Ten Thousand True Enlightenments, Self-Created Method

Xu Wuyi would not forget Grandmaster Yue Lianshan's inheritance, but he had to walk his own path and create his own methods.

At the Grandmaster level, clinging to someone else's things meant heading down a dead end.

He closed the file, leaned back in his chair, and shut his eyes. Another cultivation method began to take shape in his mind.

Basic Body Tempering Method.

This method was simple, dull, and could even be called crude. Yet it had accompanied him through his hardest days and laid down his most solid foundation.

He recalled practicing those basic movements over and over in that cramped bedroom back in high school. At the time, he was not even an official Martial Artist. He trained until he was utterly exhausted every day, only to see the tiniest improvements.

Later, after obtaining the Martial Dao Diligence Record, he began to truly understand the weight of the word "foundation."

Every standard cultivation session, every epiphany, every breakthrough, had begun with those simplest of movements.

Bow Stance Punch, horse stance blocks and strikes, crouching stance palm thrusts—he had practiced those movements no fewer than a hundred thousand times. Every detail had been carved into his bones.

Later still, he cultivated the Basic Body Tempering Method to perfection.

That was the first time he had truly experienced the feeling of Return to Simplicity.

Return to one's original simplicity, and one's foundation formed itself.

Those most basic things, when practiced to the utmost extreme, instead became the most profound realm.

Thinking back on it now, that breakthrough might have meant even more to him than he had realized.

Because the core of the Basic Body Tempering Method was not any particular law. It was "foundation" itself.

It did not lean toward flames, gravity, or any specific law. It merely