Bestowing Martial Arts

There was a familiar saying among martial artists.

A thousand gold pieces can't buy a "clang."

If one could produce that Dragon's Ridge Resonance in martial arts, it would be worth more than a thousand gold pieces. It could even bring down a wall, and was hailed as the ultimate combination of a martial artist's Power Release Technique and strength!

Yet today.

The immortal master who had descended from the heavens, Lan Yi, redefined that "clang."

The sound was like Coiling Dragon's Roar, like a cannon booming. With one swing of his fist, it was as though thunder had crashed down. Striking the ground from afar, it split bricks and stones, sent waves of earth surging, and blasted out a pit five meters in diameter and more than a meter deep. As mud waves churned through the radial crater, the onlookers' noses filled with the odors of soil and metal.

Gravel and shattered stones pattered down onto everyone's heads. No one dared move even an inch.

Such tangible power! Such tangible transcendence manifesting before their eyes!

Let alone a person.

If that punch had landed on a train, it probably would have blasted it apart on the spot.

"Is this martial arts?" A dazzling gleam suddenly burst from Huo Yuanjia's eyes. This martial grandmaster felt as if the heavens and earth had suddenly broadened before him. He faintly grasped something—martial arts could actually become this powerful.

Once, he had been like a frog at the bottom of a well, like an ape in the mountains.

His body and his thoughts had both been constrained.

Now, Lan Yi had brutally smashed apart those ingrained beliefs and thoughts, plainly telling the martial artists gathered from every corner of the land that martial arts could actually be incredibly powerful—powerful enough to reach the level of a Land Immortal!

"Of course. This is martial arts."

Lan Yi's voice was filled with temptation. He did not even need to guide them further. Nearly everyone was breathing heavily now. They wanted this opportunity too!

After the War Zone descended, there were two orthodox great paths cultivated by the psionic practitioners who entered the Artificial Divine Realm to train.

The first was arcane arts; the second was martial arts.

Arcane arts were a cultivation system that took Destiny Clusters as its foundation, knowledge as its framework, and psionic energy as its power source. Even if a psionic practitioner's realm and cultivation were low, as long as they had enough knowledge and materials, they could still create arcane arts capable of destroying heaven and earth—especially in the information age, when information had exploded.

Martial arts, on the other hand, were a cultivation system that took Innate Qi as its foundation, painstaking cultivation as its fuel, and an indomitable will as its sword edge, allowing one to roam across the human world. Martial artists who completed the Three Aspects of Self, Humanity, and Law were the exact opposite of arcane practitioners. Their path transformed the intangible into the tangible and could reach miracles that even arcane arts could not easily attain.

Innate Qi.

Every person, and even every carbon-based life-form, possessed the bodily structure needed for it. Practicing martial arts meant using special methods to train and stimulate Innate Qi, ultimately allowing it to grow through and permeate every part of one's body.

However, the growth of Innate Qi required psionic energy.

In worlds where psionic energy could not be absorbed freely, such as the main world and the 1909 Artificial Divine Realm, no matter how hard a martial artist trained, without a fortuitous encounter, they could only circle within the bounds of strengthening their bodies for their entire lives.

Without Psionic Vision.

A martial artist had no idea how far their cultivation had progressed and could only rely entirely on feeling. This placed an almost perverse demand on talent, while the demand on willpower was nearly extreme!

There was one highly counterintuitive point.

Of the two orthodox great paths of psionic practitioners, arcane arts required no aptitude. They belonged to understanding the world and mastering the world. Martial arts, however, required aptitude, because martial arts did not follow reason—as long as one believed in oneself, that was enough.

Of course, as a qualified psionic practitioner, one cultivated both arcane arts and martial arts, doing everything possible to forge oneself without weaknesses. Besides, arcane arts and martial arts did not conflict in the first place. They even complemented each other.

Clearly, Lan Yi cultivated both systems together. It was simply that arcane arts were his primary path and martial arts his auxiliary one.

During every minute and every second after entering the Artificial Divine Realm, Lan Yi seemed not to be cultivating, but was actually consuming psionic energy to stimulate this primitive, feeble body, allowing Innate Qi to rapidly stabilize and spread throughout him.

