Watch out! Something's wrong with this guard.

Lu Yunshi sighed inwardly, but it wasn't a complaint, just a bit of regret.

Fortunately, just as he decided to swallow the fourth Purple Cloud Pill, his ninth orifice began to show signs of loosening. Seeing this, Lu Yunshi gritted his teeth and launched a full-scale attack.

Finally, after an unknown amount of time, the ninth acupoint was breached, and replaced by an even larger surge of qi and blood.

Finally, he stood at the final hurdle of his breakthrough, attempting to reach the tenth acupoint.

But the next second, Lu Yunshi was stunned. He searched his body thoroughly, but could not find any trace of the tenth acupoint.

'What's going on? Is there really no tenth acupoint?'

Sweat dripped down Lu Yunshi's face as he couldn't help but think this to himself, but he quickly dismissed the thought.

This is absolutely impossible. The extreme realm is clearly documented and its existence is recognized by most people; it cannot be fake.

There is only one possibility: this tenth acupoint is hidden within one's own body and needs to be found, which is why entering the extreme realm is even more difficult.

One wrong move and one might exhaust one's spiritual energy and blood in the process of searching for the tenth aperture, causing one's cultivation level to drop and the aperture to be broken through to close again.

This is especially likely to happen to someone like Lu Yunshi, who has just broken through his acupoints and hasn't had time to nurture them.

His brain was active, his consciousness was thinking, but after an unknown amount of time, Lu Yunshi still hadn't gained anything.

Damn it, nothing is impossible in this world. If you're willing to give up, and you still can't find it after exhausting all the spiritual energy of this Purple Cloud Pill, then you'll have to stop here for now. You can't just let your newly broken-through realm plummet back to its original state.

If we keep searching, even using the fifth Purple Cloud Pill will only be a waste of resources.

At that moment, Lu Yunshi suddenly heard Shangguan Yue's voice.

"Although I don't know the situation of the Extreme Realm, the positions of the first nine apertures of the Body Tempering Realm are roughly the same for everyone. Only the tenth aperture is said to be hidden in the body, and its location varies. To find it, one must rely on one's own communication. This was said by someone who once tried to break through to the Extreme Realm. I don't know what it means, but I hope this sentence can help you."

After saying that, Shangguan Yue closed her eyes. She thought that Lu Yunshi would give up if he couldn't find her, but she didn't expect that he would still persist after so long. That's why she told him what she knew.

However, as she said, she herself didn't know much either. The cultivator who broke through to the extreme realm only said a few words. Perhaps because he hadn't successfully broken through, what he said was vague.

She wasn't a cultivator at the highest level, while that cultivator was only at the Body Tempering stage. The difference in their strength and status was so great that Shangguan Yue had only asked a couple of questions out of curiosity, and quickly lost interest when she saw that the other party couldn't answer.

“Communication? Could it be…” Lu Yunshi paused for a moment upon hearing this, as if a flash of inspiration had appeared in his mind.

As if he had thought of something, Lu Yunshi quickly calmed his mind. His blood and spiritual energy in his body suddenly quieted down because they had lost their master's control.

At the same time, Lu Yunshi's faint spiritual consciousness began to stir.

He didn't actively think about it, but instead let his mind go blank and seek it on his own.

Since it belongs to oneself, how can one not see it?

It's not that they're hiding, but rather that they can't take the initiative to come forward and can only look for opportunities.

Sure enough, after emptying his mind, Lu Yunshi's wisp of spiritual consciousness seemed to be drawn by something, and he continued to let this will tempt him.

Soon, or perhaps slowly, Lu Yunshi felt a clear emotion—an emotion that was actually his own, an emotion he had never experienced before.

These emotions were like a storm, yet Lu Yunshi's spiritual sense seemed to be completely oblivious to them.

These emotions had absolutely no power over him and could not stir up the slightest ripple.

Finally, Lu Yunshi glimpsed something: it was... his own expressionless self, staring at him just as he had been.

