Eternal Saber-Chapter 284 - 8: Hard Training in the Deep Sea

In the following days, Chen Tang continuously used the Giant Demon Breathing Technique for his cultivation.

At night, after falling asleep, his divine soul settled in the Mud Ball Palace, still guiding him to practice breathing with this technique even in his dreams.

In just a few days, Chen Tang felt as if he had transformed completely!

His strength grew every day.

The sense of accomplishment was exhilarating for Chen Tang.

With such progress, in just a month's cultivation, Chen Tang felt he was just a breath away from reaching the Fifth Grade.

But at this moment, he encountered a bottleneck.

No matter what, he couldn't break through.

After cultivating for another half a month, his cultivation level improved slowly, never reaching the Fifth Grade.

That day, Chen Tang spoke to himself atop the East Sea Giant Demon, mentioning this matter.

The East Sea Giant Demon seemed to understand Chen Tang's words, moving its massive body abruptly and diving back into the seabed!

This time, Chen Tang did not panic, taking a deep breath.

Immediately, he was swept into a whirlpool by the ocean currents.

Chen Tang used the 'Crossing the River Form', trying his best to control his position.

With more than a month of cultivation, Chen Tang's resilience against the surrounding seawater had significantly increased.

This time taken by the East Sea Giant Demon to the deeper seabed, he endured a hundred breaths before reaching his limit and was dragged back to the surface.

As soon as he returned to the surface, Chen Tang couldn't help but take deep breaths.

After holding his breath underwater, this time as he breathed, Chen Tang clearly felt a strand of inner qi in his lungs had changed!

This strand of inner qi was purer and more vigorous than before!

Chen Tang suddenly realized.

The East Sea Giant Demon was helping him train his lung power by having him hold his breath underwater.

The stronger the lung power, the stronger the inner qi that is generated!

In this way, he had a chance to break through to the Fifth Grade!

With the help of the East Sea Giant Demon, Chen Tang submerged again, holding his breath in the sea.

Only when he couldn't hold on any longer, did he rise to the surface to breathe again.

This method of holding breath in water was entirely different from holding breath on land.

In the deep sea, not only did he have to hold his breath, but he also had to withstand the impact of the surrounding undercurrents and the omnipresent pressure of the seawater.

Chen Tang's lungs bore the immense pressure from the deep sea!

After a few days of such training, Chen Tang finally broke through to the Fifth Grade!

And his time holding breath in the seawater was getting longer and longer.

From an initial hundred breaths, gradually to two hundred, three hundred breaths...

A month later, Chen Tang could hold his breath in the deep sea for about half a stick of incense!

In this world, a stick of incense equaled about half an hour.

Half a stick of incense was a complete fifteen minutes!

Moreover, Chen Tang's resilience against the seawater also grew significantly.

Initially, he only held his breath about three zhang below the sea surface. 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺

Later, he could descend to a depth of a hundred zhang!

In these more than two months, Chen Tang was accompanied only by the Giant Demon in the vast ocean.

If it were someone else, they probably couldn't bear it long.

But Chen Tang was persistent in his pursuit of martial arts, able to endure solitude and constantly cultivate hard.

In his view, in this East Sea, besides the giant demon beneath him, there were heaven and earth, white clouds, the sun and moon, countless fish and beasts in the sea as companions; how could he feel alone?

Later, Chen Tang felt inspired, recalling a hero described in a past life's book, who practiced sword by the sea and eventually reached the Great Success in power.

With each sword strike, he wielded a force of a thousand pounds, invincible!

Now that he had this rare opportunity, why not try cultivating under the sea?

Chen Tang shared this thought with the East Sea Giant Demon.

The East Sea Giant Demon understood, carrying Chen Tang into the sea.

After all, in the deep sea, there was immense buoyancy.

If Chen Tang did not have anything underfoot, it would be tough to cultivate.

Only by standing on the back of the East Sea Giant Demon, tying himself with its long whiskers, could he practice fist techniques in the sea.

Training fists in the water felt entirely different from practicing on land.

Even just at a depth of about three zhang, each punch faced intense resistance from the surrounding seawater!

Not to mention practicing fists, even moving freely in the water was quite challenging.

Chen Tang had heard in his past life that bullets from a handgun don't travel far when shot into water.

The resistance in the water was much greater than imagined!

Moreover, if Chen Tang merely drifted with the waves in the deep sea, he could hold his breath for about half a stick of incense.

But practicing fists consumed much energy!

After only a hundred breaths, he couldn't endure, and had to surface.

After breathing freely, he submerged again to train.

After such repeated training for several days, Chen Tang felt not only his strength had grown, but his lung power significantly increased, and his breathing became increasingly steady and long!

When he gradually adapted to the depth of three zhang, he descended again to train in the deep sea around ten zhang.

...

Time flew by.

In a blink of an eye, another month passed.

The boundless East Sea looked calm and tranquil.

If someone were at a depth of a hundred zhang in the deep sea, they would witness an astonishing sight!

A figure stood on the back of the East Sea Giant Demon, moving seamlessly, just like on land, without any hesitation.

The seawater's resistance against him was as if nonexistent!

After completing a set of Tiger Subduing Fist and Arhat Demon-Subduing Fist, Chen Tang could still hold his breath!

This time, Chen Tang didn't repeat the two fist techniques, instead simplifying, curving his five fingers, practicing only one Tiger Form Splitting Fist.

With each punch Chen Tang threw, it seemed that it wasn't a fist of flesh and blood, but a gigantic axe chopping through mountains!

Each stroke cleaved through the seawater ahead.

Two waves parted, creating a temporary void in front, before being swiftly filled again by the seawater.

After practicing for a while, Chen Tang stomped his foot.

The East Sea Giant Demon understood, rising to bring Chen Tang back to the surface.

Chen Tang took a full breath.

His inner qi circulated in his organs, penetrating into his limbs and bones, ultimately passing through his skin.

Exhaling, Chen Tang couldn't help but roar to the sky!

A high-pitched roar carried far, as if waves surged and horses galloped, its momentum terrifying!

Normally, to fully unleash the power of Lion's Roar, one needs to cultivate to the Fifth Grade Inner Core, using inner qi to exert it.

Chen Tang didn't have inner qi in his dantian, but over the last three months, relying on the Giant Demon Breathing Technique, he cultivated an exceedingly strong, nearly terrifying lung!

The stronger the lungs, the more intense the burst of breath, the greater the power of the Lion's Roar!

Should he encounter that barbarian youth again, Chen Tang was confident he could knock him out cold with a full-powered Lion's Roar!

Of course, Chen Tang's transformation wasn't just limited to this.

Though he hadn't reached the ultimate realm of Fifth Grade Inner Strength, he wasn't far.

Moreover, his fist technique, having been refined in the deep sea, grew more concentrated and powerful!

When Chen Tang willed it, moving his blood, he vaguely heard the sound of ocean tides within!