Chapter Twenty-Five: The Qi Condenses

  "Awesome!"

  Lu Fan burst out laughing, his arm slightly numb, but this punch was indeed a thrilling and refreshing one.

  The fallen Rockshell Turtle was still struggling, with dark blood flowing from the broken horn. Not far away, other Rockshell Turtles let out a mournful cry, as if they had smelled the fresh blood of their companion and were rushing over from all directions.

  Lu Fan hastily put away the rock armor tortoise's horn and immediately pulled out the dragon saliva flower, jumping onto a tree.

  Wu Chen looked at Lu Fan's panting appearance and smiled: "Feeling pretty good, huh?"

  Lu Fan nodded and said: "It feels great, but it's a bit too energy-consuming."

  Wu Chen said, "That's because you lack practice, but these are minor issues. Your petty destruction fist hasn't grasped the essence, yet it has become well-integrated, and with one try, it can succeed, which is a rare opportunity. In the future, diligently practice and blend in some other boxing techniques, I estimate that you will become a master of a generation."

  "Maybe," Lu Fan smiled and said.

  Below, the rest of the rock turtles have arrived, all wandering under the trees.

  Lu Fan hid carefully, facing the Rockshell Dragon Turtles. He could only deal with them one by one now. If he faced several at once, he estimated that the Rockshell Dragon Turtles would use their Thunderous Force together and he would be severely injured on the spot.

  Fortunately, these rock-shelled turtles are not very intelligent. After strolling around under the tree and failing to find the culprit, they dragged away the struggling broken-horned turtle.

  Lu Fan leaped from one tree to another with the speed of a monkey.

  After arriving one mile away, he inserted the dragon's saliva flower into the ground again. He wanted to lure a rock-armored dragon turtle over, as long as there was a fall, it was his time to fight.

  Obviously, his decision was correct. This time, a rock turtle ran over first, and the other turtles seemed unwilling to give up on the departure of the broken horned turtle, and there was no movement.

  The turtle with a rock-like shell below is alone, and Lu Fan jumps down from the tree again.

  His arm swung vigorously and Lu Fan struck out with another punch.

  Doomsday Crumbling Mountain Fist!

  。。。。。。

  The next day, all the Rockshell Turtles were killed by Lu Fan and their bodies piled up by the lake.

  There is a smell of rock armor dragon turtle, ordinary wild beasts dare not approach, lest they disturb Lu Fan's cultivation.

  Lu Fan's body was also injured, and the last rock-armored dragon turtle's desperate counterattack left Lu Fan suffering a terrible electric shock.

  Fortunately, he reacted quickly and broke off its horn, otherwise the injury would have been more severe.

  Lu Fan's right hand was bleeding, his left face was charred black, and he walked step by step into the Blood Moon Lake.

  This injury is nothing to him. However, the moment he entered Blood Moon Lake, Lu Fan exclaimed in surprise: "What a dense power."

  Visible to the naked eye, strands of blood-colored energy surged into his body from the pores on the soles of his feet.

  This power is slow and icy cold, but wherever it passes through the meridians, they all become tough and resilient, and the flesh also rapidly strengthens.

  Wu Chen stood on the shore, watching Lu Fan enter the lake. At this time, Wu Chen seemed a bit tense, because if he hadn't miscalculated, next, in this Blood Moon Lake, Lu Fan would face the most difficult test, and whether his lifelong efforts could be realized on Lu Fan's body depended on this one gamble.

  Walking into the depths of the lake, Lu Fan's body was already submerged in the water.

  Holding his breath, closing his eyes, Lu Fan released all the Qi from his Dantian. With these Qi drawing in the power of heaven and earth, Lu Fan could breathe as if he were on land.

  In the depths of the lake, a crimson energy flowed into his body like water.

  Lu Fan hugged Yuan Yi tightly, his consciousness slowly sinking down.

  The five elements return to one, the mind enters inner vision, and fetal breathing does not cease.

  Lu Fan himself slowly sank down, and when he was only about three inches away from the bottom of the lake, Lu Fan's body came to a stop.

  The dark lake bottom, only Lu Fan's body had a blood color that kept shining brightly.

  At this point, the blood-colored energy surged again, and Lu Fan's body was like a vortex, gathering and absorbing all the blood-colored energy. The four-color airflow in his dantian also slowly gave birth to a fifth color.

  The intense energy circulating on the surface of his body was expanding rapidly, as if it would burst out at any moment.

  Lu Fan's strength was increasing bit by bit in the lake water. Although the surface of the entire lake was calm, beneath it was already surging with hidden currents.

  Wu Chen sat down by the shore, quietly waiting for Lu Fan's release from prison.

  The days and months change, the Dipper shifts and the stars move.

  It's been exactly one month now.

  A month's time had already made the corpse of the lake-side rock turtle stink. Helpless, Wu Chen could only dispose of the body and then took on the role of a guard himself.

  Within a month, five wild beasts approached, all of which were driven away by Wu Chen. With Wu Chen's strength, dealing with these small wild beasts was easy and effortless, only he couldn't use too much force, or it would shorten his lifespan.

  That day, Wu Chen still sat by the lake, breathing in and out the energy of heaven and earth.

