Chapter 45: Xia Ming's Outburst

  His blood concentration is not enough to practice the Breaking Heaven Technique, but if he takes action, helping Xia Ming clear those blocked meridians and making his body's meridians unobstructed, releasing the power inside his body can still be done. After all, 99% of the meridians in his body have been cleared at a concentration of one percent, and for Xia Ming, it can be said that it is a trivial matter.

  At this thought, Xia Lin raised her head and stared at Xia Ming, her eyes shining brightly like a clear moon.

  "I can help you solve this problem and heal your wounds."

  "I can even completely solve it for you, so that when you use the bow and arrow in the future, you will no longer suffer from meridian problems."

  "I can still make your power more than ten times stronger than it is now! Become a true powerhouse!"

  "You can get what you want, and even more, make your mark, shock the world!"

  Every sentence made Xia Ming's heart surge, and he looked at Xia Lin in disbelief. Each sentence struck his soul deeply. After a long time, Xia Ming finally calmed down his emotions, lifted his head to look at Xia Lin and asked: "What do I need to do?"

  Yes!

  He didn't believe Xia Lin would help him for no reason, especially with so many things that seemed unthinkable to him.

  Summer is coming and something must be done!

  Xia Lin gazed at him faintly, "I want your absolute loyalty!"

  Xia Ming's mind suddenly cleared, and he looked at Xia Lin fiercely. But what he saw was Xia Lin's calm face. Calming down, his mind was filled with thoughts. Xia Ming lowered his head to look at the scar on his right wrist, and finally made a decision.

  "If you can really do it, why should I mind following you thoroughly?!"

  Xia Lin smiled slightly, he knew that unlike the last martial arts competition, this time Xia Ming would truly become his subordinate, a powerful and formidable warrior!

  "Still don't believe me?" Xia Lin looked at Xia Ming's somewhat puzzled eyes, and his right hand directly slammed into his chest. "Now, I'll let you completely get rid of them!"

  "Boom!"

  A surge of blood energy shook within Xia Lin's body, then suddenly rushed into Xia Ming's chest.

  A massive surge of blood and energy, like a mighty army, directly swept through Xia Ming's meridians, compared to the increasingly difficult meridians in Xia Lin's body, it was simply too easy on Xia Ming's side.

  "Boom!"

  "Boom!"

  "Boom!"

  "Boom!"

  Innumerable sounds of blood vessels bursting erupted, and numerous blood vessel channels were opened in a favorable direction. Even countless bloodstains splashed out from Xia Ming's body, and the swarming mysterious energy had not yet had time to exert its power when it was suddenly defeated by Xia Lin's blood energy, sweeping over.

  Soon, the blood gas circulated in Xia Ming's body for a week, and most of the blood vessels were directly opened.

  "And there's one more."

  Xia Lin smiled lightly, causing the blood energy to condense and form a terrifying torrent once again, directly impacting upwards, and striking open the last remaining blood vessel in Xia Ming's body.

  "Hmm!"

  Xia Ming spat out a mouthful of blood and felt his body ache as if it was about to split apart.

  Looking inside his body, Xia Ming was shocked to discover that all the meridians in his body had been torn apart by Xia Lin, and all the mysterious energy had disappeared without a trace. He didn't know whether it had been dispersed or swallowed up. For a moment, he felt terrified - what did Xia Lin want to do?

  "Uh..."

  Xia Ming stood there covered in blood, his body completely devoid of strength. The pain from the meridians made Xia Ming think he had been thoroughly crippled.

  "What exactly do you want to do?" Looking at Xia Lin's calm face, he was bewildered.

  Xia Lin didn't answer him, but instead said lightly, "Sit cross-legged, sit down!"

  It was Xia Ming, if it were someone else, they would have jumped in anxiety long ago. With the hope of healing his injuries and trust in Xia Lin, Xia Ming sat cross-legged with a belly full of doubts.

  "Take out the spiritual grass and start cultivating!" Xia Lin continued to say.

  Xia Ming took out a few spiritual grasses and swallowed them directly. The internal skill ran in his body, and he began to cultivate according to Xia Lin's words.

  One circle, two circles, three circles...... Xia Ming silently operated, what made him breathe a sigh of relief was that the lost Xuan Qi quickly condensed back, seemingly not lost due to his meridian injury. Fortunately...his martial arts were not crippled.

  Xia Ming continued to run, but soon he was shocked again.

  Because when his strength reached the point of refining his body to the eighth level, it didn't stop, but continued to grow, mid-eighth level, late eighth level, peak of eighth level.

  "Boom!"

  With a loud cracking sound, he suddenly broke through the bottleneck of the eighth level of Body Tempering and entered the realm of the ninth level of Body Tempering, and this was still not stopping.

  Tempering Body Nine Layers Early Stage, Tempering Body Nine Layers Mid Stage, Tempering Body Nine Layers Late Stage, all the way until he reached the peak of Tempering Body Nine Layers, his rapidly advancing progress finally came to a stop, leaving him staring at himself in incredulity.

  "How...how is this possible?"

