how the original fourth level of "Primal Beginning" was practiced, nor does he need to know. The Li family has been unable to collect it for many years, likely having been lost to history, becoming dust in the past.

Since that's the case, he will write a new chapter for this top-tier body cultivation technique!

Let the pearl no longer gather dust!

Days later.

By the shores of the Blackwater Demon Lake.

Li Hao sat outside the fishing platform and suddenly had an insight. His whole body was filled with surging blood and energy, his bones subtly vibrating beneath his skin, and the energy within his 69 major veins rushed back and forth until a vast force surged to the top of his skull, seeming to want to burst his brain!

This was an extremely dangerous maneuver, but Li Hao's control over his body was already so refined that he could even fold his ears shut, with every inch of his bones as flexible as fingers, all capable of exerting force!

With a bang, his brain seemed to resonate, and waves of swelling pain struck.

Li Hao gritted his teeth, enduring it until that force suddenly discharged, finding an outlet to escape through, and then returning to his body, forming a cycle!

Li Hao's eyes shone with dazzling light, filled with excitement and exhilaration.

Finally, it was done!

The Taiyin Meridian is a wandering meridian that can appear anywhere in the body at different times, making it extremely difficult to locate and control, thus being called the hidden meridian, meaning the netherworldly and untraceable.

But the Solar Meridian is fixed, located within the skull.

However, compared to the Taiyin Meridian, the Solar Meridian is even more perilous, and no one dares to attempt it. If the opening fails, the mild consequence is becoming an idiot or crippled, and the severe one is a brain explosion and death!

Though one meridian equals ten, risking such enormous danger for an increase of ten meridians' worth of power is a choice 99% of people would not make.

Because everyone who attempted it basically failed.

Only some martial arts madmen, peerless geniuses, would continue to engage in such crazy endeavors!

Now, with the Solar Meridian opened, Li Hao immediately felt the hidden meridian finding an anchor point, gradually moving towards the Solar Meridian and intertwining with it.

"Yin and Yang combine, I shall call the fourth level the Flawless... No, Flawless Body!"

Li Hao pulled up his status panel, and with his thoughts in mind, the "Primal Beginning" technique on the panel indeed jumped to the fourth level, with the name "Flawless Body, Small Accomplishment!"

Li Hao immediately channeled the yin-yang dual meridians, circulating the energy within his body repeatedly.

Soon, under the intertwining of yin and yang, there seemed to be a special swirling force.

Through the vortex, Li Hao vaguely glimpsed a golden light inside his skull.

He wanted his energy to reach it but found it extremely distant, unreachable.

"Legend says the human body has a total of 108 major meridians. If they are all opened, maybe... I can touch that golden light." An understanding emerged in Li Hao's heart.

This was an insight brought about by the Body Cultivation path, and the rich cultivation memories allowed him to have a more profound understanding of his body's flesh and blood than ordinary people.

Body cultivation is by no means simple, nor is it, as the old man and others say, lacking in prospects. On the contrary, Li Hao believes that the level of body cultivation techniques in the Tingyu Pavilion isn't high enough. Even the Thousand Dragons Holy Body, which is placed on the sixth floor, can only be practiced to the Soul Inheritance Stage in the fourth level!

While other cultivation techniques directly reach the pinnacle.

The lack of emphasis on body cultivation is due to various reasons. Besides the difficulty of practice, Li Hao also considers the lack of techniques a factor.

The Li family's collected body cultivation techniques are so few, let alone elsewhere?

Li Hao looked at the status panel, where the previous "Flawless Body, Small Accomplishment" had now become "Large Accomplishment!"

The intersection of yin and yang seemed to connect all the major meridians in his body, able to instantly gather and coordinate the energy in all the meridians, as if erecting a dragon spine within his body!

Li Hao tried it out, suddenly throwing a punch.

With a whoosh, the punch's wind roared like a tiger, pressing the water surface several feet away into a shallow depression, simultaneously creating ripples with a diameter of seven or eight meters!

If this punch hit solidly, it would be no less than a cannonball falling into the water, creating a spectacular splash!

Li Hao was momentarily stunned, his eyes filled with shock.

Through his keen bodily perception, he knew just how terrifying the power of that punch was.

