Chapter 147 Fish Fry Competition, Yuan Power Breakthrough!

[Ever since your public Martial Arts Realm broke through to the Ninth Stage of Qi and Blood.]

[Once it's time for Martial Skill class, "Liu Qing" stops pretending.]

[Every time, she uses a high-sounding excuse.]

[Saying she needs to properly train you, the top student.]

[Then she brazenly lets you take the stage to substitute for her class.]

[While she sits on the side, slacking off and drinking tea.]

[Of course, she still occasionally has you go up...]

[...to demonstrate Martial Skill sparring with her.]

[However, this time it's a genuine demonstration.]

[Both parties' movements are slow, and the power delivery is clear.]

[There is none of that pressing, probing intent from before.]

[After all, she has already confirmed your identity.]

[She treats you as a junior that the Investigation Bureau is focusing on cultivating.]

[In July, before the summer vacation began.]

["Liu Qing" called you to the office and gave you six thick sets of documents.]

["These are registration forms for some commercial competitions held in nearby counties and cities during the summer break."]

["Go participate."]

[At this point, "Liu Qing" had already revealed her identity to you.]

[After all, you had met before at the Wuyue City Investigation Bureau.]

[So, although you guessed she was Cold Kite...]

[...on the surface, you only knew she was someone sent by the Investigation Bureau.]

[Therefore, this competition task she gave you...]

[...was actually the intent of the Great Grandmaster.]

[To let you accumulate fame and expand your reputation.]

[You gladly accepted.]

[Initially, when Old Wu found out, he was somewhat puzzled.]

["Why are you going to participate in those kinds of competitions?"]

[Old Wu frowned.]

["With an Origin Opening Realm like me acting as your sparring partner..."]

["...you don't need to participate in these kinds of competitions at all."]

[However, he didn't think much of it.]

[He just assumed you were young and aggressive, having just broken through to the ninth stage.]

[Wanting to showcase your martial prowess on an outside stage.]

[After all, in his view, unless you were going to big cities like Wuyue, Suzhou and Hangzhou, or Ningzhou...]

[...otherwise, in these surrounding small counties and cities, your opponents would basically be students at the sixth or seventh stage of Qi and Blood.]

[This truly held no challenge for you; it was pure noob stomping.]

[Actually, during the third simulation...]

[...Old Wu also wanted you to participate in these kinds of commercial youth competitions with prize money.]

[Although they didn't have much of a tempering effect, you could earn some extra cash.]

[But back then, for the sake of extreme life-and-death tempering...]

[...you chose to go to the underground boxing rings in Ningzhou to fight bare-knuckle matches.]

[But this time.]

["Noob stomping is fine; I'll just treat it as a vacation out of town."]

[During the summer break, you fought a total of five competitions, large and small.]

[It should have been six, but two of them had conflicting schedules.]

[You very realistically chose the one with the higher prize money.]

[To be honest, while these were called competitions, to you...]

[...these opponents were basically all trash that could be dealt with in a single punch.]

[There was no need to draw your blade at all.]

[After you swept through these competitions and won the championships with overwhelming momentum...]

[...when the local martial arts media promoted you...]

[...they gave you an extremely resounding title.]

["One-Punch Little Grandmaster"!]

[Standing on the podium, looking at the fanatical audience below, you felt a bit of emotion.]

["These are the normal opponents someone my age should be facing."]

["Stomping noobs is still more satisfying."]

[However, after stomping too many noobs, it eventually gets boring.]

[Especially when the 'small fry' are only in the Qi and Blood Realm.]

[Sometimes, feeling the increasingly pure Origin Power within your body...]

[...a thought would rise in your heart:]

["When will I be able to have a real, uninhibited fight against a true Soaring Realm Martial Artist like Cold Kite?"]

["Positive, serious, and without any reservations?"]

[...]

[Time flies like a shuttle, like a white horse passing a gap.]

[Soon, the summer vacation was about to end.]

[After participating in so many competitions, people in the nearby counties and cities basically knew one thing.]

[A martial arts Genius had emerged from Longnan City, matchless among his peers.]

[This immense fame attracted the attention of many forces.]

[Of course... that included the Heart-Eroding Cult informants lurking in the shadows.]

[And during these two noisy months...]

[...your refinement of your own Origin Power finally saw a Breakthrough.]

[In your rough classification, the refinement of Origin Power in the Soaring Realm...]

[...can be divided into three extremely critical stages.]

[These were all from your last simulation...]

[...sitting in the grotto-heaven for decades, combined with the Divine Dao's computational power.]

[...guesses that you summarized and deduced bit by bit.]

[Although they might differ slightly from the definitions in those top-tier Martial Arts Legacies, they are mostly the same.]

[You guess that these three stages are the necessary path to the Mountain-Sea Realm.]

[First Stage: Vast as a Sea of Light, Condensed and Unfailing.]

[This is the state just after being promoted to Soaring.]

[Qi and blood sublimate, and the magnitude of Origin Power explodes, as majestic as a sea of light.]

[At this stage, Origin Power is no longer as easily dissipated as in the Origin Opening Realm, but possesses extremely strong stability.]

[In one month of real time, relying on the Cangming Circulation 1.0...]

[...you have completely stabilized at this stage.]

[Second Stage: Dust into Order, Subtlety into One.]

[This is a stage that requires long-term deep refinement.]

[A Martial Artist needs to exercise even finer control over the vast Origin Power.]

[Letting the Origin Power interweave layer by layer, as dense as silk threads.]

[After reaching the extreme of refinement, one can perform very precise micro-manipulation of Origin Power.]

[For example, during the fourth simulation...]

[...Cold Kite was able to easily extract a wisp of foreign aura you left inside Zhang Dehai's body.]

[What she relied on was the absolute control of this stage.]

[Third Stage: Pivot of Heaven and Earth, Internal and External Profundity.]

[This is the ultimate goal a Soaring Realm Martial Artist wants to achieve in refining Origin Power.]

[The internal Origin Power structure completely transforms into a pivot of heaven and earth.]

[Becoming a bridge for communication between the "inner heaven and earth" and the "Outer Heaven and Earth."]

[Only by reaching this step...]

[...can one achieve the Realm of the unity of heaven and man, borrowing the momentum of the world.]

[...thereby touching the threshold of the Mountain-Sea Realm.]

[And now, you...]

[...after experiencing nearly a year of alternating real-world and simulation accumulation...]

[...plus the day and night of tireless refinement during the summer break...]

[...finally successfully broke through the crude accumulation of the first stage.]

[You have successfully stepped into the second stage of "Dust into Order"!]

[On that late night when you reached the second stage...]

[You closed your eyes and looked inward.]

[Immediately, you discovered a distinct new change within your inner heaven and earth!]