Chapter 74: Breaking Through The Extraordinary Meridians, Saber Momentum Major Accomplishment!
Ji Qing has already left Boyang City.
He walked northward all the way.
The further north he went, the more refugees and mountain bandits he saw.
Imperial Court, natural disasters, refugees, demons…
This world is already in chaos!
And how much longer can Jianghu remain peaceful?
Along the way, Ji Qing sought enlightenment, and he indeed had some insights.
Especially in Boyang City, Ji Qing witnessed all living beings, which touched him deeply.
However, Ji Qing felt it was still not enough.
The saber momentum he wanted was not all living beings.
So he still needed to travel and continue walking thousands of miles.
Ji Qing still did not use lightness skill, nor did he ride a horse.
Relying on a pair of legs, he walked step by step to the North every day.
He didn’t know how many months he had walked.
He felt the weather getting colder and colder.
The people he encountered on the road became fewer and fewer.
Gradually, Ji Qing unknowingly arrived at a mountain forest.
“Hoo…”
The cold wind howled.
Snowflake-like snowflakes fell from the sky onto Ji Qing’s head.
Ji Qing stretched his hand into the air.
Snowflakes drifted into his hand.
It was snowing!
Ji Qing had walked from south to north, his clothes long tattered, and he had not changed them, very thin.
If it were an ordinary person, they would have frozen to death long ago.
But Ji Qing’s internal energy was profound.
Even without deliberately circulating it, his internal energy automatically protected his body.
This bit of chill was nothing.
Time passed bit by bit.
Ji Qing had walked in the mountain forest for several days.
The snow grew heavier, with no sign of stopping.
The original mountain forest had become a snowfield.
Ji Qing looked up, the surroundings silver-clad, everywhere a vast expanse of white.
Only ahead stood a snow mountain, towering into the clouds.
Ji Qing suddenly felt a slight touch in his heart.
He wanted to climb the snow mountain and see the scenery at Snow Mountain Peak!
Ji Qing decided to follow his heart.
He walked straight toward the snow mountain.
Soon he reached the foot of the snow mountain.
Ji Qing had no intention of using lightness skill.
Along this journey, he had almost forgotten that he knew martial arts.
Like an ordinary person, he began to climb.
Although he did not use lightness skill, Ji Qing was ultimately a second-rate peak martial artist, his physical fitness far surpassing that of ordinary people.
It took him several hours, from morning to evening, to finally reach the mountaintop.
“Hoo…”
Ji Qing breathed a sigh of relief.
By the time he reached the mountaintop, it was already night, pitch black, nothing visible.
Ji Qing then leaned against a giant rock on the mountaintop and sat cross-legged under it.
Preparing to meditate on the mountaintop until dawn.
But as soon as Ji Qing circulated his energy, he immediately sensed something unusual.
“My internal energy… has stopped growing?”
Ji Qing knew very well that in these months he had indeed forgotten about martial arts, but his internal energy had not stopped.
It had been running continuously.
His internal energy had been growing every moment.
But at this moment, his internal energy had completely stopped.
No matter how he circulated it, it could no longer grow even a bit.
Ji Qing suddenly realized.
His internal energy had reached a bottleneck.
“Since it has reached a bottleneck, then let’s open the eighth meridian…”
With a thought, without any hesitation, Ji Qing immediately circulated his internal energy to rush toward the eighth meridian.
“Boom”.
The eighth extraordinary meridian was thus opened.
It seemed without any obstruction.
With the eighth extraordinary meridian opened, all of Ji Qing’s extraordinary meridians were now fully opened.
The internal energy in his body could now form a great heavenly cycle, circulating endlessly.
This was second-rate peak!
Ji Qing immediately opened the Demon Record to check his status.
Ji Qing: Second-Rank Martial Artist（Eight extraordinary meridians opened）
Extreme Yang Scripture: Perfection（Purity 180%, Internal Energy Quantity 250%）
Astonishing Swan Saber: Perfection（Saber Speed Amplification 170%, Power Amplification 50%）
Grass on Flying: Perfection（Ultimate Move: Borrowing Strength from the Void）
Saber Momentum: Shattered
Origin Point: 3 points
With the eighth extraordinary meridian opened, Ji Qing’s internal energy quantity also surged.
