Dao Fruit: The Power of the Celestial Person Realm
"Senior Brother, we only met by chance. Are you really willing to give me such a precious fortuitous opportunity?" Zhu Zhanshan's little face was filled with emotion.
"My Innate True Qi might seem like a fortuitous opportunity to you, but it's a burden to me!" As Mo Wenjian spoke, he reached out and rubbed Zhu Zhanshan's little head.
Mo Wenjian's original body had not only developed the human body to its limits, but also awakened the mysterious and unfathomable Heavenly Eye.
Mo Wenjian's understanding of the human body had reached the level of a Buddha seeing forty-eight thousand creatures in a bowl of water.
Mo Wenjian knew every detail of the human body by heart.
After coming to the Wuxia Great Ming World, Mo Wenjian had also fused with a Dao Fruit of martial arts theory.
Looking across the entire Wuxia Great Ming World, perhaps only Zhang Sanfeng's martial arts could barely compare with Mo Wenjian's.
For ordinary people of the martial world, transferring cultivation was an extremely dangerous undertaking.
The slightest mistake would cause both parties to suffer Qi Deviation at the same time.
But for Mo Wenjian, transferring cultivation was like pouring water from a teapot into a teacup. It could not have been simpler.
The True Qi in Mo Wenjian's body flowed through the crown of Zhu Zhanshan's head and into his eight extraordinary meridians in an unending stream.
The Two Forms Sword Qi's distinctive spiral structure moved through Zhu Zhanshan's body like a drill that could pierce anything.
Wherever the Two Forms Sword Qi passed, it swept everything aside like dry weeds and rotten wood.
By the time Mo Wenjian exhausted his True Qi, only the final Heaven and Earth Mysterious Pass remained among Zhu Zhanshan's eight extraordinary meridians.
In the life simulation, Mo Wenjian had been helpless against that final Heaven and Earth Mysterious Pass.
Zhu Zhanshan needed to rely on the medicinal effects of a thousand-year-old ginseng root to break through the Heaven and Earth Mysterious Pass and reach the Innate Realm.
But the present Mo Wenjian had a better option.
With a thought, Mo Wenjian claimed the Dao Fruit: the power of the Celestial Person Realm.
Chaos Sword Intent, containing endless mysteries, burst forth within Mo Wenjian's body, carrying Chaos Sword Qi with its sharp edge fully bared.
In the blink of an eye, Mo Wenjian regained the power of the Innate Realm, and his eight extraordinary meridians filled up again.
Next, the Chaos Sword Intent and Chaos Sword Qi swept through his twelve standard meridians like dry weeds and rotten wood, easily piercing them.
Mo Wenjian's strength rose to the Grandmaster Realm in an instant.
As the Chaos Sword Intent grew stronger and the Chaos Sword Qi increased, they soon exceeded the limits of the Grandmaster Realm.
He reached the Celestial Person Realm without a sound.
With a thought from Mo Wenjian, the Celestial Person Realm's Chaos Sword Intent and Chaos Sword Qi easily shattered Zhu Zhanshan's Heaven and Earth Mysterious Pass.
Before Zhu Zhanshan had even prepared himself mentally, he had reached the Innate Realm in a daze.
"You lied to me!" After staring blankly for a moment, Zhu Zhanshan fixed his eyes on Mo Wenjian, his gaze somewhat complicated.
"How did I lie to you?" Mo Wenjian frowned slightly and asked the question instinctively.
"If you really cultivated the Wedding Dress Divine Art, you should have exhausted your True Qi by now. But the True Qi in your body is still as deep as an abyss and as vast as the sea. That proves you don't cultivate the Wedding Dress Divine Art. You simply spent an enormous amount of cultivation to help me open my eight extraordinary meridians. I once heard Imperial Grandfather say that some cultivation is lost during a transfer. You lost at least three times as much cultivation. How can I ever repay such a great kindness?" Zhu Zhanshan's little face was filled with emotion.
"Don't think too much about it!" Mo Wenjian hardly knew whether to laugh or cry at the misunderstanding. He wanted to explain, but did not know where to begin.
"Your Imperial Highness, have you still not realized it?" Zhu Zhanshan's master stepped out of the shadows. "The expert instructed you to combine hardness and softness and spent his cultivation to help you open your eight extraordinary meridians. He wants to take you as the inheritor of his mantle!"
