Chapter 298: The Emperor's Blood Refines the Aperture, Depot Stage
Jiang Li could notice that every time he stepped on a step, a warm current would surge up from the soles of his feet.
After the warm current submerged into his body, it circulated in a circle, and finally disappeared without a trace between Jiang Li's eyebrows.
He was wary at first, but after waiting for a while, he found nothing unusual. The status that popped up on the panel dispelled his doubts.
[The human emperor's Qi and blood enter the body, and the emperor's blood refining orifice (Shenting) acts on itself.]
[Emperor’s Blood Refining Aperture (Shenting): The Human Emperor’s Qi and blood strengthens Shenting’s Aperture, lasting 30 seconds] (-)
Jiang Li stretched out his hand and pressed on his Shenting acupoint, and felt again that a warm current inside was slowly rotating, strengthening and opening up his acupoint, but this warm current itself was also rapidly consuming and shrinking.
This human emperor energy and blood should have been integrated into the Star Reaching Tower when King Zhou died.
After tens of thousands of years, only a little bit of this blood energy is left. Although it can be felt that the quality is extremely high, the speed of strengthening the acupoints is not fast because the quantity is too small, and it can only last for thirty seconds.
If Jiang Li left him alone, his energy and blood would dissipate after thirty seconds, and he might not even be able to feel how much he had been strengthened.
However, as a human race, Jiang Li didn't want the Human Emperor's energy and blood to dissipate, so he called up the status bar and changed the newly appeared status above to unlimited duration.
Jiang Li walked up a step again, and another warm current rushed into his body. This time, after the warm current circled around, it disappeared into the "Yang Bai Qiao" next to it.
【The human emperor's qi and blood enter the body, and the emperor's blood refining orifice (yang white) acts on itself.】
[Emperor’s Blood Refining Aperture (Yangbai): The Human Emperor’s Qi and Blood strengthens the Shenting Aperture, lasting 30 seconds] (-)
Sure enough, every step has a stream of Qi and blood. Jiang Li looked at the top-notch steps above. He was probably going to make a lot of money this time.
Refining the acupoints and opening the acupuncture points was originally a physical training path that was abandoned by the modern world of immortality because it was too difficult and too dangerous. Unexpectedly, he could encounter it on the steps of the Star-Zhailing Tower.
It is in a state of automatic orifice refining, and it uses the human emperor's Qi and blood which sounds very advanced at first sight.
These two acupoints may be a relatively average increase for monks, but as far as we know, the number of acupoints for human monks is one thousand and eighty-five.
If he could use the Human Emperor's Qi and blood to refine his orifices and open them all up, then he, Jiang, might be able to gain some of the power of the original Human Emperor!
This Star Picking Tower is really a good place. In addition to being a test, it is more like a gift and training.
Jiang Li kept walking up the wooden steps, sprinkling blood and modifying the status bar until he stepped on a thousand steps.
A golden ear of rice appeared in front of him.
[Name: Golden Rice Ear]
[Type: Seed]
[Grade: middle grade of earth grade]
[Note: As the days lengthen for a season, the plants grow a bushel, and the food strengthens the body]
A mid-level spiritual plant??
After Jiang Li scanned it with his identification skills, he looked confused.
This thing is actually a middle-grade spiritual plant of the earth level, with zero value. Its individual value is lower than that of elixirs and magic weapons.
This was the second time Jiang Li saw the spiritual plant with an earth-level price. The last time he saw it was when he got the Dao Yun Fruit.
I didn't expect that after walking up a thousand steps on this star-catching platform, I would pick it up in vain. This happiness was real and a bit sudden.
The days grow for a season, the plants grow for a bushel, and the food strengthens the body.
It seems that this should be a spiritual plant used by the human race to maintain people's livelihood, but it is also an earth-level magic weapon. Jiang Li believes that it will not be simple no matter what.
He put it properly into the coffin and continued to look at the steps above.
If we keep going, will something better appear?
The thousand and one wooden steps in front of me have begun to look different.
There is a jar placed on each step above. Judging from the size, if it is crowded, it shouldn't be a problem to fit a person inside.
When Jiang Li sprinkled his blood on it, two lines of red letters appeared on the steps in front of him.
"To defend the king with arms and blood, the courage of the human race is to advance without retreating."
It seems that every thousand steps in this Star Building are considered as a stage.
There are a thousand steps ahead. As long as the human race gives themselves some blood, they can step on them.
And the road ahead seems to require more tests.
