Da Xuan Martial Saint

Just as Chen Mu felt something odd, he suddenly showed a hint of astonishment.

He saw on the system panel that the initially displayed '306' Experience Points had suddenly changed to '305'!

"Experience Points can decrease?!"

Chen Mu was completely taken aback now. Since obtaining the system panel, he had not encountered such a situation, not only not understanding the source of these Experience Points but also not understanding the reasons behind their reduction.

But upon seeing that Experience Points could decrease, Chen Mu quickly abandoned his chaotic thoughts and decisively spent Experience Points on his Inner Breathing Method for the Five Viscera Realm.

Whoom!!!

A change occurred in an instant.

Chen Mu felt that a portion of the extremely heavy Earth Spirit Qi absorbed by his spleen was suddenly withdrawn at a rapid pace, then surged to his lungs, then to his kidneys, to his liver, and finally reached his heart.

"This feeling is..."

Chen Mu's eyes were full of strangeness.

The Five Viscera Inner Breaths were interconnected, but no matter how they were transformed according to the principle of inter-creation, there would still be some loss. Yet, through this cycle of transformation via the system panel, there was almost no loss of Inner Breath!

Feeling the slight metamorphosis happening very quickly as the Five Viscera underwent tempering by these Inner Breaths, Chen Mu vaguely seemed to understand.

He had a realization!

No wonder the Experience Points on the system panel were decreasing!

These Experience Points still originated from 'Medicinal Power', just all of it was absorbed and stored by his spleen!

His Five Viscera Inner Breath Cycle continued, with the spleen consuming this portion of Inner Breath, tempering itself while also tempering the other viscera through the Five Viscera Cycle, but there would be some loss in this process.

Therefore, the Experience Points would decrease.

The improvement of the system panel was not from suddenly creating more Medicinal Power but rather performing a perfect transformation of the Inner Breath stored in his spleen, synchronously tempering the other viscera, with no loss throughout the process!

"The decrease in Experience Points, is it because I'm... too inexperienced?"

Chen Mu scratched his head.

But the problem was, the Five Viscera Cycle is an Inner World, also connected to the Outer World, and aside from the inherent loss in the inter-creation process, there would also be a natural minimal loss when connected with the world. How could it be possible to be connected with the Outer World and still have no loss? This is something only a Seventh Realm Marrow Cleansing Grandmaster, who has cultivated an 'Unleaking Physique', could achieve.

Almost instantaneously, the changes in the Five Viscera gradually ceased, and Chen Mu could clearly feel that the 'Path God' within his Five Viscera had increased a layer, directly affecting his Yuan Gang True Essence, making it slightly stronger.

By measure.

About one-fourth of a portion.

"Completing one Viscera Tempering can enhance almost one-fourth of a portion, so if I temper the Five Viscera eight times, then the Yuan Gang in my body will be about 'four portions' in strength, indeed, the gap is gradually widening..."

Chen Mu, sensing his own changes, his gaze flickered slightly.

Without cultivating Jade Bone, even for a true succession practitioner like Cheng Houhua who stepped into the Five Viscera Realm and tempered eight or nine times, it would be at most 'three portions', but he would always have one more portion on this level.

This was due to the foundational accumulation from the previous four realms.

And this was not even considering cultivating Jade Bone; his own physique was also much stronger than the average person. In actual combat, the strength that his physique could exert was also a level of difference that couldn't be completely neglected.

Chen Mu looked toward the system panel again, but noticed that the description had changed.

[Inner Breathing Method (First Transformation)]

[Experience Points: 205]

The previously marked 'Five Viscera' disappeared, changed to a 'First Transformation' description, which clearly corresponded to one round of tempering.

"Can you continue to temper?"

Chen Mu's gaze flickered slightly.

He didn't find it strange, since he had entered the Five Viscera Realm some time ago. The spiritual power of a single Earth Element Pearl, even if he were to slowly digest and temper it on his own, could still complete the process of one cycle.

However, this process would take much longer without the system panel, and the transformation of Inner Breath in the cycle would definitely suffer some loss, nowhere near the system panel's exaggerated perfect conversion.

