Chapter 291: Meridians (1/2)

Chapter 291: Meridians

“Caw caw!”

A group of crows flapped their wings and landed on the branches. They stared at the bloodied corpse with their bean-sized eyes. They opened their sharp peaks, intending to feast.

An aura of death had diffused throughout this area. What had been a fresh female corpse has now decayed in a rough manner.

“Animal, human meat is not for you!” Feng Feiyun pointed forward. A black ray shot through one of the crows and turned it into a rain of blood. A flame ignited and burned continuously.

He took down the corpse and laid it flat on the ground. There were no signs of life, but it was still a bit warm. It showed that she had died very recently.

Feng Feiyun stood there and stared at it for a long time before burying her in the forest. He quickly made a grave for her.

A solitary grave in the cold night. A heretical beauty had become a bloody corpse after death, buried in the most desolate of locations. Many years from now, she would turn back into loess.

At that point, this lonely grave might be flattened by the ruthless river of time.

A thousand years later, who else in this world would know that she once existed?

Feng Feiyun might still be alive and could occasionally remember her. However, he would definitely have forgotten about her face, name, and the location of her burial.

The only thing he could recall was that there used to be a woman who was an ephemeral part of his life.

“Every person is just a visitor in this revolving world. The moment they’re born, they are taking steps toward death — no one can escape this.” Feng Feiyun quietly stood before the grave and contemplated with a heavy heart. Of course, he wasn’t that affected.

Cultivators may become more and more indifferent to all things after seeing more of the world. Life and death are up to fate. How could mortals contend against the power of the heavenly dao?

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Feng Feiyun and the Evil Woman didn’t enter Mount Banda. They stayed right outside while preparing stealth formations. Cultivators from all over were searching on these outskirts, but no one noticed them.

The Evil Woman motionlessly sat on a large boulder for three days. An invisible power from the top of the peak entered her body and helped restore her cultivation.

According to Feng Feiyun’s speculation, she likely returned in order to absorb the power from the ancient altar.

Meanwhile, he meditated around an array with a soft glow around his body. A bright True Mysterious Spirit Stone was shrinking at a rate visible to the naked eye due to his rapid absorption.

“Boom!” Once it was absorbed completely, strands of spirit energy gathered on his right hand and a meridian emerged.

A yellow light shot out of the meridian to connect the world to his dantian.

An inexhaustible energy poured into his body like a spring.

“The thirty-fourth fate meridian!” He opened his eyes as the meridian sank back down into his muscles. After three days, his cultivation had soared from opening twenty-five meridians. In addition to the first nine, he now had thirty-four in total.

These meridians acted as bridges between the dantian and the world. The higher the number of meridians, the greater the amount of spirit energy that the user could channel and naturally, the stronger their cultivation.

“Two millennium spirit grasses and five mysterious spirit stones have been used up altogether. One grass can open ten while one stone is just one.” Both of these items were great treasures of the cultivation world.

This was especially true for these millennium spirit grasses. They were exceedingly rare and nearly priceless. Even Heaven’s Mandate cultivators would kill for them.

He received these two roots from the Feng ancestral ground, but finding more was going to be virtually impossible.

“Just how many resources will it take to open all 360 meridians in one’s body?” At grand achievement God Base, one could use time to slowly cultivate or rely on the accumulation of resources.

However, even the four great clans wouldn’t be able to afford this huge consumption of resources. Only the highest ranking geniuses were able to enjoy such treatment. They would use these resources to empower themselves.

The eight Grand Historical Geniuses, the lords of the heretical schools, and Princess Luofu… These people were nearly all created by piling resources or else they wouldn’t have such a frightening cultivation at their young age.

For example, an ordinary person at grand achievement must cultivate for twenty years before opening all 360 meridians. This was predicated on them having incredible talents.