What does it mean to have no way to retreat? As long as he takes one step, he will never have a way out? So what will be tested next is courage?
Jiang Li looked back at the ground below, and a golden portal appeared at some point.
That golden light was exactly the same as the one that teleported Jiang Li. It seemed that as long as he returned the same way and touched that golden light, he could leave here.
The two lines of blood words in front of him were telling him that if he didn't have enough courage, just go back.
But Jiang Li has not collected all of the human emperor's refining orifices, and the golden rice ears have also aroused his strong interest. How could he give up easily under such circumstances?
Taking one step forward. He now wanted to see what kind of reward would be waiting for him on the next thousand steps.
After he stepped on the thousand and first steps in front of him, the jar placed on the steps immediately exploded to pieces. A tattered ghost soldier appeared in front of Jiang Li, holding a spear and pointing at him.
Jiang Li stabbed him.
The space on the steps was small and there was nowhere to hide. He instinctively wanted to step back.
At this time, there was a series of collapse sounds behind him.
From the corner of his eye, he saw that all the steps he had just walked behind him had collapsed, leaving him with no way out.
Jiang Li stabilized his pace and stopped retreating.
Clang!
At this time, the sharp spearhead had already pierced his chest, and huge force flowed down the spearhead, almost pushing him back.
Fortunately, Jiang Li's strength was already very strong. After receiving the Qi and blood of the previous thousand human emperors, his strength almost doubled in a short period of time.
Coupled with the status effect of the Unparalleled Hegemony, he was able to catch the opponent's spear point with just his chest.
The strength of this ghost soldier is not weak. This time, it definitely exceeds the level of the Golden Core cultivator.
Jiang Li just wanted to fight back, but after stabbing the spear, the ghost soldier immediately dissipated. The spear in his hand turned into a handful of flying ashes.
Well, after all, this was something from so many years ago, and it is already very rare to have such a strike preserved.
We can't expect it to continue fighting Jiang Li for 300 rounds.
But his punch landed in the air, and he still felt a little unhappy. He was attacked in vain, but there was no one to fight back, which made him feel inexplicably aggrieved.
After this first time, Jiang Li was on guard.
When you step on the steps again, prepare the jar for the steps.
After stepping on the steps again, what jumped out this time was a ghost soldier holding a sword.
Jiang Li was well prepared and reacted immediately, punching him with one fist.
The fragile ghost body had no resistance and was smashed into a big hole by Jiang Li.
But the opponent's sword was unwavering and struck Jiang Li's body, and then the last bit of energy was used up and dissipated.
Jiang Li didn't care much at first. An attack of this magnitude could not cause him any damage.
Continuing forward, various battlefield weapons of swords, guns, swords and halberds emerge in endlessly.
But gradually, Jiang Li also discovered something was wrong.
Why do these ghost soldiers hit me every time?
No matter whether he was dodging or blocking, the weapons of those ghost soldiers would fall on him every time.
Once and twice are coincidences. Three and four times are accidents.
But ten times or a hundred times, there must be a reason.
He soon discovered that the problem still lay in the bravery of these ghost soldiers.
They waved their weapons, which were different from the casual cultivators and enemies Jiang Li encountered in daily life. They always thought about how to hit the enemy, rather than protecting themselves.
Even if he is going to die in the next second, the weapon in his hand must fall on Jiang Li.
It seems that the sentence just described was describing these former human soldiers.
The courage of the human race is to advance without retreating.
One hundred, two hundred, three hundred, Jiang Li also began to understand some of the tactics of the ghost soldiers.
As the saying goes, "The brave wins when they meet on a narrow road. Jiang Li is not afraid of getting hurt, and he recovers quickly from his injuries. This brave man's strategy of exchanging injuries for injuries and lives for lives is quite suitable for him."
Gradually, the intensity of these ghost soldiers became higher and higher. Starting from the 1,700th step, Jiang Li had already begun to fail.
Then the injuries became more serious, and each time it took a long time to recover before we could continue to improve.
After he took a deep breath and stepped onto the 2,000 steps, a fish intestine sword instantly pierced his chest, and then slashed diagonally upward from his shoulder, leaving half of his body torn open.
Fortunately, after one strike, these ghost soldiers will disappear, otherwise he, Jiang, will be in trouble.
Lying on the ground, a full-metal armor appeared next to him, and the blood from Jiang Li's body flowed onto the armor.
The metal pieces of the armor immediately moved like a sci-fi mecha, and were actively put on Jiang Li's body.
