125: The secrets of Emperor Wu's abandoned palace!

"Saint of Martial Arts!"

Hearing these words, despite Lin Yi's impressive Heart-Nature, he couldn't help but feel a surge of emotion at this moment.

Martial Saint—so this is the level above the Innate Realm?

Their lifespan is long, reaching up to five hundred years, allowing them to oversee the rise and fall of Sects.

Their strength is so immense that a single person can support a top-tier power in the Nine Provinces.

Such an incredible martial Realm truly deserves the name of "Martial Saint."

"Only..."

"Sect Master, I wonder how many Martial Saints there currently are in the Nine Provinces?"

With this thought, Lin Yi immediately asked Gu Changsheng this question out of curiosity.

"This..."

Gu Changsheng frowned slightly, then shook his head gently:

"Regarding this, I'm actually not too sure. After all, although I am a Innate Golden Core and my strength is decent, I am still too far from the level of a Martial Saint. Therefore, I only know a little bit about matters concerning Martial Saints."

"However, the Old Ancestor once mentioned in passing that in the entire Nine Provinces, apart from the Three Great Sacred Lands and the Great Yuan Dynasty having two or three Martial Saints, many other top-tier powers currently have none; they only had Martial Saints in their ancestry."

"For those powers that once had Martial Saints, a power like our Heavenly Mountain Sect that currently has a Martial Saint will generally show some consideration for past ties, giving them one or two hundred years to develop."

"If they can produce another Martial Saint within those one or two hundred years, then everything will naturally be fine."

"If not, they will be slowly swallowed by other Martial Saint powers and gradually disappear into the long river of history."

"So by my estimation, there probably aren't many Martial Saints currently existing in the entire Nine Provinces continent. I reckon there should be about ten or twenty! In any case, there are definitely no more than thirty."

"Less than thirty?"

Hearing this, Lin Yi couldn't help but click his tongue:

"The difficulty of becoming a Martial Saint is truly harder than reaching the heavens! According to statistics, the entire Nine Provinces currently has a population of nearly a hundred billion."

"If we calculate based on an average lifespan of fifty years, five hundred years is enough for a total of one trillion people to be born."

"Yet out of so many people, in the end, less than thirty Martial Saints are born. This probability is terrifyingly low!"

"Low?"

As soon as Lin Yi finished speaking, Gu Changsheng laughed:

"Lin Yi, you've got it wrong."

"Compared to a Realm as incredibly powerful as a Martial Saint, for thirty people to be born out of a trillion, the probability is already absurdly high."

"In fact, without the help of the Martial Emperors Relic Palace, in the history of the Nine Provinces, I reckon only the Ancestors of the Three Great Sacred Lands and the current Old Ancestor of the Great Yuan Dynasty could rely solely on their own talent to Breakthrough to Martial Saint. Of course, perhaps you can now too."

"As for the other Martial Saints? There was no hope at all!"

"What! This... how can the probability be this low! And what exactly is in the Martial Emperors Relic Palace that can actually help someone Breakthrough to Martial Saint?"

Hearing this, Lin Yi was once again deeply shocked.

In the thousands of years of the Nine Provinces' history, that is a terrifying figure of over ten trillion people.

But apart from himself, who has a cheat, only four people could rely on themselves to Breakthrough to Martial Saint.

To reach the Martial Saint Realm, one would probably need multiple Profound Violet Level Talents stacked together to Breakthrough! This is simply too difficult!

What shocked Lin Yi even more was that the Martial Emperors Relic Palace could make the so difficult-to-reach Martial Saint Realm so much simpler. What did the Martial God put in there back then?

"I don't actually know specifically what is inside the Martial Emperors Relic Palace."

Gu Changsheng shook his head and said:

"Because the Old Ancestor didn't tell me in great detail back then, but one thing I can be certain of is that to obtain something that can help a Martial Artist Breakthrough to Martial Saint, one must have sufficiently strong strength and talent. Especially strength—it's even more important than talent."

