Chapter 77 - 77 77 Mid Stage of Accumulating Essence Realm

77: Chapter 77: Mid Stage of Accumulating Essence Realm 77: Chapter 77: Mid Stage of Accumulating Essence Realm Not until the air in his chest was exhausted, and his lungs felt like they were about to explode, did Fang Bai discard the stone and quickly surface, greedily gasping for air in great gulps. Refining the body underwater, though more difficult, yielded better results. By the time Fang Bai had walked five li on the riverbed with the stone, he felt that he had touched the barrier of the third layer, the “Xingyuan Realm.” In the blink of an eye, it was Saturday. That morning, Fang Bai had walked several li under the Bihe River and swam against the current for ten more li. Just as he was about to head back downstream, a tremendous sound of rushing water reached his ears. Following the sound, Fang Bai saw that hundreds of meters to the north of the riverbank, on a mountain, a waterfall poured down, creating a thunderous roar. The waterfall flowed into a stream at the foot of the mountain, which meandered and connected to the Bihe River, becoming one of its tributaries. Seeing the waterfall, Fang Bai was overjoyed, knowing he had found another excellent place for body refining. “Again!” Fang Bai slapped his chest and roared at the waterfall, then circulated True Yuan throughout his body, raising his resistance to impact to the limit. Like a crazed lion, he dashed to the waterfall with lightning speed again. Just now, Fang Bai had been knocked down in an instant by the pounding water, but this time, prepared and exerting all his strength, he only lasted three seconds before losing his balance and being swept away by the waterfall. “Again!” Without resting, Fang Bai roared and, for the third time, charged into the waterfall. This time, he lasted only three seconds as well… Refining the body under the waterfall was countless times more difficult than swimming against the current or walking on the riverbed holding a stone. Time after time, Fang Bai charged beneath that curtain of water, attempting to stand there enduringly, but each attempt ended in failure, with the longest lasting only four or five seconds. Fang Bai couldn’t recall how many times he had tried. After each attempt, his body’double in pain and numbness, unbearably uncomfortable as if it had fallen apart. Fang Bai knew this was a good sign, similar to his first body refining experience. As long as he could get through the initial tough moments, it would gradually become easier. The moment he could walk leisurely under the battering waterfall would indicate his achievement. By then, his physique would leap forward, he’d break through the realm’s bottleneck, and his strength would grow exponentially. From dawn to afternoon, and from afternoon to dusk, until he had drained the last bit of energy from his body, Fang Bai’s body refining session finally came to a close. He collapsed onto a flat stone beside the waterfall, closed his eyes, and didn’t want to move at all, silently cultivating the “Dragon-Tiger-Lion-Elephant Technique” to recover the drained True Yuan and energy. Having restored less than thirty percent of his True Yuan and energy and seeing the sky about to darken, Fang Bai then dragged his exhausted body to the edge of the Bihe River, jumped into the river, and let himself drift downstream with the current. Reaching downstream, he found the clothes he had hidden, put them on, and jogged back home. When Fang Gang and Yang Mei, who had been waiting for their son to come home for dinner, saw their drenched and bedraggled child before them, they were both startled. In the face of his parents’ questioning, Fang Bai certainly wouldn’t say he had walked on the riverbed with a stone or stood under a waterfall to endure its impact, as that would scare his parents. He simply said he went out to practice martial arts. Seeing her son drenched in sweat and weak, Yang Mei couldn’t help feeling distressed. She immediately served him the meal along with Fang Gang, urging Fang Bai to eat more meat to strengthen his body. In fact, there was no need for Yang Mei to persuade him. As soon as Fang Bai sat down, he began to devour the meat voraciously. In recent times, the intensity of Fang Bai’s physical training had doubled, causing his consumption of meat to surge past what it had been, worrying Fang Gang and Yang Mei that their son might burst his stomach. Luckily, Fang Bai had not experienced any issues with his body. Yang Mei often exclaimed to her husband Fang Gang how fortunate it was that their son had earned a reward of three hundred thousand from the police; otherwise, their household could not sustain their son’s meat consumption. By late June, the classes at Zhongzhou Medical College where Fang Bai was enrolled had ended, and the students began to use their skills to find internship hospitals. Coming from a humble background, Fang Gang and Yang Mei were worried about how to secure an internship at a large hospital for their son when Su Linglong came to visit. She told Fang Bai that she had already arranged two internship spots at Yanjing Hospital, one of which was for Fang Bai. With the help of the Su Family, Fang Bai had already switched his major from Western medicine to Chinese medicine at Zhongzhou Medical College. He was preparing to intern in a Chinese medicine department during his upcoming internship at Yanjing Hospital. Yanjing Hospital is one of the top hospitals in Huaxia, and interning there was an excellent opportunity. Fang Gang and Yang Mei were both surprised and delighted. To express their gratitude, Yang Mei insisted that Su Linglong stay for lunch that day, and she personally cooked a lavish meal to treat her. With the internship hospital issue resolved, Fang Bai was free from any concerns and doubled down on his physical training for the following period. By the end of June, Fang Bai had made significant progress in his physical training. Although he still found it difficult to move leisurely under the waterfall, he could now stand beneath it for around ten minutes. One day, on a whim, Fang Bai practiced the Divine Elephant Eight Desolate Steps and Tiger Roar Thunder Fist beneath the waterfall. He initially found it very difficult to execute each move, but after a moment he discovered the knack for channeling and exerting force properly, performing them smoothly. Caught up in the excitement, Fang Bai couldn’t help but release a long howl using the Lion’s Roar Sonic Wave; the curtain of water in front of him trembled due to the sudden burst of sound waves he produced. As he howled, the True Yuan within his Qi Sea surged and churned without stopping, circulating wildly through the major meridians and blood vessels of his body on its own, breaking through a bottleneck. The “Dragon-Tiger-Lion-Elephant Technique” advanced from the early stage of the second layer, the Accumulating Essence Realm, to the middle stage in one fell swoop. Although it was just a small advancement in realm, the increase in strength was exponential. In his past life, before ascending to the Immortal Realm in the Cultivation World, it would have taken Fang Bai months of arduous cultivation to advance even a minor realm. Now, he had managed to move from the early to the middle stage of the Accumulating Essence Realm in less than a month, making incredibly fast progress. Sёarᴄh the NôvelFire(.)net website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality. After crossing that minor realm, the True Yuan in Fang Bai’s Qi Sea, which was the size of rice grains, had also doubled in volume. Feeling his senses sharpen and his strength double, Fang Bai let out a hearty laugh. With this newfound power, he was confident that even if he left Zhongzhou City for a wider world, he would have the ability to protect himself and not repeat the experience of being seriously injured and left unconscious in the explosion incident. Fang Bai did not know exactly how his current strength compared to the levels of martial artists in this world. However, he thought that since he could easily defeat Yellow Level Martial Artists of this world, he should be at the Profound Level now.