Ancient Art, Primordial Chaos True Art (Please Follow and Vote)

"Primordial Chaos True Art!"

Zhou Qing pored over this profound martial art, which he had obtained from the Eagle Wolf Guard yamen's treasury, with utmost seriousness.

According to the introduction at the beginning of the manual, this art originated in ancient times and possessed unimaginable power.

The internal energy cultivated by the Primordial Chaos True Art had no attribute whatsoever, yet it could fuse the internal energy and Power of Momentum cultivated from other Internal Arts, allowing them to transform.

"This is the third method created by ancient sages to blast open the Gate of Heaven and Earth within the body."

Zhou Qing thought to himself.

Wang Yan, the Black Lotus Emissary of the Fire Worship Cult, had said that there were only two ways to break through to the Xiantian Realm. One was to refine Spiritual Matter, while the other was to transform one's Power of Momentum and condense an Embryo of Artistic Conception.

Naturally, Zhou Qing would not wholly believe those words, so he had made a trip to the Eagle Wolf Guard yamen and hauled away every manual in its martial arts treasury.

Sure enough, the Eagle Wolf Guard's martial arts treasury contained records of a third method for blasting open the Gate of Heaven and Earth.

This third method involved fusing internal energies and Powers of Momentum with different attributes, allowing one's internal energy and spiritual power to continuously transform until they reached a level comparable to Xiantian True Qi and an Embryo of Artistic Conception. Only then could one blast open the Gate of Heaven and Earth and shatter the shackles of the flesh.

However, though this third method appeared simple, it was just as exceedingly difficult to cultivate in practice.

Even if an ordinary martial artist did not lack cultivation resources, it would still take decades to cultivate a first-rate Internal Art to the perfection of the ninth level.

Not to mention fusing several first-rate Internal Arts with differing attributes.

The time and resources required were beyond imagination, and one also needed talent and perseverance. Ordinary martial artists need not even dream of it. Most super-first-rate factions did not possess the resources to nurture an expert capable of fusing several first-rate Internal Arts of different attributes.

Of course, the most important reason was that after a grandmaster who had broken through to the Xiantian Realm by fusing multiple Internal Arts, every subsequent step of cultivation required several times—perhaps even more than ten times—the resources needed by grandmasters of the same level. The more arts fused, the more resources were required.

In the current world, the spiritual qi of heaven and earth was growing ever thinner and resources were scarce. There were already few resources capable of supporting a grandmaster's cultivation to higher realms, much less a grandmaster who required several or even ten times as many resources. No faction could afford to support such a person.

Thus, these arts capable of fusing internal energy and Power of Momentum of various attributes to blast open the Gate of Heaven and Earth had gone unpracticed since ancient times and gradually been lost.

Only some of the world's top factions had preserved ancient arts, but practically no one cultivated them.

Yet for Zhou Qing, this was undoubtedly the most suitable method for breaking through to the Xiantian Realm.

Spiritual Matter was controlled by the top factions. Most super-first-rate factions did not even possess it, so there was naturally no way for him to obtain any.

Nor did he have a Divine Intent Diagram.

Although first-rate Internal Arts were not easy to obtain either, compared with Spiritual Matter and Divine Intent Diagrams, they were far easier to acquire.

After plundering the Eagle Wolf Guard yamen, Zhou Qing had obtained over a hundred martial arts manuals. Aside from the Primordial Chaos True Art, there were three first-rate Internal Arts.

These three first-rate Internal Arts were the Great White Golden Gang Art, Mountain Profound Art, and Hundred Herbs Evergreen Art.

Over the following period of time,

Zhou Qing entered a phase of "bitter cultivation."

You began cultivating the Primordial Chaos True Art. After one year of bitter cultivation, you completed a Great Zhou Cycle. In the second year of bitter cultivation, the Primordial Chaos True Art broke through to the seventh level, and you grasped Primordial Chaos Momentum.

