After browsing the recent news and seeing online reports of another Abyssal Beast tide outside the city, Jiang Yuan couldn't help but worry and sent a message to his father, Jiang Damu.
Soon after, Jiang Damu replied, "I'm fine."
"I'm with my comrades cleaning up the battlefield right now, don't worry..."
In the border defense army.
Jiang Damu's blood-stained hand lowered the communicator and fell limply.
Beside him, a bald, scar-faced man bandaged like a mummy, lying with him, laughed, "Old Jiang, which old flame messaged you this time?"
"Bullshit, it's my son."
"It's good to have a son, at least someone cares about you."
"That's right, you should have one too."
"Forget it, people like us who live with our heads on the line, we don't know when we'll die.
I don't want him to be an orphan as soon as he's born.
Your son is about to take the college entrance exam, right?
How is it?
Does he have a chance of getting into a Martial University?"
"My son is definitely capable.
He's much stronger than his old man," Jiang Damu said proudly.
Struggling to light a cigarette, Jiang Damu looked up at the sky, exhaled smoke, and forced a smile.
"Damn it, lived another day."
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In Nanjiang City, Jiang Yuan felt relieved, but couldn't smile.
Although his father spoke lightly, Jiang Yuan knew that with such a large-scale beast tide, many Second-Order and Third-Order Martial Artists in the army were either injured or dead.
How could his father, a Martial Practitioner (One-Rank), be spared?
He must be injured, but is hiding it, afraid of worrying his family.
Jiang Yuan went to the bathroom, took off his clothes, and began cultivating the Immortal Body Tempering Method.
What he could do now was to quickly become a Martial Practitioner (One-Rank) and enter the Abyss!
Killing monsters and leveling up without exposing his talent was the only way for him to rise quickly and change his family's current living situation!
"Hiss, hiss, hiss!"
The bathroom was covered in thick steam as if a kettle was boiling, and the young man in the misty water vapor occasionally let out painful groans.
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Half an hour later.
The delivery man brought the Abyssal Beast meat, and upon opening the door, was startled to see Jiang Yuan.
At this moment, he was thin as a pole, his cheeks sunken, muscles thinly attached to his bones, looking very emaciated and weak, only his eyes were exceptionally bright.
"Are you okay?" the delivery man couldn't help but ask.
"Do you need me to take you to the hospital?"
"No need, thank you."
Jiang Yuan shook his head, took the box next to him, and closed the door.
"Practicing until you're possessed?" The delivery man shook his head, and just before he left, he suddenly felt a sense of incongruity.
He thought, how could that boy, who looked so weak that he seemed like he could be blown over by a gust of wind, lift two hundred pounds of Abyssal Beast meat so easily?
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Jiang Yuan got the Abyssal Beast meat and immediately began to devour it.
With the intake of a large amount of nutrients, Jiang Yuan's consumed potential vitality was replenished, his cheeks plumped up again, and his muscles reappeared, smooth and lustrous, with a sense of strength and streamlined beauty, even his hair became shiny.
He ate a full twenty pounds of Abyssal Beast meat before he felt full.
He stretched, and his bones crackled like thunder.
"I've gradually mastered the first stance of the Immortal Body Tempering Method and can sustain it for half a minute now."
It was painful at first, but as he gradually adapted, he could feel a tingling sensation like electrotherapy spreading throughout his body, an extreme pleasure.
"After a few more rounds of refining, I should be able to attempt the second stance.
Now my spirit, energy, and vitality have reached their peak, it's time to try to deduce a breathing method."
The human body is a whole.
If the body tempering method is to refine the physique from the inside out, then the breathing method is to temper the blood and energy, absorb the energy of the Universe, and thus achieve the unity of heaven and man.
The two complement each other and can further enhance the spirit.
For the current Jiang Yuan, the basic flowing water breathing method taught at school was no longer sufficient and had no effect.
Only breathing methods of the same level as the Immortal Body Tempering Method, or even higher, could improve his cultivation efficiency.
"Start."
After muting his wristband, Jiang Yuan entered the state.
[Ding! You used Supreme Analysis to analyze the essence of the breathing method, basic breathing method proficiency +100]
[Basic breathing method proficiency +100]
[Drip, basic breathing method has reached Minor Accomplishment!]
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[Drip, basic breathing method has reached Great Accomplishment!]
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[Drip, basic breathing method has reached Perfect Level!]
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[Drip, you have comprehended the essence of breathing and started creating the most suitable breathing method for yourself, current progress 1%]
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[Drip, you have comprehended the essence of breathing and started creating the most suitable breathing method for yourself, current progress 2%]
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[Drip, based on the essence of the breathing method, you have created your exclusive breathing method - Kindling Breathing Method.]
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Inside Chongming Martial Arts Hall at night.
Xu Yihan was soaking in the bath, with a virtual screen in front of her.
On the other side of the screen was a stunningly beautiful and extremely cold red-haired woman.
"...That's how it is."
"A high school student who is not a Martial Practitioner (One-Rank) but has over ten thousand damage... If it's true, then there is indeed a need to recruit him," the cold and elegant older sister said, stroking her chin.
Ji Feiyue, Scarlet Rose Guild Leader, Fifth-Order, support class.
"Do you know his talent and profession?"
"That's not clear yet."
"Okay, I understand.
Keep in touch with him for now, and if necessary, you can sign a contract in advance.
Don't let other guilds poach him," Ji Feiyue said.
"Okay."
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