Chapter 36

Wu practitioners, in the first six realms, only need to accumulate spiritual energy and gradually refine their bodies, making advancement relatively simple and easy.

Starting from the seventh realm, the threshold becomes much higher, and each realm's advancement becomes much more difficult.

Generally speaking, only those with extraordinary talent, supported by sufficient spirit stones and materials, and combined with diligent cultivation, have a chance to break through to the Kaiyuan Realm before the age of twenty.

Qin Lie is now only fifteen years old, and to be able to enter the seventh realm of body refinement, his speed is already extremely astonishing.

At this moment, feeling the soreness in his acupoints, he immediately realized that after more than half a year of hard cultivation, he was gradually approaching the breakthrough barrier of the eighth realm.

The human body has a total of 720 acupoints. As long as one acupoint can incorporate spiritual energy and release it through the acupoint, it means entering the eighth realm of body refinement.

The eighth realm of body refinement is the cultivation of acupoints!

As long as he finds the knack and makes one acupoint able to channel and release spiritual energy, the cultivation of the other acupoints will become much easier.

From the seventh realm to the eighth realm of body refinement, the first step is to make one acupoint able to accommodate spiritual energy and release it through the acupoint.

Once his acupoint can channel spiritual energy, he will be able to advance to a new level and truly enter the eighth realm of body refinement!

As he continued to move forward, he felt joyful and quietly tried to gather strength to impact the acupoint...

Spiritual energy flowed like a stream within him. Concentrating a thread of mental energy, he perceived the trajectory of the spiritual energy flow, faintly seeing the spiritual energy moving through his tendons, meridians, and acupoints.

He could feel each different acupoint, but because there were too many acupoints, he could not name them.

Slowly gathering spiritual energy, he suddenly tried to channel it into an unnamed acupoint on his chest, wanting to blast the spiritual energy into it.

"Zzz! Boom!"

A strange electrical sound, accompanied by a thunderous noise that reached his brain, suddenly came from that unnamed acupoint.

The spiritual energy he tried to channel in was blocked by an electrical barrier, unable to penetrate even a bit, and was forcefully stopped outside the acupoint.

"This, this is..."

Qin Lie was shocked, suddenly dumbfounded, and almost stumbled and fell while moving at high speed.

"What's wrong? Are you too tired? Do you need to rest a bit more?" Ling Yushi, who was right behind him, quickly came up to support him, asking with concern.

Shaking his head, Qin Lie stood steady and indicated that he was fine.

Feeling the wonderful touch of her jade-like hand, Qin Lie enjoyed it, but also knew it wasn't the time to think too much. He said, "I was a bit distracted just now. I'll be more careful later. I'm fine." Then he reluctantly separated from her and continued to lead the way.

Liu Yan and the others from the Ling family all stopped, looking at them suspiciously. After they started moving again, they all followed.

"Seventy-two acupoints in the body, and... and lightning power has already taken residence. I always wondered where the lightning power came from when the spiritual energy flowed through the meridians, it turns out it was hidden in the acupoints! So, when the Heavenly Lightning Strike refines the body, it was already cultivating the acupoints?"

Qin Lie was confused, not knowing whether the lightning power stored in the acupoints would affect his future cultivation, or whether this situation was good or bad for him.

"It seems I need to find a time to thoroughly examine this. To break through to the eighth realm of body refinement, the acupoints must be able to stimulate spiritual energy. Now that the lightning power has taken over the acupoints, preventing the spiritual energy from penetrating, will it affect the advancement to the eighth realm of body refinement..."

Thinking this, he did not dare to continue trying rashly while moving, and finally focused on leading the way.

After a night of travel, the sky gradually brightened, and everyone looked up to see a towering mountain peak in the distance.

"That's the Cold Mist Mountain!" Liu Yan wiped the sweat from his forehead and encouraged everyone, "In the area of Cold Mist Mountain, there are occasionally activities of practitioners from the pavilion. If we can luckily encounter a hunting team, we can greatly enhance our strength! At the very least, we can use Cold Mist Mountain to change our route and return, without having to delve deeper into the Extreme Cold Mountains."

Hearing this, everyone secretly sighed in relief, feeling a glimmer of hope.

"Let's get through today first. This will be the most difficult day. Only by surviving and getting out of the forest can we reach Cold Mist Mountain." Gao Yu poured cold water on their hopes.

With these words, the smiles on everyone's faces disappeared, knowing that it wasn't time to let their guard down yet.

Everyone continued to move forward.

Soon, the sun rose, and beams of sunlight penetrated the dense leaves, like spears of light piercing the forest floor.

"Stop!" Liu Yan suddenly called out, his expression extremely serious, "Ahead... a powerful spirit beast is coming. It's not good, it's already here!"

He was at the Kaiyuan Realm, a level higher than everyone else, so it was natural for him to be the first to sense the abnormality.

"Didn't you say we wouldn't encounter a spirit beast pack?" a member of the Gao family shouted.

"Spirit beasts are not dead. They don't stay in their dens forever. We haven't encountered a single den on our way, which already proves that Qin Lie's route is correct." Liu Yan glanced at the person and said, "This is an accident. The spirit beasts are active, and no one can predict where they will appear."

