Despite preparing a large number of healing pills, the scars on Mo Wuji's body accumulated more and more. Similarly, his meridians were being opened up one by one.

Seventy-eighth meridian...

The moment the seventy-eighth meridian was opened, several arcs of lightning struck down again. In his urgency, Mo Wuji abandoned the Immortal Mortal Art's circulatory cultivation and directly switched to the Heavenly Thunder Seven Styles' first style's circulatory cultivation.

Opening a meridian meant he could rest for half an hour. To have these lightning arcs strike down before he could rest was just adding injury to injury.

The Immortal Mortal Art only allowed him to guide the lightning arcs to strike his meridians, but it couldn't help him resist the lightning strikes or reduce his injuries. Running the Heavenly Thunder Seven Styles was a desperate move for Mo Wuji.

"Crack, crack, crack..." Several arcs of lightning landed on Mo Wuji, and to his surprise, these arcs didn't cause him much damage. The thunder source that struck him was completely resolved and absorbed by his Heavenly Thunder Seven Styles' first style.

After a few arcs of lightning fell, half an hour had passed. The thunder refinement room became still, with no more lightning arcs.

Mo Wuji didn't immediately rest as he had before. Instead, he looked at his palm with inexplicable joy. He had unintentionally discovered that his Heavenly Thunder Seven Styles could absorb the thunder source of the lightning arcs, which was completely different from guiding the lightning arcs to open up his meridians.

Guiding the lightning arcs to open up his meridians was using the power of the lightning to break through the blocked meridians, while he had just truly absorbed most of the thunder source from several lightning arcs. These thunder sources were all fused into his Heavenly Thunder Seven Styles' first style, "Thunder From Clear Skies."

Mo Wuji consciously made a few hand seals and blasted them out. Several claps of thunder exploded in the space of the thunder refinement room, with a much greater power than when he had previously used "Thunder From Clear Skies."

Mo Wuji's heart began to beat faster. He had originally thought that the first style of the Heavenly Thunder Seven Styles would only become stronger as his cultivation level increased. Now it seemed that this wasn't the case at all. The Heavenly Thunder Seven Styles could also be cultivated. Just like ordinary cultivators absorbed spiritual energy, the Heavenly Thunder Seven Styles cultivated by absorbing thunder source.

"Hahaha..." Understanding this, Mo Wuji laughed heartily in the thunder refinement room.

He couldn't help but be happy. Before, he would open one meridian every half hour, then have to rest for half a day, while consuming many pills and enduring the pain of his injuries.

Now, he only needed to run the Immortal Mortal Art to guide the lightning arcs to open his meridians, while also running the Heavenly Thunder Seven Styles to absorb the excess lightning strikes, increasing the power of his first style, "Thunder From Clear Skies."

In this way, he wouldn't need to rest at all and could continuously open up his meridians.

Mo Wuji hastily ate two healing pills, rested for a few minutes, and then couldn't wait to set the time for half an hour again. He wanted to see if his idea would work or not.

He drank the meridian opening liquid, and the lightning arcs in the thunder refinement room bombarded down like a storm.

Mo Wuji guarded his mind, using his spiritual will to control some of the lightning arcs under the operation of the Immortal Mortal Art to impact the blocked meridians, while simultaneously running "Thunder From Clear Skies" to absorb the excess lightning arc thunder sources that landed on his body.

In just a little over an incense stick's time, his seventy-ninth meridian was suddenly opened. At this time, he had only been struck by two or three arcs of lightning. The excess lightning arc thunder sources were all absorbed by his Heavenly Thunder Seven Styles' first style, transforming into the power of the "Thunder From Clear Skies" technique.

Half an hour passed, and when the lightning arc attack in the thunder refinement room that Mo Wuji had set stopped, he had already opened his eightieth meridian.

Mo Wuji clenched his fists, feeling secretly excited in his heart. He had not only found a way to avoid injury, but also a way to use the thunder source to cultivate the Heavenly Thunder Seven Styles.

...

After waiting in the first floor lobby for a full half an hour, there was still no sign of Mo Wuji coming down. Not only was Cen Shuyin not disappointed, but she was even more eager to obtain Mo Wuji's thunder refinement cultivation method. She apologized slightly to the handsome male cultivator who was talking endlessly and turned to leave the Immortal Refinement Tower.

As long as Mo Wuji was still in the Heaven Asking Learning Palace, she wouldn't give up on obtaining a thunder-based tempering cultivation method.

...

Ninety-fifth meridian, ninety-sixth meridian...

Ever since he learned that the Heavenly Thunder Seven Styles could be cultivated here using the thunder source, Mo Wuji had never rested. He had been continuously opening up his meridians. With each meridian that was opened, his whole body felt more comfortable.

At this moment, Mo Wuji completely ignored the fact that he was already opening his ninety-seventh meridian. He needed to know that in the entire Lost Continent, those who could open ninety-seven meridians were extremely rare.

"Crack!" Mo Wuji spent just over an incense stick's time to directly open his ninety-seventh meridian.

He drank another bottle of meridian opening liquid and guided the lightning arcs to strike his ninety-eighth meridian.

At this point, apart from the lightning arcs that he guided into his meridians to open them, all the other lightning arcs that struck him were absorbed and used to cultivate the Heavenly Thunder Seven Styles.

The ninety-eighth meridian was opened without the slightest resistance.

The ninety-ninth meridian. At this point, Mo Wuji finally remembered Shen Lian's words. Shen Lian had once said that ninety-nine was the extreme number, and only a very few geniuses could open ninety-nine spiritual channels. As for those who could open the hundredth spiritual channel, they were geniuses among geniuses, belonging to the category of immortal spiritual roots.

