Chapter 247 - 244: Breaking Through the Shackles and Achieving the Five-Star Realm
It was already afternoon when Lin Yi, Feng Lei, and Zhou Qi left the hospital.
The group hailed a taxi by the roadside.
And went straight back to school.
Wei Nan’s and Sun Tao’s injuries were less severe.
They would be able to leave the hospital and return to school after resting for three to five days.
As for Wei Shang, his injuries were more serious than Lin Yi had imagined.
He probably wouldn’t be discharged for at least ten days to half a month.
Before they left, Wei Shang had called Feng Lei over and given him a few instructions.
Lin Yi hadn’t heard what was said.
But he could guess it was probably about their mission.
Once they were back at school,
the group went their separate ways.
Zhou Qi and Shen Mengyi were eager to get back and cultivate with the compound potions.
After their trip to Jail City, they had become acutely aware of their own shortcomings.
So, for them now,
nothing was more important than cultivation.
Lin Yi and Feng Lei also returned to their dorm.
"I’m going to try the compound potion too!" Lin Yi said with a smile.
Feng Lei nodded, and they each went to their own rooms.
After closing the door, Lin Yi took out his case of Grade-3 compound potions.
He was just one step away from breaking through to the Five-Star Realm.
If this Grade-3 compound potion was truly effective,
then it shouldn’t be a problem at all.
He gave Xiaoqi some Demon Beast Meat, which it started eating on its own.
Then, Lin Yi picked up a bottle of the compound potion and drank it straight down.
Right after he drank the potion, he didn’t feel anything special.
But just over twenty seconds later,
his body began to change. The compound potion he had just consumed felt like it had turned into a raging fire.
It started burning in his abdomen.
Next, the Qi and Blood in his body began to boil.
As if brought to a boil, it spread through his blood, his meridians...
An intense, searing sensation made Lin Yi’s body turn red and hot.
Lin Yi gritted his teeth, closed his eyes, and used his Origin Qi to regulate the Qi and Blood within him.
Gradually, he entered the domain of the Star River Qi Transformation Technique.
When he opened his eyes again,
he was surrounded by the same familiar, vast, starry sky.
The countless stars dotting the cosmos seemed more numerous and brighter than before.
Streams of starlight slowly shone down on Lin Yi.
The moment the starlight showered his body,
an indescribable coolness rapidly lowered his scorching body temperature.
In an instant, an ineffable sense of comfort washed over him, and his expression gradually calmed.
He closed his eyes and began to refine the compound potion inside him.
Only then did he realize just how ferociously potent the effects of this compound potion were.
No wonder the local students from the New District could rely on compound potions to forcibly raise their realms.
He also understood why these compound potions were so expensive.
Their medicinal efficacy was simply incomparable to things like Blood Replenishing Soup or Qi Replenishing Pills.
In fact, their effects were more than just three to five times stronger.
In just that short amount of time, Lin Yi could clearly feel the Qi and Blood in his body surging dramatically.
It continuously poured into the major acupoints within his body.
And that wasn’t all.
Lin Yi felt subtle changes occurring in his body, meridians, and bones.
Even his muscles were being infused with immense power.
Time passed, second by second.
As the heat inside him gradually dissipated, the red hue of his skin slowly returned to normal.
But now, he felt an irrepressible power surging throughout his entire body.
It was constantly expanding within him.
His hearing, senses, and explosive power had all grown considerably.
The terrifying power, in particular, felt as if it was about to burst out of his body.
The next moment,
he snapped his eyes open.
His golden pupils seemed capable of seeing a thousand miles away.
BOOM—
From the center of his body,
a powerful aura rapidly burst forth,
forming wave after wave of energy that pushed outward in all directions.
Even the white tiger, lying not far away, was affected by this powerful wave of energy.
It squinted its eyes, looking up to stare intently at Lin Yi,
until the waves of energy gradually subsided...
"Did I... Did I break through to the Five-Star Realm?"
Lin Yi looked with pleasant surprise at the distant stars representing his realm.
Previously, the fifth star already had four of its points lit up.
But the fifth point was still dim and faint.
In other words, only by lighting up the fifth point could the entire star be lit.
This meant that Lin Yi’s realm had reached the Five-Star Realm.
What he hadn’t expected was that after taking just a single bottle of the compound potion,
the effect would be so overwhelmingly powerful.
He had directly broken through his bottleneck and entered the Five-Star Realm.
"Sure enough, my senses are much stronger! And my hearing and vision are more than twice as powerful as when I was at the Four-Star Realm!"
"The power in my body feels like it’s about to overflow!"
Floating cross-legged in the void, Lin Yi felt the changes in his body.
Then he looked up at the Daoist.
Just as he had predicted, the figure was a little closer to him now.
Although its face was still blurry, its silhouette had become much clearer.
It sat cross-legged, its hands forming a Dharma Seal.
Its mouth seemed to be chanting something, but its lips did not move.
It had gaunt cheeks, a topknot securing its hair,
and wore a Daoist robe, all while being surrounded by an orange glow...
’He’s closer again. Maybe when I reach the Six-Star Realm, I’ll be able to see his face clearly!’
Lin Yi stared at the distant Daoist.
Here, in the Spatial Domain of the Star River Qi Transformation Technique,
the white tiger had already appeared, so the Daoist must also have a crucial connection to this space.
It was just that at his current realm, Lin Yi was still unable to see the Daoist’s true appearance.
Through his long period of cultivation,
Lin Yi had begun to figure out a pattern.
Only by continuously raising his realm would the Daoist get closer to him.