  Lu Fan had been in the Blood Moon Lake for so long that Wu Chen was getting a little worried. If not for his Qi mechanism being able to sense that Lu Fan was unharmed at the bottom of the lake, Wu Chen would have rescued him already.

  Lu Fan's current calm and collected demeanor made Wu Chen suspect that Lu Fan had gone off the rails with his cultivation.

  Just as Wu Chen was suspicious, Blood Moon Lake began to change.

  The originally blood-colored lake water suddenly began to change color, the dense blood color quickly receded, and the lake water rapidly became clear from the edge.

  Right next to it, a whirlpool appeared in the center of the lake. The keen Wu Chen could still feel the changes in the power of heaven and earth, all surging towards the bottom of the lake.

  This is an omen of going out!

  Wu Chen suddenly stood up, his eyes fixed tightly on Lu Fan at the bottom of the lake.

  At this time, Lu Fan also woke up and with a slight movement, the power inside his body surged out violently.

  First, the powerful aura transformed into a thick white mist that enveloped him, and then the colorful energy in his dantian also burst out of his body.

  Two forces collided, and in an instant, Lu Fan felt his body injured.

  These two completely different forces are like water and fire, incompatible. During the Refining Body stage, the two forces did not come into contact with each other and coexisted peacefully. But at this moment, both forces have reached the point of taking shape, and the Primordial Qi and the Luanjin are vying for dominance, disregarding Lu Fan's body and starting to fight on their own.

  Countless explosions sounded from the bottom of the lake, and Wu Chen also heard this sound. In an instant, Wu Chen knew that Lu Fan was experiencing the most critical moment.

  "Wu Chen shouted loudly: 'Contain all things, refine the spirit without bounds!'"

  The sound was like thunder rumbling, passing through the lake water into Yang Tian's ears.

  The deafening sound made Lu Fan's eyes light up, and he immediately activated the Wuji Lian Shen Gong Fa. His heart was divided into two uses, under his strong control, a strand of Gang Jing and a strand of Yuan Qi intertwined like a vortex.

  This whirlpool expanded rapidly, and Lu Fan had to accelerate the rotation of the whirlpool while also preventing the ratio of Gang Qi and Yuan Qi from becoming unbalanced.

  Each strand of yuanqi absorbed into the vortex must be matched with an equal amount of gangjing, and the two forces slowly converge from the surface of the body through the meridians back to the dantian.

  As Lu Fan's body changed, the entire lake began to rotate.

  Wu Xuan stepped into thin air and tread on emptiness, arriving above the whirlpool of lake water.

  Looking down with concentration, one can clearly see Lu Fan sitting at the center of the whirlpool.

  At this time, Lu Fan's hair was blown by an invisible wind, and small air currents began to appear around his body.

  A milky white aura and a five-colored yuanqi intertwined, dazzling to the extreme. Lu Fang's dantian and meridians all began to fill with small whirlpools. Especially the whirlpool inside his dantian was even more resplendent, overflowing with beauty.

  When the last strand of aura and yuanqi were transformed into a whirlpool, Lu Fan felt that the whirlpool was somewhat out of control.

  The terrifying vortex had his dantian on the verge of collapse, and his meridians and bones let out a mournful cry that they could no longer bear the weight.

  The powerful absorption force is like a whale swallowing a cow, frantically devouring the surrounding powers, not only the blood energy of the lake water, but also the heavenly power around it.

  Wu Chen thought it was almost done, so he let him help Lu Fan complete this last step.

  With a flick of his wrist, Wu Chen's fingertips shot out a strand of aura.

  The aura directly entered his body from Lu Fan's Tianling cover and came to his Dantian.

  As this strand of aura entered the dantian, the whirlpool suddenly slowed down.

  Lu Fan was already overwhelmed and on the verge of collapse, but this sudden pause gave him a thread of opportunity.

  In an instant, Lu Fan concentrated his attention and exerted all his strength to compress the vortex. That strand of aura entered the vortex and then spread like a spark, causing all the vortices to quickly take shape and finally transform into white gas burning like flames.

  The aura of Lu Fan finally took shape at this moment.

  Boom!

  A milky white flame-like airflow burst out from Lu Fan's body, and the surrounding lake water was instantly pushed back three feet, revealing the bottom of the lake.

  Lu Fan could feel the power surging between heaven and earth, and he could also feel his own body filled with power.

  Everything became so clear and distinct, he seemed to see the flow of wind, the texture of water.

  This feeling of penetrating heaven and earth only lasted for a moment, and then everything returned to normal. Lu Fan stomped his foot heavily, and the aura rushed to the bottom of the lake, leaping up in an instant.

  Wu Chen and Lu Fan almost simultaneously fell on the shore, and the lake water suddenly exploded at this time, with the water rushing straight into the sky.

  Lu Fan looked at the rising aura on his body and burst out laughing.

  Wu Chen also had a relieved expression and said: "Lu Fan, congratulations, you succeeded."

  Lu Fan nodded excitedly and immediately turned around to kneel down in front of Wu Chen.

  "Thank you, Master!"

  Wu Chen's hand pressed on Lu Fan's head, gazing up at the sky, murmuring.

  "One faction's foundation is established, dual cultivation method is accomplished. My heart is in harmony with Heaven's heart, this life is not in vain!"