And now he was about to open the ninety-ninth meridian. Although meridians and spiritual channels weren't the same thing, in Mo Wuji's heart, meridians and spiritual channels were the same, belonging to the same level of existence. Because after he opened his meridians, his cultivation potential wouldn't be weaker than those cultivators who had opened their spiritual channels. The only thing he lacked was a spiritual root.

This wasn't a big deal to Mo Wuji at all. Mortal was mortal. As long as he could cultivate, what did it matter if he was a mortal?

Others could strive for the supreme path of cultivation, and he, as a mortal, could do the same. Others relied on the cultivation methods and spiritual opening techniques passed down over countless years, while he relied on the meridian opening techniques he had created himself. Who could say that meridian opening was weaker than spiritual opening?

If his cultivation method could be promoted, then it could be said that he, Mo Wuji, had pioneered a new era, pioneering an era for mortals to cultivate from their meridians. This would be an epoch-making innovation in the world of cultivation.

"Boom, boom, boom... Crack, crack, crack..." Dozens of lightning arcs struck Mo Wuji's body.

This was a special adjustment made by Mo Wuji. Before, only four or five lightning arcs would fall on him at the same time at most. After he ran the Heavenly Thunder Seven Styles at the same time, four or five lightning arcs weren't enough for him. He simply adjusted the density of the lightning arcs in some areas.

Some of these lightning arcs that landed on Mo Wuji were guided by him to directly strike the ninety-ninth meridian, while others were directly absorbed by his Heavenly Thunder Seven Styles.

With such a dense bombardment of lightning arcs, Mo Wuji could feel the cracks being blasted out of the blockage in the ninety-ninth meridian. As more than a dozen lightning arcs fell, Mo Wuji didn't stop for even a moment and guided the lightning arcs down again.

As the fourth large wave of lightning arcs fell, Mo Wuji's ninety-ninth meridian was completely opened.

A feeling of wanting to fly welled up in his heart, and his entire body felt comfortable and relaxed. Mo Wuji couldn't help but open his mouth and let out a long roar, expelling all the depressed energy and foul air from his body.

As if sensing Mo Wuji's intense feelings, the lightning arcs in the thunder refinement room came to an abrupt halt. The five hours that Mo Wuji had set had arrived.

Mo Wuji stood in the middle of the thunder refinement room without moving an inch. He still clenched his fists, his eyes filled with confidence and anticipation.

After a long time, Mo Wuji finally sat down on the spot. He still didn't continue to set the lightning strike time in the thunder refinement room. Instead, he took out a pile of Earth grade spirit stones and began to cultivate.

At this moment, Mo Wuji had a premonition that he was about to break through to a new realm.

The spiritual energy of the spirit stones was like a vortex, being wildly absorbed by Mo Wuji. Mo Wuji's cultivation, which had been stuck at the peak of Meridian Opening Layer 9, was broken through by the spiritual energy at this moment.

"Boom!" The violent spiritual energy surged, as if a dam had been broken, and with a whoosh, it entered a wider place, allowing his Yuan Energy to be released more freely.

Meridian Opening Layer 10. Mo Wuji opened his eyes, and his whole person seemed even more ordinary.

Even if Mo Wuji didn't have a teacher to guide him, he was sure that his advancement this time was Meridian Opening Layer 10, not Spirit Building Layer 1.

Mo Wuji didn't continue to cultivate. Even if he wanted to cultivate, he wouldn't cultivate here. The price here was shockingly expensive. Cultivating here for an hour would cost several hundred Earth grade spirit stones.

He set the thunder refinement room for another hour, and Mo Wuji continued to temper his meridians. Didn't Shen Lian say that there was a hundredth spiritual channel? Today, he would open his hundredth meridian.

He skillfully drank a bottle of meridian opening liquid, and the familiar burning sensation in his throat made Mo Wuji feel particularly comfortable. A new meridian extended out under the effect of the meridian opening liquid. As before, this meridian was blocked after it extended to a certain extent.

"Boom, boom, boom..." More than a dozen lightning arcs fell again. Mo Wuji guided a full seven or eight lightning arcs to strike the blockage in the hundredth meridian. According to his experience, as long as he guided them three or four times in a row, the hundredth meridian would definitely be opened.

A tearing pain came from Mo Wuji's hundredth meridian. The lightning arcs that he had guided into the meridian struck the blocked meridian, but there was no reaction at all. The lightning arcs, without any place to release their energy, wantonly raged in Mo Wuji's meridians.

Even though Mo Wuji had experienced all kinds of pain, he still couldn't bear the power of these seven or eight lightning arcs raging in one of his meridians at the same time. He immediately fell to the ground and rolled around.

Fortunately, the Heavenly Thunder Seven Styles helped him. He managed to run the Heavenly Thunder Seven Styles in time to absorb the thunder source from them.

Mo Wuji, his face pale, looked at the constantly falling lightning arcs with some trepidation and confusion, his mind blank. This didn't make sense. His meridian opening liquid had already taken effect, so why couldn't the blocked place be opened? Could it be that the lightning arc intensity wasn't enough? Even if the lightning arc intensity wasn't enough, there should still be some loosening.

Several more lightning arcs landed on Mo Wuji, and the pain pulled him back to reality. Mo Wuji took out another bottle of meridian opening liquid and drank it down.

An even more bewildering scene appeared for Mo Wuji. According to his previous experience, when a meridian wasn't completely opened, drinking more meridian opening liquid would only cause that unopened meridian to continue to expand slightly, rather than opening a new meridian.

But the current situation was that his hundredth meridian hadn't been opened yet, and after he drank another bottle of meridian opening liquid, his hundred and first meridian had already appeared.

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