Chapter 325: Surging Inner Breath, Nearly Two Cycles of Martial Power

Chapter 325: Surging Inner Breath, Nearly Two Cycles of Martial Power

At the bottom of the lake.

"An increase of about four years of martial power!"

Jiang Ning, after fully absorbing the Thunderfruit that had been cultivated for twenty years, slowly opened his eyes, and a look of delight immediately appeared in them.

For an ordinary Fifth-Rank Inner Fortitude Realm martial artist, a twenty-year-old Thunderfruit would only increase their martial power by about two years.

But for Jiang Ning, it brought about four years' worth of martial power.

The effect was directly doubled.

This meant that for Jiang Ning, one Thunderfruit was equivalent to two.

How could he not be delighted!

The next moment,

Another Thunderfruit, one that had been cultivated for fifty years, appeared in his hand.

"According to the previous experience, this Thunderfruit can increase my martial power by ten years!"

With this thought, Jiang Ning felt a sense of relief.

Ten years of martial power.

How many decades does a person have in their lifetime?

Even the mighty Grandmasters only live for two cycles.

Such a fruit could compensate for ten years of martial power accumulation for an ordinary Fifth-Rank martial artist.

Jiang Ning silently marveled at the importance of such resources, no matter how high one's talent, it couldn't compare to the wonders of these resources.

Then, with a few big gulps, the fifty-year-old Thunderfruit entered his stomach.

He immediately visualized a furnace in his mind, transforming himself into a furnace to refine the spiritual fruit in his stomach.

In less than half an incense stick's worth of time,

"About ten years of martial power!" He opened his eyes, a look of joy on his face.

With the consecutive increase in martial power, totaling about fifteen years' worth, he felt the accumulation of inner breath in his dantian reach a considerable level.

The improvement was very noticeable.

At this moment, based on his own perception, he estimated that he had over fifty-five years' worth of pure martial power.

"I'm about to have a cycle of martial power!"

He smiled.

Then, in the blink of an eye, a Thunderfruit with lightning veins appeared in his hand.

This was the symbol of a century-old Thunderfruit.

The Ancient Turtle beside him watched this scene, its eyes immediately filled with greed.

It had come to this Thunder Carp's lair to obtain the Thunderfruit. This heavenly material was extraordinary, and for the Thunder Carp, due to its compatible attributes, the increase in cultivation and demonic power was the most significant.

But for the Ancient Turtle, the effect was equally remarkable, providing it with excellent cultivation and demonic power enhancement.

It had barely reached two hundred years of cultivation.

Once it absorbed the Thunderfruit in front of it, its cultivation would increase by at least fifty percent, gaining over a hundred years of cultivation.

When it eventually reached a thousand years of cultivation in the future, it could refine its demon core and become a Great Demon.

Immediately, it saw Jiang Ning looking at it and quickly averted its gaze, focusing on devouring the fish head in front of it.

Beside them,

Jiang Ning noticed the Ancient Turtle's furtive gaze and couldn't help but chuckle. He turned his attention back to the century-old Thunderfruit in front of him.

The century-old Thunderfruit would undoubtedly create an abyss-like phenomenon in his inner breath, giving him the power of a cycle of martial cultivation.

He took a bite.

A crackling sound filled the air—

Thunderous light flashed from the Thunderfruit, instantly illuminating the dark lake bottom.

Jiang Ning couldn't help but smile, his mouth tingling.

"This thing, even ordinary martial artists can't handle it!"

He endured the pain and quickly finished the century-old Thunderfruit in his hand, not bothering to savor it.

After the entire fruit entered his stomach, his tongue couldn't taste anything.

Because his tongue had gone completely numb.

At the same time, he also felt a tingling sensation spreading from his stomach.

As the Thunderfruit entered his stomach, with the movement of his stomach and the digestion of gastric juices, the medicinal power and thunderous energy within the fruit began to surge into his five viscera.

The next moment,

Jiang Ning closed his eyes and once again visualized a furnace in his mind.

Boom—

It was as if raging flames had ignited within him.

Crackling sounds filled the air—

At this moment, a clear sound of thunder emanated from his body.

The erupting thunderous power began to temper his five viscera, and as the medicinal power took effect, strands of inner breath, like smoke and mist, surged from his dantian, merging into the cloud sea within, causing it to churn.

Initially, they were sparse, like the first spring rain.

In the blink of an eye,

They formed a vast network of countless strands.

With the continuous increase in martial power, the ocean in his dantian surged and roared, emitting a series of booms.

After an unknown amount of time,

Perhaps a breath, ten breaths, or even longer.

The phenomenon in his dantian suddenly changed.

The previous surging waves were gone, replaced by boundless tranquility.

'Inner Breath Like Abyss'—these four words best described the awe-inspiring pressure of the inner breath's eruption, like facing an abyss, filled with trembling and fear.

At this moment,

Jiang Ning felt his inner breath in the dantian suddenly become calm, and he instantly understood.

