Bottleneck

Li Feng memorized the flow that the hologram in front of him had showed him.

Immediately after, he closed his eyes, directing the Qi toward his heart.

This was near where the first meridian to unblock was.

Every one of the meridians in his body was to be unlocked in succession in a particular order, according to this cultivation technique.

The first of this was the Taiyun Meridian.

He felt a sharp cold as he started to direct the flow of the Qi toward this point.

It was different from his blood vessels that he was using previously to channel this Qi.

As the Qi stopped at this blockade, it was like a bottleneck that it could not pass through.

For once, Li Feng felt like he was stuck, in front of a mountain, unable to surpass this obstacle.

But as every obstacle, a river was meant to stomp through.

Li Feng scoffed and let a barrage of Qi start to accumulate in front of the meridian.

He took deep breaths, letting the rich Qi around him enter his body and form into a liquid form right around his stomach, or his Dantian.

And from this Dantian, the Qi started to flow toward the Taiyun Meridian.

With this influx, Li Feng could feel the obstruction that he had felt before start to loosen.

The mountain was giving way.

Gritting his teeth, he took a deep breath and pushed forward.

Ding!

All of a sudden, the Qi just flew forward, and a clear feeling swept Li Feng.

It was a euphoric feeling. One that he had never felt before.

It was like the world around him was different than before. Or rather, he was looking at the world in a different way.

Li Feng opened his eyes, and what he saw was completely different.

It was different from the world of blue and white, and also different from the regular colors that he was too accustomed to.

Instead, it was like he was looking at numbers and text.

He looked down at the leather book, The Ten Thousand Cycles, and yet what he saw were runes. Runes that he understood for some reason.

"108 Meridian Unlocks"

The runes read.

"What is this? My Qi is draining so quickly?" Li Feng suddenly realized as the power in his body started to fade away.

He cut his concentration, and immediately, this wierd world disappeared.

"Huff"

Li Feng took a deep breath and quickly tried to replenish the Qi that he had just lost.

"This world, it feels like an upgraded version of the world of blue and white. And it seems to run on Qi." He quickly realized.

It didn't take a genius to realize that what Li Feng had was not common. It was definitely something that he had to safeguard from everyone, no matter how much he trusted them.

"I need to be able to control this world better. The benefits that it gives me are too good to leave on the table." He realized.

Li Feng tried to organize his thoughts, his confusion and his surprise. All of his emotions were overpowering him.

This was nothing to scoff at.

All this time, the world of white and blue had eluded him enough, but now, he had a way to summon the world to his benefit.

"If I can control this…. I will be unstoppable." He told himself again, his mouth curling up to a smile.

"But first, the second meridian." He reminded himself.

Even though he had a cheat that not many could boast about, he was still behind others his age.

He didn't even take a second glance at the others in his batch. The only two mountains that he knew he had to surpass were Qin Bo and Bai You.

The moment he knew how strong they were, he had a deep motivation that he had to overcome them.

And now, he was given the tools.

Closing his eyes again, he turned his direction to the second major meridian that he had to unblock.

The Ten Thousand Cycles first unblocked the twelve standard meridians, then the eight extraordinary meridians, and finally, the remaining points on the body.

And once all 108 points in the body were completely unblocked, the cultivation technique would show its greatness.

In the final page of the leather book, it was written that at the peak of the Ten Thousand Cycles, the user could use this technique to open a World Domain.

Li Feng didn't understand what that meant, but he could connect the dots. It had something to do with the Domain Expansion Stage.

"The peak of this technique is the Domain Expansion Stage. Once I reach that stage, I might need to change…" he told himself.

But for some reason, something in his heart told him that the world of white and blue just showed him something that could help him reach a stage beyond the Domain Expansion Stage.

Pushing those thoughts aside, he brought his concentration at the current situation.

If he was able to open a second meridian, then he would break through the Muscle Tempering, and into the Bone Tempering stage.

Closing his eyes, he started to accumulate the Qi, in a similar manner to before.

He looked into his body, focusing on the Shaoyang meridian.

A warm feeling spread through his body as he did. It as uncomfortable, but not nearly as irritating as the cold that he had felt before.

He pushed the feeling aside, trying to use the Qi to batter through the blockage at the meridian.

But the mountain that was the Shaoyang Meridian did not even tremble.

It stood still, like it was a true unmovable mountain.

An hour passed by.

Nothing.

Another hour passed by.

Beads of sweat started to fall beside Li Feng, but he couldn't feel a single change his situation.

Slowly, he opened his eyes.

"So this is what a bottleneck is…"

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