"This is the reason why the Old Ancestor insisted on fully supporting your Breakthrough to Innate this time, and also why the Great Yuan Dynasty didn't come to our Heavenly Mountain Sect to seize your emperor wus final edict at any cost."

"Because only if you Breakthrough to Innate will you have the possibility of obtaining those treasures from the Martial Emperors Relic Palace that help in Breaking through to Martial Saint and even higher Realms. Only then can you hope to be comparable to the three Ancestral Masters and the Old Ancestor of the Great Yuan Dynasty in the future."

"Otherwise, no matter how great your talent is, the most you'll reach in the future is the Peak of Martial Saint. You'll be far inferior even to the current Old Ancestor of the Great Yuan Dynasty, or even the Buddhist World-Honored One and the Master of the Wanxiang Tower, let alone comparable to the Ancestors of the Three Great Sacred Lands at their Peak."

"Hmm? What's going on?"

Hearing this, Lin Yi was confused again:

"Sect Master, if I really can reach the Peak of Martial Saint, I can understand not being able to compare to the Ancestors of the Three Great Sacred Lands, but how can I not even compare to the Buddhist World-Honored One and the others? Have they exceeded the Peak of Martial Saint?"

"Of course not!"

Gu Changsheng explained:

"The Peak of Martial Saint is the highest Realm among Martial Saints. If one were to take a step further and Breakthrough, that would be the level of the Ancestors of the Three Great Sacred Lands. The Buddhist World-Honored One and the others naturally haven't reached that level."

"However, although they are also at the Peak of Martial Saint, the Buddhist World-Honored One and the others, as well as the Old Ancestor of the Great Yuan Dynasty, all have peerless divine weapons in their hands. Relying on peerless divine weapons, their strength will increase significantly. Therefore, ordinary Martial Saint Peaks are naturally no match for them."

"What! peerless divine weapons can greatly amplify a Martial Saint's strength? Such treasures actually exist in the Nine Provinces?"

Upon hearing this, Lin Yi couldn't help but cry out in surprise again.

One must know that the amplification of a Martial Artist's strength by Divine Weapons has never been very strong.

Let alone a Martial Saint, even an Innate, or even a First Rank or Second-Rank Martial Artist, cannot rely on a so-called Divine Weapon to crush experts of the same level.

But now, these peerless divine weapons can actually do this. Could it be that these are also treasures that flowed out from the Martial Emperors Relic Palace?

Thinking of this, Lin Yi immediately asked Gu Changsheng this question.

"Smart!"

Gu Changsheng nodded and smiled:

"peerless divine weapons did indeed flow out from the Martial Emperors Relic Palace. In this world, only the Martial Emperors Relic Palace left by the legendary Martial God himself could contain such incredible treasures."

"Furthermore, besides peerless divine weapons, there is also a type of ordinary Divine Weapon, which is for the use of Innate Martial Artists."

"Once an Innate Martial Artist wields one, while it might not allow them to fight across levels, it will also greatly increase their strength, making them invincible among their peers."

"For instance, the top three on the Heaven Rank—Kong Wen of the Buddhist Sect, King Lie of the Great Yuan, and Wang Xuanyi of the Wanxiang Tower—each have a Divine Weapon in hand. That's why their positions on the Heaven Rank are unshakable."

"As for the Zuowang Daoist Sect? Their Divine Weapon was accidentally lost hundreds of years ago. So, although their Innate Golden Core Grandmasters are also very strong, they are still a level below the top three on the Heaven Rank."

"This is also why, even after you displayed Heaven-Defying talent in that match against Chu Xiong at the Tianshan Pavilion, I still believed you couldn't reach the top three of the Heaven Rank."

"So that's how it is."

Lin Yi understood.

Lin Yi was naturally aware that the Sect Master had once said he couldn't enter the top three of the Heaven Rank. Originally, he didn't understand the reason, but today he finally learned the true cause.

