Secret Realm Mountain Gate Opens

In the small courtyard on True Transmission Peak, as dawn rose and dusk fell, twenty days and nights flashed by.

Shen Yuan spent most of his time between the training ground and the meditation chamber.

On the training ground, the Azure-Steel Longsword's radiance flowed as he repeatedly practiced the first eight forms of the Azure Cloud Thirteen Swords. The Eighth Form's variation, Cloud Roar Returns to the Firmament, had already become effortless, advancing and withdrawing at will. The Peerless Fist-and-Sword combat style was continuously tempered through the Myriad Transformations Deduction Mind Method; as fist force and sword force flowed into one another, true qi consumption was reduced further, while its explosive power steadily rose.

Within the meditation chamber, he sat in meditation to stabilize his Late Meridian Opening Realm cultivation, not rushing to forcibly break through into the Profound Communion Realm.

Having suffered the consequences of desperately staking his life on the Minor Tournament arena, Shen Yuan knew full well that rashly breaking through with an unstable foundation would leave endless future troubles. The eight primary meridians of the Meridian Opening Realm needed to be thoroughly settled and honed. Only when the water flowed naturally into the channel would he touch the barrier of the Profound Communion Realm.

Within his sea of consciousness, the Martial Arts Heavenly Stele floated silently, with 11 Martial Dao Points remaining.

Apart from the ten points spent deducing the secret-realm route, Shen Yuan had deliberately saved these remaining eleven points as an emergency trump card within the secret realm. Should he encounter a sudden peril, he could immediately activate temporary analysis and deduce a method to break the deadlock.

Inside his storage pouch, the supplies Wang Dong had run everywhere to gather were fully prepared: healing pills, antidote pills, concealment talismans, one-use explosive attack talismans,