Gao Wu: Starting with playing the Flying Bat Ke Zhen'e

Playing the role of [Ke Zhen'e] for the thirteenth day, at night.

In the small courtyard, Tang Luo stood alone under the banyan tree, a slight steam rising from his head, his legs slightly bent, his shoulders relaxed and elbows drooping.

Streams of blood and qi surged beneath his skin, causing his muscles to bulge and his veins to protrude, resembling long, bluish worms.

After standing for a full hour, feeling that all the nutrients in his stomach had been digested, Tang Luo took out a teacup from his side and drank it down in one gulp!

The teacup contained a nourishing tonic that could be taken internally. After taking it, Tang Luo felt the churning of gastric juices and the rise of qi and blood within his body, and a look of doubt once again appeared on his face.

"Could it be that I really am a genius?"

Tang Luo pondered for a moment, then casually grabbed a branch hanging down from a large banyan tree, and with a little force, crushed the branch into powder.

Tang Luo frowned as he looked at the wood shavings in his hand:

"I've only been cultivating for ten days; this power... it just doesn't seem right."

The minor achievement in body cultivation is merely a fabricated state, established primarily based on the level of cultivation techniques and unrelated to the cultivator's own strength.

The training methods are divided into dynamic and static exercises. Taking Mountain Kung Fu as an example, the static exercise is Mountain Stance, and the dynamic exercise is Mountain Fist.

When one reaches mastery of Mountain Stance, one can sense the Qi and blood within one's body; when one reaches mastery of Mountain Fist, one can skillfully utilize one's Qi and blood. The combination of the two represents a minor achievement in health preservation.

This is precisely the prerequisite for opening the orifices. Opening the orifices itself is about using one's own Qi and blood to open up blocked acupoints.

The practice method involves using and refining Qi and blood.

When the body's vital energy and blood reach their limit and there is no further room for improvement, one can be considered to have achieved the ultimate goal of health preservation.

For cultivators of average talent, mastering both stance training and fist techniques would take at least one or two years, and reaching the peak of their Qi and blood would require two or three years of rigorous training.

Although these two practices are conducted in parallel, the body tempering effect is not strong until both stance training and boxing techniques are mastered. Therefore, it generally takes four to five years to achieve full mastery of health preservation.

but......

Tang Luo stood with his legs slightly apart and knees bent. Instantly, he seemed to be rooted to the ground, as solid and imposing as a real mountain!

That's right, his Mountain Stance has already surpassed the level of proficiency and entered the minor stage of mastery, and is even only one step away from mastery!

It should be noted that he only acquired this set of stances in ten days, but many practitioners of this stance have not reached his level even after thirty or fifty years.

With his eyes closed, Tang Luo felt the qi and blood continuously rising within his body.

He already knew he had high comprehension, so he wasn't particularly surprised when Tang Luo achieved some success in stance training. It was also quite normal for him to master the Mountain Fist technique in a few moves.

What truly surprised him was the speed at which he tempered his body.

In terms of body tempering, he did not only use the Mountain Stance. Ke Zhen'e's Demon Subduing Staff Technique also included a method for tempering the body. Although it only had dynamic exercises and no static exercises, its effects were far superior to the Mountain Stance Fist.

Furthermore, because he possessed Ke Zhen'e's memories, he was able to master this technique much faster, and within just a few hours, he had become proficient in it.

Then came the formal body tempering. After replacing the Mountain Fist with the Demon Subduing Staff Technique, he practiced both dynamic and static techniques for an hour each. Since obtaining the Mountain Technique, he had only been cultivating for less than ten days.

Right now, his vital energy has surged to an extremely exaggerated level.

He roughly estimated that the strength of his single arm must be over 400 jin (approximately 200 kg).

At this point, he was already able to practice the "awakening method".

After all, even when an ordinary person has mastered the art of cultivating their health and their blood and qi have reached their limit, they can only manage 300 strokes with one arm. He has even exceeded that!

but......

Tang Luo felt somewhat speechless as he thought about the "Great Yin-Yang Harmony Foundation Diagram" in his mind.

"This method of enlightenment is fucking flawed!"

Unlike the usual "enlightenment method", the Great Yin-Yang Unity Foundation Diagram is divided into two parts: one is "Moon Yin Connecting to the Dark" and the other is "Sun Bright Connecting to the Divine". Only when the two are combined can it be called "Yin-Yang Unity".

