I Can Strengthen Infinitely-Chapter 123 - 103: First Layer of the Internal Power Realm

Chapter 123: Chapter 103: First Layer of the Internal Power Realm

Buzz!

Two pure pills entered his stomach, and his Dantian was pushed to its limit.

Qin Yuesheng sat cross-legged on the ground, desperately running the Profound Celestial Scripture, fully mobilizing his Inner Strength to strike the Youjing Acupoint, determined to break this barrier on the spot.

Wisps of white smoke drifted from Qin Yuesheng’s Youjing Acupoint at his back, making the area billow with smoke, like someone vigorously evaporating dry ice.

Qin Yuesheng was drenched in sweat as his Youjing Acupoint was continually bombarded by Inner Strength, causing a buildup of heat inside him. This heat grew more intense, unable to be released, making his body feel like it was on fire and as if ants were gnawing at him, an unspeakable discomfort.

The Youjing Acupoint became increasingly thin and weak.

Finally, with a bang, Qin Yuesheng completely penetrated it.

The long-accumulated heat instantly surged out of the Youjing Acupoint, spewing onto the ground behind Qin Yuesheng with a ’zzz’ sound.

He officially stepped into the First Layer of the Internal Power Realm!

Qin Yuesheng exhaled a turbid breath, the air rushing out for a length of one zhang, forming a sword-like shape.

At this moment, cultivating the Profound Celestial Scripture again, his Youjing Acupoint resembled a famished gluttonous beast, frantically helping Qin Yuesheng absorb the Spiritual Qi of the world, its intake speed nearly three times faster than before the breakthrough.

The effect was overwhelmingly terrifying.

Qin Yuesheng hurriedly accessed the skill panel of the super auxiliary tool.

Profound Celestial Scripture (Second Layer) (0/1600)

[Inner Strength is pure, invulnerable to all poisons]

Qin Yuesheng had already refilled the All-Purpose Essence needed to enhance the first layer, so when he broke through the Youjing Acupoint, the Profound Celestial Scripture automatically advanced to the second layer.

This substantial new Inner Strength accumulated in Qin Yuesheng’s Dantian, and he could clearly feel that his Inner Strength was now far more pure and substantial than before.

He struck with a palm, releasing Inner Strength.

Bam!

Instantly, a clear palm print appeared on the surface of the great cauldron.

Qin Yuesheng estimated that at this level of Inner Strength, he had already surpassed Bai Hao. Although both were at the First Layer of the Internal Power Realm, there was a significant gap in the grade of Internal Cultivation Methods, as the Profound Celestial Scripture was a high-grade method.

Before Qin Yuesheng could conduct further tests, a shout full of anger sounded suddenly from outside the hall.

"Corpse Bird! What’s wrong with my Inner Core? You worthless thing."

Qin Yuesheng looked out from behind the great cauldron and saw a tall monk walk in from outside the door.

He was at least nine feet tall, with a burly figure, dressed in a gray-brown monk’s robe, wearing a broad-brimmed straw hat, and holding a monk’s staff, walking straight in and exerting immense pressure.

The hat was so large that it covered his face completely, so Qin Yuesheng could not see what he looked like.

"Corpse Bird!" the visitor shouted, his voice echoing throughout the hall, deafening.

"Corpse Bird?" Qin Yuesheng thought in surprise, could this guy be referring to the strange visitor he had just killed?

The straw hat-wearing monk walked up to the great cauldron and, seeing that his Inner Core was gone, roared in anger and lifted the great cauldron from the ground, hurling it far away.

As a result, Qin Yuesheng, hiding behind the cauldron, was naturally exposed.

"Hmm?" The straw hat-wearing monk was taken aback when he saw someone hiding behind the cauldron.

Qin Yuesheng immediately struck with the Great Vajra Palm, hitting the opponent in the abdomen and sending him flying high.

Since this person was related to that strange visitor, he could not be anything good. Best to strike first and beat him half to death to easily extract the information he wanted later.

Bam!

The straw hat-wearing monk landed heavily on the ground, the bamboo hat on his head falling and rolling away, revealing his appearance to Qin Yuesheng.

It was a silver-white snake head!

"Corpse Snake Ghost?" Qin Yuesheng instinctively thought.

"Damn it!" The Corpse Snake punched the ground fiercely, shattering a large chunk of the hall’s floor.

Already furious from losing the Inner Core, now struck by an unexpected attacker, the Corpse Snake was enraged to the extreme.

He picked up the monk’s staff and shook it, then quickly charged at Qin Yuesheng.

At this moment, he only wanted to smash the person before him into mince with one blow.

Qin Yuesheng had just reached the First Layer of the Inner Power Realm and needed an opponent to help test his strength.

Having such a fierce-looking alien as an opponent wasn’t bad at all.

In an instant, Qin Yuesheng’s Inner Strength surged, half enveloping his body for defense, half attaching to the Evil-Subduing Saber to form saber energy, meeting the Corpse Snake head-on without backing down.

Bam!

The Evil-Subduing Saber and the monk’s staff collided heavily, with the Corpse Snake’s strength almost equal to Qin Yuesheng’s. For a moment, neither side had the upper hand, resulting in a stalemate.

Seeing this situation, both Qin Yuesheng and the Corpse Snake were secretly shocked, finding it quite incredible.

Ever since Qin Yuesheng increased his strength to 25.0, he had yet to encounter an opponent who could match him in strength.

