Do not die

Meng Zhou did not stop there. As the founder of this new technique, he could clearly feel that it still had many unfulfilled potentials that had not been fully tapped.

He has not reached the limit of his current abilities.

However, thinking about all this can be left to the day after tomorrow.

Early the next morning, after a night of practice, Meng Zhou checked his personal status, "Realm: 99/100 at the seventh level of Qi training."

On this day, Meng Zhou neither went to the bottom of the pond to practice nor tease the grumpy bears. Instead, he stayed quietly in the stone room to meditate.

Although the self-created horizontal training method is still at the master level, firstly, it is more consistent with him. Secondly, it is indeed superior to the Cangxiong horizontal training method. The daily limit experience is increased from grandmaster +120 to +150.

The time spent was not more, or even slightly less, allowing him to invest more time in the knotting method than planned, and once again increased from daily +2 to daily +3.

That night, no accidents occurred. Meng Zhou quietly completed the breakthrough from the seventh level to the eighth level of Qi training while practicing in seclusion.

Early the next morning, as soon as he finished practicing, Meng Zhou clicked on his personal information to check the changes brought about by this breakthrough.

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[Name: Meng Zhou]

[Life span: 51/103 years] (+4 years)

[Status: Healthy]

[Realm: Eighth Level of Qi Training: 1/100]

…

With this breakthrough, the upper limit of life was increased by four years again, which was not too unexpected by Meng Zhou.

This is not so much an "increase" as it is a "restoration."

Even if you are practicing a technique such as Yan Lie Jue, which is characterized by violent killings, if you reach the late stage of Qi training, and if no accidents happen, you will usually have a lifespan of one hundred, twenty or thirty years before you die.

And if it is a technique that focuses on warming and healing like the Water Nourishing and Moisturizing Technique, the upper limit of lifespan will be even longer.

Now, whether it is the increase in lifespan brought about by the basic skill Water Nourishing and Moisturizing Art, or the improvement in cultivation level, daily practice, or even the increase in lifespan brought about by the physical horizontal training method that he is currently practicing, they are just the improvement of his body. The body is emptied out by magic power and the lost things are taken back bit by bit.

Therefore, the increase in the life limit was not beyond his expectation.

What concerned him the most was the change in [status], which finally changed from "sub-health" which had remained unchanged not long after he crossed over, to "healthy".

Meng Zhou guessed that for Qi-training monks, the upper limit of one hundred years of life is a watershed.

“At this level, until today, I can barely be considered a qualified Qi practitioner.

In the past, no matter how strong the combat power was, it was more or less done by some strong outsiders. "

When it was almost noon, Meng Zhouyu used his flying sword and once again came to the mountains where bears were infested.

A dark brown giant bear with a head and rump length of more than six meters and a standing height of more than eight meters was competing with a hard bluish-black rock, constantly colliding and rubbing against it.

This giant bear had extremely keen animal instincts. Even though Meng Zhou was very careful and concealed, he was still locked onto it when he was still ten meters away.

And as its dark brown gaze locked onto him, Meng Zhou clearly felt that the gravity around him was suddenly abnormal, reaching at least five times the normal level, which was even better than the ultimate effect of the earth force talisman array on the tripod.

When the giant bear saw that its prey was restrained, it was so nervous that it would immediately open its mouth and roar to alert the group of bears. It immediately closed its mouth, got down on all fours, opened its mouth wide, and pounced on him.

In the process of running, the muscles and fur all over its body surged like waves, and its whole body was filled with yellow light.

It gives people a wonderful feeling of being agile yet clumsy, reckless yet cautious.

And just when the giant bear was about to approach, a mana hand appeared behind its head holding a perfection-level ice talisman.

As a talisman was played, a thin layer of frost condensed on the huge bear's body.

Even its bloodthirsty consciousness was briefly interrupted, and the yellow light that was inspired by its consciousness and lingered around it disappeared instantly.

The huge power hidden under its thick fat is quickly dissolving the restraining power imposed by this layer of ice talisman. At the same time, its majestic potential can destroy this layer of obstacles with a few breaths at most.

But of course Meng Zhou would not give it any chance, and a flying sword was immediately inserted between its head and neck.

With a slight twist, the huge bear's head that was about to fly high was caught in advance by his magic hand and put into the storage bag.

Soon, the huge bear body was quickly decomposed with the cooperation of the flying sword controlled by the mind and the hand-held magic sword, and was all disassembled and assembled into multiple storage bags.

With his strength, it is not difficult to deal with these giant bears.

Even if it has first-level top-level strength, it doesn't play any tricks and confronts it head-on. It won't take more than ten breaths at most to solve it.

The real trouble lies in whether he can completely eliminate it before it sends a signal to other giant bears.

Because of different needs, the battle modes he came to this "Bear Mountain" were divided into two types.

First, in order to obtain the meat of monster beasts, it is natural to use full firepower and fight quickly.

