Chapter 95

Lying on Liu Long's back, Li Hao was still savoring the experience.

Upon advancing to the Doushan stage, the most noticeable feeling was that the momentum followed his will.

That was divine will!

Momentum and divine will were actually the same concept.

During the Po Bai stage, it was only called momentum, but at the Doushan stage, people like Yuan Shuo preferred to call it divine will.

Momentum was like a deity, and when the will moved, the deity moved.

Before this, when Li Hao activated the Earth momentum, he always liked to stomp his feet. It wasn't that he enjoyed it, but stomping helped him better connect with the Earth momentum.

When he wielded his sword, he always liked to recall the sword strike he had seen that day, because recalling it helped him activate the sword momentum.

All of this required some time.

Of course, this time was very brief.

Under normal circumstances, it didn't really delay anything.

However, if the enemy knew him, they might interrupt him the moment he stomped his feet.

After advancing to the Doushan stage, Li Hao found that he no longer needed to do that.

With a single thought, the momentum would arise.

That was divine will!

Not only that, Li Hao had many other feelings and discoveries at this moment.

After advancing to the Doushan stage, it seemed that the bottleneck had been broken. Previously, the limit was when his internal energy was full, but now, the limit was broken, and his body began to produce internal energy again.

Li Hao could even feel some restraints within his body, known as super energy locks.

These super energy locks vaguely sealed many parts of his body.

The divine will was still slowly transforming.

Li Hao closed his eyes and silently experienced it.

Liu Long carried him, carefully avoiding some super energy users, moving cautiously. From where they had fought, they could faintly hear some commotion, the sounds of battle.

They were probably fighting over the mysterious energy left by that shadowy strong person.

Neither Liu Long nor Li Hao had taken it, to buy some time. As it turned out, seeing hundreds of units of mysterious energy in front of them... no one would ignore it, and no one would continue to chase the enemy in the darkness.

Who would give up free mysterious energy?

The strong people who rushed over were likely already attacking, engaged in fierce battles.

Such battles were not uncommon on the streets of the outer city.

By the time they regrouped at the inner city gate, it was unknown how many people would still be alive.

They ran all the way to the edge of the square, and Liu Long did not approach the square, stopping at the edge. Fewer people would come here because a battle here would easily be noticed by those guarding outside.

"How is it now?"

Liu Long asked softly, wondering if the injuries were that serious.

He had been skeptical before, but now he wondered if Li Hao was really that badly injured.

Doushan martial artists had strong recovery abilities.

Li Hao didn't speak, silently experiencing the strength of his five organs.

Among the five organs, the heart was slightly stronger. With the mysterious energy given by his teacher, the heart had absorbed about 500 units of fire energy.

Next were the spleen and kidneys, absorbing earth and water energy. Because he had killed the earth-type Li Dahu and the Wheel King had given him 150 units of water energy, they had absorbed about 400 units in total.

The liver and lungs, corresponding to wood and metal energy, had absorbed less, about 300 units of mysterious energy.

Just the five organs, Li Hao had consumed about 1800 units of mysterious energy.

In addition, he had absorbed some wind and lightning energy, as well as some non-elemental mysterious energy, totaling over 2000 units.

This was a terrifying number!

Even for the three major organizations and the Night Patrol, 2000 units were not too difficult to obtain, but giving it to one person was almost impossible.

Of course, if they could guarantee a rapid advancement to the Doushan stage... the major organizations would have no objections.

Creating a Doushan martial artist with 2000 units of energy... no one would have any objections.

"Balance can never be maintained, fire energy is the strongest..."

There were more fire-type cultivators, and Li Hao had no choice. The super energy he encountered was often fire-type, such as Qiao Feilong of the Three Suns and his several Solar subordinates, most of whom were fire-type.

There were also Hao Lianchuan and Sun Yifei, both fire-type.

Li Hao opened his eyes and looked at Liu Long: "Boss, the 200 units of mysterious energy given by Yama, how much is metal and wood?"

After Liu Long returned, Li Hao had given him these.

The other party had given three types of mysterious energy, metal, wood, and earth, but not water and fire, which was peculiar.

Liu Long had seen it before, but it wasn't very precise. He could only make a rough judgment and said, "About 100 units of metal, a bit less for wood, around 40 units, and about 60 units of earth."

Metal was the most, possibly because he had picked up the remains of a metal-type Solar.

"Boss, lend me 200 units, I'll pay you back later..."

Liu Long didn't need a balanced five organs at the moment. He was currently nurturing his kidneys, and Li Hao hoped to borrow, especially the metal type. Now, his metal and earth types were not balanced, which also meant his sword momentum and earth momentum were not balanced.

