The Innate Gate, Patriarch Peng Chuan!

[This year, you turned fifty-one. As autumn winds rose once more, the persimmon groves of Mount Zhongnan donned their fiery red robes again.]

[With the Late Bloomer destiny blessing you, your cultivation advanced far faster than before.]

[Even more so, the vast fortune flowing from Yan Territory came surging upward like a celestial river woven from colorful silk, nourishing your body.]

[You gazed toward Yan Territory. It seemed to have become the greatest furnace between Heaven and Earth, its rosy cloud qi rolling and surging.]

[In recent years, Yan Territory's fortune had grown increasingly rich and pure. Its dazzling colors gradually faded, leaving only red and white intertwined.]

[Refining Heaven and Earth, replenishing oneself in turn.]

[With both Late Bloomer and Yan Territory's fortune supporting you, your cultivation advanced by leaps and bounds. A few days of cultivation equaled months of painstaking effort from before!]

[After breaking through to Grandmaster, you could already sense the spiritual qi of Heaven and Earth.]

[In less than a year, you had quietly touched the threshold of the Innate Realm, another world beyond Grandmaster.]

[Among the vast collections of the Three Truths Sect, only the book Innate Skill recorded a cultivation method for reaching this realm.]

[Its key lay in opening the apertures and communing with the divine.]

[The eyes, ears, nose, mouth, as well as the front and rear yin—the nine great primary apertures—were each gateways to the mysteries of Heaven and Earth. Beneath every primary aperture lay another nine subtle acupoints, which had to be refined one by one before one could see through the hidden mysteries, draw the primal qi of Heaven and Earth into the body, and strengthen oneself.]

[To open an aperture, one first had to nourish it carefully with true qi and slowly unblock it, waiting for it