Da Xuan Martial Saint

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The ancients could progress from Skin Toughening, to Body Refinement, then to Tendon Changing, Bone Tempering… all the way to the ultimate Marrow Cleansing, Blood Exchange. Yet modern people cannot find the path that leads beyond the Blood Exchange Realm.

In the nearly ten thousand years of Martial Arts history, the only slight breakthrough was the birth of the ‘Qiankun’ Path, and the emergence of the first person to reach the summit with the Qiankun Path, Da Xuan’s founding Martial Emperor, Ji Hao.

But Ji Hao, having exhausted his life, was also unable to explore the Ninth Realm of Martial Arts.

The biggest problem within this is not a lack of talent or gifts but the absence of a direction for reference. After reaching the Unity of Heaven and Man through the Blood Exchange Realm, one is at the peak of the current world, capable of contending with those Tenth Rank peerless Heavenly Demons.

And the most powerful demons in the world, from ancient times to the present, are also but at Tenth Rank.

The path after Blood Exchange should lead to true Immortality. However, even Tenth Rank peerless Heavenly Demons have lifespans, they cannot exist forever in this world, and they too will age and decline until they decay. Hence, one cannot find a direction from them.

Nevertheless.

After decades of probing into the ultimate end of Martial Arts, Gongyang Yu was not wholly without gains; at least, he recognized there were two possible paths.

The first is to create one’s own Heaven and Earth, allowing Inner Breath to generate itself.

The reason martial artists still age upon reaching the Blood Exchange Realm is their inability to spontaneously produce Inner Breath. As long as they exist in the world, they inevitably have to draw power from Heaven and Earth. Even when they achieve the stage of ‘Fasting,’ they must still inhale and exhale the Heaven and Earth’s Yuan Qi to maintain themselves, and during this process, they would be eroded by a certain force from nature.

Unless a martial artist could completely isolate themselves from Heaven and Earth, thereby ceasing all interaction with them, but that is a realm Gongyang Yu cannot fathom. Because even if a martial artist remains in absolute stillness, not moving at all, the beating of the heart within the body and the flow of the blood—even if carried out slowly—still results in the depletion of Yuan Qi, which must then be replenished from Heaven and Earth.

If a martial artist could achieve a state where Yuan Qi generates itself, becoming an independent realm of Heaven and Earth, perhaps it would be feasible.

But how can one form their own Heaven and Earth?

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Gongyang Yu could not find the direction.

Although he could associate it with the all-encompassing ‘Qiankun’ Path, Ji Hao, who mastered Qiankun, also did not accomplish this. Hence, it is not simply a matter of comprehending Qiankun and entering the path through it.

The second path is to merge with Heaven and Earth.

Martial artists begin their cultivation with the refinement of the Five Viscera and the Six Viscera and gradually blend with Heaven and Earth. Through the Marrow Cleansing Realm, they break through the Mysterious Pass, and upon reaching the Blood Exchange Realm, there’s an internal and external convergence. The entire cultivation process is continuously adapting to The Power of Heaven and Earth.

Since it is difficult to cut oneself off from Heaven and Earth, the other path is to merge completely with Heaven and Earth. Let the flesh become a body condensed by the Power of Heaven and Earth, thus leaving behind the category of fleshly mortal; with no distinction from the essence of Heaven and Earth, one naturally would not decay.

But this path is also difficult.

When martial artists reach the Blood Exchange Realm, it seems as though their entire Physique has been thoroughly tempered by The Power of Heaven and Earth, but being tempered and completely transformed into the essence of Heaven and Earth are entirely different matters. It is like the more one refines during the Five Viscera Realm, the harder it becomes.

The more one strives to touch the limit, the harder it becomes.

Although the Martial Blood that now flows through his body has almost been transformed purely by The Power of Heaven and Earth, with The Power of Heaven and Earth constituting almost ninety percent of its essence, this last ten percent is extremely difficult to temper!

In Gongyang Yu’s view, refining the Martial Body to the extreme, making it entirely constituted by the Power of Heaven and Earth, inside and out, and blending with Heaven and Earth to leave behind the concept of flesh and blood, is also an unfathomable realm.

Nevertheless.

Compared to the first path of creating one’s own Heaven and Earth, the second path is not as enigmatic and remains something tangible. But how to walk this path, how to make it through, he has gained very little insight as of yet.

Gongyang Yu looked up at the sky, as the sword intent on his body gradually subsided.

“You, can you step into the Blood Exchange Realm?”

The name Chen Mu arose in his heart.

In the ten thousand years of Martial Arts, the only progress was the birth of the Qiankun Path, but there were too few who had walked this path successfully; to this day, it was only Da Xuan’s founding Martial Emperor Ji Hao, a figure from over a thousand years ago, with whom he could not discuss the path.

As for those Qiankun Grandmasters, they couldn’t even step into the Blood Exchange Realm, so naturally, they couldn’t reach the limits he had, nor could they aid him in the pursuit of the Martial Arts he sought, as the level of vision was fundamentally different.

Chen Mu,

Can you step into the Blood Exchange Realm?

In the future, can you discuss with him at the end of Martial Studies?

…

Yu County.

After many years, the Outer City district remains endlessly chaotic.

Many years ago, when Chen Mu was still in Yu County, the chaos in the Outer City district was due to the standoff between the four major families of the Inner City, whose influence spread to every corner of the Outer City, thus resulting in the continuous strife among numerous gangs.

It is still the same today.

Although the four major families have long become history, the incursion of the forces of various sects such as the Heavenly Seal Sect and the Hehuan Sect has made the situation in Yu County even more intricate. For many people, the waters are deeper than before, necessitating that they act with even greater caution and prudence.

After all, in the past, at most, a matter could involve the four major families of the time. Still, now it might eventually lead to a Great Sect, which is far beyond what the families of that era could compare to.

Inner City.

Yu Family residence.

Today, the Yu Family is the undisputed foremost noble family in Yu County. Even though, in these few short years, in terms of family disciples and overt power, they still do not compare to the Xue Family that once dominated half of the county. However, when it comes to the hidden background, whether it is the Xue Family or the Xie Family, they have to step back, and even those Sect forces would hesitate to move against the Yu Family.

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