“If a native boy or girl from the Tianyuan Continent or the Jimie Continent reaches the Eighth Level of Meridian Unblocking at the age of seventeen, it’s naturally an extremely poor performance. But on the Qianxuan Continent, where spiritual energy is scarce, if one has talent for cultivation and has already received guidance from a renowned teacher, reaching the Eighth Level of Meridian Unblocking in seventeen years is considered fairly ordinary.”

“However, in this life, my earth soul and heaven soul have not returned, and I have always been in a state of foolishness and confusion.”

“In such a condition, with my wisdom not awakened, living like a walking corpse, how could I inexplicably step into the Eighth Level of Meridian Unblocking?”

Ethan Brooks grinned and chuckled, suddenly filled with confidence about the unknown future.

With only the human soul in the body, and muddled intelligence, to unconsciously step into the Eighth Level of Meridian Unblocking—what does that mean?

It means that in this new life, his talent is absolutely extraordinary!

He once again focused his mind, and after a moment, he laughed again, “Just as I thought!”

Mortal bodies, from infancy, are all different.

Some people are born suited for cultivation, while others, no matter how hard they try throughout their lives, can never set foot on the path of cultivation.

Among the masses, only a tiny minority can cultivate, and among those, the ones truly favored by destiny and possessing extraordinary talent are as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns—one in ten million.

The reason Ethan Brooks kept laughing was because he keenly sensed that in this life, he was that one in ten million!

He had just once again tried to sense the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and to his surprise, while breathing, he discovered that faint spiritual energy was actually seeping into his body through his pores, thread by thread.

That spiritual energy, compared to what he absorbed through his mouth and nose, was of course much more subtle, but the human body has as many pores as the stars in the sky, and with small amounts accumulating, the total spiritual energy absorbed this way was not to be underestimated.

Moreover, this spiritual energy entering his body was extra!

He knew very well what such a physique represented.

“No wonder, no wonder that even with my wisdom unawakened, I could unknowingly reach the Eighth Level of Meridian Unblocking!”

“I really didn’t expect that in this life, I would actually possess the Primordial Fetal Body!”

The so-called Primordial Fetal Body refers to a state where, as a fetus, one can breathe through the navel and skin pores without relying on the mouth, nose, heart, or lungs—a unique physical condition.

The vast majority of cultivators can also, through painstaking cultivation, eventually reach this state.

But that only happens in the later stages of the Profound-Breaking Realm.

In the late Profound-Breaking Realm, after the eight extraordinary meridians connecting the middle dantian’s mysterious gate are all penetrated, one can use abundant blood and energy to further temper the internal organs, circulate energy throughout the body, and thus achieve a qualitative leap in physique, gaining the ability to breathe through the navel and pores, absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

But in this life, due to his extraordinary talent, he must have been born with the Primordial Fetal Body!

“With the Primordial Fetal Body, the path of cultivation will be much smoother! This means my starting point is higher than others! I can absorb and refine the spiritual energy of heaven and earth faster, cultivate faster, and recover spiritual energy more quickly! Perhaps the heavens felt guilty for tormenting me so harshly in my previous life, and have finally given me some compensation in this one!”

Elated, he took a gentle breath, and deep within his earth soul, a cluster of memory suddenly shone brightly, with countless tiny fragments of light sparkling like a sky full of stars.

A mysterious and unpredictable cultivation technique, stored in the sea of memories of his earth soul from his previous life, was instantly summoned forth.

“Nine Radiant Heavenly Wheel!”

With a loud shout in his heart, faint threads of spiritual energy, through his mouth, nose, and all his pores, quietly converged toward his lower dantian like streams flowing into the sea.

The lower dantian is the Huangting, the third realm for cultivators after Meridian Unblocking and Spirit Nurturing.

The true Huangting Realm is when all twelve meridians are fully open, the flesh and blood within the body are infused with spiritual energy, and from the twelve meridians, spiritual energy is gathered into the small world of the Huangting.

At this moment, Ethan Brooks was only at the Eighth Level of Meridian Unblocking, with only eight of the twelve main meridians open, and his flesh and blood had not yet been nourished by spiritual energy, so it was naturally impossible to directly pour the gathered spiritual energy into the Huangting acupoint and its inner small world.

However, the faint threads of spiritual energy he quietly drew in began to cluster around the Huangting acupoint of his lower dantian.

They gathered into nine tiny clusters of spiritual energy, perceptible only by spiritual sense.

In his consciousness, these tiny clusters of spiritual energy were only the size of grains of rice.

“Even a grain of rice dares to shine against the blazing sun—Nine Radiant Heavenly Wheel!”

The nine rice-sized clusters of spiritual energy suddenly began to revolve around the Huangting acupoint of the lower dantian!

It was as if, in an instant, a brilliant, invisible wheel of light had encircled the lower dantian.

Ethan Brooks could clearly sense that, with this Primordial Fetal Body, as he operated the Nine Radiant Heavenly Wheel and the wheel of light spun around his lower dantian, the speed at which he absorbed spiritual energy through his mouth, nose, and pores increased significantly.

A moment later.

The brilliant wheel of light encircling the lower dantian suddenly condensed into a purer stream of spiritual power, which surged toward his ninth, as yet unopened, meridian!

A sour, swelling, stabbing pain struck instantly!

“Hoo!”

Ethan Brooks drew in a sharp breath, but was delighted rather than alarmed.

This sensation of soreness and stabbing pain let him know that the ninth meridian was being gradually opened and penetrated by the stream of spiritual power condensed by the Nine Radiant Heavenly Wheel!

“Marvelous!”