We made you practice martial arts, and you've mastered the Great Golden Body?

After interrogation, Shen Bailian learned that Sun Siniu's original cultivation technique was not the Xu Earth Spirit Body, but rather the technique he practiced after entering the Innate Realm.

During a tomb raiding expedition, they stumbled upon a Taoist priest who had ascended to immortality, and found a sheepskin scroll in his possession.

The scroll on the parchment records a method of achieving immortality through martial arts.

This refers to the legendary cultivation techniques for immortality.

Through that parchment scroll, Sun Siniu also learned more about the secrets of this world, namely that since the Great Tribulation of the Investiture of the Gods, the path to immortality had been severed to some extent.

Because the spiritual energy between heaven and earth, and the sheer number of gods and Buddhas, have almost reached a state of balance.

In order to solidify their own position and to protect this world, so that it would not fall into the Dharma-ending Age due to the endless increase of gods and Buddhas.

Therefore, the Eastern Heavenly Court and the Western Spirit Mountain joined forces to monopolize the art of immortality.

Therefore, it can be seen that even the emperors of the legitimate Song Dynasty, who were of noble birth, only lived for a few short decades in this mortal world.

A hundred years later, they will still have to enter the cycle of reincarnation.

What about the Heavenly Court and the Western Paradise?

One person, one position, just like a staffing system. Generally speaking, if one side wants to recruit new immortals, then the basic unit of time is measured in hundreds of years.

Furthermore, the birth of each new god signifies the appearance of a great deal of merit.

As for ordinary people wanting to embark on the path to immortality?

That's wishful thinking!
But as the saying goes, things will turn into their opposites when they reach their extremes.

Besides cultivating immortality techniques, there is another way to embark on the path to immortality: seeking a destined connection with immortals.

What is a predestined connection with immortals?

In this world, every radish has its own hole.

But not all radishes are legitimate deities who made it onto the Investiture of the Gods list.

Besides the officially recognized gods and immortals, there is also a very small number of wild gods who are not recorded in the Investiture of the Gods or Mount Ling.

After entering the Investiture of the Gods, although freedom was restricted, it also truly meant being outside the Five Elements and beyond the Three Realms, and without having to go through the Three Calamities and Nine Tribulations.

True immortality.

Wild gods, without official status, can fall from grace. The reasons for their fall are varied; some may be discovered and punished by the orthodox sects, while others may have encountered problems during their cultivation...

Therefore, these wild gods habitually leave behind their legacy. Of course, among these wild gods who leave behind their legacy, there are quite a few who want to be resurrected.

After learning the wild god's legacy, one can inherit the wild god's divine position in order of succession.

Immortality is neither desirable nor attainable for ordinary people, but for immortals and gods, even a wild god, it is a fundamental characteristic.

And this is the legendary predestined affinity.

Therefore, after realizing the power of the Xu Earth Spirit Body, Sun Si Niu did not hesitate to kill all his accomplices.

It must be said that this person's ruthlessness and decisiveness are beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

At that time, Sun Siniu was still a soldier.

One wrong move and the whole game is lost.

Furthermore, after this incident, Sun Siniu feigned grief and compassion, claiming that he could not bear the death of his friend and was also homesick, and thus took the opportunity to give up his hard-won centurion position.

He also abandoned his original cultivation method and switched to cultivating the Earth Spirit Body.

however.

The Earth Spirit Body is undoubtedly a good cultivation technique, but the people who cultivate it are not very talented.

To be honest, Sun Siniu's martial arts talent can be considered second-rate; otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to reach the Innate Realm with just a basic skill.

Unfortunately, he misplaced his trust.

The difficulty of obtaining the spirit body of the Earth Dog is exceptionally high.

Sun Siniu cultivated day and night for over ten years before finally reaching the late stage of the Innate Realm, and in recent years he has made no progress whatsoever.

If he wants to break through to the Grandmaster realm through normal cultivation, it's highly unlikely he'll ever achieve it in this lifetime, barring any unforeseen circumstances.

Therefore, even with this forest in hand.

However, when Sun Siniu heard that there was a chance to obtain immortality near Lin'an City, he immediately gathered his men and rushed over. As for why he gathered only evil people?

That's because there's no psychological guilt when dealing with it afterwards.

Sun Siniu had a habit of always finding a suitable reason before betraying his teammates.

But what about Shen Bailian?
In less than seven days, and even with intermittent cultivation, he directly completed the process of mastering the Earth Spirit Body from the beginner level.

As the saying goes, success is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.

But without that one percent inspiration, no matter how hard you try, it's all in vain.

