Purple Mist Dao Master-Chapter 826 - 533: True Skill: Five Grades in Rank, Nine Tiers in Quality!

The Innate Chapter of "Washing Marrow Scripture" was instantly accomplished, and Yan Chuan was pleasantly surprised, sitting cross-legged on the ground, seriously comprehending in front of the hundred acres of chaos——

The first form, "Nine Yang," is derived from "Nine Yang Divine Skill." After cultivating it, True Qi is generated incredibly fast and endlessly; even ordinary fists and feet can exert immense attack power; the defense is unmatched, with an automatic protective function that rebounds external attacks. This is True Qi Defense, another defensive system beyond strong physique; it is also a sacred healing text, immune to hundred poisons, designed to counteract all cold and yin inner strength.

"Nine Yang" integrates the martial arts ultimate truth. Once cultivated, all martial arts in the world are accessible. 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

However, to thoroughly master "Nine Yang," at the final hurdle, one must endure the scorching heat burning from within, opening all meridians throughout the body, breaking through dozens of profound gates, only then can True Qi circulate infinitely on its own.

Just this first form is already extremely strong and difficult!

Then comes the second form, "Yijin," which is an elevation from the "Yijinjing," encompassing the body's meridians, connecting the spirit of the five internal organs, circulating without dispersing, moving without breaking, Qi is born from within, blood nourishes from the outside; this is "Yijin!"

After mastering, the heart moves and power is released, a gathering and release that occurs naturally, seemingly unintentional yet spontaneous, like the tide rising, like thunder erupting.

This form builds upon the theory of "Yijinjing," advancing further on the foundation of the first form "Nine Yang," magnifying the output power and output speed of 'True Qi,' allowing equivalent True Qi to explode with vastly different power, while also nourishing meridians, five organs, expanding the physique, and forming a holistic approach. It is essential to nurture, ever-living, and True Qi stable as a mountain, rendering it difficult for martial arts like "Absorption Star Great Method" and "Beiming Divine Skill" to absorb even a fraction of True Qi.

This is "Yijin."

Beyond these, the most crucial aspect of the "Yijin" form is severing layers of external demons in cultivation, seeing through illusions, and directly reaching one's true intent.

This barrier is the most challenging, yet it is the key point of "Yijin."

As for the third form, "Innate," reaching this form signifies entering the Third Realm, where this level trains in the third cycle of 'sinew, bone, skin, and membrane' nourishment, nearing perfection of 'sinew, bone, skin, and membrane.' However, if these four are to harmonize, it must return to nature naturally. If unnatural, then heaven returns to heaven, all things return to all things; forcing them to unite will ultimately fail.

The "Innate" form already touches on the essence of the "Washing Marrow Scripture," where the absorbed is the righteous energy of the heavens and earth entering from the outside. With firm roots and undamaged primordial, the breathing connects with the righteous energy of heaven and earth. Using Qi to cultivate Qi, filling the four great domains, the pure nourishes while the impure defends, all flows through. Vertical channels and horizontal networks all achieve comfort.

What are the 'Four Greats'?

Dao is great, heaven is great, earth is great, humans are also great.

Within the domain, there are four greats, and humans occupy one of them. Humans emulate earth, earth emulates heaven, heaven emulates Dao, Dao follows nature.

Reaching this level——

Heaven and Earth.

Nature.

Harmony and unity.

Yin becomes yang, all have their gathering, yang infuses yin, yin fills the outside, yin and yang balance in shape, nine states as one, named 'balanced person.'

The so-called 'balanced person' is the balance of yin and yang.

Through the cultivation of "Innate," True Qi is abundant throughout the body. Not only can it regulate the internal yin and yang balance of meridians and dantian, but also balance between 'sinew, bone, skin, membrane' and even 'five internal organs and six hollow organs,' parts and organs within the body, as well as the external environment, enabling depleted energy to become ample, extending lifespan to the innate limit, and advancing from "Yijin's" active severing of external demons and evil thoughts to passive resistance to external evil intrusions, automatically severing various demons, evil spirits, invulnerability to all evils!

