With half a game of chess, I vanquish all demons!

Zhao Yao was actually curious about Yan Rouyun's words, "If you want to become stronger, I have a way."

However, since it was said to be a "taboo," and Yan Rouyun reacted so strongly, his attention naturally fell on this so-called "taboo."

He asked curiously:

"What taboos?"

"It is a taboo for strongmen practicing martial arts."

Yan Rouyun made a suggestion and began to organize her thoughts, thinking about how to explain it clearly.

When Zhao Yao heard that this topic he cared about most actually had a taboo, he couldn't help but feel a chill.

He gazed quietly at Yan Rouyun in front of him, not disturbing her thoughts, giving her time to ponder.

"Well, the taboos for a strongman practicing martial arts are actually quite simple."

For practitioners who first achieve something in the way of the strongman before embarking on the path of martial arts, the higher their level of strength, the narrower their path of martial arts becomes.

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If you wish to practice martial arts in the future, it is best not to delve too deeply into the realm of the strongman, and it is also best not to pursue both paths simultaneously.

The reason for this is that the training of martial artists and strongmen involves the transformation of the human body.

These two practices, in their transformation of the human body, are fundamentally in conflict.

Yan Rouyun paused for a moment after saying this, and looked up at Zhao Yao.

"My lord, please calm your mind and concentrate, I will help you observe... Inhale... Exhale..."

As she spoke, she grabbed his hand and placed it on her lower abdomen, slowing down the energy flow while taking deep breaths, allowing him to feel the changes. Then she guided his hand down her side and onto her spine.

With each breath she took, Zhao Yao could clearly sense the surging energy within her dantian and the strange, almost imperceptible, movements along her spine, as if they were the contractions of a living thing.

She let go of his hand and continued:

"The cultivation of martial arts is a process of repeatedly training and adjusting, imprinting the memory of movements into the body, integrating the strength of the whole body, sorting out the flow of qi in the body, so that it gradually adapts to the martial arts being cultivated, and walks on the path of being able to exert the combat skills of the martial arts being cultivated."

My lord should have sensed this in me…”

slap~

As she spoke, her cheeks flushed, and she slapped away Zhao Yao's restless hand from her waist. She glared at him with a "What are you doing?" look, making Zhao Yao look embarrassed. He then composed himself and continued:

"...The cultivation of a strongman is actually to accelerate the transformation and growth of the human body."

Those with exceptional talent in cultivation can even change their appearance in a single day, making extremely rapid progress.

If two paths run parallel, one can imagine that a warrior's body is renewed every day. No matter how hard you try in the path of martial arts, you have to start all over again the next day. Under such circumstances, how can there be any progress? In the end, it's nothing more than trying to catch the moon's reflection in the water.

The reason why it is said that "before practicing martial arts, it is best not to cultivate the strength realm too deeply" is because "the way of martial arts is tied to the human body".

Most martial arts are designed specifically for the human body.

Even an ordinary person, if they encounter a not-so-good teacher and are taught a very crude martial art, can still make progress through accumulated effort.

Once the physical body undergoes a significant change, many martial arts techniques become unsuitable for cultivation. Forcing oneself to practice them will only result in diminishing returns, which is a good outcome. In fact, it can lead to the opposite of what is desired, which is truly hopeless.

Unless one possesses a miraculous technique that can transform them back into an ordinary human, or is incredibly lucky and happens to encounter a martial art suitable for their current strength level, or is blessed with great fortune and obtains a peerless martial art, relying on the powerful compatibility of that peerless martial art, one can only begin to learn normal martial arts.

However, the world's wonders are always meant to help people become stronger, and we rarely hear of them helping people become weaker.

As for encountering the perfect martial art or a peerless martial art, that requires a stroke of luck.

If such an opportunity and good fortune truly exist, it would be considered a fortunate event.

It can be said that once one's mastery of the Way of the Strongman deepens, the larger one's physical body becomes, and the further one deviates from a normal human form, the more troublesome and difficult it becomes to cultivate martial arts, essentially severing one's path to martial arts.

"I roughly understood."

Zhao Yao unconsciously rubbed his hands together, nodded, and then asked in confusion:

"Is the popular saying, 'The tenth realm of a strongman, with blood as golden as mercury, is closer to godhood, and the gate to martial arts will appear naturally,' false?"

"I don't know either."

