However, Xiao Yifei had his own thoughts: "First, I'm retreating this time because I vaguely touched upon the threshold of the second realm in the Jin Family's cultivation technique during these battles. Second, to cut off my retreat path, leaving only two days to travel, as you said, the Xiao Family's location is thousands of miles away from here. Traveling a thousand miles a day is a necessary course for cultivators, and it's greatly beneficial for improving movement techniques."

Zhang Po found some validity in Xiao Yifei's thoughts, thus agreeing with Xiao Yifei's idea to retreat. Reflecting on his own near-death battle, Zhang Po felt the need for some time to digest, and summarize the gains and losses from the fight.

"Let's do it then. Since there are plenty of closed spaces in the Chang Family cave, and that old thief Chang Wutian left more than one option open for himself, why don't we each find a secret room to retreat individually, and come out together in five days to attend the Xiao Family's 'Martial Artist Conference'?"

"Exactly what I had in mind." Xiao Yifei agreed heartily.

Chang Wei nodded in agreement, promptly preparing two secret rooms for Zhang Po and Xiao Yifei that required mechanisms to open from inside, while finding himself a similarly sealed room.

"See you in five days." Xiao Yifei clenched his fist toward the others before entering his stone chamber.

"Alright!" Zhang Po and Chang Wei responded in unison and entered their respective rooms.

Without much ceremony, after entering the stone chambers, they closed the doors and each began their cultivation.

Once inside, Xiao Yifei found a clean spot, sat cross-legged, and wasn't overly anxious about breaking through the second realm of the Jin Family cultivation technique. Instead, he needed to recall the benefits gained from the battles after his rampage, especially discovering during Zhang Po's healing process that his wood attribute Qi had a tendency to materialize both internally and externally.

This discovery thrilled Xiao Yifei greatly, as he remembered Old Man Jin's words, who said even members of the Jin Family had not had contact with the second realm of their cultivation technique known as 'Qigong'.

The so-called 'Qigong' is about materializing internal Qi, displaying it as an energy body to the outside world, formidable in its power. However, given that the Jin Family inherently lacks Qi Refinement capabilities, they automatically skipped the second realm when practicing their familial cultivation technique.

To this day, no one has successfully cultivated the Jin Family's 'Qigong'.

And the wood attribute Qi's tendency to materialize that Xiao Yifei discovered earlier forms the foundation for cultivating this second realm of 'Qigong', thus prompting him to retreat.

Xiao Yifei thought that his Qi's transformation was likely significantly influenced by his 'Weather Master' identity, though he knew little about that domain. Zhang Po wasn't very knowledgeable either, and with Ci Xin not around, Xiao Yifei could only rely on himself to explore it.

Not pondering further, Xiao Yifei began his cultivation immediately, initiating by organizing the gains and losses from the battle against the Drilling Armor Corpse.

Though Xiao Yifei was rampaging at that time and couldn't remember most details, through Chang Wei's explanations from yesterday, he managed to roughly recreate the scene.

During the battle, Xiao Yifei noticed a detail: in his rampaging state, each punch would tear the air around the fist, forming a brief vacuum circle, as if his arms were enveloped by an energy body.

Taking out the cultivation technique given by Old Man Jin, Xiao Yifei turned to the pages recording the second realm. These pages were new, with hardly any traces of fingers touching them, clearly because most Jin Family members skipped this realm, directly proceeding to cultivate the third realm.

The description of this 'Qigong' realm was only briefly mentioned, with not even an illustration.

It simply read in large characters, 'Qigong begins with wind-driven punches, mastery makes Qi a substance.'

From these concise words, Xiao Yifei could broadly conclude that the 'Qigong' realm divides into two layers. The first layer aligns with his raging attack patterns, while the second layer refers to refining Qi to its peak, allowing internal Qi to transform into an energy body to directly attack foes.

Naturally, the training must start from the first layer.

Xiao Yifei knew that, regardless of how much one tempered their body, it wouldn't tear the air or move through it like this on its own. It must have been his accidental use of the true Qi materialization ability in that state that achieved such effects.

Though indisputable, during that phase, Xiao Yifei was entirely unaware of the patterns of true Qi inside him. Searching even a hundred times wouldn't succeed unless with a clear mind, he could revisit that rampaging state.

Aha! Xiao Yifei suddenly had an idea, immediately drawing out the Biwei Silver Needle within him, pinching its body to expose only a small portion of the needlehead, and raised his hand to pierce into his Tianzhong Acupoint.

Instantly, Xiao Yifei felt explosive energy invade his entire body, meanwhile his consciousness gradually began to blur. He concentrated all his effort trying to keep his mind clear. Yet, this loss of self-control feeling couldn't be suppressed.

This won't work! Xiao Yifei thought anxiously, feeling waves of this sensation swiftly overrunning his remaining consciousness, no matter how he resisted, he'd fail to withstand the erosion.

Seeing the last shred of his remaining consciousness about to be entirely eroded, Xiao Yifei hastily extracted the Biwei Silver Needle from atop his head.

The mind gradually came clear again, with Xiao Yifei looking at the silver needle in his hand with lingering fear, knowing that without decisively pulling it out, he would have faced another rampage disaster.

Yet Xiao Yifei wasn't someone who easily gives up, immediately energizing himself after the failure to begin searching for the next possible breakthrough path.

Since he couldn't control even with just a needlehead's length inserted, he might as well just use acupuncture directly.

Xiao Yifei's thoughts shifted, taking the Biwei Silver Needle and gently poking his Tianzhong Acupoint.

He succeeded this time. Upon stimulation of the Tianzhong Acupoint, a strong energy surged into the limbs and bones again. However, unlike before, Xiao Yifei could distinctly perceive the changes inside him, his vision wasn't blurred, and his mind remained clear. Clearly, in this transformation, Xiao Yifei took the initiative.

Soon, Xiao Yifei soared to over two meters high. Due to the varying degree of needle penetration in the Tianzhong Acupoint, this time Xiao Yifei obviously didn't possess the rampage strength, yet this level alone sufficed for Xiao Yifei to comprehend the operations of 'Qigong'.

With energy continuously flooding into his body, centering on himself, the room's Qi turned into a vortex, finally being entirely absorbed by him. Xiao Yifei felt he had an inexhaustible explosive force all over, his muscles bulged, with fibers almost visible inside. Trying to clench both fists, the sound of air bursting instantly resonated.

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