Purple Mist Dao Master-Chapter 830 - 537: [After 3,113 Years, You Are Inspired and Finally Create a True Skill—]

Since the Heavenly Calamity.

After the Beast Tide.

Yan Chuan first delivered martial arts lectures in Tan Valley Realm, and during this time, the total population of the three Guard Cities gradually grew to 5 million, and now it's 6 million, which is almost the entire population of Tan Valley Realm. By this time, those who haven't entered the three Guard Cities from Tan Valley Realm have no chance of survival.

Tan Valley Realm, 6 million.

Black Hawk Territory, 21 million.

In the current special period, everyone's enthusiasm towards martial arts is surging. When Yan Chuan lectures, the effect of Mutual Teaching and Learning has increased tenfold. This doesn't mean the original Level Four Mutual Teaching and Learning boosted the Listener's understanding efficiency from 125% to 1250%, but rather that previously, the listener exerting singular effort and focus, amid the successive blows and intimidation of 'Heavenly Calamity' and 'Beast Tide', developed a determination to become stronger. Therefore, when listening, they put forth ten to twelve times the effort and focus, which means more individual contemplation and understanding, leading to more feedback for Yan Chuan, enhancing the effectiveness of Mutual Teaching and Learning.

Moreover.

Previously, when Yan Chuan delivered martial arts lectures, among a million people, there were always some who were unwilling to listen, uninterested, or were busy with other things, reducing the numbers. Eventually, there might be 500,000 who listened occasionally, 200,000 who listened offhandedly without much thought, and 30-50,000 who listened carefully and seriously contemplated, which was considered good.

But now, among a million people, apart from infants who can't understand human language, even children as young as three or five know they must seriously listen to the current 'Big Horn' or 'Chuang King', 'Great King' deliver martial arts and teach punches, so they can learn martial arts well to fight monsters.

The nationwide enthusiasm towards martial arts is unprecedentedly high!

Out of every million people, perhaps 800,000 or 900,000 are really listening seriously, with utmost investment and focus.

125% is still 125%.

But because the attitude of the listener is distinctly different, the final feedback from Mutual Teaching and Learning presented to Yan Chuan is worlds apart.

"At least tenfold feedback!"

Tan Valley Realm, 6 million, is equivalent to the feedback Yan Chuan would get from lecturing 60 million people.

Black Hawk Territory, 21 million, is equivalent to the feedback Yan Chuan would get from lecturing 210 million people.

At least tenfold!

Which means, from just these two places, spanning two months, Yan Chuan has effectively lectured nearly 300 million people, resulting in overwhelming feedback—causing an explosive increase in True Skill attainment—

[Your Washing Marrow Scripture (Innate Chapter) has been enhanced, Second Realm: First Glimpse → Fourth Realm Slightly Accomplished.]

[Your 72 Transformations (Innate Chapter) has been enhanced, Second Realm: First Glimpse → Fourth Realm Slightly Accomplished.]

[Your Wave Riding Micro Steps (Innate Chapter) has been enhanced, Second Realm: First Glimpse → Fourth Realm Slightly Accomplished.]

[Your Fire Demon Golden Bell Shield (Innate Chapter) has been enhanced, Second Realm: First Glimpse → Fifth Realm of Mastery.]

[Your Ksitigarbha Heavenly Dragon Roar (Innate Chapter) has been enhanced, Second Realm: First Glimpse → Fifth Realm of Mastery.]

...

True Skill is somewhat mysterious.

Compared with Absolute Skill—

On one hand, the Innate Chapter of True Skill climbs tier by tier. To achieve equivalent combat power and standard, generally speaking, True Skills are easier to attain, such as the first move of Innate Chapter of True Skill having power comparable to the late stage of Seventh Realm Absolute Skill, but reaching the late stage of Seventh Realm Absolute Skill is far more challenging than mastering the first move of the Innate Chapter of True Skill.

Take, for example, Yan Chuan's first Innate Realm friend Zhang Tao whom he befriended in Stairs City, his aptitude and comprehension were atrocious, requiring ten years of hard work to potentially reach the late stage of Seventh Realm with Absolute Skill, yet within merely three months post-promotion to Innate, he could master the first move of True Skill Tiger Soul Divine Spear of the Innate Chapter, though the factor of 'Cultivation Cave Mansion' played a role—but 'True Skill is easier to cultivate' is a commonly held belief.

However, True Skills are divided into nine grades—

'Low Mid High', 'Strange Secret Ultimate', 'Super Supreme God'.

The notion of 'True Skill is easier to cultivate' mainly applies to Low Grade True Skills. At Mid Grade, the cultivation difficulty of True Skills already equals most Absolute Skills, and at High Grade, it far exceeds.