In the state of gathering all major meridian forces, his power doubled!

You must know, with the yin-yang dual meridians gathered and the original 69 major meridians developed, it equates to 89 major meridians.

Each meridian has 248 cycles, and his overall strength had reached 4.5 million pounds!

With double the explosive power, it was nearly 9 million pounds!!

It was close to ten million pounds of divine power, and even a true dragon at the Celestial Stage couldn't possess such ferocious strength.

Even royal geniuses with top-notch breathing and vein-clearing techniques have only 2 million pounds of force. Unless they, too, activated two meridians, with just one, they wouldn't have the ability to instantly gather the entire body's meridian power and unleash double the strength!

"No wonder that ninth uncle is so terrifying, with the convergence of dual meridians, enabling instantaneous power doubling, it's too frightening."

Li Hao's eyes sparkled with strange brilliance, unable to imagine what kind of formidable strength it would be if all 108 meridians in the body were opened!

You must know that an ordinary Celestial Stage practitioner has only about 20,000 pounds of force.

Although this is the minimum, the lowest of the low, and 90% of Celestial Stage Level 10 practitioners have at least 100,000 pounds of power, the gap is still too vast compared to Li Hao.

"With my current strength, I can easily crush those elite Celestial Stage Level 10 soldiers in the Yuanzi Camp!"

Li Hao thought to himself.

The elite of the Yuanzi Camp, even at level 10, have only about 500,000 pounds of brute force, like children compared to him.

The royal geniuses are four times the strength of the Yuanzi Camp soldiers, while he is four times stronger than the royal geniuses!

Li Hao retracted his fist and adjusted his breath.

After releasing the yin-yang doubled strength, he felt a considerable depletion of stamina, unable to use it frequently, but in crucial clashes, it was enough to kill in one strike!

As his body relaxed after recovery, Li Hao glanced at the demon lake, but he didn't see the second granduncle. He had mentioned looking for the old dragon in the demon lake, but who knows where he went.

The demon lake spans thousands of miles, with deep waters, making it challenging to detect a hidden demon dragon.

Just then, a faint movement caught his attention.

Li Hao's ears twitched, swiftly turning to look back, only to see a snow-white figure trembling among the withered leaves as if trying to hide.

With a flash of his figure, Li Hao flew to this figure, which turned out to be a snow-white little fox, about the size of a newborn puppy.

He carefully examined it, finding no trace of demonic energy on the little fox, indicating it was an ordinary wild fox.

"Little thing, how did you get here? Where are your parents?"

Li Hao bent down, picking up the little fox from the fallen leaves.

The little fox had a touch of orange-red on its ears, seemingly a hybrid between a white and a red fox. As Li Hao picked it up, it immediately pushed with its little paws, struggling in resistance.

Li Hao placed it in his palm, looked around, but saw no sign of any big fox, wondering if this little creature had snuck out of its den on its own.

Seeing this, Li Hao placed it back on the ground, waiting for its parents to find it.

The little fox crawled with difficulty among the fallen leaves, too young to be agile, moving slowly.

Li Hao chuckled, paying it no mind, returning to the lakeside to continue fishing.

Before long, a figure flew back; it was Li Muxiu.

Li Hao saw his empty hands, knowing he had failed to find the dragon demon. Over the past six months, the old man had searched numerous times, but obviously, the dragon demon was also extremely cautious and cunning, having lived for at least a few thousand years.

"Hmph."

Seeing Li Hao's grinning face, Li Muxiu snorted coldly, annoyed, and said, "What about you? Did you catch nothing?"

"I caught a small one, Celestial Stage," Li Hao chuckled.

Li Muxiu rolled his eyes, even more irritated.

At sunset, Li Muxiu could only hastily catch a Celestial Stage fish demon to prevent returning empty-handed before taking Li Hao back to Qingzhou City.

Before leaving, Li Hao saw the little fox crawling to a distant spot, still not found by a big fox. He asked the old man to check, and the old man found only a bloodstain and some snow-white fox fur, indicating that the big fox had been eaten by some demon beast.

Such things are common in the wild, and with a sigh, Li Hao found the little fox, crawling and confused, and took it back to Qingzhou City.

In the withered leaves of the Shanhai Courtyard, there was now a patch of snow white.