Bearing the blue sky

This earth-shattering bear was none other than the father of the bears that Zhu Ge had previously slain!

The bear's mother had already been killed by the fisherman in the straw raincoat.

It's normal to get angry.

However, Zhu Ge also realized her own growth because of this.

Previously, he could barely defeat a small bear; he needed to rely on his Fierce Vajra Palm to match it.

Now, he can fight against three second-realm cultivators and a group of first-realm cultivators. If it were a one-on-one fight, he could kill this Earth Bear with just a few palm strikes.

"Vajra Palm!"

Zhu Ge struck with both palms, his lower body as stable as a rock.

On the other side, a wild boar with bloodshot eyes and tusks was knocked to the ground.

The Earth Bear was knocked off balance and fell to the ground, shaking its head, completely disoriented.

The Furious Vajra Palm... Upon seeing this scene, Zhu Ge silently rejected the name.

Actually, we're quite a good match.

Previously, he had become more and more proficient and adept at using the "Wrathful Vajra Palm".

If this continues, he estimates that within a few days he will be able to use the "Wrathful Vajra Palm" to condense the martial arts heart belonging to the Vajra Palm and enter the Mountain Crushing Realm.

"I can't continue using the Vajra Palm. I'll try the Swift Fist first. Otherwise, it will be troublesome if I really condense the Heart of Martial Arts..." Zhu Ge made up his mind.

He then began using the Swift Fist again.

This time, he used less force than when he first used it.

He brought his palms together and charged towards the earth-shaking bear, then slashed his arms outwards with a fierce motion.

"Rip—"

The earth bear's chest was immediately torn open with a large, gruesome gash, revealing blood and flesh and the exposed bones.

"Roar!!!!" The Earth Bear was in pain, its demonic energy surged, and its demonic heart pounded in its chest.

It raised two bear paws, each larger than Zhu Ge's head, and slapped them down at Zhu Ge's head with a whooshing sound.

"I ate your son's bear heart before, this time I'll taste yours." Zhu Ge immediately retreated, dodging the attack.

The next second, the tusked boar beside him nudged him again.

Both the Earth Bear and the Tusked Boar are enormous monsters.

However, in Zhu Ge's view, these two were just like him before, possessing brute force but not knowing how to use it.

"Swift Fist!"

Without using the Fierce Vajra Palm, Zhu Ge's attacks were no longer head-on collisions, but were full of agility and speed.

However, it is not as damaging as the "Wrathful Vajra Palm".

The Vajra Palm technique is powerful and heavy, making it most suitable for fighting these tough-skinned monsters.

But the Swift Fist is different.

He had just activated the Swift Fist, and although he hadn't used much of his blood energy, he had used about 20%.

As a result, this surge of blood energy could only tear open the flesh of the Earth Bear, without even damaging its bones.

"No wonder Venerable Swift warned his descendants not to be enemies with body-refining martial artists."

"A body-refining martial artist's body is indestructible. In time, the Swift Fist will be defeated in a few moves, while the body-refining martial artist can still fight even if he loses his blood and energy."

"Speaking of which, the decline of body-refining martial artists might also be related to the inheritance of their skills..."

While fighting the two transformed demonic beasts, Zhu Ge also had his mind wandering.

Anyway, he no longer had the will to escape.

The two demonic beasts that devoured essence looked down on him, a martial artist in the Resentment Realm.

Most of the monsters from the second and first realms have fled.

The two big, clumsy guys in front of him were tough and thick-skinned; he could slowly hone his Swift Fist technique on them.

At this moment, he was pondering the connection between "the rise and fall of martial arts body cultivation and the Great Prosperity Dynasty".

See the big picture in the small details!

Martial arts body training, as you can imagine, requires resources for cultivation.

Aside from food and drink, you also need to rest well and recover properly in order to achieve twice the result with half the effort in body training.

This would certainly require a family with good financial means to support it.

Under such family conditions, it is difficult to trigger the condition of "resentment".

It's not that they don't exist, but rather that they are very rare.

Those who trigger the "resentment" condition are mostly from the lower classes.

But where at the bottom level are there such good conditions to train and hone one's skills?

Therefore, the martial arts body-refining lineage gradually declined.

Conversely, there are families like the Xu family, similar to the Swift Venerable, whose inherited martial arts are all about refining blood qi.

Blood energy can be generated without resentment, and families with better natural conditions are more suitable for refining blood energy rather than body energy.

However, these well-off families, such as the Swift Venerable family, are restrained by the Body Refinement lineage.

Therefore, it is natural to hope that there are as few body cultivators as possible.

How to do it?

The transmission of the cultivation technique is now complete!

As the number of body-refining techniques in the world decreases, martial artists who refine blood and qi will naturally have less to restrain themselves from.

The decline of the Body Refinement lineage is inevitably linked to the decline of the "the strong get stronger" principle of powerful clans.

This also indirectly proves why the Great Sheng Dynasty fell to this state.

Powerful families control resources and cultivation techniques. There is no college entrance examination as a path to heaven in this world. Moreover, there are differences in power. Even if an ordinary person shouts "Are kings and nobles born with special privileges?" ten thousand times, they still can't beat a third-realm Venerable.

It's virtually impossible for anyone at the bottom to climb up the social ladder.

Rigid, inflexible, stagnant.

Those with talent lacked resources and inheritance, and the Great Sheng Dynasty followed the path of decline that Zhu Ge knew of.

But nature doesn't remain static.

The law of the jungle still applies to all demons, monsters, and gods.

The talented become stronger, while the weak are eliminated.

With this ebb and flow, how could the Great Sheng Dynasty possibly govern the people of the world?

Collapse is almost inevitable.

This was the connection that Zhu Ge suddenly realized between the decline of body-refining martial artists and the decline of the Great Sheng Dynasty.

Although this is only a glimpse, it should be largely accurate.

"Therefore, there will inevitably be many more body-refining martial artists in the future."

Zhu Ge seemed lost in thought.

With the world in chaos and powerful clans unable to control resources, even lower-level martial artists have the opportunity to acquire various resources to enhance themselves.

Driven by resentment, all that is needed is a successor to easily generate blood and energy.

In the realm of resentment, those from aristocratic families are, in a sense, mostly no match for those who have risen through the ranks from the bottom.

Turbulent times breed heroes!

Zhu Ge, in a sense, was also a beneficiary of the chaotic times.

If it weren't for the chaotic times, it would have been a dream for him to come into contact with a cultivation technique like the "Great Sun Glass Body"!

"However, the later stages of the body-refining technique 'Great Sun Glass Body' are basically compiled and speculated by its creator, so it will be quite difficult for me to continue down this path in the future."

"Even the founder said that because he was a cultivator, he found it difficult to refine his body during the Wind Refinement process, so he could not actually be considered to have cultivated."

Zhu Ge pondered repeatedly, feeling incredibly fortunate to possess the "Kunpeng" quality, being able to have his soul leave his body even without cultivation.

Otherwise, one can only end up like Mr. and Scholar Yu, who have martial arts skills but cannot practice them.

"Bang!!!"

Thinking of this, Zhu Ge made a circle to the left and right, smashing the tusked boar and the earth bear demon's heart.

"Snap!"

Two soft sounds rang out one after the other. The tusked boar howled and staggered back a few steps, blood spilling from its mouth, and its demonic heart shattered inch by inch.

The Earth Bear also fell backwards without making a sound.

Transformed monster... Dead!

"Let me see if you have any good treasures."