[Innate Formless Body-Breaking Sword Aura]

Even if Yue Yang had been an idiot, he would have known he had stumbled upon a treasure.

Leaving aside everything else, just the word "Innate" was enough to show the value of this sword art technique.

It was also a battle skill. Before the Yue Family Spearmanship's manual had been lost, it was said that reaching its peak could allow one to enter the Innate realm. Now, not only was no one in the Yue Family currently in the Innate realm, but no one had reached it in the past thousand years either. Tragedy Boy's father had originally been the one most likely to break through the acquired realm and enter the Innate realm, but he had died in battle early on. The Yue Family had also lost its most promising genius warrior.

At present, it was said that aside from the guardian war gods of the three great nations, only the Feng and Xue families among the Four Great Families possessed Innate-realm experts.

Moreover, according to common rumors, the Feng and Xue families each had only one, both old monsters who had lived four or five hundred years.

As for the truth, no one knew...

To Yue Yang, the most important point was that none of the current Innate experts had reached the Innate realm through cultivation alone.

The reason Innate experts could step into the Innate realm was because they possessed Sacred Beasts or Divine Beasts. Their powerful Sacred Beasts or Divine Beasts assimilated them, strengthened them, and awakened the potential within their bodies, allowing them to slowly enter the Innate realm. This process was extremely slow. It usually required over a hundred years, and some even needed two or three hundred years to completely cross the threshold of Innateness and become true Innate experts!

Yet while warriors across the entire Dragon Soaring Continent needed a hundred years of cultivation to reach the **peak of cultivation, then struggled enormously to break through the acquired realm with the help of Sacred Beasts and begin Innate cultivation anew—

Yue Yang discovered that he had begun Innate cultivation directly.

The 'Innate Formless Body-Breaking Sword Aura' that the Sword Spirit Elder Sister had taught him in his dreams contained no low-level cultivation at all.

From the very start, it was the Innate realm: directly sensing heaven and earth, absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, using spiritual energy to cleanse the flesh and elevate the soul and will. On one hand, he strengthened his body with inner-breath energy, remolding his flesh, cleansing his marrow and transforming his tendons; on the other, he broke through realms with the sword art technique, entering the Dao through the sword, comprehending the Dao and becoming sacred...

"Old man—no, Master—this Sword Spirit Elder Sister is your granddaughter, so you absolutely must betroth her to your disciple, me! Don't worry, I'll definitely treat her well. I'll definitely let her live a happy little life full of sexual bliss. Master, if you don't say anything, I'll take that as consent. I'll count to three. One, two, three—good, you agreed. Thank you, Master!" The shameless transmigrator pressed his palms together and muttered to himself.

If the old Daoist had heard those words, perhaps he would have thrown this thick-skinned fellow into hell's oil cauldron to fry human-meat balls.

Yue Yang had originally wanted to sleep a little longer and meet the Sword Spirit Elder Sister again in his dreams.

But he was too excited to sleep.

He forcibly suppressed the pounding in his chest and began cultivating the first level of the 'Innate Formless Body-Breaking Sword Aura'... Yue Yang had never been a diligent person, but this concerned his future life of sexual bliss. No matter what, he felt he had to cultivate it well—and quickly.

He cultivated during the day and while asleep at night.

The Sword Spirit Elder Sister disappeared after teaching him the technique. Yue Yang guessed that she had hidden herself to observe the performance of her fiancé, so he became a hundred times more diligent in his dreams.

At first, absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was painfully slow. Even after a long time, he could not gather the slightest thread of spiritual energy.

However, Yue Yang discovered that in that wondrous space within his dreams, his mind was more attuned to heaven and earth, and his speed of absorbing spiritual energy was several times faster than outside. Thus, much of the time, he snored away in deep sleep while cultivating in his dreams. Unless he slept so much that his head hurt, he would only get up and move around a little before continuing to cultivate in his room. For the sake of his future life of sexual bliss, Yue Yang shut himself indoors all day and cultivated bitterly.

The beautiful woman came to see him several times. Seeing him snoring soundly every time, she assumed that after trying to drown himself in the river, his body had become weak and his spirits poor, and that he needed sleep.

Occasionally, she saw Yue Yang sitting cross-legged in meditation, incomparably earnest, and thought he was diligently working to improve his summoning skills. Her heart filled with delight.

Every day, she brought the little girl to visit Yue Yang.

That day, the beautiful woman also brought him good news. "Third, when your Fourth Uncle learned that you had successfully contracted a Contract Tome, he was overjoyed. He has gone to the main family's castle to report the good news to the master, and perhaps he will return in a few days. The thousand gold we had saved up has successfully purchased a Beast-Spirit Enlightenment Pill from the Ethereal Sect. If you take it, I believe it will be of great benefit to you. You might even break through your realm, advance to Level Two, and become an 'Entry-Level Warrior.'"

