Martial Peak: Origin Chaos Emperor

"So, what is it that brought you here?"

Wang Feng too returned from reminiscing about that time after hearing Meng Wu Ya's voice. He focused back and spoke, "I came to ask about how many contribution point I have right now."

Meng Wu Ya nodded before opening a thick booklet and searching his name in it. He spoke after a moment of searching, "Wang Feng, Ordinary Desciple, Current Contribution Points 79... So you need anything?"

'79 points huh.', Wang Feng repeated the number, calculating the number of herbs he should take with himself. "I want the Forbidden Grass and the Three Leaved Spirit Flower. How much do they cost?"

"Hmm. Those two herbs are Low-Common Grade herbs, so they will cost you 1 Contribution Point per Stalk.", Meng Wu Ya answered after hearing the names of the herbs.

Wang Feng just nodded, he knew that Meng Wu Ya, this old profiter, would ask this price as he had read about it in his previous life, but he still asked to make sure it was the same.

"... Give me 20 stalks of both herbs.", Meng Wu Ya raised his brow and asked, "why do you need so much? Both of them are poisonous herbs so what do you need them for, huh brat?"

Wang Feng snorted and turned his face, "Just going to use them for burning.". Meng Wu Ya blinked before he shook his head, "*haah* kids these days...", as he said this, he took out the herbs, it wasn't his business what Wang Feng did with them anyway.

Wang Feng took them and thanked the old man before leaving.

Wang Feng came out of the contribution hall and went straight to his cabin. He wanted to try the effect of the incense burner.

After arriving at his room, Wang Feng walked towards his bed and grabbed the incense burner from next to it. He then placed the stalks of the herbs on the bad, taking only one stalk of each herb out, before putting them into his inventory.

Opening the lid, he then placed the stalks inside the burner and lit them on fire before closing the lid back again. Soon smoke started to come out of the incense burner and a fragrance of the burning herbs permitted into his room, drafting into Wang Feng's nose.

He then placed the incense burner at a distance where it wouldn't be too far from him, but also wouldn't disrupt his practice.

"Now then.", with the incense burner secured, Wang Feng retrieved a Body Refining Pill from his inventory and popped it into his mouth. "Here goes."

With that, he took a stance and started his practice. It took only a minute for him to feel a great deal of strain on his body, a strain he usually felt after nearly an hour of training.

"The *hah* heck, *hah* isn't this *hah* too effective?", Wang Feng spoke to thin air after 15 minutes had passed. Sweat had formed on his body, his hands and feet's were trembling slightly and veins were protruding all over his body.

Apparently, the combination of both the Body Refining Pill and the incense burner was more than 6-8 times effective than his normal cultivation.

Just then, Wang Feng felt something. A familiar sensation passed through him, a feeling he felt only when one of his meridians opened.

"I brokethrough?", Wang Feng felt his body and indeed, his 9th meridian had been opened. Immediately his knees gave out and he fell on the ground, "*hah* *hah* *hah*".

He sat there breathing heavily for a few minutes, before he took a deep breath and stood up. He then looked at the incense burner that was still releasing smoke and thought, 'this could keep on burning for more than an hour.'

Not wanting to waste the herbs nor the pills remaining effect. After a break of a few minutes, Wang Feng went through the 81 stances of meridian opening without a break, this time although he felt the strain, it wasn't to intense. But it still gave him a feeling of progress.

He then took a break, meditating, for 2 hours. During his meditation, he noticed that he could feel a particular sensation in the air and his surroundings. 'this .... should be the Heaven and Earth Energy(Qi), what a ... particular and soothing sensation.'

He felt how this energy was slowly entering his body and stayed there for some time before leaving, he subconsciously tried to pulled at the Qi, but obviously it didn't work.

After completing his 2 hours long meditation, Wang Feng cooked some simple lunch for himself before eating it.

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[Status]

[Name: Wang Feng]

[Race: Human]

[Age: 15 years]

[Physique: Five Element True Body, Unyielding Golden Skeleton]

[Cultivation: Peak 6th Stage Body Forging Realm (9 meridians opened)]

[Cultivation Technique: Five Elemental Record, Basic Body Forging Technique]

[Martial Techniques: ---]

[Combat Power: 1st Stage Initial Element]

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'The next step is to condense pulses within my body to connect the 9 meridians....', Wang Feng thought to himself as he looked at his status.

Looking outside, he determined that it was only 2 hours past noon, so he decided to try and condense his first pulse today.

He sat down crossed-legged and opened his inventory.

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[Inventory]

[Body Refining Pills] x 3

[Qi Gathering Pills] x 30

[Blood Qi Pills] x 10

[Foundation Building Pills] x 10

[Soul Strengthening Pills] x 10

[Body Nurturing Pills] x 10

[Soul Nurturing Pills] x 10

[Qi Essence Pills {Heaven Grade}] x 200

[Qi Essence Pills {Mysterious Grade}] x 300

[Qi Gathering Array] x 1 {Mysterious}

[Isolation Barrier Array] x 1 {Mysterious}

[Weapon of Choice] x 1 {Mysterious}

[Spirit Stones] x 10,100

[Forbidden Grass] x 19 stalks

[Three Leaved Spirit Flower] x 19 stalks

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From his inventory, he took out a Blood Qi Pill, which will help him in this step.

