There were several thousand secret teachings for breaking limits.
With two or three days still remaining before the assessment, Chu Qing was in no hurry and examined them slowly.
One limit-breaking secret teaching.
Three copies...
Fifty copies...
Some limit-breaking secret teachings were simple.
Others were complicated.
Chu Qing spent more than ten hours in the Library Pavilion and finished reading every secret teaching.
The countless secret teachings all flowed through his mind.
Chu Qing felt that he could now create a new limit-breaking secret teaching.
Moreover:
After reading all those limit-breaking secret teachings, he discovered:
Some limit-breaking secret teachings were actually connected to one another.
By studying those secret teachings, he discovered:
After the Four Great Realms were completed, a barrier would appear within the human body.
Or rather, that barrier had always existed; it simply had not been discovered before.
Once a limit-breaking method was activated, the barrier would appear.
According to the many limit-breaking methods, the stronger one's foundation, the more barriers one would have.
Every barrier broken would raise one's combat strength and, at the same time, activate the realm of the Second Limit.
Once all the barriers were broken, one could charge into the Second Limit.
According to the records in the books:
The First Limit had at most seventy-two layers of barriers.
Each layer was sturdier than the last.
Each layer also granted a greater increase in combat strength than the last.
However, as long as one broke even a single layer, one could charge into the Second Limit.
It was simply that some people did not possess a sufficiently strong foundation.
Thus, while at the First Limit, they would open up a minor realm known as acupoints.
Once these acupoints were opened, they could forcibly raise one's foundation a little and increase one's combat