As for tempering only the spleen alone, that too was not an option. The cycle of the five viscera was a balance; once there was a disparity in strength among the Five Viscera due to different numbers of tempering, breaking the balance, issues would arise in the circulation of Inner Breath.

Therefore, each cycle of the Five Viscera Tempering must be a complete one.

"Since it can continue, then let's go again,"

After pondering for a moment, Chen Mu once again chose to enhance.

After all, he could not stop the circulation of Inner Breath; if left unattended, Experience Points would gradually decrease. Although they didn't truly disappear but were just 'lost' in the process of creating Inner Breath, his viscera were still slowly undergoing tempering. However, since the system panel could accelerate the process without any losses, it was naturally better to avoid any losses.

Hum!!

As Chen Mu added points again, an invisible force once again acted inside his body. This time, it almost completely detached all the remaining Inner Breath in the spleen and distributed it among the Five Viscera, rapidly tempering them.

In just over a dozen breaths, Chen Mu's Five Viscera had completed another cycle of tempering, but this time, his complexion turned slightly pale.

"Cough."

Chen Mu covered his mouth and coughed once.

At this time, he could feel that with the transformation of the Five Viscera, the Yuan Gang True Essence in his body had increased a bit, rising another quarter portion, reaching two and a half portions. However, he also felt a sense of weakness spreading throughout his body.

"The circulation of the Five Viscera and Skin Toughening Body Refinement are different; raising two levels consecutively, under the effect of the system panel, the tempering of the Five Viscera poses no problem. Now, it's the meridians and blood vessels that can't keep up with the progress of the Five Viscera..."

Chen Mu's mind was like a clear mirror.

The direct enhancement of the system panel was almost flawlessly perfect, but it was also limited to a preset scope. The tempering of the Five Viscera was purely of the Five Viscera, without causing changes to other parts of the body.

Tempering twice consecutively, the strength of the Five Viscera increased, bringing a significant enhancement to the internal circulation, and also the interaction with the Heaven and Earth's Yuan Qi became much stronger, directing more of Heaven and Earth's Yuan Qi to interact within his body, yet his body remained unchanged. The meridians and blood vessels inside his body struggled to adapt to the suddenly strengthened flow of Heaven and Earth's Yuan Qi, needing time to adjust.

Nevertheless,

the strengthening of the Five Viscera itself will gradually affect the surrounding meridians; without deliberate effort, the body will naturally slowly metamorphose and adapt.

Chen Mu called up the system panel again.

[Inner Breathing Method (Second Cycle)]

[Experience Points: 5 points]

"The second tempering consumed 200 experience points..."

Chen Mu's eyes revealed no particular emotions; even though the second cycle of tempering only depleted 100 Experience Points, he still had enough to temper a third time. He couldn't proceed with further tempering now, at least until his body was fully adapted.

Chen Mu quickly closed the system panel, sitting in the Grand Preceptor chair to rest, until four or five hours later. When the sky outside had turned dark, signaling nightfall, he finally exhaled a breath of turbid air, slowly stood up, and clenched his fists.

"Fortunately, my physical strength is much greater than ordinary people, and my Qi-Blood is also extraordinary, with very robust viscera and meridians. Otherwise, tempering the Five Viscera twice consecutively would likely be hard to adapt to in a short time, but now it's about right."

Indeed, the Five Viscera Realm is a 'slow work' process.

Nevertheless,

completing the tempering of the Five Viscera twice, this 'half portion' increase of the Yuan Gang is quite extraordinary. For most ordinary Five Viscera Realm Martial Artists like He Wuyou, achieving a half portion increase after reaching their limits is a tough quest; this is almost half the strength of He Wuyou.

Currently, in terms of Yuan Gang Force alone, he was already not much different from those who had tempered their Five Viscera six or seven times in the sect's true inheritance. As for the level of Artistic Conception, he mastered the Three Phases of wind, thunder, and fire, and also had an initial understanding of the Gen Mountain Artistic Conception. Even if someone like Blood Fiend stepped into the second stage, they were still inferior to him.