I am a high-level martial arts master.

Inside the Grandmaster's Secret Realm.

Every prodigy is immediately captivated by the illusion upon entering.

The world spins and the stars shift.

By the time Ye Li realized what was happening, he was already standing in an open space south of Guangming City, among a group of teenagers.

He was thin, dressed in coarse linen clothes and cloth shoes, and his handsome face was filled with confusion, as if everything before had been a dream.

A gentle breeze brought a touch of coolness, and the burly man in front of him sneered:

"The Azure Dragon Gang is a large and powerful gang in Guangming. Joining us is not easy; talent is the most basic requirement."

"And I'm the one in charge of calibrating you all. My name is Feng Yue, you can call me Instructor Feng!"

"The reason you new recruits were selected is because your skills are beneficial to martial arts cultivation. Even the lowest-level white ordinary skills will improve your martial arts cultivation."

Ye Li's mind was in a daze.

Listening to the ticking of the burly man named Feng Yue, his consciousness returned!

"I am Ye Li! I have been reincarnated into this world, but I have no bibliography!"

Ye Li cursed himself for being too reckless after losing his memory. Being a useless person was better than being a cripple. How could he be so unwise!

At this moment, within the Gate of Inquiry, the illusion has blocked all of Ye Li's memories since his transmigration and constructed everything from Ye Li's past.

Everything Ye Li experienced after his transmigration seemed less like a dream within this illusory realm of inquiring into the heart, and was thus quietly forgotten by him. Furthermore, under the influence and guidance of the dream, there were currently no entries related to "world-shaking wisdom" in the martial arts arena.

The only one present was Ye Li, the transmigrator.

Like Ye Li, everyone forgot their purpose in entering this space, readily accepting their identities and starting anew. Meanwhile, Lie Yang of the Yan Tie Kingdom entered the secret realm before Ye Li.

The moment the crimson light engulfed his consciousness, Lieyang felt himself fall into a torrent of lava.

When he opened his eyes again, he was kneeling in the center of the altar of the Vermilion Bird totem in the Iron Kingdom, with scorching air currents licking his thin, fourteen-year-old body.

"The eldest son of the Chi clan, Lieyang, has a white attribute and is of low aptitude."

The high priest's cold voice echoed across the altar, while suppressed snickers rose from the audience.

Lieyang stared blankly at the dim totem in front of him; the white words on it shattered his illusions.

Reason told him the harsh reality.

But his intuition told him that something was wrong, and that he should be the purple entry.

That night, Lieyang huddled in a leaky side room of the main hall, listening to the bells ringing from the main hall, announcing the enthronement ceremony of his elder brother, Liehuang.

Their once illustrious background has now become a source of ridicule.

Not only are their vocabulary and aptitude far inferior to those of ordinary people, but their innate talent and comprehension are also far inferior.

A normal person can break through to the Body Tempering stage in a year, but despite his relentless training day and night, it took him two years to reach the Energy stage, making him utterly useless. Even so, he never gave up, practicing diligently every day without the slightest slackening.

But the harder he tried, the more he felt his goal slipping further away.

Two years to get into the swing of things, three years to reach the middle stage, five years to reach the later stage, and ten years to reach perfection.

The harder I tried, the more I realized my own vulnerability, and I undoubtedly became an absolute failure.

At the age of twenty-seven, during the national competition, his younger brother Liehuang participated in his place and achieved unprecedented success, earning nationwide praise. Meanwhile, he… hadn't even broken through to the level of the Day After Tomorrow.

On the night of my fortieth birthday, I sat alone in a desolate courtyard under the blazing sun.

The bronze mirror reflected half of his aged face. He stroked the copied acquired cultivation technique, "Crimson Flame Heaven-Burning Technique," and suddenly threw the scroll into the furnace. In the leaping flames, his youthful obsession and the pain and anxiety of his inability to break through in his cultivation turned into wisps of smoke.

When the first rays of dawn pierced through the clouds, the once blazing sun that shone brightly in the sky became a hunched old man in the foundry.

In the latter half of his life, he no longer strived for spiritual cultivation, but accepted the fact that he was ordinary and contentedly spent the rest of his life as an ordinary mortal.

He accepted his fate and completely integrated into the mundane world.

Occasionally, in the dead of night, he would dream of himself shrouded in flames, looking down upon the world.

But upon waking, all that remained was boundless silence and the mundane routine of daily life.

Ten years, twenty years, thirty years... Time slips away quietly amidst the clanging of the anvil.

At the age of one hundred, lying on the cold bed, the dying sun, its cloudy eyes reflecting the ordinary yet long life, finally gave way to a silent acceptance.

However, at the very moment his consciousness completely vanished, a tsunami of information swept through his dormant soul!

The illusion shattered with a crash, kicking him out of the Grandmaster's Secret Realm.

Above the Kyoto Imperial Palace, Lieyang suddenly opened his eyes, staring blankly at his young and powerful hands, feeling the surging, real power within him. The ecstatic joy of his regained talent clashed violently with the despair of a century of vicissitudes in the illusion, and tears instantly streamed down his face.

Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly, and the butterfly dreamt he was Zhuangzi!

In the illusion, everything in reality is forgotten as if in a dream, and one can waste a hundred years of life in it.

If it reappears now, everything within the illusion will seem unreal.

This is the first trial in the Grandmaster's Secret Realm—the Illusory Realm of Questioning the Heart!

