Chen Ping's Sword

Chapter 398: Chapter 188: Cyan Wood Longevity, Ling Mountain Incident

Sixteenth Year of Yuanzhen.

Fifth day of May.

The pomegranate blossoms are red like fire, and the green poplars hang with rain.

Chen Ping did not stay at the Grand General’s Mansion, nor was he patient enough to carefully review those burdensome documents and files.

Instead, he sat alone in meditation on Stone Ridge, ten li north of Xingqing Prefecture City.

Watching the river water flow endlessly, observing the nature of heaven and earth.

Indeed.

At this moment, he was not wielding the Black Dragon Sword to diligently practice swordsmanship and physique, but was instead sitting quietly in Qi circulation.

After reaching Proficient Realm in True Gang Glazed Body cultivation, moving further to Mastery Realm requires consuming 512 Tribulation Points, and he still lacks quite a few.

If one relies on Seven Stars Convergence to guide the Star Essence Power for body refining, slowly measuring and determining the apertures, and grinding open the next 36 hidden apertures to reach the level of opening seventy-two apertures, the time required is too long.

Simply grinding open one or two acupoints does not actually enhance strength by much.

Therefore, at this time, he shifts his focus to the "Cyan Wood Longevity Skill."

In terms of Qi cultivation technique, Chen Ping has never taken it seriously.

It’s not that he looks down on the path of Qi refining.

It’s because a person’s energy is limited, and his previous enlightenment was not sufficient to allow him to cultivate quickly.

Like usual martial artists, connecting a series of meridians and then breaking through each bottleneck, spending countless time and energy.

Even if Qi refinement cultivation reaches Grandmaster Unity Realm, there is no advantage over other grandmasters, and in terms of combat power, at most, it only equals them, without much significance.

Conversely, in terms of physique cultivation, due to an inexplicable enhancement in "strength talent" within his body, he can endlessly increase his strength with the growth in realm.

After cultivating physique, in the same realm, compared to fellow body cultivators like Han Wushang, Han Xiaoru, and others, his combat power is several times stronger.

All of this is because of the so-called "True Dragon Blood," which has yet to reveal its hidden trace.

Chen Ping understands this well, so he naturally doesn’t want to miss out on this advantage and intends to cultivate the Primordial Golden Body Technique to its peak.

To maximize his unique advantage.

However, a problem arises.

The Primordial Sect’s cultivation technique is indeed very useful.

It is indeed the world’s top-tier body cultivation technique, which once produced a top-ranked expert on the Celestial List.

But it also has one drawback.

Because after the founding ancestor of Primordial Sect established the mountain gate, he left Primordial Mountain before long and remains missing.

Thus, this technique, at the True Gang Glaze level, has already reached its peak.

As for the cultivation technique at a higher level, the Primordial Sect does not have it, not only are there no records in this regard, but no words were left behind either.

According to Sun Yun, the fifth-generation ancestor of Primordial Sect, after achieving perfection with the True Gang Glaze Body, could no longer find a path forward.

If not for this, he would not have gone mad attempting to force a qualitative change through quantitative change, attempting to transform into Starlight Glaze Body. As a result, his spiritual cultivation was inadequate, leading to the heart demon rising, going against the norm.

No path is difficult, creating a path is even harder.

Chen Ping, although he hasn’t reached this realm yet, will sooner or later have to take this step to pave a path.

The scenery of Divine Martial Realm, its breakthrough methods, he doesn’t even have a direction at this moment, let alone the cultivation.

In peace, one must conceive of danger.

Therefore, in a situation where Tribulation Points are currently insufficient, and the body refining method cannot make progress, he intends to elevate his Qi refining cultivation.

Then, even if the path for body refining is blocked, at least he can first pioneer a route in Qi refining.

Perhaps, by standing at another height and level, when looking back at body refining, he can find direction from it, see the road ahead, and forcefully carve out a path.

He is confident he can do better than the fifth-generation ancestor and see scenery at an even higher level.

Chen Ping sighed and looked at his attribute panel.

[Spring and Autumn Silkworm (Second Transformation)]

[Talent: Trace Origin and Steal Fortune, Cocoon Rebirth]

[Innate Talent: 12 (Dragon and Phoenix in the Human World)]

[Enlightenment: 14 (Eternal Unparalleled)]

[Tribulation: 458 (Breaking Realm)]

[Fortune: 32 (Change Destiny)]

[Cultivation Technique: Hand-to-Hand Combat Body Technique (Perfection), Seven Stars Step (Perfection), Swallow Returning Butterfly Dance (Perfection), Primordial Technique (True Gang Glazed Body: Proficient (Opening 36 Apertures Small Circulation)), Sword Gang Stream (Extreme Intent, Spirit Communication), Three Yang Heart-Burning Skill (Perfection)] Cyan Wood Longevity Skill (Perfection)

[Body Refining: Tier Six (Mid-Stage Unity Realm)]

[Qi Refining: Tier Six (Early-Stage Unity Realm)]

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Half a month’s cultivation has yielded great harvest.

Chen Ping discovered a shortcut, that is, as his enlightenment improved once again, his speed in absorbing Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi, converting it into Inner Qi and True Qi, was astonishingly fast, like a giant whale absorbing the sea.

Especially in body refining, he has already broken through the Unity Realm, and his insights can be applied to Qi refining.

For instance, levels of Extreme Intent and Spirit Communication, enlightenment in spiritual realm, does not lessen with the change in path, thus, remaining effective.

Relying on this realm, in seven days, Chen Ping broke through to the Peak of Late-Stage Innate, and with another eight days of cultivation, he broke through to Grandmaster Unity Realm.

At this point, his speed in Qi refining cultivation started to slow again, perhaps because the accumulation had already been depleted.

"Even so, my combat power has increased significantly, equivalent to adding a Unity Realm Qi cultivation onto the original Mid-Stage Unity Realm in body refining.

The additional Qi refinement cultivation allows me to use many Qi cultivation techniques, making my attacks more clever and variable, catching others off guard."