Vajra Realm Middle Stage

[Year 1: You meticulously study the saber forms of the Blood Saber Manual, observing the manual and gaining insights from the Demon Suppressing Blade. You easily comprehend the first form, Blood Shadow Saber.]

[Year 3: You are proficient with Blood Shadow Saber, but the threshold for the second form remains elusive. You continue to ponder and diligently practice.]

[Year 7: You finally comprehend the second form of the Blood Saber Manual, Great Wind Saber.]

[Year 18: Your comprehension is poor. Even with annotations from the Blood Saber itself, some crucial points remain incomprehensible.]

[Year 20: Relying on the accumulation of time, you forcefully comprehend the third form of the Blood Saber Manual, Void Breaking Saber.]

[Every full moon, by borrowing the power of the moonlight, the saber's might is greatly amplified.]

[Year 38: You comprehend the fourth form of the Blood Saber Manual, Blood Saber Slash.]

[Year 45: Your understanding of the Blood Saber Manual grows increasingly mature. Coupled with your patient and steady disposition, you are getting closer to comprehending the fifth form.]

[Year 48: You comprehend the fifth form of the Blood Saber Manual, Mountain Severing Saber.]

[Year 57: You comprehend the sixth form of the Blood Saber Manual, Soul Annihilation Saber.]

[Year 60: Your comprehension seems to have reached its limit. You gain nothing.]

[Year 69: You gain nothing.]

[Year 72: You gain nothing.]

"..."

Chu Jiang stopped infusing the lifespan of demons.

The martial talent of this body was exceptionally poor, stagnating at the sixth form.

Its talent was nowhere near that of the Blood Saber.

The Blood Saber had taken just over twenty years to cultivate to the seventh form.

In his twenty years, he had only reached the third form.

The Blood Saber Manual: Three forms for minor completion, six forms for major completion, nine forms for perfect completion.

In the Xiantian Realm, comprehending the first six forms would already grant one the capital to contend with the Vajra Realm.

But this was still not enough.

As the lifespan of demons continued to be infused, the panel began to flip.

[Year 83: You painstakingly ponder, but still achieve no results.]

[Year 95: You feel your brain cells are about to deplete, your head is about to explode. Comprehending the seventh form remains as distant as ever.]

[Year 99: The comprehension limit of the Xiantian Realm is the sixth form. You doubt whether to continue persisting.]

[Year 100: You grit your teeth and cease comprehending the seventh form. Instead, you hone the previous six forms, attempting to find a breakthrough from the earlier saber forms.]

[Year 108: You successfully comprehend the seventh form of the Blood Saber Manual, Blood Moon in the Sky.]

[One of the Blood Saber's ultimate killing moves. On a full moon night, by borrowing the power of the blood moon, the Blood Saber's might can be brought to its extreme.]

"..."

Chu Jiang felt a powerful force surge into his mind. The Blood Saber Manual's centuries of saber dao experience and techniques surfaced in his mind.

The next moment.

He transformed. His eyes were sharp as sabers, his aura like a rainbow. His entire being emanated a terrifying presence.

"Xiantian Peak!"

Chu Jiang calmed his thoughts and exhaled a breath of turbid air.

His meridians had widened. Breaking through had been too difficult. The next step was to liquefy all the true qi within his body.

To break through to the Vajra Realm.

This time, Chu Jiang did not continue infusing the lifespan of demons. This should be the limit of the Xiantian Realm.

If he continued to push further, it would only consume a large amount of demon lifespan to no avail.

Moreover, combat-oriented martial arts had a relatively small effect on realm advancement.

The Wind-Thunder Vajra Body was the main focus. He had to reserve enough lifespan to deduce this cultivation technique.

Internal cultivation was the foundation.

Chu Jiang collected his thoughts and took out the Wind-Thunder Vajra Body to review.

After reading it, Chu Jiang discovered that this cultivation technique did not require comprehension; it purely depended on accumulation. It required the consumption of vast resources. If one were to solely absorb energy from heaven and earth.

