Mo Wuji, bruised and battered, knelt on the ground, his fists clenched. The change brought about by this one meridian surpassed the previous seventy-two. However, Mo Wuji knew clearly that without the preceding seventy-two, he would absolutely not have been able to open up the seventy-third.

After resting for about an hour, Mo Wuji consumed a bottle of meridian opening liquid and set the lightning tempering time for another half hour.

If he could withstand stronger lightning arcs, Mo Wuji would have wanted to go to the advanced lightning refining room. In the intermediate lightning refining room, it took him about half an hour to open up one meridian. He was certain that if he had chosen the low-level lightning refining room, he would have had a hard time opening up even one meridian.

The second time, Mo Wuji was prepared, but he was still charred black by the lightning arcs. Massive arcs of lightning slammed into Mo Wuji's body, leaving everything except his chest and back, protected by the Heavenly Silkworm Silk Armor, a shocking sight.

If Mo Wuji hadn't been an alchemist, perhaps he wouldn't have been able to endure even a single incense stick's time.

Others purchased pills to enhance their cultivation, but he refined pills for healing. Since he started cultivating, he had been constantly injured, each time more severely than the last. And in these repeated severe injuries, he constantly sublimated himself.

Mo Wuji had absolutely no ability to resist the lightning arcs; he could only barely circulate his cultivation technique to guide the arcs to blast open his meridians. As for resisting and avoiding, he had lost that ability.

"Thump!" As the half hour passed, Mo Wuji couldn't hold on any longer and collapsed on the ground, panting heavily.

The seventy-fourth meridian was finally opened. After an hour of inhuman torment in this lightning refining room, he had barely opened up two meridians.

Even though Mo Wuji wanted to continue, he knew he couldn't. If he did, he was afraid he wouldn't be able to save his little life.

More importantly, his healing pills were completely exhausted. He had to go back to buy a pill furnace or use the sect's alchemy room to refine some healing pills.

After resting for nearly an hour, Mo Wuji cleaned himself up simply, changed into a new set of clothes, and opened the door to the lightning refining room.

As Mo Wuji wearily withdrew his Immortal Refining Room jade token and was about to leave, the door to the ice refining room of the extremely beautiful woman not far away was also opened.

Compared to Mo Wuji's disheveled state, messy hair, and face covered in scars, the woman was only slightly paler.

"Are you alright?" The woman stared at Mo Wuji, sizing him up with suspicion, and said with great surprise. She didn't think Mo Wuji had slept inside for two hours. From Mo Wuji's disheveled appearance, she could see that he had indeed been tempering himself with lightning arcs.

Anyone who had tempered themselves in the intermediate lightning refining room would have spent at least half an incense stick's time inside. For Mo Wuji to endure half an incense stick's time unscathed was truly shocking to her. In her impression, no Meridian Opening cultivator could endure half an incense stick's time in the intermediate lightning refining room.

She had reached the seventh level of Transitioning Mortality and possessed an ice-type spiritual root, yet she could only endure two hours in the ice refining room. And even then, she had to rest for nearly half an hour in between.

Mo Wuji smiled, nodded to the woman to acknowledge his gratitude for her previous reminder, and then quickly left the twelfth floor. He was too tired to speak; at that moment, he just wanted to go back to rest as soon as possible and then buy a pill furnace or go to the sect to refine pills.

"Wait… Have you cultivated a lightning-type tempering technique?" The woman stopped Mo Wuji again.

Where did Mo Wuji have a lightning-type tempering technique? If he had one, would he be in such a disheveled state? But he dared not say he didn't. If he didn't have a lightning-type tempering technique, how could he have cultivated in the lightning refining room for so long?

"Yes," Mo Wuji answered simply, quickening his pace slightly.

"My name is Cen Shuyin, a true disciple of Sword Lake," the woman suddenly announced her name.

Mo Wuji looked at the woman with confusion. He had only stayed in the lightning refining room a little longer; did he have something special about him? Was it necessary for a true disciple to want to know him? He knew Sword Lake; that Zuo Shaoyi was from Sword Lake.

"Uh, my name is Mo Wuji, an outer sect disciple from Outer Peak," Mo Wuji replied with a smile. If someone took the initiative to tell you their name, it meant they wanted to know you, and Mo Wuji was polite enough to reciprocate.

Cen Shuyin was even more surprised, and she sized up Mo Wuji again. She really couldn't imagine that Mo Wuji was actually an outer sect disciple. But thinking about how Mo Wuji had almost no spiritual aura surrounding him, it wasn't surprising. Mo Wuji's spiritual root aptitude must be low; it was already very difficult for him to enter the Questioning Dao Academy.

She didn't continue to ask about Mo Wuji's affairs but said somewhat awkwardly, "Um, could you sell me your body tempering technique? Don't worry, I won't take advantage of you in terms of price."

For a cultivator with such low aptitude as Mo Wuji to be able to temper his body in the intermediate lightning refining room, one could imagine how extraordinary Mo Wuji's lightning-type tempering technique was. Cen Shuyin had always wanted to possess a lightning-type tempering technique, but unfortunately, although there were many lightning-type tempering techniques on the market, their level was too low, too low.

"I'm really sorry, but my technique is not for sale. Not for any amount of money," Mo Wuji said apologetically.

It wasn't that he couldn't sell it, but that he didn't have a lightning-type body tempering technique at all. How could he sell it? If he had one, he wouldn't mind selling it. He would learn the technique, sell it to earn money, why not?

