Realm-Hopping Martial Master-Chapter 440 - 269: Three Years in Seclusion, Divine Skills Break Limits, Xuan Star’s New Changes
Jiang Shu’s lecture at the Jiangnan Academy, like a hurricane, astounded the world.
Countless Martial Artists were once again shaken. Some civilian Martial Artists, funded by the Martial Arts Foundation, fell into an epiphany after watching the lecture, gaining a deeper understanding of "Everyone is like a dragon."
They practiced "Everyone is like a dragon" repeatedly. Their faith, like a dragon, manifested as streams of energy converging and forming between heaven and earth.
Meanwhile, Jiang Shu, seated atop Ji Mountain, breathed rhythmically. This accumulating Faith Power, under the influence of his Wuwei Governance divine skill, gradually transformed into pure spiritual power.
"The strength of Martial Artists’ realms and beliefs varies, so different regions yield different amounts of Faith Power. Ji City, for example, despite being my hometown, has always had fewer Martial Artists than Jiangnan City. Consequently, the Faith Power absorbed here is somewhat less."
"Many a little makes a mickle. As long as Xuanxing develops and the number of Martial Artists increases, I’ll have a continuous supply of Faith Power. The Mixed Element Breath Realm, which previously might have required ten or even decades of cultivation, could soon be within reach, and I might even aim for the Sitting and Forgetting Realm in just a few short years!"
Cultivating higher realms always becomes progressively more difficult.
Whether it’s Spiritual Cultivation in the universe or the cultivation of Primordial Power Divine Abilities in the Cang Mang Domain, both undoubtedly demand significant time.
Now, however, the integration of the divine pathway system and the Faith Power generated by Xuanxing’s Martial Artists provide a vast new cultivation resource.
"This is like AFK farming in the games of my previous life. As long as I stay on Xuanxing, my spiritual power can continuously increase. Moving forward, I should focus more energy on the Cang Mang Domain’s cultivation system. The refinement of my Primordial Power and Divine Skills needs to accelerate."
Jiang Shu mused to himself. Since returning from his lecture at the Jiangnan Academy, besides cultivating day and night, he had also visited the True Martial Sect several times.
He had received both good news and bad news. The good news was that, thanks to Lu Qingling’s connections, the descendants of Master Ming Lei had been quickly identified.
It was then that Jiang Shu learned Master Ming Lei’s original name and life story.
Zhou Ming.
He was Zhou Ming, a late-blooming genius from a branch of the Zhou Family in the thirty-fifth of the True Martial Thirty-Six Cities. Orphaned young, he practiced martial arts with his mother. He reached the Refining Internal Realm at twenty, the Blood Exchange Realm at twenty-two, and only entered the Detachment Realm at thirty.
At his mother’s behest, he married into the main Zhou Family line in the seventh city. Along with other geniuses from various branch and main lines, he entered the True Martial Sect.
At thirty-six, he condensed True Fire.
At fifty, he consumed a Primordial Pill and officially became an Inner Sect Disciple.
This all happened thirty years ago.
Thirty years had passed, and many events had been buried by the sands of time.
For instance, a main-line genius named Zhou Yan had entered the sect with Zhou Ming. This same main-line genius, after only a few years as an Inner Sect Disciple, had apparently seized a great opportunity thirty years ago. He began breaking through a minor realm every ten years. Now, he had reached the Late-stage Yuan Dan, possessing sixty-nine Divine Skills, and showed signs of being able to ascend to the Inner Sect’s True Inheritor Seed list.
"Once a Martial Artist steps into the Furnace Fire Realm, True Fire burns the body, completely shedding the mortal shell. It becomes difficult for ordinary Martial Artists to conceive children with Cultivators at this realm. That’s why Master Ming Lei married while in the Detachment Realm—to leave descendants who could accompany his mother in his stead."
"If Master Ming Lei were alive, his descendants would have had ample Cultivation Resources. They could have entered the sect or, failing that, established themselves and prospered in one of the True Martial Thirty-Six Cities. But with his death, all of that became an illusion, like a dream bubble. His descendants couldn’t enter the sect and were forced to leave their former city, living in obscurity under assumed names."
"Firstly, an innocent man commits no crime, but possessing a treasure invites disaster. Secondly, no one knew who was involved in Master Ming Lei’s death or if there would be retaliation."
These thoughts swirled in his mind like a tide.
"Master Ming Lei entered the sect at thirty. In the fifty years since, his son was born, and that son, in turn, had a son and a daughter. His son is in the Acupoint Passage Realm. The grandson, aged twenty, is in the Blood Exchange Realm, and the granddaughter, sixteen, is in the Refining Internal Realm. There aren’t many descendants, so looking after them wouldn’t be too troublesome."
"The real trouble is Zhou Yan. Considering the timeline, Master Ming Lei might have been contending with Zhou Yan for an opportunity back then. Zhou Yan, through various means, likely emerged victorious, while Master Ming Lei was forced to flee in defeat, ultimately perishing in the Da Jing Dynasty."
"On the path of cultivation, there is no absolute right or wrong—only who can endure to the end."
After pondering these matters for a moment, Jiang Shu closed his eyes and resumed his cultivation.
When you have too many lice, you stop feeling the bites.
He had already made far too many enemies.
Within the True Martial Sect, there was Zhou Yan, who had a chance to be listed among the True Inheritor Seeds.
Beyond Xuanxing, there were the true forms of various gods.
To the Martial Artists on Xuanxing, he was a Martial God.
But in the eyes of these formidable enemies, he was still merely a slightly stronger ant.
To eliminate them all, his cultivation journey could not afford any pause.
Taking out Master Xuan Shui’s Divine Power Pill, Jiang Shu began to refine the Divine Skills contained within, making them his own. 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦
New Divine Skills, tempered by his True Fire, emerged on his status panel.
「Days and nights flew by like a shuttle; time passed like water.」
Three years passed. For Xuanxing, where Primordial Qi Recovery was in full swing and both science and Martial Arts were booming, it felt as if every day brought new advancements.
But for Jiang Shu, this period was merely the duration of one session of closed-door cultivation. He spent it polishing several Divine Skills.
During these three years, he refined twelve Divine Skills from Master Xuan Shui’s Divine Power Pill. Furthermore, he cultivated the Five Thunders Great Handprint, Kunpeng Swallowing Technique, and Heavenly Intent True Self Body—three Divine Skills—all to the Break Limit level.
