The Road Ahead Is Long

[In the fifth month of the twenty-eighth year, after secluding yourself for a full month, you successfully opened the eighth of your Eight Extraordinary Meridians--the Yang Wei Meridian.

With this, all of your Eight Extraordinary Meridians have been opened, and your realm has officially reached the peak of the Innate Realm.

This is also the peak that can be reached in this world, and it also means that your path forward has been cut off.]

[In the eleventh month of the twenty-eighth year, after more than half a year of painstaking research, you have only managed to make the True Qi in your body three parts more pure, while in other aspects, you are still standing still, making no progress.

This feeling of stagnation in cultivation drives you crazy, but there's nothing you can do about it.]

[Over the years, using your false identity of Zhang Wei, you have read almost all the famous and named cultivation methods and martial arts in the Jianghu world.

The number is so large that it must be at least eight hundred, if not a thousand.

This is because you only look at cultivation methods and martial arts of middle-grade or higher at the acquired level. If you didn't care about the grade, the number would at least triple.

But among so many cultivation methods and martial arts, only a few can reach the Innate Realm, and none of them mention what realm is above the Innate Realm.

Now, the only cultivation methods in the entire world that might still be useful to you are probably the Sunflower Manual worn by Dongfang Bubai, and some of the divine skills and unique techniques that the Sun Moon Holy Cult has plundered over the years.

For example, the Tai Chi Fist Scripture personally handwritten by Zhang San Feng...]

[Three days later, after several years, you once again transformed into Zhang Wei and appeared on Black Wood Cliff.

In recent years, perhaps because they were frightened by you, Yang Lianting, that pretty boy, has been very well-behaved, almost causing the entire Sun Moon Holy Cult to lie dormant.

And without the Sun Moon Holy Cult, this Demonic Cult, the Jianghu world has become terrifyingly calm, giving the entire righteous path a feeling that a storm is brewing.

This naturally includes your master, Yue Buqun, who, as the leader of the Five Great Sword Sects, has repeatedly nagged in your ear that he can't figure out what the Demonic Cult is plotting.

Although you guessed the reason, you couldn't say it clearly, so you could only comfort your master and tell him to relax, deal with soldiers with generals, and water with earth, and that you would handle everything.]

[Arriving at Black Wood Cliff, you easily found Dongfang Bubai's secluded residence and directly stated your intentions.

The Sunflower Manual is Dongfang Bubai's lifeblood. In order to be able to observe it at any time, she even sewed it directly into her clothes.

Therefore, Dongfang Bubai refused your request to take a look at the Sunflower Manual without even thinking about it.]

[Today is not what it used to be. Since Dongfang Bubai refuses a toast only to be forced to drink a forfeit, you will naturally satisfy her.]

[Half an hour later, after exchanging about fifty moves, you successfully subdued Dongfang Bubai and obtained the Sunflower Manual that she carried with her.

Then, you threatened Yang Lianting with Dongfang Bubai's life, forcing him to hand over all the Innate Realm cultivation methods and martial arts within the Sun Moon Holy Cult.

It has to be said that being a member of the Demonic Cult is great. You can directly use any means to snatch whatever you fancy.

Just like now, you have obtained a full four Innate Realm cultivation methods and three Innate Realm martial arts from Yang Lianting's hands. Adding the Sunflower Manual, you have directly obtained eight Innate Realm martial arts on this trip.

Of course, apart from the Sunflower Manual and the Tai Chi Fist Scripture which reached the high-grade Innate Realm, the rest are only low-grade Innate Realm.

But even so, any one of them would be enough for countless people to fight over in the Jianghu world.]

[After obtaining the manuals, you did not kill Dongfang Bubai, but released her.

The reason for this was not because you were soft-hearted, but to improve the final score after the simulation ended.

After so many simulations, you have summarized two requirements for improving the simulation score.

The first is naturally your own strength. The more strength you improve, the higher the score you will naturally get.

The second is the degree of intervention in the world's direction, especially the intervention in the protagonist, important supporting characters, and villains. The deeper the intervention, the higher the score will be.

In the original world's direction, Dongfang Bubai and Yang Lianting should have died at the hands of Ren Woxing and his group several years ago.

The fact that they are still doing well now naturally has a great impact on the world's direction.

Besides Dongfang Bubai, you've also intervened in the protagonist Linghu Chong's life. For example, you stopped him from learning the Star Absorbing Great Art and instead made him cultivate the Violet Mist Divine Skill; you didn't let him get expelled from the Mount Hua Sect; you exposed the cave on Siguo Cliff early and killed Tian Boguang, etc., preventing him from making one mistake after another... and so on.

In addition to this, you have also changed the lives of Ren Woxing, Yue Buqun, Ning Zhongze, Lin Pingzhi, Zuo Lengchan... and a large group of other people.

It can be said that you have turned the entire The Smiling, Proud Wanderer world upside down.

Even if you die in the simulation now, you can get the highest perfect rating.]

[After getting what you wanted, you returned to Mount Hua and began to study them carefully.

But after only one day, you focused your research on the Sunflower Manual and the Tai Chi Fist Scripture.

There was no way around it. The other low-grade Innate Realm cultivation methods and martial arts only slightly improved your Dugu Nine Swords, and were of no use to improving your realm.]

[The Sunflower Manual is indeed the strongest cultivation method in The Smiling, Proud Wanderer world, far stronger than the incomplete Evil Warding Sword Manual.

Dongfang Bubai is also worthy of being recognized by later generations as a martial arts genius. Her understanding of the Sunflower Manual has even surpassed that of the creator of the cultivation method.

The reason you know this is because she wrote all her insights on the Sunflower Manual in the form of annotations on the manual.

In these annotations, there are speculations and various attempts on the realm above the Innate Realm.

But for some reason, all her attempts ultimately ended in failure.

However, this is already a huge gain for you.

Not only are there Dongfang Bubai's annotations on the Sunflower Manual, but Zhang San Feng's handwritten Tai Chi Fist Scripture also contains speculations and attempts on the realm above the Innate Realm.

You guess that Dongfang Bubai's speculations and attempts on the realm above the Innate Realm are based on the Tai Chi Fist Scripture.]

[Whether it is the Sunflower Manual or the Tai Chi Fist Scripture, the final direction of speculation on the realm above the Innate Realm points to two things.

The first is to refine Innate True Qi, so that it becomes another more condensed force, just like Internal Force is compressed into Innate True Qi.

The second is acupoints.

Innate Realm peak experts have already opened up their own Twelve Meridian Channels and Eight Extraordinary Meridians, which are all the main meridians in the human body.

Therefore, if you want to continue to become stronger, you have to find new places to absorb and store power.

And in the human body, in addition to the Twelve Meridian Channels and Eight Extraordinary Meridians, the rest are various acupoints.]