Devour: Can you also draw entries from clone projection worlds?

Three months later, Huang Shang said you could leave. You asked your senior if there was anything else he wanted to teach you.

Huang Shang shook his head and said that he had taught everything he needed to; the rest was up to him to figure out.

You bowed respectfully three times, then turned and walked out of the valley.

You didn't turn around. You knew Huang Shang didn't need your thanks. People of that level don't care about such empty formalities.

As you walk along the mountain path, you think about every word Huang Shang has ever said.

The key to martial arts skills lies not in quantity, but in quality.

True martial arts are not about copying what our predecessors did, but about finding our own path from what they learned.

Because you have no heart...

Each word is like a seed planted in your mind, slowly sprouting.

You decide to do something: create your own unique martial art.

It's not the Northern Darkness Divine Skill, not the Eighteen Subduing Dragon Palms, not the Six Meridian Divine Sword, but your own unique martial art.

What's the name of this martial art? You haven't decided yet.

But you've already figured out the core of this martial art: to integrate the strongest things you've learned in various worlds, including the absorption of the Northern Darkness Divine Art, the qualitative change of the Tai Xuan Scripture, the general principles of the Nine Yin Manual, the ferocity of the Eighteen Subduing Dragon Palms, the sharpness of the Six Meridians Divine Sword, the agility of the Lingbo Steps, the fusion of all laws into one, and the borrowing of power through the unity of heaven and man.

Combine these elements into a completely new martial art, a martial art that belongs only to you.

You believe that once you create this martial art, you will truly "break free from your cocoon and become a butterfly," transforming into an existence on a completely different level.

Not a "master," but a "grandmaster"; not a "strongman," but a "legend."

Over the next few years, you traveled the martial arts world while creating your own martial arts style.

You have walked through the misty rain of Jiangnan, the yellow sand of the Central Plains, the grasslands beyond the Great Wall, and the deserts of the Western Regions.

Wherever you go, you stop to observe the local martial artists, learn their martial arts, and integrate them into your own system.

At the same time, he continued to "hunt" and absorb the inner strength of those villains. The absorption speed was faster than before. As the domain expanded, the inner strength of villains within ten feet flowed into your body like water being pumped in.

One year, two years, three years.

The total amount of internal energy has been increasing year by year, from 10,000 years to 20,000 years, and from 20,000 years to 30,000 years.

When the fifth year arrives, your total internal energy will have exceeded 50,000 years.

What does it mean to have 50,000 years of internal energy?

The skill that an ordinary person would need to cultivate for 50,000 years to achieve.

In the world of Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, Wu Yazi's seventy years of Beiming internal energy was known as "unparalleled throughout history".

Your current internal strength is seven hundred times that of Wu Yazi. Seven hundred times! Even if Wu Yazi started cultivating from the womb and lived to be seven hundred years old, he might not have as much internal strength as you do now.

But your journey isn't over yet; you must continue to absorb and grow stronger, as long as your body can handle it.

[Fifth year complete, term selection in progress... Congratulations, host, for obtaining the purple term, "Eternal Green."]

[The effect of this entry is to significantly extend lifespan, maintain youthfulness, and keep one's appearance unchanged.]

The speed of internal energy recovery is increased fivefold, consumption is reduced by 80%, and it has a strong resistance to negative states such as toxins, diseases, and aging.

As a side effect, every ten years, the total amount of internal energy automatically increases by 10%, without the need for cultivation; it grows naturally.

[Quality, Purple Epic.]

As you look at this entry, the corners of your mouth curl up again. Your luck seems to be on fire lately; you've gotten another purple epic-level entry.

"Eternal Youth" extends lifespan, preserves youth forever, increases internal energy recovery speed by five times, reduces consumption by 80%, and automatically increases internal energy by 10% every ten years.

