Chapter 408: Chapter 286: Not Good! Someone is Proving Dao! [End of the Month! Vote for Monthly Ticket!]_2
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"Hidden Dragon" Number Twenty ’Instantly Create Mountains’ Shi Qingke!"
"What he is cultivating is the fortuitously acquired ’Erlang Sword’, with swordsmanship based on the Eight Diagrams, intending to sweep the sword in all directions, focusing on one, entangle two, advance three, pull four, cut five, seize six."
Look at Shi Qingke!
Sharp sword in hand, exhibiting a majestic demeanor, integrating form and spirit, combining movement and stillness, balancing Yin and Yang, with both offense and defense, densely packed swordsmanship, subtle and exquisite changes.
This ’Erlang Sword’ is advantageous for actual combat, and excels at fighting against many, dealing with group attacks!
"No wonder!"
"No wonder Shi Qingke chose to challenge the Si Character Arena that everyone avoids like the plague, because this swordsmanship is perfectly suitable for dealing with the hundred or so White Bone Forest!"
Yan Chuan ignored his opponent in the arena, boldly began speaking again, this time talking about the swordsmanship of Shi Qingke in the ’Hidden Dragon’ Number Twenty.
The ’Erlang Sword’ that Shi Qingke cultivates comes from the Mountain and Sea Realm, created by a great master from the Mountain and Sea Realm in life and death battles on the battlefield, every move and style, not a hint of ostentation, everywhere is killing intent, each strike can be deadly.
This is a swordsmanship extremely focused on actual combat.
At this moment Shi Qingke attacks the arena, sword in hand, charging into the White Bone Forest, sword light flying everywhere, maneuvering with agility, showing the foundation of swordsmanship with every move.
Occasionally remaining still, striking late to seize the advantage!
Sometimes acting swiftly, gaining the upper hand with speed!
Still like a sick cat, upper body relaxed, lower body steady, feet rooted!
When moving, like a fierce tiger descending the mountain, brave and swift.
Sometimes fierce.
Sometimes deeply understanding the principle of ’borrowing force to exert force, Four Ounces Move a Thousand Pounds’, capable of using softness to overcome hardness, to achieve the effect of defeating the enemy.
"The whole set of sword techniques does not emphasize style, does not emphasize softness or hardness, regardless of whether the sword is firm or soft, whether still or moving, as long as it defeats the enemy, kills to achieve victory, it is a good sword, all embraced and utilized by the ’Erlang Sword’!"
"Hence, it can be seen that the content of the ’Erlang Sword’ is rich, although the routines are all concise and direct, these concise and direct routines are numerous, which makes the style of the ’Erlang Sword’ unique."
"Numerous routines, yet extremely coherent. Varied changes, with reality within illusion, illusion within reality, having both hardness and softness, hand, eye, body, stepping techniques tightly integrated, flashing, displaying, soaring, maneuvering flexible and changeable."
"Passing through thousands of flowers!"
"Slashing through thousands of flowers!"
"Cutting through a thousand leaves!"
"The killing intent runs through to the end, look at that White Bone Forest, look at those white bones, each with iron bones, nearly equal to the pinnacle of Limit-breaking and Peak of Bone Training, with unusual power running through, impervious to sword and spear."
"Even Peng Fannian was forced off the arena!"
"But Shi Qingke endured!"
Yan Chuan focused on the ’Si Character’ arena, noticed Shi Qingke fiercely battling the White Bone Forest, seeing that despite being besieged by over a hundred white bones, each white bone possessed Limit-breaking level power, the stronger ones comparable to Late Stage Limit-breaking, the weaker ones also at the Early Limit-breaking stage.
Swarming!
Forming into formation!
Being in it, only feeling the white bones forming a forest, blotting out the sky and earth, completely unable to defend.
But Shi Qingke wielded the sword to move constantly, clearly continually shifting, yet seemingly rooted, with white bones like forests and mountains, Shi Qingke standing on the ground, yet able to split the mountains!
"Sword like a meteor, eyes like lightning, waist like a snake, feet fast as a drill!"
"Walking like the wind, standing like a nail!"
"Moving swiftly, calm when static, posture upright, moves rounded."
"Marvelous, marvelous, marvelous!"
"Truly marvelous!"
"Refining Essence to Qi, Refining Qi to Divinity, Refining the Spirit and Returning to Void. Body doesn’t move when cultivating Essence, heart doesn’t move when cultivating Qi, intent doesn’t move when cultivating the Spirit. When still and unmoving, feeling and comprehending, then Refining the Spirit Returning to Void, this profoundness should be self-realized."
Yan Chuan continued to explain, finally enlightened: "Shi Qingke’s attack on the arena is not for the attack, it’s to sharpen the ’Erlang Sword’ with the ’White Bone Forest’!"
"Breaking the formation would make the sword transparent!"
"Sword transparency leads to Sword Bone transparency!"
"This is not an arena attack!"
"This is a breakthrough!"
"Shi Qingke!"
"He wants to break into the Innate realm!"
Yan Chuan shouted urgently.
He had personally witnessed Tian Jing lighting the beacon flames, entering the Innate Realm, during a martial arts lecture at Suanzao Mountain.
