The Rebellious Son Becomes a God

"Creak~~~~"

Jiang Li pushed open the door of Zhiqiu Courtyard, walked in, then turned around and closed the door. Leaning against the door, he looked at the numerous footprints in the courtyard under the cold moonlight. The door of the house was wide open, evidently quite a number of people had visited today.

"Quiet is good, quiet is good."

Those little ghosts had caused a lot of disturbances before.

In the following period of time, Jiang Li was in a state of shutting himself off from visitors.

Apart from reviewing books as usual, he spent most of his time practicing the Five Mountains True Form Fist and the Ren Yuan True Sutra in his own courtyard.

"Swish! Swish! Swish!"

In the house of Zhiqiu Courtyard, Jiang Li was practicing boxing in an area behind the desk that could be surrounded by four people.

Although the place was narrow and cramped, it was sufficient for Jiang Li.

The place was small and enclosed on all four sides. Instead, there was a feeling that his energy wouldn't dissipate but was gathered together.

As he moved his muscles, Jiang Li felt his body gradually becoming stronger and more powerful.

Holding his breath, Jiang Li pressed his fists against his abdomen. His fists started to move, his waist pushed forward, his head and neck straightened up. When the final move, the Songshan Zhenlei Style, was executed, his breath was expelled along with the punch.

The punches from his fists made the air crackle loudly, causing bursts of explosive sounds.

During this period of practicing boxing, he had been secretly practicing in the room and had always been restraining his strength. Fortunately, he didn't cause a big commotion like he did on the first day of practicing boxing.

Jiang Li withdrew his fists and looked inward at himself. Now he had already reached the high level of Soul Warrior and the perfect state of Martial Student.

"Finally, I have some strength."

Having just finished practicing the boxing, Jiang Li didn't take a break. After adjusting his breathing, he took out the black sword that he bought when he went out of the mansion last time from his storage ring. He stood with his legs apart at a shoulder-width distance, held the sword with both hands, and began to swing it.

"One, two, three, four..."

During these days, although there was no sword manual or the like, he didn't let the sword lie idle either. Jiang Li would practice swinging the sword every morning, noon, and evening. There were no complicated fancy moves, just simple swinging motions. Five hundred horizontal slashes and five hundred vertical slashes!

At the beginning, after swinging the sword, his arms were so sore and swollen that he could hardly lift them up. Even with the help of soul power to dredge the meridians, it couldn't relieve the fatigue of his body.

He knew that it was just because his body was too weak.

Even though it was painful every day, Jiang Li gritted his teeth and persevered.

The effect of his daily cultivation, practicing boxing and swordsmanship, was also quite obvious. In just half a month's time, he clearly felt that his body had become a lot stronger.

"Three hundred and eighty-six... four hundred and twenty-one... four hundred and ninety-seven, four hundred and ninety-eight, four hundred and ninety-nine, five hundred."

Finally, the swinging motions for tonight were completed.

Jiang Li let out a long breath of stale air.

He put away the sword, rubbed his sore shoulders, and walked out of the room.

As the night grew deeper, Jiang Li sat quietly in the courtyard, but his gaze drifted into the distance.

"Jiang Mansion... Sooner or later, I will leave this place!"

The moonlight was like water, shining on him, adding a touch of coldness to him. He took a deep breath, feeling the tranquility of the night.

With a sigh, he turned around and went back into the room.

He sat cross-legged on the bed, calmed his mind, activated the Ren Yuan True Sutra, and recalled the contents in the book,"The divine soul is originally formless. Its gathering and dispersing are up to my heart. Keep your mind on the spiritual platform, and the spiritual light will shine on you of its own accord." Gradually, he entered a state of cultivation.

That familiar feeling flowed within his body.

He closed his eyes and let the soul power flow slowly through the meridians. Jiang Li felt that his soul seemed to be undergoing an indescribable purification. With each cycle, his divine soul power became purer.

It was so comfortable. This sense of comfort that came from the soul could never be brought by the physical body. He felt as if he were floating on air, extremely relaxed.

Even martial warriors with firm minds, or even martial masters, couldn't resist this comfortable feeling. Jiang Li also had a sense of being intoxicated by it.

He couldn't help but let out a moan. Fortunately, he was steadfast enough not to be completely lost in it.

"Absorb the spiritual essence qi, infuse it into the core of the divine soul. Refine it until it's as pure as refined gold, shining brightly in the mysterious darkness."Jiang Li steadied his mind and recited the divine soul refinement formula of the "Ren Yuan True Sutra" softly.

As the incantation was recited, the soul power in Jiang Li's body began to flow at an accelerated pace. His consciousness seemed to have traversed through time and space and arrived at a universe at the dawn of chaos. There, there was no distinction between heaven and earth, no difference between yin and yang, only an endless surging of energy.

His body began to emit a faint glow, a sign that his soul power was condensing on the surface. Jiang Li secretly thought it was strange. Why was the soul power condensing on the outside? His internal divine spirit wasn't nourished by the soul power at all. Wouldn't it be a waste to have it on the outside?

Thinking about the sentence written in the "Drawing the Spirit into the Body" chapter,"The spirit is born from heaven and earth, and the primordial qi fills the universe. Calm the mind and condense the divine soul, and draw the spirit into the aperture. Keep the eyes on the mysterious origin, and breathe evenly. Sense the spirit like a silk thread, and let it slowly gather into my body." At this moment, wasn't he in the process of condensing the divine soul? Then, how should he draw it into the aperture?

Soul power could only be absorbed through the divine soul. The physical body couldn't draw it. Rashly using the body to absorb soul power would cause chaos of the spiritual power inside the body. The two were incompatible with each other, and there was a high probability of the body exploding and dying.

"Spiritual apertures... Spiritual apertures..." Jiang Li recited silently in his heart. Suddenly, a flash of inspiration struck his mind. He remembered an obscure record mentioned in an ancient scripture that there were numerous hidden acupoints distributed all over the human body. Usually, these acupoints were tightly closed.

Only under specific cultivation states and with the precise guidance of soul power can they be opened, making them the crucial channels for the communication between soul power and the external spiritual energy as well as for nourishing the divine spirit.

"Could it be that it's time to open those hidden spiritual apertures now?" Jiang Li wondered secretly in his heart. However, the scriptures didn't elaborate on how to find and open these spiritual apertures specifically. It only vaguely mentioned that it was necessary to rely on the acute perception of one's own soul power and the harmonious induction with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

Jiang Li took a deep breath and closed his eyes again. He got rid of all external interferences and concentrated all his attention on his own soul power.

He tried to perceive the soul power scurrying around on the body surface in a more delicate way, feeling every trace of its flow trajectory and energy fluctuations.

Gradually, he found that although the soul power seemed disorderly, at certain specific parts of the body, there seemed to be slightly different reactions, as if there was an invisible attraction in those places, causing the soul power to linger around them.

"Could these be the locations of the hidden spiritual apertures?" Jiang Li's heart skipped a beat. He carefully guided a small stream of soul power to slowly approach one of the parts that was suspected to be a spiritual aperture.

When that stream of soul power touched that part, Jiang Li felt his body tremble slightly, and a strange sensation spread throughout his body from that spot.

Immediately after that, he seemed to hear a faint "buzzing" sound, as if a tightly closed door was slowly opening.