“Liu Zhaodi, you…”

When he regained consciousness, Liu Zhaodi had vanished without a trace.

"Crazy woman, she really knows how to pick her timing!"

Jiang Yuan felt like a million curses were raging in his heart. If it were five hours ago, he could have used his powerful soul force to make Liu Zhaodi question her existence. But at this moment, he had just exhausted his soul force by cultivating the Heart Nourishing Technique, and was in his weakest state.

"If I help you upgrade your talent again next time, I'll be a dog!" Jiang Yuan silently made a vow in his heart.

After the little incident, Jiang Yuan still kept his gaze on the bronze door; his physical strength really needed to be improved.

Judging from his current level, he can only improve his physical strength. Even though the Eternal Seal has suppressed 90% of his ancient martial arts power, this is not a reason for him to give up ancient martial arts.

Let's begin!

Jiang Yuan first took out ten thousand strands of black iron-level divine blood power, as he needed to test the power of the perfect-level Heart Nourishing Technique.

Only those with pure hearts can reach the pinnacle!

The Mind Nourishing Technique moves with the heart, and the power of divine blood quickly disappears. Within half an hour, the progress of the demigod body reaches the threshold of 9,999.

"What's going on? Why can't I improve?!"

Jiang Yuan was extremely puzzled. Originally, a single strand of black iron-level divine blood power could steadily increase his demigod transformation progress by one point. Even after the addition of the Five Elements Treasures, which transformed his demigod body into the more difficult Five Elements Demigod Body, the improvement shouldn't have been too significant. However, now, even though his previous demigod transformation progress had already exceeded five thousand, and with the addition of the current ten thousand strands of black iron-level divine blood power, his demigod transformation progress was still stuck at nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine.

He wanted to ask the spirit of the palace, but the matter of the Five Elements Demigod Body was related to the Innate Sacred Body. The Innate Sacred Body could not be exposed even to the closest people. Otherwise, if the battlefield rules detected it, not only would the Lord of War's thousands of years of planning fail, but he would also lose his life. This was an outcome he could not bear.

"Could it be a problem with me?"

When he took the problem personally, he gradually realized the reason for the bottleneck.

If a demigod body could break through simply by relying on the power of divine blood, then it would be completely meaningless. No powerful physique relies solely on external objects, let alone the Five Elements Demigod Body, which is known as a divine body.

"Has my physical body reached a bottleneck?" Jiang Yuan muttered to himself.

The eternal seal on his nine shackles is an unbreakable seal. Although it caused his strength to plummet, his physical potential broke through to its limit because of his innate holy body. The bottleneck he currently faces is only the bottleneck of his previous ancient martial arts, not the bottleneck of his innate holy body.

"In that case, let's give it a try!"

Jiang Yuan took out an earth-yellow bead, which was an offensive magic weapon he had obtained from the core—the Gravity Bead. As the name suggests, the Gravity Bead's function was to exert gravity.

Once the gravity bead is thrown, an extremely strong gravitational force will appear within a radius of tens or even hundreds of meters centered on the bead. Since the gravity bead has a fixed amount of energy, the gravitational force it exhibits is related to the area radiated by the gravity bead. In other words, the smaller the area radiated by the gravity bead, the greater the gravity; conversely, the larger the area radiated, the smaller the gravity.

Jiang Yuan didn't dare to be too aggressive, so he chose ten times the gravity. However, when he entered the gravity bead domain, he didn't feel much pressure, so he kept increasing the value.

Twelve times, fifteen times... all the way up to thirty times, Jiang Yuan's forehead began to bead with cold sweat, a sign that his body was under immense pressure.

"Thirty times, very good!" Jiang Yuan tried his best to remain calm, because the Earth's gravity was already far greater than before after the transformation, so the pressure he was under at the moment far exceeded two thousand Newtons.

Tai Chi!

Jiang Yuan began practicing Tai Chi using pure physical strength, progressing from Yin and Yang to the Eighteen Balls, striving to perfect every movement.

The first attempt was ineffective; the second attempt was also ineffective. Jiang Yuan had no intention of giving up. He simply kept practicing Tai Chi with unwavering determination, and the gravity of the gravity ball continued to increase.

Finally, when he had completed seventy sets of equipment and the gravity had reached fifty times, he broke through to the Five Elements Demigod Body.

Five Elements Demigod Body: Progress Value /.

When the progress value of the Five Elements Demigod Body reached 10,000, Jiang Yuan suddenly felt an endless surge of power within his body, a feeling he had only experienced in the Five Elements Ring.

His eyes gleamed as he muttered to himself, "Is this the Five Elements Demigod Body?"

The boundless physical body bestowed upon him by the Innate Sacred Body is finally beginning to show its power. The Blood Shackles, which had already reached their limit, are further enhanced by the Innate Sacred Body. In just a short period of time, his physical strength has doubled.

"Again!"

Once the bottleneck period of 10,000 was overcome, the divine blood power at the black iron level recovered its previous amplification of one point.

Half an hour later, the progress value of the Five Elements Demigod Body reached 19,999, once again reaching the bottleneck period.

Having learned from his previous mistake, he did not continue to absorb the energy, but instead increased the force of his movements and continued practicing Tai Chi. Each Tai Chi move propelled his body forward a little.

Eighty times the force of gravity, one hundred sets of Tai Chi, progress value of twenty thousand.

One hundred times the gravity, two hundred and seventy sets of Tai Chi, progress value of thirty thousand.

...

With gravity 300 times greater, 1,500 sets of Tai Chi, progress value 99,999.

Indeed, at the 99,999 mark, Jiang Yuan faced another bottleneck, but this time, no matter how hard he tried, the bottleneck remained unmoved.

The range of the gravity bead has shrunk to 0.8 square, and the gravity has reached a terrifying 300 times. Tai Chi has also become ineffective, but the bottleneck still exists.

"call!"

Jiang Yuan was breathing heavily. The combined effect of gravity and repeated Tai Chi practice had pushed his body to its limit, and he could no longer squeeze out any more power.

"what to do?"

Before this, he had considered combining the profound meaning of Dihuang with Tai Chi, but because he had not yet mastered the profound meaning of Dihuang, even if the profound meaning of Dihuang was combined with Tai Chi, it would not be as good as Tai Chi alone, and would be somewhat incongruous.

He remained silent for a while, then focused his attention on his life attributes and self-healing potential. If he transferred his life attributes to ancient martial arts, he might be able to break through his current bottleneck and reach a completely new realm.

However, while the idea is simple to grasp, its implementation is incredibly difficult. Life attribute is a branch of power within divine energy, meaning it can only be reflected in the physical body when divine energy is present. And…

His divine power is useless!

"Life attribute!"

Jiang Yuan's eyes were sharp. He felt it was necessary to take a gamble and rely on his self-healing potential to transfer his life attributes into his physical body, so that they would not only exist as energy.

"Fifth stage of self-healing, begin!"

The core acupoint of the self-healing factor—Guanyuan acupoint—begins to operate.