14: Chapter 14: Breakthrough to the Innate Realm!!!

The Bridge of Heaven and Man!

It is said to be the Origin channel connecting the human body to Heaven and Earth, hidden deep within the Lingtai of the head and the Secret Realm of the Niwan Palace; it is formless, substance-less, shadowless, and faceless.

Ordinary Martial Artists are constrained by the shackles of their Martial Bone and their mortal Physical Body, their Divine Soul is shallow, and their True Qi is impure, making it difficult for them to catch a glimpse of its trace in their entire lives.

Only those whose Physical Body has reached absolute Perfection, whose True Qi has transformed and sublimated, and whose Essence, Qi, and Spirit have merged into one, can stir their own Origin and remotely sense the existence of this heaven-reaching mysterious bridge.

Previously, he had the twelve regular Meridians and the Eight Extraordinary Meridians opened, with unobstructed Meridians.

Now, his Mysterious Iron Golden Body has reached Perfection, his Physical Body has been forged to the Vajra Realm, and his Acquired True Qi has tempered a golden phenomenon, completing a half-step qualitative transformation towards Dao-ization.

It is precisely this thick accumulation of layers upon layers that forcefully tore through the fog, allowing Chen An to glimpse the final heavenly barrier leading from the Acquired Realm to the Innate Realm.

By breaking through the heavenly barrier, one can return to the Innate from the Acquired and become a Innate Realm Martial Artist.

What is a Innate Realm Martial Artist?!

The Innate means being born in accordance with Heaven, sharing the same Origin as Heaven and Earth.

Stepping into the Innate Realm, the internal organs are transformed and purified, the flesh and blood are reborn, the mortal body turns into a prototype of the Innate Dao Body, and Lifespan surges by as much as sixty years.

Besides this, a Xiantian Martial Artist can draw the Qi mechanism of Heaven and Earth into their body, manipulate the winds and clouds of the four directions with a single thought, and their True Qi breaks free from the constraints of the Meridians, releasing at will, condensing Qi into blades, and turning Qi into shields.

With every gesture, their power surges; splitting mountains, cracking earth, severing rivers, and blocking streams are but trivial matters.

Reaching this Realm, one has initially stepped into the true extraordinary martial path; not to mention in Wurong County, even in Chengtian Prefecture City, one would have the qualifications to establish a sect.

The entire Wurong County has a population of several millions, yet on the surface, there are only three Innate Realm powerhouses!

But no one could have imagined that, just tonight, a student of the County Academy, only seventeen years old, who will face the County Exam in three days.

At this time! At this moment!

He is charging at that barrier which countless Acquired Realm Martial Artists are unable to break throughout their entire lives!

That extremely dense Acquired True Qi, appearing as if it were about to liquefy, carrying specks of golden color, and resembling the water of the Heavenly River, violently slammed towards that ethereal, void-like barrier hidden deep within the Lingtai of the Niwan Palace.

"Break for me!!!"

A roar like a thunderclap resounded in Chen An's heart.

Boom!!!

A heaven-collapsing tremor exploded from the depths of his Sea of Consciousness, the invisible barrier trembled violently, and ripples spread out in layers.

A gale suddenly rose in the entire small room, air waves rolled and oscillated, and all the dust on the ground rose into the air.

"Crack!!"

In the depths of the ethereal Lingtai, that invisible barrier spanning the Acquired and Innate Realms finally could not withstand the violent impact of the endless golden True Qi, cracked with a fine fissure, and then shattered with a boom!

The Bridge of Heaven and Man, sealed for endless years, was thus forcibly opened!

At the same instant, Heaven and Earth changed color, and the surrounding Void Realm fluctuated violently.

The endless Origin Qi of Heaven and Earth, originally drifting thinly and scattered between Heaven and Earth, seemed to be drawn by an invisible force, like a hundred rivers returning to the sea or moths flying into a flame, and flowed continuously into Chen An's limbs and bones along the newly opened Bridge of Heaven and Man.

The pure and vast Origin Qi of Heaven and Earth drove straight in, rapidly merging, colliding, and tempering with his thick, solid Acquired True Qi that was stained with golden luster.

The filthy and heavy worldly aura was washed away, stripped, and purified layer by layer, and the shackles of the mortal body disintegrated inch by inch.

Under the guidance of the Bridge of Heaven and Man, the two forces continuously merged and transformed, slowly giving rise to a blue True Qi that was pure to the extreme, gentle yet vast, and carried endless vitality.

It was clear and ethereal, with Dao rhyme naturally arising, and had a world of difference from the Acquired True Qi.

