Enlightenment: Attaining the Dao at Age 8

Chapter 199: Chapter 132: Nine Heavens Chaos Technique, Body Tempering Chapter

Although Li Chang’an had left Chun’an County, he had not abandoned his foundation there. In fact, he had given all the gold and silver gifted by the Empress to the Demoness Ran Qingqiu to recruit members and build up their forces.

That’s right. After being thoroughly disciplined by Li Chang’an, Ran Qingqiu had finally yielded, enticed by the Cultivation Technique he provided.

Though she was still nominally a Saintess of the Demon Sect, in reality, she had long since been molded into his shape.

Over the years, at Li Chang’an’s behest, she had established an organization called the “Greed Wolf Organization.”

The Greed Wolf Organization had secretly adopted over three hundred beggar children with decent talent and hired several Demon Sect Disciples at high salaries to teach them how to read and write.

After two years of adjustments, the Greed Wolf Organization was starting to get on the right track.

And this letter was the first time Li Chang’an had the Greed Wolf Organization handle a matter for him.

The handwriting on the letter was quite elegant, and the content was simple: “Message received. The matter is under investigation. It will take some time!”

Li Chang’an had compiled and summarized all the information related to Cultivators he’d found in the Imperial Palace Library Pavilion over the years. He then categorized it into three levels based on probability—high, medium, and low suspicion. He certainly didn’t have enough time to investigate every lead himself.

Therefore, he had entrusted the task of verifying this information to the Greed Wolf Organization.

Although Ran Qingqiu was a Demoness, she was still quite capable. This reply indicated that she was already using her methods to begin the verification process.

Setting down the letter, Li Chang’an let out a long, slow breath.

He had finished reading all the historical records in the Library Pavilion and collected all the information he could.

The Buddhist and Demon Sects might also have library pavilions, but a Sect was not a dynasty, after all. Li Chang’an didn’t believe their information could be more complete than what was in the Liyang Dynasty’s Library Pavilion, especially when it came to historical records.

He left the second floor of the Library Pavilion and began to look through the Martial Arts Techniques and Secret Manuals on the third floor.

Although the level of these Secret Manuals wasn’t high, they still had many valuable aspects.

In Li Chang’an’s view, the four realms of Blood Refining, Muscle Forging, Bone Tempering, and Skin Training were especially profound—more so than this world’s Inner Qi or even Grandmaster Realms.

After all, Li Chang’an had also cultivated Qi Force in his previous lives.

In his first life in the Yaoqing Dynasty, it was Energy Introduction. In his second life on the Celestial Yang Continent, it required resonating with heaven and earth to absorb ’Azure Heaven Qi’.

Both of these Cultivation Methods were far stronger than this life’s pure Inner Qi cultivation.

Yet, the reason this life’s Martial Dao could also be world-destroyingly powerful, and even possessed a higher potential than in his previous two lives, was, in Li Chang’an’s view, because its true essence lay in those first four realms.

The four realms of Blood Refining, Muscle Forging, Bone Tempering, and Skin Training could temper a Martial Artist’s physique to Perfection, a cultivation method Li Chang’an had never encountered in his previous lives.

The further he progressed in his cultivation,

the more he appreciated just how incredible these four realms were.

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「Two more years passed in a flash.」

This was the tenth year since Empress Su Ying of the Liyang Dynasty ascended the throne.

Li Chang’an had unknowingly spent three years in the Library Pavilion. During these three years, he did nothing but read, dedicating only a very small amount of time to cultivation.

The historical records he had read over the first two years were not his focus. For the past year, he had been reading through the Low-tier Techniques on the third floor several times.

The gains from observing these Low-tier Techniques with his Heaven-defying Comprehension were far greater than he had imagined.

For ordinary Martial Artists, once they finished tempering their bodies and stepped into the Inner Qi Realm, their cultivation path began to have shortcuts.

For example, they could consume Elixirs that nourished their qi or seek the help of a famous master to guide the qi within their bodies.

But for the four realms of Blood Refining, Muscle Forging, Bone Tempering, and Skin Training, there were absolutely no shortcuts. These were the foundational realms for a Martial Artist’s entry into the path, and also the most difficult stage of cultivation.

Each realm had to be painstakingly tempered.

The more solid the foundation, the further one could go later on.

And now, by studying the Low-tier Techniques on the third floor of the Liyang Dynasty’s Library Pavilion, Li Chang’an was stunned to discover that he had comprehended a fifth realm beyond Blood Refining, Muscle Forging, Bone Tempering, and Skin Training!

[With your Heaven-defying Comprehension, you have gained an epiphany after viewing basic Martial Arts Techniques in the Library Pavilion. You have comprehended the Cultivation Method for the ’Acupoints’ Realm!]

[With your Heaven-defying Comprehension, you have fused the cultivation of the Blood Refining, Muscle Forging, Bone Tempering, Skin Training, and Acupoints realms into the Nine Heavens Chaos Technique, comprehending the Nine Heavens Chaos Decision: Body Tempering Chapter.]

A message from his Heaven-defying Comprehension popped up on his retina.

Li Chang’an felt a flood of new information pour into his mind.

Back in his second life, he had read through every Martial Arts Technique in the Dayan Dynasty’s Imperial Palace to finally comprehend the Nine Heavens Chaos Decision: Milky Way Chapter.

Now, in his fourth reincarnation, he had merely studied this life’s basic Cultivation Techniques.

And yet he had already comprehended the Nine Heavens Chaos Decision: Body Tempering Chapter.

One could only imagine how miraculous this method of body tempering was.

Li Chang’an took a deep breath. He activated the Nine Heavens Chaos Technique and closed his eyes, carefully sensing the changes within his body.

After a moment, Li Chang’an was stunned to discover that the acupoints within his body were now like countless stars, just waiting for him to temper them!

The so-called acupoints were the most wondrous treasures within the human body.

The human body has approximately 52 single points, 309 double points, and 48 extraordinary points, for a total of 409 acupoints. And now, the Nine Heavens Chaos Decision: Body Tempering Chapter that Li Chang’an had comprehended transformed every single one of these acupoints in his body into its own individual star.