Yan Rouyun shook her head and continued:

"Even if you are only a warrior at the tenth level, you are still a powerful figure."

The world as seen by the strong is different from ours. What we consider common sense or taboo today may no longer be insurmountable problems in their eyes.

That makes sense.

Zhao Yao nodded and sighed:

"Who would have thought that before even finding the gate to martial arts, such a taboo would block the way?"

It seems that ordinary people need a martial arts master to guide them in order to make smooth progress in martial arts.

However, in the Yin Kingdom, martial arts were monopolized... If someone were lucky enough to obtain a martial arts manual and had to learn it on their own, who knows how many detours they would have to take.

"What you say is true. The four realms I know of—crippled martial arts, orthodox martial arts, dual cultivation, and three flowers—each has its key points."

Without a predecessor or teacher to reveal the key to mastery, the path ahead remains unclear, and a wasted life is the fate of most independent cultivators and ordinary martial artists.

Yan Rouyun nodded in agreement.

Hearing this, Zhao Yao couldn't hold back any longer. He grabbed her hand and quickly said:

"Wow, there really are so many detours? Can you tell me? Come on, tell me about it..."

"These key points are not bound by the oath of Heaven, my lord, please allow me to explain them in detail..."

He led Yan Rouyun into a villager's house and patiently explained things to her.

A day and a night later.

In the inner room of a villager's house in Shanyao Village, the two paused their passionate embrace.

"Master Yan, I'd like to hear more..."

Zhao Yao whispered something in her ear.

"Hmm~..."

Yan Rouyun was lost in a daze, responding in a vague and indistinct way.

A few days later, the two took a short break and fed the poor villagers in the three villages that had been corrupted by the demon. The rest of the time, they were inseparable and stayed in the same room, reveling every night.

During this time, Yan Rouyun appeared in both her dragon blood and phoenix blood forms. Zhao Yao then fought her in turn, appearing as a black iron warrior over 3.33 meters tall after merging with one Yuan Qi miniature, two Yuan Qi miniatures with a 4-meter body, and three Yuan Qi miniatures with a 5.5-meter black iron warrior body.

Over the course of several days, the two acted in absurd and ridiculous ways, beyond description.

The reason they hadn't left the mountain demon village these past few days, besides their lovemaking, was for two other reasons.

One reason was to wait for the Heavenly Dao Division to arrive so they could deal with the villagers who had been corrupted by demons.

Another reason is that Zhao Yao remembered Yan Rouyun's previous words: "If you want to become stronger, I have a way."

While waiting for the people from the Heavenly Dao Division to arrive, Yan Rouyun explained to Zhao Yao the necessary prerequisites for using this method to become stronger.

Yan Rouyun's method for making people stronger is very simple and intuitive.

That is awakened demon blood!

This realm is the Great Realm of Demon Suppression, one of the higher realms of the heavens. Among those who ascend, there are not only humans, but also demons who have taken human form.

Over millions of years, intermarriage among humanoid beings has become unrestricted, so almost all humans in this world possess demon blood to varying degrees, although most of them do not awaken their demon blood.

Yan Rouyun possesses both dragon and phoenix blood. "The dragon is the leader of all scaled creatures, and the phoenix is ​​the leader of all birds." Both types of demonic blood actually possess a certain power of domination, in addition to the "Fire Tiger Inner Core" that was cut out from Huo Xiaotian's abdomen.

By using these three enticements, she was already quite confident that she could successfully awaken the hidden demonic blood within Zhao Yao.

In the inner room of a villager's house, two people were adjusting their physical and mental state, preparing to awaken their demonic blood.

Zhao Yao was naked from the waist up and sat cross-legged.

Yan Rouyun, dressed in thin clothes, stood in front of him, holding the Fire Tiger's inner core in one hand and a sharp dagger in the other, her eyes scanning him up and down.

He stared at the 'Fire Tiger Inner Core' in Yan Rouyun's hand, then suddenly remembered something and pulled out a piece of parchment from his clothes.

"Yun'er, look, this paper was also taken from Huo Xiaotian."

The above describes the method of implanting this Fire Tiger Inner Core into a person and thereby condensing miraculous techniques. I wonder if it will be helpful to you.

Yan Rouyun took it, read it carefully, and her eyes revealed joy:

"Great! With the above method, my confidence in my lord awakening his demon blood has increased even more."