"Zhu Zhanshan pays his respects to his revered master. Whatever you command, I will not shrink from it even if I must die ten thousand deaths!" A flash of inspiration struck Zhu Zhanshan, and he instinctively started to kneel and kowtow three times to Mo Wenjian, so that their status as master and disciple would be settled once and for all.
"Wait. I have no intention of taking you as my disciple. I simply found you pleasing to the eye. You reached the Innate Realm by taking a shortcut, and your control over your True Qi is very poor. Don't even think about transferring cultivation to anyone else, or you might make a mistake and both of you could die. Find somewhere to cripple your own cultivation, then start cultivating the Two Forms Swordsmanship from the beginning!" As soon as Mo Wenjian finished speaking, he picked up his broom, turned around, and left.
Zhu Zhanshan watched Mo Wenjian's retreating back, his expression full of disappointment.
Strength was the foundation on which a martial artist stood and lived. To a martial artist, strength was more important than life itself.
Even among birth fathers, few were willing to diminish their strength and pass their precious True Qi to their sons.
The civil and military officials of the court all prided themselves on their loyalty, yet none had been seen willing to spend a hundred years of cultivation to open the eight extraordinary meridians of the imperial princes and grandsons.
Mo Wenjian had helped Zhu Zhanshan open his eight extraordinary meridians, and Zhu Zhanshan was moved to tears of gratitude.
Mo Wenjian's refusal to take Zhu Zhanshan as his disciple made Zhu Zhanshan deeply uneasy.
Zhu Zhanshan instinctively wondered whether he had done something wrong and displeased Mo Wenjian.
Seeing how anxious Zhu Zhanshan looked, his master could not help sighing.
"Your Imperial Highness, even if an ordinary martial arts grandmaster exhausted all his cultivation, he might not be able to help someone open their eight extraordinary meridians. Anyone who hasn't experienced it firsthand cannot imagine how formidable the Heaven and Earth Mysterious Pass is. The expert helped Your Imperial Highness reach the Innate Realm with an effortless move. He must either be a Celestial Person powerhouse comparable to True Person Sanfeng, the foremost master of the Daoist School, or an invincible great grandmaster comparable to Master Daoyan, the foremost master of the Buddhist school. An invincible great grandmaster is a supreme martial artist who has mastered several Celestial Person ultimate arts and can fight above his level, challenging and defeating a Celestial Person. The expert's strength ranks at least third under heaven. Becoming his disciple won't be easy, so there's no need for Your Imperial Highness to lose heart!" Although Zhu Zhanshan's master had analyzed the matter from the wrong angle, his final conclusion was correct. Mo Wenjian had unparalleled cheats and could rival Zhang Sanfeng, the strongest under heaven; their strength was evenly matched.
"Master, you just said that the expert instructed me to combine hardness and softness and spent his cultivation to help me open my eight extraordinary meridians because he wanted to take me as the inheritor of his mantle. Why, then, did he flatly refuse when I wanted to perform the ceremony to become his disciple?" Having suffered one psychological blow, Zhu Zhanshan instinctively felt suspicious of his master's analysis.
"Your Imperial Highness, you're being muddleheaded!" Zhu Zhanshan's master explained patiently. "Even on Mount Wudang, someone seeking to become a disciple must first spend five years doing menial work before becoming an outer disciple. The expert's requirements for taking a disciple must be higher than Mount Wudang's requirements for accepting an outer disciple, and his period of observation surely won't be short. Your Imperial Highness has only lived in the Eastern Arrival Hall for a few days. The expert is only somewhat satisfied with you so far, but he hasn't accepted you from the bottom of his heart yet. That will take at least three to five years. You mustn't be impatient. As long as you continue as you are, one day the water will flow and a channel will form, and you'll become the inheritor of the expert's mantle. The expert spent his cultivation to help you open your eight extraordinary meridians, paying such a tremendous price. He certainly won't give up on you easily!"
"Now that you've put it that way, I feel reassured at once. I'll work twice as hard and never disappoint the expert. Since the expert wants me to cripple my cultivation and cultivate my True Qi again using the Two Forms Swordsmanship, I absolutely must not disappoint him!" Zhu Zhanshan's attainment of the Innate Realm had come too easily, so he did not particularly cherish it. Without hesitation, he dispersed all his cultivation.