CHAPTER 379: CHAPTER 251: SIXTH REALM ARRAY VEINS

Hoo~~

Chen Ku reverted from the image of a three-meter-tall small giant back to a youth of one meter eighty, feeling the qi film that had grown around his internal organs, muscles, and bones, he softly said:

"These qi films are the prerequisites for cultivating the ’Array Network’; without any part of the organs, muscles, and bones covered in qi films, it wouldn’t work."

He looked inwardly, and saw that each organ, blood tissue, and meridian was covered with a layer of qi film.

"Only by allowing the body to reach the strong level, strengthening the internal organs and bones from the inside out, can further exploration of the more subtle ’capillary meridians’ of the flesh be undertaken."

Chen Ku thought of a passage in the summary of body cultivation martial arts about the Huntian Overlord Body.

The human body, being the spirit of the universe, holds infinite mysteries. Martial arts cultivation dives into the subtleties, working from each drop of flesh and meridian.

For example, the next Sixth Realm Array Network stage.

Requires martial practitioners to discern the smaller capillary meridians, which are generally impossible to find under normal circumstances.

It’s like the human body having many blood vessels and capillaries.

But blood vessels are definitely not meridians.

With the insights from his two lifetimes of memory, Chen Ku felt that meridians are more similar to a ’nervous structure’ that was undescribed in detail in previous medical analyses, with the Twelve Main Meridians and Eight Extraordinary Meridians being twenty major neural networks.

But apart from these twenty main neural meridians, there are many tiny neural structures that are probably capillary meridian sources and smaller meridian systems.

"It’s unknown how the martial ancestors of this world created this path of body cultivation step by step, they are truly great people."

As Chen Ku connected his twelve main meridians and eight extraordinary meridians, he could only see the twenty primary meridians of the human body.

But having completed all the cultivation in the Inner Strength Realm, the Five Realms, his organs, muscles, and bones had become as clear as patterns on the palm, this fundamental push seemed to have upgraded his perspective.

He slightly pondered and said to himself:

"This is the benefit of life and spirit dual cultivation, by using one’s physical strength to nourish the divine soul; once the physique is strong, blood qi can nurture the divine soul, enhancing the ability to explore, allowing one to discover more secrets of the human body."

At this moment, under his gaze.

He suddenly saw the invisible ’meridians’ within the body, or what could be called meridian points, which were countless, like stars in the sky beyond count.

But these stars were all extinguished at the moment, like electric lights without electricity.

"The cultivation of the Sixth Realm Array Network, as described in the Huntian Overlord Body’s cultivation incantation, consists of five stages."

Chen Ku recalled these five stages in his mind:

Vitality Period, Array Formation Stage, Array Eye Stage, Array Nourishing Stage, Great Achievement Stage

The Vitality Period involves illuminating and activating the myriad capillary meridian sources that couldn’t be previously observed, which requires a large amount of true qi to support.

Array Formation Stage, once all capillary meridian sources within are activated, becomes akin to having an army of a hundred thousand troops to train into a fighting force, the best way is to link them forming various battle formations, depending on the martial practitioner’s learned skills and techniques, allowing for various great formations to be set up within.

Generally, the Array Formation Stage shows a martial practitioner’s potential for future achievements.

Just as with the same hundred thousand troops, handed over to a supreme general known for mastery in arrays, or to one inexperienced in military tactics, the combat potential formed differs greatly.

Ordinary martial practitioners, in this process, if they can form formations like the Plum Blossom Formation, Long Snake Formation, Vanguard Formation, it is already the limit.

However, those with extraordinary background and talent may form stunning arrays like Champion Marquis’s ’Four-nine Kill Array’ or the Shocking God Heavenly King’s Eight Gates Array.

Yet forming a great array with myriad meridian sources is merely stepping into the threshold of the Sixth Realm.

Next, comes the Array Eye Stage.

The Array Eye Stage, what defines an array eye, it usually is the crucial core of the entire formation, determining the formation’s operation, power, and stability. It could be an influential magical treasure, an item containing special energy, or a vital node position.

Different martial arts techniques have various requirements for the array eye in the Sixth Realm Array Network.

It could be a mystical spiritual pearl capable of gathering and controlling spiritual power within the formation;

Or a specific spatial coordinate managing the energy flow and transformation of the formation.

For example, the ’Array Suppression Stone’ that Chen Ku obtained from the Hero King Realm controls the Eight Gates Shocking Array and a spatial array eye within the Hero King Realm.

After the array eye.

Comes the Array Nourishing Stage, this step is a long-term nurturing process, akin to training soldiers within, won’t succeed in one go, requires long-term collaboration between the soldiers and the commander, only then can it be nurtured into a disciplined iron army, immediately forming formations with orders, capable of activating internal great formations anytime, anywhere.

Completing this step.

Is stepping into the great achievement realm of the Sixth Realm Array Network, the Great Achievement Stage.

