Chapter 28

Jiang Feng hid in a corner of the cave, took out some dry rations, and started to gnaw on them bit by bit.

He was constantly injured and constantly being repaired.

His healing ability came from the golden bloodline, which operated automatically.

Each repair consumed some energy, which came from the Ming Force within his body and from his body itself.

This battle lasted for two and a half hours, and while Jiang Feng's spirit was still good, his body was somewhat drained.

He was so hungry that he felt dizzy and had to stop to eat and rest.

While gnawing on the rations, he reviewed his recent gains.

In two and a half hours, he had killed four Level 5 Red-Armored Lizards, which was a decent efficiency.

The cores he extracted from the hearts of the Level 5 Ming Beasts were all complete and of the Fire element, and he had already thrown them into his leather bag.

In addition, based on the descriptions in the Taiwu异兽奇志 (Taiwu Strange Beasts Record), he processed the Red-Armored Lizards.

The most valuable parts were the teeth and a piece of skin from the back of the neck, so Jiang Feng only kept these two parts.

These practical gains were secondary; the most crucial was that through his recent attempts, Jiang Feng had started to grasp some of the key techniques for controlling Ming Force.

After finishing his rations, he was about to stand up when he suddenly looked up at the sky.

An unusual fluctuation came from above, a strong Ming Force fluctuation!

He instantly realized that it was noon!

Since merging with the Tianxin Seed, Jiang Feng had never missed a noon cultivation session.

Each time, he would sit in an open area and bask in the sunlight.

Fortunately, it had been sunny for the past few days, with no rainy weather.

Occasionally, he would wonder if Ming Force cultivation could only be done in sunlight. If the weather was bad or he was in a place without sunlight, would he be unable to absorb Ming Force normally?

He cherished every cultivation session, so he had never tried it before. Today, entering the cave to hunt provided a good opportunity.

Unexpectedly, even with a mountain overhead and no trace of sunlight, the powerful Ming Force fluctuations still descended upon Jiang Feng.

Jiang Feng immediately sat cross-legged, opened the Tianxin Seed, and began to absorb the Ming Force.

The cultivation session at dawn had already replenished all the Ming Force he had consumed the previous day. The Yuan Branch was completely filled, and the fifth section had extended a bit further.

This cultivation session was no different from usual, with intense and powerful Ming Force forming a pressure, as if being forcefully pressed into the Tianxin Seed.

The conversion speed of the Tianxin Seed was not slow at all, quickly purifying the pressed-in Ming Force and channeling it into the Yuan Branch.

Before his eyes, the fifth section of the Yuan Branch gradually filled up, and it began to impact the fifth acupoint!

Wave after wave of Ming Force, like ocean waves, crashed against the solid wall ahead.

The acupoint wall was very sturdy and did not budge.

The waves piled up layer by layer, growing higher and higher. Suddenly, another wave surged forward, pushing with all its might!

The powerful wave of Ming Force formed a huge thrust, slamming into the acupoint wall.

Finally, a crack appeared on the acupoint wall.

The Ming Force, as if aware, fiercely impacted the crack. Eventually, the crack grew larger, and finally, it spread out in all directions, shattering the solid acupoint wall.

A massive amount of Ming Force rushed into the fifth acupoint, expanding and filling it.

Finally, they calmed down, flowing smoothly and outputting to the other side.

The newly added Ming Force seeped into the golden bloodline, and a thread of blood qi was generated, flowing into Jiang Feng's veins.

Seeing this, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The last time, to save Zhong Fan, he had forced the golden blood qi out of his body, and it seemed to have disappeared, never to return.

Logically, it should have recovered after a day, but even after two days, it was still nowhere to be found.

Jiang Feng had been somewhat regretful, as without that thread of golden blood qi, he lacked a crucial life-saving skill.

Now, with the fifth acupoint opened and the blood qi reappearing, he finally felt at ease.

Fortunately, Jiang Feng had just killed four Red-Armored Lizards, and he had four Fire-element cores in his hand. He directly embedded one of them into the acupoint.

This embedding made him feel a clear difference.

The Fire-element core of a Level 5 Ming Beast was clearly more powerful than the previous one!

Different levels of Ming Beasts had different levels of cores?

He was moved by this thought and grabbed another core, quickly absorbing it.

This core reached the outside of the Tianxin Seed and landed next to the fourth acupoint. There was already a Level 4 Ming Beast core embedded there, which suddenly exploded, its energy being absorbed into the Tianxin Seed, leaving the acupoint empty.

The Level 5 core was then enveloped by the acupoint, and Jiang Feng felt a significant change.

Very good, the embedded cores could be replaced, but the original one would be directly scrapped and could not be used again.

Since merging with the Tianxin Seed, Jiang Feng had not directly received systematic instruction, except for the few notebooks from Miss. Many things had to be figured out on his own.

For example, replacing cores was something most teachers would teach their students, but in practice, few people did it.

