Chapter 154 - 14: Breakthrough Inner Breath like Tide (3/3, thanks to League Leader Liu Anhua Youming!)

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Chapter 154: Chapter 14: Breakthrough Inner Breath like Tide (3/3, thanks to League Leader Liu Anhua Youming!)As always, An Jing’s mind delved deep into the Divine Sea, protected by the Sword Spirit. Breaking through the Inner Breath like Tide was not difficult; it was fundamentally a matter of gradual effort. Put simply, the human body is like a large water tank. For ordinary people, their innate qi is nothing more than some moist vapor floating in the tank, and when the vapor is exhausted and dissipates, people age and die. Prior to the Triple Nourishment of Inner Breath, no matter how complex the martial arts, in essence, they are all about sharpening the Mind, Body, and Technique through dynamic and static methods to condense Yin and Yang, solidifying the body’s innate qi from vapor to droplets, transforming it into strings and strands of controllable Inner Breath. Next, it involves continuously condensing Inner Breath until it fills the body of the tank so that even if one exerts great force shaking the tank, it will not produce any turbulence, reaching the peak of the Inner Breath like Tide. Upon reaching this stage, one can attempt to condense the Divine Abnormality and break the barrier between Inner Breath and Inner Strength. Listening to this, the entire realm of Inner Breath cultivation appears very simple, perhaps simpler than initially breaking through to the realm of Inner Breath. Indeed it is so. But just as being a porter is not difficult at all, it’s very hard to persist until old age. Similarly, the Essence Qi within a person’s body constantly depletes. The majority of people’s ability to condense Inner Breath speeds up only until they are thirty, after which it continually declines until it can barely maintain without deterioration, and declines rapidly to nothing before death. For those with average talent, if they start cultivating from a young age, by thirty they could have cultivated their Inner Breath to be as Vast as a River. But without Spiritual Objects and other resources, they won’t be able to reach Inner Breath like Tide in their lifetime. This is the natural threshold of the realm. Even for those with great talent, it’s difficult to surpass this threshold because the better the talent, the faster the speed of condensing Inner Breath, and the bigger their water tank, which means it won’t take significantly less time, aside from being able to use more Inner Breath at the same level. Wealthy families can easily break through this barrier by accumulating resources. They just need to raise enough offspring and wait for one of them to awaken their Fate Pattern, allowing them to possess a martial master or even a Grandmaster of Martial Meridian, thereafter becoming a great clan in the region. Talent. Resources. Luck. These three barriers—they can break through two, and the last one, luck, can also be compensated for by having more children and raising them from a young age. However, for ordinary people, they first need to have the talent to independently break through the threshold of Inner Breath like Tide without resources, then they need a Fate Pattern capable of awakening without dying prematurely; only then can they leap over the dragon gate. All three barriers must be fully and solidly broken through. Yet even after breaking through these three barriers, there are still limitations ’Cultivation Technique’ can impose. With the same talent and realm, whoever has a better cultivation technique has an advantage—and in this aspect, aristocratic Sects have the advantage. One individual can never triumph over an organization. Yet An Jing was different. He possessed exceptional talent, had resources from two realm doors, and was gifted cultivation techniques by the Heavenly Demon, Demon Sect, and Sword Spirit. Even though his water tank was very large, he was able to rapidly fill it and swiftly master immense combat power. He was the type of person destined to forge his power single-handedly, bound to cause a stir and shake the entire world. "Is this why, in this world governed by Fate Patterns, everyone is still building power organizations and constructing Sect states... As long as one controls resources and enough population, even Fate Patterns, or even Heavenly Mandate could wait," His mind surged with thoughts, and initially, An Jing didn’t know why he was pondering these things. But soon, he understood that this was his speculation on how the entire world operates, His Fate Pattern ’Seven Fiend’ was destined to overthrow the world, but An Jing did not plan to blindly rebel and topple those dynasties and aristocratic families like previous masters of the Seven Fiend Fate Pattern did. This held no meaning at all. For even if one were to reduce everything