This effect of "automatically increasing internal energy by 10% every ten years," combined with your total internal energy accumulated over 50,000 years, means that ten years is equivalent to 5,000 years. No cultivation or absorption is needed; your internal energy will increase on its own, truly making you "stronger even while lying down."

[System notification: Current keyword statistics: 42 white, 7 green, 2 blue, 6 purple, Eternal Green, All Streams Return to Their Source, Northern Sea Returns to the Ocean, All Things Return to One, Boundless Freedom, Unity of Heaven and Man.]

In the first five years, you laid the foundation, integrated the essence of various worlds, and formed a prototype.

What you need to do this year is to perfect it, to make this martial art go from "usable" to "easy to use", and from "easy to use" to "perfect".

You went into seclusion for a whole year, working from morning till night to deduce, experiment, and revise.

A year later, the martial arts skills were mastered.

You named this martial art "Guiyuan Gong". The so-called Guiyuan means returning to the origin, and all methods return to oneness.

The core of Guiyuan Gong is "transformation"—transforming all energy for one's own use; transforming all martial arts techniques into one's own moves; transforming all attributes into one's own strengths.

There are no fixed moves or fixed techniques; there is only one core principle: to achieve the greatest effect with the least amount of energy.

You've experienced the power of the Returning Origin Technique. With a single swing of the sword, its intent covers an area of ​​a hundred feet, reducing the reaction speed of enemies within its range by 70% and causing their fighting spirit to collapse.

With a single palm strike, the ground within a ten-foot radius sank three feet, and the air was compressed into an invisible shockwave that leveled everything in front of it.

These are not the limits of the Returning to Origin Technique, but only the limits that your body can withstand in this world.

If you return to the main world and use your own body, driven by genetic energy of far superior quality, the power of the Returning Origin Technique can be increased by at least three times.

You nodded in satisfaction. This martial art, even after you return to the main world, cannot be said to be completely useless.

In the following year, you accelerated the absorption of internal energy, expanding your domain from ten zhang to twenty zhang.

Absorbing the energy of three, four, or even five people a day, within a year, your total internal energy will increase from 50,000 years to 80,000 years, bringing you one step closer to your goal of having "inexhaustible" internal energy.

But a problem arises: there aren't enough bad guys, not because there aren't enough of them, but because their quality is lacking.

Ordinary villains have limited internal energy; absorbing the internal energy of a hundred villains would only amount to a few hundred years' worth of power, which is too inefficient. You need to find masters with profound internal energy.

You begin searching for those renowned evil masters, such as Qiu Qianren of the Iron Palm Clan, who is also considered a villain; you've wanted to find him for a long time.

Qiu Qianren possesses profound internal energy and formidable martial arts skills, making him one of the top masters second only to the Five Greats. Absorbing his power would increase one's internal energy by at least several thousand years.

When you arrived at Iron Palm Peak, Qiu Qianren was practicing his martial arts. He saw a stranger he had only met once and who he found unpleasant barging in. Qiu Qianren was immediately enraged and struck him with his palm.

Those iron palms were fierce and powerful; a single strike could shatter metal and stone.

Instead of dodging, you raised your hand and met Qiu Qianren's iron palm strike with a palm, circulating your Guiyuan Gong technique. The force of Qiu Qianren's iron palm was reflected back to you intact.

Qiu Qianren screamed in agony as his wrist broke, and he collapsed to the ground, his face filled with terror.

You ignore this and walk straight over, your domain unfolding as you begin to absorb his inner energy.

Qiu Qianren's internal strength is deeper than you expected, equivalent to nearly a hundred years of experience for an ordinary martial artist.

As expected of a master second only to the Five Greats, this one move is equivalent to absorbing the power of a hundred ordinary villains.

You withdrew your domain, turned and left Iron Palm Peak. Qiu Qianren collapsed to the ground, his internal energy completely gone, and his martial arts crippled.

It was truly unnecessary for you not to kill him. To cripple his martial arts, for a former master, might be... more painful than killing him.