The Lord of Void and Real
Chapter 475

Chapter 475: Chapter 471 Ant Line Devouring Vein Chapter 475: Chapter 471 Ant Line Devouring Vein Shen Luo touched the slightly pink area on his chest and a smile appeared on his face. The restoration effects of the Great Unsealing Technique were even better than he had expected, and it was definitely suitable for aiding the cultivation of the Technique of Opening Dark Yin Meridians.

After getting another elixir from the Armored Heavenly General, Shen Luo, as usual, left The Golden Palace and began to cultivate outside.

During his cultivation of the Great Unsealing Technique, not only had his skills improved slightly, his own cultivation level also unknowingly increased a lot. With the help of this elixir, his realm was surprisingly elevated again, reaching the peak status of the Mahayana Stage.

He stood up from the spot, his eyes full of divine light. With a thought, his internal mana started to run on its own, a burning sensation welled up from his dantian, and it felt as if an unstoppable force was surging out from all over him.

In an instant, the void behind him fluctuated, as if steam was rising, and the sound of dragon and elephant chants rang out. Five golden giant dragons and five golden giant elephants materialized and circled around him. Their bodies were flashing with golden light, dazzling and brilliant.

The five golden dragons were all teeth and claws, their whiskers and hair bristling, almost resembling living creatures. The five golden elephants were comparatively calm, holding their heads high and their trunks reaching towards the sky, as though ready to roar.

The golden dragons and golden elephants were sprawled around Shen Luo. The light emanating from their bodies soared high into the sky, shaking the golden light curtain that was outside the Golden Tower.

“Understanding the last of the Huangting Scripture should not be a problem, but if I want to perfect the power of the Dragon Elephant, it seems that I have to break through the bottleneck of the peak of the Mahayana Stage and truly enter the True Immortal Stage,” Shen Luo said thoughtfully, murmuring to himself.

As soon as he finished speaking, his whole body flashed with golden light, and the five golden dragons and five golden elephants shrunk rapidly, all turning into a golden shine that rushed into his body and disappeared.

Next, he lifted his arms and looked at them. The golden light was swirling around them and underneath them, some patterns resembling dragon scales appeared. The light shimmered, and it seemed as if there was an invisible force pushing against them from inside, causing his whole body to emit strong fluctuations.

A smile appeared on the corner of Shen Luo's mouth. He formed a magic spell with his hand, and the golden light around him dissipated, all the extraordinary signs gradually disappearing.

“It's time!”

After whispering these words, he closed his eyes and sat down cross-legged.

After he settled down, instead of running his mana to continue cultivating, Shen Luo concentrated his mind and started to recall all the details of the secret technique of the Technique of Opening Dark Yin Meridians.

After a while, he made up his mind and with a swing of his palm, he took out the Six Chen Whip and set it in front of him.

For some reason, this object was filled with a large amount of Yin Sha Qi. It had appeared several times during his previous battle with the Silver Armored Heavenly Soldier, so Shen Luo intended to use the Yin Sha Qi stored within it to practice the Technique of Opening Dark Yin Meridians.

Shen Luo stared at his calf. Where his eyes landed, the flesh and skin gradually became transparent, leaving only a trail of hazy white light from a branch of the Yin Qiao Mai.

Seeing this, he didn't immediately start casting spells. Instead, he pointed his single hand like a knife and stabbed it into his own calf skin as if it were a knife. His finger then moved around, drawing on his leg like a painting.

As his fingertips moved, a string of blood burst out from the wound and followed the skin, leaving traces of crimson red. When his finger stopped, a bloody charm pattern had appeared on it.

The pattern almost covered the entire calf, with a dense cluster of charm patterns in the middle, on top of which there was a bead of blood that looked like a line of ants. It bore some resemblance to the Southern Gu Technique.

Concentrating his gaze, Shen Luo softly chanted the mantra of the Xuan Yin Opening Vein Method, pointed at the void above the Six Chen Whip and shot a line of white light from his fingertip into the whip, which trembled and lit up with a black light.

