In the nineteenth year, you once again successfully opened the Yang Wei Meridian, one of the Eight Extraordinary Meridians. Your strength consequently reached the absolute peak of the Innate Realm.
Afterward, you began condensing astral energy, preparing to break through to the Grandmaster Realm.
Times had changed.
By then, you had successfully deduced and improved your Sun Swallowing Divine Art to the mid-grade Grandmaster level.
With the dual assistance of the mid-grade Grandmaster-level Sun Swallowing Divine Art and the talent "Martial Arts Prodigy," your speed of condensing astral energy was now several times faster than when you had broken through to the Grandmaster Realm before.
Furthermore, the degree to which each strand of your astral energy was condensed, as well as the total amount of astral energy your body could withstand, was also several times greater than before.
With all these advantages stacked together, you broke through faster, and your strength after the breakthrough was also greater!
In the seventh month of the nineteenth year, you accumulated your internal astral energy to its limit: a full one hundred and eight strands.
Afterward, following the first Lesser Heavenly Cycle Acupoint Diagram recorded in the Sun Swallowing Divine Art, you began nurturing and condensing the acupoints within your body.
At that time, your Sun Swallowing Divine Art already contained four complete Lesser Heavenly Cycle Acupoint Diagrams, along with their corresponding astral-energy circulation routes.
In addition, your fifth Lesser Heavenly Cycle Acupoint Diagram was already more than half complete.
In October of the same year, you successfully nurtured and opened your first acupoint, forming it completely.
You consequently became a true Half-step Grandmaster.
In the second month of the eighteenth year, you once again successfully nurtured and opened another acupoint.
In June, you successfully nurtured and opened your third acupoint.
In October, you