Inheritance Chamber

Things went smoothly after that.

After the match, Su Ti received a bank card with ten million yuan from Li Zong. This was his appearance fee for the fight against Demon Mountain. The money was clean and there would be no unexpected issues.

Afterward, they signed and fingerprinted in front of everyone, agreeing to another match between Su Ti and Li Mingsheng a month later.

With matters settled, the people from Dragon Gate Martial Hall left.

At Long Yuanzheng's villa, after dismissing the disciples once again, only Su Ti and Long Yuanzheng remained.

Looking at Su Ti in front of him, Long Yuanzheng spoke.

"Su Ti, do you know Li Mingsheng's strength?"

Su Ti shook his head. Although he had accepted the challenge, he didn't actually know.

Long Yuanzheng shook his head and said.

"Don't look at him like he has no brains, he's actually a master, the strongest in the Death Fist Society besides Li Zong!"

"He's at Inner Refinement Stage five, having reached the level of Inner Refinement mastery. His Black Fiend Fist technique is at the intermediate level, not far from mastery. In other words, he's only one step away from the Perfected Circle Realm. He can fully step into it as soon as his technique reaches mastery!"

"Not only that, he also practices a first-rate external skill called Adamantine Saaga Skill. This skill has reached the mastery level. His muscles can be soft or hard. When soft, they are like dough, deflecting force and impervious to knife cuts. When hard, they are as tough as iron, unbreakable by hammers!"

"Compared to him, Demon Mountain's external skill and technique are just a joke. If he gets serious, Li Mingsheng's strength could take on ten Demon Mountains!"

"That strong!"

Su Ti was also a bit surprised. He really didn't expect Li Mingsheng to be this powerful.

Long Yuanzheng sighed.

"Li Zong has raised two good sons. The eldest son has his martial arts talent, and the second son has his intelligence and ruthlessness. But Su Ti, since you dared to accept his challenge, you must have something to rely on."

Since the match rules allowed for surrender, Long Yuanzheng wasn't too worried and said with a smile.

"That Li Zong is also a figure, but it's a pity he fought too fiercely when he was young, leaving behind hidden injuries. Although he forcefully broke through that realm, he left many hidden dangers, and insufficient perception is one of them. When you stood next to him, he didn't even realize you had reached Inner Refinement Stage two, thinking you had just luckily broken through the Inner Refinement Stage and were still at Inner Refinement Stage one."

"Breaking through to Inner Refinement Stage two in one week, this kind of talent... It turns out I misjudged back then. Su Ti, you are a martial arts master in a million in our school!"

Su Ti was stunned. Although he had been using the modifier to cheat, he really didn't know how his martial arts talent was.

"Is my talent that good?"

Long Yuanzheng nodded.

"I haven't told you about this, but our Dragon Gate's Golden Snake Molting Inner Refinement method, although it's an upper-level practice, is extremely dependent on bone structure talent. If the talent isn't good, the potential of this skill is extremely limited."

"When you first joined, I felt your bones, and the bone structure I felt was extremely poor. With this kind of bone structure, practicing Golden Snake Molting could only reach the second stage at most. To avoid discouraging you, I didn't tell you. Now it seems, master made a mistake."

Long Yuanzheng said with emotion.

"Not only is your bone structure not extremely poor, it's the opposite. You are a martial arts prodigy in a million, and you have excellent compatibility with our Golden Snake Gate's practice, Golden Snake Molting!"

"This kind of genius has appeared in our Dragon Gate before, but that was hundreds of years ago. That person was named Wang Yuehong, your grandmaster. He practiced Golden Snake Molting and molted seven times in less than half a year, making him the number one genius in the history of our Dragon Gate lineage!"

"Su Ti! You molted twice in one week, it's clear that you are this kind of martial arts genius in a million!"

"Our Dragon Gate lineage is destined to flourish in your hands, Su Ti..."

Long Yuanzheng's face showed excitement. Just then, Su Ti awkwardly interrupted him.

"Master, my Golden Snake Molting has already reached mastery. It seems you didn't misjudge, my bone structure is indeed not very good."

Long Yuanzheng's mouth slightly opened, his face full of astonishment, then he came back to his senses.

"Impossible, absolutely impossible!"

"You reached Inner Refinement Stage two and molted twice in two weeks, how could your talent be bad?! Can someone with poor talent cultivate this fast?!"

"Master, it's true. I actually have a characteristic, which is that I cultivate any skill very quickly."

Long Yuanzheng still didn't believe it and directly reached out to feel Su Ti's body. After feeling around for a while, his face was blank, and he muttered to himself.

"It shouldn't be, it really has reached mastery. You cultivate so fast, your potential shouldn't be this low, but yet..."

After muttering to himself for a while, Long Yuanzheng seemed to have figured something out and stared at Su Ti with a strange look.

"When you practice, do you often have epiphanies, causing your skills to advance by leaps and bounds?"

Su Ti couldn't explain the modifier, so he could only nod.

Seeing Su Ti nod, Long Yuanzheng sighed.

"I heard your senior sister Yao Juan mention your epiphanies before, but I didn't pay much attention. I didn't expect you to really be this kind of person, with extremely high comprehension but extremely poor bone structure. This leads to your rapid progress in martial arts, but your martial arts ceiling is extremely low..."

In Ancient Martial Arts, comprehension and bone structure complement each other. One determines the speed of martial arts cultivation, while the other determines the upper limit of martial arts.