  Xia Ming's eyes were undoubtedly filled with a shocked expression. In just this short period of time, had he actually reached the peak of the 9th level of Body Tempering?

  With a somewhat dazed shake of his head, Xia Ming waved his hand, and what was even more terrifying was that at this moment, his body was filled with an abundance of thick and powerful energy, far surpassing the peak of the ninth level of physical training, not to mention that he was only just a warrior who had just broken through!

  This power......!

  "What's going on?" Xia Ming turned his gaze towards Xia Lin.

  It's clear that everything is related to Xia Lin's seemingly casual but actually devastating slap just now. Xia Lin shrugged and pointed at his wrist.

  Xia Ming lowered his head and took a look, only to discover that with this breakthrough, the injury on his right wrist had completely healed!

  "Is it because of the breakthrough?" Xiaoming thought with some doubt, "No, absolutely not! How could a breakthrough bring about these things. That injury has existed for countless years, if a breakthrough could cure it, he wouldn't have kept it until now."

  Unfortunately, Xia Lin did not intend to answer these questions.

  Sometimes, maintaining mystery is a good thing.

  "What's going on?"

  "Hurry up and get over there."

  "Take a look back!"

  A loud noise came from afar, and immediately a large group of Black Wind Gang disciples rushed out. Sun Zhong and Lü'er also ran back behind them. Apparently, Xia Ming's breakthrough earlier had startled everyone awake.

  Sun Zhong rushed over the fastest and saw Xia Ming covered in blood, with Xia Lin standing beside him looking calm. He couldn't help but freeze, what's going on?

  Similarly, a large group of Black Wind Gang disciples who came later also saw this scene and were stunned on the spot.

  What's going on?

  Xia Ming and Xia Lin, have they fallen out?

  A large group of disciples suddenly tensed up, although they had only been following Xia Lin for a few days. However, everyone also knew that this young master was usually quite amiable and good to his subordinates, so conflicts rarely occurred. But as for Xia Ming, it was even less likely - he was completely a blockhead, and belonged to the type who was cold on the outside but warm on the inside, and was still relatively kind to his subordinates. Two people like this shouldn't have any conflicts.

  What happened after all?

  Lu'er came over and took a glance, seeing bloodstains everywhere, her eyebrows furrowed in concern as she ran to Xia Lin's side, pulling him while looking at him: "Young Master, are you alright? Where are you hurt?"

  Sun Zhong heard the words, his mouth corners slightly twitching. Although he didn't know what had happened, in this situation, it seemed that Xia Ming was heavily injured, but Young Master was completely unscathed. Wasn't Greenie's concern a bit too obvious?

  "It's okay, don't worry."

  Xia Lin smiled at Lü Er, turned his head and glanced at the crowd surrounding him. These Hei Feng Zhai disciples, some of whom had followed him all along, were naturally loyal without a doubt. However, some who had joined halfway were now looking at him with suspicion, clearly wanting to know what had happened.

  "Don't worry, nothing's wrong." Xia Lin smiled faintly as he looked at the Black Wind Gang disciples. "Xia Ming was about to make a breakthrough earlier, I came over to help him with his defense."

  Everyone suddenly understood, it turned out to be so.

  No wonder I felt that powerful aura bursting out earlier. It turns out that Xia Ming was preparing to break through, but looking at this state, with blood all over his body, did he fail?

  At this point, Xia Lin's face broke into a smile as he said to everyone: "From today on, we have another strong master who has reached the ninth peak of Quenching Body!"

  "Whoosh——"

  Everyone was shocked by his words, and the Nine Heavens' peak of physical refinement?!

  Xia Ming had actually reached this point, just one step away from the boundary of the cyclone!

  This progress, is actually so rapid, at this time, everyone also seems to have remembered, it seems that since following this young master, everyone's strength has been rapidly progressing. And now, Xiaoming has even directly impacted this step, making everyone's heart surge with excitement.

  Xia Ming can, does it mean they also can?

  Sun Zhongyi was stunned, and for a moment he felt a little dazed. Xia Ming had actually reached that step. Yesterday, the two of them were still in the eighth stage of body refinement, but today, they had already reached the ninth peak? Looking at himself still stuck in the eighth stage of body refinement, unable to break through to the ninth stage, Sun Zhong clenched his fists tightly, Xia Ming could do it, and he could too, absolutely cannot be pulled down so easily!

  No one knew that Sun Zhong was stimulated by Xia Mingyi and started his crazy cultivation.

  "Gentlemen."

  Xia Lin waved his hand, letting everyone quiet down, then said faintly: "We've been away from the mountain stronghold for twenty-eight days now, it's about time we went back."

  "This time, without a doubt, we are absolutely the first in the mountain stronghold trial."

  "So now, tell me, are you all prepared to be winners?"

  "Ready!"

  All the disciples of Hei Feng Zhai answered excitedly.

  "Alright."

  Xia Lin nodded in satisfaction, "Since so, go back and pack up, set off immediately!"

  "Yes!"

  Everyone responded and dispersed to gather their belongings.

  After a moment, everyone packed up and this team of victors set off on their journey home.