This Martial Saint's Health Bar is Too Thick!-Chapter 385 - 93: The Heroic Pass is a Long Road as Solid as Iron

Hao Yi often thought back to that afternoon more than thirty years ago.

He had agreed to meet a friend for drinks at a tavern.

At that time, that friend was not yet known as Master Yun Shen and had not taken monastic vows; he could still join him for drinking and feasting on meat.

Passing by a courtyard, he heard cries for help coming from inside.

It was the voice of a little girl.

Without much hesitation, he pushed open the door, entered the courtyard, and discovered the kidnapped children there.

It had been the doing of the Shen Family, one of the former five great families of Datong Prefecture.

So at that moment, the river of fate changed its course.

From then on, Datong Prefecture gained a strong figure who dared to expose all kinds of evil deeds, unafraid to struggle against any powerful figures!

Years later, Shangguan Xiao asked Hao Yi a question:

If he hadn't entered that courtyard that afternoon, would his subsequent path have been completely different?

Hao Yi smiled, for it was a question that didn't really need an answer.

Because the evils of this world were there, and he was bound to encounter them one day.

He could not avoid them.

The flame in his heart would be ignited sooner or later!

His master told him, "You are the entire future of a sect."

So for the first decade or so of his life, he fought for these words from his master.

The rescue that afternoon allowed him to see a different side of the world.

It was as if a voice was telling him from the depths: you should do something.

So for the decades that followed, he traveled far and wide for the sake of the victimized common folk, battling time and again against the 'beasts' lurking in the darkness.

He spent his entire life fighting for others!

Fortunately, he was always victorious.

He fulfilled his master's dying wish.

But the world, he could not change.

After more than thirty years of arduous struggle, he wished to start over from the beginning.

However, the moment he received news from Shangguan Xiao, he suddenly felt that some things no longer seemed so important.

Right now, high above Rongguang Square, Hao Yi once again thought of that afternoon many years before.

He remembered that day's wind, that day's clouds, and that day's sunshine. freewēbnoveℓ.com

He had fought the battles he needed to fight, and he had upheld the path he believed in.

Now, he would walk the road ahead for himself!

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"You suffered strong interference during your Breakthrough, leading to the failure of the Breakthrough, damage to your Tao Foundation, and severe injury to all the Implants within you. It was Master Shi Caiming who stepped in to save you, and then he invited Master Zhihai from Baoyun Temple to use the Five Phases Reversal Technique to stimulate the reverse growth of the Implants within you, preventing further destruction and ultimately saving your life."

"Brother Yi, we've lost..."

This was what the only surviving friend told Hao Yi when he awoke from his heavy wounds.

"Master Shi Caiming and those people have made a promise; you live and leave Datong Prefecture City, and from then on, you must never set foot in the city again. If you break the promise, whether you live or die, Master Shi Caiming will no longer interfere. Brother, wherever you go next, to the ends of the earth, I'll be with you!"

This was what Shangguan Xiao told Hao Yi afterward.

"Master, since the Five Phases Reversal Technique can stimulate the reverse growth of Implants, is it possible to rejuvenate severely damaged Implants to new life?"

This was the question Hao Yi asked Master Zhihai of Baoyun Temple.

His situation was different from that of the old ancestor of the Chen Family.

The old ancestor of the Chen Family had only incorporated one kind of Implant and there was a possibility of removing that Implant without losing life, then starting to cultivate from scratch.

But Hao Yi had incorporated five kinds of Implants, was only half a step away from establishing his Tao Foundation, and the Implants had deeply fused with his body; removing any kind of Implant would cost him his life!

So Hao Yi asked Master Zhihai if there was any possibility of restoring the severely damaged Implants within him.

That was the only possible way for him to recover.

"Amitabha, the purpose of this Cultivation Technique is to correct mistakes. In the process of Martial Arts Cultivation, if there is a slight deviation in the growth of an Implant, this technique can be used to correct it. However, the extent to which it can correct is very limited. Benefactor, your injuries are too severe; to heal completely, you would have to reverse all the Implants to their initial state, something even the creator of this technique could not achieve.

Moreover, even if you could create a miracle and start over, you should be well aware that the construction of the Martial Arts Foundation offers only one chance in a lifetime, and the damage to the root power of the Implant is not something the Five Phases Reversal Technique can repair."

Master Zhihai said to Hao Yi.

"Master, could you impart this technique to me? I would like to give it a try."

"Ah, foolish child..."

Later on, Hao Yi still learned this ultimate skill from Baoyun Temple—the Five Phases Reversal Technique.

Afterward, he shared his decision with his only surviving friend:

".... My constructed Tao Foundation is the 'Steel Core', and upon completion, I would have possessed the 'Refining' Divine Power, which can refine all things. I briefly possessed this Divine Power during my Breakthrough, though it was not yet stable at the time. Later, when the mishap occurred, I figured since I was about to Fall Realm anyway, I would use the Refining Divine Power to refine something while I had not fully entered the Fall Realm…"

"Perhaps one day I will need this item, or perhaps I will never need it in this lifetime. Keep it safe for me."

"Alright."

His friend agreed.

Later on, to stay in Datong Prefecture with a lower profile and to better safeguard that item for Hao Yi, the friend chose to renounce secular life and become a monk.

And so, years later, Baoyun Temple gained a Master Yun Shen.