The Corpse Snake is a naturally born mutation, his strength far surpasses that of normal humans, needing no further elaboration.

Matched against a worthy opponent, the two exchanged glances, each showing a hint of admiration.

This admiration was not for the opponent, but rather... finally, a real fight!

"Heh!" Qin Yuesheng struck the Corpse Snake’s staff with the Great Vajra Palm. As his opponent’s hand trembled slightly, Qin Yuesheng unleashed the Mountain-Crushing Tyrant Saber in a whirlwind attack, hacking at the Corpse Snake everywhere like a storm.

Blade light like rain, blade power like thunder.

The Corpse Snake reacted swiftly, spinning the staff rapidly in a windmill motion, transforming the staff into a shield to block most of Qin Yuesheng’s strikes.

"Go!" Qin Yuesheng suddenly shouted at his chest.

The Corpse Snake frowned, puzzled by the meaning.

Suddenly, a flesh-colored adhesive substance crawled out from Qin Yuesheng’s chest, quickly adhering to his right arm.

One beautiful face after another appeared on Qin Yuesheng’s right arm, shocking the Corpse Snake: "It was you who destroyed the half-jar!"

Qin Yuesheng was taken aback, how did this guy know about the half-jar?

How did he figure it out? Because of the Soul-Catching Demon?

Suddenly, Qin Yuesheng channeled inner strength frantically into his right arm, the saber energy from the Evil-Subduing Saber surged to half a yard and became solid as ever.

With 35.0 single arm strength in support, Qin Yuesheng slashed down forcefully.

There was nothing fancy about this slash, yet it contained an immense power that could not be underestimated.

Splat!!!

The saber energy instantly hacked through the staff, continuing straight down from the Corpse Snake’s shoulder, splitting this odd visitor into two halves at once.

The odd visitor indeed differed from humans; even though the Corpse Snake’s waist was severed by Qin Yuesheng, he did not show signs of impending death. Instead, he supported himself with his arms, planning to use their strength to escape the temple.

However, how could Qin Yuesheng let him escape? Not only did he have information Qin Yuesheng needed, but being an enemy to the populace, allowing him to live was a calamity.

This was evident from the previous cauldron of innocent infant corpses.

Swoosh!

From the severed waist of the Corpse Snake grew a tender snake tail without skin, using its strength to accelerate his escape.

But what he likely never anticipated was that strength wasn’t Qin Yuesheng’s current forte.

Thanks to the 45.0 agility, Qin Yuesheng’s strengths now lay in speed...

Swish!

In just a blink, though the Corpse Snake hadn’t escaped the temple yet, he found a mysterious figure suddenly appearing before him.

"Stop running, what’s the point of all this fuss?" Qin Yuesheng slammed the Corpse Snake’s head to the ground with a palm, his arm felt like a ’giant boulder of ten thousand pounds’, suppressing the Corpse Snake with no room for resistance.

Though the Corpse Snake was extremely fierce and unwilling to admit defeat, but suddenly spewed out a large amount of poisonous green mist, clearly containing lethal toxins.

Qin Yuesheng urged his inner power, instantly evaporating all the green mist around him.

"What?!" Corpse Snake was flabbergasted; this poisonous mist was one of his killers, once allowing him to counter many Human Race experts of the Inner Power Realm, why was it ineffective now?

The Profound Celestial Scripture, trained to the second level, granted an effect called ’Immunity to All Poisons’. As long as Qin Yuesheng’s inner strength protected him, no poison could harm him.

This was something the Corpse Snake likely never fathomed.

"I ask you, how many of your kind are still hidden within Cold Mountain Temple?" Qin Yuesheng pressed a saber against Corpse Snake’s throat and asked.

The Corpse Snake neither could fight against Qin Yuesheng, nor his poison worked, leaving him helpless, he could only honestly answer Qin Yuesheng’s question.

"A total of five."

His answer was similar to the Corpse Bird’s, but what puzzled Qin Yuesheng was that clearly from Spirit Fox’s sight, there were over a dozen dark auras seen, why were there only five odd visitors within the temple? What were the other dark auras emanating from?

"I ask you, do you know anyone named Qin Feng? He came to Cold Mountain Temple some days ago."

"Qin Feng... is he the Patriarch of the Qin family in Cyan Yang City?"

Qin Yuesheng felt a moment of joy, but maintained a poker face to prevent the Corpse Snake from detecting anything: "Did you do something to him?"

"I’m not sure about that, I only heard the name from the Corpse Ox, some days back he seemed to have sent a Wild Ghost to follow this Qin Feng."

Qin Yuesheng nodded secretly, this was exactly the information he sought.

"Is that Corpse Ox also in Cold Mountain Temple?"

"Yes, yes indeed." The Corpse Snake answered Qin Yuesheng’s question without hiding anything, cooperating so well that Qin Yuesheng felt this guy might be a rare talent who knows what’s best for himself.

Yet what Qin Yuesheng did not expect was that in the next two breaths, the Corpse Snake’s entire body shrank suddenly, executing a ’Golden Cicada Sheds its Shell’ maneuver, slipping out from under Qin Yuesheng’s hands.

The Corpse Snake, now bloodied and smaller in size, crawled swiftly towards the exit, and what remained under Qin Yuesheng’s hand was a shell-less discarded skin.

"Quite cunning indeed." Qin Yuesheng got up, reached out, and cast the Evil-Subduing Saber outward.