" I hope I won't meet that monkey today " he muttered.Last time he entered his layer he was sent packing by scrawny monkey.
Luck for him they was no one waiting to ambush him at the formation.Choosing a pool located not deeper into the third layer he hurried there .
If the map didn't have a locater spell it might have taken him a few days if not weeks to find the it but the elders had to be considerate that the brats hadn't refined their divine sense.
On his way he did meet a few unlucky asuras who attacked him on instincts and he crushed their skulls on instinct too.
After entering the third layer the rate of asura attacks did reduce but each asura he faced was stronger than the ones before . Here they didn't travel in a pack ,they hunted solo he guessed they had trust issues.
In the other layers they could hunt and stay together since they were weak, but here since they had the ability to defend themselves.They succumbed to their primal instincts,the weak were preyed upon.
One way for an asuras to cultivate faster it was by absorbing it's Kind.
Outside this realm they were no blood asuras ,they were a specialty of this realm if they left he realm they will be just a bunch of coalesced up resentments .
They will become resources for Demonic cultivator to cultivate or in helping in forging ominous tools.
Out there is an Asura clan and it is an overlord clan reigning over an entire realm,but that is a story for another time.
The pool was located inside a valley ,it was covered by a formation.The clan will never allow those resentments to benefit from such a resource.
Although the pool was formed by the merging of the pools it was a just few metres wide .
Stripping Xiao long dove inside his entire being screamed urging him to start cultivating.
This was a hunger for all the finer resources.
Tempering the meridians was a tricky process first one was supposed to open them then temper them while also widening .
Meridians were fragile even after being tempered if not nurtured well they tend to rupture but that is only in the early stage of cultivation as ones cultivation level increases their strengthen .
There are 12 meridian: 3 Yin hand meridians and 3 yang meridians,3 Yin foot meridians and 3 yang foot meridians.
Six yang meridians and six Yin meridians A balance of Yin and yang.
For every Yin meridian you open a corresponding yang meridian must be opened.
Xiao long decided to start with foot meridians , since running a few times for his life he became paranoid. I bet he learnt surviving was winning.
Opening the yin spleen meridian together with the gall bladder.
The opening part was a pain in the ass but after opening a pathway the widen part made him want to moan in pleasure.
Next was the yin liver meridian and the bladder meridian folowed by the yin kidney meridian and the stomach meridian.
He felt his blood rushing through his veins improve he was sure if he was injured his healing speed would be faster.
Another thing was an increase in defense stability in a battle his ability to stand his ground had improved,also he could deliver deadly powerful strikes with his feet.
And this personal favourite was enhanced speed and agility,his reaction time improved and his running speed was highly elevated.
Feeling all this changes made him fell addicted to growth.
He did another round of widening and tempering .The widest novice cultivator Meridian was nine cm,and thats because of their abnormal physique ( Divine Tyrant physique).
You may wonder how such a big meridian can exist in a body but you must remember this is the cultivation world.
Some cultivation systems final goal is to create a universe inside the cultivators body but this is a story for another time.
As there are Qi refiners they are also body refiners .
Body refiners temper their meridian to hold world's inside them the more worlds they can contain the stronger they are.
Back to Xiao long after tempering the meridians they reach a width of 5cm .There are quite big, due to his divine physique.
Next was tempering the hand meridians : he began with the Yin lung meridian and the large intestine,then the yin heart and the large intestine lastly was the yin pericardium and the San jiao( tripple burner).
The opening of hand meridians enhanced his defences.His punches and palm attacks became more leathal when combined with his already tempered bones.
He could form hand seals faster if he knew any and could cast a protection aura scaring weaker opponents.
And most importantly he was now had a little immunity from metal and fire elements since he could absorb them into both this lung and heart respectively but not in large quantities to avoid fire poisoning and elemental imbalance.
Finishing refining them a silver hue covers them as they connect forming a network of pathways as the silvery hue covers each meridian Xiao long experiences a boost of physical strength,he gets a feeling of a shackle loosening.
Standing up Xiao long discovers an increase in his height by a few inches.
The perks of been a cultivator is that one can change his physical build even a change in gender was quite normal as long as one had the corresponding technique everything was possible .But cultivator disdained such acts as by just absorbing the Qi many of your physique quirks are mended.
And who cared about how you looked as long as you had the strength to back it up no one will dare to shame you.
Some weird cultivators preferred to remain in children forms.
Xiao long absorbed the remaining Blood essence drying the pool and re-tempered his bones making the bronze hue covering them darken.After the initial tempering of bones didn't mean one can't temper them again ,cultivation was an ever ending process it never ended,perfection was an illusion.