I Can Strengthen Infinitely

But the old man, with his muscles bulging, did not even break a sweat, not to mention feeling hot.

"Hmm!"

Suddenly, the old man’s eyelids moved, and he opened his eyes abruptly, exclaiming in an incredibly incredulous tone: "How can this be!"

As soon as the words fell, the old man’s years-long bottleneck in power was instantly broken, and a strong aura radiated from within him.

If Qin Yuesheng were here at this moment, he would recognize that this man had finally broken through to the Grandmaster Realm!

"Hahaha! Years of hard work have finally paid off today!" Laughing heartily, the old man leaped up, heading directly towards a nearby passage that led to the surface, occasionally tapping the cliff face with his toes to propel himself upwards.

...

Western Shu.

Six figures were rushing through the mountains, the man at the front had a broken sword stuck in his chest, with blood continuously flowing from his wound.

"Zheng Jing, you have nowhere to run now, just stop and meet your death bravely, and we might give you a quick end!"

Among the six figures, one was at the forefront, with the other five closely pursuing him, clearly in a chase to kill.

The man known as Zheng Jing was sweating profusely, urgently anxious; he had inadvertently run into old enemies who always traveled together as quintuplets, resulting in a one-against-five scenario. During the prolonged battle, he had been unable to keep up and was stabbed in the chest with a sword. If no miracle happened today, it seemed inevitable that he would die at the hands of these five adversaries.

Yet despite this, Zheng Jing was unwilling to give up and wait for death; he still sought to fight with all his might.

Suddenly, Zheng Jing felt a wondrous aura infiltrate his body, and the Inner Strength at his Dantian, stagnant for years at the Peak of External Forging, instantly broke through, with streams of Inner Strength slowly swirling in his Dantian, gradually increasing.

"Hah!" Instantly boosted with confidence, Zheng Jing pulled out the broken sword from his chest with a single hand and turned to attack.

The five saw Zheng Jing did not flee but instead attacked as if losing his mind. Though puzzled, they well knew Zheng Jing’s capabilities; even at the Peak of External Forging, he couldn’t handle five External Forging Martial Artists simultaneously.

Yet, just as they were about to clash, Zheng Jing thrust both palms outward, shattering the skulls of two with Inner Strength.

The remaining three were instantly terrified, their faces ashen with fear.

"He... he has entered the Inner Power Realm!"

For a Martial Artist at the Inner Power Realm, killing those at the External Forging Realm was as easy as cutting grass. In just a few moments, all five met their end at Zheng Jing’s hands. What was initially a crushing defeat turned into a one-sided battle due to Zheng Jing’s sudden surge in power.

After eliminating the five, Zheng Jing collected all valuable items from their bodies and immediately departed from the area.

...

On a lonely rocky mountain in the Northern Desert.

The vast Northern Desert consisted mostly of deserts, with oases containing the only relay stations and cities. Beyond the oases, there was nothing but yellow-sand terrain, where sandstorms occasionally arose from the east.

On the rocky mountain, a woman with a veil covering her face maintained a posture akin to yoga, crouching on the ground. Suddenly, from beneath the desert, a large amount of earthy yellow mist dispersed, all absorbed by the woman’s body.

It was like a whale inhaling water, turning the area earthy yellow in an instant.

Buzz!

With a faint sound, a stream of yellow energy resembling a swimming fish appeared before the woman, and then charged into her body.

The pervasive yellow energy suddenly dispersed, and everything returned to normal.

"The Earth Energy has reached its peak; what is happening?" The woman furrowed her elegant brows, pondering in confusion.

Beyond the Grandmaster Realm is the Five Energies Cultivating Realm, where many Grandmasters wander, seeking places rich in the five energies to cultivate away from worldly affairs.

The woman had been cultivating Earth Energy here for years, progressing slowly. But just moments ago, the sheer amount of absorbed Earth energy, equivalent to a decade’s effort, allowed her to complete the Earth Energy Cultivation of the Five Energies Cultivating Realm in one go.

Such progress would astonish and incite envy from any Grandmaster who knew of it.

This was practically like using cheats.

"The Earth Energy cultivation has been completed, I should leave this place now." Unable to comprehend, the woman decided to get up and prepare to leave.

At that moment, a figure rapidly approached from afar.

"Pan Fengjiao, what methods did you just use to seize the Earth essence from this place?"

The intruder was a blond-haired, blue-eyed man who looked more like a northerner than someone from the Central Plains.

The woman frowned deeply upon seeing him; he was a Grandmaster from a small northern country, also here to absorb Earth essence and cultivate Earth Energy.

Clearly, the recent anomaly had ignited all the Earth essence in this desert for Pan Fengjiao to absorb, causing this foreign Grandmaster to sense something amiss and come hastily for an explanation.

Ordinary people and some Martial Artists always thought Grandmasters were dragon-like figures, elusive and hard to find.

But Grandmasters knew, to encounter another grandmaster just required visiting natural landscapes like deserts, oceans, forests, volcanoes, or mines, where all Grandmasters hide to cultivate the Five Energies Cultivating Realm.

"Pan Fengjiao, to seize all of the Earth essence here with your secret technique is too excessive." The foreign Grandmaster angrily exclaimed.