In the fifth year of bitter cultivation, the Primordial Chaos True Art reached the perfection of the ninth level, and Primordial Chaos Momentum reached the perfected realm. You began fusing the internal energy of the Profound Ice Heart Method and Freezing Momentum.

In the sixth year of bitter cultivation, you successfully fused the internal energy of the Profound Ice Heart Method and Freezing Momentum. The Gate of Heaven and Earth you had glimpsed, once distant beyond reach and like flowers seen through mist, gradually became clear.

You knew full well that fusing the Profound Ice Heart Method alone was far from enough to shatter the Gate of Heaven and Earth. You began cultivating the Great White Golden Gang Art, the advanced art of the Golden Gang Art.

After three years of bitter cultivation, the Great White Golden Gang Art reached perfection. You began fusing the Great White Golden Gang Art, and as it merged into the Primordial Chaos True Art, you discovered that your perception of the Gate of Heaven and Earth had advanced another step.

You continued your bitter cultivation...

After another five years of bitter cultivation, you cultivated the Mountain Profound Art to perfection. You began fusing the Mountain Profound Art... The Gate of Heaven and Earth within your body was already within reach, but it was still not enough to shatter it. You continued bitterly cultivating the Hundred Herbs Evergreen Art...

After five years of bitter cultivation, you fused the Spring Return Technique into the Hundred Herbs Evergreen Art and cultivated it to perfection. Indestructible Qi was born within your body. Whenever your internal energy was exhausted, your spiritual power depleted, and your flesh weak, activating Indestructible Qi could swiftly replenish your losses and instantly restore you to peak condition.

You fused the Hundred Herbs Evergreen Art...

The days passed one by one.

In the blink of an eye, twenty-one days had gone by.

Primordial Chaos True Art / Level 9 (Traits: Fusion, Freezing, Golden Edge, Giant Spirit, Indestructible Qi, lifespan increased by sixty years, internal energy healing... omitted)

"This power!"

Zhou Qing felt the Primordial Chaos True Art's internal energy surging within him. Having fused the four first-rate Internal Arts—the Profound Ice Heart Method, Great White Golden Gang Art, Mountain Profound Art, and Hundred Herbs Evergreen Art—its might seemed capable of shaking heaven and earth.

Zhou Qing secretly assessed it. The power unleashed by the Primordial Chaos True Art's internal energy after fusing four first-rate Internal Arts was comparable to the attack he unleashed when using the Soldier Character Great Vajra Seal to directly draw out half of his Profound Ice Internal Energy, compress it, and condense it into a single finger strike.

If he used Primordial Chaos internal energy to unleash the Soldier Character Great Vajra Seal, Zhou Qing did not dare imagine the power it would erupt with.

Of course, Zhou Qing could also activate the fused arts individually.

"I've now fused four first-rate Internal Arts, but if I want to blast open the Gate of Heaven and Earth with absolute certainty, I must fuse another two, perhaps even three, first-rate Internal Arts!"

Zhou Qing thought to himself.

According to the records in the Primordial Chaos True Art manual, fusing only four first-rate Internal Arts gave one merely a thirty percent chance of shattering the Gate of Heaven and Earth within the body and breaking the shackles.

Fusing five first-rate Internal Arts gave one a fifty percent chance. Fusing six raised the success rate to seventy percent, while fusing seven brought the chance of blasting open the Gate of Heaven and Earth to ninety percent.

If one could fuse eight first-rate Internal Arts, one could blast open the Gate of Heaven and Earth with absolute certainty and step into the Xiantian Realm.

"Muscle Transformation and Bone Reshaping Art!"

Zhou Qing picked out a disguise martial art that had reached the second-rate level from among the pile of manuals.

This was an art that used the regulation of internal energy and vital blood to alter the muscles and bones of one's facial contours and bodily form.

Compared with using a human-skin mask, cultivating the Muscle Transformation and Bone Reshaping Art for disguise was more natural. It could alter not only one's appearance and physique, but even one's voice, completely turning one into another person.

Two days later.

Zhou Qing cultivated the Muscle Transformation and Bone Reshaping Art to the perfected realm.