Unlike the usual battles, this ball of black light, from the moment it illuminated, didn't show any strong fluctuation, but seemed very gentle and tame. As the light expanded and contracted, a thick black beam separated from it, directed by Shen Luo to flow out.

The dense black light flowed down, landing on the charm patterns carved on his calf. Instantly, as if a drop of ink had fallen, he turned the bloodstain black. The whole charm pattern seemed to be suddenly injected with spiritual energy, lighting up a patch of black light, and it started to operate on its own.

The ant soldier-like charm patterns located in the middle of the calf suddenly became alive, one after the other dived into Shen Luo's skin on his leg, and probed into the meridians deep into his flesh.

Shen Luo's brow twitched fiercely, and suddenly a complex sensation of numbness, itchiness, and pain passed from his calf. It was as if hundreds of ants were gnawing at his flesh.

This feeling, even worse than pure pain, almost made him lose his mental peace.

But immediately, Shen Luo gritted his teeth, forcing himself to stabilize his mind, because those ant soldier charm patterns were about to enter his meridians, and the real opening of the vein was about to begin.

With the advent of a sharp pain distinctly different, Shen Luo's meridian was instantly ruptured, the connection with the Yin Qiao Mai was cut off, and a sense of numbness instantly spread along the direction of that meridian.

“Has it… failed?” Shen Luo didn't even react.

The Technique of Opening Dark Yin Meridians records, “Ant Line Devouring Vein, Yin Qi Injection, the key is to keep the pulse unbroken and the Yin Qi incessant, like a silk thread hanging over the fire, the fluctuation is not permitted even for a hair's breadth.”

What it means is that on the issue of the Ant Line Devouring Vein, the emphasis lies in maintaining the continuity of the meridian even while being devoured by the ant line and merging it with the Yin Sha Qi under the guidance of the ant line.

The difficulty of this is almost the same as that of a silk hanging over a flame; any fluctuation will lead to the abortion of the silk thread.

This first attempt to fail came so fast that Shen Luo didn't even feel the combination of his meridian and Yin Sha Qi. He had already broken off the meridian, and the Yin Sha Qi contained in the written pattern on his leg was slowly drawn out of his body under the guidance of mana.

With a thought, Shen Luo arranged his hands in front of his body, silently employing the Great Unsealing Technique, and immediately, a Pure Yang Power coursed through his body and enveloped the broken meridian, healing it.

Before long, the light converged on the meridian, and the subsidiary veins broken by the ant motif had been restored to its original state.

After the repair was completed, Shen Luo took a short break and then once again stimulated the Technique of Opening Dark Yin Meridians. He introduced the Yin Sha Qi from the Six Chen Whip into his body and reopened the subsidiary vein.

As the Yin Sha Qi flowed in, the entire charm pattern was again illuminated with the black light, and the sour, numb and painful sensation emerged again, while a string of ant motifs gnawed towards that meridian.

This time, Shen Luo was fully concentrated, not allowing himself to be distracted in the slightest. He carefully controlled that string of ant motifs, bit by bit crawled up the meridian, forcefully suppressing its gnawing strength.

The meridian wasn't severed as easily as the first time, but the sharp pain from the meridian's gnawing was unbearable. Just after a short while, Shen Luo's face had turned ghostly pale, and a cold sweat continually dripped from his forehead.

However, no matter what, he didn't show any intention to relax. He guided the ant motifs to advance continuously while focusing the Yin Sha Qi pulled behind it into a thread even thinner than the meridian. It then wound around the trace of the ant's gnawing.

As the ant motifs inch by inch gnawed forwards, they were about to reach the Feng Long Acupoint ahead, a surge of intense pain rushed up, and the stretched meridian broke again.

With a sigh in his heart, Shen Luo could only guide the Yin Sha Qi out of his body again, and once again use the Great Unsealing Technique to repair the meridian.