Chapter 131: Late Stage Of The Qi Refining Realm (1/2)

A sizzling sound was heard as the corrosion on the wall spread out for a few centimeters before stopping. Lin Mu heard the sound and felt shocked at this. He didn't know what had just happened and felt confused at that.

He stood up and walked closer to inspect the wall and saw that a depression about half a centimeter was formed and it was about two inches in diameter. The gas that had touched the wall had dissipated and no traces of it could be seen.

The only thing Lin Mu could sense on the wall was the shallow depression and nothing else.

”What was that Senior Xukong?” Lin Mu questioned.

”…”

”Umm, Senior?” Lin Mu reiterated.

”Hmm, I do not know exactly. It seems to be the impurities being expelled from your body, but they shouldn't be this corrosive.” Xukong answered.

”What's wrong here?” Lin Mu asked, feeling more confused.

”You see, by tempering your body, not only do you increase its strength and toughness but also improve its quality. This improvement in quality is brought about by removing the impurities from your body.” Xukong replied.

”But how do these impurities appear in my body, though?” Lin Mu questioned.

”They are the result of you consuming sustenance. This can be in any form whether it be food or spirit qi. Everything has faint traces of impurities in them. These impurities slowly accumulate in your body over time and hide within it. For mortals, it does not matter as much, since their life span is not that long, but for cultivators, it is very important as it dictates the improvement in their cultivation and longevity.” Xukong explained.

Lin Mu finally started to feel like he was understanding it on some level, but he was still confused about the volatility of the impurity that he had just expelled.

”But senior are the impurities really as dangerous as the one from now?” Lin Mu questioned.

”No, while they can be threatening to a cultivator, that is only in terms of hampering and restricting their cultivation but not actually directly harming them. The gas that you expelled was spirit qi impurity, but it seemed to be corrosive. I do not know the reason for this, but know that it's only good for you since it's being expelled.” Xukong answered.

”I understand senior.” Lin Mu replied.

After this, Lin Mu went back to sitting in a cross-legged position on the bed and continued his cultivation session. He closely observed his body and realized that he was already at the border of the twelfth stage of the body tempering realm.

”Senior, I'm already very close to the twelfth stage of the body tempering realm somehow.” Lin Mu informed.

”I think I can deduce the reason, perhaps. It seems to me that the impurity that you expelled may have been restricting your vital energy from breaking into the next stage. The vital energy within your body kept on being stockpiled and only now when it couldn't store anymore did it breakthrough and pushed you to the border of the twelfth stage of the body tempering realm. That impurity was quite likely the barrier that was restricting you.” Xukong explained.

”So does this mean that if I want to progress to the next stage, I'll need to expel more of those impurities?” Lin Mu questioned.

”Yes, that's possible. This will also improve your spirit qi cultivation, in fact. You will soon notice the difference.” Xukong answered.

Lin Mu inwardly nodded and focused on his cultivation session. He circulated the spirit qi in his meridians and completed a cycle. He then discovered that the speed of his circulation had increased by around thirty percent.

It was as if there were invisible obstructions that he couldn't see before, and now that they were gone he felt free. The spirit qi in his dantian flowed into his meridians and completed a cycle, returning back into the dantian. The cycle thus triggered the fine pores on his body to open up and absorb the ambient spirit qi.

With each subsequent cycle, more and more spirit qi would be added to his dantian. Such was the way of cultivation. In the blink of an eye, it was time for sunset. Lin Mu could not even sense the passage of time, as he was too engrossed in his cultivation.

He only woke up as he was feeling hungry again. In the past few days, he had been restricting his hunger and had been sustaining himself on qi, thus he did not feel hungry back then. But now that he was back to his normal routine, his hunger had returned as well.