Martial Arts: After ten years of sword-drawing, the Sword God must bow his head when he sees me

Chapter 164 Sword Intent Tempering Meridians
Green River.

After the small boat successfully passed the stream in the middle of the cliff, the group immediately saw several horse-drawn carriages on the riverbank.

However, what was different was that next to these carriages were several men wearing masks.

After Shen Ping'an and his companions boarded the carriage, one of the men, wearing a mask with blood-red claw marks, stepped forward and bowed, saying, "By order of the Great Dragon Head, I will escort Young Master Shen and his companions to the villa in the city for rest."

Upon hearing this, Shen Ping'an nodded slightly and said, "Thank you for your trouble."

"Of course, please, Young Master Shen."

After Shen Ping'an and his companions boarded the carriage, they also mounted the prepared horses and led the way.

As the carriage began to head towards Shanglin City, Shen Ping'an focused his attention on his body. At this moment, the true energy in his middle and lower dantian had recovered by about half.

By the time we return to Shanglin City, my internal energy should be fully restored.

Thoughts raced through Shen Ping'an's mind, and the events of the battle at Shenjian Manor came to mind.

This is also a habit that Shen Ping'an has developed over the years. After each fight, he will first review the fight in his mind to see if there are any shortcomings.

Even when facing Xie Wangsun and his group in the past, Shen Ping'an only used about 50% of his strength.

The entire battle was a crushing defeat, so how could one gain any insights afterward?

Given Shen Ping'an's current resources, the only way to improve his combat abilities is to fight against experts of similar strength.

But looking across the entire Ming Dynasty, the only person Shen Ping'an could currently consider is Zhang Sanfeng.

For a moment, Shen Ping'an couldn't help but wonder whether he should turn around and head to Wudang.

After a short while, once his thoughts were settled, Shen Ping'an focused his attention on the system's inventory.

Looking at the two brand-new treasure chests in the system's inventory, even Shen Ping'an couldn't help but smile.

As the thought crossed his mind, a thought struck Shen Ping'an.

"System, open the special achievement chest."

A few breaths later, as Shen Ping'an waited, system notifications popped up one after another.

[Ding, congratulations to the host for obtaining ten thousand taels of gold.]

[Ding! Congratulations, host, you have obtained 3 cultivation upgrade cards.]

[Ding! Congratulations, host, you have acquired a special sword intent technique—Sword Intent Tempering Meridians.]

[Ding! Congratulations, host, you have obtained Jade Marrow Spring*1.]

[Ding! Congratulations, host, you have acquired a special secret technique: Spirit Infusion *3.]

[The item has been automatically stored in the system backpack. Please retrieve it yourself.]

As soon as the last message popped up, Shen Ping'an immediately checked his system inventory.

A few breaths later, Shen Ping'an's eyes lit up.

Three cultivation upgrade cards were enough to allow Shen Ping'an's cultivation to advance three minor realms in succession, directly entering the fourth level of the Heavenly Gang Realm.

Sword Intent Meridian Tempering, on the other hand, is the ability to temper one's own meridians with sword intent.

Although it cannot improve one's physical constitution, it can make one's meridians wider and more resilient through the tempering of sword intent.

This allows the flow of true qi to be faster.

The benefits it brings are also permanent.

In addition, the jade marrow spring water that emerges from the jade marrow spring is the most unique type of spring water among hot springs. Soaking in it can not only nourish the meridians and eliminate the influence of true qi on the meridians during daily cultivation, but also enhance the physical strength of martial artists.

Even the ability to infuse spiritual energy into one's mind can be used by Shen Ping'an on Qu Feiyan and Shen Qingshan to improve their proficiency in the "Ethereal Sword Technique" or the "Innate Formless Finger Sword".

"As expected of a special achievement chest, the contents are far more valuable than those of an ordinary achievement chest."

Taking advantage of what he had now, Shen Ping'an changed his mind and opened the ordinary achievement chest he had obtained again.

[Ding, congratulations to the host for obtaining 100 taels of gold.]

[Ding! Congratulations, host, you have obtained the medicine 1-year-old Blood Jade Mushroom.]

[Ding! Congratulations, host, you have obtained 1 bottle of Exquisite Love Beans.]

[Ding! Congratulations, host, you have obtained 1 Bodhi Snake Gallbladder.]

[The items have been automatically stored in the system inventory. Please retrieve them yourself.] Shen Ping'an's eyelids twitched as he looked at what he had obtained from this ordinary treasure chest.

