The next morning, while Jiang Dali and Nameless were still studying how to break through the ice and retrieve the Returning Heaven Ice Art within the Sword Tomb, shocking news that rocked the Jianghu was released by Heaven's Gate, immediately drawing the attention of all players.
The cause was Heaven's Gate's master, Di Shitian, formally announcing to all Otherworlders of the Jianghu that he could personally help them break through the limits of the Gang Qi Realm and advance into the Heavenly Human Realm, cultivating a batch of top-tier Otherworlder experts.
Corresponding to this news, the four players who had initially joined Heaven's Gate—Teacher of the Kingly Way, Ordinary Alley, Ghost Fire, and Blade Sees Blood—made high-profile appearances one after another, displaying the formidable strength of the Heavenly Human Realm and shocking all players.
Everyone knew that for players to break through into the Gang Qi Realm, they not only needed an enormous amount of Cultivation Points, but also had to cultivate one Heaven-tier Martial Art or three Earth-tier Martial Arts to the level of Shaking the Ancient and Illuminating the Present before they could enter the stage of Heavenly Human Connection while practicing their martial arts.
It had to be known that after a martial art realm entered the ninth level, Return to Simplicity and Truth, advancing further to the tenth level, Shaking the Ancient and Illuminating the Present, could no longer be achieved through the direct expenditure of Cultivation Points and Potential Points. It required personal enlightenment.
Personal enlightenment required players to possess an extremely thorough and profound understanding of their own martial arts. Yet most players had initially treated the Comprehensive Martial World as nothing more than a game. How many could truly settle down and comprehend the profound essence of martial arts?
Thus, this single hurdle