Chapter 703: Key to Breakthrough to the Seventh Level

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A trace of Internal Breath circulated in his body at a much slower speed than Chu Nan’s normal cultivation. It took a full minute before it finally circulated in the last fine meridian and slowly flowed back to his dantian.

The reason why he was so careful and… slow was because Chu Nan still had to circulate his Internal Breath while maintaining the absorption of the violent spatial energy of the outside world at the same time and continue to maintain the fragile balance between his physical spatial energy resisting the corrosion of the outside world.

Moreover, he was not only cultivating his Internal Breath cultivation method now, but he was also making further improvements and modifications on the foundation of the original Nine Revolutions Technique to prepare to break through to the seventh level.

Seeing that this trace of Internal Breath successfully flowed back to his dantian without any accidents, Chu Nan heaved a sigh of relief.

This successful circulation meant that his improvement and modification of the sixth level of the Nine Revolutions Technique had finally been completed.

According to the precise time in his mind, from the first level of the Nine Revolutions Technique to completing the improvement and modification of the sixth level, he had spent a total of 151 hours, 49 minutes, and 18 seconds.

Due to the process of improving and modifying the Nine Revolutions Technique and the additional Internal Breath consumption that he had no choice but to use in order to improve, the 174 hours he had calculated previously had been further reduced. Now that he had calculated again, even if he did not consume any additional Internal Breath and continued to maintain this state, there were only 18 hours, 25 minutes, and 33 seconds left.

There was not much time left for him…

Chu Nan composed himself and replayed the modification process of the first to sixth levels of the Nine Revolutions Technique in his mind.

Through these modifications, Chu Nan’s understanding of the Nine Revolutions Technique had improved.

He discovered that his previous opinion of the Nine Revolutions Technique was a little off.

Breaking through the second level of the Nine Revolutions Technique was not like he thought. He could not ignore the first level and only focus on cultivating according to the second level.

After obtaining a powerful data ability last year, he improved according to his own situation. From the third level onwards, this situation of separation was even more serious.

After reaching the sixth level of the cultivation method, he opened all the meridians in his body and almost completely abandoned the first five levels of the cultivation method. He only focused on cultivating the brand new sixth-level cultivation method that had fused with other cultivation methods.

Under normal circumstances, this was naturally not wrong, but now that he had cultivated from the beginning and seriously sorted it out, he discovered a problem.

There was actually an indistinct connection between the first to sixth levels of the Nine Revolutions Technique left behind by Su Xuansheng back then.

Chu Nan had made more than 100,000 attempts on the foundation of the first level of the cultivation method, leaving behind more than 100,000 Internal Breath circulation routes. Then, he made more than 150,000 attempts on the foundation of the second level of the cultivation method, also leaving behind more than 150,000 Internal Breath circulation routes.

When he analyzed these two data at the same time in his mind, he discovered that 3,721 of them had a certain overlap synchronization effect.

After entering an in-depth analysis of these 3,721 points of data, he finally discovered that when he chose 781 of them to circulate the first and second levels of the cultivation method continuously—in other words, the first cycle circulated his Internal Breath according to the first level of the cultivation method, and the second cycle immediately changed to the second cycle circulating his Internal Breath. The increase in Internal Breath obtained by the second level of the cultivation method was obvious.

After discovering this, Chu Nan deliberately paid attention and analyzed the data of more than 260,000 experiments on the third level.

Therefore, as expected, he discovered that there were 437 Internal Breath circulation routes in the third level of the cultivation method that could be connected to the first and second levels. The increase in Internal Breath obtained from this was even more obvious.

After confirming this phenomenon, Chu Nan would set aside a portion of his time to study the fourth to the sixth level of the Nine Revolutions Technique.

After advancing to the sixth level of the cultivation method like this, he put together the data of more than 1.8 million Internal Breath circulation routes and spent a total of 27 hours analyzing them. In the end, he confirmed a plan for the circulation of Internal Breath that could be connected from the first level to the sixth level.

When he circulated the first level of the Nine Revolutions Technique in the first cycle, the second cycle, the second cycle… When he circulated the sixth level of the Nine Revolutions Technique in the sixth cycle, he discovered that the increase in his Internal Breath had actually exceeded more than three times the amount he had used to circulate the sixth cycle alone.

This increase was greatly beyond his expectations.

Moreover, not only that, after Chu Nan circulated the first to the sixth level of the cultivation method, he could clearly sense that his perception of the spatial energy around him had greatly increased. Even the speed at which his Internal Breath fused with the violent energy was faster and easier.

Why did Su Xuansheng not mention that the Nine Revolutions Technique had such a special effect when he left it behind?

Was it because he deliberately did not say it, or did he not realize it himself?

Chu Nan did not have the time to think about this problem. What he needed to resolve was another problem.

He was now certain that if he wanted to break through to the seventh level of the Nine Revolutions Technique, this characteristic he had unintentionally discovered was the key. It could even be said to be the key to breaking through to the seventh level.

After further confirming that the sixth level of the Nine Revolutions Technique that he had discovered was indeed the most optimal result, Chu Nan began to study it on this foundation.

Clearly, if he wanted to successfully break through, the seventh level of the cultivation method probably had to maintain a connection with the sixth level.

However, what should he do?

When he reached the sixth level of the cultivation method, Chu Nan had already mobilized all the meridians in his body. This even far exceeded the scope of the sixth level of the Nine Revolutions Technique left behind by Su Xuansheng back then. It also far exceeded the meridians that ordinary martial artists needed to use to cultivate their Internal Breath cultivation methods.

Therefore, it was certain that if he wanted to break through the sixth level of the Nine Revolutions Technique and reach the seventh level, it was almost impossible to do it with the meridians in his body.

Therefore, that sentence appeared in Chu Nan’s mind again.

“With your body as the medium, your Internal Breath will turn into a bridge and your body will melt into the universe. You can roam the world and achieve the Great Dao.”

At the same time, Chu Nan recalled the situation when he used the Life Helix and a trace of understanding arose.

If fusing the spatial energy in his body with the external spatial energy could turn into a huge spatial energy spiral, then if he used his Internal Breath to fuse and enter the external universe, could he also absorb the external space into the Internal Breath circulation and achieve the degree of internal and external harmony?

Perhaps… this was the true appearance of the seventh level of the Nine Revolutions Technique?

As soon as this thought arose, Chu Nan immediately became firm and did not hesitate.

A trace of Internal Breath flowed out of his dantian and quickly completed the circulation of the first level of the Nine Revolutions Technique. The first cycle of cultivation had ended.

After flowing out, he circulated the second level of the cultivation method that he had confirmed could produce connections and completed the second cycle of cultivation.

This lasted until the end of the sixth cycle. When his Internal Breath returned to his dantian, it had already obtained a huge increase and a large amount of Internal Breath that he had exhausted had been partially replenished.

However, Chu Nan was not satisfied.

He knew very well that this could not completely make up for the huge consumption of his Internal Breath. Moreover, if he encountered any accidents, he did not have any extra strength to deal with them. In the end, he would still die.

If he wanted to survive, he had to make a breakthrough!

Internal Breath flowed out of his dantian again. After circulating in the meridians in his body according to the sixth level of the cultivation method for a cycle, it actually seeped out of his meridians and flowed against the violent spatial energy that was simultaneously absorbed from the outside world.