Longevity Martial Arts: Starting from Inner Core Skill

Having experience summoning wind and rain, Wang Sheng did not take too long to realize "Heavenly Thunder," roughly half a month.

The process was the same as the "Summoning Wind and Rain," where he first leveraged the Dao rules instead of using his own power to bring down heavenly thunder.

Wang Sheng spent five days on this process, not exerting too much effort. At this point, the summoned heavenly thunder was like natural lightning, powerful though challenging against a Grandmaster.

The rest of the days were spent building the "model," a somewhat troublesome task, but ultimately successfully completed.

The heavenly thunder summoned through Wang Sheng’s power was much stronger.

This was a skill he had independently researched, so it was of high level from the beginning and he managed to breakthrough in a short amount of time.

Thus, the final power was immense because this heavenly thunder could integrate the nature and "momentum" of his Qi-Blood Power. The final effect could even be referred to as Destructive Divine Thunder, easily capable of blowing up a mountain.

"Heavenly Thunder" was simplified in the end, like "Summoning Wind and Rain," and could be utilized with spiritual power, albeit with significantly decreased strength.

Upon completion, the divine skills in "Heavenly Thought Scripture" were once again enhanced.

Of course, for Wang Sheng, completing the divine skills was just icing on the cake. What he truly desired was the experience in utilizing Natural Law, which was closely tied to his interest in using arrays.

The divine skills leveraged the forces of heaven and earth, and his envisioned arrays were intended to do the same.

While developing the divine skills, he also compared their applications to military formations.

He aimed to find similarities between them and see if he could derive any arrays from those similarities.

Unfortunately, the experience from two divine skills was not sufficient.

The level of "military formation" was low, so naturally, Wang Sheng gained little from it.

However, he acquired many books this time, allowing for gradual accumulation.

The more urgent the matter of mysterious powers, the more composed he had to remain internally; organized actions were a must.

"Let’s continue!"

There were still many usable divine skills in the "Heavenly Thought Scripture," merely realizing them would take a considerable amount of time.

Time slowly passed, and just like that, one and a half months went by.

Wang Sheng, moving intermittently, had reached Yangwu State, and by passing through it, he could enter Jian State and not long thereafter, return to Shuzhou.

This journey of roughly five months naturally yielded significant gains.

"Realm—

Refining Essence to Qi. Stop Fire: 32%

Cultivation Technique—

Inner Core Skill (Refining Essence to Qi): Breakthrough +5 (15%)

Ba Duan Jin: Breakthrough +5 (20%)—Blood Qi Like Dragon: 26%

Five Elements Fist: Breakthrough +4 (15%)—Five Internal Organs Containing God Beginning: 76%

Yijin Scripture: Breakthrough +4 (35%)—True Body: 86%"

Lifeless Vacuum Sensing Chapter: Breakthrough +1 (15%)

Lifestyle—

Planting Skill: Breakthrough +6 (3%) Ten-Complete Great Replenishing Pill production: Breakthrough +5 (16%)

Reading: Breakthrough +1 (30%) Beast Taming: Breakthrough +3 (25%)

Heaven and Earth Dao Rules Analysis: 1 (1.5%)

…

Martial Technique—

Qiankun: Breakthrough +2 (10%) Sword Flight: 8 (39%)

Refining: Breakthrough +1 (30%)

…

Divine Skills—

Summoning Wind and Rain: Breakthrough +1 (10%) Heavenly Thunder: Breakthrough +1 (2%)

Strength Enhancement Symbol: 8 (1%)"

Five months’ time, the most basic Cultivation Techniques and realms did not transform qualitatively.

The most significant changes were from the gains made during the journey.

Such as breakthroughs in reading and beast taming.

Then there were the new things—divine skills.

Blood Qi, physical body, and divine skills of the Five Internal Organs Containing God go unsaid, the most important were Summoning Wind and Rain and Heavenly Thunder.

Then there was the "Strength Enhancement Symbol."

This divine skill was developed in the past month and a half.

"Strength Enhancement Symbol," as the name suggests, is for enhancing special papers, but this symbol enhances people.

The strength of this enhancement symbol exceeded Wang Sheng’s own predictions.

Depending on the strength of power usable, the Strength Enhancement Symbol could enhance from a First Grade Martial Artist to a Grandmaster Level warrior.

It might not seem much at a glance, but its actual effects were terrifying.

Wang Sheng had already tested the "Strength Enhancement Symbol."

With his current strength, if he maximized enhancement, he could enhance a frightening number of Grandmasters, hundreds being no major issue.

If it were Martial Artists, he could even enhance an army tens of thousands strong, ensuring that over ten percent of the warriors land between Seventh Grade and Ninth Grade.

This shows the impressive capability of this "Strength Enhancement Symbol."

Even Wang Sheng was surprised that he could produce such a thing.

Initially, he only wanted to realize the divine skills in the "Heavenly Thought Scripture," which were also about amplifying others’ strengths, originating from Qiao Nian’s wild imagination and also one of the theoretically least complete divine skills in the scripture.

