Chapter 527 - 232: Meteor?
But it was completely useless.
It was as if a meteor had passed through, causing the Primordial Power here to instantly grow even more violent.
In the blink of an eye, numerous cuts appeared on Qin Fang’s face, dripping with blood.
"Fuck!"
Qin Fang cursed inwardly. With a single movement, he immediately broke into a frantic sprint.
’I really don’t want to go any deeper into this place...’
But now, the wind was growing more and more terrifying.
It was clearly beyond his ability to withstand.
It wasn’t just his skin that was being wounded... even his internal organs were starting to develop small cuts!
’Damn it... good thing I’m not an Ordinary Person anymore. Otherwise... just from that alone, with several cuts on my heart, I would have died instantly!’
As he was sprinting, he heard...
BOOM!!!
An earth-shattering roar erupted.
Qin Fang instinctively turned his head, and his eyes widened in shock...
The meteor had crashed.
No...
It had crashed into the Abyss!
It smashed directly into the Abyss beneath Qin Fang’s feet—an Abyss that looked like a surface of water, yet had inexplicably allowed him to stand on it as if it were solid ground.
Instantly, terrifying ripples and waves surged across the Abyss.
Caught off guard, Qin Fang’s footing suddenly gave way, and half of his foot plunged into the water.
The next moment, an extreme, icy coldness instantly shot up from the sole of his foot!
Qin Fang’s expression changed drastically. Without a second thought, his figure shot into the air.
But immediately after, a dense layer of frost began to creep up his body from his feet.
...It was just like that day when he fought the Erosion Puppet, Zhao Yuanling, and those Flesh Puppets from the Path of Non-Birth.
Qin Fang was horrified!
’This Abyss actually contains such terrifying Profound Nether Cold Qi?!’
It seemed to have been completely sealed beneath the water before.
But the sudden appearance of the meteor shattered that strange equilibrium, allowing it to erupt!
Qin Fang felt a domineering Profound Nether Cold Will invade his body directly from the sole of his foot.
With no time for further thought, he frantically circulated his Profound Nether True Essence while airborne, resisting the coldness invading from the outside...
And the result was...
’Huh? I... actually resisted it?’
Qin Fang froze.
The moment his Profound Nether True Essence met the Profound Nether Cold Qi, he felt the Cold Qi immediately and obediently surge into his True Essence.
It made his Profound Nether True Essence several degrees colder... yet he himself felt almost no discomfort?
’This...’
Qin Fang blinked.
And in that blink of an eye, the frost that had already spread to his calf receded.
But he had no time to ponder for long... because the wind was still raging!
Moreover, after the meteor’s crash, it had stirred up massive waves that formed a veritable tsunami, which now came roaring toward him!
With no time to think, Qin Fang shot skyward again, rising above the tsunami’s crest.
But the higher he went, the more violent he felt the wind become.
More and more wounds appeared on Qin Fang’s body.
...Even his Infinite Star Armor, though its surface showed no damage, was being pierced straight through by the wind, which wounded the body beneath!
Qin Fang’s expression was utterly grim. He frantically surged the True Essence throughout his body, trying to form some resistance.
But against this wind, his True Essence was like a sieve...
’...The quality of my True Essence is too low! That’s why I can’t block this wind!’
The realization surfaced in Qin Fang’s mind.
His expression was incredibly grim. Looking at the massive "tsunami" of black water, he simply turned around, flew over the first "tsunami," and immediately lowered his altitude to reduce the wind’s power...
...The higher he went, the stronger the wind!
But this wasn’t a single wave; a second one was already rushing toward him, forcing him to hastily gain altitude again... even though he had seemingly absorbed the Profound Nether Cold Qi without issue just moments ago.
But if he were to be swept away by this Profound Nether Cold Qi... Qin Fang estimated he’d be a goner all the same!
Fortunately, the second "tsunami" wasn’t as high as the first. After clearing it, he descended once more.
Then came the third, and the fourth...
Each wave was shorter than the last.
He also discovered that within the range of the tsunami, the wind seemed to have weakened.
’Are the waves of the tsunami blocking the wind?’
It was the only explanation he could surmise.
But at last, it gave him a moment to catch his breath.
He frantically circulated his True Essence, and an abyssal black light suffused his entire body... His wounds began to heal at a visible rate.
...The First Layer of the Profound Nether True Water Scripture was Opening the Kidney Palace.
"The Kidneys belong to the element of Water. They store Essence, govern the bones and produce marrow. Their vitality manifests in the hair, and they open into the ears and the two lower orifices. Furthermore, they relate to the body’s growth and development, reproductive functions, and the ability to store and recover Vitality."
"The ’Primordial Essence’ stored in the Kidney Palace is the locus for the transformation and storage of the Qi from one’s Life Origin. It is one of the fundamental energy sources for the generation of Qi Blood, the nourishment of the internal organs, and the healing of injuries."
The text above was the content of the First Layer.
Therefore...
Opening and strengthening the Kidney Palace meant greatly enhancing a Martial Artist’s ability to seal and store their Life Origin, convert external Vitality into their own life force, and channel that life energy for rapid healing.
However, this rapid consumption of ’Primordial Essence’ also caused Qin Fang’s face to pale just as quickly.
But this was a matter of life and death; he clearly couldn’t afford to worry about such things.
Fortunately...
Finally, everything gradually came to a standstill.
He watched the tsunami recede into the distance.
At first, many ripples still appeared beneath his feet...
But as time passed, the ripples gradually subsided.
Before long, it had returned to its state of perfect stillness, like the surface of an ancient well.
After a moment’s thought, Qin Fang took an empty bamboo tube that once held honey from his pack and tossed it down.
As a result, the bamboo tube landed solidly on the water’s surface.
This made Qin Fang let out a long sigh of relief...
Only then did he step down with confidence...
Sure enough, the feeling of standing on solid ground returned.
’This Secret Realm... is truly incredible...’