"Fortunately, fortunately I wasn't reborn in this kind of world." Shen Bailian looked up at the azure sky and took a deep breath.

To most people, today is undoubtedly a good day.

However, in Shen Bailian's eyes, this place, and even the whole world, is undoubtedly a huge cage, unlike the Great Xia Zhou Tian Star Array which is for protection.

The rules and regulations set up by all these gods and Buddhas seem to be to protect this world from entering the Dharma-ending Age.

But in essence, it's all for their own good.

After all, for ordinary people, whether in an era filled with gods and Buddhas or in the Dharma-ending Age, as long as the social system remains unchanged.

Those good days will never come.

While the Great Xia Dynasty also adhered to the law of the jungle, its social system was extremely advanced, and it offered generous welfare benefits to hardworking ordinary people.

You reap what you sow!
"I don't want to think about these things anymore." Shen Bailian shook his head, dispelling the random thoughts in his mind. Then, sensing his own state, he murmured, "Now it seems that my thinking was correct."

In fact, after obtaining the Earth Spirit Body from Sun Siniu, he was quite hesitant about whether to cultivate it.

The reason is also very simple.

That is, will there be a violent conflict between the two completely different cultivation systems?

However, once Shen Bailian thought of the special effect attached to the [Following Shadow] passive skill, he put this worry out of his mind.

At worst, it's just a loss of a few dozen points of divine matter.

We can afford it!
The answer is simple: they're rich and powerful.

However, after Shen Bailian mastered the basics of the Earth Spirit Body, he was surprised to find that the Force system and the Qi and Blood Martial Arts did not clash violently.

Some complementary and unique changes have also occurred.

After several days of simple experiments, Shen Bailian roughly understood the reason behind it.

Just like in a romantic relationship, if one person is having a smooth time in their relationship, it means that the other person is inevitably accommodating that person.

And within these two cultivation systems, the Origin Force system must encompass the Qi and Blood Martial Arts system. The concerns of those experts in Great Xia are entirely unnecessary.

The power of the Yuanli-Yuanli-Yuanli cultivation system is beyond everyone's imagination; it is a path that leads directly to the origin.

The general direction of cultivation is correct.

"Now that the Earth Spirit Body has reached the Great Perfection stage, the rest is just a matter of patience and time, so there's no need to waste any more time."

As Shen Bailian was thinking to himself, his body shrank rapidly under his control, in just a few seconds.

It then returned to its original state.

The Earth Spirit Body is a very orthodox martial arts technique that leads to enlightenment. Reaching the Great Perfection is equivalent to the Celestial Realm in the realm of Qi and Blood Martial Arts.

It is also the ceiling that ordinary people in this world can reach.

After reaching the Great Completion Realm, one can begin to enter the Immortal State, gradually honing magical power by utilizing the unity of essence, energy, and spirit.

This process is very slow.

The speed at which a martial artist can hone their magical power depends entirely on the strength of their physique, the abundance of their essence, energy, and spirit, and the degree to which these three are integrated.

"The current focus is on the path after entering the Moon Embracing Realm, and how to proceed." Thinking this, Shen Bailian's eyes flashed slightly, and a phantom yet clear ink-wash panel instantly appeared before his eyes—

Character Level: LV11 (5300/5500)

Physical Strength: 30.9; Spirit: 29.2

【Eight-in-One Great Sun Visualization Method LV3 (1063/1500)】131
Divine Skill: Shadow Follows LV6 (10/160) (Energy Storage: 0 times)
Eye of God LV5 (1845/2500) 115
咫尺天涯LV1（150/300）（剩余固定锚点：0/1）】

Active Skill: Gale LV3 (71/1500) 72
Hunyuan Qi LV2 (70/700) 71
All Things in the Universe LV1 (381/400) 20
Five Elements Breathing Method LV1 (1531/1600) 30
Fishing - Tier 1 LV3 (893/1000) (Trait: Guaranteed) 90
Passive Skill: Steel Body LV3 (340/1400)

Skill Points: 3

【Cure point: 1】

[Divine Matter: 5922]

It can be said that, apart from the experience bar for the skill "Iron Body" which has remained almost unchanged, the other skills have all made some progress to varying degrees.

Unfortunately, Shen Bailian's current physical attribute value is 30.9, not 31.0.

Although it's only a difference of 0.1 levels, it's a world of difference.

Because a physical attribute value of 31.0 belongs to the realm of a Moon Embracing Realm warrior, while a physical attribute value of 30.9, no matter how close it is to 31.0, still belongs to the Sea Opening Realm.

However, Shen Bailian had already anticipated this outcome when the Hunyuan Qi skill was upgraded; it was a martial artist's sixth sense.

