After being reborn, all I want to do is run away.

Chapter 161 Three Meridians

As the sun rises, a new day begins in Tianjian City, and crowds gradually gather in Tianjian Square in the center of the city. Before long, the entire square is bustling with noise.

As expected, the water mirrors surrounding the Heavenly Sword Tower began to ripple, revealing different scenes.

"What's wrong with the leader of the Five Mountains Society? Some of the other four leaders have already monopolized the Water Mirror twice, but he hasn't done anything all these days." Someone couldn't help but wonder.

"My friend, you may not know this, but the Five Mountains Alliance changed its leader so close to the Sword Selection, which is a major taboo. The new leader's strength is not very good either, so it is not surprising that this situation occurred."

"It's a pity. I heard that the leader who was replaced was very capable, but his ideas were a bit radical, which is why he was replaced."

"That evil spirit is quite extraordinary! Despite not being the leader, he managed to monopolize the Water Mirror twice. I wonder if he can bring us any surprises today?"

Just as everyone was discussing intensely, all the water mirror images around the Heavenly Sword Tower suddenly changed, showing the scene of Shen Xu killing the demonic python late last night.

"It's him again! He can't even stop in the middle of the night!"

"If I'm not mistaken, his sword seems to be aimed at a Shengyuan fruit tree."

"Impossible! No one would waste such a precious resource!"

"You're focusing on the wrong thing! Judging from the size of that demonic python, it seems to be a late-stage Qi Condensation Realm demonic beast! It was killed so easily by the evil ghost with a single sword strike. At this rate, who in the entire Sword Selection will be able to defeat it?"

"I still think that Shengyuan Fruit Tree is a bigger pity. If it had been used properly, it could have helped many people break through to the tenth level of Qi Nourishing. It's a pity that it was destroyed by the evil ghost with one sword. But at least he did something worthy of his name, the evil ghost."

"Haha, your thinking is very unique. The evil spirits have indeed been dealing with monsters all along. I am looking forward to the showdown between their masked organization and the five major alliances."

"It really is Shen Xu!" Seeing the sword at Shen Xu's feet, Elder Huang's mood immediately lifted.

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After resting for a while, Shen Xu sat cross-legged on a intact stone slab in the Kunyuan Hall and began to try to break through to the tenth level of Qi Cultivation.

It wasn't that he didn't want to leave, but rather that another demonic python had returned and was currently going berserk on the island.

At this moment, the primordial energy mist in Shen Xu's dantian was incredibly dense, as if it could drip water at any moment. But if it were really that easy to condense energy into liquid, there wouldn't be so many people trapped in this final step.

But what he needs to do today is not to condense qi into liquid, but to find a suitable meridian to open up in order to break through to the tenth level of Qi cultivation.

As a wisp of Kun Yuan Qi emerged from the jade tablet and merged into his dantian, the Yuan Qi within his dantian immediately surged and boiled.

The flow of vital energy in his meridians began to converge towards the flow path of the Qi Condensation Realm, but he immediately controlled the vital energy to prevent it from moving into the new flow path, and instead continued to flow along the original path.

However, that wisp of Kunyuan Qi was destined to no longer be able to merge into the already overflowing Dantian along the path of the Qi Nourishing Realm; it could only find another way out.

Shen Xu held his breath and focused intently on observing which meridian that wisp of Kun Yuan Qi was heading towards, and the meridian that wisp of Kun Yuan Qi chose was the one he could currently open up.

If that wisp of Kun Yuan Qi couldn't find a suitable meridian, it meant he didn't have the talent to break through to the tenth level of Qi Cultivation.

And that wisp of Kun Yuan Qi did not disappoint him. It wandered around his already opened meridians, looking here and there, and finally stopped at a blocked meridian.

Just when Shen Xu thought that meridian was the final choice for the Kun Yuan Breath, it ran to another blocked meridian.

In the end, it actually selected three blocked meridians for him, and then traveled back and forth between the three meridians, as if waiting for Shen Xu to make his final decision.

Shen Xu closed his eyes and focused on feeling the differences between the three meridians. They were of different lengths and thicknesses. Shen Xu realized that the opening of each meridian would bring him an improvement in one of his abilities.

The first rule can increase his cultivation speed, the second rule can increase the rate of his vital energy circulation, and the last rule is the most special one, which is to increase the realism of his mist body.

Without the slightest hesitation, Shen Xu decisively chose the most special one. The margin for error brought to him by the Mist Body was incomparable to the improvement brought by the other two meridians, even though the length of that meridian was longer than the combined length of the other two meridians.

As Shen Xu made his choice, the Kun Yuan Qi did not hesitate and crashed into the blocked meridian, opening it up a short distance.

After consuming a Yuan-Boosting Fruit, the strength of the Yuan Qi in his dantian instantly increased to a higher level, and it began to continuously surge towards that meridian.

With the help of the Sheng Yuan Fruit, the speed at which his meridian was opened was extremely fast. In just one afternoon, more than half of it was opened, but the vital energy in his body was almost completely exhausted.

Left with no other choice, he took out the hundred Nourishing Yuan Pills he had borrowed from Li Xiaoyi. Because he was afraid of losing them, he had sewed the porcelain bottle into his sleeve so that he could feel its weight at any time. But now the time had come when he had to use them.

As he swallowed one Nourishing Yuan Pill after another, the Yuan Qi in his dantian immediately became abundant. After swallowing another Yuan-Rising Fruit, the strength of the newly generated Yuan Qi in his dantian was further enhanced. Then, wave after wave of fierce attacks were launched at the meridians that had already been pierced by more than half.

Time passed slowly, and five days went by. Shen Xu's Nourishing Yuan Pills were almost exhausted, and he had even used up six Ascension Fruits. The further he went, the more difficult it became. Even with the help of the Ascension Fruits, his progress was extremely slow.

Moreover, because the meridian was thicker at the top and thinner at the bottom, he had to start sending his vital energy, strand by strand, to the meridian that had already been mostly opened, for fear of damaging the smaller meridians.

On the sixth day at noon, after consuming the seventh Shengyuan Fruit and all the Yangyuan Pills in the porcelain bottle, he had reached a point where it was all or nothing.

Because he lost the replenishment from the Nourishing Essence Pill, he could not replenish his vital energy so quickly, and the Ascending Essence Fruit became useless. Moreover, without vital energy continuously flowing through that meridian, the healing speed of that meridian would be much faster than the recovery speed of his vital energy.

But luck finally smiled upon him. On the afternoon of the sixth day, only a thin, almost transparent layer of vital energy remained in his dantian.

He sent a very faint wisp of vital energy into that meridian, and then it rushed towards the last thin barrier at an extremely fast speed.

This wisp of primordial energy was like a pebble thrown into a calm lake, instantly creating ripples. In a flash, he heard a loud "boom" that sounded like thunder from within his body.

As that wisp of primordial energy suddenly dissipated, a powerful energy wave swept through the entire body, and that stubborn meridian was finally completely opened!

The Cloud and Mist Illusion Technique seemed to sense this change and began to operate according to a completely new route. The newly opened meridian, like a star surrounded by the moon, firmly occupied a core and crucial position in the new operating route.

In an instant, the external energy surged into his meridians, like a rushing river washing over them, making a roaring sound.

The once empty dantian gradually became full as the vital energy rapidly filled it.

He also reached a level he had never achieved in his previous life—the tenth level of Qi cultivation!