66: The secret of innate nature!

“Martial Dao, Xiantian!”

Hearing these words, Lin Yi's body shook.

Beside him, Lin Haichuan, Ji Xuan, Sun Wenfang, and the surrounding soldiers were all shocked.

So, the Realm above First Rank is called Xiantian!

Xiantian powerhouses—are these the true powerhouses of the Nine Provinces Continent? The Peak existences standing atop the Nine Provinces Continent?

One wondered just how powerful these experts were and what means they possessed. Could it be that each and every one of them was like the immortals from legends?

Everyone was incredibly curious, looking at Dean Haihong with longing, waiting for his explanation.

Seeing everyone's curious expressions, Zhao Haihong did not keep them in suspense and continued to explain:

“The Xiantian Realm is also known as the Martial Dao Celestial! Its meaning is that one has preliminarily broken away from the scope of a human and is climbing toward the heavens!”

“Once one achieves Martial Dao Xiantian, first and foremost, the Martial Artist's own Physical Body will undergo a transformation. Their Lifespan will directly break the ordinary person's limit of one hundred and twenty years, granting them two hundred years of Lifespan—it can be called living another life!”

“Secondly, a Xiantian Martial Artist can form a powerful energy called Xiantian True Essence within their body. Relying on this energy, their strength will far exceed that of a First-Rank Martial Artist!”

“For Martial Artists below Xiantian, if their talent is sufficiently outstanding, like Lin Yi, or other even more Heaven-Defying geniuses...”

“Even when their cultivation is insufficient, by relying on powerful martial arts technique Realms and force-exertion Realms, they can still easily fight a Fourth Rank as a Fifth Rank, a Third Rank as a Fourth Rank, or even a First Rank as a Second Rank!”

“However, in the Nine Provinces Continent, except for a very few Heaven-Defying geniuses in history who were beyond belief, in most other eras, even the most monstrous First Rank cannot possibly challenge a Xiantian. Being able to escape from a Xiantian's hands is already quite remarkable.”

“Therefore, a saying was born in the Jiuzhou World: ‘All below Xiantian are mere ants!’”

“All below Xiantian are mere ants.”

As soon as Zhao Haihong's voice fell, everyone was shaken again, whispering the words to themselves. They felt as if they had momentarily seen lofty, terrifying powerhouses standing at the Peak of the Nine Provinces, looking down upon them.

Martial Dao Xiantian truly lived up to being a Realm beyond First Rank; they were indeed a group of incredible existences.

Not only did their Lifespan far exceed that of Mortals, but their strength was also so formidable. No wonder they dared to call themselves Celestials and climb toward the heavens!

Perhaps only such powerhouses were qualified to find treasures like the yin-yang creation flower, which could regrow limbs and reconstruct the Physical Body!

Thinking of this, everyone couldn't help but feel a deep sense of reverence for Xiantian powerhouses from the bottom of their hearts.

Afterward, the crowd was silent for a moment before Lin Yi was the first to react, asking Zhao Haihong again:

“Dean, I now know the strength of the Xiantian Realm, and it is indeed incomparably terrifying. However, I don't know what I must do to achieve Xiantian?”

“Is it the same as the Third, Second, and First Ranks of Martial Dao, where I first Cultivate my force-exertion Realm to a certain level? And then I must Breakthrough before my blood and Qi decline?”

“No!”

Hearing this, Zhao Haihong shook his head slightly:

“Xiantian powerhouses are so powerful, so how could achieving Xiantian be that simple?”

“In our Nine Provinces Continent, to achieve the Xiantian Realm, Cultivating your martial dao cultivation to the Peak of First Rank before the age of sixty and reaching the fourth level of Limit Breaking in force-exertion is merely the threshold.”

“What's more important is actually relying on a mysterious and profound power within the human brain. In our Nine Provinces martial arts world, we call this power—the Divine Soul!”

“Divine Soul?”

Hearing this unfamiliar yet familiar term, Lin Yi was stunned.

Divine Soul—he had often heard of this in the immortal cultivation web novels of his previous life, but this was truly the first time he had heard of it in the real world.

Furthermore, what did this Divine Soul have to do with breaking through to Xiantian? Why must a Martial Artist have the power of the Divine Soul to be able to break through to Xiantian?