But at that time, Yan Chuan hadn’t even understood the ’Tiger and Leopard Thunder Sound’, nor reached the Qi-Blood limit, let alone reached Innate or even Limit-breaking.
He was completely clueless.
At that time he was an outsider.
This time is different.
Before Shi Qingke fully revealed his true intentions, from his performance and the analysis of the ’Erlang Sword’, Yan Chuan determined, with a surge of understanding, he was certain: "Shi Qingke! On the brink of a breakthrough!"
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"Break into Innate?"
"How easy can that be!"
The Heavenly Masters overlooking the mortal world originally paid attention to Shi Qingke, but merely glanced casually, not delving deeper, until hearing Yan Chuan’s explanation, Yan Chuan’s exclamations, they focused more intently, contemplated a bit, and finally saw: "Shi Qingke is indeed attempting a breakthrough."
But Heavenly Masters have passed through this before, they know better than Yan Chuan, more than any Postnatal Peak and Peak of Limit-breaking on the arena, the difficulty of ascending to the Innate realm.
Below Innate, all are ants!
How difficult it is to become ’human’ from ’ants’?
Jiang Bianliu sat in seclusion for ten years, studying countless boxing techniques, researching endless boxing principles, his strength rising continuously, residing in the Hidden Scripture Pavilion, unknowingly reaching the Peak of Limit-breaking.
But still no chance of achieving Innate.
Until Yan Chuan’s ’Xingyi Boxing’ emerged, with the essence of all boxing art, suddenly understanding a principle, leading to understanding countless principles, only then did Jiang Bianliu break through in his later years, achieving Innate.
Then look at Tian Jing.
He was already in contact with martial arts from the Mountain and Sea Realm before the Great Yan Buwu, he was already a Heavenly Pride, afterward with the Great Yan Buwu, as the Mountain and Sea Realm emerged from the shadows, Tian Jing joined the Traveler Department, traveled the Fifteen States, frequently visited the Mountain and Sea Realm, accumulating knowledge, later, with the "Mutual Teaching and Learning" from Yan Chuan enhancing his comprehension by 50%, slightly pushed, finally making that last-minute goal.
But what about Shi Qingke?
Only twenty-five years old!
His accumulation—
"Is it enough?"
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"Not enough!"
"Qi travels throughout the body, sinks into the Dantian, cultivating the heart and gathering Qi."
"When an opponent attacks, I receive and counter afterward, that’s called the receiving method. When an opponent attacks, I receive and counter simultaneously, that’s called intercepting method. When an opponent approaches, I escape and transform, with attacks within transformation, called transforming method."
"Among the three methods, one method surpasses the other, the third is the most profound."
"Immortal Shadow Swapping!"
"Can’t be swapped!"
"Can’t break through!"
"Cultivate the heart, gather qi, sink into the Dantian, yet Qi struggles to reach throughout the body."
"There are obstacles!"
"There are flaws!"
"This Innate cannot be achieved!"
Yan Chuan raised the ’White Horn Trumpet’, shaking his head continuously, full of regret.
He likes to see someone achieving Innate, he even hopes everyone in the Great Yan becomes like dragons, each one an Innate Grandmaster or even stronger Great Grandmaster, as more people get stronger, Yan Chuan’s "Mutual Teaching and Learning" effect becomes more powerful, which is a good thing.
If Shi Qingke can break through, Yan Chuan would only be delighted, not jealous at all.
Unfortunately—
"Just a little bit more."
Yan Chuan sighed inwardly, looked again at Shi Qingke on the distant arena, seeing him wielding the treasure sword, dispersing several dozens of white bones, almost breaking through the White Bone Forest, but ultimately still unsustainable, eventually unable to break through—
The white bones are hard to break!
So is Innate!
"What a pity!"
Ma Hongniang holding the ’White Bone Banner’ stood behind more than a dozen white bones, watched Shi Qingke with headstrong momentum, fading then exhausting, felt sorry for Shi Qingke in her heart.
Just a dozen more white bones, and Shi Qingke could have reached her.
Once reaching!
With Shi Qingke’s momentum, accumulated to the pinnacle, Ma Hongniang admitted she didn’t have a chance of winning, she would surely become a stepping stone for Shi Qingke’s path to proving the Dao of Innate.
She was already waiting.
Hoping to witness the birth of a new Innate.
It’s just a pity, those who travel a hundred miles, often stumble at ninety; Shi Qingke ultimately fell.
"Brother Shi!"
"Keep striving, do not despair."
"To have such accomplishments at your age has already far surpassed me."
Ma Hongniang, though wielding the White Bone Banner to control the White Bone Forest, seemed terrifying, in truth, she was a gentle kind older sister, she worried that Shi Qingke would be deeply affected by this defeat, resulting in his path to Innate breaking, couldn’t help but comfort him.
Shi Qingke leaned on his sword, kneeling, and lifting his head to look at Ma Hongniang’s worried face behind the white bones, seeing that the surrounding white bones reorganized without attacking him, he was moved, with sweat on his forehead and a flushed face: "Thank you, Sister!"
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