Cover him tightly from head to toe.
As Jiang Li thought, these metal pieces automatically gathered together and gathered on his right hand, transforming into an armband.
The name of this set of armor is relatively common, called Wu Scales. The current level can also reach the earth level. It can protect Jiang Li like a turtle shell. The first condition for a brave man's fighting method is to have a thick enough armor.
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But in addition to its most basic body protection function, just like the Prison Dragon Lock, this magic weapon has also lost most of its power under the erosion of time.
It is because its preservation measures are more complete that after tens of thousands of years, this set of black scales can retain its earthly rank.
I just don’t know what it was like in ancient times?
Before the wound on his chest healed, Jiang Li had already laughed out loud. As expected of the relics of the Human Emperor, he had obtained another earth-level magic weapon.
In this way, he, a foundation-building monk, would have two earth-level magic weapons in his possession at the same time. If outsiders knew about this, they would not go crazy with jealousy.
After resting for a long time, Jiang Li stood up again. The heavy mountain embroidered robe on his body had been damaged. After tearing it off, he woven it into a new one using the roots of Jiuyou wood, and then continued to look upward.
There must be something better waiting for him up there.
Just as he expected, the steps above changed again.
The first thousand steps should be aimed at the common people of the human race. As long as the blood of the human race flows, and there is perseverance and dedication, you can step up step by step.
The second thousand steps should be aimed at human soldiers. It requires courage, an indomitable spirit, and an invincible body to step on it.
So what will he have to face on the third 1,000 steps?
"Holding the talisman and commanding the palm, he led the people to the shores of the land, commanding the princes and carrying the burdens of the people."
On the 2001st step, after dripping blood, these two sentences emerged.
Obviously, the third thousand steps are a test of being a general and leading the feudal lords. The test is the burden of the people's livelihood that needs to be carried.
But what is the specific expression of this weight?
Jiang Li didn't hesitate much. After his body returned to its best condition, he once again embarked on the first level of raising prices.
Then the next moment, pressure from nowhere enveloped his whole body.
It was as if someone had moved a hill and placed it on top of him. All the bones in his body creaked, and his muscles, which were tougher than steel, were stretched to the limit.
The sudden heavy pressure almost made Jiang Li kneel down on the steps.
The test that ordinary people and petty soldiers endured, and the gap between those who were princes, is really almost exaggerated.
Even though he has received the human emperor's blood energy from the two thousand steps ahead, one thousand and eighty-five known acupoints, plus the blessing of the orifice refining from 915 unknown acupoints.
I also felt tremendous pressure at this time.
In such a state of full support, his physical strength was also rapidly draining away.
Even if Jiang Li has multiple status blessings, he can only basically maintain a balance of payments at this time.
If this continues and the pressure continues to increase...
He took a deep breath, and after adjusting for a while, he raised his feet and continued upward.
Every time he took a step upward, the pressure on his body increased.
I felt that every inch of skin, every inch of muscle, and even the blood in my internal organs were drooping downwards.
It seemed that as long as a hole was opened in his head, all the flesh and blood on his body would break away from his bones and fall to the ground, turning into a puddle of mud.
After just one hundred steps, Jiang Li, as a physical practitioner, already felt deeply tired.
For Jiang Li, this kind of fatigue was something he had felt a long time ago.
If there were any other Dan-forming monks here, they would probably be crushed to death without being able to walk up ten blocks.
Jiang Li already needs to burst out his spiritual energy every time and put his feet on the next step, and continue to move up so hard and slowly.
After five hundred steps, Jiang Li's legs seemed to be firmly welded to the ground. No matter how hard he tried, he could no longer lift his feet from the steps.
Is this the limit?
Looking at the stairs that were only halfway up, Jiang Li felt a little depressed. But the fatigue and pressure everywhere were tormenting his body, and his whole body was telling him to lie down.
His eyeballs seemed to have changed shape under the pressure.
At this moment, a power within his body that even he could not detect suddenly emerged.
The spiritual energy in the environment spontaneously gathered towards him. For some reason, Jiang Li suddenly felt much lighter.
That energy gathered at Jiang Li's feet, loosening his heavy legs. He slowly raised his right foot and landed on the next step.
Where does this energy come from? After thinking for a long time, Jiang Li looked at a status on his panel. This seemed to be the power of merit and blessing?
The power of merit usually has no specific manifestation, but it can affect all aspects of him.
It seems that people with good character will have good luck no matter where they go.