The twelve main meridians are the three Yin meridians of the hand, the three Yang meridians of the hand, the three Yin meridians of the foot, and the three Yang meridians of the foot.

Each contains many acupoints.

After Ji Yuan refined this Quenching Acupoint Pearl, he automatically drew the blood and Qi within it toward the Zhongfu acupoint of the Hand Taiyin Lung Meridian.

The moment the blood and Qi reached this Zhongfu acupoint, Ji Yuan felt a gentle warmth.

Warm and cozy, incredibly comforting.

If Body Refinement always felt this good, I'd wish to do it every day… Ji Yuan had just had this thought.

The Quenching Acupoint Pearl seemed to respond to him.

"Hiss—"

An indescribable sharp pain shot from his arm, and Ji Yuan's face instantly turned pale.

His originally cross-legged posture shot straight, nearly toppling him over backward.

This pain was unlike the ache he felt when he perfected his body refinement before; back then, Isle Master Tie Chui's training was painful too, but more of a sore or throbbing pain.

But now, the pain was as if someone was stabbing needles into his acupoints.

Ji Yuan's whole body stiffened from the pain; he clenched his teeth tightly, fists balled up.

Fortunately, this stabbing pain only lasted a breath or two before gradually fading away.

Ji Yuan then felt as if the strength in his arm had increased a little.

Quenching acupoints.

Only refining one acupoint wouldn't have much effect; no matter what, you had to finish refining a whole meridian before really feeling the impact.

But Ji Yuan had something different in mind.

He planned to refine all of the acupoints across his body at once!

Better to endure the pain all at once than drag it out!

Besides, when it comes to quenching acupoints, it's best to get it done in one push.

The only difficulty was obtaining several hundred Spirit Pigs in one go.

Ji Yuan guessed that even if he got all the Spirit Pig piglets from every market around Cloud Rain Marsh, it still might not be enough.

And if he really went for it, he couldn't just focus on Cloud Rain Marsh alone.

Otherwise, if someone caught onto it, it would only bring more trouble.

He had thought about raising them himself, but that would take too long. The best way was still to buy them directly… At worst, he'd just travel farther and visit more places.

With that, he acted immediately.

So in the following period, Ji Yuan even put cultivation on hold.

After all, even a few more years of cultivation wouldn't get him to Foundation Establishment, but with body tempering… As long as he had enough Quenching Acupoint Pearls, his physical body should soon reach Foundation Establishment.

Ji Yuan spent the first month traveling every market in Cloud Rain Marsh.

Each time, he disguised himself carefully, using a different look, and only bought a small number each time.

So he only managed to collect 134 Spirit Pig piglets… He estimated that if he really went all out and collected every Spirit Pig in Cloud Rain Marsh, he could probably reach that total of 361.

But that would be far too blatant.

Ji Yuan would rather spend more time and travel a bit farther.

After that, he spent over two months traveling through the cities surrounding Cloud Rain Marsh: Lishui City, Black Mountain City, and Red Leaf City.

This was his first time venturing so far, and he saw many new things and gained much as well.

While in Black Mountain City, he happened to run into a Spirit Pig breeder clearing out his stock. The cultivator said there was no money in pig farming and that he was going to learn alchemy instead, so he was quitting.

Ji Yuan claimed he planned to open a "Spirit Pig Farm" and bought all one hundred plus Spirit Pigs in a single transaction.

He even rented the whole lot from him with Flower Spirit Stones.

After that, things got simpler. All the Spirit Pigs he'd gathered from the surrounding cities, he transported to this location, rather than sending them to Mist Island.

Because using the excuse of opening a pig farm made everything more discreet and wouldn't arouse suspicion.

Only when he had collected over 380 Spirit Pigs did he activate the building effect, and then, in just one night… slaughtered all the Spirit Pigs!

He disemboweled every one of them, taking the Quenching Acupoint Pearls from their hearts.

As for the corpses, since they were contaminated by the building effect and had body tempering properties, Ji Yuan dared not sell them.

So, he had prepared several storage bags just for holding Spirit Pig corpses.

Thus a strange event occurred in Black Mountain City—a wealthy cultivator with hundreds of Spirit Pigs disappeared without a trace overnight, and all the pigs were gone as well.

It was as if they vanished into thin air.

News of this only broke half a month later, when the original owner of the lot came to collect his rent.

The man was gone…

It would have been one thing if he'd just fled, but even all the Spirit Pigs disappeared with him.

Some claimed it was a Golden Core Zhenren playing tricks on mortals; others said it was a great demon in human form that devoured all the Spirit Pigs in a single gulp… In any case, rumors abounded.

But none of this concerned Ji Yuan anymore.

Because he was already back on Mist Island…

"Eat—"

"If you can't eat yourself to death, then stuff yourself to near death!"

Ji Yuan sat atop an ancient tree, making the Big Toad open its mouth as he tossed Spirit Pigs in nonstop.

Finishing one, he'd feed it another.

With several hundred in total, if Ji Yuan tried eating them himself, who knew how many years it would take.

So he could only ask the Big Toad to do the honors.

Besides, Ji Yuan was curious—if the Big Toad ate Spirit Pig meat like this, could it break through?

For example, if it could advance from mid-stage Tier Two to late-stage Tier Two—if that was possible, even if it ate all the Spirit Pig corpses, it'd still be worth it.

With a demon beast roughly equal to a late-stage Foundation Establishment sitting at home, Ji Yuan could rest easy wherever he went.

If he ran into trouble elsewhere, say, if he annoyed a newbie Foundation Establishment cultivator, he could lure him here, and the Big Toad would be his trump card.

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