Eight women who went out all had some gains. Although not much high-level martial arts were acquired, as long as these high-level martial arts were mastered, coupled with Yang Hong's previous accumulation, it would be almost enough to evolve the intermediate body tempering technique.
However, Yang Hong was too optimistic.
The judgment of the so-called low, medium, and high levels by the灌顶 (guàn dǐng) system had higher requirements than that of the Five Dynasties martial world.
After cultivating 127 high-level martial arts and 287 intermediate martial arts,
Yang Hong's accumulation finally met the requirements for evolving the beginner body tempering technique.
"Ding~ You infused 180 days of true qi into the Qingxin Lotus, gaining an eight-thousandfold cultivation return, and received 1.44 million days of true qi cultivation."
"Ding~ The returned cultivation for practicing the 'Yan Fan Body Technique' for 1.44 million days has brought the Yan Fan Body Technique to the 100th layer of perfection."
"Ding~ Congratulations to the host for reaching the required number of martial arts cultivations, which can be evolved. Please choose:
1. Evolve Intermediate Breath Control Technique;
2. Evolve Beginner Body Tempering Technique;
3. Evolve Yan Fan Body Technique."
This third prompt had been appearing since Yang Hong's cultivation broke through to the Foundation Establishment realm.
All martial arts could break through. The breakthrough rules were the same as for the Breath Control Technique and Body Tempering Technique. Three types of martial arts were sufficient for a breakthrough.
The subsequent evolution requirements were also the same.
Therefore, Yang Hong had been ignoring this prompt.
It was only today that Yang Hong became excited.
"Hahaha~ The hardships are finally over, and I can finally evolve my martial arts again. There's no question about it, it must be the beginner body tempering technique."
Of course, it could only be the beginner body tempering technique.
The prerequisite for his cultivation breakthrough was written in the system!
"Ding~ Beginner Body Tempering Technique begins to evolve... Evolution successful."
"Ding~ Congratulations to the host's physical speed reaching the requirement, cultivation begins to break through...
Breakthrough successful, host's cultivation has been raised to 1000 years of Fusion Realm."
When Yang Hong's body tempering technique evolved successfully, his cultivation naturally broke through.
A vast and pure true qi surged from the depths of his dantian, circulating throughout his body and violently clearing all meridians in Yang Hong's body.
Not only the extraordinary meridians and eight channels used for cultivating martial arts, but also the acupoints and extraordinary acupoints used for cultivating immortal arts, and even some hidden meridians and secret acupoints were all cleared.
As true qi continued to surge, Yang Hong found that although the quality of his true qi had not changed, the amount of true qi in his body had increased a hundredfold.
Theoretically, the early stage of the Fusion Realm was a hundred times stronger than the Foundation Establishment Realm.
Once Yang Hong converted his true qi into true essence, and the energy quality underwent a qualitative change, his combat power could theoretically be a hundred times stronger.
Therefore, theoretically, a master of the Fusion Realm could defeat a Foundation Establishment cultivator with a hundred against one.
But that was only in theory.
In the introductions of the "Xuan Nü Gong" and "Su Nü Gong" that Yang Hong saw, the early stage of Fusion was ten times stronger than the peak of Foundation Establishment, and the peak of Fusion was ten times stronger than the early stage of Fusion.
In these two cultivation methods, the Fusion Realm was a transitional realm, a realm where cultivators condensed true qi into true essence.
It was an insignificant realm.
But after witnessing the combination of the intermediate breath control technique and intermediate body tempering technique, and the cleansing of the entire body,
Yang Hong realized that the Fusion Realm was not a transitional realm at all.
Instead, it was the true beginning of cultivation, a realm for honing the foundation.
"Phew~ I estimate I can cultivate for a million years in the Fusion Realm."
After the breakthrough, Yang Hong exhaled a long breath, but secretly resolved not to break through the Fusion Realm too quickly.
In his opinion, the Fusion Realm was more important than the Foundation Establishment Realm.
"From another perspective, my breath control technique and body tempering technique are quite extraordinary."
"As expected, products from the system are always top-notch!"
