At night, Chen Chu sat cross-legged in the bed, controlling his true energy with his consciousness to circulate continuously along the second level of the Dragon Elephant Skill.
He could clearly feel that this transparent true energy would emit a suction force when it was in operation, forcibly absorbing the extraordinary energy free outside the body into the body for refining.
There is no need to rely on mental power to guide it into the body as before, and the efficiency of cultivation is several times higher than before the breakthrough.
After refining the free energy, these true forces will grow stronger with each circulation, and then return to the Dantian to start a new cycle.
However, it is different from the internal force that runs through the meridians in martial arts novels. Although it also starts from the dantian, the route of the internal force is very complicated.
It not only travels under the fascia and skin, but also shuttles between some muscles and bones, tempering and strengthening the whole body's constitution wherever it passes.
This is also the reason why the physique of Zhenwu practitioners becomes stronger and stronger.
The Dragon Elephant Skill, which focuses on strength and defense, is more effective in tempering the physique. After practicing it, the muscles will have stronger explosive power and the skin will be tougher.
Almost an hour later, Chen Chu opened his eyes.
call!
Chen Chu exhaled, carefully sensed the changes after cultivation, and then murmured: "This progress is a bit slow."
The first level is mainly about tempering the physique and generating true strength, so the physique must be tempered to about five times that of an ordinary person, and the arm strength must reach 300 kilograms to touch the edge of a breakthrough.
After breaking through the second level, the focus of the practitioner is on strengthening the true energy until the dantian is filled, and the tempering of the physical constitution becomes secondary.
As for the physical limit of the Second Heaven, the arm strength is about 800 kilograms.
This limit is not the biological limit of humans, but the limit of the tempering effect of the second level of natural power on the body.
Only after breaking through the third level can more powerful true energy continue to be tempered and the physical body be strengthened.
However, since practitioners do not need to strengthen their physical fitness to the limit, as long as they fill their Dantian with true energy and continuously compress the true energy to turn it into atomization, they can achieve a breakthrough.
Therefore, some extreme practitioners will pay less and less attention to physical strengthening, and they are more pursuing breakthroughs in the realm of true strength.
Because the higher the realm, the more terrifying the power cultivated will be, and one can even harness the power of heaven and earth to fight.
Compared with high-level practitioners, especially the top-level strong ones in the ninth heaven, the hundreds or thousands of kilograms of strength gained from their physical fitness are not worth mentioning at all.
Only those who have been stuck in one realm for several years or even decades will spend their energy to refine their physique to the peak of their current realm.
Because when practicing to temper your physique, some true energy will be consumed, affecting your progress in practice.
Recalling what Pang Long had said in his mind, Chen Chu estimated that if he wanted to fill his dantian with true energy, it might take him more than half a year of practice under normal circumstances.
"Half a year." Thinking of this, Chen Chu sighed.
After two consecutive evolutions of his clones, his basic physical fitness improved, and his talent was actually no worse than those "geniuses" who relied on resources to break through within a week.
In this case, it would take half a year to break through to the third level. How long would it take for those who take half a month or a month to build the foundation?
Chen Chu once again felt the difficulty of the path of cultivation. It took him at least half a year to break through from the second level to the third level. What about the breakthrough from the third level to the fourth level?
As the difficulty of breaking through each level increases several times, it would take at least two years for a person with poor aptitude to break through to the third level through normal cultivation...
Thinking of this, Chen Chu couldn't help but feel fortunate.
Fortunately, he can use attribute points to directly strengthen and break through the realm of martial arts.
The next day at noon, Chen Chu, who had been practicing swordsmanship for the whole morning, came to the cafeteria and met Lin Xue and Xia Youhui, who were also queuing.
"Achu, here, here." Xia Youhui waved to him.
When Chen Chu came behind him, Xia Youhui couldn't wait to say, "Ah Chu, have you heard?"
"You didn't even say what happened, how could I have heard anything?" Chen Chu couldn't help but complain.
"Hey... I thought you knew."
Xia Youhui chuckled, and then gossiped: "This morning, I heard that the second-ranked Li Hao and the third-ranked Hong Tianyi both broke through the second level."
"It is said that Li Hao has built his foundation in three days and has already reached the limit of the first level. This time, after taking second place, he made a breakthrough with the help of cultivation resources."
Chen Chu nodded: "I know him."