Wang Sheng chose to realize this mainly because the more incomplete the theory, the more difficult the realization process, the bigger his gain. Secondly, he thought of three times Breakthrough in Beast Taming.

Three times Breakthrough in Beast Taming allowed him to lend his power to Da Bai and Yun Xiao.

He felt that the effect of Beast Taming Breakthrough three times shared a mystical similarity with this Divine Skill, so while researching the Divine Skill, he subconsciously leaned towards the effects of Beast Taming Breakthrough three times.

At first, he indeed encountered quite a few difficulties, especially since the Divine Skills in the "Heavenly Thought Scripture" were extremely rudimentary in theory, basically nonexistent, and he was not skilled enough to decode the effects of a three-time Breakthrough in Beast Taming.

However, after repeated trials that lasted over half a month in Yun Xiao, he finally had a breakthrough and crafted the most basic version of the "Enhancement Talisman"; at that time, the "Enhancement Talisman" could only elevate one to a Martial Artist.

He slowly perfected it, and finally, it became the complete product it is now.

"Too bad it still falls a little short!"

The effect of the "Enhancement Talisman" could only reach the Grandmaster level, and it couldn’t reach the Top Grandmaster, so it was not of much help to him.

The effect was terrifying but not for him.

This comparison should definitely be made with an ordinary Martial Artist,

"And the difficulty is unimaginably high!"

The effect of the "Enhancement Talisman" was very strong, but the difficulty of learning it was extremely high, not something one in ten thousand geniuses could learn.

Even though he simplified it, it was still so.

Advancement was also very difficult, and the grade was eight because he was the creator. To elevate it to Breakthrough would likely take some time.

What effects it would have after Breakthrough, he also had no idea because this Divine Skill was clearly not from the same system as "Summoning Wind and Rain."

Of course, by mastering the "Enhancement Talisman" Divine Skill, Wang Sheng gained a lot. He felt hopeful about mastering Array techniques.

This showed that the path he was on was the right one.

As long as he kept at it, he would eventually comprehend Array techniques and seal all those increasingly mysterious forces.

Ever since he guessed that the mysterious forces were the power of "Incense and Faith," he became even more reluctant to let these forces merge into his body.

Power might be good, but if it wasn’t his, he firmly refused to accept it.

So, in the following time, he still researched Divine Skills daily, hoping to figure out the Array techniques sooner.

Before long, they entered Jianzhou.

Due to the expansion of Spirit Sword Valley, more and more people were being pulled from Jianzhou. It had been kept under some control due to the presence of King Yong Nian, but now it was utterly unrestrained.

Though only a few months had passed, Jianzhou had become even more desolate.

And the number of refugees on the road was increasing; even though they had seen this scene before, seeing it again was still hard to accept.

However, everyone inside had somehow grown accustomed to it; they didn’t have the power to save everyone.

Among the twelve who came, only Liu Jian’an looked outside, while the others remained quietly inside the carriage.

As they traveled, a person kneeled in front of the tiger cart.

"Please have mercy, sir; save my sister."

This was a youth who appeared to be only fifteen or sixteen years old, but in these times, many people were starved, so he could be older.

He had a girl with him.

Da Bai, seeing someone blocking their path, stopped.

Wang Sheng sighed and said, "Give them something."

He couldn’t save everyone, but for those who came to him for help, he was willing to provide some aid.

Sun Xing also sighed and, following Wang Sheng’s instructions, gave them some supplies and also some water.

Seeing someone giving away things, more people gathered around.

"Give everything away, first come, first served!"

Wang Sheng had anticipated this scene when deciding to distribute goods.

Sun Xing smoothly complied.

"First come, first served, until it’s gone."

The crowd around them grew again.

Soon, the area around the tiger cart was filled with people, and Sun Xing quickly handed out all the items.

"That’s it. Everyone, please disperse!"

Naturally, some were unwilling and tried to approach the tiger cart.

But before Wang Sheng needed to act, Sun Xing made his move. He had a decorative whip in his hand, which he lashed on the ground while using his Blood Qi power.

The ground was whipped into a deep trench.

No one dared to move after that.

They wanted food because they didn’t want to die, but crowding now meant death.

They understood that much.

Soon, some eyed those who got the supplies first and wanted to rob them.

"Eat what you’ve got quick; I’m right here."

Robbery wasn’t happening.

He liked to say no to those kinds of people.

Sure enough, while they were there, no one dared try to steal.

Those who first got the supplies also knew that if they didn’t eat them fast, they might become targets, so they quickly finished their food.

When everyone had finished eating, Wang Sheng prepared to leave. And at that moment, the brother from the sibling pair came over again.

"Thank you for the food, I really appreciate it." He then looked in a different direction, "And thank you, big tiger, for not eating me right away!"

Wang Sheng: "!!!"

Wang Sheng was utterly shocked.

He had been maintaining the Divine Thought Illusion Realm, meaning the man should have seen just a normal carriage.

But he had thanked the big tiger.

His powerful Divine Thought reached out to investigate this person, and after a while, Wang Sheng asked, "What’s your name?"

"Sir, my name is Huangtian!"