In the valley, the power of heaven and earth around Ye Yun gathered with his punching movements. Gradually, a cloud of dust swirled up within the valley.
In Ye Yun's mind, his understanding of the Heaven-and-Earth Grand Momentum grew ever clearer. Yet there was always a hurdle separating him from Fist Force Initiation that he could not cross. As time passed, Ye Yun gradually withdrew from his state of Epiphany.
"Just now, as I practiced the Layered Waves Fist, I seemed to enter a wondrous realm. It was as though I were in a vast sea, my body moving with the rhythm of the waves. Could it be that I had fallen into the legendary Epiphany?" Ye Yun carefully recalled the scene from moments ago.
"I never expected that today, not only would I gain clarity on how my martial path should proceed from now on, but I would also unexpectedly have an Epiphany and comprehend the Half-Step Fist Force Realm." Ye Yun sighed.
This was because, during his comprehension of Fist Force just now, there had always been a hurdle he could not overcome in reaching the Entry-Level Fist Force Realm. Thus, he could only be considered to be in the Half-Step Fist Force Realm now.
The Half-Step Fist Force Realm allowed one to mobilize the power of heaven and earth within five meters of one's body.
The Fist Force Realm was also divided into four stages: entry-level, minor accomplishment, major accomplishment, and perfection. Upon first entering Fist Force, one could mobilize the power of heaven and earth within fifty meters of one's body. Minor accomplishment allowed one to mobilize the power of heaven and earth within five hundred meters, major accomplishment within a one-kilometer radius, and upon reaching Fist Force perfection, one could mobilize the power of heaven and earth within a five-kilometer radius.
During the cultivation that followed, aside from his daily essential cultivation of true qi and martial arts, Ye Yun would venture deep to the bottom of the Cold Spring to observe the water-and-fire intermingling momentum formed by the collision between the Frost-Ice Soul's power and the Earthcore Flame.
Each time he observed this wondrous spectacle of heaven and earth, Ye Yun's understanding of the momentum of heaven and earth deepened further. It greatly aided his comprehension of Fist Force.
Autumn's coolness always slipped away unnoticed, while winter's bone-piercing winds arrived right on schedule.
A month passed in the midst of Ye Yun's daily arduous cultivation. During this time, although he had not broken through to Fist Force Initiation, he successfully raised all the martial arts he had learned by one minor stage. Naturally, the Selfless Realm was an exception.
At night, Ye Yun sat cross-legged upon the Iceheart Lotus Platform in the cultivation chamber.
After a month of continuous cultivation, his Qi Refining Realm Sixth Layer cultivation had been thoroughly consolidated. It was time to take the Human Origin Pill.
After adjusting his condition, Ye Yun took a Human Origin Pill from his Storage Bag and swallowed it. Once the pill entered his stomach, it transformed into an immense medicinal force. He immediately circulated the Ice Profound Force, controlling the medicinal force as it launched an assault on the eleventh meridian within his body.
Over the past month, Ye Yun had already opened nearly half of the eleventh meridian. Now, under the impact of the immense medicinal force transformed from the Human Origin Pill, the remaining impurities blocking the meridian began to totter.
After continuous assaults that consumed one-third of the Human Origin Pill's medicinal force, he finally opened the eleventh meridian.
However, his cultivation had not ended. Under Ye Yun's control, the remaining medicinal force launched an assault on the twelfth meridian.
The medicinal force struck the Impurity Barrier like a swelling river battering against a dam. The Impurity Barrier, initially utterly unmoved, gradually began to loosen beneath the relentless impacts.
Time passed, and the Human Origin Pill's medicinal force continued to be consumed. Ye Yun launched attack after attack against the Impurity Barrier. In the end, the barrier could no longer withstand the medicinal force's assault and cracked open a small fissure.
