Chapter 17
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Chapter 17: Unlocking the Spirit Motion Mark
“Book, ancient book!” Li Hui shouted, eager to see it clearly, but his emotions were in turmoil, and he couldn’t maintain the previous state. He immediately regained consciousness.
“What happened? I’m not injured?”
After turning around three times, he confirmed he was fine, though his clothes were in tatters, and he had no wounds at all.
Looking up at the starry sky, he quickly assessed the time; it was still early in the night and he realized he had only fainted for two hours.
“How strange, what really happened to me? I fell hard but have no injuries?” Li Hui, muddy all over, sat on the ridge of the field lost in thought. Thankfully, he had landed in the water field, so the sound wasn’t too loud, and the villagers had gone to bed early, keeping the area quiet.
“Wait, before I woke up, I saw a book.”
“Yes, a book! It seemed like a travelogue; I remember it started like this…”
“‘I, Chen Mengde, forty-three years old, reached the All-Manifestation Realm. Although I am the top disciple of the Jade Symbol Sect, I had no desire to take over the sect. Instead, I traveled the world using my Ideal Body, only to accidentally enter a strange place different from the Wutu Continent.
Those cultivators from that land are true monks, capable of planning everything, moving mountains, and filling seas. I once thought highly of myself, but compared to those cultivators, my talents are mediocre to the point of being ridiculous, what a pity!
This land is called Nine Maangs, vast and boundless, while our Wutu Continent is merely a small island overseas!
In order to understand the exceptional talents of those cultivators, I used a life-rejuvenating pill, only usable once in a lifetime, which greatly shortens my Lifespan, and then I joined the Nine Maangs Sect, starting as a low cultivator.
Hard work pays off; after years of perseverance, I finally uncovered the hidden methods of the Nine Maangs sects. No wonder they have such a huge demand for the Miao Jade veins.
It turns out they use supreme spiritual energy to gather a special seed, nurturing it into a treasure cabinet. This treasure cabinet is like a shrine and needs offerings of all kinds of top-tier spiritual energy and Miao Jade to be maintained and refined.
Only today did I finally realize that the trial grounds, training areas, and meditation places established by the Nine Maangs sects are all set up around these treasure cabinets, cleverly disguised so that outsiders cannot see the secrets.
After understanding how the treasure cabinets work, I saw that their requirements are immense, and only in such a paradise like the Nine Maangs Continent can these treasure cabinets grow. Years of effort turned into nothingness; if only I had been born in Nine Maangs, if only I could be as extraordinary as those cultivators! But I haven’t given up; I’ve tried to learn from the features of the treasure cabinets and mix them with the vast talisman knowledge from my Jade Symbol Sect to create a cheaper method until I once visited the ruins and fished out a silver snake from the time-space ruins…’”
Li Hui covered his head and yelled with a grimace, “I can’t remember, how does it end here? What about the rest? What exactly is the silver snake? Why is it on my wrist?”
No matter how hard he tried to recall, his thoughts stopped at the moment he described the silver snake bracelet; there was still a thick section left in the travelogue, and the answers should be there. Unfortunately, when he closed his eyes, he saw nothing but darkness.
“Do I really have to faint again? And those bookshelves—what on earth? Why did I see so many books?”
Li Hui looked up and then down, with no one to help; he had to find the answers to these puzzles himself. After much thought, he vaguely sensed something was off.
“What is this… feeling?”
“Surge?”
“Intense?”
“Wait, could it be I’m about to breakthrough my shackles and unlock the Spirit Motion mark?”
Li Hui felt extremely dry in his mouth and repeatedly confirmed his feelings. His mood grew tense, and he finally determined his spiritual energy was at a saturated state, with most of his acupoints feeling swollen, as if something was about to burst forth. This was a clear sign of entering the Spirit Motion stage.
“Great, great! I’ve finally made it!”
“No, I can’t breakthrough here; I need to find a place sheltered from the wind and rain.”
At that moment, Li Hui’s mind was filled with various precautions for unlocking the Spirit Motion mark, forgetting about the silver snake bracelet entirely. He stretched his long legs and hurried along the ridge towards the village.
As he neared the village, he felt heat building in many of his acupoints, tightening his heart. He grimaced, “Is this the beginning of my first acupoint breakthrough? Even if I waited for four years, it shouldn’t be this urgent!”
Before he could take ten steps, many of the hidden acupoints started to heat up, marking the second wave of his acupoint breakthrough.
“Take it easy! Too fast is unstable. Unlocking the Spirit Motion mark is extremely important; how much potential the spirit marks have depends entirely on this first breakthrough.”
The more anxious Li Hui became, the faster he unlocked the mark. Even before he entered the village, all eighty-one major acupoints and three hundred sixty-five hidden acupoints felt like they were being pricked, an incredibly intense sensation.
On one hand, the pain intensified, as if many steel needles were desperate to pierce through his body. On the other hand, it felt like shedding burdens, as if he had carried bricks for years and was now unloading them one by one, bringing him immense joy.
It was a painful yet joyful experience that only those unlocking the Spirit Motion mark could understand. However, Li Hui was somewhat different; he noticed that the thirty-six most important acupoints in his body were consuming immense spiritual energy, causing his body to gradually lose its swollen feeling.
“Hey, what’s going on?” Li Hui was shocked. If the spiritual energy could only satisfy these thirty-six acupoints, then his advancement would surely stagnate, perhaps preventing him from ever unlocking a spirit mark in this lifetime.
“No, absolutely not.”
“What should I do? What can I do?”
“Spiritual energy, yes, spiritual energy comes from the transformation of spiritual essence. I have Miao Jade! I have Miao Jade!” Li Hui hurriedly clicked on the six-link chain, taking out a bundle of Miao Jade.
Thirty-six pieces the size of ox eyes appeared before him. Those colorful Miao Jade pieces usually contained five-element spiritual essences, but only those resembling sheep fat white jade were the best choice.
Just right, six pieces of Miao Jade looked like sheep fat. Li Hui quickly sat down, regardless of whether anyone was in the village’s entrance, and held all six pieces in his hands, closing his eyes to enhance his sensing.
To his surprise, the moment he held the Miao Jade, it immediately eased the tension created by the thirty-six acupoints, and the unbalanced spiritual energy within him gradually returned to equilibrium due to the miraculous effects of the Miao Jade.
As the waves of acupoint breakthroughs deepened, Li Hui vividly sensed that the acupoints were not isolated; there was a connection between them. Though fragile, the meridians were beginning to emerge.
The meridians resembled leaf veins but were more like a three-dimensional large net, through which the body coordinated the acupoints to convey complex commands.
Gradually, Li Hui gained more insight. The meridians were like waterways in the ocean; the acupoints were islands, and the body was like a vast sea full of vitality and mystery. When the fleet travels frequently, it will surely prosper, speeding up the development of each island.
However, at the moment he was about to unlock the spirit mark, Li Hui negated his previous feelings, considering the human body a treasure, with the meridians and acupoints serving as pulleys and winches, designed to draw out potential from the human treasure.
With a light “crack,” something seemed to break free. At the same time, a flash of spiritual light emanated from Li Hui’s right arm…