The other side of the rapid advancement of the horizontal training method is that the appetite is greatly increased and the consumption is huge. Monster meat is more suitable than spiritual rice.

Naturally, Meng Zhou would not let go of this treasure trove of resources in front of him. He had already foreseen this situation before leaving Nuanyun Valley.

Even the supplementary resources are spiritual rice and spiritual tea. The monster meat is not supplementary at all, but it is considered that the materials can be obtained nearby.

Not only are the materials fresh, but you can also save a lot of spiritual stones.

And then there's the fight itself with the bears.

After taking apart the unlucky giant bear that he had taken a liking to, and knocking it into a storage bag, Meng Zhou put away his magic sword, and hid the flying sword close to his body, disappearing into the mountains.

Soon, the roar of the giant bear sounded, and more giant bears were attracted to this area.

Meng Zhou did not wait for a group of bears to attack him. Instead, he used his flexible body skills and a movement speed far exceeding that of a giant bear to move freely among the bears.

As for which giant bear you choose to fight, it all depends on his needs and mood.

The giant bears attracted by the roars of their kind were like products on a supermarket shelf for him to choose from.

Each giant bear monster has its own attributes due to its different bloodline.

The brown bears of the earth type are the most numerous, followed by the red bears of the fire type. The number of white bears of the ice type is much smaller than the two.

Today, due to demand, the targets Meng Zhou chose to fight were all ice-type white bears.

Sometimes, in order to feel it more clearly, I would even take a few slaps while ensuring my own safety, and experience the feeling of the cold power penetrating into the skin, viscera, and even bit by bit into the bone marrow.

In the next two days, Meng Zhou appeared in this Bear Mountain, specifically picking white bears to fight and feeling its cold power firsthand.

In the next two days, Meng Zhou plunged into the deep pool again. In order to make the feeling more clear, he regarded the ice talisman as a supplementary material. From time to time, he would take a picture of his body to feel the coldness entering his marrow and even his brain. Feel.

During this period, the method of Turtle Breath also advanced to perfection.

From the beginning to the end of his practice, he could stay underwater without any problems. The skin and pores all over his body could capture the air in the water, allowing him to stay underwater for a long time.

Then two days later, I went to Xiong Mountain to find White Bear as a sparring partner.

His purpose is already obvious, which is to feel the power of ice and cold, and finally digest it and use it completely for his own use.

But he doesn't want ice, he just wants cold.

If he simply added the power of ice and cold to his own horizontal training method, it would take at most three days to complete.

The reason why it took more time was that he had to peel off the "ice" and only want the "cold".

This is related to his understanding of "water nature".

In his understanding, the water in "water-based" is definitely not H2O, but a soft liquid.

Only in this way can the basic virtues given to "water" be worthy of their name.

Once water turns into ice, it can basically be regarded as different from "water-based".

But "cold" is different. It is the inherent attribute of water, or in other words, it is the inherent attribute of all things.

Moreover, it has no limit, and there is no law that "water" must turn into "ice" when it is cold enough.

…

Meng Zhou stood naked in the stone chamber.

The Perfect Level Ice Talisman was slapped on his body. Because he deliberately did not resist, a thick layer of frost formed on the surface of his body, limbs and torso.

Hidden deep under the skin, the blood throughout the body is flowing rapidly.

But Meng Zhou not only did not use the power of Qi and blood to expel the ice covering his body, but instead took the initiative to restrain the majestic power of Qi and blood.

Carefully understand the "power of coldness" hidden in the ice, and reappear it bit by bit in the circulation of blood.

At a certain moment, Meng Zhoufu's soul felt like mortise and tenon joints, concave and convex, and he immediately found the most fitting point.

The evil spirit that makes practitioners feel uncomfortable pours into the body more and more, and the power of cold nature begins to be born little by little, blending with the power of qi and blood hidden in the skin, organs, blood vessels, muscles and bones.

To be more precise, it should not be called "birth" but "appearance".

Because Meng Zhou realized that cold is not one with ice, and heat is not bound to fire.

Cold and heat are the inherent properties of all existing objects.

Before he realized them, they had already existed in his blood and muscles, but because he had never realized this, they had always been in a recessive state.

Now, he just found it and changed it from hidden to explicit.

Meng Zhou, who grasped this subtle mystery, his heart beat lightly, and power instantly spread throughout his body, causing the ice covering his body to shatter and fly.

As his heart continued to beat, the power of qi and blood hidden deep in the skin, organs, blood vessels, muscles, and even bone marrow was stimulated and mobilized.

Such mobilization of the power of Qi and blood cannot last long, and if the power of Qi and blood is exhausted, the body will suffer from overall weakness.

But at this moment, with the eighth level of Qi training and the addition of the master-level water nourishing body art, it is like having an oil pipe stuck in the fuel tank of a supercar.

The magical power of the Water Nourishing and Moisturizing Technique actually broke through the shackles and became a continuous source of support for the power of qi and blood.

Then, Meng Zhou collected the power of his qi and blood, stood at the exit of the passage, and waved the magic power of the Water Nourishing and Moisturizing Technique towards the pool in front of him.

