Meng Zhou did not stop there. As the founder of this new technique, he could clearly feel that it still had many unfulfilled potentials that had not been fully tapped.

He has not reached the limit of his current abilities.

However, thinking about all this can be left to the day after tomorrow.

Early the next morning, after a night of practice, Meng Zhou checked his personal status, "Realm: 99/100 at the seventh level of Qi training."

On this day, Meng Zhou neither went to the bottom of the pond to practice, nor did he tease the grumpy bears. Instead, he quietly stayed in the stone chamber to meditate.

Although the self-created horizontal training method is still at the master level, firstly, it is more consistent with him. Secondly, it is indeed superior to the Cang Xiong horizontal training method. The daily limit experience is increased from grandmaster +120 to +150.

The time spent was not more, or even slightly less, allowing him to invest more time in the knotting method than planned, and once again increased from daily +2 to daily +3.

That night, no accidents occurred. Meng Zhou quietly completed the breakthrough from the seventh level to the eighth level of Qi training while practicing in seclusion.

Early the next morning, as soon as he finished practicing, Meng Zhou clicked on his personal information to check the changes brought about by this breakthrough.

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[Name: Meng Zhou]

[Life span: 51/103 years] (+4 years)

[Status: Healthy]

[Realm: Eighth Level of Qi Training: 1/100]

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With this breakthrough, the upper limit of life was increased by four years again, which was not too unexpected by Meng Zhou.

This is not so much "increase" but more accurately "recovery".

Even if you are practicing a technique such as Yan Lie Jue, which is characterized by violent killing, if you have reached the late stage of Qi training, and if no accidents happen, you will usually have a lifespan of one hundred, twenty or thirty years before you die.

And if you use water nourishing and moisturizing techniques that focus on warming and healing, the upper limit of your life span will be even longer.

Now, whether it is the increase in lifespan brought about by the basic skill Water Nourishment and Moisturizing Technique, or the increase in cultivation level, daily practice, or even the increase in lifespan brought about by the physical horizontal training method that he is currently practicing, they are just the improvement of his body.

The body is emptied out by magic power and the things lost are taken back bit by bit.

Therefore, the increase in the life limit was not beyond his expectation.

What concerned him the most was the change in [status], which finally changed from "sub-health" which had not changed shortly after crossing over, to "healthy".

Meng Zhou guessed that for Qi-training monks, the upper limit of life to one hundred years is a watershed.

"At this level, until today, I can barely be considered a qualified Qi practitioner.

Before, no matter how strong the combat power was, it was more or less the work of some powerful foreigners."

When it was almost noon, Meng Zhouyu used his flying sword and once again came to the mountains where bears were infested.

A dark brown giant bear with a head and rump length of more than six meters and a standing height of more than eight meters is competing with a hard bluish-black rock, constantly colliding and rubbing against it.

This giant bear had extremely sharp animal instincts. Even though Meng Zhou was very careful and concealed, he was still locked onto it when he was still ten meters away.

And as its dark brown gaze locked on him, Meng Zhou clearly felt that the gravity around him was suddenly abnormal, reaching at least five times the normal level, which was even better than the ultimate effect of the Earth Power Talisman Formation on the tripod.

When the giant bear saw that its prey was restrained, it was so nervous that it would immediately open its mouth and roar to alert the group of bears. It immediately closed its mouth, got down on all fours, opened its mouth wide, and pounced on him.

In the process of running, the muscles and fur all over its body surged like waves, and its whole body was filled with yellow light.

It gives people a wonderful feeling of being agile yet clumsy, reckless yet cautious.

And just when the giant bear was about to approach, a mana hand appeared behind its head holding a perfection-level ice talisman.

As soon as the talisman was played, a thin layer of frost condensed on the huge bear's body.

Even its bloodthirsty consciousness was briefly interrupted, and the yellow light that was inspired by its consciousness and lingered around it disappeared instantly.

The huge power hidden under its thick fat is quickly dissolving the restraining power imposed by this layer of ice talisman. At the same time, its majestic potential can destroy this layer of obstacles with a few breaths at most.

But of course Meng Zhou would not give it any chance, and a flying sword was immediately inserted between its head and neck.

With a slight twist, the huge bear's head that was about to fly high was caught in advance by his magic hand and put into the storage bag.

Soon, the huge bear body was quickly decomposed with the cooperation of the flying sword controlled by the mind and the hand-held magic sword, and was completely disassembled and packed into multiple storage bags.

With his strength, it is not difficult to deal with these giant bears.

Even if it has first-level top-level strength, it won't take more than ten breaths to deal with it head-on without using any tricks.