The reason was simple: cores were too expensive.

Jiang Feng had a natural talent for martial arts, and after being taught by Miss, he possessed remarkable combat skills even before merging with the seed. His healing ability, enhanced by his bloodline, was very strong.

These two factors combined allowed him to dare to enter the mountains alone and hunt Ming Beasts as soon as he opened his first acupoint.

Ordinary martial artists not only opened their acupoints more slowly but also had much weaker combat abilities. They usually formed teams and entered the mountains under the guidance of more advanced martial artists, trying to engage in team battles and hunt Level 1 to 2 Ming Beasts.

Ming Beasts of this level only produced fragments, and it took twenty fragments to merge into one core.

A combat team usually consisted of four to five people, meaning the fragments they obtained had to be divided among many people, taking a long time to accumulate enough for a whole core.

Higher-level Ming Beasts were even more powerful.

Level 5 was the dividing line between low-level and high-level Ming Beasts. Normally, it would take five Level 5 acupoint martial artists working together and making thorough preparations to take down one.

Cores being so rare, it was very uncommon for ordinary martial artists, without full family support, to have their core embedding speed keep up with their acupoint opening speed.

Jiang Feng, with no guidance, single-handedly opened an acupoint and embedded a core, and even had the spare capacity to replace old ones with new ones. If this were known outside, it would shock many.

Jiang Feng, however, had no such concept. He quickly embedded all four new Level 5 cores, completely ignoring the scrapped ones.

He clenched his fist, and with the new embedded cores all being Fire-element, he felt the power flowing through his veins, rapidly filling his entire body.

He tidied up, shot out of the corner like an arrow, and leaped off the stone wall, landing precisely between two Red-Armored Lizards!

The Red-Armored Lizards were startled and attacked him from both sides simultaneously!

Previously, Jiang Feng had only dealt with single lizards and had never handled two at once.

He stepped on the ground, leaped up, and swung his palms, giving the lizards' tails a push. The two lizards, unable to stop their momentum, crashed into each other with a loud thud.

Jiang Feng shouted and swung his palm. His palm drew a diagonal trajectory in the air, causing the air to ripple.

A faint rumble echoed in the air, deep and resonant.

Jiang Feng's palm lightly landed on the heads of the two Red-Armored Lizards, one on each side, imprinting a palm on each.

Then, he used the force of this palm to flip backward, touching the cave ceiling, and landed on the ground.

The two Red-Armored Lizards stopped moving, as if frozen. After a moment, a rumbling sound came from inside their bodies. A few moments later, it seemed as if a bomb had been ignited in their heads, and they exploded outward!

Blood and flesh, propelled by the force, splattered against the cave walls, covering everything!

Jiang Feng had anticipated this and promptly dodged the splatter. After the commotion subsided, he walked over, surveyed the scene, and smiled in satisfaction.

With one continuous movement, he had achieved a double instant kill, but only consumed half the Ming Force!

In other words, he could repeat the same action again!

This way, his explosive power remained unchanged, but his sustained combat ability had quadrupled.

This was certainly due to opening his fifth acupoint and embedding a higher-level core, but the most crucial factor was that he had gradually mastered the technique of controlling Ming Force.

When he first instantly killed a Red-Armored Lizard, he had simply mixed Ming Force with the Thunder Palm and unleashed it all at once. In fact, a large portion of the Ming Force was wasted outside the Red-Armored Lizard, not only failing to injure the enemy but also shaking the cave walls, nearly putting himself in danger.

After that, he tried again and again, and now he could finally concentrate the Ming Force into a single point and inject it into the Red-Armored Lizard, causing it to explode.

In other words, his previous attack range included the Red-Armored Lizard and a large area around it, but this time, he only attacked a palm-sized area on the lizard's head.

The force was more concentrated and effective, instantly destroying their heads and killing them.

Jiang Feng reviewed his actions several times, confirmed there were no issues, and smiled with ease.

Ming Force martial arts were indeed very interesting!

After cleaning up the corpses, he also replaced the fifth Level 5 core.

After the fifth acupoint, it took two hours to fully restore the Ming Force that had been consumed by half.

Jiang Feng calculated these details in his mind and found that all the Red-Armored Lizards around him had been cleared.

He continued forward in the cave, looking for a new group. After turning two corners, he suddenly stopped.

Borrowing the faint light from the moss on the walls, he vaguely saw a crack in the cave wall to his right, extending inward. Something seemed to be in the depths of the crack.

He squinted and observed carefully, and suddenly a red light flashed, illuminating the area.

It was a black lizard, larger than the Red-Armored Lizards. The red light was from its eyes, which it opened and looked at Jiang Feng.

The red light was extremely bright, as if carrying a bloody aura that rushed toward him.

In an instant, the black lizard sprang out of the crack with its four legs, charging at Jiang Feng!

A Level 6 Fire-Eyed Shadow Lizard!

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