Traveling the Heavens in Thunderbolt

Chapter 30 Longxi Li Family
In the fourth year of Renshou in the Sui Dynasty (604 AD), Yang Guang, the second son of Emperor Wen of Sui and known for his "beautiful appearance and young intelligence", ascended the throne and changed the reign title to Daye the following year.

At this moment, in the land of the Longxi Li clan, a young man about fifteen or sixteen years old was looking at the book in his hand and thought, so that's how it is, it seems that I thought the innate realm was too easy.

Suddenly a voice interrupted, "Brother Bishamon, what are you looking at? You look so serious."

The boy looked towards the source of the voice and saw a child about six years old looking at him curiously with eyes wide open.

"Oh, it's my second brother. Aren't you going to ask your uncle for advice on military tactics? How do you have time to come to me?"

The child replied, "I have already learned all these. My uncle praised me as the first genius of the Li family. Now there is nothing more to teach me. I will learn by myself from now on. But if you don't practice the family martial arts well, be careful that you will be surpassed by me."

"Ha, then I'll wait for you." The boy said with a smile.

After some comforting, the young man finally coaxed his second brother away and left him to harass his father and uncle.

Watching the child jumping away, the boy thought to himself, who would have thought that Emperor Taizong of Tang, who is so famous in history, was a naughty child in his childhood?

That’s right, this young man is our current protagonist Cheng Qian. His name in this world is Li Jiancheng, one of the four major clans today. He is the eldest son of Li Yuan, the head of the Li clan, and also the tragic "Hidden Prince" of the Tang Dynasty.

The child who just spoke to him is my second younger brother. When he was four years old, a fortune teller described him as having "the appearance of a dragon and a phoenix, and the appearance of the sun and the moon. When he is twenty years old, he will be able to help the world and bring peace to the people." In the future, he will become a famous "filial son" in history, the Heavenly Khan, the Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin.

The uncle they were talking about was none other than Li Shentong, the current top master of the Li family.

The division of forces in the world of The Legend of the Twin Dragons is even more complicated than the Tianlong world that it entered before. Because it is a world of Zhongwu, those with high martial arts skills can influence the fate of the country, which also causes the forces of the rivers and lakes and the court to infiltrate and influence each other.

In the current world, the power of the court is mainly divided by the four major clans, except for the emperor. The Li clan, to which Cheng Qian belongs, has its base in Guanzhong, the Dugu clan in Luoyang, the Yuwen clan in Henan, and the Song clan, as the strongest, is like a local emperor in the Lingnan area. The power of these four major clans has also infiltrated various industries, and a single move can affect the entire body, which is intolerable to the current emperor.

As for the martial arts world, it is mainly divided into two forces, namely the white way led by Cihang Jingzhai and Jingnian Zen Temple, and the black way led by the six sects of the Demon Sect, which are mainly the forces of the pre-Qin philosophers. They are also constantly infiltrating the court.

Among them, the representatives of the white way are Ning Daoqi and Fan Qinghui who has countless dogs to boot. The representatives of the black way are Zhu Yuyan and Pei Ju who wears the vest of the evil king Shi Zhixuan.

This does not include the other two great masters of foreign martial arts, Bi Xuan, the Turkic martial arts master, and Fu Cailin, the Goguryeo martial arts master.

In this life, Cheng Qian's extraordinary birth allowed him to quickly understand the main opponents and power divisions of this world after he came here.

It was this move that made Cheng Qian finally understand why he had been unable to break through the innate realm before.

This is because the innate beings in the Thunderbolt world are all mortal immortals who can live for thousands or tens of thousands of years. It is by no means as simple as the innate realm of other worlds as Cheng Qian understands.

If you want to reach this state, it is not enough to rely on the state and foundation alone, you also need to sublimate your own life essence.

As for why Cheng Qian didn’t notice this before?

That was because the life span of the cultivators in the Bitter Realm was too long. They had all practiced for at least a hundred years before they entered the Xiantian Realm. During this long process of practice, they were nourished by the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and their life essence naturally sublimated to the Xiantian Realm. Some of them could even reach this realm without sublimation and with the help of the vitality of heaven and earth. Cheng Qian had only been in the Bitter Realm for about twenty years. Even though he was gifted and had the help of the Chaos Pearl, he had already reached the realm and foundation, but he was not nourished enough by heaven and earth.

The two incarnations of Canglang and Zanghunhuang who have reached the innate realm, one is living directly in the high-level martial arts world where innateness is everywhere, and the other is born innately sacred, so neither of them will take this process too seriously.

The Tianlong world he had visited before lacked spiritual energy, and even the only master who had entered the innate realm was a sweeping monk, so naturally he was unable to notice this.

This also explains why some so-called innate masters in the realm of suffering cannot even defeat acquired warriors, simply because they did not pay attention to sublimating themselves when they entered the innate realm.

Cheng Qian did not understand this until he came into contact with the Tang Dynasty's cultivation system.

Just because this world will be restricted by the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, we have to focus on improving our own life essence first, and then divide the realm into acquired, innate (just the beginning of life sublimation), master, grand master, supreme grand master and breaking the void according to the difference in lifespan and ability.

And this realm between the innate and the supreme grandmaster just makes up for the critical stage of life sublimation from the acquired to the innate in the state of suffering.

After the warriors in the Tang Dynasty world enter the so-called innate realm, their lives will be sublimated through the realms of Grandmaster, Grandmaster, and Supreme Grandmaster. After that, they will find their own way and be able to break through the void and leave.

And only by breaking the void in this world can one reach the innate threshold in the realm of suffering.

However, precisely because of the restriction of the spiritual energy of this heaven and earth, there are only a handful of people in this world who can elevate their essence to the realm of grandmaster. And those who can reach the supreme grandmaster level are Sun En and Xiang Yutian who had broken through the void before the Sui Dynasty, and Ling Donglai, Pang Ban, Lang Fanyun and others who came after them.

Since coming to this world, Cheng Qian has started to do his old business again, practicing "Senluo Wanxiang" and "Wulian Jade Body", disguising himself once again as a "weak scholar" who only knows rudimentary martial arts.

But in fact, his martial arts realm has reached the supreme grandmaster of this world, and he has already realized his true nature. He only needs to sublimate himself to the same level to reach the state of broken void in this world.

But since he has come to this era of great strife, Cheng Qian's ambition cannot be satisfied by a small broken void. Wouldn't it be a waste of his trip if he doesn't collect unique skills?

Although there are no masters who can break the void in the Tang Dynasty world, the number and quality of martial arts classics are the best in the entire series. Moreover, with Cheng Qian's current identity, he only needs to win the final Xuanwu Gate Incident to ascend the throne and obtain the dragon energy of this world. After Cheng Qian returns to the bitter world, he will prepare for the establishment of a new force.

However, as the eldest son of the Li family, his identity is destined to make him the focus of everyone and the center of public opinion, so it is not easy for him to interfere in the affairs of the martial arts world.

Fortunately, the energy of heaven and earth in this world is much more abundant than that of Tianlong, which can meet Cheng Qian's long-cherished requirement of "all gods becoming a body". Combined with the secret method of "one qi into three pure ones", he can incarnate and act, and he only needs to sit back and do nothing.

I just don't know whose identity should be used to stir up trouble in this world this time?
Ha, interesting.

I found that the innateness of the bitter world and the innateness of other worlds are completely different realms. Only an old monster like Xiang Yutian, who has lived for hundreds of years and finally chose to break the void and leave, can barely reach the entry threshold of the innateness of the bitter world.

So here I made a second supplement to meet the settings.

(My head hurts from eating so much books.)
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(End of this chapter)