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Chapter 45: Shattering the Gate of Heaven and Earth, Entering the Innate Realm (Please read on, please vote with monthly tickets)
"This is a prodigy who has cultivated ancient techniques."

Wang Cheng looked thoughtful.

He was a Grandmaster of the Innate Realm, and he made a judgment after only a simple examination of the wounds between the eyebrows of Fang Qinghua and the other two.

Ancient techniques can integrate multiple different internal energies, making them extremely powerful and far more effective than cultivating only one type of internal energy.

The same applies if one breaks through to the Innate Realm.

By cultivating a technique that integrates multiple types of true qi, one becomes even stronger, capable of sweeping away innate grandmasters of the same realm who only cultivate one type of true qi.

However, no one practices this technique nowadays.

The reason is simple: it consumes too many resources.

Each type of innate true energy needs to absorb a massive amount of spiritual energy from heaven and earth to gradually grow stronger. If multiple types of true energy are to be fused, the resources required are astronomical, which ordinary forces simply cannot afford.

Therefore, the mainstream practice nowadays is to cultivate a kind of true qi and the power of intent.

"A prodigy who cultivates ancient techniques is very likely backed by an ancient sect. Let the Myriad Swords Sect deal with that!"

Wang Cheng pondered to himself.

Fang Qinghua and the other two had not been dead for very long, and he had a way to track them down based on the traces left on their bodies.

If he were to personally investigate, he would likely find the culprit, but he didn't want to provoke a prodigy who cultivated ancient techniques unless absolutely necessary.

After all, it wasn't one of the Eagle Wolf Guard's top-tier martial artists who died.

When it comes to conflicts in the martial arts world, the Eagle Wolf Guard usually sits back and watches the tigers fight.

It's more appropriate to leave this matter to the Wanjian Sect itself. Whether or not to investigate and seek revenge is the Wanjian Sect's own business and has nothing to do with the Eagle Wolf Guard.

"Men, take Fang Qinghua's body to the Myriad Swords Sect!"

At Wang Cheng's command, several Xuanlang Guards immediately entered, collected Fang Qinghua's body, and sent it to the Wanjian Sect.

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Five days flew by.

"Shh!"

Zhou Qing opened her eyes.

He cultivated the Thunderclap Technique to perfection and integrated it into the Primordial Chaos True Skill.

By this point, the Hunyuan True Skill had incorporated eight top-tier internal skills: the Xuanbing Heart Method, the Taibai Golden Gang Technique, the Mountain Profound Skill, the Hundred Herbs Evergreen Skill, the Howling Wind Sword Technique, the Red Sun Breathing Technique, the Dripping Water Stone Piercing Skill, and the Thunderclap Technique.

"let's start!"

Zhou Qing sat cross-legged, his mind locking onto the gate of heaven and earth within his body.

Only by blasting open this gate between heaven and earth, breaking the shackles of the physical body, can one absorb the spiritual energy between heaven and earth and transform the acquired into the innate.

Upon seeing the Gate of Heaven and Earth, Zhou Qing immediately channeled his inner strength and momentum, charging towards the Gate of Heaven and Earth like two angry dragons.

Boom boom!

With a deafening roar, the Gate of Heaven and Earth trembled violently.

Immediately afterwards, unable to withstand this violent force, it shattered instantly.

For Zhou Qing, breaking open the gates of heaven and earth was no challenge at all; he simply launched an attack and it was broken open, as if everything had fallen into place naturally.

Name: Zhou Qing

Realm: First level of the Innate Realm (Ordinary Grandmaster)
Mastered martial arts: Hunyuan True Skill / Ninth Level (Specialties: Fusion, Freezing, Golden Edge, Giant Spirit, Unfading Qi, Burning, Storm, Thunder, Lifespan Increase by 60 Years, Internal Energy Healing... etc.)

