novelraw Chapter 83 : Borrowing Your Pressure
Chapter 83 : Borrowing Your Pressure
Chapter 83: Borrowing Your Pressure
The medicinal power of the Foundation Establishment Pill was far beyond what the words “frenzied” or “violent” could describe.
If ordinary spiritual energy was a gentle trickle, then this clinical trial version of the Foundation Establishment Pill was a raging flood mixed with a mudslide, sweeping away everything in its path!
Chu Feng only felt as though a volcano erupting had been stuffed inside his body.
Scorching, chaotic energy rampaged through every meridian, tearing at every cell within him.
“Puh!”
He spat out a mouthful of fresh blood.
Countless fine crimson cracks instantly spread across the surface of his body, making him look like a porcelain figure on the verge of shattering.
“President!”
Zhang Daniu and Wu Hao (through the jade slip) both shouted in alarm.
Leng Yanran’s face turned deathly pale. She rushed forward in a single stride, wanting to use her spiritual power to help Chu Feng channel that berserk energy.
“Don’t come over!”
Chu Feng roared those three words with all the strength he had left.
Though his eyes were filled with pain, they were unnervingly clear.
Leng Yanran’s hand froze mid-air. When she saw the look in Chu Feng’s eyes, she instantly understood something.
He wasn’t losing control.
He was… enjoying it!
“Damn it… that’s the stuff!”
Chu Feng’s mind grew sharper amidst the unbearable pain.
In his past life as a financial fraud kingpin, he had survived countless deadly pursuits and life-or-death gambles. His nerves were far tougher than any ordinary person’s.
The greater the danger, the calmer he became.
“The body is a company on the brink of bankruptcy, the meridians are the cash flow pipelines, the dantian is the central bank, the raging medicinal power is the sudden influx of hot money, and the bottleneck is the trade barrier…”
In his mind, there was no reverence of a cultivator—only the mad logic of a financial con artist.
“Too much hot money, too narrow a pipeline—forcing it through will only rupture the system and collapse the company! What to do?”
“Expand the pipelines? Too late!”
“The only solution is to bring in stronger external regulation! Use external pressure to forcibly compress, integrate, and package all that hot money—turn it into a high-density, high-purity ‘blue-chip stock,’ then use that ‘stock’ to break through the trade barrier’s gate!”
And that “external regulation” was none other than the Nascent Soul restriction above his head!
“Come on, old man!”
Chu Feng roared inwardly.
Instead of resisting the restriction’s pressure, he released the protection around his body and deliberately exposed himself to that terrifying force!
An assault from within and without!
Inside was the erupting medicinal volcano.
Outside was the mountain-crushing suppression.
Chu Feng’s body became the battlefield where the two terrifying forces clashed.
His bones creaked under the strain, his muscles tore inch by inch, and blood dyed the ground beneath him.
Zhang Daniu watched, heart pounding, fists clenched so tightly that his nails dug into his palms.
Leng Yanran bit her lip hard, her beautiful eyes unblinking as she stared at Chu Feng. Her heart was gripped by an invisible hand—every tremor of his body tugged at her soul.
She had never seen such a mad way of cultivation.
This wasn’t cultivation anymore—this was suicide!
But for some reason, as she watched that figure struggling wildly at the edge of life and death, her heart, besides anxiety, also gave rise to an unfamiliar flicker of light.
This man always did the most insane, impossible things—but they somehow always worked.
Just as Chu Feng’s consciousness was about to be drowned by the sea of agony, his instinct—tempered through countless deceptions—caught a fleeting opportunity.
“Now!”
He condensed his divine sense into a single point, as sharp as the finest blade, and stabbed straight into the core of the medicinal energy compressed between internal and external pressure!
“Condense for me!”
He visualized the most complex and precise “Ponzi scheme” he had ever designed in his past life.
With his dantian as the core and his meridians as the network, he forcibly conducted an “asset restructuring” of all the rampaging spiritual energy according to that model’s framework!
Buzz—
A miracle occurred.
The wild medicinal power that had been rampaging aimlessly suddenly found an outlet.
Following the guidance of Chu Feng’s divine sense, it began to rotate slowly and orderly, forming a small but stable energy vortex.
And the external Nascent Soul pressure acted like an untiring craftsman, continuously refining the vortex—making it smaller, brighter, and ever denser!
At the Main Peak.
True Lord Xuantian, who had been meditating, abruptly opened his eyes.
“Hm?”
He sensed a strange fluctuation from the restriction he had laid down.
“A mere ant… and it hasn’t been crushed yet? Still struggling?”
A cold smile appeared at the corner of True Lord Xuantian’s lips.
He felt that his authority had been challenged.
“Hmph. Since you’re still so lively, I’ll give you a hand!”
With a thought, he injected even purer Nascent Soul spiritual power into the restriction over the West Mountain Pill Institute.
Boom!
The golden barrier sank heavily, and the pressure instantly increased by thirty percent!
Inside the Pill Institute, Leng Yanran and Zhang Daniu, who had been worrying for Chu Feng, suddenly felt the crushing pressure multiply, forcing them flat onto the ground, unable to move.
But at the very center of that pressure, Chu Feng instead felt an unprecedented surge of assistance!
“Hahahaha! Perfect timing!”
Chu Feng laughed wildly in his heart.
This old thing was the best support he could have asked for!
That added pressure was precisely what his forming energy vortex needed to complete its final compression!
Crack!
A sound echoed deep from his soul.
An invisible barrier within Chu Feng shattered completely!
The energy vortex, compressed to its absolute limit, instantly transformed into a stream of unimaginably pure liquid spiritual energy that surged into his dantian like a flood breaching a dam.
In that moment, his dantian expanded—from a small pond into a vast lake!
A power far beyond the Qi Refining Realm erupted from his body and soared skyward!
Foundation Establishment—
Achieved!
Boom!
The newborn Foundation Establishment pressure collided violently with the external Nascent Soul restriction.
The golden barrier trembled violently, like water struck by a massive boulder.
Chu Feng slowly stood up.
Under the nourishment of his new Foundation Establishment spiritual power, his wounds healed at a speed visible to the naked eye.
With a casual wave, he cast a Cleaning Technique, washing away the blood and tattered clothes from his body.
He raised his head, looking at the golden barrier above that still radiated terrifying pressure, and revealed a brilliant smile.
“Many thanks, Ancestor, for protecting me!”
His voice wasn’t loud, yet it carried clearly to the top of the Main Peak—straight into True Lord Xuantian’s ears.