Su Ti also became a little anxious when he heard this. He didn't know much about Ancient Martial Arts, after all, he had only just started a few days ago and wasn't clear about many things. Now that Long Yuanzheng said this, he also began to worry.

"Master, does that mean I'll only ever be at Inner Refinement Stage two? I'll never be able to go higher?"

"No, there are other ways."

Long Yuanzheng exhaled and said slowly.

"What way?"

"First, certain fate-changing spiritual medicines can improve a person's bone structure. These prescriptions and Ancient Martial Arts were originally passed down together from the Wu Dynasty, but by the time they reached modern times, not only were the medicinal ingredients hard to find, but the prescriptions were basically lost as well. I've only heard of them, I've never actually seen them..."

The first point was as good as saying nothing, so Su Ti asked again.

"What about the second?"

"Second... Su Ti, come with me."

Su Ti followed Long Yuanzheng into the villa.

The villa was very large. The first floor had a huge living room of several hundred square meters and Long Yuanzheng's master bedroom. The second floor had seven or eight clean guest rooms for receiving guests, and the three senior disciples often stayed on the second floor.

As for the third floor, it was the rooftop training area.

This time, Long Yuanzheng didn't take Su Ti to the first floor, nor the second or third floor, but to the basement.

The basement.

Going down from the secret door in the training room on the first floor led to a basement.

At the entrance of the basement sat an old man.

The old man was about sixty or seventy years old, with white hair combed back. When Su Ti saw him, he was playing chess on his phone, with a pot of tea brewing beside him. He looked no different from a gatekeeper old man.

"Su Ti, this is Uncle Liang, our Dragon Gate's Inheritance Elder, a master of the Perfected Circle Realm."

Long Yuanzheng introduced the two with a gesture.

"Uncle Liang, this is Su Ti, my fourth disciple. He just joined not long ago, and due to some matters, I'm only bringing him to see you now."

Su Ti was a little surprised. Besides the three senior disciples, Long Yuanzheng's villa only had some domestic staff, like aunts who cleaned and cooked. This was the first time he had seen this Uncle Liang.

Moreover, he didn't expect this seemingly ordinary old man to be a master of the Perfected Circle Realm, which meant great achievement in both fighting and training!

"Dragon Gate Master."

Seeing Long Yuanzheng arrive, Uncle Liang first bowed his head in greeting, then looked Su Ti up and down and smiled.

"Not bad, not bad. At such a young age, you've reached the second layer of Inner Refinement. You must have been initiated for a year or two now."

"Uncle Liang, how did you see that?"

Su Ti was a little surprised. How could both Long Yuanzheng and Uncle Liang see his martial arts realm?

"Hahaha, Dragon Gate Master, after all this time, you still haven't told your disciple about the Perfected Circle Realm. Today, this old man will overstep and tell you, little brother, why I can see your cultivation realm."

Uncle Liang laughed.

"The Perfected Circle Realm is a realm where the perception and control of qi and blood have reached an extremely high level. The qi and blood are perfectly integrated, and one is highly sensitive to any external stimuli. One can even detect the weight of an insect landing on their shoulder, and thus can detect things that ordinary people cannot, such as breathing."

"Breathing?"

"That's right, breathing. Little brother Su Ti, have you noticed that after entering the Inner Refinement Stage, your heart rate and breathing are slower than usual?"

Su Ti was stunned. He really hadn't noticed this, after all, who would actively observe their own breathing and heart rate? But now that it was mentioned, he calmed down and observed, finding that it seemed to be exactly as Uncle Liang said.

"An ordinary person's resting heart rate is 70-85 beats per minute, while my current heart rate is only... 30 beats per minute, more than twice as slow as an ordinary person!"

Uncle Liang smiled.

"This is normal. At the Inner Refinement Realm, a martial artist's internal organs are greatly enhanced. To give an example, the blood supply that a normal person's heart can complete in three beats, an Inner Refinement martial artist's heart can do in one beat, because their heart is three times stronger than an ordinary person's, and the pumping ability generated by squeezing is also stronger. It seems to be beating slower, but in fact, the efficiency is higher."

"Breathing is the same. An Inner Refinement stage martial artist's lungs are stronger than an ordinary person's, and the rhythm of breathing and exhaling is also longer."

"And the Perfected Circle Realm can sense things that ordinary people cannot at close range, such as your heart rate and breathing."

Su Ti understood when he heard this.

"You are judging what realm I am in by my breathing and heart rate."

Uncle Liang smiled and nodded. It was clear that he was very friendly to Su Ti and spoke freely.

"The so-called 'qi and breath' refers to a person's breathing and heart rate. The stronger a person's qi and breath, the more powerful their heartbeat and the longer their breathing. These are just some minor tricks of the Perfected Circle Realm, nothing special. One day, when you reach the Perfected Circle Realm, you will also understand."

Su Ti was greatly enlightened and bowed with clasped fists. Long Yuanzheng nodded slightly at the sight and didn't waste any more words.

"Alright, alright, Uncle Liang, open the door to the Inheritance Chamber first. I'll take Su Ti in to pick some things."

"Yes, Gate Master."

The door to the Inheritance Chamber was sealed extremely tightly and required two keys to open.

One was taken out by Long Yuanzheng from his sleeve, and the other was taken off by Uncle Liang from his neck. The two inserted them simultaneously, twisted, and the door opened.