As I heard the voice coming from outside the room, I instantly recognized it, after all, I kept hearing it plenty of times in the last couple of hours, what confirmed my guess was him continuing to say :
You did well in chosing to go for room number 1, that where the pressure was the lowest, if you had chose to go for the 9th room, you could have been crushed instantly by the pressure, in that room there was no rest area like in the other room, not because Master was stingy or anything like that .
It's just because the pressure was so high that it became able to take a physical form and destroy anything that was put inside after 2 to 4 days, then the things inside will get crushed and it would be troublesome for who would go out of his way to clean things up there .
It seem that I won't be able to see your head hit the floor, like ~Cough~ what had happened with those guys who had oversitmated themselves before, sadly .
He is still holding a grudge at my words from earlier, as it seemed, why did he want to see me humiliate myself this bad was beyond me, but one thing for sure, the perfect model I built for him in my head was beginning to crack bit by bit .
Hearing his voice outside was somewhat a surprising thing, but not as surprising at what I was currently dealing with, my leg was numbed down directly after I took a step behind the drawn line, I wasn't even able to complete the step I took .
My leg landed directly behind that drawn line, forced to be in such a state due to the sudden shift in pressure between the area inside the drawn line and the area outside of it, I was able to reach that conclusion after hearing what Senior Brother just said .
But hearing his voice outside, I couldn't help but say :
" How was Senior Brother able to persuade Senior Ma to let him in here, I thought that Senior Brother was no longer able to get inside for the rest of this month ? .
Cough, cough, you are indeed correct thinking like that, but I told you before didn't I, you can use money to buy yourself sometime in staying here, but you can't pick your own level of difficulty after someone had already chosen a level comparable to his strength, under a few unique circumstances that's an ultimate rule .
The training rooms work in first arrive, first serve kind of manner, so I needed to wait for you until you are done, or if I were together with a group of people and we all agreed on a specific new level of difficulty, then Old Ma will interrupt the person inside, in this case you, he will ask you whether you think you are able to withstand the increase in pressure and if you wanted to stay or not .
You will be compensated and the money you had paid or the time you have left would be still available for you to use later on, whenever you liked too, but enough chitchatting, I don't want to waste your precious time here like this .
The reason to why I let you come here was to help you in your breakthrough, here in these room for us who are at the Flesh Tempering Realm the results of practice is doubled, as long as we are able to withstand the pressure that we were under here .
Listen closely, you should have already heard a Ting sound earlier, that sound mean that the pressure would be releasing from the Nine-Shocks Blood Stone, I can already guess what might be thinking without even looking at your face, but there was no time for me to explain everything to you at the moment .
What you needed to know was that you will need to go forward while resisting this pressure you are under, if you felt your Blood Qi being a bit chaotic and might began to cause you some pain, you can stop and try to regulate it first, then you can continue to go forward .
The pressure helps your Blood Qi to be more thoroughly in Tempering your Flesh, by forcing your body to be under a constant pressure, your Blood Qi will continue to seep into the deepest parts of your body and who knows you might be able to breakthrough on the spot .
But if you sensed a slightest bit of discomfort when breaking through, you are free to get back to the rest area to finish your breakthrough, be sure to try amass as much gains as you can from this, if you felt that the pressure wasn't enough you can go even more forward .
As he finished saying this, or at least I thought that he finished but as if being reminded of something, he continued to say and his voice was growing fainter and fainter, it wasn't even five minutes, but it seemed that he walked away .
His last words to me were about using my technique to thoroughly temper my Flesh, I had already had this idea in mind but him telling me this made me a bit more at ease in doing that .
His words made me understand a few things as well, he intentionally allowed me to went in alone, even though he could have paid the same amount and joined me, but no, he wanted me to be lying on my head from the pressure and from making the wrong choice, only then would he have come to my rescue .
The look on old Man Ma from earlier confirmed this, he looked at Senior Brother strangely, but the latter tried to play it off, anyway, luckily I was able to pick the right choice, I was also able to finally understand what was going on here, so that was a good thing through and through .
So what exactly should I be doing now to get my legs to move, I guess testing with Blood Qi would be the only thing, I'm capable of doing currently, I began circulating my Blood Qi and without any kind of resistance, the numbness in my leg disappeared and I was able to move it again .
After getting accustomed to the pressure, using my Blood Qi which was comparable to those at 3rd or 4th layer allowed me to break free with quite ease, taking a deep breath, I directly took a step forward and crossed the line .
The moment I did for a fraction of a second, I felt the pressure that was being exerted on my leg, but this time it was pressing my whole body, but unlike the last time, my Blood Qi this time was able to protect me and dissipated the pressure for me, so I felt nothing but my body being a little bit uncomfortable, but since the Panel hadn't sent me a notification implying a problem .
I believed that everything was actually okay and I started to take a second step forward, after taking a second step, for a fraction of a second, I felt the pressure from before appearing once again, it made my body feel a bit more weird, then once again disappeared .
Senior Brother hadn't told me anything other than to try and get adapt to the pressur, then start to Practice the Solid Rock Fist Technique I had learned, that was all I was able to get from his words, which wasn't enough to explain how everything here worked, but barely enough to allow me a clear direction to go on with .
Continuing forward step after a step, I was able to feel my Blood Qi started to weirdly resonate with the waves of pressure that was beginning to enter my body, once they entered, they will try to make my Blood Qi become erratic, but then the Panel would remove that side effect from my body and use the pressure in the same manner I used yesterday to practice .
At this realization I was a bit surprised, the way of practice using the outside pressure and stimulations was helping in tempering my body, I was beginning to feel that tempering energy began to appear in my body after each time I took a step forward .