"A Beast-Spirit Enlightenment Pill?" The moment Yue Yang heard it, another cluster of knowledge bloomed in his mind, giving him a vague realization.

Among many great clans and powerful families, some outstanding genius warriors who struggled to contract a Contract Tome would seek the help of the Four Great Sects.

Every year, the Four Great Sects sold a very small number of spiritual pills, each incomparably expensive.

After taking these spiritual pills, people unable to contract a Contract Tome would see their chances of success greatly increase. Though success was not guaranteed, there was still nearly a thirty-percent chance. Naturally, this drove countless people mad.

However, the spiritual pills sold by the Four Great Sects were luxuries ordinary people could never hope to obtain.

First, their quantity was extremely limited; second, their price was exorbitant.

Yue Yang was deeply shaken by the beautiful woman and her husband spending all their savings to seek out a Beast-Spirit Enlightenment Pill for Tragedy Boy.

According to the currency exchange rate, one gold equaled a hundred silver, or ten thousand copper coins.

One thousand gold was equal to ten million copper coins.

To buy this Beast-Spirit Enlightenment Pill, the beautiful woman had exhausted the entire family fortune. She had even pawned every last piece of her dowry jewelry. Now, the only thing Yue Yang saw in her hair was a homemade wooden hairpin. From that alone, one could see what an enormous sum a thousand gold was. If one had not been born into a wealthy great family, who could buy such an expensive spiritual pill?

For Tragedy Boy, her adopted son, the beautiful woman had actually supported him to such an extent...

"Give it to little sister Shuang'er. I've already contracted successfully!" A trace of emotion could not help but rise in Yue Yang's heart. The beautiful woman was truly too great!

"What nonsense are you saying? How old is Shuang'er? How do you know she won't be able to contract one in the future? Perhaps that little girl will successfully contract one next year! This Beast-Spirit Enlightenment Pill was bought for you. Though you have successfully contracted one, you were somewhat late. Only by taking this spiritual pill can you catch up with all your might and live up to the hopes your Fourth Uncle and I have for you. Your birth parents also hoped you could rise above others and bring glory to the Yue Family. How can you be so willful?" Seeing Yue Yang refuse, the beautiful woman immediately became displeased. Her expression darkened slightly as she earnestly lectured him. "Third, although your Fourth Uncle is merely a minor official and our family is fairly well-off, it was not easy to save a thousand gold. You absolutely must not waste the painstaking efforts of your Fourth Uncle and me..."

"Yes, yes, I was wrong." Yue Yang hurriedly agreed. Although this spiritual pill had not been bought for him, he was still moved by the beautiful woman's intentions.

"I have already written to have Bing'er take leave from school and return home to guide you in beginner summoning techniques. She should arrive tomorrow. See whether there is anything you need to prepare. Fourth Aunt knows you are diligent, but you must not overdo it. Remember, haste makes waste. Rest well tonight, and don't meditate."

The beautiful woman did not know that Yue Yang had been eating and sleeping well these past few days, and that the cultivation method of the Innate Formless Body-Breaking Sword Aura was an Innate sword art that directly absorbed spiritual energy from heaven and earth.

The more Yue Yang cultivated, the better his body would become. It was simply impossible for him to exhaust himself.

To reassure the beautiful woman, Yue Yang had no choice but to go to sleep early once more... Perhaps because he had been moved by the beautiful woman emptying her family fortune to buy the pill, his state of mind had changed. During his dream cultivation, Yue Yang suddenly gained a spiritual insight he had never possessed before.

The energy transformed from spiritual energy throughout his body gathered into a thin stream.

It surged from his dantian to the Hand Taiyin Lung Meridian, then flowed through the meridians from Yunmen at the shoulder to Tianfu, Chize, and Kongzui on the arm, before reaching Lieque and Taiyuan at the wrist.

Finally, it flowed all the way to Shaoshang on his thumb.

After surging back and forth several times, a thin strand of sword aura unexpectedly shot from the tip of his thumb.

The sight of such a delightful transformation gave Yue Yang a tremendous shock. He awoke with a start from his dream.

Then, in reality, Yue Yang exerted considerable effort to perform it once.

Only when he saw the sword aura effortlessly pierce through the wall's bricks...

Did Yue Yang finally fully believe that he had successfully opened the first meridian of the first level of the Innate Formless Body-Breaking Sword Aura: the Hand Taiyin.

Although the sword aura bursting from his body was only one or two inches long—utterly not worth mentioning compared to the Sword Spirit Elder Sister's casually waved sword aura, which stretched more than ten meters—it still sent waves of wild joy through the transmigrator's heart. He wanted nothing more than to turn into a wolf and howl at the moon...