[You received the martial arts manual Innate Skill from your revered master, Liu Jinchan.]
[This book was no ordinary martial arts text. It was the Three Truths Sect's supreme martial arts legacy. Apart from the development of its doctrine, all of Three Truths One Sect's martial arts had been derived from this book.]
[Only disciples who had passed the Three Truths Sect's rigorous selection and qualified for the Daoist true records could glimpse its true form and appreciate its profound martial path.]
[The Three Truths Sect had as many as eight hundred disciples, yet fewer than a hundred truly qualified to cultivate the Innate Skill.]
[Of those, only four or five could truly master the entry level.]
[Those who learned the Innate Skill possessed the potential to reach the Master Realm and stood head and shoulders above their peers.]
[Once they truly began cultivating it, their progress far surpassed that of their contemporaries.]
[You diligently practiced according to the circulation route recorded in the manual. Yet Innate Qi seemed separated from you by an insurmountable chasm, leaving you unable to grasp its essence.]
[You sighed softly, lamenting the differences in talent.]
[Your master Liu Jinchan said, "The Innate Skill was left behind by the Three Truths Sect's founding patriarch. In his lifetime, he left behind only two martial arts tomes: the Innate Skill and the Empty Clarity Fist."]
["All other martial arts were deduced from those two tomes. Even this Great Yellow Court was an improvement upon the Innate Skill, created by a brilliantly gifted patriarch of the Three Truths Sect."]
[You delved deeper into the Innate Skill once more, but still found it difficult to resonate with that strand of Innate Qi, as though an invisible barrier stood between you and it.]
[In the end, it still would not work, so you asked your master Liu Jinchan, "Master, what cultivation method do you practice?"]
[Liu Jinchan smiled faintly and answered, "I practice the Great Yellow Court."]
["The martial path requires deep accumulation before sudden release. You must not rush for quick success. Shenzhou, cultivate patiently, and you will eventually comprehend its meaning."]
[Just then!]
[Lu Yu pushed open the door and entered. With a trace of confusion on his face, he asked directly, "Master, didn't you learn the Innate Skill?"]
[The moment those words left his mouth, a flicker of embarrassment crossed Liu Jinchan's face. He rubbed his nose, seemingly caught off guard by the question.]
[You merely smiled indifferently, knowing that your master was only comforting you. Anyone who could attain the Master Realm was undoubtedly a true martial arts genius.]
[Liu Jinchan had reached the Master Realm at fifty.]
[At this moment, Master Liu Jinchan began recounting to the two of you an ancient secret concerning the Three Truths Sect.]
["Legend has it that three thousand years ago, the world was filled with true cultivators. They rode swords across great rivers, their flying swords slew Flood Dragons, and those who attained the Dao lived four hundred autumns in the mortal world. It was an era in which one could cultivate." Liu Jinchan's tone brimmed with longing and remembrance.]
["Immortal Masters stood high above, while mortals were no better than servants."]
["But one day, heaven collapsed!"]
[Hearing this, you asked with confusion tinged by awe, "Heaven collapsed?"]
[Liu Jinchan nodded slightly, his gaze carrying the weight and weathering of ages. "Yes. The Three Truths Sect's founding patriarch explicitly mentioned it in his life records. That day, heaven truly collapsed. It was not the world's exaggerated rhetoric, but the actual collapse of the vault of heaven, making the entire world tremble."]
["From that point on!"]
["The world underwent a tremendous change and lost something of vital importance." He paused, his gaze profound.]
["That was the spiritual energy of heaven and earth."]
["This spiritual energy was the foundation of a cultivator's practice," Liu Jinchan recounted. "Once it was lost, cultivators across the world became like boats stranded in still water, unable to advance an inch."]
["All manner of Mystic Manifestations vanished as well."]
["The Immortal Masters shut tight their mountain gates, issuing commands from within the mountains while enjoying the incense and offerings of the mortal world."]
["They thought themselves extraordinary, proclaimed themselves detached from the dust of the world, held the secrets of heaven and earth in their hands, and looked down upon all living beings like gods above the clouds."]
["Yet the affairs of the world were unpredictable. One day, an ordinary mortal suffered humiliation and, in fury, fought back. He killed an Immortal Master who stood high above him, yet miraculously escaped the calamity of death."]
