"At thirty-two, I broke through from the Qi Sensing Realm into the True Qi Realm of an Internal Martial Master."
"That was decent progress."
Wei Tu looked inward. Under his gaze, wisps of white Internal Energy, thin as silken threads, gradually gathered within his meridians, then twisted together, compressed, and condensed.
Several breaths later, a wisp of pale-yellow "Internal Energy," tougher than before, was born within the wrapping of several strands of pure-white Internal Energy.
"So this is True Qi in the Martial Way."
Wei Tu thought to himself.
He had entered the Qi Sensing Realm from external to internal. According to the next realm of the external martial path, one used Internal Energy to stimulate the body, tempered strength into the marrow, and then nurtured a breath of Innate Qi to enter the realm of an Innate Realm Martial Master.
However, nothing was absolute.
The external and internal martial paths had you within me, and me within you.
The two were not as clearly divided as the Jing and Wei Rivers.
Having generated Internal Energy through the external martial path, he could next either follow the external path to achieve Innate mastery or follow the internal path to achieve it.
To him, both paths were broad roads leading to the heavens.
And when Internal Energy transformed into the higher-grade "True Qi," that was the "True Qi Realm" of the internal martial path.
(External martial realms: Qi Sensing, Marrow Tempering, Innate, Grandmaster. Internal martial realms: Qi Sensing, True Qi, Innate, Grandmaster.)
He had cultivated the Marrow Cleansing Scripture for over a decade. Throughout the process of Marrow Tempering, it had likewise forged his Internal Energy, prompting it to transform into True Qi.
"According to rumors, most Martial Masters' True Qi is pure white, just like Internal Energy. Why is my