However, this was also the last surge.
If he did not promote to first-rate, from now on, Ji Qing’s internal energy would no longer grow at all.
And first-rate… that was a watershed in Jianghu!
Ji Qing had roamed Jianghu for so long without encountering any first-rate expert.
It was not because he was lucky, but because first-rate experts were the pinnacle power in Jianghu besides grandmasters.
They were often a sect leader or a core elder in the sect.
Such people would not casually wander in Jianghu.
If placed in the Imperial Court, first-rate experts were often commanders guarding one side or great generals leading an army!
Even if a Jianghu loner became a first-rate expert, they could establish a sect and become the founding patriarch.
This showed how high the status of first-rate experts was, far surpassing second-rank martial artists.
As for how to become a first-rate expert?
Ji Qing had long understood it clearly.
To become a first-rate expert, one must open the acupoints in the body.
There are thirty-six hidden major acupoints in the human body.
Each acupoint has inconceivable mysterious effects.
Once an acupoint is opened and internal energy permeates it, the internal energy gains various mysterious powers.
But the thirty-six major acupoints are hidden.
No one knows exactly where they are.
Moreover, the thirty-six major acupoints vary from person to person.
It seems that the positions of acupoints differ in every person.
Therefore, there is no way to open acupoints based on fixed experience.
Only some secret manuals in Jianghu, after cultivation, allow one to find the specific positions of one’s own acupoints and thus open them.
But every secret manual is a core secret of major sects or prominent families.
Passed to outsiders?
That is simply impossible.
This is why there are many second-rate experts in Jianghu, but first-rate experts drop off a cliff.
One very important factor is the monopoly of “secret manuals” by various sects or prominent families.
This is also why “first-rate experts” can establish sects.
Because any first-rate expert must have mastered at least one secret manual.
Then, future disciples can also use the secret manual to find acupoints and promote to first-rate.
Ji Qing had no secret manual.
Therefore, even though he had now opened all extraordinary meridians, he could not promote to first-rank martial artist.
However, Ji Qing was not anxious.
Secret manuals could be sought slowly later.
And this time, his goal was to recondense saber momentum.
That was the urgent matter!
He had walked such a long road, from south all the way to north.
He had witnessed all living beings.
He had insights in his heart.
But what exactly the saber momentum he wanted was like, Ji Qing had never had a clear answer in his heart.
However, his traveling thousands of miles was not in vain.
This was a kind of accumulation.
He vaguely felt in his heart.
His accumulation was almost sufficient, and the opportunity he wanted should soon appear.
Thus, Ji Qing calmed his mind and meditated leaning under the giant rock.
One night passed.
The next day, Ji Qing opened his eyes.
He didn’t know when, but the snow had stopped.
A fiery red sunrise slowly rose.
Ji Qing gazed at the distant sunrise.
Under the sunrise, the scenery of the snowfield was extremely magnificent.
Standing at Snow Mountain Peak, Ji Qing felt like a mayfly in heaven and earth, a grain of millet in the vast sea.
At this moment, many images suddenly flashed in Ji Qing’s mind.
Sunrise, snowfield, high mountains, great rivers, and all living beings!
He had walked for so long.
He had comprehended for so long.
All living beings?
Nothing but striving like flies and dogs.
Not what Ji Qing sought.
Famous mountains and great rivers?
Merely a corner of heaven and earth, also not what he sought.
What he sought was the entire heaven and earth!
Sun and moon, high mountains, great rivers, all living beings… all are heaven and earth!
His saber momentum should embrace all things like heaven and earth!
“Boom”.
With a thought from Ji Qing, the already shattered saber momentum gradually condensed, rising slowly like a sunrise.
Then, the saber momentum continued to transform.
From sunrise to snow mountain, great rivers, even down to cities and individuals, encompassing and tolerating everything!
“Suppress!”
Ji Qing lightly shouted.
Saber momentum covered a radius of dozens of feet, and within the saber momentum range, Ji Qing could clearly sense a snow fox instantly stiffen, its body unable to move.
This was its spirit intimidated by the saber momentum!
A smile appeared on Ji Qing’s face.
This was the saber momentum he recondensed after traveling thousands of miles!
At this moment, Ji Qing’s Saber Momentum Major Accomplishment!
