[You can't help but react when Beichenguang is mentioned; this "can't help but react" is directed at Zhu Baowen.]
[Because Bei Chenguang possesses a "Sacred Body," an extremely rare and special physique: approximately one in every ten thousand Grandmasters who, through the Heavenly Origin Cleansing, reach ten times their maximum potential, will awaken the Sacred Body.]
[The Sacred Body, like your essential amplification, is the key to making that one in ten thousand innate talent stand out numerically. Bei Chenguang's Sacred Body is called—Primordial Spirit True Self Body.]
[Primordial Spirit True Self Body: For the possessor of this physique, primordial energy is like their own parents. They will possess an extremely terrifying affinity for primordial energy, specifically manifested in extremely rapid martial arts cultivation in the early stages. Later, when they reach the Celestial Realm, which uses the primordial energy of heaven and earth to attack enemies, and the Overlord Realm, which controls all ten thousand kinds of matter, they will be much stronger than other experts of the same level!]
So why did I feel I couldn't hold back when it came to Zhu Baowen?
[Because he has never mentioned the existence of the "Holy Body" to you. Even a demon equivalent to the mid-to-late stage of the Innate Realm knows it, and even that deputy city lord, who is probably only a Celestial Realm cultivator, knows it. How could you, Zhu Baowen, a Overlord-level cultivator, not know it?]
There's only one reason: he also doesn't have the Holy Communion.
[If Zhu Baowen were to reveal that those one-in-a-million geniuses also possess a sacred body, you could retort, "Big boss, what kind of sacred body do you have?"]
How embarrassing! I can't very well say that someone as powerful as me is one of those 9,999 out of 10,000, can I?
Older people also have pride!
Yun Shou: "Didn't you ever think that if I found out, I'd lose even more face?"
[Your obsession with the "Holy Body" isn't that strong, because you're still working on improving your aptitude. The closer your aptitude gets to the ten-fold limit, the more difficult it becomes. Right now, your aptitude is approximately... 9.7 times.]
[A Grandmaster with 67 times the combat power, stronger than the newly descended Otherworldly Demon.]
"This... surpasses it?"
Yun Shou felt a little unreal. The great enemy he had always kept in his heart, that terrifying alien demon, was no longer a match for him (simulating Yun Qi).
He had been thinking that there were still more than 30 years before the arrival of the Otherworldly Demon, and 12,000 chances, but the other party turned into a clown so quickly.
Although the unit used is still Grandmaster, through communication with the people on the ship, you know that your combat strength is already considered to be at the mid-stage of the Innate Realm, and a very powerful one at that, close to the late stage.
[The Innate Realm is far less exaggerated than you think. Generally, the Innate Strength of someone who has just completed the Cleansing of Acupoints and Reversal of Youth is 12-20 times that of a Grandmaster. That 8-fold difference comes from the different martial arts styles.]
[In the early stage of the Innate Realm, the combat power is below that of a Grandmaster (30 times). In the middle stage, it is around 30-70 times. In the late stage, it is 70-150 times. At the peak, it is a Grandmaster with 150 times the combat power.]
[The power of someone at the Innate Realm doesn't increase dramatically just by breaking through a minor early or mid-stage realm; progress is gradual and step-by-step, without getting stuck at the "peak of the early stage"—there is no bottleneck!]
[At the mid-stage of the innate realm, the body gradually evolves towards a "perfect state." It is from this stage that the bonuses from martial arts techniques are weakened to zero. In a sense, this "martial arts technique bonus" is permanently fixed within the human body.]
In the later stages of the Innate Realm, once the Gang Jin (罡劲) is fully transformed into "Yuan Li" (元力), one can learn various Yuan Li techniques, greatly enriching the combat style and moving beyond simple fist and foot strikes or energy clashes.
[Elemental skills are highly versatile, even possessing various different attributes. The same elemental power can be used to unleash either *Raging Lotus* or *Blue Entanglement*.]
Of course, all that's said is irrelevant to you; you're still a Grandmaster.
Yun Shou: "..."
[You belong to the strongest group of martial artists on this ship. Not everyone is as freakish as Bei Chenguang. Normal innate martial artists can only efficiently absorb vital energy to improve their aptitude during the Heavenly Origin Cleansing stage, and then they have to improve little by little afterward.]
[This ship is almost entirely filled with ascendants who broke through to the Innate Realm within the last five years. Many of them had 12-20 times their original combat strength when they completed the Heavenly Origin Cleansing four years ago.]
[He then spent the next four years cultivating in an environment saturated with vital energy, yet his combat power only increased two to three times in that time.]
Therefore, of the approximately 3000+ ascended Innate Realm cultivators on the entire ship, only two holders of the Holy Body and a dozen or so who reached the pinnacle of the mid-to-late Innate Realm within a short period of five years through various fortuitous encounters can compare to you.
[After all, they are a prodigy of their realm; it's normal for them to have a higher success rate in obtaining Sacred Bodies.]
"I'm one of the top figures... no, I haven't even reached the Innate Realm yet!"
Yun Shou sighed with emotion.
There are over three thousand innate beings, including many flying beings from the same world, but that would still require several hundred small worlds.
I'm so touched. Although I still have to work as soon as I ascend, at least I'm not at the bottom anymore. I won't find myself falling back to the bottom among the geniuses of the upper realm.
"...Although I haven't spent many days at the bottom either."
[You still haven't sensed any vital energy, but after asking around, you feel much more at ease. Many people who appear young at birth are actually over 150 years old, and most of them have spent decades wholeheartedly trying to comprehend the universe.]
[You've only been a Grandmaster for thirty or forty years. The first half of that time was spent fighting monsters at sea, and the second half was spent leading your underlings in hiding, hunting demonized warriors.]
The time spent gaining enlightenment is probably less than what someone spends four or five years practicing asceticism in the deep mountains.
Yun Shou: "I knew it. If I haven't felt the presence of vital energy in more than 30 years, then I must not be a living being."
He proudly put his hands on his hips and said, "It's just that I didn't try hard enough!"
This chapter is not finished, please click the next page to continue reading!
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