In this instant, he possessed sixty years' worth of pure martial power.

Sixty years of cultivation unleashed was enough to unleash a mountain-splitting, earth-shattering might.

Even when facing an army of ten thousand Rank Entrant Martial Artists, all armed and armored, as long as his Inner Breath was sufficient, he could still kill them all.

After that.

He cleared his mind of distractions and continued refining the Century Thunderfruit within his body.

Time passed.

Jiang Ning slowly opened his eyes.

"A growth of sixty years of cultivation!"

He was deeply shaken.

A single fruit had allowed him to achieve sixty years of cultivation growth.

He had never dared to imagine this before.

But at this moment, it was indeed happening within his body.

This meant that his current cultivation had already surpassed a century and was close to the astonishing level of two sixty-year cycles of cultivation.

Two sixty-year cycles, that was one hundred and twenty years, forty-three thousand eight hundred days and nights of accumulated cultivation.

He had achieved this in such a short time.

"Is this the effect of Heavenly Materials?" Jiang Ning muttered to himself, feeling a sense of disbelief.

A moment later.

Hu—

Jiang Ning exhaled a turbid breath, and instantly, it was as if a sharp sword had parted the lake water before him, reaching three meters.

Then it turned into countless bubbles that scattered, rising upwards.

He slowly stood up, but his mind was occupied with a question.

How many years of cultivation was he still lacking to reach the level of Inner Breath Like Prison?

As far as he knew, Inner Breath Like Prison was the next level after Inner Breath Like Abyss.

However, he wasn't sure how many years of cultivation were needed to reach Inner Breath Like Prison.

Beside him.

The Ancient Turtle saw Jiang Ning stand up, and its heart immediately added a few points of respect.

It could sense that Jiang Ning was unconsciously emitting a powerful oppressive aura, making it want to distance itself from him.

At the same time.

Jiang Ning's gaze fell back on the Thunder Carp's corpse.

Go back!

He made a decision.

Today's trip had yielded more than he had imagined.

Not only had his cultivation increased several times, but he now possessed nearly two sixty-year cycles of cultivation.

Additionally, he had gained Essence Points and the corpse of the already-demonized Thunder Carp.

Then, his gaze shifted to the Ancient Turtle beside him.

At this moment, the Ancient Turtle had only the framework of a fish head left in front of it.

"Master!" The Ancient Turtle spoke, its voice carrying a hint of respect compared to before.

Jiang Ning asked, "Old Ghost, how many years of Dao cultivation do you have now?"

"Reporting to Master." The Ancient Turtle immediately replied, "My previous Dao cultivation was two hundred and three years, but today it has increased by three years, making it two hundred and six years."

Hearing this, Jiang Ning slightly nodded.

He had also learned related knowledge from the book.

After Demons developed their Demonic Intelligence, their Demonic Power would increase along with their Dao cultivation!

A Demon like the Ancient Turtle, with over two hundred years of Dao cultivation, was merely a Lesser Demon.

Only after a thousand years of Dao cultivation, when they condensed their Demon Core, would they become a Great Demon.

According to the book's records, during ancient times, Great Demons with over a thousand years of cultivation were not uncommon.

These newly-entered Great Demons were not considered true powerhouses in the Demon Race.

Therefore, it was evident that Lesser Demons like the Ancient Turtle, with barely two hundred years of Dao cultivation, were akin to trash-tier creatures.

As these thoughts turned in his mind, Jiang Ning also noticed the latter half of the Ancient Turtle's sentence.

He was slightly surprised and asked, "Your Dao cultivation increased by three years? What happened?"

The Ancient Turtle explained, "Master just fed me with his blood, increasing my Dao cultivation by two years!"

Then, the Ancient Turtle pointed to the fish head in front of it, "And after digesting that Thunder Carp's brain, my Dao cultivation increased by one year."

Hearing the Ancient Turtle's words, Jiang Ning immediately understood how the Demon Race's Dao cultivation increased.

He asked again, "Old Turtle, you weren't a match for that Thunder Carp, was its Dao cultivation higher than yours?"

"It wasn't much higher than mine!" The Ancient Turtle replied with envy in its voice, "Although our Dao cultivation wasn't much different, the Thunder Carp's innate talent and abilities were far superior to mine."

"In the struggle among Demons, Dao cultivation is just the foundation, one of them."

"Innate talent and abilities have a greater impact."

After a simple conversation with the Ancient Turtle, Jiang Ning's understanding of Demons deepened.

Then, under his command, the Ancient Turtle shrank to the size of a palm.

Jiang Ning put it in his pocket and lifted the massive Thunder Carp with one hand, heading home.

As he moved, the lake water instantly became the force propelling him forward.

Without expending any effort, he used his Water Control Technique, and his speed reached an astonishing one breath, a hundred zhang away.

"Indeed, my understanding is correct! There are many aspects to develop in Water Control."

