High Martial: I Grind Professions

Chapter 246: Chapter 160: Bright Moon Achieved, Qingshi in Danger

He slowly exhaled a long, turbid breath. The wisp of air actually carried a faint shimmer of electricity as it dissipated into the air.

Focusing his mind, he summoned the familiar information panel:

[Name: Li Wen]

[Age: 21]

[Realm: Late-Stage Flying Star Level (Level 39.8)]

[Class: Scholar lv13 (40→86440/409600)]

[Skills: Saber Technique - Blade Soul Realm (10%), Xuanqiong Five Forms (Star Rush 50%)]

[Cultivation Technique: Nine Heavens Divine Body - Ninth Layer (100%), Shocking God Stab - Fourth Layer (100%)]

「Three years.」

Looking back to this day three years ago, he was just a fledgling Martial Artist, naive and curious, just starting on the path of the Martial Dao.

Now, he stood on the threshold of the late-stage Flying Star Level, only a single step away from the higher realm of Bright Moon Level gods and demons.

This rate of advancement had broken a promotion record at Xin Huo University that had stood for hundreds of years.

The core of this terrifying rate of improvement was that his skill mastery and Primordial Spirit layer were far ahead of his physical realm.

It was a consensus in the Martial Arts Realm that when one’s skill mastery surpassed their physical realm, as long as their foundation was deep enough and their resources were sufficient, physical improvement would follow naturally, rarely encountering any true bottlenecks.

This was also why Martial Arts Practitioners considered skill mastery to be fundamental.

Even so, the speed of Li Wen’s physical progress still far surpassed all other geniuses of his generation.

The reason for this, aside from his saber technique reaching the Blade Soul Realm, was the more crucial factor: a Primordial Spirit Power within him that was beyond what a Flying Star Level could imagine—the Third Layer of Primordial Spirit.

This was a hallmark typically possessed only by experts who had stepped into the King-level domain.

With the foundation of a King-level Primordial Spirit, the smoothness with which Li Wen advanced his Flying Star Level body was naturally incomparable to others.

Even if others had infinite resources piled up, they would likely be unable to withstand the intense transformation driven by that level of power, let alone digest and absorb it.

Compared to the meteoric rise of his physical level, his progress on the path of skill mastery was equally astonishing.

Three years ago, he was still polishing the peak of his blade momentum. Now, however, he had already reached the Blade Soul Realm, truly stepping through a threshold that countless Great Sun Realm gods and demons desperately pursued.

Currently, in all of Xin Huo University, since Ling Feng left, the only two disciples who had pushed their saber technique to the Blade Soul Realm were Li Wen and the astoundingly perceptive Sun Rui.

Sun Rui was worthy of his reputation for "unparalleled perception." Not only did he follow closely behind Li Wen in cultivating the Nine Heavens Divine Body to the peak of the Ninth Layer, but he also broke through to the Blade Soul Realm several months ago.

The two were known as the "Twin Prodigies of the Nine Heavens," their brilliance outshining their peers.

However, Li Wen’s fame was even more illustrious.

There was no other reason than the ranking that symbolized the very peak of Flying Star Level combat power on Blue Star—the Flying Star Chart.

At the very top of the chart, the name "Li Wen" was inscribed.

And although Sun Rui was strong, he was currently ranked only in the forties, even behind Gu Yan.

This gap had become a lingering mystery in Sun Rui’s mind.

He reasoned that he had also advanced to the Flying Star Level with a perfected Ninth Layer body, and his Blade Soul Realm was nearly on par with Li Wen’s. Even though his physical realm was slightly inferior, when he compared his achievements to Li Wen’s at the same physical realm, he still fell short.

He still remembered how Li Wen had brazenly charged into the 75th spot right after entering the Flying Star Level, while he himself hadn’t even touched the top 100 threshold at the time.

He had once specifically asked Li Wen about the key to this.

Li Wen hadn’t revealed the earth-shattering secret of his prematurely condensed Primordial Spirit. It was a secret he would never tell a third person.

Faced with Sun Rui’s confusion, Li Wen had calmly attributed it to one thing—being a "Skill Awakened."

Combined with Li Wen’s monstrous combat Spiritual Sense, this explanation convinced Sun Rui.

He also believed that only the special potential an Awakened could unleash in battle, combined with a supreme Spiritual Sense, could create such an overwhelming combat performance.

The thoughts about Sun Rui vanished from his mind in a flash.

Li Wen withdrew his gaze and dismissed the panel.

True Essence flowed within him. A warm current instantly swept through his body, and the evaporating sweat vanished without a trace, leaving only a refreshing, invigorated feeling.

He stepped toward the meditation chamber.

His body, having just circulated its True Essence, was now at its most active state.

’Today’s physical cultivation should be done now.’

He had been stuck at Level 39.8 for some time, but that subtle feeling of a bottleneck had gradually grown thin and indistinct in his perception.

A gut feeling told him that the breakthrough was today.

Inside the meditation chamber, Li Wen sat cross-legged, holding his breath and focusing his mind.

After a moment of regulating his breath, he took out a medicinal pill that pulsed with an inner light and radiated immense vitality, swallowing it without hesitation.

The pill melted the moment it entered his mouth, flowing down his throat like a warm Spiritual Spring and quickly transforming into an incomparably pure torrent of energy that spread through his limbs and bones.

BOOM!

His Cultivation Technique activated in response to his will.

The Heart Method of the "Nine Heavens Divine Body: Ninth Layer Perfection" acted like a precise and powerful engine, instantly bringing the torrent under its control.

The foundation forged by the perfected Ninth Layer displayed its overwhelming dominance at this moment. Vast True Essence surged forth from his Dantian and sea of consciousness, rushing along the unique and complex pathways of his Divine Body.

Every cycle felt like the steady, powerful pulse of the deep earth. The surging True Essence merged perfectly with the pill’s essence, washing over the meridians and acupoints throughout his body again and again, reinforcing every inch of his flesh, blood, and bone.

There was no pain from the impact, only a sense of fullness, like a river overflowing its banks.

It was as if a mighty river, having accumulated enough water, was naturally seeking its next course.

An invisible yet tough barrier, which felt like a solid sheet of ice in Li Wen’s senses, began to emit faint but clear cracking sounds under the continuous assault of the warm current of True Essence.