stonecrandall Chapter 103 Entering the 4th Rank
Chapter 103 Entering the 4th Rank
Chapter 103 Entering the Fourth Rank
The following day, Lu Hao originally planned to ask Lü Fengrou to come and protect him.
He was told that Lü Fengrou wasn't there, probably because she had gone down to the underground caves. Having no other option, Lu Hao decided to break through his limits in his dormitory.
With kill points to restore health, one can break through in the dormitory without having to go to the Qi and Blood Chamber in Magic Martial Arts School.
After all, I can't have bone marrow as thick as mercury or mental energy to move particles. It would be too conspicuous to just use kill points to restore my health.
However, he wasn't completely unprepared. After all, he had a bottle of Life-Returning Pill, two bottles of Healing Pill, and seven grams of Life Essence.
That's enough to pull someone back from the brink of death. Let alone failing to break through, it's more than enough to heal minor injuries.
Inside the dormitory's martial arts training room, Lu Hao first checked his stats: [Attack Stat Allocation].
[Host: Lu Hao]
[Qi and Blood: 1406/1406 calories]
[Spirit: 399/399 Hertz]
Storage space: 1000 cubic meters
[Kill Point: 6254]
Yes, I've reached my peak condition and can start making a breakthrough.
Over the past few days, Lu Hao did more than just watch the matches. After the matches, he also did some rough practice of the "Tempering Method - Internal Organs Chapter".
It's similar to the breakthrough at the lower three ranks, where the lower three ranks involve tempering the meridians.
Breaking through from the third rank to the fourth rank is like building a bridge, constructing meridians, relying on the martial artist's qi and blood to expand and stabilize, ultimately forming a bridge between heaven and earth.
Five bridges between heaven and earth need to be built to directly reach the middle stage of the fourth rank; otherwise, building them one by one would waste too much time.
Building them together would consume a lot of vital energy, but fortunately Lu Hao had killing points to restore his vital energy, so he decided to build five bridges between heaven and earth to reach the middle stage of the fourth rank.
Immediately afterwards, Lu Hao emptied his mind and began to circulate his qi and blood according to the "Tempering Method - Internal Organs Chapter", impacting his heart and beginning to build bridges.
Qi and blood are also rapidly depleted during circulation.
Whenever he was depleted, Lu Hao would immediately replenish his kill points, since kill points would depreciate once they reached the fourth rank.
As Lu Hao's blood and energy were gradually depleted, he sensed a blood-red channel emerging around his heart, which connected to the meridians he had previously tempered.
Its shape is just like a bridge, no wonder it is called the Bridge Between Heaven and Earth. However, this passage is very dark now, flickering and extremely weak.
Lu Hao consumed a large amount of his vital energy to reinforce the illusory bridge between heaven and earth.
As the passage was reinforced, Lu Hao could almost hear the powerful thumping of a heartbeat.
The throbbing sound grew clearer and clearer!
As his heart pounded, the bridge between heaven and earth, which had just stabilized, began to shake again. Lu Hao increased his blood and energy output.
They continue to reinforce the bridge between heaven and earth.
Lu Hao continuously consumed 500 calories, 1000 calories, and 1500 calories to strengthen the Bridge of Heaven and Earth.
In reality, most people don't need that much Qi and blood to break through their limits.
Generally speaking, when building a bridge connecting the inside and outside of the world, it doesn't need to be too sturdy the first time. It just needs to form a basic passage so that it won't collapse. It can be reinforced gradually later.
However, in order to save time in the future, Lu Hao reinforced the structure from the beginning. After all, the 6,000 killing points on his body were equivalent to nearly 60,000 calories of qi and blood.
This much blood and energy is enough for Lu Hao to build and solidify all five bridges between heaven and earth.
Half an hour later, it took nearly 5000 calories of energy to stabilize the first Bridge of Heaven and Earth. The consumption was not too bad for Lu Hao, after all, it only cost 500 kill points for each bridge, and 2,500 kill points for five bridges.
Lu Hao has enough kill points to build ten of them.
After the heart bridge was completely stabilized, Lu Hao felt his spiritual power become more active, and his blood and qi began to become more restless, seemingly indicating an impending breakthrough.
Without further hesitation, Lu Hao immediately began constructing the liver bridge.
As the blood and qi flowed in, a faint channel appeared on the liver.
At the same time, a faint sense of rejection came from the heart bridge, as if it was preventing the liver bridge from being built, and could collapse that illusory bridge at any moment.
Lu Hao quickly unleashed his mental power to suppress the Heart Bridge, and the feeling of rejection vanished without a trace. At the same time, he used killing points to begin recovering his mental power.
The power of Qi and blood takes the opportunity to strengthen the liver's connection to the heaven and earth, completing the construction of the second connection.
Lu Hao hadn't expected that building together would cause a repulsion. Fortunately, Lu Hao's mental strength wasn't weak, and the Killing Points could also restore his mental strength.
In reality, if it is an illusory bridge between heaven and earth, it will naturally not exclude other bridges between heaven and earth. This is also the method by which some geniuses build five bridges between heaven and earth together.
Lu Hao's rejection arose because he had sufficient blood and qi and had stabilized the bridge between heaven and earth in his heart. However, with the suppression of his spiritual power, this rejection was insignificant.
Generally, a prodigy who breaks through to the middle stage of the fourth rank by building five Heaven and Earth Bridges at once will need to spend some time stabilizing the five Heaven and Earth Bridges, but this takes much longer than building them one by one.
Lu Hao's foundation was solid from the start, allowing him to continue building the stable bridge between heaven and earth. This meant that after his breakthrough, he didn't need to waste any more time and could immediately begin tempering his heart.
With the experience gained from the first time, Lu Hao quickly built the second Bridge of Heaven and Earth in one hour, spending 550 kill points. The extra 50 points were used to restore his mental energy.
Then we continued building; this one is the spleen.
As more and more blood appeared on Lu Hao's body, impurities were continuously expelled with the blood.
An hour later, the spleen bridge was completed, costing 600 kill points, as the liver bridge also began to reject it.
In the fourth hour, the lung bridge was completed, consuming 650 kill points.
As the bridges between heaven and earth were built and consolidated, Lu Hao felt his spiritual power was unusually active, like boiling water, churning and surging, and he was about to break through. Lu Hao immediately began to temper the last energy channel and build the last bridge between heaven and earth.
An hour later, the fifth Bridge Between Heaven and Earth successfully appeared and solidified. It cost 700 kill points.
When the fifth Bridge of Heaven and Earth stabilized, Lu Hao's body trembled. He could no longer suppress the breakthrough. His internal organs began to actively absorb energy from the air and convert it into qi and blood power to fill the Bridge of Heaven and Earth. There wasn't much energy in the air, but if he were in the underground cave, this recovery would be quite considerable.
Lu Hao's internal organs were trembling slightly, some impurities inside his body seemed to be sloughing off, and his skin appeared to be forming a hernia.
A thick layer of dark bloodstains solidified on the surface of his body, enveloping Lu Hao completely.
Lu Hao began to transform. His blood and qi began to increase, his mental strength also increased, his skin became more resilient, and his internal organs began to change.
Half an hour later, Lu Hao finished the transformation and successfully reached the middle stage of the fourth rank.