103: Chapter 103 Another Breakthrough

"Given your current Mental Strength and martial arts Realm, you can barely control [Po Yuan], but to truly unleash its power, you must wait until you reach the Spirit Ascension Realm."

"As for [Gui Zhen], I have imprinted it within your Sea of Consciousness; it will be fully unsealed once you break through to the Spirit Ascension Realm."

Qitian Stone looked at Chen Moxuan, his voice heavy with the weight of time, "Whether you will use this [Po Yuan] and [Gui Zhen] to attain the Dao of the Tongxuan Realm and Cultivate this Divine Ability to the Realm of Perfection in the future is entirely up to your own choice."

A Divine Ability is a profound technique created by a Martial Artist in the Spirit Ascension Realm, pushing their own martial path to the extreme and approaching the Laws of heaven and earth.

Evolving one's own martial arts to the extreme Realm and creating a unique Divine Ability is also a necessary condition for stepping into the Tongxuan Realm.

Without a predecessor paving the way, others cannot use the same Divine Ability to attain the Dao of the Tongxuan Realm.

The Qitian Stone in this Land of Inheritance was originally just a remnant soul formed from the divided Dao essence of its main body.

At this moment, this remnant soul employed heaven-shaking means to pour the Dao essence it had condensed throughout its life, without reservation, into Chen Moxuan's body.

This was not a standard transmission of knowledge; rather, it was an almost overbearing method that forcibly paved a straight and smooth path to the heavens on Chen Moxuan's cultivation journey.

By following this path, he could choose to simply forge ahead until reaching the Tongxuan Realm, fully mastering the complete Laws of [Po Yuan] and [Gui Zhen].

Or, before that, he could rely on his own Comprehension Ability and Opportunity to carve out a Divine Ability path that belonged solely to him.

As the last ray of golden light sank into his glabella, Chen Moxuan broke free from the trance that had spanned long years.

Deep within his Sea of Consciousness, the newly acquired Divine Ability Laws resembled an ancient history book of battles.

Vaguely, he could feel the tumultuous years of the person who wrote this history book between the lines.

With his current strength, he could not fully control the power of [Po Yuan], only gleaning partial information about the method of breaking.

But as long as he had this information, his Special Ability [All-Things Calculation] would be able to peel back the layers, and sooner or later, he would be able to evolve it to Perfection.

Chen Moxuan slowly straightened his back and clasped his hands in a salute toward the tall figure that was gradually becoming transparent, "Thank you, Senior, for the grace of your teaching."

After speaking, he asked with confusion in his eyes, "May I ask, Senior, was the world I just experienced an illusion or reality?"

That experience felt like a dream yet real; although the memories were somewhat blurred, he clearly felt as though he had lived a long life.

Like waking from a grand dream, he now only remembered some deeply impressive fragments in his mind.

And the people and events that appeared in these fragments were all beyond his understanding.

The wife and daughter of Teacher Ma whom he had never met, his classmates' parents, as well as those unheard-of S-Class Transcendent, and the techniques he had never mastered.

They were vividly presented in the Heart Refining Array, so real that it was startling.

"The world within the Heart Refining Array is a world that exists based on yourself."

"It might just be a projection of a future you fear, or it might be a real world existing in some dimension, or perhaps a segment of folded Reincarnation memory..."

The phantom of Qitian Stone suddenly paused, his gaze pinning directly into the depths of Chen Moxuan's eyes, "Whether it is an illusion or reality, it all depends on how you define it yourself."

Listening to Qitian Stone's mystical answer, Chen Moxuan lowered his eyes and pondered for a long time, the confusion in his eyes gradually fading away.

Indeed, whether that world was real or an illusion did not matter.

No matter what kind of existence it was, it would not become the trajectory of his own future.

The true path is always held in one's own hands.

He slowly raised his hand, his five fingers grasping at the air, and a golden rune circulating with ancient patterns slowly emerged.

This was the manifested form of the Divine Ability [Po Yuan].

In future battles, whenever he used a fierce offensive to directly crush his opponent's techniques.

