Daily Three Self-Examinations!

After soaking for an afternoon, Wang Lang stood up from the oversized bathtub and stretched his limbs.

His skin was smooth and firm all over, not wrinkled in the slightest, nor even pale from the long soak.

After drying himself and changing into clean, coarse cloth clothes, he didn't rush back to his room. Instead, he went around to the Back Mountain of the manor to check on Old Wang's grave.

Wang Lang took a careful look. The grave mound was still solidly built, which was good.

This meant the coffin, which had cost fifty taels, hadn't been stolen.

He then returned to his own room and took out the letter from Grandmaster Tianhai from his embrace.

Wang Lang pondered for a moment. Although recently, through a fortunate encounter, his Body Refinement had broken through to the Bedrock Realm and his Qi Refinement had entered the Spirit Condensation Realm, his strength had advanced by leaps and bounds.

But recalling the strange occurrences on his journey back from Creek Stone Village, the outside world was indeed fraught with danger.

"Steadiness, always prioritize steadiness."

He silently recited to himself, thinking of the old man's letter and Grandmaster Tianhai's token.

Since there was no rush to deliver them anytime soon, he hid the letter and the token.

Only after doing all this did Wang Lang truly relax.

He went to his bed, lay on his back, placed his hands behind his head, and began his daily self-reflection.

His thoughts first turned to his cultivation breakthrough.

At that time, he had absorbed a large amount of Yin energy in the Ten Thousand Souls Tomb. His body felt as if it had eaten too much, and it had unknowingly begun to circulate according to the cultivation path of the Vajra Subduing Demons Sutra, subsequently breaking through two realms.

At this moment, he looked inward and could clearly see two completely different types of Qi flowing within him.

One was the righteous Qi obtained from cultivating the Song of Righteous Qi, pure white in color, gentle, and harmonious.

The other was the Vajra Qi originating from the Vajra Subduing Demons Sutra, pale gold in color, condensed, and domineering.

These two Qi with vastly different attributes did not conflict with each other as common sense would suggest, tearing at his meridians.

Instead, they were like well water and river water, never interfering with each other, each occupying different areas of his meridians without encroaching on the other.

Even more miraculously, with the effect of the Innate Qi attribute "strengthens with each breath," Wang Lang could clearly perceive that these two Qi were growing in a synchronized and balanced manner.

It wasn't that the Vajra Qi was dominating just because he had broken through to the Spirit Condensation Realm relying on the Vajra Subduing Demons Sutra.

"This change is an unexpected joy."

According to the common knowledge Wang Lang understood from the Vajra Subduing Demons Sutra, Qi Refinement cultivators usually could only focus on cultivating one type of Qi.

Whether it was the five-elemental Qi cultivated by Daoist cultivators based on their own inheritance, or the Grand Righteous Qi of Confucian disciples, or any other special attribute Qi.

Being greedy and trying to grasp too much was a minor issue; the key was that different attributes of Qi coexisting within the body could easily lead to conflict.

At best, cultivation would be crippled; at worst, one could explode and die.

Of course, some legendary heaven-defying cultivation methods or special physiques might break this rule, but they were all exceedingly rare.

"The Qi issue is an unexpected joy, so what about this physique change..."

Wang Lang's thoughts shifted, and his attention fell on the Indestructible Vajra Body he had ascended to.

His physique had advanced from an ordinary mortal body to the Indestructible Vajra Body.

The information provided by the system's personal panel was that it was stimulated by the extreme tempering of the Vajra Subduing Demons Sutra and the massive amount of Yin energy in the Ten Thousand Souls Tomb. The effect was useful to Wang Lang, but not significantly so.

Next was the breakthrough in Body Refinement to the Bedrock Realm.

After entering this realm, the realm divisions in Body Refinement began to align with Qi Refinement. Although it was still divided into nine levels, it was different from the Bedrock Realm when small realms were divided by methods like tempering skin, muscle, and tendons.

The Bedrock Realm focused on endurance and transformation.

Each breakthrough required drawing upon the Blood Essence within to continuously temper the physical body, making it truly as firm as bedrock and as stable as a great mountain.