Feeling the lake water part before him without any resistance, while the water behind him enveloped and propelled him through the lake bed.

Jiang Ning nodded in satisfaction, enjoying this mode of travel.

Beneath the lake bed.

A visible track-like passage appeared.

This speed reached four-tenths of his speed on land.

Ordinary people, even on land, couldn't match his current speed in the water.

And he was carrying the corpse of a six-meter-long electric eel.

When Jiang Ning returned home, the sky was also darkening.

As Jiang Li and Liu Wanwan saw the enormous eel demon that Jiang Ning had left in the courtyard, Jiang Li exclaimed in shock, his eyes widening.

A six-meter-long electric eel, weighing two to three hundred catties, was something he had never seen before.

Electric eels were rare in Luoshui Lake, but they could occasionally be spotted.

Usually, adult electric eels were only about three meters long and weighed forty to fifty catties.

The electric eel that Jiang Ning had left in the courtyard looked like a giant python without a head.

Six meters long and weighing two to three hundred catties.

"Wow—"

"Wow—"

"Wow—"

Little Dumpling also exclaimed in surprise.

"Uncle is so amazing!"

Seeing this, Jiang Ning couldn't help but smile.

"I just took a trip to the lake and caught this demonized eel. I killed it and brought it back."

"Demonized?" Jiang Li's eyes widened even further.

"Mhm!" Jiang Ning nodded, patting Little Dumpling's head as she ran over, and continued, "This little demonized eel in Luoshui Lake is a menace. It's better to kill it and bring it back. This thing is definitely a great tonic!"

Upon hearing these words, Jiang Li's expression became complicated.

Demons were legendary creatures that fed on human blood.

But in Jiang Ning's words, they seemed like ordinary chickens and ducks, easily killed and brought back to cook.

This made him feel a bit unreal.

Liu Wanwan wiped her hands and said, "Ning, leave this eel to me. I'll prepare a sumptuous dinner tonight."

"Wait a moment!" Jiang Ning raised his hand to stop Liu Wanwan.

Then, he reached out and used his inner breath to slice off a palm-sized piece of meat from the electric eel.

The meat was crystal-clear, like jelly, and full of elasticity.

He just remembered the almost-demonized white dragon fish from before.

That almost-demonized white dragon fish was also a great tonic, but it was too nourishing for ordinary people to digest much of it.

And this electric eel was an entirely demonized creature with over two hundred years of cultivation.

He wasn't sure if ordinary people could handle it.

So, he wanted to try it first.

The next moment, flames rose from thin air.

The palm-sized fish meat floated above the flames.

At the same time, Little Dumpling took out a palm-sized softshell turtle from Jiang Ning's pocket, and they stared at each other, the turtle's small eyes meeting Jiang Ning's larger ones.

"Dudu, did you catch this turtle to give to me?"

Little Dumpling looked up at Jiang Ning with delight.

"You're the turtle! You're the turtle!" the softshell turtle exclaimed, its voice filled with resentment.

Jiang Ning had always called it 'Old Turtle,' and after witnessing Jiang Ning's strength, it didn't dare to argue.

But now, it was being called a turtle by a little girl.

It, a dignified softshell turtle, was being called a green-haired turtle.

Uncles can bear it, but aunts can't!

Hearing this, Jiang Ning looked down at the softshell turtle.

"Hmm?" A nasal tone emerged from his voice.

The softshell turtle shuddered.

It had just been brought back by Jiang Ning and had witnessed his speed in the water, knowing his strength far exceeded its own.

And at this moment...

Everyone heard the softshell turtle's voice.

Little Dumpling's eyes widened in surprise.

Jiang Li and Liu Wanwan were also shocked, their faces showing disbelief as they realized the voice came from the little softshell turtle in their daughter's hand.

This made them completely incredulous.

How could a tiny softshell turtle speak human words?

Little Dumpling wrinkled her nose.

"It smells so good!"

"Slurp—"

Saliva began to flow from her mouth as she looked up at the cooked fish meat in front of Jiang Ning.

Jiang Ning's gaze also returned to the fish meat in front of him.

As the aroma of the grilled fish wafted over, his eyes lit up.

In this life, there weren't many pleasures.

Gourmet food was undoubtedly a key source of joy.

Without delicious food, in his opinion, there would be far fewer happy moments in life.

"Dudu, I want to eat!" Little Dumpling let go of the softshell turtle in her hand, tugged at Jiang Ning's clothes, and looked pitiful, her eyes filled with pleading.

"This won't do!" Jiang Ning shook his head.

He picked up the already-cooked fish meat, blew on it habitually to cool it down, and then took a bite.

"Mmm—" His eyes lit up.

Although there were no seasonings, it was the best food he had ever eaten, without a doubt.

After being cooked, the meat was as firm as beef but with a fresh and delicious taste.

"Slurp—" Little Dumpling sucked in the drool she had just left, seeing Jiang Ning finish the palm-sized fish meat in just a few bites.

(End of Chapter)

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