At night, Chen Chu sat cross-legged on the bed, and his consciousness controlled his true power to continuously circulate along the second-level route of the Dragon Elephant Kung Fu.
He could clearly feel that this transparent power would emit suction when it was operating, forcing the extraordinary energy free from the outside of the body into the body for refining.
There is no need to rely on mental power to guide it into the body like before, and the efficiency of cultivation is several times that before the breakthrough.
After refining the free energy, these true powers will grow stronger every time they circulate, and then return to the Dantian to start a new round.
However, unlike those martial arts novels in which the internal force travels through the meridians, although it also starts from the Dantian, the true power's route is very complicated.
Not only will it travel under the fascia and skin, but it will also shuttle between some muscles and bones. Wherever it passes, it will temper and strengthen the entire body's physique.
This is also the reason why Zhenwu practitioners are getting stronger and stronger.
The Dragon Elephant Kung Fu, which focuses on strength and defense, has a better tempering effect on the physique. After practice, the muscles are more explosive and the skin is tougher.
Almost an hour later, Chen Chu opened his eyes.
call!
Chen Chu let out a breath, carefully felt the changes after practicing, and then muttered slightly: "This progress is a bit slow."
The first level of heaven is mainly about tempering the physique and giving birth to true power. Therefore, the physique must be tempered to about five times that of ordinary people, and the arm strength must reach 300 kilograms to touch the edge of breakthrough.
After breaking through the second heaven, the cultivator's focus is on increasing the true power until the Dantian is filled, and tempering the physique becomes secondary.
As for the physical limit of Erzhongtian, it is about 800 kilograms of arm strength.
This limit is not the limit of human biology, but the limit of the tempering effect of the second level of natural power on the body.
Only by breaking through the third level of heaven, can the more powerful true power continue to be tempered and strengthened.
But because practitioners do not need to strengthen their physique to the limit, as long as the true power fills the Dantian, the true power can be continuously compressed and atomized to break through.
Therefore, some extreme cultivators will pay less and less attention to physical strengthening, and they will pursue breakthroughs in the realm of true power.
Because the higher the realm, the more terrifying the true power is, and one can even control the power of heaven and earth to fight.
Compared to high-level practitioners, especially the top experts in the Nine Heavens, the hundreds of thousands of kilograms of strength gained by their physiques are not worth mentioning at all.
Only those who have been stuck in one realm for several years or more will spend energy tempering their physique to the extreme of their current realm.
Because when you practice and temper your physique, some real power will be consumed, which will affect the progress of your practice.
Recalling what Pang Long had said in his mind, Chen Chu estimated that if he wanted to fill his Dantian with true power, he might need to practice for more than half a year under normal practice.
"Half a year." Thinking of this, Chen Chu sighed.
After his two consecutive avatars evolved, and as his basic physique improved, 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 heaven. So how long would it take for those who build the foundation in half a month or a month?
Chen Chu once again felt the difficulty of cultivation. It took at least half a year for him to break through to the third level of heaven from the second level. What about the third level of breakthrough to the fourth level?
According to the increase in difficulty of breaking through each heaven, it would take at least two years for people with poor qualifications to break through to the third heaven through normal cultivation...
Thinking of this, Chen Chu couldn't help but feel happy.
Fortunately, he can use attribute points to directly strengthen the realm of breakthrough skills.
At noon the next day, when Chen Chu, who had practiced swordsmanship all morning, came to the dining hall, he met Lin Xue and Xia Youhui, who were also lining up.
"Achu, here, here." Xia Youhui waved to him.
When Chen Chu came behind him, Xia Youhui couldn't wait to say: "A Chu, have you heard about it?"
"You didn't say anything, but I heard you were a big deal." Chen Chu couldn't help complaining.
"Hey... I thought you knew."
Xia Youhui chuckled, and then gossiped: "This morning, I heard that Li Hao, who ranked second, and Hong Tianyi, who ranked third, both broke through to the second level."
"It was said that Li Hao had already reached the limit of the first level of heaven by building a foundation in three days. This time, after taking second place, he directly broke through with the help of cultivation resources."