The usual methods of opening acupoints involve opening one acupoint at a time. For example, the Mountain True Form Diagram has thirty-six acupoints, which are opened one by one until all thirty-six acupoints are opened. This grants the ability called "Mountain Form," which makes one more powerful and stable in battle than other methods of opening acupoints.

However, this Great Yin-Yang Harmony Foundation Diagram is different. It only gives you two chances. The first time is when the first seventy-two acupoints are opened all at once, achieving "Moon Yin Penetrating the Netherworld," opening up a "Netherworld Realm" within the body, absorbing the moon's essence, and condensing it into "Moon Dew."

"Moon Dew" can grant cultivators various enhancements, such as increased speed, lower presence, stronger repair and digestion abilities, and even the ability to harness the power of moonlight when making a move. Moreover, as long as one is bathed in moonlight, this power is virtually inexhaustible.

This power even gave Tang Luo the illusion that it was boasting.

But this is not an illusion.

Suddenly, the scene from three days ago flashed into Tang Luo's mind.

Under the moonlight, Zhang He, his hand glowing faintly, rushed forward at a speed that was completely invisible to the other, holding the sword horizontally in front of his neck.

Like iron

It was at that moment that he realized this technique was not just empty boasting.

Therefore, even though Zhang He did not cultivate his health or enter the body tempering stage, his combat strength was strong enough, and he might even surpass ordinary Divine Strength Realm experts!

The biggest requirement of this technique is that you must break through these acupoints and barriers in sequence all at once.

"But how is this possible?" Tang Luo's face was contorted with worry. He picked up the teacup beside him and took another big gulp before bending his knees and standing up again.

Enlightenment is a gradual process, becoming increasingly difficult as one progresses. Generally speaking, after achieving mastery of health cultivation, one can only achieve one enlightenment at a time. Achieving two enlightenments would severely deplete one's Qi and blood, and achieving three might even harm oneself. One must proceed slowly.

However, if we take the standard of achieving the great success of health cultivation, which is equivalent to having the strength of 300 jin in one arm, then one would need to have at least 30 times, or even 40 times, that level of energy to open all 72 acupoints at once.

In other words, to successfully cultivate "Moonlight Yin Connection to the Netherworld," one's single arm must have a strength of at least nine thousand jin, or even twelve thousand jin.

Fun fact: After the Acupoint Opening Realm comes Body Tempering, and after Body Tempering comes Divine Strength. The strength of a typical Divine Strength Realm cultivator is only around two thousand jin, and that's with the force in the acupoints. Tang Luo even suspects that even a Spirit Seed Realm expert who later reaches the Unity Realm might not have such great strength.

Aside from a prodigy like Zhang He, who was born with exceptional talent, Tang Luo couldn't imagine anyone else who could successfully cultivate this technique, not even himself.

"Thank goodness, I have a cheat code!"

Thinking of this, I glanced at the panel under my eyes again, and finally felt a little more at ease.

Although you can't directly exchange for cultivation realms, even if you only exchange for 'talent' and 'skill', enough 'talent' and 'skill' to accumulate is enough to slowly reach that level.

For the sake of this unparalleled method of enlightenment, he could endure it.

At this moment, his curiosity about Zhang He also reached a certain peak.

A talent for reading minds, an understanding of all things, and the "Great Yin-Yang Harmony Foundation Diagram"—these things seem to be things that ordinary people cannot possess, and even seem to belong to places other than this.

All signs indicate that there is definitely something wrong with this Zhang He.

"The chosen one? Or a pawn of some unknown powerful figure?"

"It's most likely the former." Tang Luo gently wiped the sweat from his forehead, his mind churning.

The reason for inferring the former is mainly based on his own experience. If he were truly a pawn being watched closely by some powerful figure, whose fate had been arranged for him, then he, the transmigrator, would be finished by now.

Ultimately, no matter how well he concealed himself, he couldn't possibly hide from such a powerful figure.

"But for my own safety, perhaps I should reduce the frequency of my meetings with him."

But then Tang Luo shook his head, banishing the thought from his mind.

If we take all that into account, then there's nothing left to consider. Anyone or anything could be manipulating things. Isn't his time travel and his cheat system even more problematic than Zhang He's?

There's no need to think too much about this kind of thing before you have the power to do so; thinking too much about it is just needless worry.

"The most urgent task is to retrieve the indenture before entering the 'Moonlight and Shadow' realm."