Chapter 145: Chapter 130: Ants Ascend, The Arrival with a Flourish Chapter 145: Chapter 130: Ants Ascend, The Arrival with a Flourish “Brother Sanbian, am I… am I really not cut out for martial arts training?”
“Yes.”
“I…”
“I wasn’t either.”
“What?”
“Just like you, I also wasn’t naturally suited for martial arts.”
“Stop trying to comfort . Before you turned sixty years old, you were already a Sixth Grade Martial Artist, just one step away from a being comparable to one possessing a Golden Core. This kind of comfort only makes feel worse.”
“I’m not comforting you. You are not naturally suited for martial arts, and neither am I. In the entire Xuanhuang Human Clan, there isn’t a single person who is naturally suited for martial arts.
Whether it’s the Kunpeng Martial Artist standing on the summit of the mountain now or the ancient man who, by force, proved the Dao and vied for the title of Great Emperor thousands of years ago, or even those from the future who could shatter the Heavenly Dao and peak the Martial Path on their own.”
All are the sa.”
“……”
“Kunpeng, Kui Dragon, Demon Ape, Red Moth, Xuan Bird…
These ancient and wild exotic clans are the true natural-born martial artists.
From their birth, they were favored by the Heavenly Dao, with mighty physiques and vast vital energies. The starting point for most of their existences is what countless of our Human Clan Martial Artists tirelessly pursue as their ultimate goal.”
“But.”
“The supre Martial Path of the Xuanhuang Realm was forged by our human ancestors.”
“With their delicate and tiny frail bodies, like the tiniest insects, they took on heavy burdens to climb mountains, cutting through thorns and underbrush, throwing punch after punch until they opened up the summit of the Martial Path. In the end, they transford from ants into Martial Artists who could challenge the heavens with their fists!
In that era when Emperors were born and Saints erged one after another, an exceedingly brilliant generation rose like a vast array of stars.
Those Martial Artist predecessors tore apart the savage beasts of chaos, fought against powerful beings of different clans, and subdued thousands of miles of rivers and mountains with their fists.
They, along with Emperor Xuan and many other forefathers, drove out the myriad ancient clans and suppressed the rebellious Ancient Demons, leading the Xuanhuang Human Clan to the apex.”
“Zhao Rong, you are not naturally suited for martial arts, and perhaps you’ll not choose the path of a Martial Artist after the Ascending Fu Yao Realm; but no matter which Great Dao you walk, I hope you can be like those ancient predecessors, weak and small like the insect in ‘Mountain Carrying Volu,’ coveting height and walking increasingly under heavy burdens until you carry mountains, yet never stopping your footsteps.”
“……”
The fire was stoked with more wood, and the orange flas burnt quietly.
Liu Sanbian took a sip of alcohol, “I’m not well-read, these are just so simple truths I’ve realized over the years of training in fist stances. If you think…”
Zhao Rong, who had been staring at the flas, suddenly looked up and said with a smile, “Brother Sanbian, I understand.”
Seeing this, Liu Sanbian exhaled lightly and also smiled.
He tossed the bottle to Zhao Rong, “Feeling tired lately?”
Zhao Rong’s hand, as he caught the wine jug, couldn’t stop trembling. He took a sip and said, “It’s manageable.”
Liu Sanbian joked, “Looks like your bones have toughened up a bit. I’ll try tapping them again tomorrow.”
Zhao Rong’s hand jerked, and he spilled so of the wine.
Liu Sanbian burst into laughter.
Zhao Rong shrugged his shoulder, opened his hand, looked at his palm, and squinted, saying:
“Brother Sanbian, about that ‘Shaking off Dust’ you ntioned this evening, I still don’t quite understand. How do I know when I’ve reached that stage, and that I’m ready to break through? Is there a sign?”
Liu Sanbian swept his hand, and the blaze in front of him suddenly dipped.
“Don’t deliberately seek it out, and don’t think too much about it. As you practice, when the mont cos, you will naturally sense that you can cross that threshold.”
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Du You City.
