Longevity Martial Arts: Starting from Inner Core Skill

"Realm—

Refining Essence to Qi, Stalting Fire: 78%

Cultivation Technique—

Inner Core Skill (Refining Essence to Qi): Breakthrough +5 (46%)

Ba Duan Jin: Breakthrough +5 (51%)—Blood Qi like Dragon: 43%

Five Elements Fist: Breakthrough +4 (43%)—Five Internal Organs Containing God at the Beginning: 86%

Yijin Scripture: Breakthrough +4 (64%)—True Body: 90%"

Lifeless Vacuum Sensing Chapter: Breakthrough +2 (20%)

Lifestyle—

Planting Skill: Breakthrough +6 (22%) Forging: Breakthrough +1 (1%)

Reading: Breakthrough +1 (52%) Heaven and Earth Dao Rules Analysis: 1 (2.5%)

…

Martial Techniques—

Sword Flight: Breakthrough +1 (12%) Ritual Refining: Breakthrough +1 (63%)

God-slaying Sword: 8 (23%)

…

Knowledge—

Qiankun: Breakthrough +3 (1%) Mechanical Techniques: 8 (95%)

Herb Recognition: Breakthrough +3 (68%) Military Formation: 8 (2%)

Divine Skills—

Call Wind Summon Rain: Breakthrough +1 (10%) Heavenly Thunder: Breakthrough +1 (2%)

Strengthen Symbol: 2 (1%) Sword Transformation Technique: 3 (10%)"

One year’s time was actually not much in terms of Wang Sheng’s overall lifespan, given his thousand-year lifespan; he had not even lived through a tenth of it.

But it was his longest period in seclusion.

The effect of this seclusion couldn’t be called good, but it wasn’t bad either, it was just standard.

To be positive, because there were so many things that needed practice, most of the skills did not undergo any qualitative change.

Of course, the enhancement in realm was significant.

The Stalling Fire stage was nearing its end, having reached seventy-eight percent progress.

If Huangtian could just buy a year or two more time without being sought out by the Heavenly Father, then he was certain to breakthrough from Qi Cultivation to Divinity Transformation, Wang Sheng was very confident about this.

Because this required devising an Array to suppress the power of "Incense Fire Faith," the level of the Military Formation had also improved quite a lot, even though it was very challenging, it had now reached level eight.

The last time he was captured into a Spiritual Space, he thought the power of "Incense Fire Faith" would take the opportunity to merge into his body, but in reality, after his Spiritual Body vanished, those "Incense Fire Faith" powers just stayed around him, and the moment he returned, they went crazy again; luckily, he suppressed them quickly.

However, he couldn’t guarantee that he would always be this lucky, so he urgently wanted to learn Arrays to completely resolve this "hidden danger."

Thus, he never gave up on improving his progress, bringing its level to eight.

But that was it, the progress in other areas hadn’t increased much; they mostly had standard enhancements.

Except for one skill.

"Qiankun: Breakthrough +3 (1%)"

Qiankun had just broken through three limits the very day he came out of seclusion.

Or rather, he came out of seclusion because of the "Qiankun" limits being broken.

"Qiankun" was different from many skills; it wasn’t a martial technique or divine skill but a knowledge-based skill, and upgrading this kind of skill didn’t really bring about a visibly big improvement.

Just taking Qiankun itself as an example, before this, Qiankun was close to breaking limits when Wang Sheng realized it was a knowledge-based skill.

After breaking limits, what he gained was knowledge similar to Instant Teleportation, it was comparable to the effects of breaking limits three times with Plum Flower Step.

It seemed inconsequential, but this was not the case.

Qiankun’s first and second break of limits had allowed Wang Sheng to optimize the Instant Teleportation of Plum Flower Step significantly.

With just Plum Flower Step, both the distance of teleportation and the interval between teleportations would have had certain restrictions.

But the emergence of "Qiankun" reduced many of these restrictions for Wang Sheng.

This led to a situation.

Plum Flower Step did not seem to have increased much in level, but its practicality had improved a lot.

This is the greatest use of knowledge-based skills.

Therefore, Wang Sheng always valued such skills; even though he was constantly pressing on with realm advancement, he would still occasionally take out those books he had obtained for reading. Among them, the majority were related to "Qiankun," which he found in the Great Zhou Imperial Family’s library; he didn’t want to waste them.

However, because his main focus wasn’t on this, added with the fact that Qiankun was a difficult knowledge-based skill to improve, it always advanced slowly.

Of course, no matter how slow, it couldn’t withstand a year of grinding.

After such a long time, "Qiankun" finally completed its third limit breakthrough.

However, as a knowledge-based skill, Breakthrough had left him feeling somewhat perplexed.

Breakthrough typically produced effects on existing skills that were more magical and exceeded common sense.

Generally speaking, three instances of Breakthrough and one instance of Breakthrough were related.

This time, three instances of Qiankun Breakthrough added simple knowledge—utilization of space.

More precisely, it referred to the personalization of space; put in layman’s terms, it was the knowledge of developing Storage Space.

