Immortality Begins with Breathing Exercises-Chapter 341 - 145: Genius and Cross-Level Combat

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After finishing the roast meat, Lin Zheyu left Xiaohei in the deep mountains and returned alone.

Departing from Wuling City, he traveled with Xiaohei into the depths of the mountains, not knowing how far they had gone.

People were scarcely seen around, only the shadows of fierce beasts.

Occasionally, however, he would encounter some martial artists training alone.

Lin Zheyu merely glanced at them from afar and didn’t go over to greet them, instead passing them by.

Whoosh—

A giant python with red and yellow stripes, as thick as a water barrel, suddenly sprang out from the forest.

The python opened its gaping maw and lunged at Lin Zheyu, seemingly intent on swallowing him whole.

Its two massive eyes, like lightbulbs, were filled with coldness.

Suddenly, a trace of fear flashed within those cold eyes.

Before him, Lin Zheyu, who appeared ordinary and emitted no strong aura, suddenly unleashed a terrifying presence.

Bang!!

Hiss—

A tremendous roar erupted.

Lin Zheyu took a step forward, his Qi Blood surged, muscles bulged on his arms, and his fist landed on the python’s head with the force of ten thousand pounds.

The python screamed, swinging its body in panic, trying to retreat.

But it was too late.

The massive fist crashed down with a crack, penetrating into the python’s skull.

Bang bang bang—

The python’s head lost consciousness, yet its body continued to leap and twist, wildly swinging its large snake form across the surroundings.

Lin Zheyu made a light jump and quickly disappeared from the spot.

"After Qi Blood transformed more than six times, the powerful refined Qi Blood has a significantly clear tempering effect on the physique."

"Even without using Qi Blood strength, relying solely on physical strength doesn’t lose out to the power during Qi Blood Four Transformations."

Lin Zheyu couldn’t help but sigh.

He had just killed that giant python without using any Qi Blood power, relying purely on physical strength.

Previously, when he cultivated the Hundred Refinements Treasure Canon to perfection, his physical strength had risen to a level comparable to Qi Blood Two Transformations. 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

Now, after the tempering of Qi Blood strength post Qi Blood Six Transformations, his strength and defense have improved again.

His strength has not only reached the level comparable to Qi Blood Four Transformations, but even his physical defense has seen a substantial boost.

Lin Zheyu felt his physical defense was now nothing less than that of the terrifying Bone Marrow Refining Realm fierce beast outside Bafang City back then.

This was extremely astonishing.

One must know he is a human martial artist, and only a human martial artist of the Qi Blood Realm, not even a Bone Marrow Cultivation Realm.

"I wonder how my current defense compares to that corpse from Dabashan back then, which was famed for being like copper skin and iron bone."

Lin Zheyu pondered secretly.

When he encountered the corpse back then, his strength wasn’t very high, and even a full-force attack on it left the corpse unharmed.

Though the corpse claimed to have copper skin and iron bone, Lin Zheyu believed its defense also had limits.

To weaker martial artists, Lin Zheyu now was equivalent to copper skin and iron bone.

Even if he stood still without resistance, letting a martial artist of Qi Blood Four Transformations attack, their full-force strike wouldn’t be able to break his defense.

Having killed the python, Lin Zheyu continued to swiftly move through the forest.

This time, he had ventured far from Wuling City, and even at full speed, it would take almost two days to return to Celestial Blade Peak.

The blade intent on Celestial Blade Peak appears every year in mid-June, lasting for nearly a month.

Going back now, he could still experience that legendary blade intent personally, as terrifying as divine might.

If he could comprehend something from it, that would be even better.

Time passed slowly.

Night fell.

Lin Zheyu found a place to rest.

After a day of travel, he didn’t feel much fatigue.

The enduring power of the physique is far unmatched by Qi Blood.

Lin Zheyu relied on physical strength to rush all day, barely feeling tired.

After physical exertion, the immense Qi Blood power could quickly recover and replenish the consumed physical strength.

Before the Qi Blood power is exhausted, his physique could remain in peak condition.

This monstrous endurance is the strength of martial artists in the Bone Marrow Cultivation Realm.

The Qi Blood Realm is merely the stage for laying foundations and consolidating the base.

Once promoted to the Bone Marrow Cultivation Realm, strength will greatly increase, compensating for the high attack but low defense shortcomings.

By integrating the Martial Dao into the marrow, the martial artist’s body undergoes a transformation, rapidly enhancing the physique, and quickly increasing physical strength and defense.

The substantial increase in pure physical strength and defense allows martial artists unable to continue enhancing Qi Blood to experience a resurgence in growth in strength.

According to Lin Zheyu’s knowledge, a martial artist in the Bone Marrow Cultivation Realm’s pure physical strength is much stronger than their overall strength before advancing.

With the combination of Qi Blood energy, their overall strength is far beyond that of Qi Blood Realm martial artists.

Even if Qi Blood Realm martial artists rely on some bursting martial skill or similar to Blood Boiling Secret Skill to instantly boost strength.

Facing Bone Marrow Cultivation Realm martial artists, they have no advantage.

Martial artists in the Bone Marrow Cultivation Realm possess extremely formidable physiques, with not just strength, but defenses also being incredibly terrifying.

Ordinary Qi Blood Realm martial artists, even using bursting martial skill, find it difficult to kill Bone Marrow Cultivation Realm martial artists in a short time.

Moreover, after using bursting martial skill, they couldn’t sustain it for long.

Unless they explode with power far beyond their own strength to instantly kill Bone Marrow Cultivation Realm martial artists.

Lin Zheyu had done just that before.

After stacking various amplifications, although his strength was incredibly mighty, his endurance was lacking.

Thus he could only burst forth with the strongest power to kill the opponent instantly; if failed, he would immediately turn away and escape.

But wanting to one-shot a Bone Marrow Cultivation Realm martial artist is very difficult.

Ordinary martial artists can hardly achieve it.