Therefore, aside from power, purely based on difficulty, Yan Chuan can roughly categorize his self-created True Skills by grade—

"Newborn and Tiger Soul Divine Spear, Wave Cutting Saber Technique are equivalent in power to Low Grade True Skills."

"Fire Demon Golden Bell Shield, on the basis of possessing Absolute Skills like Dragon Elephant Wisdom, Vajra Unbreakable Body Divine Skill, and Golden Bell Shield, when practicing and comprehending, the difficulty at the same stage is obviously much lower than Absolute Skills. Moreover, as Cross Refining True Skills, the advantage of Fire Demon Golden Bell Shield lies in the rapid enhancement with the help of Fire Bud Crystal, yet in terms of combat power, the actual similarity to Low Grade True Skills is evident under equivalent attainment."

"Ksitigarbha Heavenly Dragon Roar has a cultivation difficulty roughly equal to the previous Ghost Prison Yin Wind Roar, Vajra Zen Lion Roar. Considering it's a self-created True Skill, the cultivation difficulty automatically decreases by a level, thus it should be Mid Grade."

"72 Transformations, with extremely high difficulty, surpasses Ksitigarbha Heavenly Dragon Roar. Using the 'self-created decreases by one level' rule, it is High Grade."

"Wave Riding Micro Steps also has notably greater difficulty compared to Ksitigarbha Heavenly Dragon Roar, making it High Grade."

"But the difficulty of Washing Marrow Scripture exceeds both 72 Transformations and Wave Riding Micro Steps, suspected to be Strange Grade."

In this assessment—

Newborn, Fire Demon Golden Bell Shield, Low Grade True Skills.

Ksitigarbha Heavenly Dragon Roar, Mid Grade True Skill.

72 Transformations, Wave Riding Micro Steps, High Grade True Skills.

Washing Marrow Scripture, suspected Strange Grade True Skill.

"Two Low Grade."

"One Mid Grade."

"Two High Grade."

"One suspected Strange Grade."

At this stage, within the Innate Realm, below Sixth Grade, compared to most without any True Skills to cultivate, and even among the rare few cultivating only Low Grade True Skills as Divine Generals, Yan Chuan indeed doesn't fall behind. Furthermore, supported by Mutual Teaching and Learning, Yan Chuan boasts not only higher grades of True Skills but—

"My attainment is also deep."

Thus—

Within the Innate Realm—

"Those cultivating ordinary Absolute Skills or Low Grade True Skills are overshadowed by the quality of my True Skills."

"Those cultivating Mid Grade, High Grade True Skills are overshadowed by my attainments in True Skills."

"Even encountering the extremely rare few cultivating Strange or Secret Grade, considering the ongoing rapid enhancement in my attainments across various True Skills, I can form a pursuit momentum and even surpass them."

Thusly—

Overpower the lower echelon.

Disrupt the middle echelon.

Equalize the upper echelon.

"I only need to cultivate Wave Riding Micro Steps to Fifth Realm, achieving Integration, then I would fully master all six forms of the Innate Chapter, claiming invincibility below Sixth Grade!"

Tan Valley Realm.

Black Hawk Territory.

After the two realms' martial arts lectures——

["Wave Riding Micro Steps": Fourth Realm Slightly Accomplished (92)]

Preliminary mastery of the Fifth Move of "Wave Riding Micro Steps," Yan Chuan is not far from being unmatched below the Sixth Grade.

Fifth Rank Beast King?

Not necessarily unkillable!

...

"Truly fierce!"

"In terms of speed in slaughtering alien beasts, I'm no match for him."

Sheng Xuan followed behind Yan Chuan. Wherever this Tan Valley King went, beasts bowed down. This was the 'Gravity Domain,' covering a radius of a hundred yards, suppressing thousands of alien beasts. Even First-rank and Second-rank Beast Kings were immobilized, left to be slaughtered.

Yan Chuan cleared the path ahead, concentrating on activating the 'Star Stone,' and did not lay a hand.

Sheng Xuan followed behind, picking up the leftovers, easily slaying First and Second-rank Beast Kings under suppression.

...

[Slain Innate Fourth Layer First-rank Beast King Lion Mastiff, total lifespan five hundred seventy, remaining three hundred twenty years, absorption complete.]

...

[Slain Innate Second Layer First-rank Beast King Fire Scale Three-pronged Pig, total lifespan five hundred ninety-four, remaining four hundred forty-one years, absorption complete.]

...

[Slain Innate Seventh Layer Second-rank Beast King Silver Cat, total lifespan six hundred eleven, remaining four hundred five years, absorption complete.]