Of course, developing Storage Space was just Wang Sheng’s narrow understanding, a subconscious notion he had after acquiring new knowledge; it had much broader applications in practice.

After all, he had been coveting the concept of Storage Space for quite some time.

Yet, he had never had the opportunity or ability to create it.

But this time, three instances of "Qiankun" Breakthrough had given him that opportunity.

"However, three instances of Qiankun Breakthrough don’t seem to have much connection with one instance of Breakthrough after all, since the knowledge gained from one Breakthrough is about super long-distance…"

Wang Sheng hadn’t finished speaking when he stopped.

Perhaps it was due to his lengthy research that he subconsciously assumed that the knowledge gained from one instance of Qiankun Breakthrough was super long-distance Instant Teleportation.

However, that wasn’t the case. The effect of a single Qiankun Breakthrough was actually an expansion of spatial knowledge.

Long-distance teleportation was just his primary focus after acquiring those miscellaneous discussions.

"In reality, this time too, it’s an expansion of spatial knowledge. But like the first Breakthrough, although it can be simply utilized, the visible rudimentary form makes it clear that genuine application still requires some thought to further enhance."

As always, skills based on knowledge wouldn’t provide an intuitive enhancement.

To use them, it depended on how one developed them.

"So how should the newly acquired knowledge be utilized? Creating space equipment? Developing a personal space?"

Wang Sheng considered many possibilities, but each had its own limitations.

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Like the first Breakthrough, at the time, his main focus was on the knowledge of Teleportation; but even though he had broken through, he couldn’t immediately teleport—it took him a long while to be able to do it directly, and until then, he had to rely on the Plum Flower Step to achieve teleportation.

Even now, he used the more mature Plum Flower Step rather than direct teleportation.

Skills based on knowledge had a wide range of applicability, but they also came with their own limitations.

"Plum Flower Step?" Wang Sheng suddenly thought of something, "Using the Plum Flower Step to enable teleportation without needing so much time to study, just need to optimize the performance of Plum Flower Step. Can space utilization knowledge be used to optimize some skill related to space, and then directly realize the use of spatial knowledge?"

"Raising the skill level of Qiankun is quite challenging, and upgrading to a level where I can easily produce space equipment is certainly not that simple. It definitely takes time, so I can effectively take a shortcut by using this method and also raise the ’Qiankun’ level during the process..."

The more Wang Sheng thought about it, the more feasible it seemed.

He could make early use of spatial knowledge, while also advancing the "Qiankun" progress during its application.

After all, skills based on knowledge could be utilized as long as they were applied or studied.

"But what kind of skills should I use to employ the spatial knowledge appropriately?"

Wang Sheng had many martial arts techniques in mind, but finding an appropriate skill in a short time was not so simple.

"First, one thing must be determined: the martial arts technique must be linked with space—that is, after a Breakthrough, it may possibly have spatial effects; next, it must be related to storage, otherwise, it would be difficult to utilize; the last point is it must be simple, for quick skill enhancement."

Wang Sheng quickly outlined his requirements in his mind.

Only those that met these conditions would work.

Eventually, he did find a very appropriate martial arts technique called "Hidden Weapon."

Like its name, the martial arts technique taught how to conceal one’s weapons, though specifically referring to hidden weapons.

The martial arts technique was about how to carry more hidden weapons more covertly without affecting one’s movements, which matched his first two space-related requirements.

And this martial technique itself was a skill with not very high difficulty.

All three conditions were met; it was the one!

Wang Sheng specifically forged several small flying swords from Blood-forged Steel to practice this skill. With a bit of simple cultivation, the martial arts was initiated, and a progress bar appeared.

"Hidden Weapon: 1 (1%)"

Moreover, Wang Sheng soon discovered the benefits of this skill.

As long as he hid the small flying swords on his body, the progress bar for this martial arts would continue to grow; obviously, in the judgment, Hidden Weapon was continuously active.

This was indeed a good thing—it could save him a lot of practice time. Plus, due to its simplicity, the progress bar was increasing quickly. He estimated that it wouldn’t be long before this martial arts could Breakthrough.

However, based onView On WordPress** on previous experience, one Breakthrough was obviously not enough; it probably required three Breakthroughs to fully meet the requirements.

Three Breakthroughs—even for a skill that could constantly progress needed some time, Wang Sheng planned to see if he could, after one Breakthrough, use the newly gained spatial knowledge for a transformation, which if successful, could save a lot of time.

"Now, it’s just a matter of waiting out the time, starting by verifying the situation, then continuing the seclusion!"

He had high hopes for Huangtian, so even during his seclusion, he would come out occasionally to check on the situation.

The last time he had come out was three months ago, and the latest news suggested that the Four Kings and Huangtian had likely fought, and Huangtian seemed to have not suffered any losses.

If Huangtian hadn’t suffered any losses, then the victims must be the Four Kings.

The Four Kings held powers that had lasted for thousands of years; clearly, they would not simply accept a loss; he needed to check what the current situation was like.

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"Hope there’s nothing wrong!"

(Very late, but still checking in, day six!)