Chapter 122 Soaring High, Inner and Outer Worlds

"One month?"

Li Ang stood at the edge of the cliff, facing the night wind, and lazily gave a long stretch.

"Crack, pop—"

Accompanying this movement.

The bones throughout his body emitted a series of crisp and continuous popping sounds.

In the silent night, the sound was like muffled thunder.

"Just as well, I can use this one-month cooldown period."

"I can properly familiarize myself with the Yuan Power manipulation of the Soaring Realm."

Li Ang rotated his wrists.

Feeling the energy within his body, as vast as a sea of stars, surging through his Meridians.

He couldn't help but sigh softly.

To be honest, although he was now a genuine Soaring Realm Expert.

But his control over this Realm still needed some polishing.

There was no other reason than the fact that his experience with it had been far too brief!

In that fourth simulation which lasted nearly eighty years.

Most of his time had been spent stuck at Origin Opening Realm Perfection due to Han Ming's shackles.

It wasn't until the final moment of the simulation, in order to overturn that chessboard, that he took the initiative to tear the contract apart.

Facing the backlash that was enough to shatter his Divine Soul, he resolutely broke through the Realm and stepped into Fuyao!

But the awkward part was that just as he had stepped into the Soaring Realm.

Immediately after, in order to crush the foundation of the Heavenly Ladder's composite divine art formation, he unhesitatingly performed "Boiling Blood Soul Burning."

In other words, that "Soaring Realm Trial Card" he had in the simulation.

From the moment it took effect until his light-speed "crash" and death upon the peak.

It had lasted less than a day at most!

During that entire time, he had been frantically burning his Divine Soul and Physical Body.

Where would he have found the time to carefully contemplate the wonders of the Soaring Realm?

Although, after nearly eighty years of martial arts tempering.

Li Ang's control over his Physical Body had long reached a meticulous Realm.

But the only thing he wasn't accustomed to now wasn't his body at all.

It was the "Yuan Power" within him that had skyrocketed due to the leap in Realm!

Having grown used to the output power of the Origin Opening Realm, suddenly switching to the new engine of the Soaring Realm.

There had to be a break-in period.

Take the most iconic feature of the Soaring Realm—'Flight'—for example.

Li Ang truly hadn't had a proper takeoff even once.

To get a feel for it, he didn't rush to take off.

Instead, he took a stance at the edge of the cliff.

He performed a set of Eight Extremes Fist with fluid grace.

The wind from his punches whistled, and waves of air billowed.

Completely loosening up the Yuan Power he had just acquired in his body.

After finishing the set of punches, Li Ang slightly closed his eyes and focused his mind.

"Rise."

The next second.

There was no deafening roar of blood and Qi.

Nor was there any counter-force from Yuan Power blasting against the ground.

One could only see Li Ang's feet.

Lifting off the ground extremely smoothly and without any wind!

An inch, half a meter, three meters...

His entire being was like a weightless feather, floating lightly in the night sky dozens of meters up.

The night wind brushed against the corners of his clothes, and his hair danced wildly in the wind, yet his body remained as steady as Mount Tai.

"Is this what it feels like to escape the pull of gravity..."

Li Ang looked down at the pitch-black old-growth forest beneath him, his eyes filled with novelty.

This was the first time in the real world that he truly experienced the thrill of "flight."

Previously, in the Origin Opening Realm, he could also achieve brief suspension in the air.

But that was a completely different matter.

Suspension in the Origin Opening Realm was essentially "brute-forcing a brick to fly."

It was a Martial Artist frantically blasting massive amounts of Yuan Power downwards to counteract the earth's gravity.

Not only did it consume an extreme amount of Yuan Power, but the movements were stiff and linear, at most qualifying as a "brief glide."

But flight in the Soaring Realm was an "instinct" following a leap in life's level.

Feeling the subtle changes in his body at this moment, Li Ang truly understood the essential reason why the Soaring Realm allowed for flight.

The reason Martial Artists below the Soaring Realm couldn't fly.

Was because their Physical Bodies were heavy, firmly tethered by the planet's gravitational pull.

But he was different now.

Li Ang slightly closed his eyes and could clearly sense it.

The 144 "acupoint yuan seeds" within his body were perfectly combining with his highly condensed "Martial Will," becoming one.

This was precisely the "Physical Body Sentience" and "Innate Embryonic Breathing" recorded in the Yuan Wu Dharma Gate.

At this moment, his body was no longer a heavy shell subject to gravity.

It formed an endless internal energy circulation System.

Transforming into an independent "inner heaven and earth"!

When this "inner heaven and earth" completed its own cycle and operated perfectly.

It possessed the ability to contend with the gravity of the external Great Heaven.

This achieved true "anti-gravity."

However, simply lacking gravity wasn't enough.

If one were to just float lightly in mid-air like a balloon, they would be nothing more than a passive target in actual combat.

To move at will.

One had to rely on another change born from the transformation upon breaking through to the Soaring Realm—Divine Soul Power.

Li Ang's mind stirred slightly.

That Divine Soul Power, a high-level manifestation of Martial Will and Mental Energy, instantly surged out of his body.

He felt his perception extending infinitely.

Able to directly communicate with and even command the vast Origin Qi of the heavens and earth.

The Divine Soul at this moment.

Was like a pair of invisible wings.

Li Ang's Divine Soul invisibly "stepped" on the surrounding Origin Qi to gain leverage.

Where the heart directed, the body followed.

Advancing and retreating at will.

Like a fish in water or a bird spreading its wings.

This was true "Flying by Qi, Treading on Air"!

Li Ang freely traced a graceful arc in the night sky.

Looking at the mountain forests flashing by beneath him, he couldn't help but sigh softly:

"The Roc rises with the wind one day, Soaring ninety thousand miles... the ancients did not deceive me."

Li Ang freely changed directions several times in the night sky.

At times weaving through the forest like a swimming dragon, at others shooting straight into the clouds like a sharp arrow.

That feeling of absolute freedom and total control made him want to let out a long howl to the heavens.

After flying for a short while, he gradually became accustomed to the sensation of flight.

Li Ang slowly descended and returned to the cliff.

As for those divine arts learned in the Grotto-Heaven.

Li Ang did not plan to use them in the outside world for the time being.

After all, those methods carried a very strong "Divine Dao" flavor.

And they were all deduced under the unique rule System of the Grotto-Heaven.

He hadn't performed any tests outside the Grotto-Heaven in the simulation.

Whether these divine arts would be reliable in the outside world or if they would attract unnecessary trouble?

It was all currently unknown.

Li Ang cleared his thoughts and then turned to walk down the mountain.

Arriving at the foot of the mountain, he hopped onto the second-hand electric scooter hidden in the grass.

Accompanied by the "buzzing" sound of the motor.

This Soaring Realm Martial Artist, who had just experienced "immortal" treatment in the sky.

Braving the cold late-night wind, he very down-to-earthly rode the electric scooter back to his rented room in the Urban Village.