24: Middle stage of Vajra Realm

[First year, you carefully study the blade forms of the Blood Sabre Manual, observe the manual, and combined with your insights from the Demon Suppression Blade, you easily comprehend the first style of the Blood Sabre Manual: Blood Shadow Blade.]

[Third year, the Blood Shadow Blade is already very proficient, but you still haven't touched the threshold of the second style; you continue to contemplate and practice diligently.]

[Seventh year, you finally comprehend the second style of the Blood Sabre Manual: Gale Blade.]

[Eighteenth year, your Comprehension Ability is very poor; even with the annotations from the Blood Sabre himself, some key points remain incomprehensible.]

[Twentieth year, relying on the accumulation of time, you forcibly comprehend the third style of the Blood Sabre Manual: Void Breaking Blade.]

[Whenever it is a full moon, with the help of the moonlight, the power of the blade doubles.]

[Thirty-eighth year, you comprehend the fourth style of the Blood Sabre Manual: Blood Sabre Slash.]

[Forty-fifth year, your understanding of the Blood Sabre Manual becomes increasingly mature, and combined with your calm and unhurried personality, you are getting closer and closer to comprehending the fifth style.]

[Forty-eighth year, you comprehend the fifth style of the Blood Sabre Manual: Mountain Severing Slash.]

[Fifty-seventh year, you comprehend the sixth style of the Blood Sabre Manual: Soul Extinguishing Slash.]

[Sixtieth year, your Comprehension Ability seems to have reached its limit; you gain nothing.]

[Sixty-ninth year, you gain nothing.]

[Seventy-second year, you gain nothing.]

"..."

Chu Jiang stopped the infusion of demon life essence.

The martial arts talent of this body is truly worse than average, stopping at the sixth style.

Its talent compared to the Blood Sabre is not just a little bit worse.

The Blood Sabre spent over twenty years to Cultivate to the seventh style.

He took twenty years for just the third style.

The Blood Sabre Manual has three styles for Minor Achievement, six styles for Major Achievement, and nine styles for Perfection.

In the Innate Realm, comprehending the first six styles already provides the capital to contend with the Vajra Realm.

But this is not enough.

As the demon life essence continues to be infused, the panel begins to flip.

[Eighty-third year, you contemplate painstakingly, but still have no results.]

[Ninety-fifth year, you feel like your brain cells are about to be exhausted, your head is splitting, and the seventh style remains a distant prospect.]

[Ninety-ninth year, the limit of comprehension for the Innate Realm is the sixth style; you doubt whether you should continue.]

[One-hundredth year, you grit your teeth and stop contemplating the seventh style; instead, you go to refine the first six styles, attempting to find a way to break the deadlock from the previous blade styles.]

[One-hundred-eighth year, you successfully comprehend the seventh style of the Blood Sabre Manual: Blood Moon in the Sky.]

[One of the Blood Sabre's great killing moves; on a full moon night, with the help of the Blood Moon's power, the power of the Blood Sabre can be unleashed to the extreme.]

[Vajra Martial Art: Blood Sabre Manual (Major Achievement)]

"..."

Chu Jiang feels a powerful force surge into his mind, and over a hundred years of blade Dao experience and techniques from the Blood Sabre Manual emerge in his mind.

The next moment.

He changes; his eyes are sharp as blades, his Aura is like a rainbow, and a terrifying Aura permeates his entire being.

"Innate Peak!"

Chu Jiang calms his thoughts and exhales a breath of stale air.

His Meridians have widened, and a Breakthrough is too difficult; the next step is to liquefy all the True Qi in his body.

Break through to the Vajra Realm.

This time, Chu Jiang does not continue to infuse the demon life essence; this should be the limit of the Innate Realm.

If he continues to deduce, it will only consume a large amount of demon life essence for no gain.

Moreover, combat-oriented martial arts have a relatively small effect on increasing one's Realm.

The Wind and Thunder Vajra Body is the main subject; he must keep enough Lifespan to deduce this Cultivation Technique.

Internal Skill is the foundation.

Chu Jiang collects his focus and takes out the Wind and Thunder Vajra Body to read.

After reading it, Chu Jiang discovers that this Cultivation Technique does not require Comprehension Ability; it relies purely on accumulation. It requires the consumption of vast resources, if one relies solely on absorbing the energy between heaven and earth.

Just to reach the entry level requires a hundred years.

