Dao Fruit: The Strength of the Innate Realm

[Age 55: You discovered that certain special cultivation methods could increase the activity of True Qi. For example, the One-Armed Saber sacrificed an arm in exchange for doubling the power of saber techniques; the Heaven-Crippled Foot sacrificed a leg in exchange for doubling the power of the remaining foot; Closed-Mouth Zen sacrificed the ability to speak in exchange for doubling the power of a body-protecting divine art; the Severing Emotion Sword sacrificed emotional fluctuations in exchange for doubling the power of sword techniques; and the Sunflower Manual sacrificed the ability to continue one's family line in exchange for doubling the speed of one's attacks. You gradually came to understand a principle: for every gain, there must be a loss!]

[Age 60: Your True Qi had essentially lost its activity, and your cultivation was producing almost no results. You felt an intense urgency to find a cultivation method that could increase True Qi activity, and devoted yourself to studying various special cultivation methods!]

[Age 70: You created the Disabled Body, Resolute Will Divine Art. When you were in a vegetative state, your True Qi activity would return to its peak, and your strength began to grow again. However, the Ren and Du meridians were exceptionally sturdy, and your cultivation progressed very slowly. You felt extremely dissatisfied!]

[Age 75: The Disabled Body, Resolute Will Divine Art, which targeted the physical body, left you feeling greatly encouraged. You began researching special cultivation methods that targeted the soul!]

[Age 85: You developed the Heavenly Book of Forgotten Emotions. When your body was in a vegetative state and your consciousness was in a coma, the increase in your True Qi activity was greater than the sum of its parts, and your cultivation speed improved noticeably!]

[Age 86: You contributed the Heavenly Book of Forgotten Emotions to Wudang's Scripture Repository. The current sect leader, Zhang Songxi, was utterly astonished. He considered it an unparalleled divine art of epoch-making significance, one that could keep a martial artist in the golden period of cultivation for life. He therefore made an exception and promoted you to an elder of the Scripture Repository, allowing you to browse any martial arts you pleased, except for the sect's ultimate arts, Taiji Fist and Taiji Sword!]

[Age 90: Because the Ren and Du meridians were too sturdy, your cultivation progressed very slowly. You began pondering the spiral True Qi that often appeared in webnovels, attempting to turn the True Qi in your body into a drill!]

[Age 95: You discovered that True Qi spinning inside your meridians was like water spinning in a teacup: it produced no powerful penetrating effect!]

[Age 100: You wanted to transform the True Qi in your body into Sword Qi that could cut through anything. After careful consideration, you ultimately decided to use Two Forms Swordsmanship as its foundation!]

[Age 110: You completely transformed the True Qi in your body into Two Forms Sword Qi. The yin and yang of the Two Forms Sword Qi not only greatly increased its penetrating power, but also produced an effect similar to thermal expansion and contraction, causing the barriers in the Ren and Du meridians to gradually crumble. Your cultivation progress could truly be said to cover a thousand miles in a day!]

[Age 120: You opened the Ren meridian. Seven of the eight extraordinary meridians were now open, leaving only the Du meridian!]

[Age 130: You had opened ninety-nine percent of the Du meridian, but the final one percent was as impregnable as a fortress of iron and boiling water. No matter how you assailed it, you could not budge it in the slightest. You finally understood why the last one percent of the Du meridian was called the Heaven and Earth Mysterious Pass. It was even more of a Shanhai Pass than Hangu Pass itself!]

[Age 140: Following the principles of the True Martial Seven-Section Formation, you amplified the Two Forms Sword Qi in seven meridians forty-ninefold and broke through the Heaven and Earth Mysterious Pass in one stroke. You finally reached the Innate Realm. You discovered that the activity of True Qi in the Innate Realm was fixed: if it was high, Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi would assimilate it and lower it; if it was low, Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi would assimilate it and raise it. You suddenly had a realization: the Innate Realm in a low-spec world must be very weak, while the Innate Realm in a high-spec world must be very strong. This had nothing to do with the martial artist, but depended on the world's level!]

[Age 141: You finally understood why the Turtle Breath Great Method was a manual for those below the Innate Realm. Its theoretical limit was to reduce the consumption of life by ninety percent: living ten years would consume only one year of lifespan. At the same time, True Qi activity would fall tenfold, so cultivating for ten years would add only one year's worth of True Qi. Since the activity of Innate True Qi was fixed and could not be lowered, the Turtle Breath Great Method was already useless to Innate martial artists!]

[Age 142: The Emperor Jiajing was obsessed with pursuing immortality and collected large quantities of menstrual blood from palace maids to refine pills, causing more and more maids to bleed to death. More than a dozen palace maids could bear it no longer and plotted to kill the Emperor Jiajing, bringing about the Ren Yin Palace Coup that shook the realm. The Emperor Jiajing narrowly escaped the calamity and decreed that all the maids involved be executed by a thousand cuts. More than two hundred palace maids were implicated and beheaded. Empress Fang feared a repeat of the incident and tried to persuade the Emperor Jiajing to stop refining pills, but the Emperor Jiajing was so deeply immersed in his pursuit of immortality that he could not free himself and would not listen to any advice!]

[Age 143: Empress Fang learned by chance that you had not only mastered the Turtle Breath Great Method, but also reverse-engineered it to create the Lifespan-Cutting Divine Art. She persuaded the Emperor Jiajing to summon you to the palace to discuss methods of prolonging life and seek a means of attaining immortality. The Emperor Jiajing readily agreed. Mount Wudang dared not disobey the imperial decree and could only escort you to the Capital!]

[Age 144: Using the Sixth-Transformation Pill Refining Technique from the National Martial Arts world, you determined that the pill refiner favored by the Emperor Jiajing was a fraud who deceived the world to gain fame. Through various theoretical analyses and numerous scientific experiments, you proved that the pill refiner had not made immortal pills that prolonged life, but poisonous lead-and-mercury pills that caused heavy metal poisoning and a slow death. The Emperor Jiajing decreed the execution of the pill refiner's nine familial generations, and his trust in you grew with each passing day!]

[Age 145: You proposed using medicinal cuisine and dietary nourishment, entrusting the Imperial Medical Institute with studying the idea in detail. This closely matched the Emperor Jiajing's expectations for an elixir of immortality. The Emperor Jiajing appointed you imperial preceptor, and the Great Ming Dynasty's imperial Scripture Repository was opened to you without restriction!]

[Age 146: You discovered to your sorrow that, because you had used a shortcut to force your way through the Ren and Du meridians, your eight extraordinary meridians were so badly damaged that you could no longer advance. Unwilling to let your martial path end there, you began researching various pill formulas for treating meridian injuries!]

[Age 147: You discovered that the pill formulas collected by the Great Ming Dynasty were not potent enough to heal your meridian injuries. You decided to combine countless formulas, keeping their essence and discarding their dross, and eventually refined a batch of immortal pills. You took one and unfortunately died from the poison!]

[Based on your life, please choose a Dao Fruit-]

[Heavenly Book of Forgotten Emotions] [Lifespan-Cutting Divine Art] [Strength of the Innate Realm]