28: Chapter 28 Artistic Conception: Subtlety!

Inside the cluttered room!

Chen An stood in place. Five Concepts faintly emerged on his body, causing him, having originally cultivated the Black Tortoise Breath-Concealing Technique, to be unable to control the Qi flow around his body.

The domineering and heavy Mountain-Suppressing Fist Intent from the Mountain Crushing Force, the continuous and surging Nine-Layer Wave Palm Intent from the Ocean Overturning Wave Palm, the ethereal and unpredictable Void Phase Footwork Intent from the Flowing Cloud Thousand-Layer Step, the swift and peerless Chasing Shadow Footwork Intent from the Flying Star Chasing Shadow Steps, and the sharp and matchless Sky-Breaking Saber Intent from the Heaven-Cleaving God-Slaying Saber—these five Concepts intertwined and resonated with one another.

A majestic Aura, at once whole and heavy, combining speed and slowness, hardness and softness, with hidden killing intent, slowly rose from his body, filling the entire cluttered hut.

The shattered wood fragments and overturned tables and chairs inside the room vibrated slightly with the rhythm of the Concepts, and the air rippled in a way barely visible to the naked eye.

Chen An frowned!

Martial Arts Concepts originate from the Divine Soul's comprehension of Martial Skills; they use the intangible to interfere with the tangible.

Although he had cultivated the Black Tortoise Breath-Concealing Technique to Perfection, the Black Tortoise Breath-Concealing Technique was, after all, only a Profound Rank Martial Skill. It might be able to seal the blood energy and True Qi in his body, but it could not lock down the Concepts he had comprehended.

In fact, he had already noticed this point before.

Ever since his Breakthrough to the Grandmaster Realm, he had discovered that the Black Tortoise Breath-Concealing Technique was starting to lag behind his Realm.

Innate True Gang is as heavy as a mountain and as vast as the ocean; a single strand of Innate True Gang is comparable to hundreds of strands of Innate True Qi.

Although he had already refined the Black Tortoise Breath-Concealing Technique to Perfection and could lock the Innate True Qi within his body from leaking, it was still lacking when it came to the Innate True Gang, which was hundreds of times stronger in quality than Innate True Qi.

"Hmm, that's not right!"

Just as Chen An was planning to spend currency to try and see if he could upgrade the grade of the Black Tortoise Breath-Concealing Technique, he suddenly discovered that his mind felt unprecedentedly tranquil. His spiritual platform was clear and bright, and he had the feeling that all distracting thoughts had completely dissipated.

You must know that ever since he raised his cultivation to the Grandmaster Realm, with his strength skyrocketing, he had always felt a sense of deficiency—a feeling of being impetuous and plagued by distracting thoughts.

A typical example was when he learned that the Bai Yifan had sent people to cripple him; he first killed the two people sent to cripple him, and then flew directly to the Bai Family and destroyed the entire Bai Family with a single palm strike.

His killing was ruthless, and he acted without the slightest hesitation.

Besides that, after confiscating and dividing the massive wealth the Bai Family had accumulated over many years, a sense of arrogant restlessness grew in his heart. He even had a fleeting thought of rushing back to the county town to forcefully loot all the wealthy families, relying on his own brute strength to forcibly seize the accumulated resources of each Family.

But at this moment, he actually felt that the impetuous and reckless state of mind had completely dissipated. His mind was unprecedentedly tranquil, as if he had entered a state of sage-like clarity.

"Could it be because of the Concepts?!"

A thought arose in Chen An's heart.

Concepts are extraordinary abilities born from resonance with the Dao of martial arts, which a Martial Artist comprehends after their spirit and Divine Soul break through the shackles of a Martial Skill upon cultivating it to the extreme.

It is attached to Martial Skills, yet it transcends them.

It is a unique sublimation of the Martial Skill by the Divine Soul, and at the same time, it also sublimated his Divine Soul and state of mind.

"I never expected that one's state of mind could actually be improved through martial Concepts!"

A smile curled the corners of Chen An's mouth.

"That's perfect!"

"System, consume 200 years to comprehend the Mountain-Collapsing Intent of the Mountain Crushing Force!"

[Ding! System activated!]

