I Have a Date with a Thousand-year-old Female Corpse
Chapter 936: Becoming stronger, becoming stronger

Chapter 936: Chapter 936: Becoming stronger, becoming stronger

Coincidentally, Gaoyang Princess was also pouting as she walked over. Although her facial expression wasn’t exactly pleasant, she was after all a princess, at least of noble birth. She was accustomed to ordering people around on a daily basis, never had she stooped so low to apologize to you,

Of course, if you could even call this an apology, "Hey, listen, can you not be so petty? I was just talking, it’s not like you’re missing a piece of flesh. Besides, he’s my cousin; you can’t insult him like that."

If at first, you held a sliver of hope for this Gaoyang Princess, by now you were utterly disappointed. You’ve always been an authoritarian, in your world, people around you unconditionally supported all your actions, otherwise, get lost!

You were even too lazy to talk to Gaoyang Princess. You meant to harshly rebuke her but felt it was completely meaningless. You greeted Luo Xin, "Elder brother, please sign me up for the selection competition. I’ll be there on the day of the competition. For the time being, I’m going to undertake intense training; tell mother, father, and Zi Yi not to worry about me."

Having said that, your body once again transformed into an afterimage, disappearing from everyone’s sight at even greater speed than before.

As everyone searched for your whereabouts, Luo Xin and Changsun Zhongkang both looked northeastward at the same time. Luo Xin’s face bore a slight smile of relief, while Changsun Zhongkang’s handsome face was always marked with deep disdain.

There was only about twenty days left until the Martial Champion selection, and you decided to devote this period to strenuous cultivation. For the first time, you felt a severe inadequacy in your strength and felt extremely humiliated. What’s the use of possessing so-called celestial techniques if you still got hacked by a dozen ordinary assassins from the mortal world?

You were very aware of your current situation. Tang Dynasty might seem peaceful, but undercurrents were stirring; who knows if someone might pierce through this peace tomorrow—and what then?

You didn’t want to be the so-called savior, nor did you stoop to save the worthless dawn for the masses. What you needed to do now was to become stronger! Stronger! Stronger!

You now clearly understood that the appearance of Wu Qiyi and the other three ladies was definitely to help you find Zhao’er’s origin.

But for now, you’re too humiliated, you’re also fed up with the disdainful looks from others, so, you must cultivate ardently, ardently, and more ardently!

There’s no way you’ll let them get hurt in this Map of Kingdom, even if it’s all an illusion!

Back underneath that great waterfall, you stripped off your clothes, letting the torrential flow drench your entire body.

You were ready; this sit-down wouldn’t end before fifteen days.

Of course, you didn’t have to worry about starving to death, nor about issues of excretion.

In your previous cultivation, you had discovered that once you activate the "Gate of Life," you can completely forgo eating and excreting.

This is what is known as fasting.

Fasting is a cultivation technique in Taoism’s "Eight-Nine Profound Skill," which includes the sophisticated spell of the "Seventy-Two Transformations;" Sun Wukong survived the five hundred years trapped under Five Element Mountain without eating or drinking because he practiced the Eight-Nine Profound Skill.

As long as the "Gate of Life" is open, your body will continuously absorb the heavenly spiritual energy from around you to sustain itself. Since you don’t eat, you naturally don’t have to excrete, and it also serves to purify the flesh.

However, the location you choose for your meditation this time was your previous limit; usually, you could only last just over an hour.

The water flow here was incredibly harsh. A slight tilt in your body would get you swept into the pool below. Now, you’re not only dealing with your balance and control but also with your willpower.

Under the constant pressure of the water, you found the rate at which your body absorbed the Original True Qi quickening. It felt like slowly pressing down on a car’s accelerator, with the speed increasing. Once you reached a certain velocity, you no longer accelerated but allowed the car to cruise at a steady pace.

Absorbing heavenly spiritual energy was like driving on a highway: accelerate too fast, and you worry about getting caught on camera, or worse, being unable to stop the car, leading to an accident.

This sitting lasted for fifteen days.

Fifteen days seem long, but for you, in meditation and entering a certain state, it felt like a fleeting moment. However, contrary to your expectations, you now couldn’t stand up because you faced a critical point, a breakthrough.

About three days ago, you began to feel significant changes in your body; in a silent state, you sensed your bones and muscles growing. The chaos within was cleansed by over ten days of blessings from Original True Qi; impurities were expelled through your pores and carried away by the rushing river.

Had someone been there, they would have been astonished. The deep pool, twenty meters wide and several meters deep, was darkened by the substances washed out from your body, emitting a distinct acrid odor. It took three days for the following waters to clean the pool.

Looking at you now, with a classically handsome face, sharp eyebrows, a straight nose, though not as strikingly handsome as Changsun Zhongkang, yet you exuded a distinct masculine charm. Your muscular build appeared explosive, and from your current physique, your height had definitely reached over one meter eighty.

These last fifteen days had brought revolutionary changes to your being.

And at this moment, if Wu Qiyi and the other ladies were to see you, they most certainly would have been shocked because you resembled your real-world self exactly!

But your transformations weren’t merely superficial.

During these fifteen days, you absorbed a vast amount of Original True Qi from your surroundings, using it to purify your body. Now, your inner self was no longer chaotic.

Like an ordinary person, you had meridians and even a dantian, but unlike regular folks, your meridians and dantian were formed from condensed heavenly spiritual energy. As long as the "Gate of Life" remained open, an endless supply of Original True Qi would pass through your meridians, centering in your dantian.

Now, you were using the spiritual energy in your dantian to break through.

Yes, to break through.

These were the words that appeared in your mind after formation of the dantian, instructing you.

It turns out the so-called "The Eight Gates of Heaven" weren’t just eight top-tier immortal skills. If that were all, they wouldn’t be entitled "Emperor Ditian."

"The Biological Eight Gates" is the highest enlightenment of Taoist Qimen Dunjia, capable of encompassing the Sen Luo and embracing the Myriad Manifestation.

That’s why, even though you lost Yun Chu’s eye, you could still use the Sen Luo Eye, and that was the main reason.