Innate True Qi!!!

At this moment, the Acquired faded away, and the mortal was sublimated.

Innate Realm, achieved!!!

However, even after successfully breaking the barrier and entering the Innate Realm, Chen An's Cultivation within his body had not yet stopped.

The Bridge of Heaven and Man was completely opened, with no more obstacles, and the vast and boundless Origin Qi of Heaven and Earth from all directions poured into his Meridians and Dantian like a bursting river or sea.

The continuous flow of pure Origin Qi surged into his body, and the opened Eight Extraordinary Meridians fully expanded, doing their best to accommodate this extraordinary power.

The newly transformed blue Innate True Qi, under the infusion of massive amounts of Origin Qi, rapidly grew, settled, and condensed.

The storage of True Qi surged several times over, the Qi mechanism around his body was continuous, firmly connected to Heaven and Earth, and he could spontaneously inhale and exhale Spiritual Qi with every breath.

His Physical Body, Meridians, and True Qi were sublimating in unison as a trinity, and his Foundation, just having stepped into the Innate Realm, was being constantly polished and solidified, rapidly and steadily advancing from the Entry Stage towards the Perfection of the Early Stage of the Innate Realm.

Hum!!!

Chen An's body shook violently, and a terrifying Qi force that shocked all directions suddenly exploded from his body, the violent airflow swept across the entire room, the tables and chairs were instantly and savagely overturned, and wood chips and dust flew all over the sky.

At the same moment, within his Dantian Qi Sea, the blue Innate True Qi vortex, which originally only had the diameter of a washbasin, suddenly expanded and surged more than tenfold, like mercury spilling onto the ground, filling the entire Dantian.

The Innate power flowing within his Meridians became increasingly vigorous and majestic, and the resonance with Heaven and Earth became increasingly intense.

Barrier broken again, Realm skyrocketed!

Innate Realm, Middle Stage!!!

[Ding! The five-hundred-year Cultivation time limit has been exhausted, Cultivation terminated!]

Just at this moment, the System's voice sounded in his mind again.

The Origin Qi of Heaven and Earth that was continuously pouring into his body was instantly cut off, and the guiding force of the Bridge of Heaven and Man slowly fell silent.

The blue Innate True Qi that was crazily surging and wantonly expanding within his body also slowly converged, shedding its violent and turbulent momentum, flowing orderly along the Meridians of his body, and safely returning to his Dantian Qi Sea and limbs and bones.

The restless aura slowly calmed down, the violent wind that had been raging in the room gradually dissipated, and the messy room returned to silence.

Chen An slowly opened his eyes, and a deep, azure light flashed across the bottom of his eyes, disappearing in an instant.

"Innate Realm, Middle Stage!!!"

Feeling the power within his body that had surged again, Chen An actually had a faint feeling that he could punch and blow up Heaven and Earth.

However, Chen An quickly came back to his senses, knowing that this was just an illusion caused by his rapidly surging power.

It was only the Innate Realm; in this small Wurong County, he could not yet reign supreme, let alone in the entire Great Luo Dynasty or the entire Cangyuan Continent.

He was still a hundred and eight thousand miles away from blowing up Heaven and Earth.

"It seems that my power increased too quickly!"

Chen An slowly raised his hands, and with a thought, a faint blue spiritual light immediately emerged from his palms.

Although relying on the blessing of the System's years of bitter Cultivation, his control over the surging Cultivation was already superb, his True Qi circulated smoothly and without hindrance, his Realm Foundation was solid and stable, and there were no flaws of vanity at all.

But breaking through several Realms in a single night, from Qi Condensation Realm to Acquired Realm, and then from Acquired Realm to the Early Stage of the Innate Realm, directly into the Middle Stage of the Innate Realm, the leap in power was too rapid; while his Physical Body and Cultivation could keep up instantly, the sedimentation of his state of mind could not be achieved in one step.

Chen An narrowed his eyes slightly, slowly suppressed the restlessness surging in his heart, let out a long breath of turbid air, and then stood up, only to feel his whole body a bit sticky and uncomfortable, with a faint foul smell coming from it.

"Pores gushing... No, that's not it, cleansing the marrow and body?!"

Looking at the layer of black, oily dirt on his skin, Chen An raised his eyebrows. After a moment of thought, he knew that this should be the Impurities expelled by his body when he broke through to the Innate Realm and returned to the Innate from the Acquired.

The foul smell coming from the Impurities made him somewhat uncomfortable. Immediately, Chen An walked to the bathroom, took off his clothes, and washed up again...