Half a month!
After Ye Zhen returned to Chihuo Martial City and made a few arrangements, he entered seclusion for half a month.
He spent half a month absorbing the martial teachings passed down by the Earth Core Fire Marshal. During those half months, Ye Zhen's own strength might not have improved at all, but his understanding of martial arts underwent earth-shaking changes.
Only half of the Earth Core Fire Marshal's martial inheritance concerned the Unchanging Profound Fire Scripture. The other half consisted entirely of the Earth Core Fire Marshal's insights, summaries, views, and all manner of experience and knowledge accumulated over nearly a thousand years of life.
At first glance, these things seemed useless.
Yet in truth, they abruptly raised Ye Zhen's understanding of martial arts to a height ordinary martial artists could scarcely attain.
It was like building a house. Many people saw only the beautiful house, while few paid attention to the foundation beneath the ground. Martial arts were much the same—without a solid foundation, one simply could not build a house.
The foundation of a martial artist's path had to be accumulated bit by bit throughout their martial career. The martial insights, cultivation experience, and other things in the Earth Core Fire Marshal's inheritance that seemed unrelated to strength were precisely the most basic and important materials for building that foundation.
These were things that martial artists needed time to slowly settle and accumulate; there was no other path.
Of course, different martial artists accumulated these most basic and crucial martial insights at different speeds.
The Earth Core Fire Marshal himself had been one of the greatest geniuses of his era. From that, one could see just how astonishingly valuable the martial inheritance he had accumulated over nearly a thousand years truly was.
In a sense,