Chapter 8 Searching for the Eight Meridian Channels (2/2)

Aaahh!

Zhou Yuan’s body frantically fell as a shriek emerged from his mouth. While this happened, a sticky and viscous black liquid appeared from the darkness and wrapped around his hands and feet.

As the black liquid creeped up inch by inch, an intense pain washed over Zhou Yuan as if the skin of his body was being melted away.

The most alarming thing was that the black liquid was invading his body through his pores and destroying the inside of his body. Wherever the black liquid passed, everything; his blood, his flesh, his channels, were being completely eroded away.

Along with the intense pain, fear invaded Zhou Yuan’s heart and he started to smell the scent of death.

He knew that he would really die if he allowed the black liquid to continue its destruction.

Zhou Yuan frantically struggled, activating the three Genesis Runes he had inscribed on his body without any hesitation. However, the moment the three Genesis Runes started to glow, the black liquid surged over and extinguished their light. In the end, even the three runes were wiped away by the black liquid...

Zhou Yuan’s heart turned completely ice-cold when the three runes were utterly destroyed.

The black liquid continued to spread and eventually covered Zhou Yuan’s eyes. Intense pain exploded and seemed to erode even his eyes as the entire world faded into darkness.

In the darkness, Zhou Yuan could feel the intense pain that originated from inside his body as the black liquid descended layer by layer.

The smell of death grew increasingly strong.

This was no illusion. If he was unable to stop the black liquid, he would really die!

“I cannot die in this place!”

“I still need to help mother recover her lifespan! I still need to avenge father for the loss of his arm! And there is still the sacred dragon blessing that was stolen from me!”

“How can I possibly die here without completing all of that?!”

“I cannot die!”

In the darkness, an angry and unresigned roar echoed in Zhou Yuan’s heart, a roar that contained the deep desire to live.

Just as death approached, Zhou Yuan mind suddenly sank into his body. In that moment, he was barely able to discern eight faint meandering paths of light in the deepest depths of his body.

These eight paths of light were akin to eight hidden dragons.

“Are these… the eight meridian channels of cultivation?!”

Zhou Yuan’s heart violently shuddered as he stared at the eight paths of light while comprehension started to bubble forth within him. These eight paths were the eight meridian channels that had never revealed themselves since the beginning!

Roar!

It was when death truly approached that they seemed to sense danger and immediately started to slowly squirm while emitting low dragon roars.

Buzz!

Dazzling light abruptly exploded from the deepest recesses of Zhou Yuan’s body. As the light unfurled, the black liquid began to dissipate at a speed which could be detected by the naked eye.

In a short span of several breaths, the darkness had completely withdrawn.

Zhou Yuan’s tightly shut eyes also opened at this moment as bright light once again flooded them. He fell down on his bottom, sweat flowing down his young face as if he had been fished out from a body of water.

*Pant* *Pant*

Zhou Yuan gasped for breath as his gaze darted all around him. He was currently still in front the cottage, as if everything from before had been an illusion.

“Was what happened earlier a hallucination?” Zhou Yuan was taken aback.

“What do you think?” An elderly voice was transmitted from his front. The old man in black was currently faintly smiling as he looked at Zhou Yuan.

Zhou Yuan’s expression fluctuated indeterminately. He had clearly felt how real death had been just moments ago. He slowly lifted his hand as his pupils abruptly shrank.

He had seen something black stealthily fade away at his fingertips.

It was exactly the same as the black liquid from before.

“It was real?!” Zhou Yuan’s heart shuddered. He was now certain that everything that had happened previously was real. This old man’s methods were just too unimaginable.

The old man chuckled and said, “Feel the interior of your body.”

Upon hearing this, Zhou Yuan closed his eyes and concentrated. It was at this same moment that his heart suddenly thudded like thunder and a look of disbelief emerged on his young and pale face.

It was because he could now clearly sense eight meridian channels in his body. They were akin to hidden dragons that had flown out from the abyss.

These eight meridian channels were the very same meridian channels that marked the beginning of one’s cultivation!

Zhou Yuan abruptly opened his eyes that were now filled with surging emotions. He stared at the old man in black as he spoke in a trembling voice.

“My… my eight meridians have appeared?!”

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