[Zhu Baowen has told you a lot. Silently pray that your true form will give him ten points.]
"I remember, I'll write it down in my notebook later."
[In the same year, Li Tianbing of the Meteor Sect became a Grandmaster. You attended his Grandmaster's banquet and offered your blessings.]
[In the 279th year of the Great Qing Dynasty, the Dao Sect, a sect a level above the Yangyao Sect and the most powerful sect in the Qing Kingdom, extended an invitation to you, expressing goodwill.]
The Daoist sect has never lost its lineage of Grandmasters, and currently, several Grandmasters are cultivating in seclusion in the mountains. They need not worry about the pressure from the Yangyao Sect.
[But adding flowers to brocade is ultimately not as good as providing charcoal in the snow. Elder Jiang has already told you the points that Grandmasters should pay attention to, and Zhu Baowen has even taught you about the Innate Realm and the Celestial Realm.]
But you still went; it was a token of your affection.
[The Dao Sect Master: "This Grandmaster's guidance is extremely valuable. After receiving it, you must serve my Dao Sect for a hundred years, understand?"]
[Humorous Daoist Sect, you just chuckle: You made me run around for nothing, go back to your lousy Grandmaster guidance!]
[On the 280th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhu Baowen bids you farewell. You two had a good relationship these past two years, and now he says goodbye to you before leaving.]
You bow to express your gratitude for your guidance during this time.
Half an hour after Zhu Baowen gracefully departed, you sprinted, you ran wildly, you sprinted at top speed!
"The spatial portal must heal very slowly!!!"
[You have traversed mountains, lakes, rivers, and plains; you have now completed 30% of your marrow tempering, significantly increasing your strength. In another ten years, you will surely become a Grandmaster of罡劲 (Gang Jin).]
[So at full speed, it's like being struck by lightning, the road ahead feels like it's been hacked by a flurry of blades, luckily you're deliberately choosing to travel through sparsely populated areas.]
[Five hundred li, one thousand li, one thousand five hundred li... You have to stop and rest, get some food from a nearby resident, write an IOU, and stamp it with the gang leader's seal.]
You ate as you ran, seemingly tireless, and in a single day, you arrived at the shores of the East China Sea!
"Hey folks, can I borrow your fishing boat?" You drop your gang leader's seal, shoulder a boat, and race across the sea. The 100-ton wooden boat isn't much of a burden, but it can be used for safety and rest.
[Because you haven't reached the stage of sensing primordial energy yet, you wandered around in the sea for a long time before finally finding that area. Unlike your previous life as an ancient being, your biological instincts were terrifyingly strong, allowing you to sense that that area was extraordinary and brimming with vitality.]
Finally, you dived into the sea. The outer edge of the spatial passage was teeming with strange beasts, including many with the strength of a Grandmaster. However, upon seeing that you were of the same kind as the powerful old man from before, they readily made way for you.
[You see the spatial passage is empty, with elemental crystals slowly multiplying around it. You immediately step inside. At the exit, several tens of meters away, there is now only a half-foot-thick layer of crystal wall, which is still being filled in grain by grain.]
"Half a foot..." You puffed out your chest, gathering all your strength into a single point, and unleashed a powerful punch with your right fist! Even without the boost of supersonic speed, this punch still surpassed the palm strike you delivered to Zhao Yuan back then!
[With a deafening explosion, the seawater in front of your fist is blasted away, creating a vacuum bubble. The high-speed friction causes the seawater to heat up and evaporate, producing even more water vapor bubbles.]
A punch powerful enough to kill a whale!
[Bang! ! !]
The seawater vibrations were enough to kill a person in this narrow passage; your right fist was shattered, a comminuted fracture, but you ignored this minor injury, your eyes fixed intently on the spot where the attack had just occurred.
[Probably, maybe, seemingly, possibly, it seems... the crystal wall is undamaged.]
"Damn it! How can it be so tough!?" You grit your teeth, staring at the Yuan Crystal Barrier that is still slowly repairing itself. "It's internally damaged! It must be internally damaged. It's barely holding on, and it must be full of tiny, invisible cracks inside. If I hit it again..."
[Bang! !!!]
[Your left fist is also completely shattered: "Damn it, I'm still stubbornly holding on!"]
[BOOM!!!]
[Right leg twisted and bent: "I'll fight you to the death!!!"]
Yun Shou felt a pang of heartache: "Give up, baby, it can't be broken."
Last time, even the demonized Yun Shou, who had several times the combat power of a Grandmaster, could only be scratched at first. Now, he is probably only at the level of a Gangjin Grandmaster.
It's impossible to break it open.
The current seventh-generation Yun Shou has almost become obsessed, desperately rushing and searching, just to follow Zhu Baowen and ride the wave of ascension. The sunk cost is too high, and he won't turn back until he hits a wall!
After a while, while cursing the filth, you used your strength to move your body out of the passage and back onto the ship, to prevent yourself from being sealed into amber by the gradually healing crystal walls.
[You lie on the boat, your fists and feet shattered. Fortunately, you're no ordinary grandmaster; you're a grandmaster with more than five times the essence—you should recover within a month.]
[At sea, you use your inner strength to propel the boat back to the coastal fishing village. You can go ashore after seven days, and you will be mostly unharmed after twenty days.]
[In the 281st year of the Daqing era, the Daoist sect began to make things difficult for your Qinghe Gang in various minor ways. Although it was still a gang, the entire area around Qinghu Lake was actually under your control.]
[The Qinghu Lake, which is said to cover an area of eight hundred li, is not of regular shape, and its narrowest point is only a little over a hundred li. However, if one were to unify its surrounding areas, such a vast sphere of influence would exceed what a single Grandmaster could suppress.]
The reason for your success is your superior strength, coupled with the fact that the fishermen around the lake have very little to offer in terms of profit, not even comparable to the income of a single city.
[Now, many of your businesses have been suppressed, and your available martial arts resources have decreased. The Dao Sect has sent another letter, expressing how much they value you as a genius. They also regret that your progress will slow down once your martial arts resources are cut off.]
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