This golden rune would strip and dismantle the enemy's techniques, feeding the rules contained within them back to Chen Moxuan.

However, the golden rune in his palm flickered like a candle in the wind, appearing somewhat unstable.

And Chen Moxuan also felt that the True Qi within his body was rapidly being consumed.

"Ultimately, I am still in the Qi Control Realm; using True Qi to execute a Divine Ability is a bit too forced."

Chen Moxuan sighed inwardly, already knowing the reason in his heart.

His martial arts attainments and Mental Energy strength could barely control [Po Yuan], but the energy required for the manifested Divine Ability—that is, the quality of his True Qi—was still too weak.

Even though the [Immortal Heaven-Devouring Art] granted him True Qi quality far exceeding those of the same rank, there was still a gap compared to a true Tiangang Realm Martial Artist.

In battle, by relying on his nearly Prodigy-level True Qi recovery speed and True Qi control ability, he could ignore these gaps.

But when facing high-level means like Divine Ability that require continuous consumption of massive energy, the gap in Realms became an insurmountable chasm.

At this moment, the soon-to-dissipate phantom of Qitian Stone suddenly raised his hand and pressed down sharply toward Chen Moxuan from a distance.

A massive Mental Energy pressure immediately descended upon Chen Moxuan.

The pressure poured down like a tidal wave; the ground beneath Chen Moxuan's feet could not bear the burden, and spiderweb-like cracks spread rapidly with him at the center, collapsing into a pit a zhang deep in the blink of an eye.

Caught off guard, he stumbled and knelt on one knee, his hands firmly supporting the ground, his knuckles turning white from the exertion.

"Senior! This is..."

Chen Moxuan raised his head with difficulty; before he could finish speaking, the broken weapons and blades stuck in the ground around him suddenly vibrated violently, emitting a piercing hum.

At the same time, the free-roaming energy of the entire world gathered frantically, like hundreds of rivers returning to the sea.

Finally, it formed a visible Spirit Tide Storm with Chen Moxuan at the center.

The phantom of Qitian Stone became increasingly transparent in the wind, yet he still spoke with an Aura that shook the mountains and rivers, "Your Cultivation Technique is very good, but precisely because of the characteristics of your Cultivation Technique, it is destined that you will find it dozens of times harder than others to break through to the Tiangang Realm using conventional methods."

"In my life, I have been decisive in killing, fighting across the eight wildernesses, only to realize at the end that I have not left a shred of feedback to the heaven and earth that raised me."

"Before I depart, let me bestow upon you, a descendant of the Human Race, an Opportunity to resolve the regrets in my heart!"

After speaking, the phantom of Qitian Stone completely dissipated.

The Spirit Tide Storm grew even more violent.

Under the monstrous pressure, Chen Moxuan forcibly operated his Breathing Method, his Meridians feeling like water pipes about to burst.

Seeing this, wisps of blue light in the Spirit Tide Storm surged into his body like swimming Dragons.

He could clearly perceive that the True Qi filling his Dantian was beginning to sink and compress under the pressure.

Finally, a wisp of liquid True Qi, as crystal clear as amber, condensed and slowly flowed within his Dantian.

This was the sign of True Qi condensation, the sign of stepping into the Tiangang Realm!

One must know that for ordinary Martial Artists to break through from the Perfection of the Qi Control Realm to the Tiangang Realm, they need to absorb heaven and earth energy day and night, repeatedly tempering and compressing gaseous True Qi within their Meridians.

It takes months or even years of accumulation before the first wisp of True Qi can be liquefied and formed.

The True Qi that Chen Moxuan cultivated by relying on the [Immortal Heaven-Devouring Art] already far exceeded the quality of ordinary Qi Control Realm Perfection.

Likewise, his True Qi was as difficult to compress as stubborn stone.

If he wanted to compress the True Qi in his body into a liquid state, even relying on the automatic operation of the [Immortal Heaven-Devouring Art] day and night, it would probably take a month.

But at this moment, under this massive external pressure and the constant replenishment of the Spirit Tide Storm.

He directly crossed the True Qi condensation process that would have taken over a month to complete, officially stepping into the Tiangang Realm.