Chapter 5

Regaining his composure, Zhou Xu continued to study the Heaven-Breaking Devil Body.

After roughly finishing the introduction, he started to read about how to begin.

Just by looking at the beginning, Zhou Xu felt that it wouldn't be easy for him to learn.

"Stabilize your Dao heart, gather qi in stillness, and condense the first strand of spiritual qi; only then does it count as the start. Then, use the Blood Qi Pill to assist in impacting the hundred meridians. Only then does the Heaven-Breaking Devil Body truly begin."

Zhou Xu was somewhat taken aback:

"This is just the beginning, not even considered an entry point?"

Not entering the realm means not being considered a practitioner.

It seemed he had little hope. Not to mention stabilizing his Dao heart and gathering qi in stillness, which he couldn't do, even if he could, he would still need the Blood Qi Pill to assist.

Well, he might be able to get it from his parents.

"Never mind, let's see what it takes to enter the realm."

With this thought, Zhou Xu continued reading.

At this point, he saw a diagram showing the hundred meridians of the human body, with a prominent red line running through them, converging in the qi sea in a strange order.

"Using the first strand of spiritual qi, combined with the Blood Qi Pill, to initially open the hundred meridians, then circulating through the entire body, gathering in the dantian, and condensing the devil seed, only then does it count as entering the realm."

Reading the content, Zhou Xu didn't think it was too difficult.

If it weren't for the lack of spiritual qi and the Blood Qi Pill, he would have wanted to try.

The Blood Qi Pill's function might be to make the spiritual qi surge.

Thinking about this, Zhou Xu was momentarily stunned.

He indeed didn't have spiritual qi, but he had a thousand years of cultivation.

And he could control it well.

If he used it to replace spiritual qi...

"Maybe it will work."

After some thought, he decided to give it a try. The thousand years of cultivation he had was obtained from reading books, and he had mastered it for over a decade, so it wasn't an exaggeration to say he could use it with ease.

The risk was controllable.

Deciding to act, he memorized the circulation sequence and studied the positions of the hundred meridians.

Feeling that everything was in order, he sat on the ground and began to cultivate using the thousand years of cultivation.

The cultivation posture was very important, at least that's what it said.

Five points facing the sky, tongue touching the palate, calm and composed.

After a moment of calm, Zhou Xu extracted a small amount of the thousand years of cultivation from various parts of his body, starting from the dantian, descending to the perineum, and then ascending along the Governor Vessel to circulate through the hundred meridians.

He skipped the initial opening of the hundred meridians.

At this moment, the thousand years of cultivation, guided by Zhou Xu, circulated smoothly through the hundred meridians, following the method of the Heaven-Breaking Devil Body.

Since it was his first time doing this, he was very cautious throughout the process.

So far, there had been no unexpected incidents.

After a long time, the power gathered at the Baihui point, completing half the cycle, and then began to descend along the Conception Vessel back to the dantian.

The power flowed like a stream, silently moving, spreading through the hundred meridians, steady and calm.

Thud!

He didn't know how long it had been.

The thousand years of cultivation gathered in the dantian, accumulating bit by bit.

At this moment, Zhou Xu felt a new kind of power in his dantian, as if it was absorbing his blood qi.

It seemed to be condensing something.

He didn't feel any danger or significant pain.

After a long time, this feeling began to fade, and at the same time, a black seed appeared in Zhou Xu's dantian, covered in runes.

At this moment, the runes were constantly rotating, like a bottomless pit.

"Devil seed?"

Zhou Xu was somewhat surprised; had he actually succeeded?

He wasn't sure if it was the same as the original.

However, he felt that the devil seed wanted to devour something.

"Blood qi?"

He recalled the introduction to the Heaven-Breaking Devil Body, which mentioned using boiling blood qi to feed it.

He didn't have that.

In the end, he threw in some of the thousand years of cultivation.

It was absorbed.

"Seems like it can be fed."