Dao follows nature.

Balance yin and yang.

Lifespan limit.

Invulnerability to all evils.

This is "Innate"!

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"Vast and profound!"

"Too deep and mysterious!"

Yan Chuan opened his eyes, filled with endless surprise and awe.

From the 'hundred acres of chaos' before him, he comprehended the "Washing Marrow Scripture," just the Innate Chapter and even only the first three forms, yet already unfathomably, exquisitely unparalleled. Yan Chuan sat cross-legged for a whole day and night, clearly it is a cultivation technique he created, yet many more difficult aspects remain hard to fully understand, many key points cannot be completely achieved, unable to fully manifest the true essence of each form of the "Washing Marrow Scripture."

Such as the 'True Qi generation' of "Nine Yang," such as the 'severing of demons' in "Yijin," let alone "Innate."

"My True Skill, just the Innate Chapter is already so profound and mysterious, where should it stand among True Skills?" Yan Chuan eagerly recorded the Innate Chapter of "Washing Marrow Scripture" in writing, then held it in his hands, self-satisfied, his foundational True Skill is indeed uncommon, far superior to those he has come across like "Tiger Soul Divine Spear," "Wave Cutting Saber Technique," "Autumn Wind Ten Leaves Cloud Water Sword," "Thunderbolt World Destruction Saber," "Heaven and Earth Dragon Sword," "Ice and Fire Battle Body," "Five Directions Heavenly Thunder Spear Technique," "Thunder Snake Illusion Demon Body," "Earth Dragon True Technique," all of these are much less profound.

"True Skills are divided into five ranks and nine grades."

"True Skill five ranks correspond to the five stages of War God Realm, determined by the limits true skill cultivation can achieve."

"True Skill nine grades, 'Lower, Mid, Upper,' 'Strange, Secret, Absolute,' 'Super, Supreme God,' represent the power, mystery, and potential of true skills, representing the quality of true skills."

Whether five ranks or nine grades, the divisions are considered 'crude'——

Five ranks, a true skill's final cultivation level is evident at a glance; excluding empty exaggerations and predictions, the actual level it can be cultivated to determines the true skill's 'rank.'

Nine grades, even rougher.

With ordinary lower grade true skill as a base, at War God Realm, a true skill of the same realm that can surpass by one minor tier and rival those cultivated in lower grade true skill War God, is mid-grade true skill.

Can surpass by two minor levels, is upper grade.

Can surpass by one stage, is strange grade.

Can surpass by two stages, is secret grade.

Can surpass by three stages, is absolute grade.

Can surpass by one realm, is super-grade.

Being able to transcend two realms signals an Absolute Grade.

Being able to transcend three realms signals a Divine Grade.

...

Fifth Rank.

Ninth Grade.

This is True Skill.

For example, Yan Chuan's creation, the Washing Marrow Scripture, is only at the Innate Chapter level, and when judged by 'rank', it doesn't even count as the lowest rank of 'Ordinary True Skill'.

But if judged by 'grade', Tiger Soul Divine Spear, Wave Cutting Saber Technique, Autumn Wind Ten Leaves Cloud Water Sword, Thunderbolt World Destruction Saber, Heaven and Earth Dragon Sword, Ice and Fire Battle Body, Five Directions Heavenly Thunder Spear Technique, Thunder Snake Illusion Demon Body, and Earth Dragon True Technique are no more than Lower Grade, while Yan Chuan believes the Washing Marrow Scripture is at least 'Mid-grade', perhaps even 'High Grade'.

He is uncertain.

Without entering the War God Realm, or truly fighting against Martial Artists who cultivate Lower Grade True Skills, Yan Chuan can't accurately determine the grade of the Washing Marrow Scripture.

But it is certainly not Lower Grade.

Looking across the Mo Yin Continent, Lower Grade True Skills are common, Mid-grade True Skills exist too, but High Grade True Skills are already very rare.

'Strange Items' designated as 'strange' are even rarer than rare.