With its immense power, it suppressed the intruder's talent to an almost mundane abyss, completely stripping him of all memories of his own extraordinary nature, forcing him to relive his life's journey in the real, ordinary predicament.

There are only two ways to break this deadlock:

Firstly, it is to do foolish things with the body of an ordinary person.

Even if one's natural talent is as poor as mud, one can still have an almost obsessive devotion to martial arts, exhausting one's life efforts, persevering through countless setbacks, and knocking on the door of martial arts with absolute perseverance until the end of one's life.

Secondly, those who enter this secret realm are unparalleled geniuses, one in a billion, who immediately realize they are in an illusion and see through the spiritual mist. This is because the higher one's talent, the more likely they are to perceive the anomalies within this illusion.

At this moment, we are in an illusion.

The moment Wei Wanxi awakened the white entry, the real-world entry 【Dao Xin Tong Ming】 suddenly shone brightly, like a dusty pearl encountering a clear spring! A strong sense of disorientation rushed into her spirit.

She realized almost immediately: "No! This body is not me! This world is not real!"

A flash of cold light appeared in her eyes, and the illusion melted away like ice and snow.

The same was true for Shen Fuyao on the other side.

She had never known what a bottleneck in cultivation was since childhood; her cultivation was as natural and smooth as breathing.

When she found even breaking through to the Body Tempering Realm difficult and arduous within the illusion, a profound sense of absurdity and cognitive dissonance instantly shattered the illusion's facade. "This must be fake."

She parted her cherry lips slightly, her tone resolute, and the illusion shattered instantly.

And what about Ye Li?

While in the illusion, he stared blankly at Feng Yue, who had already finished practicing the "Azure Dragon Force," with a hesitant look in his eyes.

"Ye Li! What are you daydreaming about!"

In reality, the long silence and hesitation finally made Feng Yue impatient and suspicious.

Looking down at the boy before him, he asked, "How much of the Azure Dragon Force I just demonstrated do you still remember?"

Ye Li scratched his head slightly, and said hesitantly:

"Instructor, I feel like your 'Azure Dragon Force' technique... seems off?"

Feng Yue's eyes widened as if he had heard the biggest joke in the world, and he laughed in anger:

"Ha! You're barely out of school, yet you dare to lecture me? Fine! Come on, come on!"

He abruptly stepped back, making room, and pointed to the center of the open space:

"You say I'm playing wrong? Then you come up here and try it yourself!"

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Ye Li took a deep breath.

Although his mind was blank, when he stood still and raised his hands, a martial arts instinct honed from the depths of his soul instantly took over his body!

With his feet slightly apart, neither too far apart nor too far apart, a very simple frame naturally took shape.

This stance, seemingly ordinary, is perfectly harmonious, as if in perfect harmony with the earth beneath its feet, the rhythm of its breath, and even the intangible energy of heaven and earth. 【Azure Dragon Strength - Perfect】

At this moment, Ye Li was stripped of all his memories.

But the insights gained from extraordinary wisdom cannot be taken away!

Along the way, he mastered "Azure Dragon Strength," "Nine Chapters Fist Classic," "Star Shift Nine Palaces Step," and "Solidifying Essence and Locking Vital Energy Technique"...

The effects of this extraordinary wisdom are something no one can eliminate!

Even if the world changes and the sea dries up and the rocks crumble, even if Ye Li forgets who he is.

But as long as Ye Li remains himself, the insights he gains from his cultivation journey will never disappear.

The illusion at this moment only robbed Ye Li of his memories of the future.

However, the insights gained through the arduous cultivation of "world-shaking wisdom" were deeply etched into Ye Li's mind.

It's not just about martial arts techniques!

Ye Li broke through the Body Tempering Realm and then the Acquired Realm. The experiences and insights gained from each small stage were firmly engraved into his DNA.

Illusions can strip away memories, suppress talents, and even simulate the illusion of "no attributes".

However, what it cannot take away is Ye Li's martial arts insights, which have been deduced, practiced, and engraved into his very soul through countless repetitions of [world-shaking wisdom]! In other words, Ye Li at this moment can be seen as someone who possesses future martial arts experience but whose memories have been transported back to the first day. The only difference is that everything Ye Li does in this illusion is fake, and he lacks [world-shaking wisdom].

In the illusion, when faced with Feng Yue's questions, Ye Li sought help from all the gods and Buddhas in the sky, but only he himself responded!

The one currently in the illusion is none other than [Ye Li in his future form]!!!

Within the illusion, everything was generated according to the materials in Ye Li's mind, and the subsequent plot was deduced.

To Feng Yue's astonishment, Ye Li demonstrated a perfect version of the Azure Dragon Force right in front of the Azure Dragon Gang members!

On that day, Ye Li was received by Zheng Tong and officially became the young leader of the Azure Dragon Gang!

"This is a Body Tempering Pill; one pill can save a martial artist three days of arduous training!"

Zheng Tong, holding the Body Tempering Pill, looked at Ye Li and said:

"But your innate talent is too weak. I have a hundred-year-old ginseng here; I wish you success in breaking through to the realm of Qi!"

Upon hearing Zheng Tong's words, Ye Li gratefully cupped his hands and said, "Thank you very much, Master, for the medicine!"

After saying that, Ye Li grabbed the century-old ginseng pill and refined it in an instant.

As the immense medicinal power was instantly extracted and refined!

Pure energy, like rivers flowing into the sea, surged into his limbs and bones.

Ye Li moved with practiced ease, as if he had circulated his qi and blood countless times before.

In just one day, he fully mastered the technique!