With Countless Qualities Bestowed Upon Me, I Shall Ultimately Become Immortal-Chapter 520 - 478: Dragon Tendons Break Limits and Devour Vital Energy, Meng Chuan’s Epiphany Amazes Wudang!
After this transformation ended, Meng Chuan not only felt no discomfort but was even more refreshed.
The feeling of becoming stronger, how wonderful!
Meng Chuan pondered in his heart:
"With the ’Overturning Rivers’ characteristic added, there seems to be some mutation in my muscles..."
Specifically how, he turned his mind to the panel:
[Baji of Shaking Rivers: Perfection (99%) → Limit Broken]
[Characteristic Gained from Limit Breaking: Overturning Rivers (Intermediate)]
Effect one: Jiao Dragon Tendons, muscles resemble a Jiao dragon, performing as if stirring a river. Any muscle transformation beyond the mundane, with greater power when stretching fists and swinging legs, power released like a Jiao dragon’s tail flick, enhancing muscle elasticity and explosiveness;
Effect two: Tidesman, tides rise and fall, all things thrive and wither, fists rise and fall, sinking boats flip rivers. Comprehension of Water Attribute fist skills and Baji fist skill gets a certain boost.
After the fierce battle with Ma Hongju earlier, Baji of Shaking Rivers filled in the last bit of proficiency and officially stepped into the Limit Breaking stage.
Now his martial arts attainment had long surpassed that of other martial arts masters of the same level by a large margin.
In the fist styles he mastered, even martial arts masters and grandmasters may not have as deep an understanding as he did.
He was no longer the martial arts seedling he once was, needing no profound enlightenment.
The process of breaking through low-level true skill fist techniques was more like spring breeze turning into rain, natural and smooth.
He gradually tightened his body, contracted, and tightened again, the veins under his skin visible yet invisible.
Repeating this cycle several times, he fully adapted to the "Jiao Dragon Tendons" added to his body.
With "Flower of Flesh" around, any mutation concerning the flesh would be quickly digested and absorbed.
No such jokes as "like a child wielding a weapon unsteadily" would arise.
Phrases like power skyrocketing yet taking a step causing the foot to sink into the ground and unable to be pulled out were all manifestations of inadequate control over one’s own strength.
He once again straightened his body, and the long fist punched out like a heavy cannon.
Power transmitted from the shoulders and neck to the upper arm, then to the forearm.
Through these three choke points, all seemed to have rocket launch boosters installed.
The major tendons assisted in pushing the power layer by layer, climbing step by step.
A heavy punch swung towards a 45-degree angle of the sky, with a "whoosh" the air was forcibly displaced and then gathered, air currents stirred and trembled.
The azure sky responded by slicing a white trail like that of a jet plane, lingering for a long time.
Birds and beasts in the mountains scattered, thunder roared on the mountaintop.
"If I were to fight Daoist Ma again now, I would undoubtedly defeat him within thirty moves."
If in the final liberation state, one punch would suffice.
This is the effect of "Jiao Dragon Tendons", powerful, straightforward, empowering!
Meng Chuan hoped that in the future this effect could become more frequent with more Limit Breaking...
As for the second effect of Overturning Rivers, "Tidesman", it was equally simple and direct.
The boost in comprehension of two specific fist styles, straightforward, practical to the extreme.
Indeed, it was the heritage Baji fist of the grandmaster Liu family in Yong’an.
The Limit Breaking characteristic turned out to be quite good, a fact with which Meng Chuan was very satisfied.
When he returns home, he could consult further, to see what other skills could be acquired.
The Baji lineage expanded gloriously from the Li family Spear Gods of Ji Region, and then spread all over Great Chu.
Tracing back three hundred years, the Liu family in Yong’an was a branch under this lineage.
Perhaps in their home, there might exist martial arts true rhymes of the "Eight Extremes Spear God Li Wenshu" from the ancient martial era.
Meng Chuan held great reverence for this ancestor of the Baji fist, and if given a chance to witness true rhymes, nothing could be more delightful...
...
