After careful consideration, Zhang Yuan determined the direction of his next efforts.
First, continue refining the Meridian Opening Pill to improve cultivation level, while opening more acupoints in the body to enhance the power of the Blazing Tiger Fist and the speed of the Azure Cloud Step.
Secondly, he needs to continue making money and refine another batch of Burst Pills. Burst Pills and the Spirit Turtle Armor are his current means of survival. As long as he has enough money, it's always good to refine a few more and keep them as backup.
The third step is to refine the Breath-Sealing Pill, which is the most urgent matter at present.
The alchemy notes record a special pill that can seal the fluctuations of a cultivator's true energy, making it difficult for other cultivators to sense it; this is the Breath-Sealing Pill.
The Breath-Holding Pill is not difficult to refine; anyone at the Meridian Opening Realm can refine it. The main ingredient required for refining it is Silver Blue Grass.
Once Zhang Yuan refines the Qi Pill, he can temporarily seal off the fluctuations of his true qi, thus preventing other cultivators from easily discovering him and allowing him to blend into the crowd like an ordinary person.
Of course, the premise is that the other party's cultivation level cannot be too much higher than his, otherwise the breath-holding pill will be useless.
Ring ring.
When the bell rang, Zhang Yuan walked through the dappled sunlight under the tree canopy, mingling with the crowd of students leaving school. He went to the cafeteria to eat with Fei Bo and Zhu Gan, and then went back to his dormitory alone.
After returning to the third floor of the Rongxia Courtyard, Zhang Yuan closed the door, drew the curtains, and took out the bronze alchemy furnace to begin refining the Breath-Sealing Pill.
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Two days later, the breath-holding pill was successfully refined.
Zhang Yuan removed several pale yellow pills, each about the size of a soybean, from the alchemy furnace. He kept one and placed the rest of the breath-holding pills in a small bottle he had bought online, specifically for storing pills.
Zhang Yuan admired his masterpiece of alchemy for a while, and after confirming that he had not made any mistakes in refining the Breath-Holding Pill, he swallowed a Breath-Holding Pill.
The taste was so-so, a bit bitter.
After the pill entered his body, the fluctuations of true qi on Zhang Yuan's body gradually weakened. About 3 minutes later, the fluctuations of true qi on his body were suppressed to an extremely low level, which was difficult for ordinary cultivators to perceive.
Now, as long as he doesn't make a move, even a mid-stage Golden Core cultivator would find it difficult to spot him within a few meters.
Zhang Yuan's anxiety also decreased significantly.
The probability of encountering a Golden Core cultivator within a few meters is very low.
Liu Mingchun and Zhou Jian spent seven days staking out Tongcheng University, but neither the gray-robed old man nor the cloaked mystery man appeared. In addition, Zhang Yuan had recovered and was protected by the Spirit Turtle Armor, so they left Tongcheng University and went about their own business.
Members of the enforcement team also need to cultivate and perform good deeds to earn merit points, which can then be exchanged for cultivation resources.
Life went back to normal.
Zhang Yuanze is still diligently cultivating immortality.
After refining the Breath-Holding Pill, Zhang Yuan began to refine the Meridian-Opening Pill to increase his internal energy and open more acupoints to improve his physical strength.
He had previously obtained some Crimson Crystals from the ruins of the Spirit Turtle Immortal.
Crimson Mystic Crystal can be used to refine Golden Elixir Pills, and it is even more useful than the Tiger Demon Inner Core. Therefore, there was no need to keep the Tiger Demon Inner Core, so Zhang Yuan used it to refine Meridian Opening Pills.
In the remaining time, Zhang Yuan practiced the Nine Pieces of Brocade and the Nourishing Spirit Technique every morning and evening, and also took time to study the formations engraved on the Spirit Turtle Battle Armor.
The discovery of the hidden array engraved on the Spirit Turtle Armor was made three days ago when Zhang Yuan, while idly studying the armor, was idly refining the Meridian Opening Pill.
At that time, he used his mind to remove the dark armor, held it in his hand to examine it, and unintentionally explored it with his divine soul. He was surprised to find that the inside of the armor was engraved with a lot of dense array knowledge.
Zhang Yuan was greatly shocked.
He immediately recalled the scene when he was meditating in the ruins and saw the Spirit Turtle Immortal deducing formations in the void and carving something on a turtle shell.
At the time, Zhang Yuan didn't pay attention.
It wasn't until he discovered that there was a formation inside the armor that he suddenly realized what was going on.
It turns out that the tortoise shell that the Spirit Tortoise Immortal carved was the armor in his hand!
Therefore, the Spirit Turtle Armor is not only a high-quality defensive armor, but it also contains a lot of knowledge about array formation cultivation, as well as the Spirit Turtle Immortal's insights into array formations!