After all, the combined increase in physical attributes from upgrading the skills [Gale] and [Primordial Chaos] is only 0.5 levels, which can raise his physical attributes to level 30.8.

Under normal circumstances, this opportunity would certainly allow them to upgrade to the integer level.

But this is not the usual situation.

It represents a breakthrough to a higher level.

If breaking through to the Moon Embracing Realm were truly that easy, it wouldn't have become a ladder blocking the path of all the martial arts prodigies of the Great Xia Dynasty.

It should be noted that the number of martial artists at the Sea Opening Realm in the Great Xia Dynasty is in the hundreds of thousands, given the population of billions.

However, there are only a few thousand martial artists at the Moon Embracing Realm.

This is the result of years of accumulation and refinement. Even in today's technologically advanced era, the number of martial artists who can advance to the Embracing Moon Realm each year is usually less than fifty.

Not to mention other war zones.

If Shen Bailian were to cultivate normally now, without relying on the forced boost brought by his innate talent, he would want to raise his physical attributes from level 30.9 to level 31.0.

This difference of 0.1 levels can take at least six months to resolve!

The most difficult moment is when a butterfly emerges from its cocoon.

"The cultivation system of the Great Xia Dynasty is based to some extent on the Golden Elixir system of Taoism. Once a Golden Elixir is swallowed, one's fate is in one's own hands, not in the hands of Heaven." Many thoughts flashed through Shen Bailian's mind.

In terms of their underlying themes, "Embracing the Moon" and "Golden Elixir" are not significantly different.

Generally speaking, martial artists at the Opening Sea Realm can withstand the impact and high temperature of an anti-satellite bullet or a hydrogen bomb explosion head-on at the very center.

Compared to martial artists in the Sea Opening Realm, those in the Moon Embracing Realm have experienced a qualitative leap in vitality, attack power, and defense.

It's said that from now on, my fate is in my own hands, not in the heavens, which already elevates me to a certain level of sophistication.

The Great Xia's definition of the Embracing the Moon Realm is very simple and straightforward. It is essentially about gathering and condensing the primal force stored in the body's muscle cells into the dantian, and directing the force in one direction.

Turn imaginary into reality.

The challenge lies in how to tame the raging primal force, gather it into the dantian, and condense it into a substance resembling a golden elixir.

Within the Great Xia Dynasty, there are naturally secret techniques.

As a top martial arts prodigy unparalleled in the Tiangang Academy, Shen Bailian broke through to the Opening Sea Realm at the age of eighteen, and naturally had the authority to read such secret techniques.

After reaching the Embracing Moon Realm, with each increase in physical fitness level, the Moon Pill in the dantian will compress once.

To put it simply, it's a normal theory of stellar evolution. Take the Sun as an example: if we shorten its generation time, it will go through the stages of main sequence star, red giant, white dwarf, and finally black hole.

The early, middle, and late stages of the Embracing Moon Realm, as well as its peak stage, correspond to the four evolutionary processes of the sun.

Within the Tsukimaru, which is ultimately compressed to the extreme, a wisp of primordial power will be born, and because of the difference in the essence of each life, the primordial power will also be different.

Ultimately, the power of the origin is used to gather and form a supreme palace to stabilize the Great Dao.

Thus, they entered the Divine Palace Realm.

However, after Shen Bailian deeply understood and cultivated the Xu Earth Spirit Body, a martial arts-based cultivation method, it was possible that the immortals and gods of this world had not yet fallen silent, and all kinds of rules existed in their entirety.

He gained a new understanding of the cultivation path to take after reaching the Embracing Moon Realm.

In a true Moon Embracing Realm, there shouldn't be just one "Moon Pill," as that would be too monotonous. There should be three Moon Pills.

It constitutes a three-body system.

As the saying goes, one begets two, two begets three, and three begets all things.

These correspond to the early, middle, and late stages of the Embracing Moon Realm, as well as the final transitional stage, the peak of the Embracing Moon Realm.

The ultimate goal should not be to create a divine palace using source power, but rather to create a brand new world within the body, achieving true internal circulation.

Therefore, it was temporarily named the Realm of Myriad Things by Shen Bailian.

Only in this way can they have the means to contend with those gods who are the embodiment of the power of rules.

Of course, these are just Shen Bailian's initial ideas. The first problem to solve is how to condense three moon pills and form a stable three-moon system.

It's very difficult.

However, compared to ordinary people, Shen Bailian has no shortage of opportunities to try and fail. At worst, he can just spend a few dozen points of divine matter to revive once.

Eliminate the negative effects of trial and error. (End of Chapter)