At this moment, high above Rongguang Square.

Hao Yi gestured, and the item that had been buried for over thirty years erupted from the peach orchard of Baoyun Temple.

A dazzling streak of light turned into a long rainbow in the sky, crossing half the city before entering Rongguang Square and landing in Hao Yi's hand.

It was a knife!

"Heaven and earth as the furnace, creation as the craftsman. Melting steel into liquid, refining steel into the core," this is the description of the Tao Foundation "Steel Core."

Refining Objects Divine Power could refine anything, truly anything.

As long as one could pay an equivalent price.

Over thirty years ago, at the brink of a fall from grace, Hao Yi expended forty years of his life force to infuse the power he had during his breakthrough into his own saber!

This power could be preserved within the saber for forty years.

Everyone has only one chance to establish the Martial Arts Foundation in their lifetime, miss it and it will never come again.

But Hao Yi used the Refining Objects Divine Power to preserve this opportunity for himself for another forty years!

Forty years, that was the time limit Hao Yi set for himself.

In this world, the average lifespan of ordinary humans is about 70 years, and martial artists can add about 10 years to their life for each Implant they absorb and cultivate to the Qi Change Stage.

Hao Yi reached the Tao Foundation Stage at twenty, hit the peak of the Tao Foundation Stage at twenty-two, and was only twenty-five when he constructed the Martial Arts Foundation, breaking through to the Martial Arts Master realm.

Thus, in theory, he could live for about 95 more years.

His life expectancy was reduced by a decade or so due to severe injuries, but he could still live for at least 80 years.

Hence, he chose to split this lifespan in half, using the Refining Objects Divine Power to consume 40 years of his life in order to leave a chance for another breakthrough in the future.

And to spend the remaining 40 years to create a miracle!

Hao Yi did not tell Shangguan Xiao about this; he couldn't bring himself to say that he might only live for another 40 years, nor that he planned to give his all in these 40 years.

When making this decision, he did not leave any time for himself and Shangguan Xiao...

Now, thirty-seven years have passed.

Hao Yi has returned to where he had once been years ago.

Through his strong will and extraordinary talent, after countless attempts, he successfully used the Five Phases Reversal Technique to restore all of the Implants within his body to their original state.

Then, starting from the Embryo Cultivation Stage, he ascended step by step back to the peak of the Tao Foundation Stage!

No one could fathom the hardship involved.

Great walls and long roads are as hard as iron; yet today, he strides over from the beginning once more.

How strong must the will of a man who may only have forty years left to live, and who has spent thirty-seven years starting all over again, be?

Upon arriving in Datong Prefecture City, Hao Yi had been preparing for his final breakthrough.

He wasn't fully confident, in fact.

Not even ten percent confident, he wasn't confident even one percent!

Because no one had ever done such a thing in all of history.

If it weren't for Zhang Zongyang's case being abruptly closed, Shangguan Xiao would have been executed by dismemberment today. Hao Yi would have actually needed more time to prepare.

But today, he had to initiate it ahead of time.

In the sky, that saber fell into Hao Yi's hands, and the power he had refined into the blade over thirty years ago also returned to him.

This time, since the power and insights for after the breakthrough had already been prepared in advance, success or failure hinged on a moment, solely dependent on Hao Yi himself.

He no longer had to worry about external interference.

If he succeeded, he could immediately save people.

If he failed, at the very least, he could die with Shangguan Xiao.

This was why he chose to attempt his breakthrough in the Glory Square.

After appearing, he had been constantly trying to adjust his state.

Li Fei's appearance had bought him more time and also gave him a chance to fully "warm-up."

Otherwise, if Wen Ke and the others had made a move on Hao Yi earlier, he definitely couldn't have resisted and would have had to choose to breakthrough immediately.

Actually, Hao Yi could have waited longer, wait for Xu Jing to make a move and dispose of Li Fei, and then Xu Jing would have continued to order his people to make moves on Hao Yi.

This way, Hao Yi could have secured even more preparation time for himself.

But even if it meant going against the "Tao" he had adhered to for so many years, some things never change.

Seeing Xu Jing about to turn around and kill Li Fei, Hao Yi decisively chose to make his breakthrough.

Even though he still did not know the true identity of this "Blood-faced Ghost."

Xu Jing was the first one on the scene to sense the power harbored within that saber, the power of Divine Skills!

But he was too late to block the saber.

Not only because the saber arrived fast enough, but also because the saber was high enough to exceed the reach of his divine power effects.

This was why Hao Yi chose to ascend.

Just as Li Fei had speculated, he was a pragmatic man who wouldn't do anything just for the sake of showing off.

Above Glory Square, the 'sun' that was formed by Hao Yi suddenly retracted all its light.

Xu Jing looked up towards the sky.

Li Fei also paused and looked up towards the sky.

Everyone present looked up towards the sky...

The next second, the 'sun' burst forth with light once more.

This time, the light was ten times, a hundred times brighter than before!

This time, it was truly sunlight overwhelming the city!

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PS: Some content I did not overly explain in the main text, like why Hao Yi suddenly chose to go against his 'Tao' that he had been upholding for so many years.

Before this, he had severe disagreements with the protagonist, emphasizing the importance of laws and order.

After reading this chapter, I think everyone might understand his 'yielding' better.

After all, for someone who may only have three years left to live, he has already 'upheld all the Tao he needed to uphold.'