At the moment when the mana is mobilized and leaves the body, the cold power hidden in the skin, muscles, bones, and blood vessels of the organs is naturally integrated into it.

The next moment, mana hit the water, the temperature in that area dropped sharply, and several pieces of solid ice emerged.

Seeing this scene, Meng Zhou fired a wave of majestic magic power towards the rapidly falling waterfall farther away.

A large piece of waterfall water turned into solid ice at a speed visible to the naked eye, fell on the pool, and was shattered by the subsequent flow of water.

Ice shards flew everywhere.

This kind of power is no worse than those cold spells, and it is more arbitrary in actual combat.

However, if you look at the magical properties of the Water Nourishing and Moisturizing Technique, it does not have any cold power. It is still known for its gentleness and is least good at killing and fighting. The water-based healing and warming magic power.

Because these cold-natured powers are hidden in the qi and blood of his whole body, and when he is not using them, they are well hidden as they were in the past, and only appear when he is using them.

And as the barrier between his self-created horizontal training method and the spiritual practice method disappeared, a wonderful breakthrough emerged.

On the one hand, mana becomes the stamina support of the power of qi and blood.

On the other hand, the power of Qi and blood can enhance its power while ensuring the purity of the magic power.

They are independent of each other and do not interfere with each other.

They complement each other and support each other.

"This is a dual-core driver, right?"

And just when the Henglian method completed this step of evolution, the corresponding information changed again.

"???Grandmaster: 1380/1600" becomes "???Grandmaster: 605/2400".

Judging from the changes in experience alone, the level of this horizontal training method is already at the same level as the water nourishing and moisturizing technique, and the two are side by side.

Since then, Meng Zhou's purpose of coming here has been achieved.

Meng Zhou took inventory of the supplies he carried with him.

The biggest consumption is spirit stones. After the cultivation reaches the eighth level of Qi training, fifteen low-grade spirit stones will be consumed every day for practice.

Not only does it cost spiritual stones to practice, but it also costs spiritual stones to restore mana.

The high-intensity training of the horizontal training method consumes an equally huge amount of mana in order to keep the body in peak condition.

In order to restore mana, several low-grade spiritual stones must be consumed every day.

However, he had a lot of spiritual stones reserved on him, and he also made an unexpected windfall on the way here, which was enough for him to use for a long time.

Although his food intake has greatly increased, his consumption of spiritual rice is not much. These days, his diet is mostly based on monster meat.

There is still a lot of food reserves, and it is still far from bottoming out.

Moreover, these days of practicing again, he has become accustomed to and even somewhat likes the atmosphere here.

Although the consumption is much greater than practicing in the spiritual veins, it is even more difficult in this state.

So Meng Zhou decided to meditate here for a while longer.

The self-created horizontal training method was named "White Bear Cold Body" by Meng Zhou, and the experience gain is still +150 per day.

However, for the same experience gain, the time invested in practicing it has been shortened a lot.

In other words, the new horizontal training method has become more efficient in destroying oneself, allowing the body to reach the limit that it can endure that day at a faster speed.

Meng Zhou spent the rest of the time practicing knotting techniques.

Knot skills +4, the daily increase in experience has reached a new level.

Although it is still in its infancy, the speed of knotting ropes with both hands and the speed of hand-brain coordination have also improved significantly.

Originally, it took about three hours to complete each hundred knots, but now it only takes less than two and a half hours, and the time it takes to complete four rounds is about nine and a half hours.

On the other hand, after reaching the eighth level of Qi training, the efficiency of cultivation is much lower than when it was at the seventh level.

Dropped from +19 every six days to +8 every six days.

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[Name: Meng Zhou]

[Life span: 51/103 years] (+4 years)

[Status: Healthy]

[Realm: Eighth Level of Qi Training: 9/100]

[Exercise:

Master of water nourishing and moisturizing techniques: 1015/2400

White Bear Hanjishen Grandmaster: 605/2400]

【Skill:

Martial Arts: Fourteen Perfections (Details omitted)

Spells: perfect breathing technique, perfect eight medicine masters (details omitted)

Talisman: four perfections (details omitted)

Perfect swordsmanship

The initial completion of hundreds of rope knot techniques: 79/200]

[Contract Oath: Rope Spirit Level 1: 29/100]

【Profession:

Knot Master Level 1: 18/100

Talisman Maker Level 1: 98/100

Pharmacist level one: 100/100]

A friend provided the idea of ​​"water bear", thank you.

However, after careful consideration, I still feel that the style of painting is a bit inappropriate. After all, apart from the name, it really has nothing to do with "Bear".

Actually, my initial idea was to connect with the national treasure, and the legend of the Iron-eating Beast is also good, but after careful consideration, this idea didn't work.

One problem is the style of painting, which seems too joking; the other is that the compatibility with the Water Nourishing and Moisturizing Technique is really not good enough, so I regret to abandon it.