"Brother Liu, can we avoid it?" Ling Yushi, deeply aware of the terror of powerful spirit beasts, asked anxiously.

Shaking his head, Liu Yan smiled bitterly, "We can't avoid it. They are almost here. I hope... it's not a high-rank pack, or we'll be in big trouble."

"Move closer to the roots of the big trees, form a defensive formation, and prepare to deal with it." Gao Yu clenched his teeth and said coldly.

Everyone suddenly came to their senses. Whether from the Gao family or the Ling family, they quickly gathered together, hastily forming a defensive formation, carefully and cautiously preparing to deal with the incoming pack.

"I hope our luck isn't that bad. We are almost at Cold Mist Mountain, please don't let anything happen." Ling Ying whispered in prayer.

Everyone felt the same way, secretly praying to the gods, hoping that the incoming spirit beasts were of the lowest rank.

"Whoosh!"

Suddenly, a silver wolf with a body length of nearly two meters and a pair of broad wings appeared from the forest ahead.

"Silver-winged Demon Wolf! It's... it's a Silver-winged Demon Wolf, we're doomed!" Ling Xin, looking at the emerging spirit beast, showed deep fear and groaned in despair.

Liu Yan, Ling Yushi, Gao Yu, and everyone else, after the appearance of the Silver-winged Demon Wolf, all had ashen faces, their eyes filled with intense fear and despair, just like Ling Xin.

Silver-winged Demon Wolves love to eat human flesh. Once they see humans, they will never let them go, and will feast on the fresh and delicious human flesh.

"We are almost out of the forest, and we encounter a Silver-winged Demon Wolf at the last moment. Is it really the will of heaven to destroy us?" Ling Feng smiled bitterly.

"Ah, we are doomed. Silver-winged Demon Wolves usually don't appear alone; we have no chance at all." Ling Xiao said helplessly.

"Finally surviving the pursuit of the Shuibing Manor, only to be torn apart by Silver-winged Demon Wolves, it's really unacceptable! If I had known this, I would have fought to the death with the Shuibing Manor, and even killing one person would have been worth it!" a member of the Gao family said.

In their despair, one Silver-winged Demon Wolf after another gradually appeared from the front, and the appearance of more Silver-winged Demon Wolves seemed to crush their will, making them even more terrified.

Silver-winged Demon Wolves are second-rank spirit beasts, comparable to practitioners at the Kaiyuan Realm. Among them, only Liu Yan was at the early stage of the Kaiyuan Realm, and in a one-on-one battle, he might not even be a match for a single Silver-winged Demon Wolf...

And now, there were eleven Silver-winged Demon Wolves in front of them!

How could they not feel despair?

Among the people present, only Qin Lie did not feel despair after seeing the Silver-winged Demon Wolves!

Not only did he not feel despair, but Qin Lie was secretly excited. He licked his lips, quietly reached into his chest, and touched the statue, thinking: "I didn't expect to encounter them so soon. It's a pity that the people from the Shuibing Manor haven't arrived yet, otherwise it would have been perfect."

"Qin Lie..." At this moment, Ling Yushi suddenly approached him, standing shoulder to shoulder with him, and took his left hand, turning to give him a beautiful smile full of apology, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have called you to the Tianlang Mountain. If you hadn't come, you wouldn't have encountered all these troubles, and you wouldn't... die here with me."

A gentle breeze blew, scattering the hair on her forehead, making her look somewhat tragically beautiful. She held Qin Lie's hand tightly, as if trying to feel his presence and the warmth of his palm, as if this could help her face the impending death calmly.

"Die here? Not necessarily..." Qin Lie muttered to himself.

"What did you say?" Ling Yushi smiled, her smile tinged with sadness and bitterness, "It's all my fault, insisting on calling you here, causing you to suffer with me."

"I came of my own accord." Qin Lie's expression was calm.

Hearing this, Ling Yushi felt a warmth in her heart and smiled faintly, "You, you are actually very gentle, very considerate, and very protective. On the day we got engaged, when we held hands... I should have known then, but it's not too late now."

Qin Lie was surprised, knowing that Ling Yushi, believing they were doomed, had put aside her usual strong demeanor and revealed her sensitive and emotional side.

"Roar!"

A wolf's howl echoed, and eleven robust Silver-winged Demon Wolves suddenly charged toward the group.

Their silver wings spread, allowing them to glide in the air as they leaped, greatly increasing their speed.

Seeing the astonishing speed of the Silver-winged Demon Wolves, those who still harbored a glimmer of hope for escape were completely disheartened.

Including Liu Yan, everyone had a look of despair, racking their brains but unable to think of a way to escape this disaster, and could only huddle together, hoping to hold out for as long as possible.

"I don't want to watch the Silver-winged Demon Wolves tear me apart and eat me piece by piece. I've heard... Silver-winged Demon Wolves don't eat dead meat." A Gao family practitioner, with a heart full of despair, raised the sharp blade in his hand, his eyes numb, ready to slit his throat to avoid the fate of being eaten alive.

"Wait a moment before you die." Qin Lie suddenly called out sternly.

In the midst of everyone's fear, despair, confusion, and surprise, he moved to the front of the defensive formation, facing the charging pack of Silver-winged Demon Wolves, and took out the wooden statue given to him by his grandfather, raising it high.

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