If he got these 100 units, both metal and earth types would have absorbed about 400 units of mysterious energy, achieving a rough balance.

Li Hao was different from Yuan Shuo.

Yuan Shuo had balanced five momentums, so reinforcing all of them or one divine will wouldn't be a big problem. Li Hao, however, might need to reinforce two momentums simultaneously.

Liu Long didn't say anything, directly throwing a few bones to Li Hao.

Li Hao glanced at the distance, the entire outer city was still shrouded in darkness. He had no interest in participating at the moment, he needed to reinforce his five organs first.

After absorbing this mysterious energy, his sword energy might be completely depleted.

Next, he could only rely on gradual nurturing.

Or... get some Blood God Seeds. Blood God Seeds were actually quite effective, with an overall reinforcing effect. Although they weren't as targeted as the five elements, they could be quickly digested without sword energy.

The small sword at his waist emitted a faint glow, extremely weak.

Li Hao began absorbing again.

Just after advancing to the Doushan stage, his endurance was stronger, and his digestion speed was faster.

His body was stronger, and his load was higher.

Previously, when he absorbed mysterious energy, he always felt full. This time, he quickly swallowed dozens of units of metal energy but didn't feel much.

His lungs were also reinforced.

It took about half an hour for Li Hao to consume all the metal energy.

He began absorbing wood energy, temporarily not absorbing earth energy, as it would break the brief balance.

After absorbing less than 10 units...

Li Hao opened his eyes, a hint of disappointment in them.

Sword energy... gone!

Although he had known it would be depleted soon, the sudden loss still made him feel a bit down.

He could quickly advance to the Doushan stage largely due to sword energy. Without it, Li Hao wouldn't have been able to reach this point so quickly.

Now, his sword energy was depleted.

As for the stone door relic from last time, it could replenish, but... the dispersion rate wasn't fast. Last time, he could absorb so much because of the long-term accumulation.

It had only been a few days since Li Hao last absorbed.

And although his teacher said there might be eight stone doors, he had explored Silver City for a few days without finding a second relic. Before he could continue exploring, he went into seclusion to nurture his divine will, and now his teacher was nowhere to be found.

So, Li Hao couldn't find an effective way to replenish.

"Ah!"

He sighed softly, not dwelling on it.

It was still good enough!

At this moment, his lungs and spleen had absorbed about 400 units of energy, and his kidneys were almost the same.

These three organs had achieved a small balance.

The wood energy was slightly less, and the fire energy was slightly more, but the impact wasn't significant.

Li Hao began to consider... whether to nurture his divine will now?

First, nurture the sword momentum and earth momentum, and see if the other three organs could handle it.

Nurturing divine will was a process. During this process, divine will could still be used, but it was easy to break the balance, putting a heavy load on the five organs.

His teacher had absorbed over a thousand units of fire energy to successfully nurture the Heart Fire Ape.

Li Hao didn't expect immediate success, but the nurturing process would also strengthen the momentum.

"Teacher's heart is strong, the other organs are not as strong as mine... In this situation, Teacher still dared to forcefully nurture the Tiger momentum, even directly breaking through the Tiger momentum... My five organs, in general, are not weaker than Teacher's!"

Thinking of this, he looked at Liu Long: "Boss, watch over me for a while. I'll cultivate. If anything abnormal happens, don't interfere unless I say so."

Liu Long frowned slightly but nodded.

A moment later, Li Hao closed his eyes again.

This time, he began trying to integrate the earth momentum into his spleen. The earth's inclusiveness might make it simpler.

Will follows the heart!

When Li Hao had this thought, a wave of earth momentum appeared in his spleen. Yuan Shuo's Five Animal Momentum manifested as five beasts, Liu Long's Nine Forged Sea Wave Momentum manifested as sea waves.

And Li Hao's earth momentum manifested as a mountain.

A mountain could not represent the earth.

It could only be said that Li Hao's current focus was on this, a type of earth, not the entire earth. He couldn't manifest the vast earth momentum unless he reached a higher level.

A mountain instantly entered his spleen.

Boom!

A loud sound, only heard by Li Hao, a huge pressure instantly erupted in his spleen, causing it to vibrate and even bleed.

Li Hao's face turned pale!

However, with Yuan Shuo's guidance and experience, Li Hao knew how to handle it. This was the benefit of having a good teacher. At this moment, he was not panicked.

In his spleen, Li Hao observed with his divine will. After a moment, he seemed to notice something.