Divine Weapons!

With such a Heaven-Defying treasure, if he were at the same Realm as his opponent, Lin Yi reckoned he really wouldn't be able to beat them.

"Sect Master, since peerless divine weapons and Divine Weapons are so miraculous, how can I obtain them from the Martial Emperors Relic Palace?"

"If I get one from the Martial Emperors Relic Palace this time, even if I can't use it now, if I give it to the Old Ancestor, our Heavenly Mountain Sect won't have to fear the Great Yuan Dynasty anymore!"

"Haha, Lin Yi, having this intention shows that the Old Ancestor's water-fire one qi grape wasn't given to the wrong person today. However, the Old Ancestor can only appreciate the sentiment."

Gu Changsheng laughed and said:

"Because first of all, peerless divine weapons are not that easy to obtain. If you want to get such a treasure, not only must your talent reach the level of the Old Ancestor of the Great Yuan Dynasty and the Ancestors of the Three Great Sacred Lands, but more importantly, your strength must also keep up. At the very least, you must reach the Innate level."

"Only then can you obtain the treasure that assists in Breaking through to Martial Saint and higher Realms, as well as an ordinary Divine Weapon and a peerless divine weapon."

"Among them, the ordinary Divine Weapon is for your use during the Innate stage, while the peerless divine weapon is for your use during the Martial Saint stage."

"After all, through my narration just now, Lin Yi, you should now know the preciousness of a peerless divine weapon. It is a peerless treasure that even countless Martial Saints would go mad for."

"If such a treasure were obtained by a mere Innate, how would it be different from a three-year-old child carrying gold? It would practically be intentionally leading him to his death!"

"To avoid this, when a Martial Artist who has obtained a peerless divine weapon first emerges from the Martial Emperors Relic Palace, the Martial Emperors Relic Palace will not immediately give the peerless divine weapon to that Martial Artist. Instead, it will first bestow an ordinary Divine Weapon upon him."

"This way, by relying on the ordinary Divine Weapon, that Martial Artist's combat power will soar, and his survival ability will also greatly increase."

"Later, after he Breakthroughs to Martial Saint, as long as he goes to Liuzhong Mountain again, the Martial Emperors Relic Palace will bestow a suitable peerless divine weapon upon him based on the martial arts he Cultivates."

"So even if you really Breakthrough to Innate this time and enter the Martial Emperors Relic Palace to obtain a peerless divine weapon, you won't be able to give it to the Old Ancestor immediately."

"As for when you can give it to the Old Ancestor, by then you will be a Martial Saint yourself. You won't need the Old Ancestor's protection anymore, so naturally, you wouldn't give it to him."

"So that's how it is."

Lin Yi nodded slightly.

To be honest, if he were really a Martial Saint right now and truly had a peerless divine weapon, he really would be reluctant to give it to the Old Ancestor.

After all, such a treasure is regarded as the lifeblood even by the Three Great Sacred Lands and the Great Yuan Dynasty. Their importance in the Three Great Sacred Lands is probably even higher than that of the World-Honored One or the Daoist Venerable.

So any normal person would be reluctant to give such a treasure to someone else, and the Old Ancestor of the Tianshan Sect and Gu Changsheng all know this.

"Alright!"

Seeing Lin Yi's expression, Gu Changsheng smiled:

"Having said all this, I've basically explained everything to you."

"In short, for the coming period, Cultivate well and strive to Breakthrough to Innate before entering the Martial Emperors Relic Palace!"

"After all, only by Breaking through to Innate can you obtain the many benefits I mentioned earlier."

"If you don't Breakthrough, then let alone Divine Weapons and peerless divine weapons, everything else will come to nothing!"

"Yes! Sect Master, this Disciple will certainly give it his all this time!"

Thinking of the various things the Sect Master told him today, an endless heat rose in Lin Yi's eyes, and his heart was filled with intense longing.

Innate!

This time, I must Breakthrough!