And judging by their current distance,
he would probably have to reach the Seven-Star Realm before the Daoist was truly within arm’s reach.
A look of anticipation flashed in Lin Yi’s eyes.
Suddenly, the sound of someone pounding on the door came from outside.
Lin Yi withdrew his focus and exited the domain of the Star River Qi Transformation Technique.
KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK—
"Lin Yi, are you okay?"
Feng Lei’s anxious voice came from outside the door.
Lin Yi quickly jumped off his bed and opened the door.
"What’s wrong?"
"As long as you’re okay... I felt a powerful fluctuation of Qi and Blood just now and was worried something happened to you.
Huh? Wait, did you break through?"
Before Feng Lei had even finished speaking,
he immediately realized something was different.
Because that fluctuation of Qi and Blood just now seemed to have come from inside Lin Yi’s room.
This made him realize something.
Although his and Wei Shang’s realms were suppressed to the Three-Star Realm,
they were both bona fide Six-Star Realm cultivators.
Even with their realms suppressed, they were still experienced veterans.
From the Qi and Blood dissipating from the room, Feng Lei understood what had just happened.
Lin Yi smiled and shook his head. "I just drank a bottle of the compound potion, and then I broke through for some reason!"
"’For some reason?’"
Feng Lei looked at Lin Yi in astonishment.
At that moment, he truly understood what it meant to be a genius.
Others had to cultivate day after day just to break through a single star, and they still needed a special opportunity to break through their bottleneck and advance to the next level.
But for Lin Yi, cultivating was as simple as drinking water.
And breakthroughs were as common as daily meals.
’He really just broke through "for some reason"?’
At that moment, even Feng Lei’s eyes showed a hint of envy toward Lin Yi.
’Worthy of the name White Tiger Martial God. This terrifying talent is probably unmatched.’
"Come on, let’s go to the cafeteria and get something to eat," Feng Lei said with a light chuckle.
Hearing this, Lin Yi nodded.
Feng Lei was an experienced veteran. After every breakthrough,
one would feel an intense hunger in their stomach, often enough to devour a whole cow.
At a time like this, one needed to eat immediately.
It was necessary to replenish the Qi and Blood that had just been consumed.
This was especially true for food cooked with Demon Beast Meat as an ingredient.
It had a particularly noticeable effect on replenishing Qi and Blood.
Lin Yi nodded. "I’ll be right there, just let me grab a jacket!"
He turned back to grab a jacket and also stuffed Xiaoqi, who had just lain down to sleep, into his pocket.
Only then did he follow Feng Lei out of the dorm and head toward the cafeteria.
「In the cafeteria.」
There were only a few students scattered about.
It was just after four in the afternoon, not yet mealtime.
So, not many students were there to eat.
Lin Yi and Feng Lei walked in, grabbed trays, and went to the service window to get food.
All kinds of Demon Beast Meat were available,
and they were prepared using a variety of cooking methods.
Lin Yi didn’t get any staple food; he filled his entire tray with Demon Beast Meat.
After finding Feng Lei and sitting down, he began to wolf down the food, completely disregarding his image.
"Slow down, no one’s going to steal it from you!"
"Let me tell you, it won’t do you any good if you don’t chew the Demon Beast Meat properly before swallowing!"
"You can only absorb and digest it better after chewing it thoroughly!"
As Lin Yi frantically stuffed his face with Demon Beast Meat, trying to replenish his depleted Qi and Blood,
Feng Lei, sitting opposite him, couldn’t help but impart some of his experience.
"Back when I was in school, I had a roommate just like you!"
"His talent wasn’t as monstrous as yours, though. I still remember it clearly. When he was advancing from the Two-Star to the Three-Star Realm, his Qi and Blood were depleted and he needed food to replenish them."
"He got a ton of Demon Beast Meat and started eating like a madman!"
"Because he swallowed so much of the Demon Beast Meat without chewing it properly, guess what happened?"
Hearing this, Lin Yi found a moment to look up at him and shook his head.
"He got constipated! Hahaha..."
"He couldn’t go for three whole days! He was in his room, wailing and howling. It was a miserable sight!"
After saying this, Feng Lei couldn’t help but laugh.
After he had laughed for a while, Lin Yi swallowed a mouthful of meat.
"What happened then? Did it affect his Qi and Blood?"
Feng Lei paused for a moment, then shook his head and said, "That part wasn’t really affected!"
"Actually, Demon Beast Meat is fundamentally different from ordinary pork, beef, and mutton!"
"Why else would there be a profession like Spirit Chef? The cooking methods for Demon Beast Meat are very complex!"
"The chefs in regular restaurants and hotels can’t cook Demon Beast Meat at all!"
"Take the simplest thing, for example. They have no way of cooking the Demon Beast Meat until it’s tender!"
"How can you eat the meat if it’s not tender? Not to mention preserving the Qi and Blood and other nutrients contained within it!"
"So, only Spirit Chefs know the proper methods to prepare Demon Beast Meat!"
"However, the texture of Demon Beast Meat is still much chewier than regular meat!"
"Even after special preparation, it’s not easy to digest it completely once you’ve eaten it. That’s why you have to chew it as thoroughly as possible first!"
"You know that old saying, ’You can’t eat hot tofu if you’re impatient’? It’s basically the same principle..."
After Feng Lei finished speaking,
Lin Yi nodded. The few pieces of meat he had just swallowed
had already formed a base in his stomach.
Heeding the advice, as for the remaining Demon Beast Meat,
Lin Yi decided to finish it slowly. He didn’t want to make the same mistake
and end up screaming hysterically on the toilet tomorrow.