Chapter Eleven: Breaking Free from Shackles

  For nine days after returning from the city master's mansion, Qin Hao had been locking himself in his room, rarely going out except for eating and drinking, and hadn't even gone to the martial arts arena.

  At this moment, Qin Hao was standing with his upper body exposed, his face slightly flushed, and his body tightly clenched. A few beads of sweat gathered on his forehead, flowing down from the side of his face, and some sparkling sweat also appeared on his chest.

  Qin Hao took a few subtle breaths, his chest rising and falling in rhythm, as if a strong masculine energy was pulsating through his body.

  "Whoosh!" With a deep breath, Qin Hao circulated his entire body's vital energy, and then, a series of martial techniques unfolded from his hands.

  Basic martial skills: Bung Fist! Charge Fist! Swift Fist! Push Palm!

  Pingjie Wujiquan: Suī Jīn Sān Lián Pò

  The martial arts that had been practiced thousands of times by Qin Hao were displayed one after another. The movements flowed like clouds and water, smooth and natural, with a perfect connection between each move, without any stiffness. In his hands, these ordinary martial arts seemed to have come alive.

  Even if a spiritual or true martial artist were standing in front of him, they wouldn't dare say that their grasp of these martial skills was better than his. Of course, if it were a spiritual or true martial artist who executed these martial skills, the power would be far greater than his.

  After all, the quality of Xuan Qi is also an important factor in determining the power of martial skills.

  After practicing these martial skills for a while, Qin Hao exhausted all his strength and fell directly to the ground on his back.

  Qin Hao gazed up at the ceiling and let out a few more forceful breaths.

  For the past nine days, he has been constantly practicing his skills in the room. Although he has mastered several more powerful martial arts techniques, with his current strength, he can only display basic martial arts and flat-level martial arts, and cannot use anything higher, even causing backlash, shocking his meridians.

  These past few days, he had spent all his time on these relatively ordinary martial skills.

  After calming his breath, Qin Hao propped himself up with both hands and forced himself to sit up. Although at this moment his bones seemed to have been completely disassembled and reassembled, and there was a burning sensation in his chest cavity, he knew that this was the best time for him to cultivate.

  Sitting cross-legged on the ground, Qin Hao concentrated his mind and closed his eyes.

  "The Royal Flame Technique" is operating at full power, and the "Sea of Qi" in the abdomen, which stores the primordial energy, gradually generates a warm sensation, driving the gaseous primordial energy to circulate along the meridians, running repeatedly.

  As the Xuan Qi circulated, the already somewhat empty Qi Hai gradually became filled with deep red Xuan Qi, and the circulation of Xuan Qi also became faster and faster.

  Qin Hao was thus immersed in his cultivation, unaware of the passage of time. A strand of silvery white moonlight shot through the window and landed on Qin Hao's face, only then did his eyes slowly open.

  Feeling the fullness at the dantian, Qin Hao's face couldn't help but reveal an excited smile.

  It seems that he might be able to solve this strange kung fu problem tonight.

  Qin Hao took a long, deep breath, his mind more focused than ever before. As his spirit stirred, the mysterious energy from all parts of his body was thoroughly compressed back into his dantian, gradually becoming denser and denser.

  Qin Hao fiercely suppressed it, and the dark energy was compressed again. The deep red dark energy went crazy with counter shock, as if wanting to break free from its restraints.

  "Hmph." Qin Hao's mouth corner oozed out a thread of blood, but he didn't intend to stop, instead concentrating his strength to compress it further.

  Gradually, the deep red primordial energy occupied a smaller and smaller space, from initially occupying a space as large as a bowl mouth, to finally shrinking to a ball the size of a cup mouth.

  Qin Hao smiled with relief, and then activated another technique, the water-based technique "Bihai Gong". After a moment, a faint blue misty aura appeared in his dantian. The pale blue aura was suppressed by the deep red aura and could only disperse to the corners of his dantian.

  As Qin Hao's mind stirred, the pale blue aura gradually condensed into extremely fine threads, layer upon layer entwining the deep red aura within, ultimately completely enveloping the fiery red aura.

  After completing this step, Qin Hao once again urged the "Yu Yan Jue", and the two strands of entwined Xuan Qi quickly flowed along the various meridians. During this process, the two forces collided multiple times, and the deep red Xuan Qi tried to break free several times, but was thoroughly suppressed by Qin Hao.

  After rotating for several rounds, the two strands of mysterious energy returned to Qin Hao's dantian and slowly rotated. Qin Hao gathered all his strength and compressed the deep blue mysterious energy into the red mysterious energy. The red mysterious energy and pale blue mysterious energy merged into a small point before suddenly bursting open, restoring itself to its original deep red color. As for the other strand of energy, it completely disappeared.

  A counter-shock force ten times more ferocious than before suddenly rebounded and spread throughout the bones and meridians of the whole body.

  "Hmph." Qin Hao suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, but his face was incredibly relaxed.

  It seems like this problem has finally been solved. Qin Hao let out a bitter laugh, he was also considered reckless.

  "The Royal Flame Technique" cultivates fire-type Xuan Qi, while "The Azure Tide Technique" is water-type. Although there are people on the Tian Huan Continent who possess two, three or even four types of Xuan Qi, these different attributes of Xuan Qi exist in different positions within the Dantian and rarely come into contact with each other.

  He's got a screw loose, colliding two different types of Xuan Qi together like that, and in the end, he even gave rise to a transformation that not even he himself understands, that's pretty bold.

  Qin Hao tried to operate the "Bi Cui Jue", but there was no reaction at all. He urged the "Yu Yan Jue" and felt that the deep red Xuan Qi in his body was flowing continuously. The Xuan Qi seemed to have not changed much, but Qin Hao knew that it had become much softer. Originally, even if Qin Hao was very familiar with the "Yu Yan Jue" technique, he still had a feeling of awkwardness when controlling it, as if he couldn't exert his strength fully, but now that awkward feeling no longer existed.

  He knew that the bottleneck that had restricted him for many years would no longer exist.

  Thinking of that sharp pain just now, Qin Hao still had a lingering fear. He wouldn't try this crazy method again.

  In his past life, he didn't know about this solution either. He had also thought of abandoning the cultivation method he learned and switching to another one. However, he was always suppressed by the "Yin Flame Technique", and even if he cultivated other methods, he couldn't get rid of the shackles.

  Then, under a coincidence, he met a fat man in the Free Territory who he had saved once before, and that fat man told him that he too had seen similar problems before, and informed him of this method.

  "This kind of problem, either because the kung fu method itself is too overbearing and difficult to bear, or because the kung fu method does not match with oneself, the solution is to try to harmonize it with its completely opposing xuanqi. Of course, this is just a record from ancient books. Some people have tried it, I don't know if it works. So whether to try or not is up to you, and if any adverse consequences occur, it has nothing to do with me." At that time, the fat man was holding "Biqiu Jue" in his hand, and said directly without beating around the bush.

  "What if it fails?" Qin Hao asked, biting his lip.

  "If you fail, you'll know one thing - the current you is absolutely not a waste of time, because by then you'll become even more useless. Your meridians will be severed and your whole body will be paralyzed." The fatty said heartlessly.

  At that time, Qin Hao thought for a day and night, choosing to take over the meritorious method. He was willing to take risks, just to disperse the resentment in his heart.

  Nowadays, he made the same choice. The difference is that nowadays he is no longer resentful, but just to make up for his past regrets.

  His whole body felt like it had been crushed, and a deep sense of fatigue washed over him. Qin Hao only felt his eyelids getting heavier and heavier, and he fell into a daze on the ground.