Chapter 108: Chapter 78: Qi Cultivation Level 5, Perfect Kidney Mansion (Double-length)

"No wonder she cultivates so quickly."

Talking about the cultivation speed of these talents, Liou Yuan’s yearning to break through to the Qi Cultivation Fifth Layer grew even stronger.

"I can’t fall behind."

After finishing his meal, Liou Yuan saw Xie Miaobo and Qiu Ming out. He didn’t even have time to look at the jade scroll of swordsmanship that Liou Zhen had given him before he resolutely took out his star stones.

Preparing to start today’s cultivation.

And before cultivation, he hung a wooden sign reading "Do Not Disturb" on the thatched hut outside the door.

As if he wouldn’t come out until he reached the Qi Cultivation Fifth Layer.

"I can’t let those disciples with the Five-Star Star Acupoint pull too far ahead."

"Or else when encountering Liou Tao again, I will fall behind."

After hearing family secrets from Liou Zhen, Liou Yuan felt he could lose to anyone but Liou Tao.

"Do you think you can avoid it by not coming out? Once I reach the Qi Cultivation Fifth Layer, I’ll come for you." Liou Yuan touched the scar on his back left by the three fog blades, his face showing a murderous intent.

Although the wound had healed, it left three hideous scars.

Perhaps it was because of the "Do Not Disturb" sign that Liou Yuan hung up.

Qiu Ming and Xie Miaobo perceptively did not come to disturb Liou Yuan further.

On the first day of Liou Yuan’s seclusion, the clever Xie Miaobo seemed to guess something, looking at the sign hanging on the door with an expression of surprise.

Then he gritted his teeth, turned around, and returned to cultivate using the star stone.

Liou Yuan wasn’t willing to fall behind, nor was Xie Miaobo.

Leaving Qiu Ming with no one to drink with, he also decided to go into seclusion.

A month passed again.

The result on the day of the Star Rotation in the fourth month severely crushed Qiu Ming’s guess.

It even provoked howls of despair from the disciples up and down Five Extremes Mountain.

Because it was another Evil Star.

Four consecutive months of Evil Stars—this was already considered a phenomenon not seen in nearly twenty years.

It would greatly affect the cultivators’ progress.

For disciples within the sect tending spirit medicine fields, it was even more disastrous.

Because the crops in the fields couldn’t absorb the energy of the Evil Stars, they had to use spiritual power daily to nurture them to maintain their vitality, or risk losing everything.

This was just the impact within the sect.

Outside the sect,

with the continuous presence of Evil Stars, more Star Evils emerged, and those big creatures that had lain dormant for decades were likely to awaken.

While Five Extremes Mountain fared relatively well, the ordinary people suffered.

According to rumors, three cities in the Jin Dynasty alone were breached in one night by calamitous Evil Stars that emerged, slaughtering tens of thousands.

Such disturbances even alerted the royalty of the Jin Dynasty and the high ranks of Five Extremes Mountain.

Of course, these had nothing to do with the outer sect disciples of Five Extremes Mountain.

In such a situation of four consecutive Evil Stars, outer sect disciples usually dared not venture out.

In Liou Yuan’s newly built residence,

he lay reclining by the window where he could bathe in starlight.

Beside him were over a dozen star stones reduced to waste stones after their spiritual Qi was absorbed.

After a month’s long cultivation, at the cost of over a dozen star stones, 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

he finally began to condense the tenth strand of spiritual power within his body.

Strands of spiritual power entwined within his meridians, merging into a chopstick-thick band of spiritual power.

Then, under Liou Yuan’s guidance, it flowed toward his internal organs.

Ultimately converging into the spiritual Qi cluster within his Lung Mansion.

The ten strands of spiritual power caused the originally eyeball-sized spiritual power cluster to expand to the size of a walnut.

Buzz! The spiritual power cluster reverberated with a wave, sweeping through every part of Liou Yuan’s body.

Thump, thump, thump!

Liou Yuan’s internal organs began to hum deeply, like a drum.

During this process, Liou Yuan could clearly feel the area on his lower back where the kidneys are located beginning to heat up.

Initially warm, it finally felt like two burning coals were hanging there, radiating intense heat.

The heat spread throughout his body, turning Liou Yuan’s skin crimson, and sweat poured from his pores like raindrops.

"Hoo!" Liou Yuan opened his mouth wide, exhaling a hot breath.

This was a sign of the Kidney Mansion being perfected.

The Five Mansions Star Gazing Breathing Skill involves five mansions representing the heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys, the five internal organs.

The five internal organs also represent the five elements.

Liou Yuan’s first mansion was the Lung Mansion, the metal element.

When the Lung Mansion was perfected, his endurance greatly increased, not to mention that the Lion’s Roar Spell broke through to small success because of it.

The power of the Lion’s Roar Spell at the small success stage made him invincible in mid-stage Qi Cultivation fights.

Now, Liou Yuan’s second mansion, perfected at a consummate level, was the Kidney Mansion.

The water element.

The Kidney Mansion stores essence, opening to the ears.

Here, the essence refers to vitality,

while the infirmity of those with a weak constitution often stems from a lack of vitality, whereas the robust remain untroubled by this.

It’s divided into innate essence and acquired essence; innate essence is inherited from parents and born with one.

Acquired essence comes from the subtle workings of the spleen and stomach.

Liou Yuan didn’t know whether the Five Mansions Star Gazing Breathing Skill increased his innate or acquired essence.

In short, when breaking through from Qi Cultivation to Foundation Establishment, opening the Qi Mansion demands substantial essence.

Many cultivators nearing a breakthrough take elixirs to forcibly increase essence, improving their chances of a successful breakthrough.

With the Kidney Mansion perfected, Liou Yuan’s essence surged, and he wouldn’t need to purchase elixirs to nourish it when breaking through to Foundation Establishment in the future.

Moreover, with essence flourishing, Liou Yuan’s strength increased more than twofold.

The two burning hot Kidney Mansions on his waist constantly supplied energy to his entire body.

Apart from that, there’s Liou Yuan’s hearing.

His hearing was already exceptional, but now it was extraordinary.

He kept his eyes closed, yet no subtle sound within a ten zhang radius escaped his ears.

He could hear the smacking sounds Xie Miaobo made while eating, from the nearest house.

Further away, he heard Qiu Ming muttering in his sleep.

Fu Xueping was grooming her long hair, the sound of the comb teeth rubbing against her hair.

And some careless insects on the thatched roof of Liou Yuan’s hut, chewing the grass discreetly.

This experience was incredibly mysterious.

Dwelling in it, Liou Yuan speculated to himself, "It’s said that the Divine Sense of a Foundation Establishment Great Cultivator can extend beyond the body, and when it sweeps across something, it sees more clearly than the naked eye."

"Perhaps this feeling is similar to Divine Sense."