Under One Person: Starting with the Dual Cultivation of Body and Soul.

During this process, Li Chang'an often served as Lu Lin's sparring partner.

This sparring wasn't a back-and-forth exchange between the two. Instead, it was like boxing target practice, with Lu Lin responsible for throwing punches and Li Chang'an responsible for blocking.

During this process, Lu Lin exerted all her strength, pushing the power of the Reverse Life Second Stage to its limit, but she still couldn't shake Li Chang'an in the slightest.

Li Chang'an could withstand all of his attacks with just the three-foot-thick protective white qi surrounding his body. He didn't even need to release the "Judgment" dharma form for defense.

However, Lu Lin was not discouraged. He had long known that there was a big gap between him and his senior brother. This did not discourage him. There was an even higher mountain ahead, a visible goal and a clear path forward, which made him feel more at ease.

One day after practice, Lu Lin suddenly said, "Senior brother, Grandpa said your Dharma form can fly, and you even took Grandpa flying with you. Let me see it too."

“Sure!” Li Chang’an did not refuse. With a thought, the Judgment Dharma Image appeared behind Li Chang’an.

Lu Lin stared in shock at the enormous Dharma image behind Li Chang'an. It looked strangely like an angel from a Western story.

Immediately afterwards, he saw the Dharma image flow into Li Chang'an's body like water, and two huge wings unfolded from Li Chang'an's back. His feet slowly left the ground and hovered three feet above the ground.

Lu Lin stared blankly at the scene, not yet able to react, when Li Chang'an grabbed him by the waist and lifted him into the air.

"Ah ah ah..."

Lu Lin couldn't help but exclaim in surprise. Everything on the ground shrank rapidly in his eyes. Only then did he realize that his senior brother had taken him to the sky.

After a while, he calmed down and began to observe the sky, the clouds, and the city below, experiencing the sensations of his body flying through the air.

Li Chang'an carried him around in the air for a long time. After landing, Li Chang'an put away his Dharma form and looked at Lu Lin.

"how do you feel?"

Lu Lin took a deep breath: "It's a completely different feeling from flying!"

In truth, Lu Lin was far from calm about Li Chang'an's ability; he was actually quite envious. However, he didn't ask Li Chang'an to teach him. After all, as a member of the Lu family, he was very discreet about the inheritance of skills.

Chapter 195 Lu Jin's Breakthrough

Li Chang'an lived a peaceful life in the days that followed.

He meditates and practices Qi cultivation every day, refining the eight-sided Han sword.

Occasionally, he would practice his family's "Yuyang Sword Song" in the courtyard.

This sword technique actually contains many complex moves. But Li Chang'an never deliberately practiced them when he was learning swordsmanship.

He only practiced the most basic chopping, thrusting, parrying, sweeping, and pointing techniques. Each move was executed with unhurried speed, and the trajectory of the sword blade through the air was clean and crisp, without any superfluous movements.

Rather than saying he was practicing swordsmanship, it would be more accurate to say he was using the sword-wielding motion to relax his mind. Just like when he occasionally spreads out Xuan paper to practice calligraphy, the brushstrokes on the paper bring his mind to a state of tranquility.

About once a week, he would go to the backyard for a high-voltage electric body tempering session.

First, use the sixth level of electrical current to train the internal organs, and then use the seventh level of current to tear apart the reversal state. Through continuous tearing and recombination, steadily improve your life force foundation.

Lu Lin and Lu Jin's cultivation pace was similar to his.

After Lu Lin broke through the second barrier, her tolerance to high voltage electricity improved significantly.

The level he can now withstand has reached the level Li Chang'an was at before breaking through to the second level.

As for Lu Jin, with his profound cultivation, he was already able to attempt the eighth gear, just like that tiger.

Of course, his body-refining method is fundamentally different from that of Ruhu.

That tiger relied on the indestructible body honed by the Chai school of martial arts to withstand the electric current.

Lu Jin, on the other hand, relied on the powerful recovery ability of the Reverse Rebirth Triple.

As Lu Jin gradually adapted to the current surge at the eighth level, his reversal of life realm also saw a significant improvement.

Previously, although he could transform Qi into skin, flesh, bones, and internal organs, and even reattach severed limbs, he could never transform Qi into the Three Elixir.

That is, the Niwan Palace of the Upper Elixir, the Jiang Palace of the Middle Elixir, and the Qihai of the Lower Elixir.

