Four Paths prodigies and the paths of essence, qi, and spirit (4k words; asking for monthly votes)

Hearing Li Xiuwen's words,

Tiger Granny smiled faintly, "Good! I just like your spirit of a newborn calf unafraid of tigers! Aside from Zuo Tianqing, there are three others who are also heavy favorites to win the championship this time. One of them is the 'Six-Fingered Little Monk' from Thousand-Buddha Mountain. He has made his debut for less than half a year, yet he has slain several late Elephant-Hurling foreign devils spies with early Elephant-Hurling cultivation. Furthermore, he did it without drawing blood, as if he has mastered some kind of powerful mental secret technique capable of directly shattering an enemy's mind!"

"Thousand-Buddha Mountain... the Way of the Mind?"

Li Xiuwen couldn't help but think of Heart Furnace Three Forgings.

The Heart Furnace School originated precisely on Thousand-Buddha Mountain.

Thousand-Buddha Mountain was a massive orthodox lineage, much like Dragon-Tiger Mountain, containing numerous martial arts schools within it. Some were conventional, some specialized in hard qigong, and the Heart Furnace School was the one focusing on mental cultivation.

Li Xiuwen estimated

that this Six-Fingered Little Monk was an orthodox successor of the Heart Furnace School.

His own Heart Furnace Three Forgings was still at the second level. Because of a lack of systematic study, his progress had been somewhat slow, and he was currently only at a standard of around the second level (88%), having only experienced a surge in progress after being stimulated by the aura of the inner heaven and earth from Wang Wu previously.

Although stepping into the third level in a few days would be no problem,

he could sense that the third level would only be more difficult.

Going to Dragon Rising this time, if he could exchange pointers with the geniuses and bigwigs over there, it might perhaps aid his subsequent willpower cultivation.

"Killing people