Published: February 19, 2025
Chapter 48: They Are So Powerful
At night, Chen Chu sat cross-legged on his bed, his consciousness controlling the true power to continuously circulate along the route of the second level of dragon elephant skill.
He could clearly feel that this transparent true power, when operating, emitted a suction force that forcibly drew in the external extraordinary energy for refinement.
He no longer needed to rely on mental strength to guide it into his body like before; his cultivation efficiency was several times greater than before the breakthrough.
After refining the wandering energy, each rotation would increase the true power, which would then return to the dantian to begin a new round.
However, unlike the internal power that travels through meridians in martial arts novels, although the dantian is the starting point, the running route of true power is very complex.
It not only wanders under the fascia and skin but also weaves through muscles and bones, and where it passes, it has a certain refining and strengthening effect on the entire physique.
This is also why true martial cultivators have increasingly stronger physiques.
Moreover, the dragon elephant skill, which focuses on main strength and defense, has an even better refining effect on physique; after cultivation, muscle explosive power is stronger, and skin becomes more resilient.
About an hour later, Chen Chu finally opened his eyes.
Huh!
Chen Chu exhaled a breath, carefully sensing the changes after his training, and then murmured, “This progress is a bit slow.”
The first level of heaven mainly focuses on refining the physique and generating true power. Therefore, to refine the physique to about five times that of an ordinary person and to reach an arm strength of three hundred kilograms is necessary to touch the edge of a breakthrough.
After breaking through to the second level of heaven, the cultivator’s focus shifts to strengthening true power until the dantian is filled, making the refinement of the physique secondary.
As for the limit of the physique at the second level of heaven, it is roughly around eight hundred kilograms of arm strength.
This limit is not the biological limit of humans, but rather the limit of the refining effect of true power at the second level of heaven on the body.
Only after breaking through to the third level of heaven can the even more powerful true power continue to refine and strengthen the physique.
However, since cultivators do not need to strengthen their physiques to the extreme, as long as true power fills the dantian and continues to compress the true power to the point of atomization, they can break through.
Therefore, some extreme cultivators increasingly disregard the strengthening of their physique, as they pursue breakthroughs in the true power realm more.
The higher the realm, the more terrifying the true power they cultivate, even capable of harnessing the forces of heaven and earth in battle.
In contrast, for high-level cultivators, especially the top experts at the ninth level of heaven, the few hundred or thousand kilograms of added strength from physique increase is insignificant.
Only those who are stuck at one realm for several years or decades would expend energy to refine their physiques to the limit of their current realm.
Because during the process of cultivating and refining the physique, some true power is consumed, affecting the cultivation progress.
Recalling the content Pang Long had mentioned, Chen Chu estimated that in order to fill his dantian with true power, under normal cultivation conditions, it might take him half a year.
“Half a year, huh.” Thinking about this, Chen Chu sighed.
After his qualifications were enhanced through two successive avatar evolutions, with his foundational physique improving, his talent was actually not inferior to those 'geniuses' who broke through in a week relying on resources.
In this case, if breaking through to the third level of heaven takes him half a year, then how long would it take those who establish a foundation in half a month or a month?