This is the core of human spiritual practice.

If these three dantian suffer irreparable damage, such as being punched through in battle.

At that point, it wouldn't be as simple as the reversal of the life-giving state collapsing; there would be a direct risk of death.

With Lu Jin's current cultivation level, if he wants to advance further, he must overcome the challenge of reconstructing the three cores.

But Lu Jin never dared to take that step.

Because the risk is just too great.

To attempt to reconstruct the dantian without absolute certainty is tantamount to playing Russian roulette.

When the transformation of Qi is successful, everyone is naturally happy.

Failure to transform Qi into Qi is a dead end.

Lu Jin is already a hundred years old. Logically speaking, he should have seen through life and death long ago.

But he couldn't let go of the legacy of the Sanyi Sect, nor could he let go of the enmity between his sect and his master.

He feared that if he made a mistake, he would die and his lineage would be cut off.

So even though he had been stuck at this hurdle for many years, he still dared not touch it.

But breakthroughs are always so unexpected.

During a routine high-voltage electric body tempering, his reverse life state was torn apart, and he subconsciously began to reconstruct it.

Through years of practice and repeated cycles of tearing and reconstruction, I have become intimately familiar with all the rituals, to the point that they have become second nature to me, requiring little conscious effort to guide me.

Then he discovered that his dantian had also been reconstructed by qi transformation without him consciously cultivating qi.

After the power was cut off, Lu Jin sat on the metal stool, head down, stunned for a long time, somewhat incredulous.

He hadn't deliberately tried to overcome the obstacle, yet he managed to break through it, a hurdle that had troubled him for decades.

The whole process was as natural as Li Chang'an passing through the first and second levels of the quest.

This made Lu Jin overjoyed. She hugged Li Chang'an tightly and laughed loudly, but then tears streamed down her face.

Li Chang'an looked embarrassed. Luckily it was him; if it were the Old Master, he would have laughed so hard that he was acting like a child, crying and laughing at the same time.

It's no wonder Lu Jin was excited. Over the years, he had thought about this hurdle countless times and hesitated countless times. He always thought that he wanted to break through this bottleneck.

They either break through in a life-or-death battle or risk their lives to break through in a desperate moment, but they never thought they would just pass through an ordinary body-refining process so uneventfully.

It came too easily, which created a huge gap between his expectations and reality, giving him a strong sense of unreality.

But this unreality is precisely what is real.

Over the next few days, he kept examining his past spiritual practice and his mindset when facing this challenge.

He realized that he seemed to have taken spiritual practice too seriously and viewed it as too dangerous.

Some obstacles might be just a small ditch or a pond about half a person's height, which you could easily wade across.

But because of his own thoughts, he treated it as an unfathomable river, and insisted on swimming across it cautiously and tremblingly.

If you choose to swim across, even if it's just a small pond about half a person's height, a slight misstep could drown a person.

“Cultivation of life and spirit…the inertia of the cultivation method…it all comes naturally…” Lu Jin silently murmured these words in his heart, sighing, “The great way is simple. I understand some truths a little too late! However, though late, it is not too late. It is still worth it!”

Lu Jin then told Zhang Zhiwei about it.

Although Lu Jin wasn't a big mouth, she couldn't help but share the news of breaking through her cultivation level with her old friends.

On the other end of the phone, Zhang Zhiwei offered his congratulations repeatedly, and added sourly, "Old man, your cultivation has increased again. It might not be so easy for you to beat me up again."

Upon hearing this, Lu Jin got excited and said irritably, "Before I broke through, I could beat you in one or two moves and beat you black in the eye. Now that I've broken through, you'll be in for a world of hurt. When I go to Longhu Mountain next time, I'll definitely beat you so badly you'll be running for your life."

On the other end of the phone, the old master laughed heartily.

Subsequently, Zhang Zhiwei unsurprisingly spread the news.

Although it didn't become a big deal, most of the prominent figures in the older generation knew that Lu Jin's profound skills had advanced another step.

Soon after, many old friends came to offer their congratulations.

Feng Zhenghao personally visited the family with his two children.

For the past few years, Lu Lin has been attending university in Beijing.

Feng Shayan and Feng Xingtong help manage the business of the Tianxia Society in Tianjin.

Beijing and Tianjin are very close to each other. The Feng siblings would "bump into" Lu Lin every few days, and their interactions were quite frequent. They would also often inquire about Li Chang'an's whereabouts from Lu Lin.

