Gou cultivates martial arts and seeks immortality in the world of cultivation.

Chapter 106 Deducing the Methods Beyond the Innate Level

The Demonic Sect, the Blood Demon Palace.

"Lu Lin, you've gone to work as a miner at the Yinming Mine?"

When Tuoba Feng heard his subordinate's report, he was speechless with astonishment.

What kind of number is this?
Why would a martial artist at the Innate Realm not cultivate and comprehend the Blood Qi properly, but instead go and become a miner?

Where is your ambition? Where is your aspiration?
"Sect Master, should I go and bring him back?" a cultivator below asked.

Tuoba Feng pondered for a moment, then waved his hand: "No need, let him be."

He knew all too well that every step of advancement in the Innate Blood Qi Realm was extremely difficult.

"Condensing Qi into Soldiers," "Condensing Qi into Armor," "Condensing Qi into Spirits"—each level can stop countless martial artists.

To break through, a martial artist needs a combination of temperament, talent, and opportunity.

It's not that controlling a martial artist and giving him enough resources guarantees a breakthrough.

Since Master Youxuan wants to cultivate Lu Lin into a powerful puppet that surpasses the innate level, he cannot over-restrain him or keep a close eye on him at all times, as this may hinder his growth.

"Pass down the order: from now on, Lu Lin may freely enter and exit all training grounds within the sect that are open to martial artists." After pondering for a moment, Tuoba Feng issued another order.

……

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, Lu Lin has been at the Yinming Mine for a full year.

That year, he devoted himself to mining, and whenever he mined enough blood crystals, he would immediately use them to enhance his "Sword Antelope Blood Aura".

A year has passed, and the Sword Antelope Blood Qi has reached twenty-seven patterns, just one step away from the twenty-eight patterns required for the perfect innate state.

His cultivation time not only did not decrease, but increased by more than two thousand years, reaching an astonishing total of more than three thousand years.

This was the result of his deliberate control, not letting his hands and feet roam freely during the excavation.

Otherwise, with his current strength, if he were to unleash his full power, the destructive force would be extremely astonishing, like a savage beast passing through, and an entire mountain would probably be leveled in no time.

Such a commotion would be too great and could easily alert the higher-ups of the Demon Sect, at which point it would be questionable whether they could still mine in peace.

A steady, gradual approach is the most reliable way!
"At this rate, in a few years, all the different types of blood essence should be able to reach the perfect level of thirty-six patterns." Lu Lin was filled with anticipation and was about to swing his iron pickaxe to continue mining when he suddenly stopped.

[High-level spiritual energy has been discovered, which can be exchanged for six hundred years of arduous cultivation. Would you like to exchange it?]

A notification suddenly appeared.

The target, however, came from that strange, foreign object in the heart.

That thing, ever since Lu Lin "absorbed" it down to only "five hundred years" of spirituality a year ago, has remained hidden deep within the heart, without making a sound.

But at this moment, the Martial Arts Furnace prompted it that it could exchange for six hundred years of cultivation time.

A hundred years have appeared out of nowhere!

At the same time, under the illumination of the martial arts furnace, Lu Lin could clearly "see" that the thing had begun to wriggle slightly again, as if it were about to extend its tentacles once more.

"This thing, can it absorb the energy of heaven and earth on its own and revive itself? This... is wonderful!" Lu Lin was not surprised but delighted.

Wouldn't this be equivalent to a continuous "resource package" of cultivation time?
"Did it recover a hundred years' worth of spiritual energy in just one year?" Lu Lin speculated, then a thought struck him.

exchange!

Suddenly, his cultivation time increased by one hundred years.

The foreign object in the heart dimmed again, retracted, and remained motionless.

"Excellent!" Lu Lin smiled.

bang bang bang...

Inside the mine, the sounds of intense mining echoed once again.

……

Time flies, and Lu Lin has been at the Yinming Mine for three years.

After three years of dedicated mining and arduous training, he finally raised all three types of blood essence to the perfect state of thirty-six patterns.

Furthermore, his cultivation time has broken through the nine-thousand-year mark, reaching an astonishing nine thousand six hundred and sixty-six years and two months.

Three hundred years of them came from that foreign object in the heart.

He was right; that thing would gain 100 years' worth of "spiritual energy" every year.

At this moment, he discovered that with such a vast amount of time for cultivation, there seemed to be nothing he urgently needed to improve.

"Should I use my cultivation time to deduce one of the martial arts techniques and try to deduce a method to break through to the Innate Realm?" Lu Lin pondered to himself.

Although Tuoba Feng said that the Demon Sect has a method to break through to the Innate Realm, who knows if it's true or false, or just a pie in the sky?
Lu Lin speculated that if he were to forcibly deduce the deductions using his cultivation time, the energy expenditure would likely be enormous. But he was ultimately unwilling to give up without trying.

"Anyway, I still have plenty of time to cultivate. I'll just try it out for a few hundred or a thousand years. If it doesn't work out, I'll deal with it later." Thinking of this, Lu Lin felt a surge of excitement and could no longer contain himself.

He immediately sat cross-legged, shifted his cultivation time, and began to channel his energy into the "Sword Antelope Blood Qi Technique".

That's right, the breakthrough he chose was the "Sword Antelope Blood Qi Technique".

After all, he wields the Blood-Patterned Steel Sword and has integrated a strand of Heaven and Earth Profound Qi. If he can truly make progress, the "Sword Antelope Blood Qi Technique" is undoubtedly the most suitable.

[You have refined the Sword Antelope Blood Qi to thirty-six patterns, reaching its current peak, but you are not satisfied. You wish to advance further and break through to the Innate Realm. However, this is as difficult as ascending to heaven. You have pondered deeply for the past ten years, but have achieved nothing!]