"Well, my luck has run out."

The items found in this treasure chest were mostly ordinary things, not particularly valuable.

Only the exquisite love-longing bean, also known as the Heavenly Fragrance Cardamom, is especially precious.

The problem is, Shen Ping'an already has three bottles of Tianxiang Doukou.

Brewing only consumed two of them.

There are so many that we can't use them all.

At that moment, a thought suddenly popped into Shen Ping'an's mind.

If Zhu Wushi knew that he had three bottles of the Tianxiang Doukou he had been searching for for decades, what would he think?
Suppressing the thought, Shen Ping'an focused his attention back on the system inventory.

After a moment of contemplation, Shen Ping'an's Heaven-Slaying Sword Intent suddenly activated.

Strangely, as the sword intent within Shen Ping'an's body circulated, not a trace of sword intent aura dissipated.

Not only were Yaoyue and Zhang San Niang and the others inside the carriage behind them unaware of the sword intent emanating from Shen Ping'an inside the carriage behind them, but even Qu Feiyan, who was driving the carriage outside, did not notice it.

After shielding his aura with sword intent, Shen Ping'an had a thought.

"System, use three cultivation upgrade cards."

The next instant, streams of vigorous and pure energy surged into Shen Ping'an's body out of thin air.

With the appearance of these energies, Shen Ping'an's true qi rapidly surged out from his middle and upper dantian.

It greedily devoured the energy within its body.

With the support of these energies, the speed at which Shen Ping'an's internal energy circulated increased faster and faster.

Its operating speed has reached almost ten times that of normal operation.

The rapid circulation of true qi would normally exceed the capacity of the meridians, causing them to be damaged.

However, among the energy injected into Shen Ping'an's body by the system, there was some unique energy that made Shen Ping'an's meridians seem to have an extra layer of protection.

Even with the internal energy circulating at such a rapid speed, it still did not cause any damage to his meridians.

Soon, as the amount of true energy in his body continued to increase, it became like a raging flood.

The hidden meridians around Shen Ping'an's dantian, which were originally closed, were like earthen dams built with loess, and were violently broken through by the flood of true qi.

In less than a hundred breaths, a surge of energy had already emerged from Shen Ping'an's body.

In contrast, the fluctuations of true energy within Shen Ping'an's body also jumped from the first level of the Heavenly Gang Realm to the second level.

Despite his breakthrough in cultivation, the pure energy within Shen Ping'an's body did not diminish in the slightest.

It is constantly being devoured and refined by true energy, and then transformed into new true energy.

Before long, another surge of energy propelled Shen Ping'an's cultivation to the third level of the Heavenly Gang Realm.

It wasn't until Shen Ping'an's cultivation reached the fourth level of the Heavenly Gang Realm and his cultivation was completely stabilized that the pure energy in his body was completely consumed.

With successive breakthroughs in his cultivation, the quantity and quality of true qi within Shen Ping'an's body have greatly improved.

The feeling of surging and abundant true energy, and the lightness of the body after the breakthrough, even Shen Ping'an couldn't help but be intoxicated by it, and his face was full of smiles.

After a short while, once he had adapted to the changes brought about by the internal energy and the breakthrough, Shen Ping'an turned his attention back to his system inventory and retrieved the special sword intent technique he had just obtained.

Once the secret technique of tempering the meridians with sword intent appeared in Shen Ping'an's mind, his consciousness was once again drawn back to that unique peak atop the sea of ​​clouds.

As Shen Ping'an appeared atop the sea of ​​clouds, the clouds within surged and coalesced once more into a human figure.

In Shen Ping'an's eyes, the sword intent within the figure seemed to circulate like true qi along an extremely special and mysterious path.

As the figure in the sea of ​​clouds demonstrated, the Heaven-Slaying Sword Intent within Shen Ping'an's body, like the sword intent within that figure, began to rapidly open up some hidden meridians and main channels within Shen Ping'an's body along a unique route.

Once all the hidden meridians and main channels involved in this secret technique have been opened, the sword intent can then flow unimpeded along the unique path of sword intent meridian tempering.

Shen Ping'an discovered that after the sword intent circulated along this path, only 10% of its original sharpness remained.

Immediately afterwards, strands of sword intent, whose sharpness had been diminished by ninety percent, began to separate during the process, penetrating into Shen Ping'an's flesh, bones, and internal organs.

(End of this chapter)