Chen Chu nodded: "I know him."
I was deeply impressed by Chen Chu, a powerful classmate who was two meters tall and used heavy weapons. After all, he was a fierce man carrying an iron pillar to fight.
While they were talking, several people prepared their meals, took their plates and found an empty table to sit down at.
After sitting down, Chen Chu looked at the purple-haired girl opposite and asked curiously: "Squad leader, how long will it take for you to break through?"
As the tenth ranked genius in the ranking competition, Lin Xue is currently very popular among the freshmen. There is no way around it, not to mention her beauty, she is still so strong.
Lin Xue thought for a while: "I used some resources yesterday to strengthen my physique to the limit of the first level. The next step is to warm up and condense my true strength. It is expected to take a few days."
"The squad leader is awesome, we are 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 broke through to the second heaven yesterday.
Lin Xue shook his head: "I just used resources to break through in advance, 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, but this time it was only a week ahead of schedule, so he didn't feel much.
And it wasn't just Lin Xue who broke through. The next week or so passed by in a flash, and from time to time the top fifty people broke through to the second level.
At the same time, some gossip about Chen Chu began to leak out.
It is said that he was able to reach the top fifty because of his high level of compatibility with the Dragon Elephant Skill and his explosive power that exceeded the limit at the first level.
Even so, we only got 49 people.
Once those 'geniuses' who have practiced advanced techniques break through to the second heaven, this advantage of his will be crushed.
And according to the training speed of low-level skills, even if he exchanges resources to speed up his training, it will take at least more than a month to break through to the second level.
At that time, not to mention the top fifty, all the advanced practitioners who did not enter the rankings had already broken through.
Any of these people can suppress Chen Chu with any strength. To him, being ranked among the top 49 in his grade will no longer be an honor, but a mere mockery.
"How is it? 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 saw on the official website.
Chen Chu thought for a while, nodded and said: "I don't have any thoughts. They are right. Those people who are talented in cultivation are indeed much better than me."
Looking at Chen Chu's calm appearance, Luo Fei blinked her beautiful eyes and asked curiously: "Aren't you afraid that someone will break through to the second level and challenge you?"
Although according to school rules, the ranking of freshmen will not change until their sophomore year, but if someone really takes action to defeat Chen Chu, his popularity will definitely increase.
"Not afraid."
"Why?" Luo Fei was confused.
Chen Chu smiled: "Those ranked in front of me will not take action, and those who have not entered the rankings, only those who have practiced advanced skills are dangerous to me."
"But these people only contribute 5 points a month, which is less than me now, and they don't have the 20% discount permission, so they can't redeem many resources."
"When they break through, I will almost break through. By then it's not certain who will win and who will lose at the same level."
Chen Chu did not tell others about his breakthrough because it went against common sense.
After all, the talent he showed before was only average, and even the excuse of high compatibility with Zhenwu was too conspicuous and there was no need to say it.
Of course, he didn't want to pretend to be a pig and eat the tiger, but he was used to keeping a low profile and felt there was no need to publicize it everywhere.
But if someone offends him, he will slap him to death.
Looking at Chen Chu, who looked calm and unmoved by the outside world, Luo Fei pursed her lips and smiled.
Next, the two chatted for a while, and then each immersed themselves in the atmosphere of reading.
Of course, Chen Chu seemed to be reading a book, but in fact most of his attention went to the heavily armored beast.
The ferocious beast, which had grown to 1.3 meters, slowly entered the river.
More than a week has passed since breaking through to the second level of heaven, and the heavily armored beast is either hunting or preying on it every day.
As the heavily armored beast continued to grow and become more powerful and ferocious, Chen Chu discovered that there were fewer and fewer large mutated fish in this section of the river, and he often had to swim several miles before encountering one.
As a result, a lot of time is wasted just looking for prey every day.
Under the river surface more than ten meters deep, the heavily armored beast was biting fish meat in its mouth, with a thoughtful look in its eyes, "It seems that when the heavily armored beast evolves again, it will go to the sea to find food."