146: Chapter 146 Breakthrough

Time flew by, and it was already night.

Li Wen returned from Nine Heavens Peak to Villa No. 1, located in the center of the villa area.

Just as the Peak Master had said, although the environment of Nine Heavens Peak was extremely beneficial for the cultivation of the Nine Heavens Divine Body, it was by no means a suitable place for long-term living. The Disciples' daily lives were still arranged in this safe and comfortable villa area.

In the cultivation room, Li Wen had already finished his daily, unwavering four hours of Blade Technique cultivation.

At this moment, he sat cross-legged in the center of the quiet room and impatiently took out the Nine Heavens Divine Body Foundation Establishment Chapter bestowed by the Peak Master from his storage space.

As the book entered his hand, the text on the cover carried a faint sensation of electric current.

Li Wen took a deep breath, suppressing the excitement in his heart caused by being about to touch a Super-grade method.

He flipped open the heavy cover, and lines of profound and difficult scriptures along with accompanying blood-qi circulation diagrams instantly met his eyes.

No longer the person he used to be, Li Wen, relying on his Mental Energy as vast as a galaxy bolstered by Scholar Lv11, as well as the massive amount of knowledge he had accumulated over the past month to Cultivate the Nine Heavens Divine Body, quickly immersed his mind in it.

The scriptures were obscure and the diagrams complex, filled with interpretations and requirements for deep-level Profound Truths of energy, particles, and the physical body, far surpassing the previous Splitting Edge Golden Fiend Method.

Li Wen mobilized his Primordial Spirit to assist in analysis and deduction.

His powerful Divine Thought allowed him to quickly scan, memorize, and gain a preliminary understanding of most of the content. The depth of thought brought by the Awakening of the second layer of the Primordial Spirit further allowed him to glimpse the slight true meaning hidden between the lines.

Unknowingly, the moon had reached the middle of the sky outside the window.

Throughout the entire night, Li Wen hardly moved an inch, completely immersed in the profound world of the Foundation Establishment Chapter.

Relying on a Foundation far exceeding that of ordinary people, he felt he had comprehended more than half of the book's content.

The core frameworks and paths regarding how to construct a Divine Demon Foundation, how to undergo an extreme transformation at the Peak of the mortal Realm, and how to preliminarily guide and refine the violent power of thunder for his own use had already formed a clear outline in his mind.

The next morning, the sunlight had just plated the villa area with a layer of pale gold.

After finishing breakfast, Li Wen returned to the study and opened the Nine Heavens Divine Body Foundation Establishment Chapter.

He did not immediately continue flipping forward; instead, he returned to the first page, starting from the most basic introduction part——

Word by word, he began an intensive re-reading.

His Primordial Spirit, like the most precise instrument, operated with Lv11 Absolute Focus, dismantling and analyzing every character and symbol.

Those parts that seemed to have been understood last night now yielded different insights upon re-reading.

Subtle descriptions previously ignored might be key nodes for energy circulation transitions; seemingly simple diagram connections might contain extremely delicate requirements for blood-qi vibration frequencies.

He discovered that much of what he thought he understood last night had actually only stayed on the surface.

The cancellation of energy conflicts, the balance of attraction and repulsion between particles, the synchronized tempering of minute Meridians——these deep Profound Truths were not things that could be fully mastered in one reading.

The pages rustled under his fingertips; Li Wen's brow would furrow at times and then smooth out again.

With the intensive re-reading, he felt his connection with this Foundation Establishment Chapter grow tighter, and his understanding deepened by another level.

The words on the book were no longer just knowledge; they were more like a set of exquisite, interlocking, and complex energy construction techniques.

As time slowly flowed toward noon, when the sunlight outside was at its most intense, Li Wen happened to flip to the last page of the Foundation Establishment Chapter once again.

He did not close the book then, nor did he impatiently attempt to circulate the technique immediately.

He merely cast a calm gaze upon his status panel information.

【Cultivation Technique: Splitting Edge Golden Fiend Method (Perfection), Nine Heavens Divine Body Foundation Establishment Chapter (40%)】

“As expected——” Li Wen understood in his heart.

The talent 'One Proof, Eternal Proof' was not a simple photographic memory; it meant that once he truly and thoroughly mastered knowledge or an ability, it would be branded upon his Dao Foundation, never to be forgotten or become rusty.

But the problem was, the process of reading a book was not equivalent to mastering it.

For some content, reading it once was just seeing and knowing; there was still a huge gap between that and understanding it thoroughly and transforming it into an instinctive cognition.

In the hurried pass just now, he had indeed remembered a lot and understood the general path, but those subtle points, unresolved parts, and details where he knew the 'what' but not the 'why' had not reached the standard of 'proof and realization.'

Therefore, the status panel only showed 40%.

“I've waited a month; there's no rush for another day or two.” Li Wen's state of mind was incredibly stable.

He was well aware of the danger of laying the Foundation for a Super-grade God-Fiend method. A ten-thousand-foot building rises from the ground; if the Foundation has even the slightest omission or deviation, future cultivation would be perilous at every step, or even lead to eternal damnation.

Studying it repeatedly and thoroughly digesting it was the right path!

Without hesitation, he flipped the book back to the first page again.

This time, he read even slower, thought deeper, and his Primordial Spirit deduced even more meticulously.

When encountering passages where the energy flow changes were difficult to understand or imagine, he would use Primordial Spirit Power to construct miniature models in his mind for simulated evolution.