Thinking this, he threw in some more.

Because the amount was small, the devil seed quickly absorbed it, and seeing this, he added more.

This time it absorbed more slowly.

After some time, the devil seed finally finished absorbing.

Then he threw in a large amount.

"It's like feeding a pet, quite interesting."

Thinking this, Zhou Xu continued to feed it, wanting to see how much the devil seed could eat.

At some point, the runes on the devil seed seemed to stall, not working well.

Is it full?

Zhou Xu wondered.

However, before he could confirm, the runes on the devil seed suddenly reversed, and the thousand years of cultivation began to spurt out.

Bang!

"Cough, cough!"

In the living room, Zhou Xu covered his throat, feeling something impact it.

"Is it overeating and vomiting?"

Zhou Xu spoke softly, but just saying a word made his throat hurt, and his voice was hoarse.

"Cough, cough!"

After carefully checking, he confirmed that his throat and body were fine and sighed in relief.

However, he didn't feel any changes from the devil seed.

"It seems you can't cultivate recklessly."

His throat was hoarse.

Thinking this, Zhou Xu decided to get up, only to find the room was dark.

Only the router's signal light was flashing.

He checked his phone; it was two in the morning.

Zhou Xu: "..."

Did the cultivation time pass so quickly?

If he kept cultivating like this, his youth would be gone.

He turned on the light, drank a glass of water, and took a few winter jujubes from the fridge to calm his stomach.

Standing on the balcony, looking at the sky with a few stars, he began to think.

"Cultivation is real. I barely managed to enter the realm of the Heaven-Breaking Devil Body, even though I didn't feel much and it hurt my throat.

But indeed, another kind of power appeared.

So, my mom and dad might really be great figures in the devil path."

After confirming this, Zhou Xu felt quite helpless. Was he really going to be the villain?

If someone came to exorcise demons in the future, he wouldn't know how to respond.

Eating the fruit and looking at the quiet neighborhood, he felt that his peaceful life was beginning to have ripples.

Puke!

Suddenly, a vomiting sound came from below.

He looked and saw someone who had drunk too much, hugging a trash can and vomiting.

They probably just came back from drinking.

"Speaking of which, the thousand years of cultivation can be used as spiritual qi. I wonder if there are other uses."

In the past, he only knew that the thousand years of cultivation could strengthen the body.

Other than that, it wasn't very useful.

It just made hitting people more painful, running faster, and jumping higher.

Other than that, there was nothing.

It couldn't produce fireballs or special effects.

In the past, he didn't know the method, but now it seemed there was a method, though he wasn't sure if it would work.

Next time, he could try, but it probably wouldn't work.

After all, he had never made the thousand years of cultivation condense outside his body.

"Screech!"

A sudden sound caught Zhou Xu's attention.

It was very shrill, not like a normal animal's sound.

Looking around, he found a black rat, larger than a cat, with red eyes, near the trash can.

At that moment, it was looking at the drunk man.

It seemed to be checking if the man was dangerous.

After a few calls, it found no response, so it seemed there was no problem.

It then pounced.

Bang!

In the instant it leaned forward, a small object hit it, knocking it to the ground.

At this moment, the man who had finished vomiting looked around but saw nothing, wiped his mouth, and went home.

"Another job."

Zhou Xu ate a winter jujube, turned off the light, and left the house.

He had just spit out the jujube seed to hit the abnormal rat.

It definitely didn't die, but it couldn't move due to the injury.

He had a lot of experience with this.

However, rats are usually in groups, so he planned to go down and see if he could find its companions and eliminate them all.

As for the skill of spitting jujube seeds...

He learned it from TV.

The only thing he couldn't learn was sword or knife techniques.

Mainly because he could use the thousand years of cultivation to enhance them.

And skills like the Finger Flicking Technique, the Heaven-Residual Leg, and the Buddha Palm.

He knew them all.

Just no special effects.