Each level increase required a massive accumulation of Blood Essence and a deeper level of control over the physical body.

To reach the peak of the ninth level of the Bedrock Realm and break through to the Myriad Manifestations Realm, one needed to use the power of the physical body to induce changes in the atmospheric phenomena.

Whether it was tempering with lightning or being burned by earth fire, one had to break through the physical body's limitations in extreme environments, thus laying the foundation for the body to bear and evolve the power of all phenomena in the world.

This tribulation was extremely dangerous, and the test of willpower and physical body was inhumane. Those who failed would either die or be disabled. Those who successfully entered the Myriad Manifestations Realm were all elites among Body Refinement martial artists.

As for the Spirit Condensation Realm in Qi Refinement, it was largely similar, mainly focusing on cultivating the spirit and Dharma Idols.

Wang Lang carefully pondered this information conveyed by the Vajra Subduing Demons Sutra, gaining a clearer understanding of the path ahead.

Qi Refinement and Body Refinement could be said to have their own merits.

In the Qi Induction Realm stage, Qi Refinement cultivators, because they could initially use spells and activate talismans, had more flexible and varied methods, usually giving them an advantage over Body Tempering martial artists of the same stage who were still pounding their bodies.

However, once a Body Refiner entered the Bedrock Realm, their physical body's strength, power, speed, and close-combat burst power would far surpass that of a Qi Refiner of the same level.

Even cultivators in the Spirit Condensation Realm aren't much help when they have a Dharma Idol.

Of course, if a Qi Refinement cultivator could keep their distance and cast powerful spells, the outcome would still be uncertain.

Wang Lang was generally satisfied with Grandmaster Tianhai's inheritance.

The only drawback was that the accompanying offensive techniques were mostly close-combat punches and kicks, or the condensation of Vajra Qi to protect the body.

As for ranged spells, the flashy skills of a mage were few and far between.

This caused his dream of becoming an elegant back-row turret to shatter prematurely.

"Looks like I can only charge headfirst in the direction of a berserker or an iron tank..."

Wang Lang felt a slight regret but quickly let it go.

His thoughts eventually, inevitably, settled on the most somber part of Grandmaster Tianhai's letter.

The Yin God and Yang God would revive in a thousand years, at which point Yin and Yang would be in chaos, laws would collapse, and all things would return to ruin.

Wang Lang had never heard of the Yin God and Yang God before.

To put it simply, this part of Grandmaster Tianhai's letter meant that the world's end was scheduled, with a countdown of about a thousand years.

Wang Lang looked at the beams of the roof and sighed, saying:

"If heaven and earth are a chessboard, then all living beings are but pieces."

"Even if a piece foresees the bleak end, what can it do?"

"Without the power to overturn the chessboard and set new rules, one can only go with the flow."

"Either wait to be devoured in despair, or turn to dust in unwillingness."

Wang Lang felt a sense of pressure suddenly descend upon him, but it vanished in an instant.

"Why think so far ahead? If the sky falls, there will always be taller people to bear it."

He thought, even if he eventually found there were no taller people, or that the taller people couldn't hold it up either, Didn't he still have a full thousand years to develop?

With his Innate Qi, he could spend a few hundred years to cultivate to the highest realm of both body and Qi cultivation in this world, right?

He calculated in his mind, then chuckled and shook his head. It seemed that even with this kind of trait that made him stronger just by breathing, He still felt a bit uncertain facing those world-ending dual gods.

He could only hope that in the future, the system would give him some more powerful traits, or allow him to synthesize some.

With his many thoughts sorted clearly one by one, all the miscellaneous thoughts in his mind vanished.

Wang Lang let out a long breath and completely emptied his mind, closing his eyes.

Whatever monumental event it was, he would deal with it after waking up.

Then, after closing his eyes for only a dozen breaths.

"Seriously! I can't sleep at all!"

Helpless, Wang Lang had no choice but to get up and begin cultivating according to the practice method of the Vajra Subduing Demons Sutra.

With the world set to end in a thousand years, he couldn't place all his hopes on system traits; he needed to work hard himself.

Even if he couldn't prevent the catastrophe at that time, he at least needed to ensure his own survival.