Due to the pressure and my body meridians being connected with one another as Master previously mentioned and the pressure that my whole body was being exerted on my body, the Tempering energy as a result of all this, was being absorbed the moment they appear, only after seeing the process did I understand Senior Brother's words about this place being able to temper the body thoroughly .
I now also understood how this place should allow someone to breakthrough, I was able to make progress just by holding my breath and bear the pressure here, if I stood in my place for a few minutes more, I might be able to breakthrough .
But I had no such an idea in mind, I wanted to see what lay in the end of the tunnel in front of me, it was all shrouded in black and only the faint light of the lanterns was able to lighten the place a little, that made me mistook the space in this place before to be only 10 to 12 meters .
But as I went forward, I was able to see that the dim light was only enough for me to see the next step in front of me, the same process continued to repeat itself with each step I took, but there was a slight problem, even though the pressure increase, my own Body Tempering speed was still crawling .
The Tempering Energy was not increasing as I was under more pressure, I was still able to deal with the pressure here with quite ease, so it really wasn't that much of a problem to continue moving forward and forward, but I couldn't help but find this to be a bit weird, from Senior Brother's words .
I was able to understand that by going forward, the pressure would increase but the Tempering speed would also increase as well, it was safe to assume that the Tempering Energy would too, after all it was the energy responsible for Tempering the body .
But this wasn't happening which meant either was there some problems with whatever was at work here and helping with the Tempering or there was something wrong with me .
I had a guess about what might be the reason, but if were to confirm it, then I will need to continue heading forward, seeing that I was still feeling okay under this amount of pressure, I decided to increase my pace a little, I was first moving faster than before and sensing that everything was still the same, I decided to began running .
I kept picking on speed until I finally reached an entrance shaped like a hole which was made inside the cave where I was, the light wasn't strong enough to clear what was exactly behind that hole, but I had a feeling that whatever that was responsible for the Tempering effect that this Practice Hall have, then it must be there .
Raising my guard up in consideration of anything that might suddenly happen, I began to cautiously pass through that hole and I was surprised to see what was behind it .
Before I thought that this place was 10 to 12 meters in size, but now, now I don't have a clue how big was this place underground was, in front of me was a spacious area, almost as big as the the Main Training Hall or maybe even a bit bigger, I'm not sure yet .
Once I crossed the hole like entrance, I saw that I was really underground in a place that looked similar to a cave mine, there were a spacious area for those who wanted to practice their techniques, but the weirdest thing about this place was the existence of black rocks being randomly distributed around the whole other side of the cave .
There were also other holes in the walls around me other than the one that I had just crawled out from, I guessed that it was related to the other rooms, because they were 9 in total and were lining up in a similar fashion to the exact same numbers of rooms outside .
I didn't understand what was going on or how exactly was this place working or what it had to do with those weird black rocks scattered in a weird diagram in front of me, but I was able to feel that the pressure did began to increase after I arrived to this room, I was able bear it and adapt to it after a few seconds of discomfort .
And after increasing the output of the Blood Qi, I was using to keep bearing the pressure, my guess from before had been confirmed, the problem to why wasn't the pressure helping me make use of more Tempering Energy, the reason was again my lack of vitality, it resulted in my Blood Qi inability to invoke more Tempering Energy from my Blood Vitality .
That was why I needed to make more effort if I wanted to achieve a breakthrough, that's why I also needed to use Martial Technique to birth more of that Energy, so that why Senior Brother had said that I might have a chance to make a breakthrough here .
Even though the amount of Energy I was able to get was meager, if I stayed in this position for a whole hour, I really might be able to achieve a breakthrough, but there is now way that I would accept doing just that .
Clearing my mind from all these useless thoughts and instead regulated my breath and start moving forward until I can no longer bear the pressure, that's where I will be practicing .
Unlike before, now with each step I took forward, I felt the pressure that was being exerted on me increasing, it first increased by approximately 10 to 20 percent, that was the total increase in pressure after I took 4 steps from the hole, I thought about it for a bit and thought that if the increase was only like that, I would be able to manage reaching to the end of this place .
How naive I was, I took another step forward and instantly felt a huge wave of pressure being suddenly put on me, almost forcing me to fell on my face just like senior brother wanted, but I was able to regain my balance back in the neck of time .
Infusing more Blood Qi was the only percussion I have and that all what I tried to do, increasing the output of Blood Qi that I'm using to adapt slowly to the pressure, doing that I seemed to have triggered some kind of a trap or more like a mechanism in whatever was at work here .
The pressure that I was able to disperse easily before, become a lot more aggressive, not only that, but it now seem to be seeping into my body in quite the rush and indulge in a battle of attrition with my Blood Qi .
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That would have been quite a problematic situation, if my Blood Qi were to be indulging in a war of attrition with that pressure, this would have left me to bear the pressure here with my Flesh, that was a crazy thing to currently do, I'm already able to understand that the pressure here was already beyond what my body can hold against .
But the Panel came in a clutch and was able to offset the pressure that was on me and that wasn't all the pressure disappeared and the amount of Tempering Energy it should have given me still came, feeling the boiling energy inside me, I no longer felt any discomfort like before .
In fact I was quite pleased with this kind of development, I hadn't expected that the Panel would be able to deal with the pressure here as well, so it was a good surprise, due to having no clue about what was going on here .
The Panel wasn't able to pinpoint exactly the thing responsible for the pressure here, but surprisingly the Panel was able to give me a shocking clue, the Panel was telling me that I was currently standing in the middle of a Formation .
I looked at the pieces of black rocks that I had thought before that they were were scattered normally and realized that my eyes weren't playing tricks on me before, these Black Rock Formations formed a diagram, that diagram was what the Panel used the information I have and came to describe it as a Formation .
The was one of the only few terms that I had read about from The Story Of Immortals story booklet .