...

Sheng Xuan was pleasantly surprised.

'Heavenly Calamity' and 'Beast Tide' are disasters for others, but for him, they are unprecedented opportunities. After the heavenly change, each Beast King's total lifespan greatly increased, generally doubling, which made the remaining lifespan greatly increase too. No longer was it like before when most had only a few dozen years left, at most only one or two hundred. Now each Beast King generally had at least three hundred years of remaining lifespan, which he could kill and extract.

Thus.

Sheng Xuan's lifespan skyrocketed.

Using this lifespan to advance True Skill, elevate realm, and boost cultivation, it was like a thousand miles in a single day. From July 7th to today, July 27th, in just two short weeks, Sheng Xuan slaughtered sixty-nine Beast Kings of various ranks, an increase of 22,425 years in lifespan, certainly unprecedented, but perhaps not unrepeatable.

[When 'Beast Tide' comes, you feel powerless, increasingly finding your Absolute Skill "Evil Extinguishing Righteous Yang Saber" not strong enough. Especially after seeing Yan Chuan perform the two True Skills "Wave Riding Micro Steps" and "Ksitigarbha Heavenly Dragon Roar," your desire to create a True Skill grows stronger. You begin to ponder a stronger Saber Skill based on "Evil Extinguishing Righteous Yang Saber," combined with Yan Chuan's "Wave Riding Micro Steps" and "Ksitigarbha Heavenly Dragon Roar."]

[A thousand years pass without success, and you grow increasingly impressed by Yan Chuan's talent, as it is said that "Wave Riding Micro Steps" and "Ksitigarbha Heavenly Dragon Roar" are both his creations.]

[Two thousand years pass, and finally, a glimmer of insight blooms in your dense mind. You discover the common ground of Sword Qi within "Evil Extinguishing Righteous Yang Saber" and "Wave Riding Micro Steps," accelerating the Research and Development of a new Saber Skill.]

[Three thousand one hundred thirty-three years later, inspired by good fortune, you finally create the True Skill "Evil Extinguishing Righteous Yang Saber" Innate Chapter, allowing your Saber Skill to become stronger.]

...

In reality, Sheng Xuan is foolish, having reached today solely through his own effort.

He spent '3,133 years' creating the "Evil Extinguishing Righteous Yang Saber" Innate Chapter, '3,526 years' creating the "Golden Sun Eight Treasures Mystic Body" Innate Chapter, and finally, imitating and borrowing from Yan Chuan's "Wave Riding Micro Steps," spent '6,666 years' creating the "Spirit Snake Eight Steps."

Henceforth——

Saber Skill!

Cross Refining!

Movement Technique!

Sheng Xuan achieved perfection in these three dimensions, leaving only arduous cultivation.

Cultivate True Skill!

Advance Cultivation!

The remaining over ten million years of lifespan invested——

First Form of the three True Skills Innate Chapter, each for thirty years.

Second Form of the three True Skills Innate Chapter, each for sixty years.

Third Form of the three True Skills Innate Chapter, each for two hundred years.

Fourth Form of the three True Skills Innate Chapter...

...

Sheng Xuan's power surged rapidly.

In just two short weeks——

"'Evil Extinguishing Righteous Yang Saber,' Sixth Form."

"'Golden Sun Eight Treasures Mystic Body,' Sixth Form."

"'Spirit Snake Eight Steps,' Sixth Form."

"Cultivation, Innate Fourteenth Layer!"

Even though Sheng Xuan dared not excessively elevate cultivation, fearing that with higher cultivation it would become hard to obtain lifespans by slaying low-rank Beast Kings, he settled his mind on maintaining cultivation steadily at third rank.

But with the progress of his three True Skills, it was hard to hold back his cultivation, and breaking through to the Fourth Rank was just a matter of time. 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

Innate Stage——

The Third Rank and Fourth Rank are a hurdle. After the Third Rank, the three rounds of 'Sinew, Bone, Skin, and Membrane' achieve perfection. From the Fourth Rank onward, it counts as a completely new stage.

The Fifth Rank to the Sixth Rank is another hurdle.

Sheng Xuan had a premonition: "Once advancing to the Fourth Rank, slaying low-rank Beast Kings like the First, Second, and Third Rank might also lead to exhaustion of lifespan and make it hard to seize more."

Thus he desperately suppressed his cultivation, hoping to kill more Beast Kings and seize more lifespans before advancing to the Fourth Rank, thereby laying a solid foundation for the future cultivation at the Fourth and Fifth Ranks.

But even still at the Third Rank, with all three True Skills Innate Chapter thoroughly practiced, Sheng Xuan remained extremely powerful.

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