novelraw Chapter 206 - 203: Life Acupoint (2)
Chapter 206 - 203: Life Acupoint (2)
The light radiating from this point was extremely dim, even to the subtle perception granted by the Power of the Heart.
It would be easy to miss if one wasn’t paying close attention.
Watching this, Hu Qi’s interest was piqued.
He summoned his panel, his piercing gaze sweeping across it as if searching for something.
Before long, his gaze sharpened, fixating on a single line in the Skill section.
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[Taiyin Life Acupoint Atlas Divine Summoning Technique—Life Acupoint: Yin Frost (1%) △]
’Just as I thought. An increase in the Power of the Heart helps me locate my Life Acupoints.’
Hu Qi muttered softly to himself.
According to information about the path beyond the Refining God Realm that he had acquired in He Yun Country, it seemed that once a Refining God Venerable achieved Perfection in their Essence, Qi, and Spirit, there was no further room for advancement.
However, the potential of the human body was unimaginable.
Beyond the three great Divine Treasures—Essence Element, Qi Veins, and the Celestial Heart—the body also housed a vast number of Life Acupoints, like a sky full of stars.
The locations of these Life Acupoints were extremely well-hidden.
To open a Life Acupoint, one had to at least reach the Refining God Realm and possess the Power of the Heart, which was the most basic requirement.
Otherwise, it would be impossible to find them at all.
But this was merely the most basic condition.
Even with the Power of the Heart, locating a Life Acupoint was still extremely difficult.
The location and function of each Life Acupoint varied from person to person, and the conditions for opening them were exceptionally strict.
A Life Acupoint was like a dormant seed; it needed the Power of the Heart as nourishment to be fully awakened and activated.
This Taiyin Life Acupoint Atlas Divine Summoning Technique was a special Dharma Gate, deduced by past Refining God Venerables, for using the Power of the Heart and Mind to illuminate one’s own Life Acupoints.
This Taiyin Life Acupoint Map recorded a total of forty Life Acupoints.
Once all were illuminated, they would form the Taiyin Life Map.
Illuminating each Life Acupoint would increase one’s strength, and some Life Acupoints even possessed special functions.
For example, according to the records, once the Yin Frost Life Acupoint in the palm of his hand was fully illuminated, it would be able to condense, absorb, and release Cold Yin Energy at will.
He looked at the symbol behind it, which indicated that it could be enhanced or modified.
Hu Qi focused his thoughts and, without hesitation, selected it.
In an instant, the single remaining Modification Point in the modification section vanished.
The next moment, the point of light in his hand, which had been flickering dimly as if from a bad connection, suddenly grew a degree brighter.
[Taiyin Life Acupoint Atlas Divine Summoning Technique—Life Acupoint: Yin Frost (11%) △]
’One Modification Point for 10% progress.’
’At that rate, it would take a total of 10 Modification Points to fully illuminate this Life Acupoint.’
’And for forty Life Acupoints, that would be 400 points.’
’That number was manageable.’
Seeing that his Modification Points were depleted, Hu Qi considered for a moment before mobilizing his Power of the Heart, sending a thread of it surging toward the Life Acupoint’s location.
The moment it made contact, the dimly glowing Yin Frost Life Acupoint flared slightly.
Simultaneously, Hu Qi’s vast reserves of the Power of the Heart were drawn in by an unseen force, rapidly consumed and devoured by the acupoint.
The Life Acupoint had become like a bottomless vortex.
At the same time, the panel also began to change.
[Taiyin Life Acupoint Atlas Divine Summoning Technique—Life Acupoint: Yin Frost (12%) △]
13%... 14%... 15%...
As time slowly passed, the Power of the Heart within Hu Qi’s Celestial Heart Divine Treasure was almost completely depleted.
A splitting headache assaulted him, as if countless steel needles were stabbing into his brain.
Within his Celestial Heart Divine Treasure, the coiled figure of the Three-Eyed Primordial Serpent had also dimmed, seemingly from the excessive expenditure.
Hu Qi glanced at the status section of his panel.
[Status: Abnormal (Power of the Heart Depleted)]
Unfortunately, he had no Modification Points to recover instantly.
Fortunately, he found that the sensation was already weakening, and he was beginning to recover slowly over time.
Furthermore, as the Three-Eyed Primordial Snake Spirit Devouring Map operated, it accelerated his recovery. He roughly estimated it would take about ten minutes.
This speed was not slow at all; an ordinary Refining God Venerable would have required much more time.
It would take them an hour at the very least.
The reason for this was the immense foundation of his Divine Soul and the vast size of the Celestial Heart Divine Treasure he had opened.
Additionally, the Three-Eyed Primordial Snake Spirit Devouring Map had fused with other Inheritance Secret Martial Arts. The combination of their various Traits had raised this Inheritance Secret Martial Arts’s Level to be exceptionally high.
All of this combined to give Hu Qi such an advantage.
However, rather than waiting to recover slowly, Hu Qi preferred to use other methods.
His figure flickered, vanishing from the wooden pavilion in the courtyard like a phantom.
The next moment, he appeared in the villa’s kitchen, where he poured a cup of hot water and dropped in a Spirit-Nurturing Tea leaf.
When the water turned a jade green and a faint, fresh fragrance began to drift from it, Hu Qi raised the cup and downed it in one go.
He instantly felt a cool current spread through him, rapidly easing his headache.
Inside his Celestial Heart Divine Treasure, the Power of the Heart, which had been nearly depleted, began to recover swiftly.
Spirit Tea was a great help to Qi Dao Grandmasters.
But for enhancing his Divine Soul at its current level, its effects were greatly diminished.
He took a moment to assess his condition.
The potency of a single Spirit-Nurturing Tea leaf was insufficient.
Only after drinking a second cup did Hu Qi make a full recovery.
He let out a breath.
Hu Qi turned his gaze back to the panel.
[Taiyin Life Acupoint Atlas Divine Summoning Technique—Life Acupoint: Yin Frost (61%) △]
’It increased by fifty percent compared to before.’
’By this calculation, I just need to do that one more time to illuminate it completely.’
’The consumption is that high!’
Hu Qi raised an eyebrow, inwardly surprised.
After his Three-Eyed Primordial Snake Spirit Devouring Map broke through to the Third Layer of the Celestial Heart Chapter, allowing him to reach the Self-Image Realm Peak, his Power of the Heart, when fully unleashed, could cover a three-hundred-kilometer radius.
This was several times the range of an ordinary Refining God Venerable.
And yet, all that power had only managed to illuminate the Life Acupoint by about half.
’No wonder the information he’d obtained stated that illuminating Life Acupoints and forming a Life Map was no simple task.’
Looking at the 61% progress on the panel, Hu Qi mobilized his newly recovered Power of the Heart and infused it into the acupoint again.
Since only 39% of the progress remained, his Power of the Heart was not completely exhausted this time; he had some to spare.
Although it was draining, he didn’t experience the same splitting headache as before.
On the panel, the progress for the Yin Frost Life Acupoint reached one hundred percent, and then the percentage disappeared.
In the palm of his hand, as seen through the perspective of his Power of the Heart, the Life Acupoint shone brilliantly with a faint, silvery-white light.
The instant the Life Acupoint was illuminated, Hu Qi could feel wisps of some unknown power from the void slowly converging toward it.
He even felt a slight enhancement in his muscles, bones, and flesh.
The sensation was extremely subtle; if he were not a Refining God Venerable who had achieved Perfection in Essence, Qi, and Spirit,