Chen Ku looked within at the countless meridian sources like a dark starry sky, silently took out the ’Five Elements Great Rejuvenation Pill’ treasured for more than a hundred fifty years by the Medicine King Hall from his storage bag.

"The Vitality Period needs a massive amount of true qi to illuminate and activate those subtle meridian sources, as my master Shan Lingguan once said, when he achieved the Five Elements Body, he thought his true qi was infinite, yet still at the Vitality Period stage he had to continuously input true qi daily, over the course of three months before lighting up countless subtle meridian sources within."

He whispered to himself:

"It’s time to take the Five Elements Great Rejuvenation Pill."

The description of this pill in the Medicine King Hall states that one pill can equal thirty years of Qi empowerment. One Great Rejuvenation Pill can push a person to the perfection of the Vitality Period, illuminating all the meridian sources.

But that is in terms of the cultivation of ordinary Martial Practitioners.

Chen Ku’s cultivation body and cultivation level are now of an exceptionally rare level, requiring far more than others.

It’s like the bucket has grown larger, and to fill it, more water is needed.

As he gazed at the pill in his hand:

"I wonder if with my current physique strength and demand, this Five Elements Great Rejuvenation Pill can still push me to the perfection of the Sixth Realm Vitality Period in one go?"

Gulp~~

Swallowing the precious Sixth Realm Five Elements Great Rejuvenation Pill, it slid down his throat, sounding like a stone dropping into a deep well from the stomach.

The moment the Great Rejuvenation Pill entered the body, it immediately encountered the long-awaiting Five Elements True Qi within the meridians, instantly beginning to burn with Li Fire...

Sizzle~~~

As the fire burned, it melted the pill casing, as if burning a large hole beneath a great pond, with a majestic flood-like medicinal power roaring out from the pill!

And the Five Elements True Qi within his body was like five Flood Dragons in exuberance upon encountering water, leading the tremendous medicinal flood, transforming into True Qi, forming five endless torrents, rushing toward Chen Ku’s more subtle meridian sources!

This scene was truly like five Flood Dragons traversing the barren meridian soil in Chen Ku’s body, raining down life-giving nectar!

As the clusters of meridian sources in his body were illuminated one by one, like stars in the sky...

Woo woo woo~~

Chen Ku’s entire body felt like a boiling kettle, glowing red, with steam sprouting from every pore, immediately engulfing the courtyard outside.

Making the small courtyard seem like a celestial paradise.

"Ah, Second Uncle has become a god!" Hu Zi had grown a year older, and the teeth lost last year had grown back; he spoke without a gap, he exclaimed loudly with his big, round, black eyes: "Second Uncle has become a deity!"

The others in the family also rushed outside, especially Li Yuancheng, who was incredulous, saying:

"So much Inner Qi is leaking? What miraculous elixir did Er Lang take?"

The white mist in the courtyard lasted for almost two hours but did not disperse outside, remaining within the courtyard.

Until, in the room where Chen Ku sat cross-legged, there was a sound like the breathing of an ancient beast.

Inhale! Exhale!

With each breath, suddenly, the rolling clouds in the courtyard all flowed back, flooding into Chen Ku’s room, returning the courtyard to normal.

"Halfway?"

Chen Ku looked at the cluster of meridian sources illuminated within him after completely consuming the Five Elements Great Rejuvenation Pill, like stars in the sky.

But from the perspective of inner vision, it seemed like only half the seeds in an acre bloomed and bore fruit, while the rest could not grow due to insufficient nourishment.

Chen Ku sighed:

"As expected, under the physical demands that far exceed most people, this Five Elements Great Rejuvenation Pill can’t push me to perfection in the Sixth Realm Vitality Period all at once."

Though he sighed.

Yet, as Chen Ku gently clenched his fist.

With his fingers tightened, suddenly his body power and blood Qi all surged, activating clusters of meridian sources like a series of stars, constantly providing power to his fists.

"Though not perfect, it means I have stepped into the Sixth Realm Vitality Period. Next, as long as I don’t waste the demon materials from the Evil Summoning Banner, refining them all into Qi Replenishing Pills and True Qi Pills to increase skill power, I will soon reach perfection."

Chen Ku made a plan.

He called out Er Lang, asking him to take the Fire Beak Pot incarnation of the Five Realms, to regularly extract materials from the Evil Summoning Banner and begin mass production of pills.

Watching Er Lang and the Fire Beak Pot busy at work.

Chen Ku clenched his fists, having broken into the Sixth Realm Vitality Period, feeling not only his physique and cultivation having advanced, but his spiritual level being nourished by his physique, enhancing his thoughts several times over compared to when he was in the Fifth Realm.

"With my cultivation increased and fists hardened, how can I not find someone to test my prowess."

Whoosh~

His heart moved, and he directly appeared in the Eight Gates Shocking Array in the Hero King Realm, glancing at the Divine Souls of the Seventh Realm Peace Path Leader and the Piao Gao Preacher at the end of the sky, a slight smile curling at his lips, launching a Spiritual Capture infused with Sixth Realm spirit straight at them!