Chapter 90: The Secret of Yuan's Power

  Although Hu Gao had never fought against a martial artist of the same rank as Tong Yizhi, judging from Han Chong's attack power, which was said to be able to withstand Tong Yizhi's attacks, his own strength should not be much worse.

  However, these are minor details. For Hu Gao, the biggest hidden danger is still that his Totem, Bloodthirsty Snake, has not truly awakened. According to Hu Feng's words, this will severely impact Hu Gao's future cultivation.

  Night falls, and the Dragon Scales Mountains occasionally echo with the howls of various beasts. It's already deep in the night, and by dawn, it's estimated that a large number of warriors will gather outside the Fire Beast Forest, waiting to enter.

  He looked up at the clear sky and let out a long sigh, saying that life is as desolate as snow, and this path of martial arts cultivation is also desolate like this!

  Hú Gāo looked inward at his own Qihai, and as someone who had already reached the 9th stage of the Condensed Shadow Realm, his Qihai seemed to have grown significantly larger than before. However, compared to the legendary Confucius and Mencius, who were said to have transformed into a small world, it was truly worlds apart.

  The premise of creating an internal world by opening up the sky and earth lies in breaking through the chaotic air, which is common sense. However, the yuan force seems to be just a simple energy gathering in the qi sea, where does the chaos come from?

  Isn't there also a distinction between yin and yang in the primordial force, as the Daoists of old said, with yin and yang intersecting to form a chaotic atmosphere?

  Hu Gaoming slapped his own forehead, fortunately he was still a crosser, and he hadn't even thought of this! The so-called compatibility between the martial artist and the yuan jue, isn't it just the coordination between one's own yuan li and yuan jue? Since the elemental yuan jue is similar to the previous life, with sayings like the five elements, then the yuan li inside the body should be the same too, right?

  Just as Jile said, the Arctic Branch is good at fighting and elemental yuanjue, which leads to their violent personality. On the other hand, perhaps it's because the yuan force in their body is biased towards yang, so they can easily grasp this type of yuanjue?

  The physical and spiritual qualities of a warrior determine their innate talent, which in turn determines the characteristics of their conversion of heaven and earth energy into internal yuan force. This energy itself should be diverse and requires the warrior to create a yuan decision through acquired efforts, releasing a certain single energy to achieve a specific effect, just like the Liqing lineage is skilled at healing. This energy can then nourish their physical qualities in return, making them younger!

  At this point, Hu Gao suddenly felt that he had a burst of insight. His original body belonged to the Qingyi vein, so his yuan power had a strong healing function. In that case, it was possible that the jade pendant didn't have any healing function at all, and what it possessed was only the function of amplifying its own yuan power characteristics!

  However, when this interpretation is applied to the five elements, it can still be explained, but it's a bit difficult to perfectly correspond to the yin-yang division. Hu Gao had never seen anything like the light-based and death-based yuan jue described in Western fantasy novels during his time in the library, but this might also have something to do with the current continent they are on. Perhaps on this Totem Continent, humans from the Eastern and Western continents have huge physical differences, so there may be some differences in their mastery of yuan jue as well.

  Chaos yin and yang, yin and yang turn into the five elements. To establish a small world in the qi sea, one must reverse the chaos energy and re-enact this process to achieve true non-destruction and non-establishment, just like Confucius and Mencius who could transform their Totem's true form in the condensed shadow mirror!

  Watts, that Confucius is what kind of pervert! He can actually think of this method, no wonder he's the first of the top ten sages!

  In the previous life, there was a saying that knowledge is power. The reason why the aristocratic families of China could hold onto power for thousands of years was because they relied on a relatively closed system of knowledge. It's the same in this Totem Continent. A martial artist's ultimate achievements also depend on the successful knowledge systems developed by their predecessors, which allows them to go further.

  Ning City is still too small, or perhaps the knowledge that Hu Gao has come into contact with is still too narrow, which is why he has so many confusions in his cultivation. It seems that in the future, he must find a way to collect more books related to the cultivation system!

  Hu Gao is no saint, and although he has come to understand so many principles, without the guidance of a sage, wanting to complete this process independently is simply a fool's dream.

  All roads lead to Rome, Confucius and Mencius have their own way, but this is not the only way to success! Just like Wang Zhong and Li Hu in the Four Great Gods, who can achieve success with ordinary totems, they also opened up their own way to achieve ultimate success.

  Hú Gāo no longer worried about these things, he began to seriously observe the blood light snake in his dantian. Now that Xiao Wu was not around, this guy actually looked even more dispirited than before. According to reason, as his own cultivation realm improved, its body should have become even more solid.

  When things go against the norm, they become monsters. The Bloodlight Serpent, as one of the top ten terrifying totems in the mutation totem ranking, will not be simple. Although it has not shown any power yet, one thing is certain: once Hu Gao successfully researches and develops a certain ability of the Bloodlight Serpent, it will definitely be extremely terrifying and reveal its fearsome reputation.