["The matter was incredible. To defy an immortal should have been a road to certain death."
["Yet more and more truths gradually surfaced. Those Immortal Masters worshipped as gods were nothing but empty shells."]
["Even the most powerful Immortal Masters appeared unable to cope when faced with the united resistance of a hundred mortals."]
["After thousands of years, the mortals oppressed by the Immortal Masters finally awakened and rose in rebellion. A single edict spread across the land: those who lost virtue in the mortal world would be driven out by all under heaven."]
["Countless mortals swung axes to fell mountains, destroyed temples, and drove out immortals, dragging those lofty Immortal Masters down from the clouds."]
["From then on, there were no more Immortal Masters in the world."]
["At the same time, capable people gradually emerged and began to dominate the mortal world, establishing secular dynasties."]
["Thus began the Spring and Autumn–Warring States Era, which had lasted three thousand years until today."]
[You pondered for a moment, unable to stop a complicated emotion from rising within you.]
[Now that Spiritual Energy Revival had begun, how would the world change? Where would the future lead!]
[Lu Chen had long since passed the news of Spiritual Energy Revival into Liu Jinchan's ears.]
[Liu Jinchan let out a long sigh, deeply troubled. "With Spiritual Energy Revival, blessings and disasters are impossible to predict. Who can truly peer even a little into what lies ahead?"]
[Curiosity rose in you, so you asked, "Master, can you sense the spiritual energy of heaven and earth?"]
[Lu Chen was drawn in by the question as well, turning his gaze toward him.]
[Liu Jinchan pondered for a moment before speaking slowly. "Though I cannot directly touch the substance of spiritual energy, the restraints between heaven and earth seem to be quietly fading away."]
["If I can break through to the Great Grandmaster Realm, then I will surely be able to sense the revived spiritual energy."]
["Yet the Great Grandmaster Realm is as difficult as ascending to heaven."]
[A trace of helplessness flashed through Liu Jinchan's eyes. "In the entire martial world of Great Qing, there are only four Grandmasters. Every one of them possesses talent that overshadows the age, far beyond ordinary people."]
["Foolish Monk and I are of the same generation and once exchanged martial arts. He had already become a Grandmaster at thirty, but his temperament is detached, and he pays no heed to worldly affairs, so few know of him."]
["Within Great Qing, aside from the Demon Master who vanished many years ago, whose strength cannot be gauged, Foolish Monk can be called the foremost. With his aptitude, perhaps he has long sensed Spiritual Energy Revival. Just what heights his cultivation has reached are truly beyond imagination."]
[The reason Liu Jinchan was so filled with emotion was that after Spiritual Energy Revival, he had discovered that the gap between his strength and Lu Yu's had grown ever more enormous.]
[In the past, when Lu Yu was at the Grandmaster Realm, Liu Jinchan could still exchange several dozen moves with him.]
[But now, even when Lu Yu deliberately held back, Liu Jinchan could only withstand a mere few moves before him. This made him keenly feel his own powerlessness.]
[Lu Yu calmly pointed out, "I can feel the spiritual energy constantly growing stronger. In the future, more and more people will certainly be able to sense its existence."]
[You could not help thinking that more and more people would become Immortal Masters.]
[Liu Jinchan nodded faintly. A great age was about to arrive.]
[Hearing this, you understood that to resonate with the spiritual energy between heaven and earth, one truly needed to reach the Great Grandmaster Realm.]
[Yu Ke saw this point.]
[His face was filled with thought as well. The Kun Void World had actually been a place where people could cultivate three thousand years ago.]
[It had once truly possessed spiritual energy!]
[Those who cultivated could live for four hundred years upon attaining the Dao.]
[In the world Yu Ke now inhabited, one could live for four hundred years upon entering the Third Heavenly Ladder and reaching Foundation Establishment.]
[But three thousand years ago, the Kun Void World had suffered an event of Heaven's Collapse.]
[After spiritual energy vanished, cultivators vanished as well.]
[The gap between people disappeared along with them.]
[Mortals began to rise. No longer relying on the power of cultivation, they established aristocratic clans and dynasties in the mortal world.]
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