Hundred Refinements Golden Body Technique / Nine Levels (Characteristics: Indestructible, Furnace of Qi and Blood, 100% Reflection, 50% Force Reduction, Unbreakable)
Thirteen Waves Without a Trace / Perfect (Special Features: 400% Blade Speed ​​Burst, Charge, Stealth)

Floating Crossing/Perfect (Trait: Body like flying catkins, floating and traversing, speed burst 400%) Illusionary Demonic Movement/Perfect (Trait: Illusion, speed burst 500%)

Nine-Character Mantra Seal Fragment / Three-Character Mantra Seal (Characteristics: Defense increased by 1000%, compresses internal energy, and unleashes potential)
Mastering the Artistic Conception: Sword Intent (Beginner)
Talent: Nine-Breath Breath Control (details omitted...)
Daoyuan: 0
Zhou Qing looked at the panel.

His cultivation level had already broken through to the first level of the Innate Realm. His internal energy was no longer 'bound' and was rapidly condensed, compressed, and transformed into a higher level of Innate True Qi.

One strand, two strands, three strands...

Soon.

The primordial internal energy filling the dantian was transformed into innate true qi.

There are a total of ninety strands of innate true energy.

If it were an ordinary top-tier martial artist, they could only condense nine strands of innate true qi. However, Zhou Qing, who cultivated the Hunyuan True Technique, condensed ten times more innate true qi than an ordinary martial artist during his initial breakthrough.

Furthermore, with the gate between heaven and earth blasted open, Zhou Qing immediately sensed something different, as if the fog before him had been cleared away.

He saw things that were previously unseen in the world.

This thing is the spiritual energy that exists between heaven and earth.

However, this spiritual energy was extremely thin, scattered like fireflies between heaven and earth.

Zhou Qing opened the Gate of Heaven and Earth, and could not only see the spiritual energy between heaven and earth, but also absorb it. He circulated his cultivation technique, and the spiritual energy between heaven and earth gathered towards him, but the speed was very slow.

Soon, an hour passed.

Zhou Qing only managed to refine a wisp of innate true energy, and he had already absorbed all the spiritual energy of heaven and earth within a radius of several hundred meters.

"This cultivation speed is too slow!"

Zhou Qing immediately stopped cultivating.

It takes an hour to refine a single wisp of innate true energy. To fill one's dantian with innate true energy would take an unknown number of years.

Without the corresponding cultivation resources, most innate grandmasters, even after decades or hundreds of years of cultivation, would probably only be stuck at the first level of the innate realm, the True Qi Realm.

A master of innate wisdom can live to be two hundred years old.

However, most grandmasters are only at the first level of the Innate Realm.

Zhou Qing's cultivation of the Hunyuan True Skill requires him to accumulate innate true energy at a rate ten to dozens of times higher than that of an ordinary innate master.

No wonder no one practices ancient techniques anymore.

"We must obtain the innate cultivation method."

Zhou Qing thought to himself.

There are only a few ways to increase the speed at which you can absorb and refine the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

The first method, of course, is to obtain innate cultivation techniques.

With innate cultivation techniques, his speed of absorbing spiritual energy from heaven and earth can be increased several times, or even ten times, compared to when he did not have innate cultivation techniques.

Both involve a year of arduous training, but the difference between training with and without innate cultivation techniques is enormous.

Besides innate cultivation techniques, there is also the ability to elevate the level of one's mental will, transforming the power of momentum into the power of intent. The power of intent can interfere with reality and also increase the speed at which one can absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

Without the power of intent, a Grandmaster of the Innate Realm can only absorb the innate spiritual energy within a radius of a few hundred meters, but with the power of intent, it can spread to several thousand meters or even tens of thousands of meters.

Besides innate cultivation techniques and enhancing one's mental state, finding a blessed land with spiritual veins to cultivate in will naturally greatly increase the speed at which one absorbs the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

Or it could be the ingestion of elixirs or pills.

These are cultivation resources, which ordinary innate grandmasters cannot obtain. Blessed lands with spiritual veins are often controlled by top powers.

Zhou Qing does not currently possess any innate-level cultivation techniques, but he does possess the Divine Intent of Sword Dao.

(End of this chapter)