Minor Achievement requires several hundred years.

For an ordinary person, without a massive supply of resources, they would barely reach the entry level even if they Cultivated until death.

The consumption of such a Cultivation Technique can only be afforded by some top-tier major sects.

When Chu Jiang sees the few large characters gradually appearing on the panel, it feels a bit more reasonable.

[Grandmaster Martial Art: Wind and Thunder Vajra Body Upper Volume (Not yet entered)]

[demon life essence: 578 years]

"..."

Seeing the text on the panel clearly, Chu Jiang's spirits are lifted.

If he has the Opportunity in the future to obtain the second half of this martial art, it will be a true Grandmaster Martial Art.

Chu Jiang does not hesitate.

He infuses the massive demon life essence into the Wind and Thunder Vajra Body.

Several hundred years it is; the Lifespan he just obtained hasn't even warmed up before it's about to disappear again.

[First year, you begin to Cultivate the Wind and Thunder Vajra Body, opening the acupoints in your body; you attempt to absorb the energy between heaven and earth to refine your Physical Body, but the results are minimal.]

[Third year, the Cultivation of the Wind and Thunder Vajra Body consists of opening the acupoints in the body one by one to refine one's own Physical Body; reaching the entry level requires opening the nine major acupoints in the body.]

[Tenth year, your Cultivation of the Wind and Thunder Vajra Body is quite proficient; although the progress is slow, you still open two acupoints in your body.]

[Ninety-eighth year, you have opened seven acupoints, only one step away from the nine-acupoint entry level.]

[One-hundred-twenty-third year, all nine acupoints are open; next, you need to fill the nine acupoints to truly reach the entry level.]

[One-hundred-thirtieth year, you absorb the energy of heaven and earth to open new acupoints while refining the nine major acupoints, filling them up.]

[One-hundred-thirty-eighth year, your nine acupoints reach Perfection, the True Essence in your Meridians fully liquefies, you successfully step into the Early Stage of the Vajra Realm, and the Wind and Thunder Vajra Body reaches the entry level.]

Chu Jiang opens his eyes, feeling the surging power within his body like crashing waves.

His muscles begin to swell, as if infinite energy is injected into them; every inch of muscle emits a faint golden light, as if wearing a layer of golden armor, indestructible.

The capacity of True Essence in his body has expanded dozens of times compared to the Innate Realm, and the energy contained in the True Essence has undergone a qualitative change in both purity and density.

His five senses are more acute; he can see an ant on a tree a hundred meters away through the window, and his perception of his surroundings has increased by more than double.

This Wind and Thunder Vajra Body is already this monstrous just at the entry level; if he makes further Breakthroughs, he dare not imagine what other changes will occur.

It's just that the consumption is a bit too high.

Chu Jiang looks at the panel again; it took nearly 140 years to reach the entry level.

For this martial art, the difficulty of Breakthrough at each level is several times that of the previous level.

He is now a bit skeptical whether his remaining Lifespan can help him step into Minor Achievement.

He seems to recall something and takes the meat core obtained from the Black Tiger Mountain underground palace into his hand.

"This meat core contains a significant amount of energy. If I hold it in my hand and mentally chant that I will eat it later, will it transfer its energy to the panel?"

Chu Jiang ponders; he acts as soon as he thinks of it, and there's no harm in trying.

[One-hundred-thirty-ninth year, you consume the mysterious demon core, comprehend a trace of Wind and Thunder power, and Cultivation efficiency increases.]

[One-hundred-fortieth year, the mysterious demon core is exhausted, and you open eight acupoints in your body in succession.]

[Two-hundred-fiftieth year, you absorb the Origin Qi of heaven and earth day and night, opening seventeen acupoints in your body.]

[Three-hundred-twenty-fifth year, you open twenty-eight acupoints in your body, forming a Minor Circulation.]

[Three-hundred-fortieth year, your twenty-eight acupoints reach Perfection, the Wind and Thunder Vajra Body reaches Minor Achievement, and you advance to the Middle Stage of the Vajra Realm.]

[Your Physical Body possesses Wind and Thunder power, which can break evil and exorcise demons, and paralyze the enemy's nerves.]

[Grandmaster Martial Art: Wind and Thunder Vajra Body Upper Volume (Minor Achievement)]

[demon life essence: 238 years]

[Own Lifespan: 120 years]