Grinding Cultivation Toward Martial Saint

At the moment the carriage came to a stop,

Jiang Ning opened his eyes from his meditation.

At this moment, he could feel the Inner Breath rampaging within his body, with not a single meridian under any strain.

"Let's go! Home!" Jiang Ning said.

Right now, he didn't care much about the changes Lv Yi underwent after absorbing his blood.

He just wanted to see how many times more efficient the burst of his Inner Breath was compared to before.

Lv Yi hurried to keep up with Jiang Ning's pace upon hearing this.

After the two alighted from the carriage, the two Snow Red Flame Colts spontaneously headed toward the Wang family's stables, exhibiting a remarkable understanding.

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A moment later,

Jiang Ning came alone to the edge of Chaotic Beach.

Because of the heavy snowfall from the sky, there was now a thick layer of snow accumulated on the ice, about forty to fifty centimeters thick.

Seeing the vast snowy ice world before him, a smile could not help but appear on Jiang Ning's face.

Then, with a leap, his entire being soared like a giant bird spreading its wings, cutting across Chang Kong as if he was soaring through the wind.

The sound of the wind howled in his ears, as the piercing cold wind felt like knife cuts against his face.

Jiang Ning squinted his eyes.

A moment later,

his figure gently descended from the sky like a feather, slowly landing on the snowy ice surface.

If someone had witnessed this scene, they would recognize the skillfulness of Jiang Ning's movement technique.

"With one leap, a hundred yards!" Looking back, Jiang Ning was extremely satisfied in his heart.

Compared to before, his movement technique had improved significantly.

The speed had increased by less than ten percent, but this slight point, combined with the technique of leaping a hundred yards, had more than doubled from before.

The reason for this was that he had unlocked the Grand Circulation of the human meridians.

It had expanded both the Eight Meridians and the Twelve Main Meridians.

The expansion of the Eight and Twelve Meridians also allowed for unobstructed bursts of Inner Breath, significantly enhancing the output efficiency of Inner Breath.

With this kind of Inner Breath enhancement, it was natural that his physical prowess had greatly improved.

Afterward,

he closed his eyes again, scanning through the Dantian within his body.

He then noticed that the total volume of Inner Breath had visibly decreased compared to before.

"The consumption has increased significantly."

"But of course, with increased burst efficiency, it's like comparing the water flow from a ten-centimeter pipe and a one-meter-wide breach. The time it takes to drain a water tank is naturally completely different."

After observing that about sixty percent of the Inner Breath still remained in his Dantian, Jiang Ning opened his eyes again.

The next moment,

he gathered his strength for a short while.

Boom—

An invisible breath burst from his body instantaneously.

The wave of energy expanded around him, sweeping the snow across in all directions.

The snowflakes that had been gently falling overhead immediately reversed direction, soaring up from below straight into the sky.

Afterward,

Crack—

Crack—

Under the explosive force of the breath, the ice layer, inches thick, could not withstand the pressure and began to crack and spread across the surface.

The next moment,

Boom—

The ice layer completely collapsed, and both the waves of water and the broken ice spread in all directions.

The waves surged, forming a wave ten yards high at a distance of ten yards, and then crashing heavily onto the distant ice and snow.

At that moment,

the ice layer was completely shattered, and beneath Jiang Ning's feet was the azure blue lake water.

Yet he stood on the water without sinking.

His wildly bursting Inner Breath could now support his weight upon the water's surface.

After five breaths,

Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle—

The breath that had exploded within Jiang Ning's body suddenly disappeared, and he sank into the lake.

"Sixty percent of the total Inner Breath volume lasted for five breaths."

"That means, even if my Inner Breath recovered to a full hundred percent, a full-force burst like this can only last for less than ten breaths."

Through such a test, Jiang Ning deeply realized what the greatest limitation of a Martial Artist was.

It was the total volume of Inner Breath.

For someone like him, with nearly thirty years of cultivation,

a full burst of Inner Breath could only last for less than ten breaths.

By extrapolation, even if one reached a vast level of Inner Breath, with thirty years of cultivation, they could only maintain a full burst for just over ten breaths.

Pushing further, sixty years of cultivation

would last just over twenty breaths.

This also represents the level where Inner Breath is as deep as an abyss, which basically only a Grandmaster could achieve.

After all, sixty years is a long time—who among the common folk has multiple six-decades?

Without the Grandmaster's longevity of two 'jiazi', it would be no easy task to accumulate sixty years of cultivation.

As for Talent, to step into the Fifth Grade and condense Inner Breath, who wasn't once proclaimed a genius?

So, at this stage, the gaps between them are not so exaggerated.

To continue increasing the total volume of Inner Breath far beyond others at the same level, one either has abundant opportunities and serendipity, or an unparalleled Talent, as if a deposed celestial descended, like a Divine being entering the world.

"Inner Breath is indeed what limits a strong individual from fighting an army!" At this moment, Jiang Ning felt this profoundly.

Immediately after, he smiled.

Because for him, it was not the same.

Now in the water, the Inner Breath in his Dantian gathered instantly like a spring, wisps of Inner Breath like smoke and mist emerged from his Dantian, rapidly accumulating and pooling into a river.

As long as he was in water, his Inner Breath was endless and uninterrupted.

The speed of recovery was astoundingly high.

After a dozen breaths had passed,

he opened his eyes, his gaze filled with restrained brilliance.

Subsequently, his figure shot up through the water like a swimming fish.

Boom—

The calm surface of the lake exploded, and a figure leaped from the water.

Then, suddenly changing direction in mid-air, he crossed over a stretch of water several yards wide and landed on the ice beside the water.

At this very moment,

what unfolded before his eyes was a stretch of water six yards wide, and within a twenty-yard radius, the snow had been swept clean.