Just as he was about to step into the room, Li Hao paused slightly. "Oh, there's even a micro energy shield."
"It seems the people who live here aren't ordinary!"
Without lingering on the thought, Li Hao activated his meridians, and a wisp of chaotic energy seeped out from within his body, instantly assimilating the energy of the shield.
This wisp of chaotic energy was a special energy formed by Li Hao through the Chaos Body-Refining Technique, after opening his meridians and absorbing various energies such as evil spirit energy, poison gas, and Vital Energy from this place.
Li Hao called this energy "Chaos."
The Chaos Body-Refining Technique was a unique cultivation technique that Li Hao had spent decades painstakingly researching and creating. He had integrated the essence of ancient martial arts, the internal energy cultivation methods of various martial arts schools, and various modern martial art styles, while combining the bodily structures and energy operation laws of Exotic Beasts from the Calamity Space.
Cultivating this body-refining technique allowed one to draw various energies from heaven and earth into the meridians, using that energy to reshape the meridians and forge indestructible, invincible meridians.
When the meridians reached the peak of cultivation, they would emit a brilliant, golden divine glow. Li Hao named these meridians Divine Meridians.
Through the energy shield, he could see a little boy of about five or six years old in the corner of the room, looking at him with a face full of terror.
Without hesitation, Li Hao passed through the energy shield and walked quickly to the little boy.
"Little buddy, are you okay?"
"Big brother... did Mommy send you to save me?" the little boy asked in a childish voice.
"Yes, that's right! Your mommy sent me to save you."
"Where's Mommy? Where is she? I want Mommy..."
Seeing that the child was in fairly good condition, Li Hao hurriedly said, "She's downstairs. Stay here and don't run around, I'll go bring her to see you right now."
"Mommy, Mommy!"
After being assimilated by the chaotic energy, the energy shield was now very stable, and it was temporarily safe here.
Since the evil spirit energy and poison gas in the surrounding heaven and earth were still lingering, it was not yet suitable to bring the little boy out of the energy shield.
Therefore, it was better to temporarily settle this pair of mother and son inside the energy shield.
It would be much safer to take them away only after he had cleared away the evil spirit energy and poison gas.
After bringing the woman into the energy shield, Li Hao checked her physical condition and once again cleared the evil spirit energy from her body before leaving with peace of mind.
Before leaving, Li Hao said gently to the little boy, "Little buddy, Mommy is asleep! Now, I'm leaving her in your care, and Big Brother will be back soon to pick you both up. Okay?"
"I love Mommy, I'll help Mommy sleep..."
"Ah, wonderful! Big Brother is leaving first, see you in a bit!"
"Big Brother, goodbye!"
Returning to the outside world, Li Hao found a quiet spot and sat down cross-legged.
In his past life, it had been too late by the time Li Hao created the Chaos Body-Refining Technique.
He had never managed to cultivate this technique to its peak, but now, the timing was just right!
Cultivating the Chaos Body-Refining Technique required guiding various powerful energies from the universe into the Eight Extraordinary Meridians and the Twelve Regular Meridians.
When the twenty meridians connected into one, the physical body could transform into a Chaotic Body.
It could ingest and expel all energy in the universe and heaven and earth to cultivate oneself, granting boundless potential and transcendence over the mortal realm.
By then, he would be like a humanoid Exotic Beast, able to cultivate while walking, standing, sitting, or lying down. It could be considered a complete rebirth, the physical body becoming sacred, achieving a fundamental evolution.
Strands of evil spirit energy mixed with poison gas frantically converged toward Li Hao's body from all directions.
Li Hao guided these energies, entering the Belt Vessel from the side abdomen, at the intersection of the free end line of the 11th rib and the horizontal line of the navel, which was the location of the Belt Vessel acupuncture point.
Passing through the Wushu point to the Weidao point, they returned once more to the Belt Vessel point.
Thus completed a single cycle.
The Belt Vessel meridian itself contained only these three points, making it relatively easier to cultivate.
That was why Li Hao chose the Belt Vessel for his initial cultivation.
Among all the energies in the universe, evil spirit energy was extremely destructive.
Combined with the poison gas of the Purple-Haired Rat, the energy formed by the two was extremely tyrannical.
The moment this energy entered the Belt Vessel point, it destroyed the point and surged all the way down, wantonly ravaging the meridians.
"Chaos Body-Refining Technique!"
Li Hao circulated the incantation, forcibly gathering this energy and following the trajectory of the meridians to reconstruct a brand-new meridian.
The pain endured in the process was no less than scraping poison from the bone or execution by a thousand cuts.
Had he not relived his life through two incarnations, even Li Hao might not have dared to pull such a suicidal stunt at this age...
This place was on the edge of the disaster zone, where the energy density was relatively sparse, and its intensity was much weaker...
Under Li Hao's suction, the surrounding energy drastically decreased at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"Still not formed!"
Li Hao looked toward the core of the disaster zone.
"The energy here is too little!"
Meanwhile, not far down the street—
"Brother Qiang, my Vital Energy is almost exhausted, I can't hold on much longer!"
"Brother Qiang, me too! I'm afraid we won't be able to save them..."
The short-haired man was also utterly exhausted, barely managing to support himself.
Just at the critical juncture when several of them were about to exhaust their Vital Energy and be consumed by the evil spirit energy...
"Brother Qiang, have you noticed that the surrounding evil spirit energy has weakened?"
The short-haired man: "Yeah... it really has gotten weaker!"
"The poison gas is gone too!"
"We're saved! Hahaha..."
The short-haired man: "What is going on here... logically speaking, this shouldn't happen!"
"Could a Grandmaster have made a move?"
Just as several of them were bewildered and puzzled, Li Hao slowly walked over with a smile on his face.
"You guys, are you all right?"
"You... how are you!" One of the martial artists was struck dumb with fright.
The short-haired man also stammered, "L-Little brother, how are you... completely fine?"
In that instant, the worldview of several martial artists shattered!
"Could it be that not only do we have problems with our state of mind, but we've also taken the wrong path in Martial Dao?"
"Are we even from the same world?!"
"How can it be that we're Rank-3 Martial Artists and we're struggling at every step, while a high school student is acting like nothing happened..."
"This is truly ghost-like..."
"Could he have awakened a special Martial Dao talent... No reason for that! At his age, even if..."
The short-haired man racked his brains and couldn't figure it out, so he simply gave up thinking about it!
"How is that child?"
The short-haired man stopped asking further questions; everyone had their own secrets, let alone such an incredible matter.
"The child is fine, please follow me, everyone."
Li Hao led the short-haired man and the others outside the energy shield and said, "The harmful energy in this place has been cleared by me. I must trouble you all to send this mother and son out for medical treatment."
"What about you?"
The short-haired man hurriedly pressed.
"I still have matters to deal with, so I won't go out with you all."
"Little brother, I know you have some special abilities. But it's still too dangerous here..."
"No worries! Rest assured, everyone, I know what I'm doing."
Seeing that Li Hao was insistent, the others said no more.
Their physical strength and Vital Energy were completely exhausted, and they needed to leave this place as soon as possible to recover.
"Big Brother, hold me!"
"Xiaobao, Big Brother has other things to do, these uncles will take you out."
"Be a good boy!"
"Big Brother, will we meet again?"
"We will!"
"Little brother, make sure you come out safely!" the short-haired man said solemnly.
"I will!"
"Take care!"
Watching the group leave, Li Hao turned and walked toward the core of the disaster zone.