Thoughts swirled in Lin Yi's mind, and he was filled with doubt. He immediately asked Zhao Haihong this question.

Upon hearing this, Zhao Haihong again slowly began to explain:

“Lin Yi, when I told you the secret of breaking through to the Third Rank of Martial Dao, I told you that although the human body is infinitely mysterious, it has its limits.”

“For instance, the physical limit of an ordinary person is a thousand catties of strength in both arms. A Martial Artist who Cultivates Breathing Techniques has a higher limit, but at most, they can only reach the Fourth Rank of Martial Dao.”

“As for after comprehending Limit Breaking, as the Limit Breaking Realm reaches the second and third levels, this limit will be raised time and again. However, relying solely on Limit Breaking can at most allow a Martial Artist to reach the First Rank of Martial Dao, and the First Rank is the true Peak of the Mortal body!”

“Afterward, if a Martial Artist wants to break through this Peak again, they must absorb a higher level of energy from the world—Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi—to wash their body, thereby causing the body to undergo another transformation and advance toward being non-human.”

“And a powerful Divine Soul force is the only way for a Martial Artist to sense and absorb Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi.”

“So that is the fundamental reason why breaking through to Xiantian requires a powerful Divine Soul! It is also the fundamental reason why Xiantian experts are so rare!”

“This point cannot be changed!”

“Even though I've heard that there are some methods to enhance the Divine Soul within the Tianshan Pavilion of my Heavenly Mountain Sect, they can only slightly help a Martial Artist increase the probability of breaking through to Xiantian.”

“In the end, everything still depends on the Martial Artist's own talent. If the talent is not enough, then everything is in vain!”

Speaking to the end, Zhao Haihong couldn't help but sigh slightly.

Xiantian is hard! Harder than climbing to the blue sky!

Looking back at the thousands of years of martial arts history in the Jiuzhou World, the peerless prodigies born were countless, but the vast majority ultimately fell before the threshold of breaking through to Xiantian.

Although Lin Yi's Aptitude was remarkable, wanting to charge into the Xiantian Realm in the future would still be difficult among difficulties.

“Xiantian is actually this difficult!”

On the other side, hearing Zhao Haihong's answer, heavy pressure also rose in Lin Yi's heart.

To be honest, ever since he evolved the Azure-level Talent “Blade Path Prodigy” yesterday and made up for his shortcomings in Comprehension Ability,

Lin Yi originally felt that with his current talent, even if the Realm above First Rank was difficult, breaking through should not be too hard for him.

But he hadn't expected that shortly after being happy, this “Divine Soul power” would suddenly pop up.

With this Divine Soul power as a roadblock, then even if his force-exertion Realm and martial dao cultivation progressed rapidly in the future, as long as his Divine Soul power did not meet the standard, wouldn't he be forever blocked outside of Xiantian?

As for relying on Talent Evolution?

Firstly, Talent Evolution consumed a lot of silver, and it also relied on luck.

With bad luck, even if he evolved many times, he might not be able to evolve the talent he wanted.

Secondly, he had evolved so many talents since the Awakening of his attribute panel, but none of these talents were related to the Divine Soul.

From this, it could be seen that Divine Soul-type talents were likely extremely rare among all talents.

Thinking of this, Lin Yi's expression became worse the more he thought, until a moment later.

“Whew! Fine! Let it be rare!”

Lin Yi let out a soft breath, but then his gaze sharpened:

“No matter how rare Divine Soul-type talents are, compared to other geniuses, at the very least I still have the chance to use the attribute panel to evolve and obtain one. Just on this point alone, I am already much stronger.”

“If those geniuses could eventually achieve Martial Dao Xiantian, I don't believe that I, Lin Yi, cannot!”

“From today onward, besides spending time with my parents, I will continue to add an extra hour of practice every day! I will strive to charge for a higher ranking when I enter the Tianshan Pavilion in over a month, obtain more resources, and evolve more talents!”

With a thought, Lin Yi didn't say anything more. He immediately pulled Dean Zhao Haihong and Teacher Sun Wenfang onto the carriage, then personally drove the carriage to take them and his parents back to the Dongshan Martial Academy, beginning even more frenzied Cultivation.

During Lin Yi's frenzied Cultivation, time also passed quickly, and in a flash, another month had gone by.