Longevity Martial Arts: Starting from Inner Core Skill

Chapter 347: Chapter 286: Perfection of the Golden Body and the Refining Furnace Tripod_2

Of course, facing a National Guardian-Level situation, since he hadn’t fought in one before, Wang Sheng wasn’t very sure.

“The path to greater strength, self-healing power, seems like the biggest improvement after the True Body breakthrough, and then there’s… longevity!”

The Golden Body is a kind of comprehensive enhancement, so longevity will definitely be affected. After achieving the Golden Body, his lifespan would also be enhanced.

There are two ways to improve: one is unlike the significant enhancement that comes with breaking through realms, but rather a slow enhancement, which means that as the progress bar is raised, longevity is enhanced and the increase becomes greater later on. Currently, there isn’t such a strong enhancement.

Of course, there’s another way.

“This kind of longevity enhancement will reflect in the realm enhancement!”

Longevity is a holistic concept.

For example, without the “Golden Body,” Wang Sheng moving from the first stage to the second stage could only enhance his lifespan by 300 years. But with the Golden Body, it would increase by 500 years.

That’s the difference.

The two enhancement methods do not conflict, and they are cumulative.

The existence of the “Golden Body,” the benefits for Wang Sheng are more than just a little.

“The combat power has been enhanced, but it’s still not enough!”

From “True Body” to “Golden Body,” combat power will improve, even significantly, but there is still no qualitative change, which for Wang Sheng is not enough.

So he needed to go into seclusion again.

However, the breakthrough of the Golden Body also helps the realm somehow.

The “Golden Body” is an overall improvement, so the Dantian was also positively affected, and the progress of “Refining Qi into Divinity. Refining Furnace Tripod” was increased a notch.

“Refining Qi into Divinity. Refining Furnace Tripod: 46%”

The Refining Furnace Tripod has almost reached the progress of fifty percent, and due to the effect of the Golden Body, the speed of progress has increased.

After emerging from seclusion to briefly understand the outside world, everything seemed very calm.

The Ming Dynasty, which had people from the First Dynasty join, did not take immediate action, seemingly maintaining a balance.

But Wang Sheng knew, the longer the accumulation, the bigger the event that would erupt. The Ming Dynasty was accumulating this essence, planning to decide fate in one battle.

Of course, this calmness was what he wanted as well.

However, the sense of urgency in his heart hadn’t diminished at all.

Once the Ming Dynasty made their move, it meant that matters involving the First Dynasty would also begin.

So after briefly gathering information, Wang Sheng went back into seclusion.

Time slowly passed, and this time it went directly to the year 553 of the great Zhou calendar, almost two years had passed.

In those two years, Wang Sheng spent most of his time practicing Inner Core Skill, increasing his realm.

“Realm—

Refining Qi into Divinity. Refining Furnace Tripod: 98.5%

Cultivation Technique—

Inner Core Skill (Refining Essence to Qi): Breakthrough +5 (87%)

Ba Duan Jin: Breakthrough +5 (94%)—Blood Qi like Dragon: 83%

Five Elements Fist: Breakthrough +4 (78%)—Five Internal Organs Containing God. Awakening One: 19%

Yijin Scripture: Breakthrough +4 (89%)—Golden Body: 5%”

Lifeless Vacuum Sensing Chapter: Breakthrough +3 (61%)

Life—

Planting Skill: Breakthrough +6 (49%) Forging: Breakthrough +1 (1%)

Refining: Breakthrough +3 (56%) Reading: Breakthrough +2 (30%)

Heaven and Earth Dao Rules Analysis: 1 (3%)…

Martial Techniques—

Bajiquan: Breakthrough +4 (12%) Plum Flower Step: Breakthrough +4 (5%)

Sacrificial Rites: Breakthrough +2 (15%) God-slaying Sword: 8 (23%)

Hidden Weapon: Breakthrough +2 (6%)…

Knowledge—

Cosmos: Breakthrough +3 (36%) Mechanical Techniques: 8 (95%)

Herb Recognition: Breakthrough +3 (68%)…

Divine Skills—

Summon Wind and Rain: Breakthrough +1 (20%) Heavenly Thunder: Breakthrough +1 (17%)

Enhancement Symbol: 5 (66%) Sword Transformation Technique: 6 (67%)…

Over the course of two years, Wang Sheng spent most of his time cultivating the Inner Core Skill, but that didn’t mean he didn’t do anything else.

The greatest change was actually in the “Ten-Complete Great Replenishing Pill Making.”

