noveltune Chapter 71 Inner Breath Snake
Chapter 71 Inner Breath Snake
"Father, with Zhao An's abilities, how could he be a match for my elder brother? Perhaps my elder brother has never met Zhao An before. After finishing his business, he was probably in a hurry to go to the military camp," Hu Dingwen said, getting up to comfort him.
He refused to believe that Zhao An could defeat his elder brother who came from the prefectural city.
Being first in the county-level martial arts examination does not mean you are invincible.
"Yes, yes, yes, these past few days Captain Cao has been leading troops out of the city to search for the whereabouts of the Moon Clan army. Young Master must be anxious to report to the authorities as well," the old steward chimed in.
"You, go to the military camp right now and find out! Has Tian'er returned or not!" Hu Chongguang said impatiently.
The old butler immediately ran out.
Hu Chongguang sat on the bench, rubbed his temples, and felt his heart sink to the bottom.
He knew perfectly well that, based on his understanding of Hu Dingtian, even if he was anxious, he would definitely send someone back to report that everything was alright after the deed was done.
Now that he has completely disappeared without a trace, reason tells him that Hu Dingtian has most likely met with some misfortune and will not be coming back.
He just couldn't accept this outcome.
The next day.
Zhao An continued as usual, collecting the cultivation results of the Soul Slave and further nurturing and strengthening the inner energy in his Qi Sea.
The training content for martial artists in the Strong Breath Realm is actually quite similar to that in the Dispersed Breath Realm.
After obtaining this stable internal energy, the primary goal is to continue to strengthen it.
Zhao An's internal energy is now only an inch long, like a newborn snake.
With daily practice and the nourishment of medicinal herbs, this inner energy will continue to grow.
From a tiny snake, to a five-inch snake, then to a swirling snake, it eventually transforms into a powerful, turbulent dragon!
By then, his punch could split stone and shatter gold, his palm could break giant trees, and his stomp could crack the ground.
For the same martial art, once it reaches the perfection stage, the ability to further enhance its power depends on the strength of one's internal energy.
The stronger one's internal energy, the stronger one's martial arts moves!
This is common knowledge. Because internal energy cultivation is so important, martial artists often compare the strength of their internal energy and use their internal energy level to measure their strength.
Although Zhao An possessed powerful external martial arts skills, he also placed great importance on the progress of his internal energy cultivation.
In one breath, he directly refined the cultivation results of five soul slaves.
He gave these ordinary soul slaves only one task: to bury themselves in practicing their inner energy.
After drinking several bowls of Red Blood Root Soup, he casually swallowed five Earth Origin Pills as an energy supplement.
Soon, the immense medicinal power extracted from his dantian and dantian was rapidly transformed into wisps of internal energy, continuously merging into the complete internal energy.
The internal energy, which was initially only an inch long, rapidly grew to more than an inch in the time it takes to drink a cup of tea.
The change may not seem too obvious, but his total internal energy has increased by 30% to 40% from the original level!
Even so, Zhao An was still not entirely satisfied.
As his strength and realm increased step by step, the cultivation benefits brought by these ordinary soul slaves also decreased continuously.
Five soul slaves, but each of them has a cultivation period of seven to nine years.
It took nearly forty years of arduous training to achieve this 30-40% increase in internal energy!
While cultivating inner energy is indeed difficult, the low efficiency of the soul slaves is also one of the reasons.
To accelerate the progress of internal energy cultivation, a two-pronged approach is needed, simultaneously consuming the soul slaves of martial artists.
If he hadn't encountered that group of Moon Clan soldiers yesterday, hadn't killed Hu Dingtian, and hadn't met that Fucheng General, he still wouldn't have been so willing to expend his martial arts skills simply to practice his inner energy.
But now, he has a vague sense of urgency.
Putting aside the distant future, if his own strength is insufficient and the matter of killing Hu Dingtian comes to light, how should he deal with it!
"Strength, ah, it's never enough!" Zhao An thought to himself.
He decisively activated the martial arts master soul slave and began cultivating his inner energy in sync with the ordinary soul slave.
Fortunately, during the city defense battle that day, he harvested more than thirty martial arts master soul slaves. Although the consumption increased in the short term, it was enough for a while.
He slammed his palm into an iron stake. Wooden stakes were too brittle for him these days, so he bought an iron stake to practice his punches and kicks.
hum!
The palm strike, imbued with internal energy, slammed heavily against the iron stake with a muffled thud, like a heavy hammer striking the stake, the sound echoing incessantly.
Feeling the enhanced power of his inner energy, Zhao An was somewhat satisfied.
Regardless, this improvement is real. If he were to practice diligently on his own in real life, it's unknown how long it would take him to achieve such results in internal energy cultivation.
Just then, Li Gou'er ran back from outside, covered in sweat.
"Brother Zhao, Doctor Meng from the clinic is back!"
"Yes, I know." Zhao An nodded casually.
"You, you know?" Li Gou'er was taken aback; he was unaware of what had happened in the woods yesterday.
"I originally intended to buy some Refreshing Pills from that Miss Meng, but guess what? The county magistrate from the inner city is actually in that clinic today!"
"Tell me, why would that magistrate, who's perfectly fine, go to that clinic outside the city?"
"Could it be that the magistrate also has some kind of difficult-to-treat illness, and knows that Doctor Meng is highly skilled, so he wants to have a look?" Li Gou'er speculated.
"Don't overthink it. We can go later after the magistrate leaves," Zhao An said.
He roughly understood that the county magistrate's trip was most likely because of the old imperial physician who came from the palace.
Although the rank of imperial physicians was not very high, they were still people who served the emperor and had a special status.
It is reasonable for a magistrate of a remote county like him to personally pay a visit.
Zhao An didn't care too much about this, since these official matters were none of his concern.
As for why that old imperial physician suddenly appeared here, there is probably a deep secret hidden here.
It's fine if Zhao An doesn't know, but if he did know the secrets involved, he would most likely be implicated as well.
Therefore, Zhao An was not that curious about the old imperial physician for the time being.
Right now, all he wants is to improve his strength as quickly as possible, and ideally become invincible as soon as possible!
At that time, he will be the one to decide everything in the world!
Just then, a carriage suddenly stopped in front of the courtyard gate.
The courtyard gate, which Li Gou'er had just closed, was pushed open by brute force.
Hu Chongguang led several of his family's retainers in and strode in.
"What are you doing!" Zhao Chunzi grabbed a rice scoop and a spatula, rushed out of the kitchen, and glared at the group of people without fear, shouting loudly.
One of the guards impatiently raised his hand and shoved Zhao Chunzi away. Such a lowly lackey was not qualified to shout at him.
Seeing this, Zhao An casually threw a soup bowl from the stone table using the throwing knife technique from his knife skills.
Under the force of the powerful blow, the bowl flew extremely fast, just like a real hidden weapon.
Caught off guard, the bowl smashed against the servant's wrist.
The porcelain bowl shattered under the immense force of the impact, and the scattered shards cut the servant's face, nearly blinding him.
"You!" The other guards couldn't stand it any longer and were about to attack.
However, after being glared at by the family head Hu Chongguang, these family guards finally calmed down, only giving Zhao An a fierce warning with their eyes.
Hu Chongguang strode closer to Zhao An, not bothering with beating around the bush, and went straight to the point.
"Zhao An, is my son dead or alive?!"