In Second-class Kingdoms and First-class Kingdoms, martial artists of the Innate Realm often cultivate in their nation's 'National Martial Arts', which generally are at the Lower Grade and seldom reach Mid-grade. Perhaps only superpowers like 'Yu Fang Five Dominions' and 'Ancient Country Seven Heroes' can be seen cultivating Mid-grade National Martial Arts.

That is to say——

"The Washing Marrow Scripture I created, even if only the Innate Chapter, in terms of grade, has already surpassed the True Skills cultivated in the Innate Realm by many large countries!"

An individual's strength surpasses that of a nation!

Yan Chuan is certainly delighted and proud.

However, the higher the 'grade' of the True Skill, the greater the difficulty in cultivation. The 'grade' can completely correlate with 'difficulty'.

The Washing Marrow Scripture is about 'High Grade' and at most 'Strange Items', and it is already this difficult. He can't imagine how difficult the Ultimate 'Divine Grade True Skills' would be.

For many martial artists, instead of pursuing unstoppable war power by cultivating extremely difficult 'Divine Grade True Skills', it is better to steady oneself by cultivating a 'Lower Grade True Skill'.

Of course.

The difficulty of 'Lower Grade True Skill' is small, but the corresponding battle strength is weak, with shallow foundations, slow cultivation progress, among other drawbacks.

Quality varies depending on personal choice, having benefits and deficits.

"I am not afraid."

Yan Chuan laughs, he is not afraid of the difficulty of True Skills, with Mutual Teaching and Learning, no matter how high the difficulty, it can be overcome, the higher the quality the better!

...

With the creation of the Innate Chapter of the Washing Marrow Scripture, Yan Chuan now also has a foundation and it's good.

The oppressive emotions brought by the 'Heavenly Calamity' period and the ongoing 'Beast Tide', as well as the impact and disruption of Yan Chuan's various plans, are finally somewhat alleviated at this moment.

Yan Chuan looked at the 'Hundred acres of Chaos' before him: "What is this exactly?"

...

"This is 'Returning Ruins'!"

Tan Yunqing is stationed at Guangming City, and this time the important information was brought by Tian Jing, who pointed at the 'Hundred acres of Chaos' before Yan Chuan and explained: "With the destruction of Ten Thousand Worlds, the void shattered, replaying the elements of earth, water, wind, and fire, transforming into chaos; this is where Ten Thousand Worlds return, where the world's ruins are located, hence called 'Returning Ruins'. It is also because 'Returning Ruins' sacrificed the 'Heavenly Ladder', that chaos is layered, wildness is limited, far less dangerous than legendary true chaos, yet even so, to enter this 'Returning Ruins', you must at least be a Sixth Rank Divine General to start."

Yan Chuan listening to the meaning of 'Returning Ruins', this is understandable.

But——

"Entering chaos?"

"Entering Returning Ruins?"

Yan Chuan is surprised.

He is not surprised that Sixth Rank Divine Generals can enter chaos nor surprised that it has to be Sixth Rank Divine Generals to enter Returning Ruins, he is surprised by——

"Why?"

"Why to enter?"

"Are there treasures in 'Returning Ruins'?"

Yan Chuan glances at the 'Hundred acres of Chaos', deep, terrifying, one look induces great terror, inside black and grey various streams, flowing lights occasionally swallow, flames of destruction that easily shatter Fourth Rank and Fifth Rank Odd Weapons.

Who dares enter?

Yan Chuan truly admires the first one who entered.

Tian Jing smiles, "Of course there are treasures. This is where Ten Thousand Worlds return, this disaster crushed the Heavenly Ladder, causing the many underground worlds associated with the Heavenly Ladder to be fully shattered, ultimately gathering at Returning Ruins. But such 'destruction' isn't completely total, in the process of the 'Great Destruction', certainly countless living creatures couldn't survive, but some treasures, like 'War God Treasures', 'Overlord's Treasures', or strongholds like caves, palaces, or regions protected by arrays, and some peculiar regions, though most couldn't withstand the destruction, the massive base of untold treasures throughout Ten Thousand Worlds means some treasures could survive by chance, ultimately flowing into Returning Ruins, wandering in layers of chaos."

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