After Wang Sheng had made breakthroughs in both “Nine-Flavor Sedative Pill Making” and “Golden Sore Medicine Making,” the three refining skills, just like the previously mentioned planting skill, merged after reaching the same type of breakthrough.

It became “Refining: Breakthrough+3 (56%).”

Naturally, this time it was a skill that had broken through five times merging with two skills that had broken through once, so the drop was quite substantial, becoming a skill that had broken through three times.

However, overall it was a good deal—the “Refining” skill was much more cost-effective than a single elixir-making skill.

So Wang Sheng didn’t really feel anything about it.

Then came the breakthroughs in martial skills, Ba Duan Jin and Plum Flower Step both had four breakthroughs, and Reading, Refining Ceremony, and Hidden Weapon had two breakthroughs each.

Martial skills made Wang Sheng’s “Momentum” even more powerful and his destructive power more terrifying.

Breakthroughs in things such as reading were functional enhancements.

However, whether it was breaking through four times or two times, there was no qualitative change.

Next came level advancement and progress improvement, which were even more minor, basically unchanged.

There were even skills like forging, which he completely didn’t use, and which saw no improvement over the two years.

This was the inevitable result of having too many skills, especially since during this time his focus was entirely on cultivation technique skills.

This shift in focus naturally also brought significant gains.

The progress bars for the Inner Core Skill, Ba Duan Jin, and others were about to break through, but the most important issue was the realm itself.

“Refining Qi into God. Refining Furnace Tripod: 98.5%”

In the two years, most of his energy focused on this aspect, the third stage of Refining Qi into God was about to be completed.

The appearance of the “Golden Body” also played a significant role, speeding up the Refining Furnace Tripod to a certain extent.

“It shouldn’t take much longer!”

With a little over one percent progress left, it was merely the final stage of illusioning the Refining Furnace Tripod, needing some time, but just a month or two, which wasn’t much compared to the entire realm.

Wang Sheng regrouped his strength and then re-entered his cultivation, quickly reaching two months later.

“Refining Qi into God. Refining Furnace Tripod: 100%”

Having spent three to four years, Wang Sheng completed the third stage of Refining Qi into God, the Refining Furnace Tripod.

In his Middle Dantian and Lower Dantian, within the Red Palace and Yellow Court, there had appeared a round furnace tripod.

The furnace and tripod seemed elusive and nonexistent, but upon closer observation, one could see that the furnace tripod and Dantian were connected, closely related to Divine Thought and flesh.

And at this moment, the Great Medicine, following behind in the Red Palace, still had its spirit light.

Wang Sheng’s Great Medicine was not commonly strong.

The Great Medicine underwent countless changes during formation and connected with Heaven and Earth, drawing strength from between them to strengthen itself.

Therefore, the Great Medicine emerged from his body, cultivated from his own Great Medicine, but transcended his body, containing an immensely powerful force.

The next step for the Refining Furnace Tripod was to refine the Great Medicine.

The Great Medicine itself was a combination of Spirit Qi.

Using the furnace tripod to refine the Great Medicine would completely alter the power of the Great Medicine after its transformation.

The fourth stage of Refining Qi into God began, which is when the real transformation of Refining Qi into God started.

For example, the fourth stage, Cloud Smoke, is also known as Mist.

After the furnace tripod’s transformation, the next step is to refine the Great Medicine within the tripod, and the form of the Great Medicine will no longer be fixed, eventually transforming into something like smoke or mist.

Mist refers to moist, hot drifting cloud vapor, the appearance of pervasive smoke and clouds, describing dense smoke or cloud vapor.

The fourth stage speaks of this situation.

After the Great Medicine is refined, it will eventually become gaseous, not fixed in one place, no longer circulating the governing vessel but misting among the above-mentioned furnace tripod, not confined to one spot.

At this stage, the Great Medicine is aptly called Cloud Smoke, named after the realm.

However, because of its state, being called Mist is also not a problem.

Wang Sheng’s next step was to enter this realm.

The first step, ignite the elixir fire.

Refining Great Medicine, like many previous realms, required heat, only the heat needed for Refining Qi into God was different.

Initially, using natural breathing, mobilizing the fire of the breath, similar to when Refining Essence to Qi, but the cessation of breath was merely the primer to draw out the elixir fire.

And the elixir fire was actually closely connected to the Great Medicine, or it could be said to originate from the Great Medicine.

Simply put, it was essentially refining oneself!