Asura Mad Emperor

In the secret room.

Qinchuan sat cross-legged, his aura fully contained within, as the True Qi inside his body flowed and circulated unceasingly like a living stream.

As he swallowed the Awakening Pill that emanated a five-colored divine luster,

instantly, it was as if cold water had been poured into a boiling oil pan.

The Innate True Qi within his body, which had been operating in an orderly fashion along a predetermined route, suddenly exploded with a roar at that moment.

The True Qi in the meridians around his body surged toward his spine like a raging river at that moment, all vying to be the first to rush there.

The spine is the pillar of the human body, akin to a column that connects heaven and earth. Once the Innate True Qi enveloped the spine, the pure and flawless Innate True Qi began to refine his spinal bone.

He felt as if he had immersed himself in a profound and mysterious realm.

But as the Innate True Qi continued to surge inwards and refine,

the next moment, Qinchuan's face underwent a drastic change.

He suddenly felt that the Innate True Qi outside of his spine, as if going mad, started to drill violently into the bone, penetrating deep into the marrow.

The spine was so fragile, and the Innate Qi, invisible and intangible, broke through the bone and entered inside in an instant.

The Innate True Qi that entered the spinal bone began to refine the marrow within.

The marrow, which contained the essence, was refined by the influx of Innate True Qi, feeling like countless steel needles were piercing his spine at every moment, a pain more terrifying and excruciating than bone fractures.

He only felt as if his spine was being torn apart, vertebra by vertebra, alive, and the heart-wrenching pain that seared into the depths of his consciousness was a kind that penetrated deeply into the soul. Even his powerful Asura Divine Soul could not mask the agony that seeped into the marrow.

Qinchuan's forehead broke out in a dense sweat, and he clenched his teeth tightly.

Because of the extreme pain, his skin all over his body turned as red as if it had been boiled, and the muscles in his arms, shoulders, and back trembled uncontrollably at that moment, a true bone-deep suffering.

Awakening the Innate Pupils was relatively easy and straightforward initially, but he did not expect the awakening of the Innate Marrow to be so arduously difficult.

Qinchuan had foreseen this. The Innate Pupils, mostly affecting external factors, did not tremendously impact his later cultivation, hence the awakening process was not too painful.

But the Innate Marrow was different; awakening the Innate Marrow was truly about marrow refinement and bone scraping, turning his mortal body into an Innate Body. The awakening process was like extracting all of the spinal bone and marrow from his body and replacing them with new Innate Marrow.

Such a process was bound to be extremely painful.

Yet, every bit of pain signified a corresponding gain for the future.

Once the Innate Marrow is awakened, it is akin to unlocking the pillar connecting heaven and earth and bridging hundreds of meridians and organs within the body.

Future cultivation would undoubtedly make great strides daily, and it would also benefit the awakening of the remaining seven major organs immensely.

Although Qinchuan's Innate True Qi was vast as the ocean, refining and awakening this Innate Body, a being that transcended the Immortal Physique, still drained the True Qi from his body after not much time had passed.

At this time, the Spirit Gathering Array that Qinchuan had set up around him early on also began to operate frantically, with the Spiritual Energy within Tianqing City starting to converge toward this formation in an instant.

This Spirit Gathering Array was extraordinary, almost having the trend of draining all of Tianqing City's spiritual energy, pulling it toward the Qin Residence. The fierce Spiritual Power roared toward him like boundless river water, forming a gigantic vortex, and at that moment, Qinchuan was right at the center of this endless river's vortex.

The Spiritual Energy gathered by this formation was rich and pure, nearly materializing as it surged into Qinchuan's body.

Qinchuan's body was like an endless abyss, crazily absorbing the surrounding spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

A whole day passed, and the spiritual energy between heaven and earth poured into his body continuously without the slightest interruption.

If an outsider were to see this, they would surely be unable to help clicking their tongues, exclaiming how terrifying it was.

Such a terrifyingly huge amount of spiritual energy rushing into the body would have caused even a cultivator of the Saint Realm to burst, but Qinchuan didn't show the slightest effect.

At this time, Qinchuan's body naturally could not accommodate such a massive amount of spiritual energy, and as this spiritual energy flooded into his body, without the slightest discrepancy, it all surged into his spine and marrow, constantly refining Qinchuan's Innate Body.

As the Innate True Qi continued to temper him, Qinchuan gradually began to adapt to this intense pain. His body, which had been shivering uncontrollably, finally started to stabilize. Eventually, his skin returned to normal, and by the end, Qinchuan could no longer feel any pain at all.

"The Innate Marrow, finally finished!"

After an unknown amount of time, Qinchuan let out a long breath, his eyes suddenly opened wide, bursting with a brilliant light, and his whole being underwent a heaven-shaking and earth-shattering change.

As if responding to Qinchuan's statement, his body shuddered violently at that moment.

Immediately afterward, a burst of extremely pure Innate Dao Qi erupted within him, his entire body glowing and glistening like jade.

With the awakening of the Innate Marrow, spiritual energy still flowed ceaselessly into Qinchuan's meridians.

At this moment.

Upon inner viewing, he discovered a revolutionary change in the circulation and mobilization of the True Qi within his body compared to before.

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Before this, the storage and circulation of Innate True Qi in his body were conducted within the meridians, but now, he found that the Innate True Qi could actually permeate into the spine connected to the meridians.

In the journey of cultivation, whether it is the Human Race or other races, during the process of cultivation, True Qi and spiritual power are stored within the meridians and Dantian.

The amount of True Qi and mana contained within the meridians determines the upper limit of the power of Mysterious Techniques and Divine Skills you can unleash. If your meridians are thicker and more expansive, and the circulation is smoother, then under the same Mysterious Technique and Realm, the power the Mysterious Technique can unleash is also stronger.

This is also why Qinchuan has been continuously suppressing his own Realm, because the lower the Realm, the easier it is to expand and open up the meridians.

When the meridians are completely smooth, with no obstructions, making breakthroughs is as natural as water flowing along its course.

Besides the meridians, the Dantian stores a substantial amount of True Qi, which determines the duration you can continuously circulate True Qi.

But at this moment, the Innate Qi inside Qinchuan's body could not only be stored in the meridians, but also preserved within the awakened Innate Marrow.

The Innate True Qi stored in the spine was almost equal to all the True Qi stored in his entire body's meridians now.

Moreover.

This True Qi, the same as that in the meridians, could be unleashed together with Mysterious Techniques.

That is to say, the power he could unleash using Mysterious Techniques right now would be double that of before!

Don't underestimate this doubling; the terror within is indeed difficult to express in words, especially in the late stage when one's mana becomes more and more profound,—the benefit of doubling becomes increasingly significant.

Furthermore.

This is merely the benefit brought about by the awakening of the Innate Marrow. If he continues to awaken a complete Innate Body later on, breaking down the barriers of each organ in the body, allowing True Qi to be stored throughout the body, then by that time, if he wishes to unleash a hundred or even a thousand times of power, it would probably be nothing difficult.

Beyond that, Qinchuan also discovered a second benefit of awakening the Innate Marrow.