The youth who was proud and arrogant and had many bad habits had already reigned himself in plenty. He had spent time with Ding Hao and Zhang Fan, and the three people got along well.

They conversed for a while. The two of them did not dare to disturb Ding Hao’s rest and left.

Boom!

The room’s stone door shut from the outside.

Ding Hao breathed out lightly. Then, he sat on the stone bed cross-legged and slowly started to activate his martial arts skills to recuperate.

It was a forceful and satisfying fight today with Dong Yi from the Southern Academy of purple shirts.

Since his miraculous encounter in the cave of the garbage cliff at the back of the mountain, Ding Hao’s physical body had become very much stronger. He had yet to meet his match in terms of physical strength. This Dong Yi was an exception. He had fought with Ding Hao for almost two hours.

Even though he had managed to cause Dong Yi to faint in the end, but Ding Hao had indeed suffered several hidden internal injuries.

The intense collision had almost caused Ding Hao’s internal organs to shift.

Ding Hao’s current physical state was indeed very bad.

However, he was not worried. He called for the ice and fire Qi in his upper and lower dantian. They circled through the already opened parts of the Shaoyin First Channel of Hand of the twelve standard meridians and Ren Meridian of the six extra-channels, nourishing the body and healing the injuries.

The Qi shook vigorously as if they were large waves scooping up the sand. They scrubbed Ding Hao’s body once and again.

The powerful force quickly scrubbed the injuries away.

It was difficult to imagine the amazing results of Qi that had mutual generation and restriction like ice and fire coming together to heal an injury.

Ding Hao nodded with satisfaction. Just as he was going to continue cultivating, suddenly, a change occurred in his body.

A new force was suddenly born without any warning in his body, that was tired from the fierce fighting. The warm flow started at the same time from his dantian at the bottom of his stomach and at the dantian at his chest. It seemed both tangible and intangible. It followed a mysterious and abstruse path, flowing violently throughout Ding Hao’s body.

This warm flow seemed to be able to nourish every cell that made up a human’s bones, blood, flesh, hair, and skin.

“This is…”

Ding Hao was shocked.

This had happened before after he left the cave of the garbage cliff at the back of the mountain when he escaped climbing on the mountain. Except, that time, the strength and clarity of the slow working flow were far weaker than this.

The warm current lasted for about five or six minutes.

“Just like before, my physical strength seemed to have doubled because of this warm current. Now it is close to 1,500kg of strength. I can cause an explosion of air if I punch out. This is physical strength that only martial artists who have three open apertures in the Martial Disciple Realm possess!”

Ding Hao stretched lightly and felt that his entire body was filled with unimaginable strength.

“Haha, Little Chap Ding, this is the wonders of the ‘Saber and Sword Saintly Beings’…” The Sword Master, who had not spoken in a long time finally spoke.

“Your body absorbed the essence of heaven and earth in the cave. You’ve amassed a large amount of power and have not yet absorbed it completely. This warm current is actually part of the process of absorbing and converting this energy!” The Saber Master explained, being more specific.

Ding Hao understood what was not said and he said, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, “So that means that I can only absorb and covert this power only if I keep getting beat up and get exhausted?”

“Haha, that’s right. Only when your body is exhausted to the extreme, would you be able to stimulate the lurking power!”

“Chap, you will have plenty of opportunities to be beaten up, don’t worry.”

The Sword Master and Saber Master said. Ding Hao suddenly felt that his cultivation path in the future might not be very easy.

After chatting with the two masters in his mind, Ding Hao started to activate the “Taixuan Sword-seeking Scripture”, and refined the second aperture in the “Life River” aperture of the “Shaoyin First Channel of Hand”.

This time, when the ice and snow Qi approached the “Life River” aperture, the strange disappearing incident that happened last time did not appear. The force of the ice and snow was divided into wisps, entering the aperture from the side, slowly refining the foreign matter and blockage within.

This process was slower.

Time passed quickly.

When the first ray of sunlight shone through the window, Ding Hao opened his eyes. Rays of gleaming light shone in his eyes. His entire aura changed dramatically. He was filled with indescribable charm.

The foreign matter blocking his ‘Life River’ aperture had finally been refined. The entire aperture was crystal clear and was as beautiful as snow.

The ice and snow Qi cycled quickly through the two apertures of the Shaoyin First Channel of Hand like an avalanche, clearing the blocked river.

“Haha, I’ve finally entered the two-apertured Martial Disciple realm. The speed of Qi cycling has also reached 20 cycles per second. This is a new state. I am more confident about today’s third round in the martial arts competition.”

Two-apertured Martial Disciple realm!

Ding Hao got up slowly, extremely satisfied.

There were nine Small Realms in the Martial Disciple realm.

The refining of every aperture would lead to a new realm.

Entering a new realm would cause not only one’s power, reaction and speed to double. Qi would also be stronger and longer, and the cycling speed would also double as well. This meant that one would be able to fight faster and make a stronger impact when fighting enemies. It also meant that one could cultivate and activate higher level magic skills combat techniques.

Ding Hao had entered the two-apertured Martial Disciple realm. His strength had more than doubled.

Ding Hao felt happy for a while. Then, he took off his top and strode into the courtyard to get a large bucket of cold water. He held it up and poured it over his head. He took a joyful shower, washing the dirt off his body. Then, he returned to his room and changed into clean black robes. He called for Zhang Fan and Wang Xiaoqi and they left for the mess hall together.

The hunting youth looked happy today.

“I finally activated my sense of Qi yesterday night and finally sensed my sea of dantian. I should be able to converge my ‘Seed of Qi’ next.” Such visible improvements might not be worth mentioning to others, but Zhang Fan smiled brightly because of it.

“That’s not a big deal. I…” Wang Xiaoqi had wanted to rebut subconsciously. He was about to say something, but then, he thought about it and gave up. He shan’t aggravate Zhang Fan. He turned around and carefully pulled out a tiny booklet and gave it to Ding Hao. He said, “Senior Brother Ding Hao. This is good stuff. Look at it, you might be able to use it.”

Ding Hao accepted it confusedly. He flipped it open and was shocked.

What was recorded in the booklet was the detailed information of the 13 competitors in the third round of the competition amongst the five academies. This included estimates on their strength, their combat style, and other information. It was extremely detailed.

“Where did you get this?” Ding Hao was extremely shocked.

. Wang Xiaoqi sniggered and said mysteriously, “These are not really secrets. I spent some money yesterday and asked some disciples from the Eastern Academy to watch and record every match. Yesterday, I personally found disciples from each Academy, and asked them to “The First Floor” for a meal and got this information from them.”