Chapter 105: The Idea of Peerlessness External Elixir (2/2)

External Elixir was not the same as a human body. A human body's meridians were formed from birth. It was closely connected to life and blood circulation. A little bit more, or a little bit less, or just a little leakage, would be fatal. However, an External Elixir was different. The materials were dead objects, and it didn't have a sense of pain. It also didn't have any fatal spots. If a mistake occurred, it would be ok to just try again. That was why, to refine an External Elixir, the most important stage was finding the right materials. A normal material didn't have the basic requirement of molding the meridians. Only extremely few Mysterious Objects that were born in heaven and earth, or special parts on demonic beasts, would have these function. For example the Fiery Eye or the Dragon Chimera's skull. These were all top grade materials for creating an External Elixir.

The process of molding the meridians was extremely difficult. However, after all, Junior Leopard was a practitioner of martial arts. And because of the Fiery Eyes, his understanding towards the meridians in his body was extremely deep. Hence, without much effort, he created a perfect meridian route within this skull.

Then the second step was to make the bone and his own body's Internal Qi circulation compatible. This was the most important. Even though this External Elixir's cultivation would be the Green Jade Qian Yuan Skill, this was after all his External Elixir. To use it freely as he wished, he had to link it to his own body. If not, how to cultivate a dead object just like that?

Junior Leopard placed the skull to his front, and with lightly blow a strand of fiery red Internal Qi squirmed in between the holes of the eyes of that skull and then disappeared. Following that, the eyes of the Dragon Chimera violently flashed, as if it had a life.

A black skull was flashing a demonic red light in this darkness. Even though Junior Leopard was refining the External Elixir, he was extremely unsettled by that. However, that was good, following the directing of Junior Leopard's Internal Qi, that initial Internal Qi that was circulating within the skull, followed the route of the Green Jade Qian Yuan Skill. It slowly refined the fiery attribute of that Internal Qi into the Internal Qi of the Green Jade Qian Yuan Skill.

This took more than 2 hours. And in this process of redirecting, Junior Leopard's eyes became red slowly. The Fiery Eye was activated. After a good while, the red light in his eyes dimmed. Junior Leopard was still sitting there, refining his Internal Qi. It was until when the sky outside became white. That strand of Internal Qi was refined and changed. Junior Leopard's sweat caused his whole body to be extremely wet.

”This is really not an easy task?!” circulating the Internal Qi within the External Elixir sounded extremely easy. However, that was, after all, a meridian route that was created. It was vastly different from a body's meridians. It was very particular about the circulation of Internal Qi. Hence, when refining External Elixir another important point was that it was the first time the Internal Qi circulating within the External Elixir. For all practitioners who were refining External Elixirs, this was an extremely painful process. There was none who succeeded before times of failure. Of course, there were more who didn't succeed.

Even if it was Junior Leopard who had an advantage due to his Fiery Eyes, he only succeeded after failing three times.

”Urgh, I'm so tired!” Junior Leopard stretched himself, and looked at the sky outside, ”well, I shall rest for a while. Even though Snake King allowed me to go Zhonghe County, this troubled water seems deep. I shall be more relaxed!”

Thinking of this, he immediately laid down and kept the skull beside his pillow. He closed his eyes and prepared to sleep for a good while.

The biggest advantage of External Elixir was that it didn't need to consider how much Internal Qi the material could bear. Hence, when cultivating, it was many times faster than cultivating the own body's Internal Qi. There was no difference between Level Three and Four, neither was there a bottleneck like the human body. Furthermore, there was no distracting thoughts or hesitation. Its cultivation speed was necessarily much faster than an ordinary person's cultivation. That Snake King wanted Junior Leopard's cultivation to rise to Level Six within a year was not for no reason.

It was weird that just now he was extremely tired but after lying on the bed, he couldn't fall into sleep. He only felt that every time he breathed, it would be connected to the External Elixir. What was surfaced in his mind was all the circulation of the Internal Qi within the External Elixir?

Wait!

Suddenly, a crazy and strange idea floated into his mind.

”This External Elixir was just like a human body that only knows cultivating. If I have a plan to let it practice for 24 hours non-stop, then, this External Elixir will become an eternal machine cultivating Internal Qi. Furthermore, it is a dead object and doesn't know what fatigue is. As long as heaven and earth Qi exists, it will not stop cultivating, day and night. Wouldn't I gain a huge advantage?!”

This thought, to others, was a fantasy, a dream, and a wish that couldn't be fulfilled. Even if there was someone who was thinking far-fetched like him, it wouldn't be fulfilled. Just like the strange fist intent which he condensed. However, to Junior Leopard, it was something that had a chance of succeeding!

To achieve this, the most difficult thing was how to let the Internal Qi within the External Elixir circulate non-stop. Just like cultivating Internal Qi, this required inhalation, and exhalation. It was not breathing. Cultivating Internal Qi required a calm mind, and following the cultivation method of Internal Qi to progress step by step. Even till now, Junior Leopard had completed the initial refinement of External Elixir. However, for the External Elixir to work, it required his own Internal Qi directing. Without Junior Leopard's Internal Qi directing, this Internal Qi within the External Elixir would be like sinking into the Dantian, and spread out within the bones. It won't circulate.

And now what Junior Leopard was thinking of was to let the External Elixir circulate on its own. This was not easy!

If it was someone else, with this kind of thinking, they would only laugh about it.

What about Junior Leopard?

He thought of the mysterious black fire that was the size of a yellow bean within his Dantian. This thing seemed to be able to circulate on its own, inhaling and exhaling the heaven and earth Qi. Oh, wrong, it should be inhaling and exhaling Junior Leopard's own pneuma.

”If I could figure out the rules of circulation of this black flame... oh, no, I don't need to complicate matters. I just need to input a strand of this black flame into this External Elixir! Isn't that just like my fist intent with a strand of black flame as well? Anyway, this thing was originally from that weird loach's body?!”