This armor automatically recognized its master after Zhang Yuan broke the formation of the Spirit Turtle Immortal's cave. Now it is worn by Zhang Yuan and can be automatically taken off and put on according to Zhang Yuan's will.
However, Zhang Yuan did not tell Liu Mingchun or anyone else about the formation inside the armor.
He knew it all by himself and studied it diligently in silence.
Like alchemy, formations were said to be very popular in ancient times and were a powerful method, but for some unknown reason, they were gradually lost in the human world.
In addition, the Tortoise Armor also comes with an internal space.
Zhang Yuan used his mind and his internal energy to open this special space. It was a small space similar to a Qiankun bag, but much larger, with a space of several thousand square meters.
However, with Zhang Yuan's current cultivation level, he can only maintain this inner space for about 2 hours.
In addition, with the help of the Enlightenment Stone's comprehension-enhancing function, after several days of research and contemplation, Zhang Yuan gained a general understanding of the formations within the battle armor.
The armor records dozens of important formations across five major categories.
These formations can be categorized into spirit-gathering formations, trapping formations, illusion formations, killing formations, and attack formations.
At that time, the grassland where Zhang Yuan entered the cave of the Spirit Turtle Immortal was a trapping formation, the grove behind it was a spirit gathering formation, and the forest was an illusion formation. Just before entering the killing formation, Zhang Yuan broke the formation with the help of the Enlightenment Stone, causing the formation within the ruins to collapse, and everyone was able to come out.
If he had entered the killing formation a moment later, Zhang Yuan would probably already be dead inside the ruins.
Of these five types of formations, most illusion formations and killing formations require the Yin Spirit Realm to set up, while trapping formations require the Golden Core Realm to cultivate and set up. Only a portion of attack formations and spirit gathering formations can be learned and set up by cultivators at the Meridian Opening Realm, but these are the simplest and most basic ones.
Now, Zhang Yuan has a general understanding of the basic knowledge of setting up formations.
For example, in attack formations, cultivators use their spiritual power and, with the help of specific arrangements of magical artifacts, can form a special energy field, which is an attack formation.
Within an attack formation, the attacker's attack power will be increased to a certain extent.
How much the attack power of the formation can be increased depends on the grade of the magical artifact used by the formation setter and the skill level of the formation setter.
To set up an offensive formation, at least three magical artifacts are required, and two of these artifacts must be offensive artifacts to form an offensive formation.
Zhang Yuan currently only has a Moon Sword as a magical artifact, so he cannot attempt to set up an offensive formation for the time being.
A few days later, the Meridian Opening Pill was also successfully refined.
Zhang Yuan used the tiger demon's inner core to refine a total of 4 Meridian Opening Pills.
Zhang Yuan's cultivation had reached the late stage of the Meridian Opening Realm, and his physical strength was much stronger than when he was in the middle stage of the Meridian Opening Realm. However, Zhang Yuan had only recently broken through to the later stage of the Meridian Opening Realm, so he did not dare to use all four Meridian Opening Pills to replenish the true qi in his dantian and expand the meridians in his body.
He was worried that his body's meridians wouldn't be able to withstand the strain.
Therefore, of the four Meridian Opening Pills, one will be used to consolidate cultivation, and the remaining three will be used to open acupoints and improve physical strength, so that the power of the Blazing Tiger Fist can be brought out even stronger.
The human body has 360 acupoints. Zhang Yuan's current cultivation level only allows him to sense 17 acupoints on his body. Among them, 7 acupoints, including Guanyuan, Huiyin, and Baihui, were already opened when he reached the Tongmai Realm. In addition, the Yongquan acupoint on the sole of his foot and the Laogong acupoint on his palm were also opened.
There are still 6 acupoints that he can sense that have not yet been activated, 2 of which are on the upper body and 4 on the legs.
Zhang Yuan chose to first open four acupoints on his legs to practice the Azure Cloud Step technique of the Tiger Demon Clan and increase his speed.
In this way, even when facing a stronger opponent, one can still escape.
At the same time, improving movement speed also greatly helps to enhance overall strength.
After taking the first Meridian Opening Pill, Zhang Yuan guided his true energy through the Ren and Du meridians into his dantian.
After about two hours, the effects of the Meridian Opening Pill were fully absorbed, Zhang Yuan's meridians expanded further, and the spiritual energy in his dantian and dantian became increasingly dense, like thick water vapor.
When the spiritual energy in the dantian is condensed to its extreme, it will transform into a golden core, signifying that one's cultivation has entered the Golden Core realm.
After absorbing one Meridian Opening Pill, Zhang Yuan's dantian was temporarily saturated with spiritual energy. If he were to forcibly swallow another Meridian Opening Pill, his dantian would be unable to contain it and his body would be in danger of exploding.
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