A thousand-mile dike could collapse from an ant hole. The appearance of that small fissure exposed a weakness in the Impurity Barrier. Ye Yun seized the chance and launched a fierce assault, shattering the barrier to pieces. He successfully broke through to the Seventh Level of the Qi Refining Realm.
At the moment of his breakthrough, a vast amount of spiritual energy from heaven and earth surged into Ye Yun's body. Washed by that spiritual energy, both his cultivation and body grew stronger.
After more than ten minutes, the breakthrough gradually came to an end, and the fluctuations of spiritual energy from heaven and earth slowly calmed.
Only after stabilizing the true qi within his body did Ye Yun slowly end his cultivation state. Sensing the strengthened true qi and body within him, the corners of his lips rose slightly.
Washed by spiritual energy from heaven and earth with every breakthrough, Ye Yun's body had reached a pure physical strength of more than sixty thousand jin. With strength alone, he could rival martial artists at the first or second level of the Qi Refining Realm.
By this time, snow had begun to fall outside the window at some unknown moment.
After tidying himself up, Ye Yun stepped outside and watched countless snowflakes drift down from the sky, laying a layer of silver across the earth.
"Unfortunately, I can no longer enjoy this snowy scenery with Grandpa." Looking at the beautiful view, Ye Yun could not help but feel a few pangs of longing for his grandfather.
The sorrowful mood left Ye Yun somewhat downcast. With a movement of his feet, his flickering figure arrived in the valley.
Ye Yun stood in the valley, then began to move, slowly performing the Layered Waves Fist. He punched to his heart's content, as though he wished to vent the pent-up emotions within him.
The Layered Waves Fist flowed through Ye Yun's hands like drifting clouds and flowing water. Sometimes fast, sometimes slow, the fist technique seemed slow but was actually fast, seemed fast but was actually slow. In his hands, the set of Layered Waves Fist seemed to come alive.
In the valley, the snowflakes falling from the sky were stirred by Ye Yun's fist wind and moved with every punch he threw. At that moment, the snowflakes seemed to be dancing in the air.
Ye Yun cast aside all distracting thoughts and practiced the fist technique again and again. His entire being entered a Spirit-Void State. In his mind, his insights into other martial arts continuously surfaced, then unknowingly melded into his fist technique.
Gradually, the fist technique in Ye Yun's hands changed, slowly evolving from the Layered Waves Fist into another kind of fist technique.
This nameless fist technique unfolded move by move in Ye Yun's hands. As he performed it, its momentum grew ever greater, changing from the wave-like force of the Layered Waves Fist into a tsunami that blotted out the sky and covered the earth.
His fist force struck the air, producing explosive booms. Listening carefully, one would discover that the fist force came one layer after another, creating nine explosive sounds.
As Ye Yun's fist technique danced, the sound gradually rose from soft to loud. At its loudest, it was like thunder crashing. Yet afterward, the sound diminished from loud to soft, becoming muffled thuds, until at last there was no sound at all.
After a long while, Ye Yun slowly withdrew his fists and stood still, exhaling a breath of turbid air from his chest. The heat met the frigid air and immediately turned into white mist.
"I only wanted to practice some fist techniques and vent my sorrowful emotions. I never expected to gain such an unexpected harvest." Ye Yun's eyes brimmed with delight.
As he practiced his fists just now, he had unexpectedly entered Epiphany once more. During that Epiphany, he fused his insights from other martial arts into the Layered Waves Fist, elevating it into another set of fist techniques. When performed, this fist technique possessed the momentum of a tsunami, and its fist force had a full nine layers. With one punch, nine layers of fist force poured forth, making its power extraordinarily formidable.
Ye Yun named this fist technique "Ninefold Waves." With this fist technique, not many martial artists of the same level could now receive one of his punches.
Yet what puzzled Ye Yun greatly was that he had already experienced an Epiphany a month ago. How had he entered Epiphany again today?
Didn't the sect's records say that some people could not experience Epiphany even once in their entire lives? Why had it become so easy for him?
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