[200 years of Mountain-Collapsing Intent from the Mountain Crushing Force, cultivation experience beginning to be distributed...]

Boom!!~~

The next moment, countless memories of cultivating the Mountain-Collapsing Intent flooded into his mind.

Ten seconds later!

Chen An opened his eyes, but there was no smile on his face, and his brows furrowed slightly.

"It didn't break through?!"

That's right, Chen An discovered that after cultivating for 200 years this time, his intent regarding the Nine-Layer Wave was still lingering at the Entry Stage.

"Hmph, I don't believe it. If 200 years isn't enough, what about 500 years, or 1000 years?!"

Chen An narrowed his eyes slightly, looked at the remaining balance of over 490,000, and directly ordered: "System, consume 1000 years to comprehend the Mountain-Collapsing Intent of the Mountain Crushing Force!"

[Ding! System activated!] [1000 years of Mountain-Collapsing Intent from the Mountain Crushing Force, cultivation experience beginning to be distributed...]

Boom!!!

A heaven-shaking, earth-shattering muffled sound exploded from his Sea of Consciousness, and martial Dao rhymes, several times more majestic than before, poured into his Divine Soul.

The next moment, a terrifying Aura, as heavy as a mountain and capable of suppressing all directions, suddenly erupted from Chen An's body, soaring into the sky!

Suddenly, Chen An opened his eyes. Within his pupils, a phantom image of a massive, peerless mountain seemed to faintly appear, majestic and vast.

He slowly raised his right hand, curled his five fingers, gathered his palm into a fist, stood steady as an abyss or mountain, sank his waist, and planted his stance, then unhurriedly and gently thrust his fist forward.

Hum!!!~~

A low, heavy vibration sounded out of thin air. The surrounding air suddenly became incomparably heavy and completely solidified, as if the entire world were being suppressed by an invisible, eternal mountain from above.

The ground faintly undulated and trembled. The scattered wood chips and gravel in the room were all firmly pinned in place by this mountain-like, majestic pressure, motionless, unable to even raise a speck of dust.

Immediately after, the Void Realm trembled violently!

There was no deafening roar of breaking air, nor was there a wild, raging blast of air currents. With this seemingly unremarkable punch, the space several yards in front of him strangely twisted and wrinkled.

The dilapidated tables and chairs covered and affected by the Fist Intent didn't even have time to make a sound before they were instantly crushed by the invisible Fist Intent, turning into powder.

Afterwards, this Fist Intent, as heavy as a mountain, surged forward with the momentum of a rushing mountain, striking directly onto the brick wall at the back.

The hard and thick brick wall could not withstand the Micro-Level Mountain-Collapsing Fist Intent at all. The wall did not crack or collapse violently; instead, it weathered and dissolved layer by layer, as if it had endured thousands of years of wind and rain, collapsing inward.

Gravel fell continuously with a rustling sound. In the blink of an eye, the entire wall was forcefully pierced through, revealing a dark hole nearly half a meter wide, with the light from outside the wall faintly shining into the room.

"Micro-Level!!!"

Chen An lowered his head, looked at his fist, his eyes flickering, and muttered to himself.

The second stage of Concepts, Micro-Level!

With that punch just now, he hadn't used any of his cultivation power at all; he had merely used the Micro-Level Concept to strike with the Mountain Crushing Force.

And with just this punch, he was able to distort the void, crush objects, and pierce through the wall.

If he were to use his Grandmaster Realm cultivation on top of that, the power would likely be magnified at least a hundred or a thousand times.

By then, with one punch, what could not be broken?!

Chen An felt that if he were to use this full-strength strike fused with the Micro-Level Mountain-Collapsing Fist Intent, he could easily crush his former self who was still at the Entry Stage of the Concepts.

Both were at the Grandmaster Realm, and his cultivation hadn't changed, but the gap caused by a mere Micro-Level Concept was so vast; it was truly like the difference between clouds and mud.

"The Micro-Level Concept is already this strong, so if I continue to improve it..."

Bang! Bang! Bang!!~~ "Is Chen An here?!"

Just as Chen An was feeling eager and intended to continue improving his Concepts, a knock suddenly came from outside the courtyard gate, followed immediately by a loud voice...