Longevity Martial Arts: Starting from Inner Core Skill

Chapter 229 - 182: Live for a Thousand Years, Tremendous Enhancement

Perfect Refining, the Great Medicine fully formed, the body completed its evolution, Wang Sheng’s lifespan had greatly increased.

This increase far exceeded his expectations.

A lifespan of a thousand years!

He even felt that with the means of life extension, it could be even longer.

A lifespan of a thousand years, how long-lasting that was.

Even in this world, one could witness the rise and fall of two dynasties, witness the fate of countless generations.

Such a long lifespan was completely beyond Wang Sheng’s imagination.

In his plans, once the Great Medicine was successful, reaching the level of longevity similar to that of Pengzu with a lifespan of over eight hundred years would have already been quite remarkable.

Now, he had directly gained more than two hundred additional years of life.

Of course, he wasn’t complaining, it was definitely a good thing!

And soon he understood why his lifespan had reached this extent.

Inner Core Skill was originally a method specializing in increasing lifespan, its very purpose was to extend life.

Thus, the lifespan at each realm far exceeded that of Qi Blood Martial Arts.

Though Qi Blood Martial Arts did not increase lifespan as much as Inner Core Skill, it did not mean it had no effect at all.

Grandmaster Level provided two hundred years of life, Great Grandmaster provided three hundred years.

Wang Sheng’s Great Medicine evolutionary path combined the strengths of both.

After the formation of the Great Medicine, a complete evolution of the whole body occurred, hence the lifespan reached this extent.

A lifespan of a thousand years could be declared immortality.

"Sigh!"

What was the purpose of his cultivation?

Initially, it was for self-protection, but later, while maintaining self-protection, he pursued the path of immortality.

Although he was still far from true immortality, it was a good start.

And having a lifespan of a thousand years also made Wang Sheng realize something.

That was, his path was not influenced by this world.

The top power in this world, Master of Destiny, lived for five hundred years.

At least for now, that seemed to be the limit in this world.

Wang Sheng had always feared that he too would be bound by this limit.

But now the truth told him that such worries were unnecessary, baseless superstitions.

His current lifespan, even if you combined two Masters of Destiny, would barely equate.

And naturally, with the increase in lifespan came the equally important issue of combat strength.

The Great Medicine formed, and the body underwent one complete evolution.

"Realm—

Refining Essence to Qi, Stopping Fire: 1%

Cultivation Technique—

Inner Core Skill (Refining Essence to Qi): Breakthrough +5 (1%)

Ba Duan Jin: Breakthrough +5 (7%)—Blood Qi like Dragon: 18%

Five Elements Fist: Breakthrough +4 (13%)—Five Internal Organs Containing God Birth: 69%

Yijin Scripture: Breakthrough +4 (9%)—True Body: 70%"

Martial skills naturally did not improve with the increase in realm.

However, those linked with the body received tremendous enhancements.

Firstly, the realm.

"Refining Essence to Qi, Refining" progress bar disappeared, turning into "Refining Essence to Qi, Stopping Fire."

Stopping Fire is the final realm of Refining Essence to Qi.

This realm wasn’t special, similar to the "Sealing Furnace" stage before "Refining," both considered transitional realms.

The Refining process used a special Breathing Method to transport Qi Blood along the Heche route, this rhythm of breathing was known as "heat control."

Now, with the Great Medicine refined, this transportation could gradually stop, therefore called Stopping Fire.

The Stopping Fire stage was also the last to strengthen the Great Medicine, the final lingering phase of Refining, reaching the peak when Refining could proceed no further, signifying true Stopping Fire, which meant stopping the "heat control" breathing, stopping the Heche route operation, preparing to enter the next realm.

This realm would gradually strengthen combat ability, but there would be no qualitative improvement, no significant changes.

Hence it was known as a transition.

Letting the last remnants of heat control burn out, meant Stopping Fire.

This stage spared no effort.

Besides realm improvement, there were also improvements in Blood Qi, Five Internal Organs Containing God, and True Body.

These three improvements could be said to be extremely astounding.

First was the progress in Blood Qi, directly increasing by eight percent.

Before this, more than a year had passed, only achieving about a ten percent increase, this alone could attest to the astonishing progress of this improvement.

Then came the Five Internal Organs Containing God and True Body.

They reached sixty-nine and seventy percent progress respectively, both having increased about twenty percent.

And it was the latter twenty percent, entirely incomparable to the initial progress.

This was the complete evolution under the Great Medicine Spiritual Light.

The improvement was extremely frightening.

Even with the existence of a progress bar, it saved one or two years of hard cultivation.

These advancements were unexpected, yet reasonable.

Wang Sheng had initially started cultivating the Five Elements Fist and Yijin Scripture because he saw the improvements in Blood Qi after breaking through the Ba Duan Jin three times.

His true goal, however, was to enhance his physique to construct a supreme medicine.