He possessed an advantage granted by heaven.

The Destiny Cluster Cang Hua.

Finer than spider silk and tougher than steel, it could not only conduct electricity but also effectively replace the neural network. Deep within his body, beyond the reach of the naked eye, strands of Cang Hua moved back and forth under the stimulation of psionic energy, releasing electricity to work with his martial arts techniques in nurturing and adapting to Innate Qi.

That was the advantage of having a psionic furnace from the very beginning.

The electric crystals formed by Cang Hua could also replenish psionic energy.

With an ample reserve of arcane knowledge.

Lan Yi could stand still and grow stronger with every passing second!

That was also why Lan Yi had tempted Ji Ning and Zhang Shouzheng to deploy tactical nuclear weapons. If they had truly staked everything on launching those tactical nuclear weapons at the time, Lan Yi would absolutely have been able to gorge himself on psionic energy in a short period—and it would have been top-grade psionic energy brimming with all kinds of magnetic storms and baleful intent.

Although the temptation had failed, there was no need to regret it.

As long as Lan Yi completed his first trial in the Artificial Divine Realm, he would have countless ways to put the main world's space laboratories, particle accelerators, and nuclear power plants of every size to use.

The two orthodox great paths.

Martial arts realms: Qi Cultivation, Spirit Cultivation, and Void Cultivation.

Arcane arts realms: Refining Destiny Clusters, Cultivating Heavenly Palace, Creating Star River, and Building Golden Bridge.

A realm did not necessarily equal combat power, but it still had reference value.

In fact, when judging strength, the psionic practitioners of the Shanhe Civilization were more accustomed to using the Ten Great Energy Levels. Only when discussing the Dao did they use Qi Cultivation, Spirit Cultivation, Refining Destiny Clusters, and Cultivating Heavenly Palace. As for the practitioners of the Dayang Civilization, they used another set of terms, though the overall meaning was nearly the same.

Judging them by martial arts realms.

Not a single martial artist in this world had reached the level of Qi Cultivation. They were the sort who could be pitifully beaten to death by a firing squad, let alone practice arcane arts.

But this world was not without secrets. That could be set aside for now.

Lan Yi could mass-produce Qi Cultivation Practitioners.

Although no martial artist in this world had reached Qi Cultivation, when it came to mind and willpower, martial artists such as Mizong Grandmaster Huo Yuanjia, the archer Liu Baiyuan, Spear King Kuang Yimin, Divine Gunner Li Shuwen, Sword Immortal Li Jinglin, and Tiger Head Young Protector Sun Lutang were all exceptional. As long as he helped them break through to Qi Cultivation, they could completely charge toward Spirit Cultivation within a short time!

A top-tier Qi Cultivation expert possessed a body no weaker than rock. Punching through a concrete wall was effortless. As for someone at Qi Cultivation Grand Completion, they were ruthless figures capable of blasting a rockery several meters through the air, running as fast as a car, and reacting as swiftly as lightning.

Spirit Cultivation Practitioners were even more terrifying.

In the eyes of ordinary people, the mind-and-spirit methods of a Spirit Cultivation Practitioner were already indistinguishable from those of a human immortal.

Once a Spirit Cultivation Practitioner led the troops, ground warfare in this era would be virtually invincible. Lan Yi really wanted to see whether, in the face of martial arts overtaking them on the bend, the foreigners of this era would have the courage to press forward and catch up—advancing by any means necessary, regardless of the cost.

The first person in this world to break new ground in martial arts was Huo Yuanjia.

Amid the envious and jealous gazes of everyone.

Lan Yi directly commandeered the International Journalists' Club and began Bestowing Martial Arts.

The scene of Bestowing Martial Arts was a little terrifying.

Huo Yuanjia naturally stood upright as instructed. The moment he steadied himself, tens of millions of strands of Cang Hua abruptly pierced into every part of his body! An unending stream of psionic energy began pouring in, extensively transforming the foundation of martial arts: Innate Qi!