Yang Hong decided to keep evolving the breath control technique and body tempering technique from now on.
He believed that with the high evolution limits of the灌顶 system, it would only become more powerful.
As for the effects, although he hadn't fought, Yang Hong felt incredibly powerful through simple comparisons.
[Yang Hong: Sixth Prince of the Great Sui Dynasty
Daily Infusion Count: 5/8
Lifespan: 22/450
Cultivation: 1000 years of true qi (Fusion Realm, 300,000 jin of strength, 200 zhang of divine sense)
Cultivation Techniques: Intermediate Breath Control Technique Level 164, Intermediate Body Tempering Technique Level 1
Martial Skills: Rampaging Bull Fist Level 100, Xuan Nü Spirit Gathering Technique Level 99... and others.
Special Abilities: Eidetic Memory, Mastery of Agriculture.]
Yang Hong's million-year Foundation Establishment true qi had been largely consumed, leaving only 1000 years.
Yang Hong suspected that the consumed true qi was used to clear the hidden meridians and secret acupoints.
However, he was no longer worried. As his cultivation level increased, the cultivation returned from his infusions would also increase.
"Ding~ You infused 360 days of true qi into the Qingxin Lotus, gaining a three-thousandfold cultivation return, and received 1.08 million days of true qi cultivation."
"Ding~ You infused 240 days of true qi into the Moonlight White Tea Tree, gaining a four-thousandfold cultivation return, and received 960,000 days of true qi cultivation."
"Ding~ You infused 120 days of true qi into the ordinary peach tree, gaining a two-hundredfold cultivation return, and received 24,000 days of true qi cultivation."
"Ding~ The ordinary peach tree has evolved successfully, evolving into a first-grade low-tier spiritual plant, the Red Honey Peach."
As Yang Hong had predicted, after his cultivation broke through, the amount of true qi infused each time increased,
reaching an infusion of 120 days of true qi per session.
First-grade spiritual plants and ordinary plants still received onefold infusion, second-grade twofold, and third-grade threefold.
This improvement would allow his cultivation to advance by leaps and bounds again.
However, this would make Song Yuzhi and the other eight women cry.
"Husband~ Husband, your, your cultivation, has it, has it broken through again?"
In the evening, after two months of dual cultivation, Song Yuzhi, who had barely reached the ninth layer of Qi Refining, asked breathlessly.
Last night, she could last a little over fifteen minutes.
Today, she couldn't even last half an hour.
"Yes~ My cultivation has broken through again. Even if you all work together, you are still no match for me, let alone expecting me to hold back."
Yang Hong was also very depressed.
Although he could control his body very well, it seemed he couldn't control that aspect.
Jia Yuanchun, who was at the third layer of Foundation Establishment, could usually last half an hour. Coupled with Song Yuzhi and the others, who each lasted a quarter of an hour,
for a full two hours, Yang Hong had already felt something.
Unexpectedly, with his cultivation breakthrough, the natural suppression of his aura had halved the endurance of the women.
A total of eight people couldn't even last an hour.
Yang Hong felt like crying without tears.
"Husband, let's add a few more people to cultivate.
Otherwise, we will never be able to catch up to you."
Song Yuzhi finally regained her breath and said.
Looking at the seven people who had fainted beside them, she also felt lingering fear.
"There's no need. As long as you eight speed up your cultivation, you should be able to cooperate with me soon."
Yang Hong still refused. He was truly not good with women.
The women around him were more for cultivation.
Of course, he wasn't the type to abandon them after use. He cared for and protected the women he was involved with.
"I know you don't want to harm those girls, how about letting You Shi and Wang Xifeng from the Jia family, who entered earlier, join? After all, they are both married women."
"Them, not yet. Let's observe them first.
Not just any Tom, Dick, or Harry can be by my side."
Yang Hong did not immediately refuse. He remembered the introduction in "Dream of the Red Chamber" that these two had excellent management abilities.
If their character was acceptable, he might let them join and manage the daily affairs of the Zhiruo Pavilion.
This would allow him to free himself from those tedious matters and focus on cultivating plants and improving his cultivation.