Only when the medicine was strong enough could his progress be significantly potent.

Now that the medicine had formed, it was time for it to nourish in return.

The massive enhancements in Blood Qi, Five Internal Organs Containing God, and True Body were all results of the nourishment from the Great Medicine Spiritual Light.

And all these improvements together meant a huge boost in combat power.

Not to mention the higher essence of Qi-Blood Power and Divine Thought, these were the most fundamental enhancements for Wang Sheng.

More importantly, after the medicine integrated all the powers, Wang Sheng evolved once again, forming true Divine Abilities.

Blood Qi Divine Ability—Shocking Dragon!

With Blood Qi unleashed, it would stir the heavens and shake the earth. Countless powerful Blood Qi, like True Dragons, would attack together with Wang Sheng, forming a Protective True Dragon around him, sinister and inaccessible. Any spirits or demons close by would be directly shattered, also possessing extremely powerful physical attack capabilities.

Five Organs Divine Ability—Golden Light!

The Five Internal Organs Containing God unified into a single entity, forming a true Protective Golden Light. Those less skilled could not gaze directly upon its true face and possessed the power of Immune to All Techniques, filled with potential.

True Body Divine Ability—Fatian Xiangdi!

Incorporating Innate with Acquired, it created a simplified version of the grand Divine Ability Fatian Xiangdi. It could use Qi-Blood Power to construct a world-suppressing law, suppressing everything.

Shocking Dragon, Fatian Xiangdi, and Golden Light were three Divine Abilities activated after the medicine was formed and the body had evolved.

The Blood Qi Divine Ability was a result of integrated powers.

While the Five Organs Divine Ability and True Body Divine Ability seemed to appear when those two progressed to a certain extent, they were merely activated ahead of time.

Currently, the most powerful Divine Ability was naturally Shocking Dragon, for Wang Sheng’s Blood Qi was robust enough to support its formidable power.

Golden Light and Fatian Xiangdi were not too powerful, merely usable.

However, all three Divine Abilities could grow with their originating entities.

Once the Five Internal Organs Containing God and True Body began to grow, their Divine Abilities would also become extremely powerful.

For now, using these two Divine Abilities was less effective than directly using Qi-Blood Power and Divine Thought against enemies, which would be more potent.

Indeed, aside from the Blood Qi Divine Ability, the other two were somewhat prematurely induced.

Although they wouldn’t harm Wang Sheng, they required gradual nurturing to increase their power.

Simply put, Golden Light and Fatian Xiangdi were currently like seeds of Divine Abilities, needing slow cultivation.

Of course, if necessary, Wang Sheng could also use the medicine to forcefully mature them and utilize them.

However, that would cause some damage to himself, which he would not resort to unless absolutely necessary.

But—

"Can the Great Grandmaster still demand me to use all my power now?"

During the last battle with the White Lotus Spirit King, although he emerged victorious, it allowed him to witness the strength of a top-tier Great Grandmaster.

Neither of them fought desperately, but after his spear technique failed to pierce through the White Lotus Spirit King’s Protective Lotus, Wang Sheng understood that even if the Spirit King’s strength was inferior, it wouldn’t be by much.

But now, Wang Sheng was confident he could crush the White Lotus Spirit King just like crushing Yue, provided that the Spirit King didn’t possess some terrifying, significantly power-boosting trump card.

Having this strength immensely reassured Wang Sheng.

However, he didn’t become complacent. His strength was formidable, but this was just the beginning of his cultivation, far from the true Great Path.

And he also needed to prepare for his next step.

After Refining Essence to Qi, it would be Divinity Transformation.

That marked the entry into a completely new realm.

He would not slack off.

Of course—

"Today, having succeeded in cultivation, I will rest for three days!"

Wang Sheng’s practice hardly ever slackened, only truly relaxing for a day after a major breakthrough.

This progress was an unprecedented leap,

he granted himself a three-day vacation.

...

The three days passed quickly.

Most of these days, Wang Sheng generally strolled around inside the stockade, observing the development of the stockade.

Although he hadn’t participated much, the development of the stockade couldn’t be separated from him.

Watching the stockade grow gave him a sense of achievement, as if playing a character development game.

So long had passed.

No need to mention the First and Second Grade Martial Artists within the stockade.

Among the initial five, including Li Yongfeng who became Martial Artists,

Li Yongfeng had reached the Fifth Grade and would soon advance to Sixth Grade.

The other four were also all Fifth Grade, though slightly behind Li Yongfeng.

Just relying on these five, they could actually support a thriving small power.

Then there was the learning hall, the most valued institution of the stockade. After so long without paying attention, it had surprisingly produced three Third Grade Martial Artists, all under the age of thirteen.

That was quite astonishing.

Then there were his two spirit beasts.

Da Bai and Yun Xiao had been dormant for a long while.

They seemed to be at the most crucial moment, about to evolve again!

(More in the next chapter!)