Vajra Realm Middle Stage

[Year 1, you carefully studied the saber forms in the Blood Saber Manual. By observing the manual and drawing on your insights from the Demon Suppressing Blade, you easily comprehended the first form of the Blood Saber Manual, Blood Shadow Saber.]

[Year 3, you had become highly proficient in Blood Shadow Saber, but you still had not even touched upon the threshold of the second form. You continued to ponder it and practice diligently.]

[Year 7, you finally comprehended the second form of the Blood Saber Manual, Great Wind Saber.]

[Year 18, your comprehension was poor. Even with Blood Saber's personal annotations, you still could not make heads or tails of certain crucial points.]

[Year 20, relying on the accumulation of time, you forcibly comprehended the third form of the Blood Saber Manual, Void Breaking Saber.]

[On every full moon night, borrowing the power of moonlight, the saber's might doubled.]

[Year 38, you comprehended the fourth form of the Blood Saber Manual, Blood Saber Slash.]

[Year 45, your understanding of the Blood Saber Manual grew increasingly mature. Coupled with your steady, unhurried temperament, you drew ever closer to comprehending the fifth form.]

[Year 48, you comprehended Blood Saber's fifth form, Mountain Severing Saber.]

[Year 57, you comprehended Blood Saber's sixth form, Soul Annihilation Saber.]

[Year 60, your comprehension seemed to have reached its limit. You gained nothing.]

[Year 69, you gained nothing.]

[Year 72, you gained nothing.]

"..."

Chu Jiang stopped pouring in demon lifespan.

This body's martial talent truly was atrocious, stopping at the sixth form.

Compared to Blood Saber, its talent was not merely a little inferior.

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

He had spent twenty years merely reaching the third form.

Three forms of the Blood Saber Manual meant minor mastery, six forms meant major mastery, and nine forms meant perfection.

In the Xiantian Realm, comprehending the first six forms already gave one the foundation to contend against the Vajra Realm.

But this was still not enough.

As the demon lifespan continued to pour in, the panel began to turn over.

[Year 83, you painstakingly pondered it, yet still gained no result.]

[Year 95, you felt as though your brain cells were about to be exhausted and your skull was splitting apart. The seventh form remained a distant prospect.]

[Age 99, the limit of comprehension in the Xiantian Realm was the sixth form. You wondered whether you should continue persevering.]

[Age 100, gritting your teeth, you stopped trying to comprehend the seventh form. Instead, you tempered the first six forms, attempting to find a way to break the deadlock within the earlier saber forms.]

[Age 108, you successfully comprehended the seventh form of the Blood Saber Manual, Blood Moon in the Sky.]

[One of Blood Saber's great killing moves. On the night of a full moon, borrowing the power of the blood moon, it could bring the Blood Saber's might to its utmost limit.]

"..."

Chu Jiang felt a powerful force surge into his mind. Over a hundred years of Blood Saber's saber experience and techniques surfaced within his mind.

The next moment.

He changed. His gaze was sharp as a blade, his aura surged like a rainbow, and his entire body exuded a terrifying presence.

"Xiantian Peak!"

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

His meridians had widened. Breaking through was extremely 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 pouring in demon lifespan. This should have been the limit of the Xiantian Realm.

If he continued the deduction, he would only consume a vast amount of demon lifespan and gain nothing.

Moreover, combat-type martial arts had relatively little effect on improving one's realm.

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

Internal Art was the foundation.

Chu Jiang gathered his focus and took out the Wind-Thunder Vajra Body to read through it.

After reading it, Chu Jiang discovered that this cultivation method did not require comprehension at all; it relied purely on accumulation. It required vast resources, and if one relied only on absorbing the energy between heaven and earth—

Just getting started would take a hundred years.

Minor mastery would take several hundred years.

Without an enormous supply of resources, ordinary people would only barely manage to get started even if they cultivated until death.

Only certain top-tier great sects could afford the consumption of such a cultivation method.

When Chu Jiang saw several large words gradually appear on the panel, it suddenly seemed much more reasonable.

[Demon lifespan: 578 years]

"..."

Seeing the words on the panel clearly, Chu Jiang's spirits soared.

If he had the chance to obtain the latter half of this martial art in the future, it would become true Grandmaster Martial Arts.

Chu Jiang did not hesitate.

He poured an enormous amount of demon lifespan into the Wind-Thunder Vajra Body.

Several hundred years, then. The lifespan he had just acquired had not even warmed in his hands before it was about to be gone again.

[Year 1, you began cultivating the Wind-Thunder Vajra Body, opening the acupoints within your body. You attempted to absorb the energy between heaven and earth to temper your flesh, but the results were slight.]

[Year 3, cultivating the Wind-Thunder Vajra Body meant opening acupoints throughout the body to temper one's flesh. To get started, you needed to open the body's nine great acupoints.]

[Year 10, you had become quite proficient in cultivating the Wind-Thunder Vajra Body. Though progress was slow, you still opened two great acupoints within your body.]

[Year 98, you had opened seven acupoints. You were only one step away from opening all nine acupoints and getting started.]

[Year 123, all nine acupoints were open. Next, you needed to fill the nine acupoints before you could truly get started.]

[Year 130, while absorbing the energy of heaven and earth to open new acupoints, you also tempered the nine great acupoints and filled them.]

[Year 138, your nine acupoints reached perfection. All the true essence within your meridians liquefied, and you successfully entered the Vajra Realm Early Stage. The Wind-Thunder Vajra Body was initiated.]

Chu Jiang opened his eyes and felt the power within him, as surging and turbulent as stormy waves.

His muscles began to swell, as though boundless energy had been poured into them. Every inch of muscle glimmered with faint golden light, as though clad in a layer of golden armor—indestructible.

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The capacity of true essence within his body had expanded dozens of times beyond the Xiantian Realm. Moreover, the energy contained within his true essence had undergone a qualitative transformation, whether in purity or density.

His five senses became even sharper. Through the window, he could see an ant on a tree a hundred meters away; his perception of his surroundings had improved by far more than merely twofold.

The Wind-Thunder Vajra Body had become this monstrous after merely getting started. If he made another breakthrough, he did not dare imagine what changes would occur.

It just consumed far too much.

Chu Jiang looked at the panel again. It had taken nearly one hundred and forty years merely to get started.

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

He now somewhat doubted whether his remaining lifespan could help him reach minor mastery.

As though recalling something, he held the flesh core obtained from the underground palace of Black Tiger Mountain in his hand.

"This flesh core contains quite a bit of energy. If I hold it in my hand and silently will myself to eat it later, will its energy transfer to the panel?"

Chu Jiang thought it over, then immediately acted on it. There was no harm in trying.

[Year 139, you consumed a mysterious demon core and comprehended a trace of wind-thunder power. Your cultivation efficiency increased.]

[Year 140, the mysterious demon core was exhausted. You consecutively opened eight acupoints within your body.]

[Year 250, you absorbed the primordial qi 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 Lesser Celestial Circuit.]

[Year 340, your twenty-eight acupoints reached perfection. The Wind-Thunder Vajra Body attained minor mastery, and you advanced to the Vajra Realm Middle Stage.]

[Your physical body naturally possessed wind-thunder power, able to shatter evil and drive away demons, while numbing an enemy's nerves.]

[Demon lifespan: 238 years]

[Your own lifespan: 120 years]