Chapter 89: Peerless Talent (Requesting Subscriptions)

"So why would cultivating all three dantians simultaneously be the most difficult path?"

Hearing Lu Chunyuan's words, Lu Sheng asked in confusion.

Knowing that Lu Sheng's foundational knowledge was extremely lacking, Lu Chunyuan shook his head with a smile, sat back down in the reclining chair, and then said to him:

"Do you know the true function of the three dantians for the body?"

"True function?" Lu Sheng frowned, thought for a moment, and said:

"The upper dantian is the abode of spirit, the middle dantian is the abode of qi, and the lower dantian is the abode of essence."

"The three dantians respectively govern the essence, qi, and spirit of the human body."

The Hunyuan Mystic Qi he currently cultivated was actually transformed through the Ruyi Myriad Transformations Art, so he naturally had the deepest understanding of the use of essence, qi, and spirit.

Thus, when he heard Lu Chunyuan's question, the first thing he considered was essence, qi, and spirit, and he spoke of the role of the three dantians in the cultivation of essence, qi, and spirit.

"Well said! But not complete enough!"

Affirming Lu Sheng's answer, Lu Chunyuan said.

As a Martial Ancestor at perfection, having already merged the three dantians into one and formed an inner world within his body, his understanding of the three dantians was naturally extremely clear.

He pointed at Lu Sheng's head, chest, and abdomen, saying:

"The three dantians of the human body, from top to bottom, govern the head, chest, and abdomen respectively."

"If you wish to cultivate the dantians to their limit, you must temper these parts to their limit as well. Let your own mystic qi permeate every single spot of these regions."

"Now, you should understand where your problem lies, right?"

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"Letting mystic qi permeate every spot of the head, chest, and abdomen—"

"Only then can the three dantians be cultivated to their limits!"

Hearing Lu Chunyuan's explanation, Lu Sheng thought about his own experiences during cultivation and said with sudden realization:

"Teacher means that my tempering of the body's parts with mystic qi is insufficient—"

"I need to strengthen the tempering of these parts!"

"But I've already completed the organ tempering stage as a Martial Master!"

"Why can't I reach the Martial Master limit?"

The Martial Master stage mainly involves tempering the five viscera and six bowels, excluding the heart.

Although Lu Sheng had only been a Martial Master for a little over two years, he had been cultivating almost every waking moment while inside the Dragon-Whale Beast.

Thus, over those two years, besides forming the fourth-level qi cyclone, he had also nearly completed all the Martial Master stage cultivation in the Hunyuan Art—

Except for the heart, all his five viscera and six bowels had already been tempered once.

It was precisely because of this that his body could unleash such tremendous power, and through the amplification of the Three Treasures Ruyi Art, could exert a colossal force of sixty to seventy thousand jin—

Otherwise, even if he had the strength, limited by his physical constitution, he would have had no way to unleash it.

However, his words fell on Lu Chunyuan's ears and drew nothing but derision:

"Organ tempering? Martial Master limit?"

"Are you still a Martial Master now?"

"A Martial Master cultivates the lower dantian, a Great Martial Master cultivates the middle dantian, and a Martial Ancestor cultivates the upper dantian."

"You are now cultivating all three dantians simultaneously—clearly fusing the three stages of Martial Master, Great Martial Master, and Martial Ancestor into one cultivation path—"

"How could organ tempering alone from the Martial Master stage possibly bring the three dantians to their limit?"

As he spoke, Lu Chunyuan pointed at Lu Sheng's heart and head, and said to him:

"Organ tempering mainly concerns the lower dantian. As for the heart of the middle dantian and the brain of the upper dantian, I expect you haven't even begun tempering them!"

"Because of this, your middle dantian or upper dantian has already reached the limit of what your body can currently bear."

"Under its influence, the progress of the other two dantians naturally slows as well."

"That is why I say the path you have taken is actually the most difficult!"

Cultivating all three dantians simultaneously certainly allows one to possess richer and more profound mystic qi, but it also comes with limitations.

Besides requiring more primordial qi during cultivation, if the body's tempering is insufficient, it will simultaneously affect the cultivation of all three dantians.

This is also the root reason why, despite having many advantages, simultaneous cultivation of the three dantians never spread widely.

Now, the path Lu Sheng had chosen was precisely this one.