to ruins, burn it to ashes, to this world, it was merely another cycle. Whether the Seven Fiend Destiny’s master could overthrow the world or not, as long as there were people, as long as communities existed, there would always be new dynasties, Sects, and great clans. To thoroughly change heaven and earth, and create a new realm of mankind, not only did An Jing need to have his own influence, but he also needed to thoroughly understand the principles of how the old forces operated. Only by completely understanding could one completely deconstruct the other. "It’s not just that." An Jing waited for the Spiritual Objects within him to be digested by the One Qi Nourishing Body Art, and then he thought of the ’Imperial Scholar’ his father had always cherished. Beyond this set of gathering resources, producing many offspring, and recruiting students while waiting for the Heavenly Mandate, Da Chen’s ability to firmly hold the master position of the North Mysterious Sacrifice Continent was because it possessed the power to appoint officials and Grant Talismans for longevity. His father’s martial talents were average, but with the scholastic fame of a candidate in the Imperial exam, returning to his hometown with a County Magistrate position, he could perform a few minor Arts of Magic, such as Gentle Wind Skills, Light Body Skill, and Eagle Vision Skills. It was precisely because of such abilities that the An Family prospered more and Da Chen remained stable because of it. If one were to regard Da Chen as an opponent, there was no doubt it was a terrifyingly formidable one. It might be decaying, weakening, but it was never possible for it to collapse on its own, for in order to get the talisman, for longevity, all the smart individuals who hadn’t awakened to their Fate Pattern across the world would flock to the imperial court, becoming the most solid foundation of this system. This was also why An Jing, despite having the Subdue Evil Sword, being among the Children of Calamity, and even possibly receiving investment help from the Gu Yeqi family behind him, still chose to move on his own in Da Chen. It was because he was wary of the hidden Heavenly Demon within Da Chen and also because he wanted to delve deeper into understanding Da Chen from various aspects. Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be imperiled in a hundred battles. But ultimately, to forge iron you must be strong yourself, An Jing was clear about priorities—with his current strength, if he entered Da Chen and got involved in the strife behind the Gu Family, things would become troublesome, and establishing influence would be out of the question. It would be better to become stronger before establishing an organization—Martial Meridian masters could build cities, Divine Repository True Person could establish Sects, and Manifesting Holy... could perhaps create a Sect, a state! Strength determines the starting point! "A long road is the shortcut, and a shortcut is in fact the long road." Having realized all this, An Jing’s mind was completely clarified, and the flesh and blood of the Golden-haired Bear’s Paw he had ingested began to be digested, burning vigorously. It felt like a burst of fire suddenly exploded in his chest, a series of hot currents like tiny knives kept spreading, from the stomach to the lungs, from the lungs flowing to the heart, and from the heart spreading throughout the whole body. An Jing circulated the Tranquil Sword Manual and the One Qi Life-Nourishing Secret to control this heat flow, turning it into little files to polish the Rusty Sword, guiding it through the meridians around his body. On the outside, An Jing began to breathe deeply and steadily, his exhaling unceasing, corresponding to the ’metal’s’ meaning of gathering, condensing the power of the Spiritual Objects into one. Internally, his Divine Sense was continuously guiding this robust innate qi to polish his whole body’s hundred meridians, corresponding to the ’metal’s’ meaning of renewing the old. Working steadily on two fronts, An Jing’s originally stable Inner Breath suddenly began to flow faster, and in its flow, continuously absorbed the innate qi of the Spiritual Objects, making him increasingly robust. An Jing gathered his spirit because next, when the robustness of the Inner Breath breached a critical point, if his meridians and flesh and blood weren’t tough enough, if his control wasn’t strong enough, he would be torn apart by the violent Inner Breath torrents. However, when An Jing’s Inner Breath smoothly broke through to Inner Breath like Tide, he still didn’t sense any danger. "Ah?" After a while, An Jing, who had broken through to Inner Breath like Tide, opened his eyes and frowned tightly, "Did I break through?"

Chapter 154 - 14: Breakthrough Inner Breath like Tide (3/3, thanks to League Leader Liu Anhua Youming!)

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