Invincibility Begins with Mastery of Fist Techniques-Chapter 55: Samādhi

By the time Zhou Yuanjue and Li Qingxuan returned to the Wuhai Villa, the sky had already grown dark.

After the two had dinner, Li Qingxuan had someone find some necessary props for Zhou Yuanjue, then watched helplessly as he shut himself in the training room again.

In the training room, Zhou Yuanjue sat cross-legged in the very center. Before him was a candlestick half a person’s height, and on it rested a large, red candle.

His eyes focused on the candle’s wick, and his entire aura gradually calmed with his intense gaze.

He began to try and concentrate, to condense his spirit, will, soul, and other such intangible things into a single mass.

Zhou Yuanjue had already practiced some techniques for Concentrating and Calming the Mind while cultivating the Red Falcon Fist. Coupled with his current enlightenment in the state of Holy and Bright, his Spiritual Will was already incredibly strong. He believed that completely focusing his spirit and attention on a single point would not be a difficult task.

But when he actually tried, he realized it wasn’t as simple as he had imagined.

With the aid of his powerful will and the act of staring at the wick, he was indeed able to condense his spirit to the greatest possible degree. However, this mass of spirit could never become as smooth and perfectly round as a pearl, like Wei Fengyi’s had been.

In his perception, the spirit he had gathered was "uneven and bumpy," and its shape even changed frequently.

If the spirit Wei Fengyi condensed was a radiant jewel, then Zhou Yuanjue’s was an unpolished, stubborn rock.

But he soon found the reason.

The reason his spirit was "uneven and bumpy" was because of the constant life and death of subtle, distracting thoughts.

If it weren’t for the Lamp Burning Technique helping him concentrate his spirit to the utmost, he would have never known that such subtle, distracting thoughts were hidden within his mind.

His mind was a restless ape, his thoughts a galloping horse.

Perhaps this issue wasn’t obvious in a normal state, but under extreme mental concentration, these subtle problems became prominent.

’A calm mind, deep in thought, perfectly round and flawless.’

’How can I achieve this?’

Zhou Yuanjue recalled the scene of Wei Fengyi demonstrating the Lamp Burning Technique and had a flash of insight.

’Staring at the wick... the key isn’t just about concentrating my spirit. It’s about the concept of "burning."’

He began to try using his concentrated spirit to ignite the wick.

Obviously, something that defied the laws of physics couldn’t possibly succeed. Yet, within his spirit, Zhou Yuanjue obtained what he wanted.

Under his gaze, the wick before him seemed to truly ignite with a faint flicker of flame. This flame was filled with a sense of warmth, wisdom, stability, and peace.

It was the flame of wisdom and enlightenment.

This flame appeared not only before his eyes, but also within his heart.

His condensed mass of spirit seemed to be placed upon this flame, slowly being forged. The distracting thoughts gradually vanished, just like crude iron being smelted a hundred times, becoming purer in the fierce fire.

’The Heart Fire forges, the True Spirit is refined a hundred times.’

At that moment, he finally understood where the perfectly round feeling of Wei Fengyi’s spirit came from.

It was an existence born from being forged by the Heart Fire of the Lamp Burning Technique, representing the Great Meditation of the soul.

Vaguely, Zhou Yuanjue sensed that Wei Fengyi’s state was not yet the true peak.

’True gold refined a hundred times... In the end, a bright light manifests within the will, without a single impurity. Glistening gold, perfectly round—that must be the highest realm.’

This reminded him of the Golden Core described by the Daoist Family.

’So Buddhism and the Dao share the same origin. All paths of cultivation lead to the same destination.’

Limited by his own Martial Dao level and Physical Strength, Wei Fengyi could only ignite the "fire in his heart" with the Lamp Burning Technique; he could not ignite the "fire in his body."

But he was different. He was a powerful Martial Artist who had comprehended Holy and Bright and could, to a certain extent, merge his spirit and body. With this Heart Fire, he could do much more.

Guided by the fire of his soul and leveraging the state of Heart’s Desire Bursting Out from Holy and Bright, his body underwent a corresponding change within that brief duration.

His bodily functions ignited. His blood circulation accelerated, and his internal energy systems went into overdrive, continuously supplying his body with immense physical power. His hormone levels rose significantly, and all his physiological functions were enhanced to a certain degree.

It was like he’d been injected with a high-powered stimulant.

From mind to body, body and mind as one, the True Fire burns, illuminating all like a candle.

This was the Samadhi True Fire.

SCREECH!!

Within his will, the giant bird soaring through the sky seemed to have its wings tinged with a flicker of firelight.

Zhou Yuanjue’s will gradually calmed. He knew he had found the direction for his own unique secret technique.

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「Seven days later.」

Aided by his powerful constitution, Zhou Yuanjue’s injuries had mostly healed and no longer affected his movement.

During this time, Li Qingxuan had watched as Zhou Yuanjue spent nearly all his time soaking in the training room, even going so far as to make a bed on the floor.

For these seven days, Zhou Yuanjue lived an extremely regimented life.

He would practice the Lamp Burning Technique for two hours. When his spirit grew weary, he would stop his cultivation and force his body into a state of deep sleep. Then, two hours later, he would wake up and continue practicing, repeating the cycle.

During this practice, not only did Zhou Yuanjue not feel tired, he actually felt his spirit being polished until it became even rounder and smoother.

Both his will and his soul had already reached an extremely high realm; he had only lacked a catalyst, and the Lamp Burning Technique was exactly that.

He stood quietly in the center of the training ground, wearing only a pair of training pants. His eyes were half-closed, his spirit condensed into what seemed to be a perfectly round jewel.

After seven days of training, he could already condense his spirit at any time and any place, without needing the candlestick and wick.

He no longer needed external aids. The brilliant lamp was now within his own heart.

’Using the false to cultivate the true.’

A flame ignited within his spirit, flickering with the light of persistence, determination, and the will to transcend his own limits.

Behind his head, a faint halo seemed to appear vaguely, but perhaps it was just an illusion, and there was nothing there.

This was one application of the Lamp Burning Technique that he had figured out after seven days of training.

Candlelight Illumination.

In this state, his concentration was heightened, and both his Insight and Analysis Power were enhanced to a certain degree.

Furthermore, because his spirit was calm, gathered, and flawlessly round, he could resist the effects of Heart’s Desire Bursting Out to a certain extent.

Next was another state.

Standing calmly, Zhou Yuanjue slowly assumed a fist stance.

BOOM!!

The muscles all over his body suddenly swelled to their absolute limit, and his hands became engorged with blood and turned crimson.

SCREECH!

Within his Heart Intent, the giant bird soaring through the sky suddenly manifested.

Heart’s Desire Bursting Out!

And it didn’t stop there. In the instant that his soul and body created a subtle resonance under Heart’s Desire Bursting Out, the lamplight within his Heart Intent spread to his physical form.

Even the soaring giant bird was tinged with a bright, fiery glow.

His blood began to boil, and his internal energy systems went into overdrive.

SCREECH SCREECH SCREECH SCREECH SCREECH!!

In the span of a few short seconds, Zhou Yuanjue threw an untold number of punches. The airflow turned chaotic, and every single fist surprisingly carried the thin Qi Blade that only appeared when using the Profound Heart Fist Emission Technique.

In this state, the power of his Fist Technique rose to another level. 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

Samadhi Lamp Burning Realm - Hundred Falcons Cloud Blade Hand!