The Heaven-Connecting Path had been opened. The most crucial seeds—or rather, the paths—were Heaven-Connecting martial arts such as the Overlord Spear.
After cultivating such techniques to the limit-breaking stage, one would forge a hidden Heaven-Connecting Path within the body.
But this Heaven-Connecting Path still needed to be opened.
Chu Qing first arranged all manner of rare and precious materials around himself, then swallowed secret medicine.
This secret medicine was not ordinary martial arts medicine.
It had been specially developed for the Heaven-Connecting Path.
The moment a pill entered his stomach, it churned and swiftly digested the medicine.
Then, the medicinal power burrowed into his five viscera and six bowels, linked with his sinews, bones, flesh, and blood, and gathered the power produced by the Skin Marrow Realm before charging toward the end of his spine.
In the unseen depths, Chu Qing used Internal Vision:
Under the perspective of Internal Vision, his spinal column resembled a towering pagoda.
From top to bottom, the pagoda had twenty-six levels.
Each vertebra represented one level.
The entire pagoda was golden, covered in strange patterns.
Those were the external manifestations of golden bones.
At this moment:
The secret medicine drew upon the power of many realms and gathered it at his tailbone.
Chu Qing's consciousness descended upon his tailbone.
At this moment:
The perspective of his Internal Vision changed. What he saw was no longer a pagoda, but a mountain.
A golden mountain that shot straight into the clouds, so tall that its height could not be seen.
Upon the mountain, countless golden patterns formed great dragons.
The great dragons slithered about, baring their fangs and brandishing their claws as though they were alive.
"According to the records of the great lineages, the more great dragons there are on one's spine, the stronger the Heaven-Connecting