The real trouble is whether he can completely eliminate it before it sends a signal to other giant bears.

Due to different needs, the battle modes for him to come to this "Bear Mountain" are divided into two types.

First, in order to obtain the meat of monster beasts, it is natural to use full firepower and fight quickly.

The other side of the rapid advancement of the horizontal training method is that the appetite has greatly increased and the consumption is huge. Monster meat is more suitable than spiritual rice.

Naturally, Meng Zhou would not let go of this treasure trove of resources in front of him. He had already foreseen this situation before leaving Nuanyun Valley.

Even the supplementary resources are spiritual rice and spiritual tea. The monster meat is not supplementary at all, but it is considered that the materials can be obtained nearby.

Not only are the materials fresh, but you can also save a lot of spiritual stones.

Then there's the matter of fighting the bears themselves.

After breaking up the unlucky giant bear that he had taken a liking to and putting it into a storage bag, Meng Zhou put away his magic sword and hid the flying sword close to his body, disappearing into the mountains.

Soon, the roar of the giant bear sounded, and more giant bears were attracted to this area.

Meng Zhou did not wait for a group of bears to attack him, but used his flexible body skills and a movement speed far exceeding that of a giant bear to move freely among the bears.

As for which giant bear you choose to fight, it all depends on his needs and mood.

The giant bears attracted by the roars of their kind were like products on a supermarket shelf for him to choose from.

Each giant bear monster has its own preferences in attributes due to its different bloodline.

The brown bears of the earth type are the most numerous, followed by the red bears of the fire type. The number of white bears of the ice type is much smaller than the two.

Today, due to demand, the targets Meng Zhou chose to fight were all ice-type white bears.

Sometimes, in order to feel it more clearly, I would even take a few slaps while ensuring my own safety, and feel the feeling of the cold force penetrating into the skin, organs, and even bit by bit into the bone marrow.

For the next two days, Meng Zhou haunted the Bear Mountain, specifically picking white bears to fight and feeling their cold power firsthand.

In the next two days, Meng Zhou plunged into the deep pool again. In order to make the feeling clearer, he regarded the ice talisman as a supplementary material. From time to time, he would take a picture of his body and feel the coldness entering his marrow and even his brain.

Feel.

During this period, the method of Turtle Breath also advanced to perfection.

From the beginning to the end of his practice, he could stay underwater without any problems. The skin and pores all over his body could capture the air in the water, allowing him to stay underwater for a long time.

Then two days later, I went to Xiong Mountain to find White Bear for training.

His purpose is already obvious, which is to feel the power of ice and cold personally, and finally digest it and use it completely for his own use.

But he doesn't want ice, he just wants cold.

If he simply added the power of ice to his self-created horizontal training method, it would take at most three days to complete.

The reason why it took more time was that he had to peel off the "ice" and only wanted the "cold".

This is related to his understanding of "water nature".

In his understanding, the water in "water-based" is definitely not H2O, but a soft liquid.

Only in this way can the basic virtues given to "water" be worthy of their name.

Once water turns into ice, it can basically be regarded as different from "water-based".

But "cold" is different. It is the inherent attribute of water, or in other words, it is the inherent attribute of all things.

Moreover, it has no limit, and there is no law that "water" must turn into "ice" when it is cold enough.

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Meng Zhou stood naked in the stone chamber.

The Perfect Level Ice Talisman was slapped on his body. Because he deliberately did not resist, a thick layer of frost formed on the surface of his body, limbs and torso.

Hidden deep under the skin, the blood flowing throughout the body is flowing rapidly.

But Meng Zhou not only did not use the power of Qi and blood to expel the ice covering his body, but instead took the initiative to restrain the majestic power of Qi and blood.

Carefully understand the "power of coldness" hidden in the solid ice, and reappear it bit by bit in the circulation of blood.

At a certain moment, Meng Zhou's heart was filled with happiness, just like the mortise and tenon joints, the concave and convex joints, he immediately found the most fitting point.

The evil spirit that makes practitioners feel uncomfortable pours into the body more and more, and the power of coldness begins to be born bit by bit, blending with the power of qi and blood hidden in the skin, organs, blood vessels, muscles and bones.

To be more precise, it should not be called "birth", but "appearance".

Because Meng Zhou realized that cold is not one with ice, and heat is not bound to fire.

Cold and heat are the inherent properties of all existing objects.

Before he realized them, they had already existed in his blood and bones, but because he had never realized this, they had always been in a recessive state.

Now, he just found it and changed it from recessive to explicit.
To be continued...