Chapter 333 - 129: Super Grade

Chapter 333: Chapter 129: Super Grade

[Tribulation Points: 59876]

[Cultivation Techniques: ??? (+), Primordial Scripture (Volume 2) (+)]

"For the past ten-plus years, I’ve been cultivating my character and living a quiet life, so my Tribulation Points have grown much more slowly. Even now, I only have close to sixty thousand."

"But it’s not all bad. What I lost on the swings, I gained on the roundabouts. My new Martial Arts technique has finally borne fruit."

"Building upon the foundation of the Nourishing Body Skill, I have painstakingly forged a new path. After years of deduction, I’ve created a new technique that surpasses the Martial Arts First Grade. The system panel has now registered it, and a ’+’ has appeared!"

This meant that Fang Rui could now use his Tribulation Points to forcibly upgrade it.

"The New Technique is complete! This is a new road, different from the ’Seed Path.’ I am the only one in the world to walk it!"

Even if such an achievement wasn’t enough to earn him the title ’Martial Ancestor,’ it was comparable to being Mencius after Confucius—a figure destined to be written into the annals of history with great fanfare.

"I came to this world, starting in Changshan County. I stepped onto the path of Martial Arts with the Nourishing Body Skill, and I’ve walked it all the way to today. This cultivation technique will accompany me on my long road to longevity."

"Why don’t I call it the Longevity Scripture!"

At Fang Rui’s thought, the Cultivation Technique section on the panel rippled like water. The three question marks dissolved into a swirl and were replaced by the words "Longevity Scripture."

"Well, it’s time to break through to the Super Grade. But doing it inside Shangluo City is absolutely out of the question."

Fang Rui didn’t know if there would be any strange phenomena when breaking through to the Super Grade. If he attracted the attention of the city’s powerful figures, it would be troublesome.

He had no intention of making a grand public display and getting into a huge fight right after his breakthrough.

A wild sky presages a storm; a wild man invites disaster.

"There are still a few experts with Super Grade combat power in Shangluo City. Besides, even if I wanted to fight, I wouldn’t choose to do it on their home turf, within the Domain of the Chaos Four Symbols Banner!"

"Then I’ll just go outside the city! As it happens, it’s been a month or two since I went to beat up that pair of Flowing Cloud Cyan Simurghs."

...

"SCREEE!"

Fang Rui, robed in white that was purer than snow, soared through the sky on a Flowing Cloud Cyan Simurgh. Beside him, another Flowing Cloud Cyan Simurgh flew in tandem, a streak of crimson cloud.

At this moment, the pair of Flowing Cloud Cyan Simurghs were exceptionally docile—couldn’t be more obedient, really. They had clearly just received a harsh lesson from the school of hard knocks.

When Fang Rui first subdued them, the two birds hadn’t even reached the Upper Three Grades, but their flight speed surpassed that of typical Upper Three Grades Exotic Beasts.

Over the years, the pair of Flowing Cloud Cyan Simurghs had grown on their own. In addition, Fang Rui would come to feed them Exotic Fruits, and being left to roam free, they may have even had some small fortuitous encounters...

This time he came, he found they had actually broken through to the Upper Three Grades!

However, this had also given the pair of Flowing Cloud Cyan Simurghs a huge confidence boost. They dreamed of turning the tables, of becoming the masters, of wiping away the previous humiliation of being mounts and turning the tables on a certain bipedal beast...

And then, they were beaten into submission.

It just went to show: your master is still your master. Breaking through to the Upper Three Grades wasn’t going to change that.

"Alright, this place will do. Go down!"

Fang Rui chose a remote cliff valley in the Two Realms Mountain, hidden from view. There, he selected a cave and blocked the entrance with a giant boulder.

He then had the pair of Flowing Cloud Cyan Simurghs circle outside to stand guard before finally preparing to make his breakthrough.

"It’s been almost fifteen years since I broke through to the First Grade. It feels like the blink of an eye!"

Fang Rui sighed, filled with emotion. "Today, I will finally break through the peak of Martial Arts First Grade and reach the realm of the Super Grade!"

"Then... let’s begin!"

He closed his eyes and focused, his consciousness sinking into the system panel as he mentally pressed the ’+’ after the "Longevity Scripture."

BOOM!

On the panel, 50,000 Tribulation Points vanished like a receding tide. In their place, a phantom vortex materialized, pouring a torrential, cooling stream of energy out of the void.

Such a phenomenon was completely unprecedented in all his previous breakthroughs!

As the roiling, cool energy stream submerged him, Fang Rui focused his mind and entered a trance-like state. His thoughts accelerated infinitely, breaking through some unknown limit.

The essentials of the Nourishing Body Skill, from the Ninth Grade to the First Grade, flowed swiftly through his mind. Then, seamlessly, it connected to the part that surpassed the Martial Arts First Grade.

This cultivation technique, developed through more than ten years of inference, already possessed a complete framework, meticulous logic, and a viable theory. It had met the panel’s minimum requirements.

At this moment, in this state of Enlightenment, it was as if Fang Rui was using a cheat code. His thoughts moved at the speed of a legendary Divine Spirit, and infinite insights arose, allowing him to further perfect the Longevity Scripture.

It was like flesh being added to a skeleton, transforming the Longevity Scripture into a truly mature cultivation technique, which began to circulate rapidly within his body.

BUZZ! BUZZ! BUZZ!

Golden halos bloomed one after another behind Fang Rui’s head as his entire body levitated, assuming a cross-legged position in midair.

WHOOSH!

The Extraordinary Network constructed within his body manifested on its own. Bright Gang Essence coursed through it, surging and churning, before finally converging in his Lower Dantian, where it roiled like boiling water.

’Open!’

With a sudden thought, Fang Rui’s Divine Thought formed a Spiritual Power Seed and sent it sinking down into his Lower Dantian.

BOOM!

Like a spark igniting a cylinder, the rampaging Gang Essence erupted in an instant. It collided with the surging, cool stream of energy, transforming into a new, higher-level Extraordinary Energy—one that was agile and as clear as flowing water.

If Gang Essence was considered to be in a substantial state, but unpolished and coarse like a half-finished product with burrs...

...then this new Extraordinary Energy was a completed work of art: agile, flawless, smooth, and condensed. It could be called ’Spiritual Essence’!

And at that very moment—

A moment of inspiration struck Fang Rui. Inside his Lower Dantian, the newly generated Spiritual Essence churned and transformed into a vast ocean.

Simultaneously, the Extraordinary Network outside his body mirrored this change. At the location of his Lower Dantian, a hazy ocean of Spiritual Essence also formed. Then, outside the meridian-like Extraordinary Network, ’Energy Flesh and Blood’ began to evolve, creating a Martial Arts Saint Body.