Chapter 10

Chapter 10: Advancing By Leaps And Bounds, Postnatal Realm 10th-Tier! The Most Filial Grandson!

【However……】

【You discover that this cultivation art is only the first half.】

Zhao Jin's heart lurched.

Surely not?

His father was also someone who coasted to victory lying down?

【Even so, it can still be cultivated all the way to the Dao Embryo Martial God Realm!】

Zhao Jin finally set his heart at ease.

The Dao Embryo Martial God was the highest realm currently attainable through cultivation.

Many Heaven Grade cultivation arts only reached that very realm.

For a mere half of a Sacred Grade cultivation art to reach that same realm was, to say the least, astonishing.

Moreover, at the same cultivation level, its power would absolutely surpass Heaven Grade arts.

Given that, Zhao Jin would naturally choose the Golden Crow World-Illuminating Scripture.

【Seeing that it can be cultivated up to the 6th Realm Dao Embryo, you set your heart at ease.】

【This is the one!】

【As for the second half, you may yet be able to obtain it through your fellow group members.】

【Even if you cannot, you can simply switch arts later.】

【After all, many Heaven Grade arts hit their ceiling at the Dao Embryo Realm—anyone seeking a breakthrough beyond that point must switch arts anyway.】

【You use the Group Scan Function to scan and save the contents of the gold foil, then place it back into the hidden compartment.】

【You are unsure whether this will escape your grandfather Zhao Shi-zhong's notice, but being cautious never hurts.】

【You begin cultivating the Golden Crow World-Illuminating Scripture in secret.】

【The Postnatal Realm is divided into 10 tiers—a process of tempering the sinew, bone, and flesh; refining essence into energy; and building up inner energy.】

【When a sense of energy arises in the cinnabar field, one has broken through into Postnatal Realm 1st-Tier.】

【In the past, your meridians were completely blocked due to the Shattered Heart Parasite poison, making it utterly impossible to generate any sense of energy.】

【Now, having barely circulated the Postnatal section of the Golden Crow World-Illuminating Scripture, you immediately produce a sense of energy.】

【It takes you only the time of a single incense stick to successfully step into Postnatal Realm 1st-Tier.】

【Of course, this is also thanks to your cultivation of the Marrow-Cleansing Scripture, which cleared all the meridians throughout your body.】

【Most people only have their major meridians unblocked.】

【But with your Marrow-Cleansing Scripture at the 3rd Layer Perfection Stage, with all your meridians open, inner energy is extremely easy to generate.】

【In terms of vital essence, you also have Born With Brute Strength and Extreme Yang Constitution, ensuring a continuous, unending supply.】

【In the Postnatal Realm, your progress is destined to be exceptionally swift!】

【Another hour passes, and the inner energy within your body grows to the size of a grain of rice.】

【You successfully step into Postnatal Realm 2nd-Tier!】

【In the process of refining essence into energy, your physical body is tempered and your strength sees a small increase.】

【By noon, the inner energy in your body reaches the size of a broad bean, and you successfully break through into Postnatal Realm 3rd-Tier!】

【In less than half a day, you have broken through 3 consecutive tiers.】

【Were this known to the outside world, one shudders to think how many people would be left speechless with shock.】

【Half a month later, Dian Cheng-feng procures for you a Earth Grade lower-tier fire-attribute cultivation art called the Blazing Sun Formula.】

【Your expression lights up with delight—for you, this makes for an excellent cover.】

【What Dian Cheng-feng does not know is that in just half a month, you have already stepped into Postnatal Realm 7th-Tier.】

【And this is without consuming a single pill.】

【Now that you have the Blazing Sun Formula, you can cultivate openly and without concealment.】

【Through Divine Physician Elder Chen, you purchase a large quantity of Vital Energy Pills to fuel your cultivation.】

【After that, in a mere 7 days, you break through into Postnatal Realm 9th-Tier!】

【You are only one step away from Postnatal Realm 10th-Tier.】

【By now, inner energy already permeates your entire body.】

【The inner energy in your cinnabar field alone is the size of an egg, and together with the inner energy flowing through your meridians, the total volume is no less than that of an ordinary cultivator at Postnatal Realm 10th-Tier.】

