Entangling Silk Force at Perfection Realm, Cultivating the Reverse Fate Art!

Li Yun carefully leafed through Entangling Silk Force, deeply surprised.

This was a Body Tempering Realm martial skill, yet even among Body Tempering Realm martial skills, it could be considered top-notch.

This martial skill emphasized softness. Through cultivation, one could turn all of one's strength into a yin-soft force. Combined with eighteen grappling techniques, once used in battle, it was like a thousand silken threads winding around the enemy and locking them tight.

It was incredibly powerful, but exceedingly difficult to cultivate.

The reason was simple. The vast majority of Body Tempering Realm martial artists lacked sufficient comprehension of the Martial Dao. Their understanding of their own strength remained at the level of fierce, overbearing power. Whenever they struck, they used brute force—simple and crude—making it difficult for them to grasp the yin-soft wonder within Entangling Silk Force, which ran counter to hard and violent strength.

Li Yun tried it himself, but he could not do it either.

His mind clearly wanted softness, yet the actual result of his execution was merely weak force. He was only using little strength to perform the grappling techniques, nowhere near anything yin-soft.

His strength was not particularly weak to begin with, yet in pursuit of softness, he had to suppress his force as he performed the moves. It felt exceptionally awkward, and after only a few attempts, he nearly sprained his waist.

This was a lack of realm, and even more so, a lack of Martial Cognition.

The root of it lay in his insufficient aptitude.

The Rank 5 Aptitude detected when he entered the sect truly seemed rather unimpressive compared to those geniuses who were First Grade or Second Grade at the drop of a hat.

However, Li Yun was not troubled by it.

He had merely wanted to try cultivating without relying on the system. Now that it had been proven that his little bit of aptitude was utterly insufficient without the system's support, he was not foolish enough to keep butting his head against that wall.

Without hesitation, he directly chose to add points through the system.

There were still more than 160,000 Martial Cognition Points on the panel. They would not produce children if he saved them, would they?

And just like that, everything felt wonderful.

He did not need to do anything. He only needed to calm his mind and comprehend the figure in his mind as it demonstrated Entangling Silk Force.

Then came an utterly exaggerated rate of progress.

200 Cognition Points: Entangling Silk Force entered the Entry Realm.

500 Cognition Points: Entangling Silk Force reached the Initial Accomplishment Realm.

1,200 Cognition Points: Entangling Silk Force reached the Proficient Realm.

3,000 Cognition Points: Entangling Silk Force reached the Minor Accomplishment Realm.

6,000 Cognition Points: Entangling Silk Force reached the Mastery Realm.

10,000 Cognition Points: Entangling Silk Force reached the Great Accomplishment Realm.

20,000 Cognition Points: Entangling Silk Force directly reached the Perfection Realm!

From start to finish, it took only an hour and a half. With Martial Cognition Points, he had directly reached a realm that other Outer Sect Disciples would need at least a year to attain.

That feeling was beyond words. It simply made Li Yun feel incredible all over again.

Especially after he had fully digested it and truly performed the eighteen grappling techniques of Entangling Silk Force in the small grove, his hands seemed to have turned into two snakes—nimble and strange.

He tried winding around a small tree. The wrist-thick trunk was effortlessly twisted apart by him.

Yet he did not feel that it took much effort.

"Martial skills truly are unimaginable... and this is only the most basic Martial Dao. One day, when I charge into the Innate Realm, or even higher realms, what would that feel like...?"

Li Yun's face was full of yearning.

In his previous life, money gave a man courage. Having money might not solve everything, but without it, one could scarcely take a single step.

But in this life—

Martial strength was what gave a man courage. Powerful martial strength was unquestionably superior to money.

With Entangling Silk Force reaching Perfection Realm, Li Yun had finally experienced a sense of security he had never known before.

Having tasted the marrow, he craved the flesh.

Li Yun then prepared to invest his remaining Martial Cognition Points into Basic Stance Cultivation.

He decided to completely comprehend the twelve kinds of Martial Intent contained within Basic Stance Cultivation as soon as possible, thereby increasing his Body Tempering efficiency.

After all, although the yin-soft wonder of Entangling Silk Force was powerful, it ultimately could not be separated from the support of one's absolute strength.

If he did not possess sufficiently powerful strength, then no matter how high his Entangling Silk Force realm was, even if he could snap a wrist-thick tree trunk, he would not be able to harm a waist-thick trunk in the slightest.

Cultivation and martial skills had always needed to complement each other.

However, just as he was preparing to continue elevating Basic Stance Cultivation, he suddenly, as if possessed by a ghost, thought of the Reverse Fate Art Zhao Chuanfeng had given him and took it out.

Li Yun hesitated somewhat.

He wondered whether, since no one else could figure out this Reverse Fate Art, he might be able to do so with the system.

A martial skill that could improve aptitude—if he could truly master it, it would be no less than defying heaven and changing fate. For someone like him, who possessed only Rank 5 Aptitude, its significance was simply immense.

Li Yun subconsciously looked around. Since no one had noticed him anyway, he might as well give it a try.

If it truly did not work, it would not be too late to throw away the Reverse Fate Art.

At once—

Li Yun opened the Reverse Fate Art.

This Reverse Fate Art was not thick, only seven or eight pages long. Altogether, it contained merely three or four thousand words.

Li Yun spent a little time and easily finished reading it.

The martial skill records on the System Panel gained another line: Reverse Fate Art, not yet initiated.

This immediately gave Li Yun tremendous encouragement.

The fact that it could be recorded by the system and displayed on the panel proved one thing first: this truly was a martial skill. Like Basic Stance Cultivation and Entangling Silk Force, it could be improved with Cognition Points.

Since that was the case, why should he hesitate?

He simply tucked the Reverse Fate Art into his robes and directly used Martial Cognition Points to improve it.

However, in the next instant, he was stunned.

The very first improvement actually consumed 10,000 Cognition Points.

The Cognition Points on the panel directly fell until only Cognition Points remained.

With those 10,000 Martial Cognition Points, the Reverse Fate Art officially entered the Entry Realm. Li Yun naturally comprehended a peculiar breathing method.

Yet apart from that, he did not feel any change in himself whatsoever.

It made him feel that those 10,000 Cognition Points had been spent somewhat wastefully.

Yet once the bow was drawn, there was no turning back.

He had already begun cultivating it. He could not possibly give up halfway, could he?

Besides, merely entering the Entry Realm had directly consumed 10,000 Cognition Points. That alone was enough to prove the extraordinary nature of the Reverse Fate Art.

It was absolutely not something Body Tempering Realm martial skills like Basic Stance Cultivation and Entangling Silk Force could compare with.

Therefore.

Li Yun gritted his teeth, hardened his heart, and improved the Reverse Fate Art a second time!

Whoosh!

The Martial Cognition Points consumed this second time were even more outrageous—100,000 in one go!

With that one expenditure, his Martial Cognition Points shrank until only Cognition Points remained. Those Cognition Points were no longer even enough for him to carry out a second elevation of Basic Stance Cultivation.

Li Yun's heart felt as though it were being carved by knives.

It hurt so badly that he could barely breathe.

However, the Reverse Fate Art thereby reached the Initial Completion Realm. Not only did the breathing method he had previously comprehended become more complex, but on that foundation, he also comprehended a deeper method for circulating the qi and blood within his body.

With breathing combined with qi-blood circulation, the situation became vastly different.