Chapter 114 Breakthrough! Fourth Level!
A trace of Internal Breath surged in his meridians.
After circulating the familiar route that had been circulated hundreds of times and entering the dantian again, the strength of this trace of Internal Breath increased by 0.141392% compared to when it had just left the dantian. The increase could be said to be minimal.
However, such a small increase was already more than twice the increase when Chu Nan cultivated the Nine Revolutions Technique for more than ten years.
This was because Chu Nan had successfully broken through to the third level of the Nine Revolutions Technique after trying to obtain the data ability. Naturally, every time he cultivated the Nine Revolutions Technique, the increase in the strength of his Internal Breath would be much greater.
If he could break through to the fourth level of the Nine Revolutions Technique, although it would not allow him to soar into the sky in a single step and directly break through the strength of an Overlord Body Realm Martial Artist to become an Internal Breath Realm Martial Artist in one go, it would undoubtedly allow the increase in his Internal Breath to greatly increase every time he cultivated, and the speed at which his Internal Breath increased would naturally be faster.
What Chu Nan was currently doing was experimenting with the fourth level of the Nine Revolutions Technique.
According to the relevant information regarding the Nine Revolutions Technique that Su Xuansheng had publicly left behind back then, the first to fifth levels of the Nine Revolutions Technique were actually only the foundation.
From the information alone, the difference between the third and fourth levels was not huge.
Moreover, if he analyzed the Nine Revolutions Technique in detail, he would discover that the first few levels of the Nine Revolutions Technique were actually not much different from other ordinary Internal Breath cultivation methods on the surface.
In theory, the first step of all Internal Breath cultivation methods was to let a martial artist successfully sense the existence of Internal Breath in their body. Then, they would learn to circulate their Internal Breath. Next, they would cultivate according to the cultivation method of different Internal Breath cultivation methods and circulate their Internal Breath through different meridians to increase their Internal Breath.
Although there were many differences in the details of different Internal Breath cultivation methods, and some special cultivation methods could even allow a martial artist’s Internal Breath to carry very special attributes, in essence, they were all similar.
On this point, the Nine Revolutions Technique did not show any special characteristics.
The only difference between it and other Internal Breath cultivation methods was that it could allow martial artists who cultivated it to use their Nine Revolutions Internal Breath to greatly increase the power of their instantaneous release.
However, this special trait was still limited by the upper limit of a martial artist’s meridians. It was not without limit.
Otherwise, when Chu Nan faced Maruk, he could easily unleash the Ninth Revolution Internal Breath. The strength would definitely far surpass a third-stage Internal Breath Martial Artist like Maruk. Not to mention sending him flying with a punch, it would be very easy to kill him with a punch.
However, after Chu Nan forcefully circulated his fifth circulation Internal Breath, he discovered a problem.
Even with only the Fifth Revolution Internal Breath, he felt that the strength of his Internal Breath had completely exceeded the upper limit of his meridians.
If his Internal Breath was at the Sixth Revolution, it would probably completely shatter all his meridians and kill him on the spot.
In this way, the Nine Revolutions Internal Breath was undoubtedly even more terrifying than imagined. The toughness of the meridians needed would definitely surpass the limit of the human meridians.
Since it was like this, how could he reach the Nine Revolutions Internal Breath Realm that Su Xuansheng spoke of?
That was impossible!
Chu Nan shook his head and gave up thinking about this problem that was still very far away from him. He focused his attention on the difference between the third and fourth levels of the Nine Revolutions Technique.
Putting all other factors aside, just from looking at it, the difference between the third and fourth levels of the Nine Revolutions Technique was that the fourth level required much more meridians than the third level.
However, there were only a few more meridians that required the circulation of Internal Breath. To countless martial artists, this was already an extremely difficult obstacle to overcome.
Firstly, having more meridians to circulate Internal Breath meant that he had to open these meridians.
The meridians in the human body were not completely open at the beginning and could allow Internal Breath to circulate freely.
The process of opening the meridians was in fact an important process of cultivating Internal Breath and tempering the physical Overlord Body.
Secondly, opening these meridians could allow the Internal Breath to circulate in these meridians, but it did not mean that he could be at ease.
