However, exploring and mastering the abilities of a top-tier Spirit Guardian bloodline was no easy task.

The "Qi Vein" ability, in particular, was closely related to the body’s magnetic field. A single misstep could cause immense impact and damage to it.

Injuries to the magnetic field were notoriously complex and difficult to deal with. They couldn’t be casually healed by the Yin Fire Ability or the Southern Dipper Star Fire Ability, so extreme caution was necessary.

Originally, after witnessing the Qi Vein ability, Zhou Yuanjue had planned to finish his business here and then return to study it slowly. But now, having entered the Glowing Moon Attainment Realm, how could he pass up such a golden opportunity?

No fear of injury, the ability to simulate any condition at will...

Simply put, he could do whatever he wanted without dying. Where else could he find such a perfect place for cultivation?

Zhou Yuanjue sat cross-legged in the center of the spacious training ground. He extended his will, wanting to temporarily simulate a Qi Vein system within his body to get a feel for it.

However, his plan failed.

Following his thoughts, the Glowing Moon Dream Realm did indeed construct a Qi Meridian Circulation in his body, but he couldn’t feel anything from it.

It felt as if this Qi Meridian Circulation was nothing more than an illusion.

’So it can’t simulate specific abilities? It seems this Glowing Moon Dream Realm has significant limitations. It can only simulate concrete environments and information about abilities I’ve already mastered and am familiar with.’

’That makes sense. If it could manifest anything and everything, the Glowing Moon Dream Realm would be far too terrifying...’

Zhou Yuanjue dispersed the false Qi Vein system in his body. Though disappointed, he quickly adjusted his mindset.

Although being unable to experience the actual sensation of Qi Veins was a considerable obstacle, he could still deduce some of its fundamental principles based on Daoist Bailong’s previous descriptions and Ge Honglin’s on-stage performance.

The human body has a system of meridians that run throughout it, the most important of which are the Twelve Main Meridians. Qi Veins were an ability that emerged from the mutation and strengthening of this meridian system.

’The body’s meridians are, in essence, a kind of connection between various bodily elements like qi, blood, and nerves.’

’Ancient medicine used acupoints as nodes to influence the meridians by affecting the flow of qi and blood, stimulating nerve responses, and so on.’

’But this influence is too subtle. Even a Saint Awakening can only vaguely perceive the existence of meridians. Actually grasping them is incredibly difficult, let alone isolating, connecting, and using them to store a magnetic field...’

Zhou Yuanjue began to analyze the Qi Vein ability. He started using the Glowing Moon Dream Realm to stimulate important acupoints all over his body, attempting to truly grasp the existence of the body’s meridians.

But he soon discovered that the so-called meridians were actually a collection of various bodily elements, making them very difficult to manipulate with precision. It was like facing a tangled ball of string; he needed to find the right entry point first.

’Acupoints.’

Zhou Yuanjue fell into deep thought.

Acupoints are the nodes of the meridians. Or rather, acupoints are the physical nodes where all the constituent elements of the body’s meridians converge. If he could develop the acupoints, he might be able to eventually connect and open up the meridians.

Even if he ultimately failed to open the meridians, the acupoints themselves still seemed to be the best nodes for storing a magnetic field.

He wasn’t completely ignorant about acupoints.

Before reaching Saint Awakening, he had practiced a Secret Technique related to them.

It was a technique he had obtained from Dai Yisheng, called the Hundred Acupoints Returning to Origin Technique.

Back then, it was precisely by relying on this method—igniting the acupoints throughout his body one by one with Heart Fire, and finally igniting his Niwan—that he had ultimately achieved Saint Awakening.

However, after reaching Saint Awakening, he had set this technique aside to focus on researching Magnetic Field Power.

So, he began to experiment.

He tried to use his own Magnetic Field Power to stimulate his acupoints.

Unfortunately, while stimulating the acupoints had some effect on his body, it couldn’t turn them into nodes for gathering and storing the magnetic field. He couldn’t truly "open the acupoints."

So, what method should he use?

Zhou Yuanjue’s gaze was profound. To be honest, he didn’t know what method to use either. The Hundred Acupoints Returning to Origin Technique didn’t contain any relevant details.

The discovery, creation, and maturation of a secret transmission often required countless generations of trial and refinement. Many Martial Artists had to risk their lives, one after another, just to succeed.

But now, he had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

The Glowing Moon Dream Realm.

Didn’t know what method to use?

No problem. He could find out by trying.

And so, Zhou Yuanjue began his extremely bold experiments.

BOOM!!!

A terrifying, raging fire erupted around him, instantly turning him to charcoal.

The next moment, his body reappeared in the Dream Realm.

SPLASH!!

A torrential downpour fell from the sky. The raindrops pierced his body like silver needles, stimulating his acupoints, and his body instantly exploded.

In the process that followed, Zhou Yuanjue tried all sorts of death-defying methods.

Burning by fire, gamma rays, ten thousand arrows piercing the heart, nuclear radiation...

After dying an untold number of times, he finally noticed a clue.

Lightning strikes.

When the intensity, location, and other conditions of the lightning strikes followed a certain pattern, he could feel his acupoints undergoing a special change—a fundamental alteration of their very nature.

Legend said that lightning possessed the power of Life and Death.

Countless years ago, it was a lightning strike into water that gave birth to life.

The body’s meridians were closely related to the bloodline, nerves, and so on—the very basic elements that constitute life.

At the same time, he finally understood why the highest and most powerful offensive magic of the Qi Clan was the Thunder Skill.

Because the formation of Qi Veins was intimately related to lightning.

In ancient legends, lightning also held more special meanings.

When ancient cultivators’ cultivation reached a certain level, they would face a Celestial Tribulation, where lightning would descend. As long as they could endure it, they would be completely transformed, as if reborn, evolving from a Mortal Body to an Immortal Body.

There was surely a profound connection in all this.

However, the required intensity of the lightning strikes, the kind of magnetic field needed to accompany them, and other such conditions all required further testing.

So, Zhou Yuanjue began a deeper level of experimentation.

BOOM!! BOOM!! BOOM!!

Within the Dream Realm, the sky above the training ground was filled with dark clouds. Countless lightning snakes flashed and roared, fiercely descending upon a figure on the ground.

This figure repeatedly shattered and re-formed. Amid the lightning, it seemed to be undergoing some kind of metamorphosis.