[Fellow Daoist, please remain. Your current Qi and Blood Value is: 14606. Without making small steps, one cannot reach a thousand miles. Do continue diligently, and anticipate early entry into the path.]
After the breakthrough ended, he arrived at the Qi and Blood testing room of Wudang Martial Arts University.
Upon hearing the prompt of the detector, Meng Chuan paused and nodded.
A few days ago, he didn’t practice much due to healing injuries.
Only through training the breathing circulation method did he gain some Qi and Blood value.
Coupled with today’s breakthrough of Rhyme Realm and Baji’s Limit Breaking, it was normal for the Qi and Blood to reach over fourteen thousand.
Feeling his current strength, Meng Chuan thought, even those beginning the Three Limits were not beyond his ability to contend...
"Now, any ordinary fist or foot technique I casually employ equals the power I had when using true skill big moves before setting off on travels..."
Such strength improvement was due to the massive Qi and Blood assistance, as well as the mutual support from breaking through Rhyme Realm.
Simultaneously, the use of the intention prototype lasted even longer.
It no longer wilted after a few uses.
The process of Martial Arts Momentum changing reality was increasingly unrestrained, not especially laborious.
On the side, Wang Ye and several others also heard the machine’s prompt sound, each secretly thinking it monstrous.
Especially Wang Ye, some time ago, he had tested with Meng Chuan.
At that time, the other party’s Qi and Blood value was eleven thousand one.
"Brother Meng, weren’t you nursing injuries these last few days? What did you do to increase your Qi and Blood by over three thousand again?"
Wang Ye’s total Qi and Blood value was just over two thousand; Meng Chuan, in less than a month, had achieved what was equivalent to his twenty years of effort...
Nearby, Jack interjected:
"And, dear Meng, what exactly did you comprehend just now?"
Just now, Meng Chuan’s punch piercing through the clouds indeed gave the foreigners a little shock...
Meng Chuan smiled and said:
"I just comprehended the Rhyme, and my Qi and Blood suddenly skyrocketed significantly, I don’t even know what happened."
"What Rhyme?"
Zhao couldn’t help but interject and ask.
"The Rhyme of Martial Technique."
"Form, Rhyme, and Spirit?"
"Exactly."
Zhao and Wang Ye both exclaimed together:
"Incredible..."
In breaking into the Rhyme Realm of Martial Technique, this is not related to the level of martial arts, but rather to "martial arts age."
Even a genius in actual combat, with exceptional comprehension in martial arts,
requires more than thirty years to begin to tread this path.
But Meng Chuan...
Counting fully, from the womb to practicing fists is only twenty years.
How did he train like this...
Zhao Huan Zhen said:
"I heard from my master that when martial arts enter the realm of rhyme, each enhancement involves a deep interaction with the natural world, absorbing ’Yuan Qi’. Once Yuan Qi enters the body, it transforms into the energy most needed in martial arts, which is Qi and Blood."
"What is Yuan Qi?"
"I don’t know, my realm hasn’t reached that level."
"Okay, thank you."
Zhao Huan Zhen’s master is Celestial King Zhang Jingshi, the most formidable Daoist on Wudang Mountain.
It’s a pity that the other party is not on the mountain at the moment, otherwise he would really want to visit.
On the side, Wang Ye suggested:
"Brother Meng, you can ask my master, he definitely knows."
"Understood."
Meng Chuan nodded.
Several people left the Qi and Blood testing room, motivated by him, they all wanted to return to work hard.
Wang Ye wanted to go up the mountain to practice the Wood Attribute Silk Binding Fist that Meng Chuan taught him.
Before leaving, he said:
"Brother Meng, tomorrow my master will be giving a lecture, don’t leave after reading the thousand-pound scroll, you can just ask him then."
"Okay."
Although Meng Chuan had entered the realm of martial arts rhyme, he was quite puzzled by it.
Uncle Master Zhao was also an experienced Grandmaster, and it was definitely not a problem to have him answer and resolve his doubts.
This kind of martial understanding, actually asking Sect Leader Chen would be better.
But in a few days, he would have to trouble the other party to deal with the thunder qi within his body and to teach him the True Martial Demon Subduing Divine Power.
