In his mind, countless magical runes were arranged, and Su Hang, as if he had practiced for decades, could instantly recognize the purpose and abilities of the runes even without annotations.
"This is the Vajra Rune, sealing a protective technique."
"This is the Fist Rune, sealing a fist technique."
"This is the Arrow Rune, sealing an arrow technique."
"This is..."
...
There were about two to three dozen sets of runes, big and small!
Just as Su Hang was about to study them carefully, suddenly, a warm current surged from his abdomen, instantly spreading to his limbs and throughout his body. At first, he felt very comfortable, but as the warm current grew larger, his body became increasingly hot.
Before long, sweat broke out all over his body, his skin felt as scorching as a red-hot iron, and his veins bulged, pulsating with his heartbeat. Su Hang felt like a balloon being continuously inflated, as if he were about to burst. The initial comfort was gone, replaced by intense pain.
What's happening?
I know, it's internal energy?
To reach his current level, Su Hang was essentially a half-trained practitioner. From the information in the Heavenly Rune Martial Canon, he knew that the Ninth Rank Martial Disciple was the limit of human potential, the strongest value the human body could achieve through training. When a practitioner reached the Ninth Rank Martial Disciple, they would encounter the first barrier to human growth.
Breaking through this barrier, a special biological energy would be generated within the body, which martial artists called internal energy. This internal energy, when circulated throughout the body, would allow the body to continue to strengthen to higher realms. Without breaking through this barrier, attempting to improve through training alone would not only fail to advance but would also damage the body.
Su Hang's body had already broken through the barrier, reaching the Martial Scholar realm, but this was a natural enhancement by the system without generating internal energy. Su Hang knew only a little about martial arts and was not aware of his body's condition. Over the past two days, while practicing radio calisthenics, he had felt a slight warm current in his body, but because it was too weak, he thought it was due to exercise and did not pay much attention to it.
However, now that he had extracted Leng Feng's abilities, his realm was directly elevated to the Ninth Rank Martial Scholar, and his body naturally generated a large amount of internal energy, which caught Su Hang off guard.
Internal energy is highly beneficial to the body, but if one does not know how to control it, a sudden increase in internal energy can cause significant harm. In the martial arts world, there is a term for this: "losing control of internal energy," where the internal energy becomes uncontrollable and causes severe damage to the practitioner, ranging from disability to death.
Now, Su Hang's body was in such a state. Due to the increase in his realm, the internal energy in his body continued to grow. His originally thin internal energy had now become a river, and his body was being tormented to the brink of collapse.
The two techniques from the Heavenly Rune Martial Canon immediately came to Su Hang's mind. The Qi Attraction Technique described the method of drawing in the energy of heaven and earth, which was useless for Su Hang at the moment. The Qi Refinement Technique, however, was the method for refining internal energy. Su Hang did not dare to be the slightest bit negligent.
He immediately began the Qi Refinement Technique, guiding the vast internal energy in his body, driving it into the meridians, and following the route of the technique to circulate it.
The narrow and closed meridians were expanded, torn, repaired, and strengthened, like a bamboo shoot breaking through the earth. One by one, the meridians and acupoints were impacted.
Pain was inevitable, but Su Hang could only grit his teeth and endure, not allowing himself a moment's distraction. Otherwise, if the internal energy went astray, it would be a disaster for him.
If only he had a pain-relieving rune, that thing could even dispel the pain of a thousand-year-old poison, and it should be able to handle the pain of meridian impact.
Unfortunately, Su Hang did not have time to draw a rune.
After an unknown amount of time, the twelve main meridians were all unblocked. The originally deformed and sticky meridians had been expanded several times over by the internal energy, and the internal energy flowed through them like a great river.
The internal energy that had escaped from his body was all returned to the meridians, and the pain finally subsided. The bitter end brought sweetness, and Su Hang felt a surge of strength throughout his body as he sensed the internal energy pulsing in his meridians.
When he tried to gather the internal energy to impact the eight extraordinary meridians, Su Hang found that the eight extraordinary meridians were like a sealed city gate. No matter how much he tried to knock on the gate, he could not open it.
In the end, he had to give up!
The human body has twelve main meridians and eight extraordinary meridians. At the Martial Scholar realm, one cultivates the twelve main meridians, while the eight extraordinary meridians can only be cultivated at the Martial Master realm. In other words, if you can open a single acupoint in one of the eight extraordinary meridians, you have already entered the door of the Martial Master realm.
Su Hang was now at the Ninth Rank Martial Scholar, and with the system's restrictions, he would not be able to break through to the Martial Master realm until he leveled up.
After giving up, Su Hang circulated the internal energy according to the route of the Qi Refinement Technique several times, making the internal energy more solid. Then he guided the energy back to the dantian.
The dantian is the sea of energy storage, the meridians are the rivers, and the dantian is the ocean. The more water stored in the ocean, the deeper the practitioner's power.
"Phew!"
He exhaled a long breath, opened his eyes, and saw that his T-shirt was drenched in sweat. His skin was covered in black oil, all the dirt expelled from his pores, as if he hadn't bathed for months and had just undergone intense exercise, even accompanied by a slight stench.
This was the impurities refined from his body by the internal energy. Humans consume a variety of foods, and impurities are inevitable in the body. This was Su Hang's first time using internal energy to refine his body after breaking through the Martial Scholar barrier, and the strong internal energy had refined a lot of impurities.
He felt a bit disgusted just looking at himself.
He tightly clenched his fists, and the internal energy surged, causing his knuckles to crack. His body had been significantly strengthened, and his strength had increased dramatically, but he could not estimate exactly how much.
To get an accurate value, he would need to use a strength-measuring device. Now, Su Hang could only say that he was much stronger, far beyond his previous level. Even if an elephant were in front of him, he had the confidence to punch it to death.
He checked his attributes.
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Name: Su Hang
Age: 23
Level: 2
Realm: Ninth Rank
Energy Points: 1
Credits: 95/1000
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Indeed, he had reached the Ninth Rank, and Su Hang was quite satisfied. Now, even without relying on Sima Gang, he could rely on his true abilities to suppress those two Emei Sect female disciples, right?