Cen Shuyin revealed a disappointed expression. To be honest, she had never asked anyone for anything like this before. Being rejected so decisively was really a first for her.

At this moment, the two had already reached the first floor of the Immortal Refining Tower. Mo Wuji didn't want to sell the lightning refining technique, so Cen Shuyin had no choice but to give up and leave quickly on her own.

The many cultivators on the first floor of the Immortal Refining Tower looked at Mo Wuji with eyes about to pop out of their heads. They had never seen Cen Shuyin walking side by side with a male cultivator before. Who exactly was this disheveled kid? Why could he walk side by side with Cen Shuyin?

Although no one stopped Mo Wuji to ask, many people here took note of Mo Wuji, wanting to see just who he was.

Mo Wuji didn't care about other people's gazes. He returned to his residence and immediately began to cultivate. Even if cultivating couldn't improve his cultivation, it could speed up the recovery of his injuries.

Two days later, Mo Wuji left his residence and headed to the Questioning Dao Academy's alchemy room.

The Questioning Dao Academy's alchemy rooms were divided into three levels: low-level alchemy rooms, intermediate alchemy rooms, and advanced alchemy rooms.

The intermediate alchemy rooms were too expensive, and Mo Wuji didn't have any points, so he chose the low-level alchemy rooms. This time, Mo Wuji turned all the spiritual herbs he had into pills. He even refined nine bottles of fourth-grade healing pills.

Refining so many healing pills was for the upcoming meridian tempering. He dared to go to the intermediate lightning refining room because he had so many healing pills to support him.

Leaving the alchemy room, Mo Wuji didn't even go back to Outer Peak. He went directly to the Immortal Refining Tower. Originally, there were still eight hours left on his lightning refining room jade token, but in order not to have to run back and forth, Mo Wuji, under the surprised gaze of the cute girl at the Immortal Refining Station, paid another eight thousand earth-grade spiritual stones and added forty more hours to his lightning refining room time.

With a pile of third-grade and fourth-grade healing pills, Mo Wuji believed that he wouldn't have to go back to cultivate for two days every time he opened up a meridian. That would be too much of a waste of time.

Arriving at the twelfth floor of the Immortal Refining Tower, Mo Wuji found that there were many more people here today than there had been in the past few days. Fortunately, his Lightning Refining Room C was empty.

Mo Wuji inserted his jade token and entered the lightning refining room again.

Not long after Mo Wuji entered the lightning refining room, Cen Shuyin arrived on the twelfth floor. She subconsciously focused her gaze on Room C of the Lightning Refining Rooms. No one had come to Room C for several days in a row, and today there was a jade token inserted outside again. She felt that the outer sect disciple had come to temper himself again.

When Mo Wuji had come to the twelfth floor before, the cultivators on the twelfth floor said what they had to say and did what they had to do. Now that Cen Shuyin had arrived, the twelfth floor suddenly fell silent.

Unfortunately, Cen Shuyin didn't stay for long; she quickly entered the intermediate ice refining room.

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Having had the experience once, this time Mo Wuji first took off his clothes and placed them in his storage bag, and then put the storage bag into the Heavenly Silkworm Silk Armor. Then he set the tempering time to half an hour and took a bottle of meridian opening medicine.

This new meridian opening liquid was very powerful. Unlike the first time, when he sometimes needed to take several bottles to open up a single meridian. This meridian opening liquid, refined with Fire Jade and Jade Toad Purple Lotus Silk, could open up a meridian with each bottle.

Pressing the start tempering button, arcs of lightning crashed down. Mo Wuji tried to prevent himself from being injured more severely while constantly guiding the lightning arcs to bombard the seventy-fifth meridian.

The lightning arcs in the lightning refining room stopped accurately after half an hour, and Mo Wuji also opened up the seventy-fifth meridian within half an hour.

Mo Wuji set the rest time to half an hour. After half an hour, he continued to open up the seventy-sixth meridian.

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Two hours passed, and Cen Shuyin opened the door to the ice refining room on time. She was surprised to find that the door to Lightning Refining Room C was still closed.

Cen Shuyin deliberately slowed down her movements and even tidied up her boots. But when she had no choice but to leave the twelfth floor, the door to Lightning Refining Room C was still closed.

"Junior Sister Shuyin?" When they reached the first floor of the Immortal Refining Tower, a handsome cultivator saw Cen Shuyin and immediately walked over to greet her warmly.

In ordinary times, Cen Shuyin would definitely reply simply and then leave immediately.

But today, Cen Shuyin stopped. Not only did she stop, but she also chatted with the cultivator.

The handsome cultivator was so excited that his heart was pounding. Shuyin was actually looking at him differently today, which made him talk endlessly about the results of his trial this time. He felt the envious gazes around him and felt even more satisfied.

Cen Shuyin deliberately lingered, not to wait for Mo Wuji, but to find out how long Mo Wuji could last. This was Mo Wuji's second time going to Lightning Refining Room C to temper himself, and he lasted longer than the first time. The only reason was that Mo Wuji's lightning-type tempering technique was really extraordinary.

(The third update is here, please support with monthly tickets! Today's update is here, good night friends! Tonight at 20:00, Old Five's public WeChat released some of the pills that have appeared in the book so far. Book friends who are not very clear about the pills can go to Old Five's public WeChat to take a look.)