Chapter 223: Chapter 170: Gang Qi Transformation

「Five days later, in the morning.」

In a quiet room of an old residence in the eastern part of Qingchuan City.

Tian Yun slowly ended her cultivation session, unable to hide the joy on her face.

Not long ago, she had hit a bottleneck in her cultivation.

Normally, she would have needed at least six months to a year of consolidation and refinement to find a way to break through her constraints.

But Zou Feng’s “Wise Triple” had forcefully opened up an entirely different path for Tian Yun.

Her cultivation progress over the past few days could only be described as advancing by leaps and bounds.

Even when she was intimate with Zou Feng, Tian Yun felt cherished and nourished.

This wasn’t just some spiritual nourishment, but the tangible benefits brought by Zou Feng’s Gang Qi as it coursed through her meridians.

At first, she suspected Zou Feng was practicing some kind of Dual Cultivation Skill.

After all, Dual Cultivation Skills were an inescapable major branch of Evil Skills.

While many of these Dual Cultivation Skills were malicious, one-sided Replenishing Skills, there were also plenty that were profoundly beneficial to both partners.

So, Tian Yun had already asked Zou Feng about it.

His response, however, was that he wasn’t practicing any Dual Cultivation Skill.

However, this seemed to have given Zou Feng an idea. He immediately declared that if he had the chance, he really should find a skill of that type, so they could make use of their time together and, so to speak, mix business with pleasure.

In any case, Tian Yun had not only broken through her bottleneck, but also felt she wasn’t far from reaching the Fifth Grade.

’She might even beat Zou Feng to it…’

At this thought, Tian Yun immediately rose to her feet, intending to share the good news with Zou Feng.

But just then, a sudden explosion rang out from the quiet room next door.

It was followed by a blood-curdling roar.

Tian Yun’s first instinct was to think that Wang Wenjing had found them again!

“Zou Feng!”

She cried out his name and, in a flash, appeared in the room next door.

But as she lifted the specially-made, heavy door curtain, she saw the entire quiet room was already wreathed in Black Fog, rendering sight impossible.

But Zou Feng, who should have been cultivating here, had fallen silent. Tian Yun couldn’t sense any sign of another person’s presence in the room.

Although she was extremely wary of the Black Fog that filled the room, Tian Yun steeled herself to charge in, just in case Zou Feng had met with disaster.

However, she had barely taken a single step inside when something massive began to stir within the Black Fog.

The hairs on Tian Yun’s arms suddenly stood on end. She fell into a defensive stance, circulating her Gang Qi to its absolute limit, ready to unleash an all-out attack at any moment.

Vaguely, it seemed as if a Giant Spider was in the Black Fog, slowly baring its fangs at her…

Tian Yun froze in her tracks. She immediately made a circle with her hands, continuously releasing Gang Qi between them, then rapidly kneaded and compressed it.

Soon, a fist-sized Gang Qi Bomb took shape.

This was the ultimate technique from her Cultivation Skill, Inch Kill: the Split Gang Burst.

The next moment, just as Tian Yun was about to unleash the attack, Zou Feng’s voice suddenly came from within the Black Fog.

“Sister Yun, I’m fine. Don’t come in yet. It’ll be over soon…”

Hearing that Zou Feng’s tone was normal, Tian Yun finally relaxed. She quickly retracted her skill and backed out of the room.

But as she retreated, she suddenly staggered, almost losing her footing.

Apparently, the Black Fog carried a potent poison that even she couldn’t fully resist. Now that she had relaxed, the toxin began to spread even faster.

But Tian Yun simply circulated her Gang Qi to suppress it and paid it no further mind, her attention still fixed on the Black Fog.

’After all, it didn’t matter what kind of poison she’d been hit with. As long as Zou Feng was around, it was no big deal.’

After a short while, the Black Fog rapidly dissipated, a process visible to the naked eye. Zou Feng’s figure was revealed in the middle of the quiet room.

He maintained a cross-legged, meditative posture as the Black Fog was absorbed back into his body.

But although the Black Fog had vanished, Tian Yun still felt that something else was in the quiet room…

After concentrating her gaze for a moment, she finally discovered it: a “web” formed from transparent Gang Qi, with Zou Feng at its center.

’Tian Yun had seen Gang Qi formed into weapons before, but this was the first time she had ever seen it formed into a web.’

’Could it be that the Giant Spider she sensed hidden in the Black Fog was actually Zou Feng’s Gang Qi Transformation?’

As she was pondering this, Zou Feng’s eyes snapped open and he shot to his feet.

The joints all over his body let out a series of sharp cracks, like popping soybeans.

At the same time, the Gang Qi Spider Web in the room materialized, revealing that it did indeed fill the entire quiet room.

Zou Feng beckoned with one hand, and the web rapidly shrank, disappearing into his palm.

Seeing this, Tian Yun, who already had her suspicions, was now certain.

’Hundred Transformations True Gang… the Fifth Grade Realm!’

At the Sixth Grade Gang Qi Realm, one could form Gang Qi into weapons, but in practice, this was limited to simple armaments like sabers, swords, and spears.

It was impossible to make Gang Qi condense into complex and precise weapons, such as the Blood Drop or the Peacock Feather.

But upon reaching the Fifth Grade, the potential transformations of Gang Qi became much greater. One could even condense Gang Qi into the form of an animal or a spiritual manifestation.

The condensed animal or spiritual manifestation wasn’t just an illusion; like a weapon formed from Gang Qi, it was, for all intents and purposes, a physical entity for a short period.

Of course, despite being physical, it was still inanimate and required personal control in combat.

“Zou Feng, you… you’re at the Fifth Grade!?”

Although she was almost certain, Tian Yun naturally had to ask to be sure.

Zou Feng laughed. “Just a lucky break!”

Tian Yun hadn’t expected this. She had been on the verge of telling Zou Feng her own good news, that she was about to break through to the Fifth Grade herself.

But before she could even announce it, Zou Feng had already broken through.

But even though she had anticipated this, seeing Zou Feng actually make the breakthrough still made her sigh with complex emotions.

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