Chen Chu had a deep impression of that two-meter-tall, mighty classmate who used heavy weapons. After all, he was a tough guy who fought while carrying an iron pillar.
As they were talking, several people finished their meals, took their plates and found an empty table to sit down.
After sitting down, Chen Chu looked at the purple-haired girl opposite him and asked curiously, "Class Leader, how long will it take you to break through?"
As a genius ranked tenth in the ranking tournament, Lin Xue is currently very popular among the freshmen. There is no other way around it, not only is she beautiful but she is also very strong.
Lin Xue thought for a moment and said, "I used some resources yesterday to strengthen my physique to the limit of the first heaven. The next step is to nourish and condense my true energy. It is estimated that it will take a few days."
"The squad leader is amazing. He is about to break through so soon."
When praising Lin Xue, Chen Chu's tone was very sincere, as if he had completely forgotten that he had broken through to the second level yesterday.
Lin Xue shook her head: "I just used the resources to break through ahead of time. There is nothing to be proud of."
Originally, after building the foundation, Lin Xue expected that he would be able to break through in more than a month. This time it was only a week earlier, so he didn't feel much.
And it wasn't just Lin Xue who broke through. Over the next week or so, people in the top 50 broke through to the second level from time to time.
At the same time, some gossip about Chen Chu began to circulate.
It is said that the reason he was able to make it into the top 50 was due to his high degree of compatibility with the Dragon Elephant Art, which allowed him to possess explosive power beyond his limit when he reached the first level.
Even so, I only ranked 49th.
Once those "geniuses" who have practiced advanced techniques break through to the second level, his advantage will be crushed.
And according to the speed of practicing low-level techniques, even if he exchanged resources to speed up his practice, it would take at least more than a month to break through the second level.
At that time, not to mention the top 50, all the advanced martial arts practitioners who were not ranked had already broken through early.
Any one of these people is strong enough to suppress Chen Chu. Ranking in the top 49 in the grade will no longer be an honor for him, but a mockery of empty reputation.
"Well, what do you think after listening to this?"
Thursday, afternoon.
In the reading room on the 33rd floor, Luo Fei recounted all the comments she had seen on the official website.
Chen Chu thought about it and nodded, "I don't have any feelings. They are right. Those people are indeed much better than me in terms of cultivation talent."
Looking at Chen Chu's calm and composed look, Luo Fei blinked her beautiful eyes and asked curiously, "Aren't you afraid that someone will challenge you after breaking through the second level?"
Although according to school rules, the ranking of freshmen will not change before their sophomore year, if someone really manages to defeat Chen Chu, his popularity will definitely soar.
"No."
"Why?" Luo Fei wondered.
Chen Chu smiled and said, "Those who are ranked ahead of me will not attack me, and those who are not on the list, only those who have practiced advanced skills are dangerous to me."
"But these people only have 5 contribution points a month, which is less than what I have now, and they don't have 20% discount privileges, so they can't redeem many resources."
"By the time they break through, I will have almost broken through as well. By then, it's still unclear who will win or lose at the same level."
Chen Chu did not tell anyone about his breakthrough because it went against common sense.
After all, the talent he had shown before was only average, so even if he had the excuse of a high degree of compatibility with Zhenwu, it was too obvious and there was no need to say it.
Of course, he didn't want to play the pig and eat the tiger, he was just used to keeping a low profile and felt there was no need to publicize it.
But if someone messes with him, he will slap them to death.
Looking at Chen Chu, who looked calm and unmoved by the outside world, Luo Fei smiled.
The two chatted for a while, and then immersed themselves in the atmosphere of reading.
Of course, although Chen Chu seemed to be reading a book, in fact most of his attention was on the heavy armored beast.
The ferocious beast, which had grown to a height of 1.3 meters, slowly entered the river.
More than a week had passed since the breakthrough to the second level, and the heavy-armored beast was either hunting or preying every day.
As the heavy-armored beast continued to grow and became more powerful and ferocious, Chen Chu discovered that there were fewer and fewer mutated giant fish in this section of the river, and he often had to swim several miles before encountering one.
In this way, a lot of time will be wasted just looking for prey every day.
Under the river surface more than ten meters deep, the heavy armored beast was tearing fish meat in its mouth, with a thoughtful look in its eyes. "It seems that when the heavy armored beast evolves again, it will have to go to the sea to find food."