  Hu Gao began to mobilize the yuan force inside his dantian, wrapping the Blood Light Snake within it. He had no other thoughts now, just wanting to try and see if the illusory Blood Light Snake would slowly solidify under the infusion of yuan force.

  However, it was clear that the outcome would not be good. He wrapped the Blood Light Snake in yuan force for a full half hour, but there was still no movement.

  However, he did not give up and continued to operate the secret method of returning to the origin with one breath. He frantically converted the energy of heaven and earth, gathered more yuan power into the air sea, and suddenly rolled up the yuan power like a tide, rushing towards the Blood Light Snake.

  The quantitative change leads to qualitative change, as time goes by, in Hu Gao's dantian, there seems to be a sudden gust of wind blowing up, he feels that his yuanli is being sucked away by something and can no longer return.

  "What is this?"

  Hú Gāo's face changed slightly, as if he had thought of something. "Could it be that the Blood Light Snake is absorbing the yuan force and automatically condensing it?"

  At this time, there was no need to guess. He slightly observed and saw that the Blood Light Snake had already opened its mouth at some point, swallowing large amounts of yuan power with each opening and closing, and a large amount of yuan power would inevitably roll in with each movement.

  "This absorption speed is also too fast, right?"

  Hu Gao was already too late to think about why the Blood Light Snake would suddenly absorb his Yuan power, he was completely shocked by the speed at which the Blood Light Snake absorbed his Yuan power. At this rate, it wouldn't even take half a minute for all the Yuan power in his body to be thoroughly absorbed.

  Watching the Qi Sea turn into a dry river, Hu Gao felt helpless. Fortunately, after the Blood Light Snake finished absorbing the Yuan Force, it didn't make any further moves. Otherwise, he really wouldn't have known what the consequences would be. If he was absorbed by his own Totem and became a human-shaped Totem, that would truly become the most laughable cultivation joke in the history of Totem Continent.

  Fortunately, the Bloodlight Serpent did not take any further action after absorbing the yuan force, but instead quietly coiled up again, shrinking into a ball and falling back into a state of dormancy.

  What the heck! Are you kidding me? Is this a rhythm of eating, sleeping and then eating again? Hu Gao was speechless. Had his own foodie nature infected the two Totems, turning them all into foodies?!

  Just as Hu Gao was about to give up, something suddenly stirred in his mind, and he seemed to sense a voice telling him, Yuan Li! Yuan Li!

  Is this the Bloodlight Serpent trying to communicate with itself?

  Hu Gao no longer hesitated, grabbed a handful of Yuanyuan Dan, and started his crazy cultivation again. The originally dry Qi Sea began to flourish once more. This time, the Blood Light Snake did not directly absorb these Yuan forces, but instead, like an octopus, absorbed all the Yuan forces around him.

  The power of this suction slowly accumulated, getting bigger and bigger. There was a continuous whooshing sound, as if Hu Gao's body had become a bellows, and at some point, there was a clear and crisp sound coming from inside his body, as if something had been broken through.

  The next moment, the yuan force between heaven and earth seemed to be thoroughly mobilized. The yuan force within a radius of at least 100 meters converged towards him, pouring into his dantian, surrounding the Blood Light Snake, forming a black hole. Even Hu Gao himself couldn't see what the Blood Light Snake had transformed into inside.

  Finally, when the black hole was about to burst the entire air sea, a violent mutation occurred, and with a loud explosion, like the annihilation of elements, all the primordial forces returned to calmness in this moment.

  The energy from outside no longer starts to transform, and the primordial force inside the Qihai also completely dissipates, returning to every branch and vein in Hu Gao's body. The mist disperses, leaving only a thickened circle of blood light snake remaining in the Qihai, raising its head and spitting out snake letters.

  Taking a closer look, the Bloodlight Serpent not only solidified even more but also became even more spiritual. A pair of blood-red pupils appeared even brighter, as if wanting to draw people in deeply.

  What's most important is that Hu Gaofeng discovered that next to the Blood Light Snake, a layer of skin had indeed been shed...

  Watts Fak! This totem is actually the same as the snake in my previous life, it can shed its skin, doesn't that mean that my Blood Light Snake totem can also grow?

  Hu Gao was completely stunned, he felt that there seemed to be something more in his heart, perhaps this transformation was the real establishment of his Blood Light Snake, and he found that the energy between heaven and earth continued to automatically pour into his body and convert into yuan force, this speed was much faster than before.

  Hú Gāo hesitated for a moment, then suddenly realized the problem and exclaimed in shock: "It's the acupoints! All the acupoints on my body have been opened up, now every move I make can gather a large amount of heavenly energy."

  This change in his body was no small feat, as Hu Gao had never heard of anyone breaking through all the acupoints during the Condensation stage. According to the records, even the most talented geniuses in the Dragon and Tiger Realm only managed to break through all the acupoints after reaching the sixth stage of the Body Refining Realm. The fastest person on the Totem Continent to break through all the acupoints had also reached the fourth stage of the Body Refining Realm.

  That is to say, Hu Gao has already broken the record of Tongtian Continent in terms of opening up all the orifices in his body. And this record will definitely shock anyone.