You, a tyrannical ruler, roam the heavens; you cannot understand my joy.

Cultivating a skill can directly elevate one's martial arts realm.

However, some steps must be completed by the practitioner personally.

For example: take Kan to fill Li, and return from the acquired to the innate.

Improving your skills is roughly equivalent to filling a glass of water for you; you have to make yourself drink it.

Lu Zuo was already just one step away from reaching the Innate Realm.

After several days of effort, the first major stage of the Thousand Blade Flowing Slash Technique was successfully completed, directly filling his cup of innate water.

He just needs to drink it.

However, this process of drinking water is extremely dangerous; the slightest mistake could lead to failure and a significant reduction in one's cultivation level.

Even worse, it can cause meridian disorders, reversed hexagrams, qi deviation, and death on the spot.

Throughout history, countless martial arts practitioners have been stuck at this final step.

The time for taking Kan and filling Li is not long.

But in just two hours, a martial artist's future and life can be decided!

"Hiss... Huff..."

"Hiss... Huff..."

Lu Zuo narrowed his eyes, sat cross-legged, calmed his mind, and focused his energy.

With each breath, carefully control the internal energy, extract the yang essence from the kidneys, and then pour it into the Du meridian, flowing along the coccyx, Mingmen, Jiaji, and Yuzhen acupoints.

Ultimately, that drop of yang essence fell into the Baihui point.

This step is called Shengyang, also known as: the first yang rising.

It is the most important and also the most dangerous step in the process of defying one's innate nature!

It places extremely high demands on the practitioner's aptitude, spirit, willpower, and other elements.

This is because once the mind relaxes or problems arise elsewhere, the vital essence will run rampant and fall into other organs.

The consequence of this is that the divination results are completely chaotic, leading to a state of demonic possession!

The second step is called: Sweet Dew Enters the Sea, Enlightening the Li Palace.

This is to guide the Yang essence in the Baihui acupoint downwards along the Ren meridian, through the upper Dantian, Chonglou, and middle Dantian, and finally into the heart of Li Huo.

The first and second steps must be repeated nine times to complete the task.

Then, the third and final step can be carried out: the Jade Elixir Rejuvenates the Golden Lotus in the Departing Palace.

Let the essence of yang be deeply planted within the palace, condense into elixir, and bloom into a lotus flower.

In this way, the human body's trigrams can be completely reversed, transforming from the acquired trigrams to the innate trigrams, thus achieving an innate body and innate true qi.

Lu Zuo proceeded cautiously and in accordance with the law, taking each step with utmost care.

As time went by, his body was covered with fine beads of sweat.

Upon closer inspection, the beads of sweat contain specks of black substance, which are signs of physical transformation, cleansing the body, and removing impurities!

.......

Two hours later.

"call……"

Lu Zuo slowly opened his eyes, his gaze bright and clear, yet fleeting, before returning to normal.

He stood up from the dragon bed, exhaled a breath of fresh air, and clenched his fists with some excitement.

"It's finally done!"

Lu Zuo narrowed his eyes slightly, silently sensing the changes brought about by his innate physique.

"Clear!"

What he sensed first was an unparalleled clarity!

Heaven and earth, all things, the mind and consciousness, and everything around us were clearer than ever before!

This clarity is not just about being able to distinguish tiny dust particles dozens of feet away; it also subtly contains the feeling of seeing through appearances to the essence of things.

One can also make a rough judgment about the trajectory of everything.

In other words, when fighting with others, one can anticipate the enemy's moves to a certain extent!

"With heightened hearing and eyesight, and a surge in physical strength... I also have a faint feeling of being able to sense external stimuli?"

"Could this be the legendary sensing of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth?"

Lu Zuo didn't know, and he wasn't clear about it, since the external world was still very mysterious.

but…….

The Ren and Du meridians within his body have been constructed into an incredibly mysterious and continuously circulating energy channel.

This is what practitioners often refer to as the "small circulation," which involves opening the "two bridges between heaven and earth."

"Under the influence of the microcosmic orbit, I can clearly sense that my true energy is constantly becoming purer, and my physical condition is improving every second..."

"Um?"

"What does this feeling mean?"

"Does every pore on the skin absorb and release the energy of heaven and earth, thereby enhancing one's own vital energy?"

"Li Cheng'an never said that reversing one's innate constitution would have this kind of effect."

Lu Zuo was unaware that the ability to breathe in and out the energy of heaven and earth through one's pores was a special phenomenon that only those with extremely high aptitude would experience after transforming into an innate body.

Seeing that he was too incompetent, Li Chengan did not explain the matter to him.

Through his hard work during this period, Lu Zuo's aptitude has improved significantly, reaching the point where he can absorb the energy of heaven and earth at all times.

"Never mind that..."

"Keep pushing Zhang Lihua forward!"

A few days ago, Lu Zuo discovered another ability of Zhang Lihua: she had certain insights into the classics of various schools of thought.

Thinking about it carefully, it makes sense. The two sects and six paths of the Demonic Path originated from the various schools of thought of the Hundred Schools of Thought.

Even the supreme demonic technique, "Heavenly Demon Strategy," was created by the founding ancestor Cang Qu, who combined the strengths of various schools of thought.

Literature and martial arts are closely related. How could Zhang Lihua, a highly skilled master, not know the classics and principles of various schools of thought?

……

Several days later, at nightfall, in the Shuyu Studio.

"Your Majesty... Huff... As the saying goes, all things carry yin and embrace yang... Huff... Yin reaches its extreme and yang is born, ah, this is the very moment of transformation of heaven and earth, huff..."

"Running... whoosh... rhythm..."

"The seasons change...sigh...day and night turn...sigh...the moon waxes and wanes, water overflows when it's full..."

"Your Majesty only needs to observe carefully, huff... repeatedly ponder, using the method of 'reversal is the movement of the Dao'... hmm... that is, the method of 'reversal is the movement of the Dao' to observe the changes of all things..."

"You can gradually understand... what it means for Yin to give rise to Yang, the mechanism of transformation!"

After explaining the principles of the Taoist scriptures, Zhang Lihua leaned back, exhausted, and collapsed onto the footrest, her chest heaving violently, her body drenched in sweat...

After her explanations over the past few days, Lu Zuo has gained some understanding of "the transformation of Yin into Yang," but it is not yet thorough.

The second level of the Thousand Blade Flow Slash Technique never made it onto the skill list.

but……

The increase in attributes is quite obvious, and the growth in internal energy is also very rapid!

"His Majesty."

Just then, a clear, melodious palace maid's voice rang out from outside the hall: "Consort Yu requests an audience."

Lu Zuo's eyes narrowed, and he quickly stood up, dressed neatly, and rushed out of Shuyu Zhai like a gust of wind.

Zhang Lihua lay sprawled on the couch, her breathing shallow and deep, her chest rising and falling, fragrant sweat sliding down her flushed cheeks, her beautiful eyes misty as she lazily half-opened her gaze toward the doorway.

"I give up, I'm truly impressed..."

"If this continues, things are bound to go wrong."

"or……"

"Should I invite my senior sister to the palace as well, to help me share the burden?"

……

A short while later, outside Jiankang City, in a dilapidated courtyard.

"Where is Judge Yang?"

After climbing out of the dry well, Lu Zuo glanced around and asked in a deep voice.

"His Majesty."

"When he informed me, he said the battle was tense, and both the Judge of the Underworld and the Soul-Reaper were in mortal danger, so he was rushing to provide support."

Is the Bone-Painting Demoness really that strong?

Lu Zuo frowned: "Let's go!"