Unlike the meridians that had previously had their Internal Breath opened and their Internal Breath circulated countless times, the toughness of these meridians that had not been opened previously was much inferior. If he still used the same powerful Internal Breath to suddenly rush in, it would cause an extremely huge burden to these meridians, and it might even directly cause their meridians to be damaged.
Not to mention using this to increase his Internal Breath, it was already not bad that he did not get injured.
However, this was not a problem for Chu Nan.
The Nine Revolutions Technique could cause a special increase in the strength of the Internal Breath, so it was not difficult to open the meridians.
As for his meridians being damaged… How could Chu Nan be afraid of this?
Therefore, he only seriously read the information of the fourth level of the Nine Revolutions Technique a few times and basically confirmed the plan.
If he wanted to successfully break through to the fourth level of the Nine Revolutions Technique, according to the information map of the meridians in the body left behind by Su Xuansheng, Chu Nan needed to open up another seven main meridians and 26 secondary meridians that surrounded the main meridians.
As for the other fine meridians, Su Xuansheng did not specify them. However, he said that if it was possible, opening as many as possible would increase the circulation of his Internal Breath.
Chu Nan carefully calculated for a moment and decided to start from the meridian furthest from his dantian.
With a thought, an Internal Breath was quickly mobilized to the main meridian closest to this meridian. Then, under Chu Nan’s control, it carefully flowed in.
The strength of this Internal Breath was not high. After trying three times, not to mention opening this meridian, he could not even successfully enter and smoothly circulate it.
Therefore, Chu Nan changed his slightly stronger Internal Breath.
With the help of a powerful data ability, the strength of this Internal Breath was controlled by Chu Nan to be abnormally precise. It had only increased by 1%.
After three more attempts, he was still unable to enter this meridian.
Therefore, Chu Nan increased it by 1%.
After another three attempts…
Finally, after the 12th attempt, the strength of his Internal Breath increased by 12% compared to the beginning. This Internal Breath finally broke through the obstruction between the two meridians and successfully surged into the main meridians that were indicated to be opened by the fourth level of the Nine Revolutions Technique.
As soon as his Internal Breath entered this meridian, Chu Nan immediately felt that his Internal Breath seemed to have stepped into a muddy path from a wide and flat road. It was abnormally difficult to traverse.
If not for the fact that Chu Nan was already mentally prepared and his control of his Internal Breath was extremely precise, he might have even lost control of it.
However, although he did not lose control, this Internal Breath staggered forward abnormally with difficulty in this meridian, but it was also continuously consumed and weakened.
Before he could completely walk through this meridian, this Internal Breath had actually been completely exhausted.
Chu Nan thought for a moment and pulled out another trace of Internal Breath from his dantian.
The strength of this Internal Breath did not increase compared to before, but it was deliberately controlled by Chu Nan to a high-frequency vibration state.
As expected, as soon as he entered this meridian, the Internal Breath under the high-frequency vibration state was like a hot knife cutting through butter. It far exceeded the obstruction of this meridian earlier and opened up the entire meridian in the blink of an eye. After a cycle, it returned to the other main meridian that Chu Nan had already opened.
“Ha, I’m afraid Senior Su Xuansheng would never have dreamed of such a method to open up his meridians.”
His attempt was easily successful. Chu Nan was overjoyed and immediately mobilized an Internal Breath with the same high frequency vibration from his dantian. In an instant, he arrived outside another meridian that needed to be opened and rushed in.
Pew!
Chu Nan opened his mouth and spat out a mouthful of blood.
In his joy, he had forgotten to adjust the strength of his Internal Breath, causing the meridians that were not used to the baptism of Internal Breath to immediately suffer serious damage as soon as it entered his meridians.
“Is this considered extreme joy turning to sorrow?”
Chu Nan reached out to touch the blood trail at the corner of his mouth and shook his head with a bitter smile. He obediently mobilized a trace of weak Internal Breath and probed this meridian again.
It repeated countless times…
Half a month later, an Internal Breath circulated in Chu Nan’s originally opened meridians, seven new main meridians, and 26 secondary meridians and returned to his dantian.
Chu Nan opened his eyes and slowly exhaled.
The Nine Revolutions Technique had successfully broken through to the fourth level!