If Uncle Master Zhao could guide him a little, then he wouldn’t need to bother Sect Leader Chen.
...
The next morning, after Zhao Shousui finished his class, he discussed Dao with Meng Chuan alone.
Wang Ye also wanted to listen, but was sent away by him...
"You haven’t even understood the ’Form’ realm, and you want to learn ’Rhyme’. Learn to walk first before you run, avoid going astray."
"Understood..."
Wang Ye left with a bit of grievance...
Zhao Shousui turned his head and smiled:
"Nephew, how is your health?"
He felt a bit guilty about Meng Chuan’s injury.
His friend entrusted the disciple to him, yet he let him get struck by lightning...
Although... it was also this kid who brought it upon himself, but there was still some responsibility for improper supervision...
"Much better, I will fully recover in two more days."
"Tsk tsk, your recovery ability is truly inhuman.
Whatever doubts you have, just speak, I will try my best to answer. For those I can’t answer, didn’t Sect Leader Chen say to ask him once you’re healed, then you can ask him all at once."
Meng Chuan nodded and thanked him:
"Alright, thank you, Uncle Master. I have just stepped into the realm of martial arts rhyme and don’t understand the principles very well, I would like to ask for your guidance."
He saw Uncle Master Zhao ponder for a moment and then nodded:
"Alright, the most basic things, like the meanings represented by the four realms of ’Form, Shape, Rhyme, Spirit’, you understand those, right?"
"I understand."
Principal Yang had talked about these before, and Meng Chuan remembered them well and wouldn’t forget.
"Very well, the art of fist form and shape, when compared to ordinary people’s education, it’s like studying from primary school all the way through university. The Perfection of the Shape realm is like graduating from university.
Breaking through to the Rhyme realm is truly the start of researching fist and foot martial arts, officially stepping onto the endless path of martial art."
"Endless path? Uncle Master, isn’t there still the final realm of Spirit?"
"...That’s just a beautiful fantasy, even the Great Saint is far from reaching it, what are you thinking..."
"Understood."
Meng Chuan didn’t understand these things, so he asked straightforwardly, nothing to be ashamed of.
Zhao Shousui said:
"From the ’Form’ realm until breaking into the ’Rhyme’ realm, all is about imitating the fist skills of predecessors, painting cats and drawing tigers, to learn the martial arts of predecessors."
Meng Chuan nodded.
Zhao Shousui took a sip of tea, then said in detail:
"Now that you have broken into the rhyme realm, you must have felt it, the support of Yuan Qi between heaven and earth for the human body, and the surge of Qi and Blood, right?"
"Indeed, I already felt it when I broke through yesterday."
"This is one of the benefits of obtaining rhyme, the art of fists and feet is also Dao, what is Dao? It is in accordance with the Dao of Heaven.
Entering the rhyme realm means you have obtained a part of the true rhyme of heaven and earth, and if you can obtain more, the feedback of Yuan Qi between heaven and earth to you will also be continuous."
Meng Chuan was thoughtful, what Uncle Master Zhao said seemed to touch beyond just martial arts.
It seemed he understood why practicing fists could gain Qi and Blood, while practicing other martial arts could not.
According to the other party’s meaning, continuously practicing fists was a form of persistent extraction from heaven and earth.
Meng Chuan conveyed his thoughts to the other party, Zhao Shousui smiled and said:
"Smart, you tough guy with muscles, I didn’t expect you to be like Zhang Fei threading a needle, intricate within the coarse.
If there were no support from heaven and earth’s Yuan Qi, just practicing routines, it would only be strengthening the body, still within the realm of ordinary people.
It’s because when you practice fists, you are also interacting with heaven and earth’s Yuan Qi, thus it can enter and transform into Qi and Blood, the source of this extraordinary power.
Why do you feel Qi and Blood surging from the acupoints all over your body every time there’s a major breakthrough?
That’s because a large amount of Yuan Qi enters through your pores and gathers in your body. Because there is so much, your body becomes aware of it.
In everyday practice, when a few points of Qi and Blood are added, the gathered Yuan Qi is too little for you to detect."