To even reach entry-level would take a hundred years.

Minor completion would take several hundred years.

An ordinary person, without a massive supply of resources, would only barely achieve entry-level by the time they died.

The consumption of such a technique could only be afforded by some top-tier great sects.

When Chu Jiang saw the large characters gradually appearing on the panel, his reasoning became more plausible.

[Demon Lifespan: Five hundred and seventy-eight years]

"..."

Upon seeing the words on the panel, Chu Jiang's spirit jolted.

If he had the opportunity to obtain the latter half of this martial art in the future, it would truly be a Grandmaster martial art.

Chu Jiang didn't hesitate.

He began channeling the vast lifespan of the demon into the Wind-Thunder Vajra Body.

A few hundred years, so be it. The lifespan he had just obtained was already gone before it could even warm up.

[Year 1: You began cultivating the Wind-Thunder Vajra Body, opening acupoints within your body. You attempted to absorb the energy between heaven and earth to temper your physique, with minimal results.]

[Year 3: Cultivating the Wind-Thunder Vajra Body involves opening acupoints within the body to temper the physique. Entry requires opening nine major acupoints within the body.]

[Year 10: Your cultivation of the Wind-Thunder Vajra Body has become quite proficient. Although the progress is slow, you have still opened two major acupoints within your body.]

[Year 98: You have opened seven acupoints, just one step away from entry with nine acupoints.]

[Year 123: All nine acupoints are open. Next, you need to fill these nine acupoints before you can truly enter.]

[Year 130: You are simultaneously absorbing the energy of heaven and earth to open new acupoints and tempering the nine acupoints, filling them.]

[Year 138: Your nine acupoints are perfected. The true essence within your meridians has all liquefied, and you have successfully stepped into the Vajra Realm Early Stage. The Wind-Thunder Vajra Body has entered.]

Chu Jiang opened his eyes, sensing the surging power within him like turbulent waves.

His muscles began to swell, as if an infinite amount of energy was being injected into them. Every inch of his muscle emitted a faint golden light, like a layer of golden armor, making it indestructible.

The true essence capacity within his body had expanded dozens of times compared to the Xiantian Realm, and the energy contained within the true essence, both in purity and density, had undergone a qualitative change.

His five senses became even sharper. He could see an ant on a tree a hundred meters away through the window. His perception of his surroundings had increased by more than double.

This Wind-Thunder Vajra Body, even just at the entry stage, was already so monstrous. If it broke through further, he couldn't even imagine what changes would occur.

It was just too resource-intensive.

Chu Jiang looked at the panel again. It had taken nearly 140 years to reach the entry stage.

The difficulty of breaking through each level of this martial art was several times that of the previous level.

He now doubted whether his remaining lifespan would be enough to help him reach the minor completion stage.

He seemed to recall something and took out the meat core he had obtained from the underground palace of Black Tiger Mountain.

"This meat core contains a significant amount of energy. If I hold it and mentally recite that I will eat it later, will its energy be transferred to the panel?"

Chu Jiang pondered, and decided to act immediately. It wouldn't hurt to try.

[Year 139: You consumed the mysterious demon core, comprehending a trace of Wind-Thunder power, increasing your cultivation efficiency.]

[Year 140: The mysterious demon core was depleted. You consecutively opened eight acupoints within your body.]

[Year 250: You absorbed the primordial energy of heaven and earth day and night, opening seventeen acupoints within your body.]

[Year 325: You opened twenty-eight acupoints within your body, forming a minor circulation.]

[Year 340: Your twenty-eight acupoints are perfected. The Wind-Thunder Vajra Body has reached minor completion, and you have advanced to the Vajra Realm Middle Stage.]

[Your physical body possesses inherent Wind-Thunder power, capable of dispelling evil and demons, and paralyzing enemy nerves.]

[Demon Lifespan: 238 years]

[Self Lifespan: 120 years]