The Path to Becoming a Martial Saint!

After leaving Martial Saint Manor, Jiang Ning slowly calmed himself.

He had not gotten the answer he wanted from this visit.

Even Xiao Wuque had no definite word on the court's plans for the Yellow Heaven Cult's rise.

Still, the trip had yielded plenty.

He had met the Martial Saint's spirit avatar.

And from that avatar, he had learned the path to becoming a Martial Saint.

Break the shackles, and behold your own heaven and earth.

Those eight words were the guidance the Martial Saint's spirit avatar had given him before leaving.

"Break the shackles, and behold your own heaven and earth!" Jiang Ning murmured to himself.

His conversation with Xiao Wuque came back to him.

After the Martial Saint's spirit avatar had met Jiang Ning and departed, Xiao Wuque had seemed to receive some sort of instruction and told him much more.

When it came to becoming a Martial Saint,

tempering skin, flesh, sinews, and bones, strengthening the body from without and the organs from within—

all of it laid the foundation.

To take that final step and stand shoulder to shoulder with Xiao Wuque's teacher, he needed a foundation close to perfect.

The deeper that foundation, the easier the final step would be by comparison.

And that final step was exactly as Xiao Wuque's teacher had said:

Break the shackles, and behold your own heaven and earth.

When Jiang Ning asked what it meant to break the shackles, and what heaven and earth he was supposed to behold,

Xiao Wuque could only shake his head and tell him

that his teacher had never explained much about it.

He had only said Jiang Ning had to face this hurdle himself.

Once he understood it, mastered it, and accomplished it, he would have crossed that hurdle.

The more he was