Jiang Feng was stunned. This was exactly what he wanted. "So overbearing! With just these three moves, I'll be able to slaughter the entire field, haha! It won't be long before I, Jiang Feng, become the strongest person in the Xuanhuang Continent."
However, Jiang Feng's enthusiasm deflated immediately because he discovered that the Heaven-Rending Finger required reaching the Qi Refining Stage to cultivate, and even at the Qi Refining Stage, only the first finger could be practiced.
"Another flashy piece of trash... I might as well go to sleep, it's almost dawn."
At the Yin hour the next day, Jiang Feng was standing once again in front of the standing stone outside the town. Now that his realm had improved, he should be able to continue practicing the Threefold Waves.
Jiang Feng took a deep breath, clenched his right hand, dropped into a horse stance, and punched the long stone. Before the force of the punch could dissipate, his fist rapidly gathered strength and thrust upward—the second wave! At the same time, Jiang Feng let out a loud shout, his entire body trembling violently as another overwhelming force surged from his entire body to his fist. Without pausing, his fist slammed down diagonally—the third wave!
Bang! The three forces struck the standing stone almost simultaneously.
Yet, the standing stone still did not break. "Damn it!" Just as Jiang Feng cursed, *crack!* A barely audible sound came from within the standing stone, followed by a hair-thin crack spreading outward from the point of impact.
Jiang Feng instantly grew excited. Just as he was about to step forward to inspect it, a sharp pain suddenly struck his right arm, causing cold sweat to pour down his face. It seemed the muscles in his arm had been strained again.
Jiang Feng let out a long sigh. Cultivating the Threefold Waves of the Mountain Crushing Fist had ridiculously high demands on the physical body. He had originally prided himself on his physical strength, but now it seemed far from enough.
What should he do? Jiang Feng suddenly remembered that his cheap father had also passed down a cultivation technique to him in a dream.
Jiang Feng could not help feeling a bit expectant. Without cultivating a systematic cultivation technique, improving one's realm could only rely on meditating to slowly absorb external spiritual qi, or piling up pills. Both methods had drawbacks: one was too slow, and the other was... too expensive.
Jiang Feng hurriedly sat cross-legged on the ground, the five centers facing the sky, and sank his consciousness into his mind. Suddenly, that thin booklet transformed into dots of starlight, arranging themselves before his eyes.
"Man has his form, the stars have their rules; man becomes the stellar phenomenon, the stars become the human soul; man takes their power, they take the human body... Man seeks stellar positions, supplemented by star charts; man and stars unite, the stellar body is finally formed."
In just over five hundred words, the might of the Star Formula was laid bare without reservation.
*Hiss!* Jiang Feng's heart was shaken to the core. It was simply unreasonably powerful! Although there was no grade recorded for the technique, Jiang Feng had no doubt that this Star Formula definitely surpassed the Heaven Tier.
According to the introduction in the text, the first step in cultivating the Star Formula was to channel stellar power to stimulate the acupoints, establishing a bridge between the human body and the outside world.
The human body had a total of seven hundred and twenty acupoints. Activating thirty-six of the major points could increase cultivation speed by five times; activating one hundred and eight crucial points could increase cultivation speed by ten times; activating all seven hundred and twenty acupoints could increase cultivation speed by twenty times!
Simply too ruthless! Jiang Feng no longer hesitated and eagerly circulated his cultivation technique according to the incantation of the Star Formula. Immediately, a three-dimensional humanoid star chart appeared in his mind.
The moment the star chart appeared, in the vast sky above Jiang Feng's head, seven hundred and twenty stars suddenly lit up, and imperceptible purplish-black rays of light projected toward him.
In an instant, the seven hundred and twenty gray dark seals on the star chart in Jiang Feng's mind were instantly lit up, flashing with a cold light.
Jiang Feng probed his Divine Sense into the star chart. The starlight on the chart shone brilliantly, dazzling the eyes. Among them, thirty-six stars were the brightest. Jiang Feng guessed these must be the thirty-six major acupoints.
Without a second thought, Jiang Feng's Divine Sense immediately probed toward the topmost star.
"Ah!" In an instant, the vast stellar power surged like a ball of raging fire directly into Jiang Feng's Baihui acupoint. Jiang Feng felt as if his entire head had been instantly ignited, and a searing pain of being burned by a fierce fire swept from the top of his head across his entire body, causing him to let out a miserable scream.
Jiang Feng immediately guarded his mind and clenched his teeth, trying to keep his mind as lucid as possible.
The continuous stream of stellar power was like a maddened fire ox, repeatedly impacting Jiang Feng's Baihui acupoint, the burning pain growing more intense with each strike.
"Awesome!" Jiang Feng wore a ferocious expression, letting out low growls. "Persist, hold on! Hurt a bit more, haha, I'm fine, for the sake of... damn it, that hurts! Maybe a little lighter." Jiang Feng did not know that a layer of gray mucus was currently oozing from his scalp, and his brain was becoming crystal clear like jadeite.
As time ticked by, the stellar power accumulated in Jiang Feng's Baihui acupoint grew more and more dense, and the accompanying burning pain was about to reach its limit.
Just as Jiang Feng was on the verge of failing to hold on and slipping into unconsciousness, a buzzing sound of "Hum!" echoed in his mind. Jiang Feng's Baihui acupoint suddenly lit up, and the pain on top of his head vanished without a trace.
At this moment, the star chart disappeared, while the stellar power in the Baihui acupoint formed a small vortex, slowly rotating.
Jiang Feng only felt as if a skylight had opened on top of his head, and wisps of cooling energy were sucked by the small vortex into the Baihui acupoint, subsequently seeping into his meridians.
"I'm actually absorbing spiritual qi automatically!" Jiang Feng was shocked.
This subverted his understanding of cultivation. He was only at the Mortal Entry Stage; even those at the Transcendence Stage needed to meditate to guide spiritual qi into their bodies, and could never absorb it automatically like him. It was truly unimaginable that this Star Formula was actually this powerful!
Jiang Feng did not continue cultivating the Star Formula today. He was worried that prolonged torture by pain would cause him to lose his mental focus. As the saying went, haste makes waste, and he still had a major event to attend to today.