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[Blood Qi Pill]

[Grade: Common]

[Description: A common grade pill, used to infuse the Body of a martial artist with Qi, filling the meridians with external Qi and the Body with Blood Qi, essential accelerating the process of connecting to the Heaven and Earth Qi, which reduces the time needed to condensing a pulse by several folds.]

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Wang Feng smiled as he looked at the blood red pill in his hand, 'with this pill, I will be able to skip the step of connecting to the heaven and earth Qi.'

According to his developed system, after all 9 meridians are opened, the surrounding Qi would start to slowly enter into the Martial Artist's body, but this Qi would not stay within the body for long as there is no place for it to be stored.

In this stage, the martial artist must use this Heaven and Earth Qi to condense Pulses within his body. These Pulses would serve as meridian pathways through which Qi will travel throughout the body in later realms.

Also, once a single pulse is condensed, the body of the Martial Artist's will develop it's own Blood Qi, which is actually a combination of blood and Qi. This Blood Qi can then be used to enhance the Martial Artist's body and make it easy to connect to Heaven and Earth Qi. This Blood Qi is also essential for entering the Qi Sea Realm.

*Gulp* Wang Feng swallowed the pill, instantly he felt it desolve and felt a surge of energy spread throughout his body. "*Aghh*", the feeling of that energy was exhilarating for him, causing Wang Feng to moan slightly.

He then employeed a technique named, 'Basic Pulse Condensing Technique'. This technique was also a sub-technique of 'Basic Body Forging Technique'. It's purpose was in its name, condensing Pulses.

As Wang Feng employeed the technique, he felt the Qi in his body, both from the pill and from outside, react before it rushed towards all of his 9 meridians, trying to condense 9 pulses at the same time.

Wang Feng's jaws tightened as he quickly tried to focus the energy between just two meridians. '*feu* thank heavens, it worked. Otherwise I might have wasted the blood Qi pill.'

Previously, if Wang Feng would have allowed the energy to directly try opening all 9 pulses at the same time, it would have undoubtedly failed as the energy consumption would have been too much, exhausting the energy provided by the Pill before a single pulse was even condensed.

Wang Feng then focused intensely on the energy flowing within his body and carefully tried to use the energy to create a link between two of his meridians.

Hours passed as Wang Feng sat in the same position, oblivious to the passage of time. After a few hours, he slowly opened his eyes and let out a sigh, "even with the help of the pill, I wasn't able to form a complete pulse."

During the past few hours, Wang Feng was able to connect two of his meridians before the Blood Qi Pill's effect wore off. But unfortunately, the pulse that he formed was too weak and unstable.

To officially enter the 7th Stage Body Forging Realm, he needs to form a completely stable and a strong pulse. Wang Feng looked outside and was surprised as he did so.

Why? It was already night! "For how long was I condensing that pulse?", Wang Feng wondered out loud, he had started nearly two hours past noon and it was already night. After mental calculation, he concluded that he had been condensing that pulse for around 7-8 hours.

But although he had spent all that time practicing, he wasn't tired at all, so after a minute of thinking Wang Feng decided that it was better if he fully condensed his first pulse.

He took out another Blood Qi Pill from his inventory before swallowing it, returning to his cultivation. Hours passed again as he continued to condense the pulse.

In the early morning, Wang Feng slowly opened his eyes with a grin on his face. He stood up and made a punching motion, his fist producing sounds of friction against the wind.

'My strength has greatly increased now.', Wang Feng thought after feeling the increase in strength. 'and that's not all...'

Wang Feng closed his eyes and revolved his cultivation technique, causing a familiar energy to course through his body. Wherever the energy reached, he could feel his body strengthen even more.

"Blood Qi"

After condensing his first pulse, his body had started to develop its own Blood Qi. Although it was pitifully low compared to what the Blood Qi Pill had provided him for those few hours, it will increase as he condenses more pulses.

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[Status]

[Name: Wang Feng]

[Race: Human]

[Age: 15 years]

[Physique: Five Element True Body, Unyielding Golden Skeleton]

[Cultivation: 7th Stage Body Forging Realm (1 pulse condensed)]

[Cultivation Technique: Five Elemental Record, Basic Body Forging Technique]

[Martial Techniques: ---]

[Combat Power: Peak 2nd Stage Initial Element]

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"Hmm? It's morning already?", Wang Feng blinked his eyes as he saw outside. It was early morning and the sun was slowly rising.

This was the first time Wang Feng had cultivated like this, spending the entire night in cultivation. So he wasn't quite used to it. Wang Feng then shook his head and went to his bed.

He then laid down on his bed with his arms crossed under his head, "hmm... What should I do for now? If all the pulses take 2 Blood Qi pills to condense then I'm still short on 8 pills. *haah*".

To condense his pulses without any pill, he would need to gather Qi from his surroundings. But that wasn't an effective method considering that this place didn't have a higher concentration of Qi.

He could use the Qi Gathering Array, but as he only had one of it right now and with no way of making a Mysterious Grade one for some time, he was saving it for a place where he could cultivate without any problem of changing locations, in other words a cultivation cave.