Upon learning that Li Chang'an had been traveling for two years and had not returned, the two were somewhat disappointed. After all, their father had told them to befriend Li Chang'an, but they hadn't even seen him since.

When they came to the Lu family compound with their father, they naturally met Li Chang'an.

Feng Xingtong was still as outgoing as ever, and didn't feel awkward at all when she saw Li Chang'an. She came up to him and asked him all sorts of questions.

From where I've been these past two years to whether I've encountered any formidable opponents, questions kept coming my way.

Li Chang'an gave perfunctory answers to some questions without feeling embarrassed, and then switched to the next topic.

Chapter 196 Human Relationships

Feng Shayan stood next to Feng Xingtong, dressed in a sharp black leather jacket. Her hair was longer than it had been a few years ago, and her jawline was more defined. She had a cold and capable demeanor, but she would occasionally glance at Li Chang'an.

After receiving some guidance from Li Chang'an in Tianjin, she has kept his advice in mind ever since.

Since then, she no longer blindly pursues the accumulation of Qi, but instead constantly refines herself, overcomes herself, and seeks her true self.

After several years of hard work, she had indeed achieved some substantial results, so she was eager to show them to Li Chang'an.

"Li Chang'an, it's been a long time!" Feng Shayan said.

Li Chang'an nodded: "Long time no see."

“Thank you for your guidance last time. I have been honing my id-centric thinking for the past few years and want to show you the results!” Feng Shayan said.

“Okay!” Li Chang’an said with a smile.

Feng Shayan stood on the open ground outside the pavilion, her figure flashing, sometimes appearing at the edge of the courtyard, sometimes in the middle of the courtyard, and sometimes behind Li Chang'an. She would exhale at him and then disappear again.

While she was teleporting, she was also throwing punches. Even though she was on this side, her fists appeared on the opposite side of the yard, leaving several fist marks on the wall.

Li Chang'an nodded. Compared to a few years ago, Feng Shayan had become much more adept at controlling her spatial abilities, and the speed at which she could activate spatial bridging was much faster than before.

In the past, when facing opponents of similar cultivation levels, the bridging space had a delay, making it easy for the opponent to predict and dodge.

But now, her punches have become extremely unpredictable, and her spatial abilities are becoming increasingly difficult to detect.

Of course, he was only comparing her to other superhumans of the same cultivation level. In front of Li Chang'an, her every move was almost like slow motion, but for a superhuman like her, it was already remarkable that she could make progress.

After demonstrating her teleportation and Hundred Steps Divine Fist, Feng Shayan began to unleash her most powerful move, releasing her Qi to envelop the entire courtyard.

He then raised his right hand, spread his five fingers, and the air in his palm distorted slightly, revealing a spatial passage that was barely visible to the naked eye.

Li Chang'an was slightly surprised. He remembered that the last time he saw Feng Shayan, she could only open a spatial passage the size of a palm. Now, it was almost half a person tall, like a shield in front of her.

Li Chang'an raised his head slightly, and he could feel that the other end of the semi-transparent spatial passage was right above his head.

Such spatial fluctuations are difficult to detect. People with weak observation skills probably wouldn't even notice them. In fact, Jia Zhenliang didn't notice them during the Luo Tian Grand Ceremony.

Feng Shayan, unaware that Li Chang'an had discovered she had opened the other end of the spatial passage above her head, smiled confidently and said:

"Li Chang'an, try attacking me!"

Li Chang'an smiled and unleashed a modified version of the Vajra Palm at her.

A white palm print shot out through the air, heading straight for her.

What a huge palm print! When did the Reverse Life Triple Realm acquire such a long-range technique?

Feng Shayan frowned, staring intently at the approaching palm print, quickly making a mental estimate.

This volume should be barely enough for my own spatial passage.

So she stood still, neither dodging nor avoiding.

Just as the white palm print was three inches away from her body, it suddenly vanished into thin air.

The next moment, Feng Xingtong looked up at the top of Li Chang'an's head and saw a white hand whistling past, ruffling his white hair.

"Great, you've made a lot of progress!"

Li Chang'an clapped his hands in praise, saying that the palm strike he had just delivered was actually a deliberate combination with Feng Shayan's, so the size was just right.

This is also Feng Shayan's signature move. As long as the size of the opponent's attack is not larger than the area of ​​this passage, she can use this method to transfer the attack back intact.