You practiced the "Sword Antelope Blood Qi Technique" over and over again, even perfecting both of your Body Tempering Realm killing moves. But a hundred years later, you still have gained nothing.

You left the Yinming Mine, venturing into the natural world, learning from nature, battling demonic beasts, hoping to find a glimmer of inspiration. However, three hundred years have passed, and you remain utterly unsuccessful.

[Five hundred years, and still no progress...]

[Eight hundred years, and still no progress...]

Lu Lin stopped here, his face so gloomy it was almost dripping with water.

Eight hundred years have passed, and there has been absolutely no progress! His heart is bleeding.

But then I thought about it again and realized that this might be the norm.

In the general understanding of the warriors of Yan, the Innate Blood Qi Realm is the limit for a warrior, and there is no way forward.

Even if a realm beyond the innate truly exists, its difficulty would likely be so immense as to inspire despair.

Otherwise, how many extraordinary martial arts geniuses have been born in the nearly ten thousand years of Yan Kingdom's history? If it were truly possible, someone would have created a cultivation method beyond the innate level long ago.

The difficulty for Lu Lin to deduce a future path out of thin air is self-evident.

“Invest another two hundred years! If there’s still no progress, then stop for now and we’ll see later.” Lu Lin made up his mind.

During his cultivation time, he continued to focus on infusing his energy into the "Sword Antelope Blood Qi Technique".

[Starting from the eighth hundredth year, you changed your approach, shifting from external seeking to internal cultivation. You repeatedly refined the 'Sword Antelope Blood Qi,' using it to temper and hone your physical body and bones. In the ninth hundredth year, you suddenly discovered that your physical body seemed to have undergone an extremely subtle change, and you were overjoyed!]

But after a few years, this change came to an abrupt halt. You seemed to have encountered a massive, invisible obstacle. You stopped, pondered deeply, and desperately searched for the source of this obstacle!

[In the 950th year, you finally found the source of the obstacle; it actually came from two other blood essences: the Demonic Ape Blood Essence and the Flaming Crane Blood Essence!]

[Your ability to fuse and control the three types of blood energy is entirely due to the 'Heaven and Earth Profound Energy' within the Blood-Patterned Steel Sword acting as a harmonizer. Without the 'Heaven and Earth Profound Energy,' the three types of blood energy will repel each other. If you wish to deduce methods beyond the innate realm, you must first resolve this fundamental problem.]

A series of prompts appeared.

Lu Lin's face darkened completely, and he felt extremely frustrated.

It's awful! It's so incredibly painful!
It seems that he is on the right track. As long as he spends enough time cultivating, it is indeed possible to deduce a method to break through the innate level from existing martial arts.

But now, the existence of other types of blood essence has become the biggest interference and obstacle!
Could it be that his efforts to enhance his strength by practicing multiple martial arts techniques and refining various blood essences have backfired and resulted in his own downfall?
He was so frustrated he felt like he was going to vomit blood.

To continue the deduction, the problem of mutual repulsion among the various blood essences must be solved, and this must be done without relying on "Heaven and Earth Profound Essence".

"As long as the direction is correct and there is ample time for cultivation, the Martial Arts Furnace can deduce almost anything. So, is it possible to deduce a method to fuse the three types of Blood Qi into one?" Lu Lin's eyes suddenly lit up.

He thought of the "Sinking Abyss Convergence Technique," which was a successful precedent derived from the "Sinking Abyss Sword Breath Technique" by drawing on the essence of the "Sinking Abyss Sword Breath Technique."

So, could he also absorb the essence of the three innate martial arts and deduce a brand new technique that can integrate the strengths of each school?

Just do it!

The contents of the three innate martial arts appeared clearly in his mind at the same time. After clarifying the direction of integration, he began to focus his cultivation time on the three innate martial arts.

[You are determined to completely resolve the problem of Blood Qi repulsion. You wish to absorb the essence of three martial arts, integrate them, and create a supreme method that can simultaneously control and even fuse the three types of Blood Qi. To this end, you have been studying and cultivating day and night. But this is no different from creating a technique out of thin air. Fifty years later, you have gained nothing.]

A hundred years later, still nothing has been gained...

Two hundred years later, it remains stagnant...

At this point, you changed your approach, no longer fixated on directly creating a cultivation technique, but instead focusing on the 'Blood Qi' itself. You carefully extracted a trace of each of the three types of Blood Qi, attempting to fuse them. However, Blood Qi originates from demonic beasts, whose bloodlines can be traced back to ancient true spirits, inherently unruly and tyrannical; unless they share the same origin, they are extremely difficult to fuse. You spent decades on this, yet still failed.

You opted for a less challenging approach, abandoning the simultaneous fusion of three methods and instead attempting to fuse two first. Unfortunately, the difficulty remained unchanged!

After hundreds of years of repeated experiments and countless failures, you re-examine yourself and fall into deep thought. You wonder, why can 'Heaven and Earth Profound Qi' achieve the fusion of Blood Qi?

[In a moment of clarity, you arrive at a crucial conclusion: the essence of the Heavenly Profound Qi is far superior to that of Blood Qi, thus enabling it to exert suppression and force other Blood Qi to submit. If… you could condense a 'Blood Qi' far beyond the ordinary, with an extremely powerful essence, sufficient to suppress all other Blood Qi, wouldn't you be able to freely fuse with and control various Blood Qi without relying on external aids?]

The prompt ends here.

Lu Lin's eyes, however, shone as brightly as the most dazzling stars in the night sky.

He found a solution!

(End of this chapter)