<h4>Chapter 459 - Advance into the Heavenly Passage Realm</h4>


    The dan meridian point.


    It was the easiest of the nine meridian points to activate. It was located at the dantian, which used to be the core of the Qi. The other meridian points were never used before, so this one was simple.


    To activate it, one would need a lot of Heavenly Passage Pills to supplement the Qi. One would then need to reinforce it before letting the Qi condense and form the core. Only then would the meridian point bepleted.


    Long Chen had both the Heavenly Passage Pills and Qi to do so now. Soon, he took out fifty Heavenly Passage Pills from the Primordial Realm and consumed thirty of them. The Heavenly Passage Pills quickly became a white torrent that swept past his veins. Under his control, the white torrent fused with his Qi.


    His Qi was now glowing white like milk. Once it waspletely fused, Long Chen ate the remaining twenty. He needed more than thirty because his Qi was special.


    But fifty Heavenly Passage Pills weren’t enough either.


    <i>Thankfully, I took Jiang Cheng’s Heavenly Passage Pills, or this wouldn’t have worked. </i>Long Chen kept consuming Heavenly Passage Pills until he ate three hundred of them. Only then did his Qi start to change a little and could start carving out the first meridian point.


    <i>A regr person would’ve needed only thirty, but I need three hundred. If this goes on, I will need a ridiculous amount to reach the Ninth Passage Stage. </i>Long Chen did a rough calction and estimated that he would need millions of them.


    <i>I never needed to worry about Heavenly River Pills when I was at the Heavenly River Stage since I somehow always managed to get a lot, but now it’s different since I came here empty-handed. Looks like I need to work hard to get more Heavenly Passage Pills, or I will fall behind even if I use Blood Transmutation!</i>


    Just then, he started carving out the first meridian point with his transformed Qi. The Qi from his eighteen starry rivers also surged towards his dantian.


    Qi was usually violent, but with the mellow strength of the Heavenly Passage Pills wrapping around it, he could control all eighteen branches of Qi from his eighteen starry rivers.


    Everything was ready, and Long Chen was preparing to advance to the next stage using his own Qi rather than Blood Transmutation, so it was much simpler than he had thought.


    The eighteen branches of Qi flowed into his dantian. Rather than destroying it, they circted and formed a small, white whirlpool.


    Long Chen felt like his dantian was about to burst.


    <i>It’s never simple!</i>


    He endured it while making sure the Qi didn’t harm his dantian. Time slowly passed, and a small, white core formed above the whirlpool. The core was as pretty as a gemstone.


    It was the size of a bean, but it contained unimaginable power, more than the Heavenly Core Realm by tens of thousands of times. Long Chen now realized the difference in strength between the Heavenly Core Realm and the Heavenly Passage Realm.


    “Sess.” Long Chen sighed in relief as his white Qi swirled around the white core and released his control. His dantian was now the core of the eighteen rivers, so the Qi circted through it before returning to the starry rivers. This way, his entire body was filled with Qi.


    The power of the Heavenly Passage Pills slowly dissipated.


    The main usage of Heavenly Passage Pills was to stabilize the violent Qi. Now that it was done, the effect would dissipate. Long Chen’s Qi slowly returned back to its original red color.


    Whenever Long Chen transformed, his Qi turned blood-red.


    After the Heavenly Passage Pills’ effect disappeared, his Qi started circting through the whirlpool and starry rivers ten times faster than before. A mysterious energy radiated from the inside of his body.


    The howling Qi surged through his body rapidly.


    Long Chen endured it.


    As he endured, the new cirction path formed and stabilized. Long Chen was now officially at the Heavenly Passage Realm.


    He smiled with satisfaction when he saw the red whirlpool and the core above it.


    <i>The core shoulde to life when I’m in battle. It will sink into the whirlpool and radiate a lot of energy. When I’m not in battle, my Qi will be more reserved, simr to how a Heavenly River Realm cultivator is. So this is the difference between the two.</i>


    Long Chen stood up and examined his body.


    <i>Seventy percent of my Qi is in that little core, so only thirty percent of it is circting through my body! Even so, I’m three times stronger than when I was at the Ninth River Stage. So my Qi reserves have increased by tenfold again.</i>


    Since he was at the Heavenly Passage Realm, a new path to cultivation had unfolded in front of him again. This was a good start. As long as he continued, he would have no issues growing stronger.


    <i>I’ve be so strong by just carving out the first meridian point. I wonder how strong I will get when I carve out all of the meridian points? With my cultivation speed, this won’t be difficult. I just need more Heavenly Passage Pills. I’ve used up three hundred for the first stage, and five thousand of them might only be enough for me to reach the Third Passage Stage ...</i>


    Long Chen felt depressed.


    <i>It seems that I need to work hard to find more Heavenly Passage Pills. Without them stabilizing my Qi, my meridian points will be destroyed since they are fragile.</i>


    Long Chen pondered as he familiarized himself with his new body.


    “Why are you so easily satisfied? You’re that happy when you’ve merely reached the Heavenly Passage Realm. I really can’t help butugh at you.” The cat scoffed at Long Chen from the Primordial Realm.


    “You still can’t beat me,” Long Chen retorted.


    “What?! You brat! If I hadn’t used all my power reviving everyone at Baiyang Town, I would’ve destroyed the Divine Martial Empire with just a single sneeze.”


    “What a joke.”


    The fat cat remained silent.


    Just then, Long Chen felt Xiang stirring in the Primordial Realm. Xiang’s body was burning with a ck me, making him look like he was resurrecting from the ashes. His body was also changing—he had shrunk from three to two meters tall. Even so, his body was now much morepact and denser.


    Once the fire was gone, a horrible presence radiated off Xiang. It was the presence of a Heaven-tier demonic beast, and he was also emitting an incredible heat.


    He opened his eyes, and two golden lights shot out of the Primordial Realm and lit up the small cave.


    “What the?!” Long Chen was shocked to see that Xiang’s eyes had turned golden. ck mes burned in them like ck suns in the skies. Long Chen closed his eyes because merely looking at them was painful.


    When he opened them again, the golden light had disappeared and Xiang came out of the Primordial Realm. His eyes were still golden and the ck mes were still lit; even his limbs were on fire. His eyes and the marking of the sun formed a triangle on his face.


    “Big Brother, I think I’ve be stronger, and I think I got a new talent ...” Xiang’s voice was hoarse.


    “Which is?”


    “zing Lions can control mes. Their mastery over mes can be used in many ways, even increasing the strength of their fire by three times. It’s an incredible talent!”


    “So what does that have to do with you?” Long Chen wasn’t sure why Xiang was exining this.


    “I have obtained that talent.”