【Your physical strength has also reached the staggering level of ten thousand jin.】

【An ordinary martial artist who has just broken through into the Innate Realm only has a physical strength of seven to eight thousand jin.】

【Yet even at this point, the superiority of the Sacred Grade cultivation art has not yet manifested.】

【But at the 10th Tier, a watershed is reached.】

【The first 9 tiers, for the Golden Crow World-Illuminating Scripture, are merely a foundation-building process—the requirements are not particularly high.】

【But at the 10th Tier, all inner energy must be transformed into Golden Crow Inner Energy, whose quality is absolutely no inferior to that of ordinary Innate True Energy!】

【You begin converting the inner energy within your body.】

【An hour later, you consume a full 10 strands of ordinary inner energy to finally produce 1 strand of Golden Crow Inner Energy.】

【It possesses an extremely powerful incinerating quality—just a single strand is enough to scorch a small pit into the ground!】

【One shudders to imagine what it would do if it struck a person.】

【You continuously convert your inner energy, and throughout this process, your physical body is steadily reinforced.】

【Three days pass, and you finally convert all the inner energy within your body into Golden Crow Inner Energy.】

【At this point, though it is only the size of a broad bean, its destructive power is many times greater than before.】

【You successfully break through into Postnatal Realm 10th-Tier!】

【Your strength reaches twenty thousand jin!】

【From here, it is a matter of continuously expanding your Golden Crow Inner Energy until it reaches the maximum capacity you can currently hold, at which point you can charge toward the Innate Realm!】

【However, at this gateway, there is yet another stage—the Postnatal Peak Realm.】

【This is something recorded in the Golden Crow World-Illuminating Scripture, something you had never heard of before—that the Postnatal Realm still has a Peak Stage.】

【This Peak Stage involves reforging the cinnabar field, expanding its capacity tenfold.】

【The Postnatal Realm cinnabar field is extremely fragile, and you cannot fathom how it could be expanded tenfold.】

【The Golden Crow World-Illuminating Scripture records 1 method for this: drawing in a single strand of the Great Sun's Remnant Flame and fusing it into the cinnabar field to achieve the purpose of reforging it.】

【This Great Sun's Remnant Flame—you have never heard of it.】

【But just from its name alone, you can tell it is immeasurably perilous.】

【You open the Primordial Realm Group chat and begin asking around.】

【Zhao Jin: Fellow seniors, may I ask—what exactly is the Great Sun's Remnant Flame?】

【Before long, someone in the group replies.】

【Dong Wang: Child, this is a strange flame that has fallen from the Great Sun. It possesses an extremely devastating nature. If you have not reached the Manifestation Realm, you must absolutely not touch it carelessly.】

【Zhao Jin: ……】

The Manifestation Realm comes after the Mystic Core Realm—it is the 5th Realm, said to be that of a Mortal Martial Saint.

He was still a hundred thousand li away from the Manifestation Realm.

Could it really be that this thing was truly untouchable for now?

Then how was he supposed to break through into the Postnatal Peak Realm?

【Of course, the Golden Crow World-Illuminating Scripture does not strictly require you to break through the Peak Stage.】

【But without breaking through the Peak Stage, you cannot fully unleash the advantages of the Sacred Grade cultivation art.】

【Moreover, according to what the senior transmigrators in the group say, you are currently still in a minor backwater. If you don't break through the Peak Stage, how will you compete with the geniuses of the greater world in the future?】

【Zhao Jin: I need 1 strand of the Great Sun's Remnant Flame to break through the Postnatal Peak Realm. Fellow seniors in the group—can anyone think of a way?】

【Liu Kun (Group Leader): That thing—I can get it for you. But what will you offer in trade?】

【You lay out all the cultivation arts from Guardian King's Manor's library collection and ask whether they are enough.】

【If not, the Manor also holds a large collection of treasures.】

【These were all precious objects your grandfather had won through campaigns and battles across the land.】

【The old man was getting on in years—surely it couldn't be that he intended to take everything with him into the coffin.】

【You, as his only grandson, using a few things on his behalf was perfectly reasonable, was it not?】