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"What you mean is, I now need to begin the blood tempering of the Great Martial Master stage, and the brain tempering or even marrow tempering of the Martial Ancestor stage, all at the same time."

Frowning, Lu Sheng said.

"Of course. You don't still think of yourself as an ordinary Martial Master, unable to begin the cultivation of these two stages, do you?" Lu Chunyuan said.

Then, he explained to Lu Sheng:

"The reason ordinary people can only temper the brain and marrow after becoming Martial Ancestors is that their control over mystic qi is not precise enough."

"But for someone like you, who has already unified spirit and qi and manipulates mystic qi as effortlessly as moving one's own arm—"

"Tempering the brain and marrow holds no difficulty whatsoever!"

"So from this moment on, you can already begin the cultivation of brain and marrow tempering."

"So after unifying spirit and qi, I can already begin Martial Ancestor stage cultivation!" Hearing Lu Chunyuan's words, Lu Sheng murmured.

At that moment, he realized he had fallen into a misconception, hindered by the limitations of his realm, and had not begun the cultivation of the Great Martial Master and Martial Ancestor stages.

As he was thinking, Lu Chunyuan pointed at Lu Sheng's heart and said to him:

"Likewise, the reason ordinary people can only begin blood tempering at the Great Martial Master stage is that only after reaching Great Martial Master can they fully open the Nine Divine Apertures."

"Only then can they temper the nine apertures of the heart and begin the blood tempering stage of cultivation."

"As for you, you carry the inheritance of the Dajing Lu Clan—"

"Opening the Nine Divine Apertures is clearly no difficulty for you!"

"Now, how many of your Nine Divine Apertures have been opened? Let me see how far you are from being able to temper blood!"

Hearing this question, Lu Sheng quickly replied: "They're all fully opened already—it's just that some haven't yet had mystic arts cultivated within them, so they haven't been fully utilized!"

"Fully opened!"

Eyes widening, Lu Chunyuan stared at Lu Sheng and said in disbelief:

"How could someone your age have fully opened all Nine Divine Apertures?"

"Could your constitution be the legendary innate fully-apertured constitution?"

An ordinary person of Lu Sheng's age, being able to become a Martial Master and open one or two divine apertures, would already be called a genius. Yet Lu Sheng had fully opened all Nine Divine Apertures—

Other than the legendary innate fully-apertured constitution, Lu Chunyuan truly had no other explanation for such a display!

"No, wait—isn't this kid supposed to be an innate spirit-connecting constitution?"

Thinking of the information Lu Wanshan had passed to him, Lu Chunyuan muttered to himself.

Earlier, among the information Lu Wanshan had conveyed about Lu Sheng, one item was that Lu Sheng possessed an innate spirit-connecting constitution.

And to possess an innate aperture-connecting constitution while also having an innate spirit-connecting constitution—in all the world, there was only—

"An innate constitution! It must be a complete innate constitution!"

"Only this kind of constitution can simultaneously possess the spirit-connecting and aperture-connecting physiques!"

Face flushed red, features trembling with excitement, Lu Chunyuan leaped up from the reclining chair once again, seized Lu Sheng, and said:

"Is it that besides the nine apertures being opened, all your meridians are also unobstructed?"

"Tell me, is that the case?"

As he spoke, he didn't even wait for Lu Sheng to answer. His mystic qi was channeled in once more as he personally investigated Lu Sheng's body.

Seeing him like this, Lu Sheng had no choice but to helplessly lower his defenses and allow Lu Chunyuan to inspect his meridians.

"All meridians unobstructed! It truly is all meridians unobstructed!"

"Indeed! A complete innate constitution, simultaneously possessing the talents of a spirit-connecting, meridian-connecting, and aperture-connecting constitution—unparalleled in all the world!"

"Never did I imagine such a constitution could truly exist."

"And in my lifetime, I actually get to witness it!"

Face flushed, even the hand stroking his beard trembling slightly, Lu Chunyuan looked at Lu Sheng as though beholding a peerless gem, and said with excitement:

"Boy, I take back what I said earlier."

"With a constitution like yours, becoming a Grand Martial Ancestor holds no difficulty whatsoever—"

"Your goal must be to become the mightiest Grand Martial Ancestor!"

"Only that realm could match your talent!"

"Otherwise, you would be completely wasting your gifts!"