With a thought, the huge mountain directly collided with a chain in the spleen, the super energy lock!

Subdue the earth momentum!

Just like when Yuan Shuo subdued the Heart Fire Ape, his heart was not strong enough to subdue the Heart Fire Ape. In the end, the super energy lock helped, and Yuan Shuo together subdued the Heart Fire Ape, locking it with an iron chain.

And now, Li Hao had to do the same, using the power of the super energy lock to lock the mountain.

The prerequisite was that your super energy lock had to be stronger than your momentum!

If the super energy lock was weaker than the momentum, the mountain would break the lock, either killing him or advancing to the super energy stage... In the past, martial artists desired to advance to the super energy stage, but now, Li Hao was unwilling.

Even if he became stronger after advancing to the super energy stage... it wasn't his path.

Rustle!

A chain sound faintly echoed in his ears. In his spleen, a thick chain quickly locked onto the mountain. Although the mountain was not as restless as the Heart Fire Ape, it still vibrated violently!

Each vibration made Li Hao extremely uncomfortable, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth.

The other four organs also vibrated simultaneously.

No wonder the teacher said the other organs also needed to be strong; otherwise, there was a risk of the four organs bursting.

The teacher spent a week to finally subdue the Heart Fire Ape... of course, the teacher's subjugation was different from Li Hao's. Li Hao was temporarily locking and nurturing the momentum, while the teacher could break through the momentum.

Moreover, it was the teacher's first attempt, and most of the time was spent reinforcing the heart.

Li Hao reinforced his five organs in daily life.

At this moment, it was the final stage, locking the momentum!

...

Beside him, Liu Long watched silently.

He seemed to understand something.

As a Doushan, he roughly knew what Li Hao was doing, nurturing divine will!

Just after advancing to the Doushan stage, Li Hao began nurturing divine will... He remembered Yuan Shuo's words, reinforcing the kidneys and the five organs.

Li Hao's five organs were clearly already very strong.

So... when this grandson said his internal organs were injured... it was all nonsense.

This kid was very cunning!

But Liu Long didn't care about this. He watched silently, and watching was also a form of cultivation. Li Hao was letting him protect him while nurturing divine will, clearly not hiding anything.

"Nurturing divine will, momentum enters the five organs, faintly hearing chain sounds... and the Heart Fire Ape also has chains..."

Chains...

He thought of something, super energy locks!

"Super energy locks, locking the momentum into the five organs? Is the earth momentum bursting into the spleen now?"

He observed carefully, and indeed, Li Hao's spleen was bleeding, even seeping out.

How strong were Li Hao's five organs?

He didn't know, but he knew they were much stronger than his. Yet, Li Hao couldn't withstand it, his face turning pale, and he couldn't subdue the earth momentum.

"So... my five organs probably can't withstand it!"

Liu Long frowned, which was very troublesome.

But nurturing the five organs was a long process.

"Should I use Blood God Seeds to reinforce everything, or..."

He looked at Li Hao and quickly shook his head.

Li Hao was clearly not at the peak of reinforcement.

He guessed something. Li Hao could quickly reinforce his five organs, partly due to the sword in his hand. But when Li Hao absorbed wood energy, he gave up after a while, indicating he had hit a bottleneck.

The help from the sword... seemed to be gone.

Otherwise, the injured Li Hao could quickly absorb the energy, just like when they sparred, and he would have quickly recovered. But Li Hao didn't.

"So, this kid, without that special energy, had no choice but to nurture divine will now. Otherwise, he would wait until he could fully withstand it before nurturing divine will!"

Liu Long had been a captain for many years and could understand basic logic.

Yuan Shuo said he was stupid... that was Yuan Shuo being arrogant.

Who would dare say Liu Long's mind wasn't sharp?

In a short moment, he deduced many things, including that Li Hao's special energy was almost depleted, which he also noticed. So, he felt a bit regretful at this moment.

Gone!

In that case, any injuries or healing in the future would be very troublesome!

"Puff!"

As he thought, Li Hao spat out a mouthful of fresh blood. Liu Long was about to move, but remembering Li Hao's words, he stopped unless Li Hao spoke. He also stopped the worried Liu Yan, shaking his head.

At this moment, Li Hao was battling the mountain.

Suppressing!

The chain was hard to lock, the huge mountain continuously vibrating. Each vibration made Li Hao feel... if it continued, I'm afraid my super energy lock would be broken.

"Teacher said... once the chain appears, suppression would be much easier... is my super energy lock not strong enough?"

Li Hao thought, he was too hasty.

But, there was no choice.

Without sword energy, if he didn't lock the momentum now