It was a strange feeling. Lu Yunshi felt that the other party was like an empty shell, which only made Lu Yunshi feel uncomfortable at this moment.

At the same time, the tenth aperture quietly appeared in the body, as if it had appeared suddenly.

Lu Yunshi finally understood that the tenth aperture did not exist in the physical body, but rather in a certain part of himself, in a more illusory place.

Lu Yunshi was able to find it by drawing on his past emotions, but others might not be able to use the same method.

The search for the tenth acupoint is difficult because each person can only use different methods.

When you find it, the illusion will transform into reality within your body, becoming the unique tenth acupoint.

As the tenth acupoint appeared, Lu Yunshi abruptly broke free from that eerie gaze and began to mobilize all his qi and blood and spiritual energy to launch a fierce attack on the suddenly appearing tenth acupoint.

Surprisingly, the tenth aperture was not so difficult to break through.

Although it took some effort, the spiritual energy and blood remaining in Lu Yunshi's body were enough.

Soon, the tenth aperture burst open.

Surprisingly, the tenth acupoint is three times the size of the other acupoints, and the amount of qi and blood flowing from it is also three times that of the other acupoints.

"Did he succeed? He actually did it." Shangguan Yue opened her eyes, feeling somewhat surprised. She had already prepared herself for Lu Yunshi to fail so she could help him stabilize his realm, but she never expected that he would actually succeed.

Surprised, Shangguan Yue felt a pang of regret, hoping Lu Yunshi would succeed, as this was Lu Yunshi's idea.

But I also hoped he wouldn't succeed. Daring to try was already very brave; there was no need to keep persisting in things that couldn't be done. But he really did it.

However, from this moment on, the young man truly had no way out.

"Why haven't you opened your eyes yet? Your blood and spiritual energy are still flowing?" Shangguan Yue frowned slightly. Logically speaking, Lu Yunshi should have stopped by now.

However, Shangguan Yue knew very little about the unfamiliar realm of the Extreme Realm. She wondered if the breakthrough to the Extreme Realm was not yet complete, or if there was some problem.

There were indeed some problems, but they weren't related to a breakthrough. Rather, Lu Yunshi discovered another strange place within his body.

Just now, at the moment he broke through the tenth acupoint, the excess blood and spiritual energy were pushed back and flowed into his meridians.

However, just as Lu Yunshi was about to concentrate on controlling the blood and spiritual energy back into his acupoints, he discovered that one of the blocked meridians moved slightly when it was struck by these energies.

Lu Yunshi even suspected that he was hallucinating because he was too happy about breaking through to the tenth aperture.

Blocked meridians cannot be opened; this can be considered a universal truth.

Even if there were a way to open up blocked meridians, it wouldn't be possible for Lu Yunshi in his current state. If meridians could be opened simply by using blood and spiritual energy, then cultivators wouldn't be so precious.

The degree of blockage in the meridians will not be used as a criterion for judging talent.

But......

Lu Yunshi took a breath. Whether he had actually moved was very important. Without any hesitation, he decisively swallowed the last Purple Cloud Pill that he had originally intended to save for Li Hongying, and then tried to use his maximum blood and spiritual energy to break through the closed meridians.

After a long time, until all the spiritual energy in his body was exhausted, he finally opened his eyes.

It moved, though it was always just a very subtle movement, almost imperceptible, but after so many attempts, Lu Yunshi was quite certain of it.

It really moved.

Is it just me, or is everyone like this?

If it's the latter, then it means that everyone's concept so far has been wrong, but that's impossible. Cultivators can't all be fools; they must have tried countless times before finally arriving at the conclusion that 'blocked meridians cannot be moved'.

So it might be the former.

But does the former mean that one is special?

Lu Yunshi pondered for a moment but still had no ideas.

Lu Yunshi should have been happy after breaking through the extreme realm, but now he only felt a headache.

However, he doesn't intend to tell anyone about this now, including Shangguan Yue in front of him.

More verification is needed.