He studied the Foundation Establishment Chapter by day, and at night, he punctually entered the virtual Realm of the Xinhuo World. Using the special Legacy explanation module opened by his permissions, he listened to more systematic explanations and watched energy circulation images left by predecessors to verify and deepen his daytime understanding.

Days passed one by one.

Li Wen seemed obsessed, repeatedly gnawing through that Foundation Establishment Chapter.

But in Li Wen's spiritual world, with each repetition, those scriptures and diagrams were undergoing a miraculous change.

They were no longer dead things on a book but gradually transformed into flowing radiance, operational trajectories, and jumping particles, slowly outlining and clearly appearing in the 'Dao Foundation Mirror Image' constructed by his Primordial Spirit.

Many places where he was originally stuck suddenly became clear; many seemingly calm descriptions actually hid dangerous traps; many profound terms eventually turned into understandable and controllable explicit steps.

On the morning three days later, when Li Wen closed the book of the Nine Heavens Divine Body Foundation Establishment Chapter after reading it for the fifth time, his eyes were exceptionally clear and bright.

He could feel that every profound Realm, every path of energy circulation, and every exquisite requirement of subtle vibration described in this Foundation Establishment Chapter were as deeply branded into the depths of his consciousness as a part of his body, with no more ambiguity or obstacles.

With a slight thought, he opened the status panel:

【Cultivation Technique: Splitting Edge Golden Fiend Method (Perfection), Nine Heavens Divine Body Foundation Establishment Chapter (100%)】

“Finally——100%.” Li Wen let out a long breath. This breath seemed to exhaust the mental consumption brought by days of study, leaving only a settled clarity and determination.

In these three days, he had not only thoroughly digested all the subtle mysteries of the Foundation Establishment Chapter but had also ground out nearly two——

Thousand points of scholar experience.

Looking at the progress bar that had reached 100%, Li Wen's heart burned silently.

He knew that the moment to charge toward becoming a Super Martial Artist and truly lay the Foundation for the Nine Heavens Divine Body was approaching.

The ceaseless, surging thunder on Nine Heavens Peak was about to witness him forging his Divine Demon Foundation.

After completely mastering the essence of the Nine Heavens Divine Body Foundation Establishment Chapter, Li Wen felt no complacency in his heart.

On the path of cultivation, one either moves forward or falls back, and the threshold of a Super Martial Artist was precisely the starting point of the Great Dao of Gods and Fiends.

He picked up the specialized tablet on the shelf, and with a light tap of his fingertip, the shifting light and shadow brought him into the vast interface of the Xinhuo Mall.

As the top of the gold rankings and the owner of an s-rank contract from the Kindling Hall, his permissions were extremely high, and his resource exchange channels were completely unblocked.

Without much hesitation, Li Wen directly navigated to the Divine Demon Foundation area and found the eight precious Foundation-building treasures provided for him in the contract to be used for tempering the Divine Demon Foundation during the Super Martial Artist stage.

At the same time, he also quickly selected the precious medicine used to assist a High-level Martial Artist at the Peak to Breakthrough to a Super Martial Artist—the [realm-breaking profound essence pill].

Only a few breaths after the exchange command was issued, the massive intelligent treasure vault of Kindling University, buried deep within the core of the ancestral vein, received the information.

The cold artificial intelligence operated efficiently, controlling precise and agile intelligent robots to accurately extract the corresponding treasures and Medicinal Pills from layers of protective arrays containing startling energy, carefully placing them into specially made constant-temperature, energy-shielding spiritual sealing boxes.

Then, a flat, silver-gray unmanned aerial vehicle received the command and, like an arrow from a bow, sped toward the direction of the No. 1 row villa in the freshman area, carrying the treasures that would support Li Wen's future Dao Foundation.

In less than ten minutes, that aircraft had already hovered in front of Villa No. 1, emitting a faint buzzing prompt.

The villa's intelligent butler system immediately transmitted the information to Li Wen's watch.

Li Wen's figure moved slightly, appearing at the door almost as if by teleportation.

He reached out and very cautiously took the sealing box, which was neither metal nor jade and felt cool to the touch, from the aircraft's delivery port.

Even through the highest-level sealing box, a faint, extremely pure medicinal fragrance and the exotic aura of spiritual materials still stubbornly seeped out, lingering around Li Wen's nose.

He took a deep breath, a sharp light flashing in his eyes. Without further delay, he turned and quickly returned to the martial arts room.

The room was so quiet he could hear his own heartbeat. Li Wen sat cross-legged on the cultivation platform, placing the sealing box in front of him.

In his mind, he had already deduced every detail of the Breakthrough and every node of blood-qi circulation countless times.

His Sea of Consciousness was as clear as a mirror, and his Primordial Spirit Power fluctuated slightly, ensuring the entire process was under perfect control.

He opened the first layer of the sealing box. Instantly, an even richer fragrance that was not at all overbearing but instead appeared balanced and mellow permeated the air.

Inside the box lay a thumb-sized Medicinal Pill—the [realm-breaking profound essence pill].

Its entire body displayed a deep dark-gold luster, and its surface was covered with a thick layer of pale-gold beeswax, like a miniature star about to erupt.

Li Wen gently peeled away that layer of hard beeswax shell. The pill itself was exposed to the air, its restrained dark-gold light seemingly containing infinite energy.

Without hesitation, he placed it into his mouth.

The pill melted upon entering his mouth, turning into a gentle yet powerful torrent that sank into his abdomen.

At this moment, he no longer operated the Splitting Edge Golden Fiend Method that had long reached Perfection.

In its place, the technique of the Nine Heavens Divine Body Foundation Establishment Chapter, like an instinct branded deep within his Soul, was completely activated.