Chapter 73: Seeking Survival (1/2)

Chapter 73: Seeking Survival

Translator: TYZEditor: Pranav

Nowadays, the “five residences and eight palaces” was the most popular and developed training system. Although everyone had their own style of training, none had left out the five residences and eight palaces.

The five residence and eight palaces had various functions and uses; however, the most important aspect was the natal residence.

One could see its importance simply from the word “natal.” Fire was associated with the heart, wood with the liver, earth with the spleen, metal with the lungs, and water with the kidney. They collectively constituted the source of elemental energy. The natal residence was able to store a huge amount of elemental energy, but its most important use was to absorb elemental energy and channel it elsewhere.

During combat, the natal residence was responsible for channeling one’s elemental energy.

During the process of training, elemental energy needed to make a Circulatory Cycle Revolution. The purpose of the Circulatory Circle Revolution was to purify and compress elemental energy. The purification of elemental energy was to get rid of its impurities, allowing one to obtain a purer form of elemental energy. Meanwhile, the compression of elemental energy allowed one to store a greater amount of elemental energy.

No matter how weak or strong a person was, the natal residence would have to transfer and bear the weight of an abundant amount of elemental energy. However, it would need only a small amount of elemental energy to injure the natal residence.

Those high-level elementalists all had a high concentration of elemental energy in their bodies, making them extremely strong. Those who specialized in body-tempering had bodies that were comparable to the bodies of dire beasts.

When one’s base level was low, their body would be very weak, so during the initial stages of their training, many people tended to choose training grounds with elemental energy that was mild in nature. When such elemental energy was purified and compressed, it would not inflict any injury on one’s body.

No one would joke around with their natal residence because once the natal residence became injured, it would be very troublesome.

When the sharp elemental energy gushed into Ai Hui’s natal residence, his natal residence was immediately injured.

Along with indescribable piercing pain, countless fine lacerations appeared all over his lungs.

However, he did not stop. Even though the process was painful and torturous, he was reenergized by the influx of elemental energy into his lungs. Yet this was not enough, as he still had to direct the elemental energy to complete a Circulatory Cycle.

As the elemental energy endlessly gushed into his lungs, Ai Hui quickly discovered that he could not channel so much elemental energy.

His base level was too low, and since the capacity of his natal residence was not high enough, its ability to channel energy was limited. Furthermore, the elemental energy that surged through his body was not only pure in nature, but its amount was tremendous as well.

As the elemental energy continued to gush into his natal residence, the number of wounds in his lungs increased rapidly.

It was a very precarious situation!

If he could not quickly come up with a plan, his natal residence would be ripped to pieces by the sharp, slashing elemental energy. The wounds in his lungs were becoming increasingly wider, and it began bleeding more and more.

The blood foamed up from his lungs and entered Ai Hui’s mouth as he breathed. The familiar, sweet scent of blood brought Ai Hui back to his time in the Wilderness, a place where dangers lurked everywhere, and death could follow any moment.

How many times had he encountered death?

Live or die? It would all depend on what he would do next.

His hair stood on end as a shiver went down his spine.

He could not remember anything, but he soon felt a familiar presence. Like a veteran warrior that stepped onto the battleground once more, a peculiar flame lit up in his previously ice-cold eyes.

His attention became unusually focused, and his brain began working extremely fast. His surroundings slowed down and became silent.

The surging elemental energy in his body was like a group of sharks, destroying his vitality.

It was sharper, purer, and more congealed than the metal elemental energy on the first level. It was like…elemental energy needles…

Elemental energy needles...

Ai Hui seemed to catch on to something.