Outside the thousand-foot city gate of West City.
In a room on the second floor of a certain inn.
Zhao Rong sat with his eyes closed.
He was wearing a white undergarnt.
Sitting in ditation, surrounded by incense smoke that made the place seem like an Immortal Realm.
His body was like a black hole. Once any wisp of green smoke ca within half a foot of him, it would be attracted by an inexplicable force.
And absorbed into his body.
In his closed-eyed ditation, Zhao Rong’s brow furrowed slightly.
The words of Liu Sanbian once again echoed in his ears.
“Those who ascend to heaven have two fundantals: one is to be ‘Clear Void,’ and the other to ‘Shake off Dust.’
Only when ‘Clear Void’ can there be no obstructions, and with ‘Shake off Dust,’ there are no hindrances.
With the driving force of vitality and blood, the body becos as hard as Golden Stone, internally unobstructed, externally unhindered. Only then can you enter into a state of ditation and exit from it freely.”
Knowing this, the foundations for advancing through the Fu Yao Realm are thus laid.
“What is referred to as the Clear Void Stage involves washing the marrow, and the shaking of the clothes refers to the changing of tendons,” he said.
This is the overall direction for Ascending Realm.
First the Golden Stone, then the Clear Void Stage, and finally, shaking the clothes, with no obstructions or hindrances, one can enter and exit ditation.
Laying the foundations for the Great Dao, advancing into the Fu Yao Realm.
Zhao Rong now felt the threshold of breaking through from the Clear Void Stage to the shaking of the clothes stage.
“To wash the marrow is to purify the inside, while to change the tendons is to strengthen the outside. If one can be clear and quiet inside and solid outside, Fu Yao would be as easy as flipping one’s hand, with no worries of not achieving it,” he said.
The Clear Void Stage is for washing the marrow, and the stage of shaking the clothes is for changing the tendons.
Moreover, according to the Ant Ascending Heaven Technique,
the specific thod for washing marrow during the Clear Void Stage is to guide the body’s Innate Primordial Qi to flow through a special path within the ridians and finally rush through the Ren and Du ridians in the Eight Extraordinary ridians.
That’s right, it’s those legendary Ren and Du ridians that once opened, can transform an ordinary person into an extraordinary master.
Zhao Rong was very familiar with this, as he had often heard of it before.
However, Zhao Rong now knew that opening the Ren and Du ridians was not as exaggerated as the rumors he had heard before. It was rely the ability to circulate the small Circulation after opening.
This was also the bottleneck for entering the shaking of the clothes stage from the Clear Void Stage of the Ascending Realm.
Once the Ren and Du ridians are opened and the small Circulation can be run, one then enters the stage of shaking the clothes.
As for the task of the stage of shaking the clothes, it is to complete the Grand Circulation…
Zhao Rong’s mind gradually fell into a wondrous state.
He felt as though his soul had left his body.
However, it was not a complete separation, but more of a state between being ready to leave and not yet leaving.
Using this special state, he was able to vaguely introspectively see his body’s ridians.
The Eight Extraordinary ridians, the Twelve ridians.
They seed to be right before his eyes.
At this mont, a restless red snake was freely flowing non-stop within his body.
This was… Innate Primordial Qi.
Zhao Rong’s mind stirred.
He silently recited the spell and practiced the Ant Ascending Heaven Technique.
Although the red snake naturally flowed, he could not make it stop.
But suddenly, he discovered he could guide its direction to so extent.
Zhao Rong rejoiced, held his breath and concentrated, controlling it according to the marrow washing path of the Ant Ascending Heaven Technique.
For a mont, his consciousness plunged in…
“…The concept of washing marrow ans that a person, affected by emotions and desires, falls into a corporeal form, and their organs and limbs are stained with impurities. One must wash and purify thoroughly, without the slightest flaw, in order to step through the door to transcendence. Without this, there is no foundation for advancing on the path…”
No lights were on inside the room, and the window was tightly shut.
Pitch darkness enveloped the space.
The sound of insects ca from outside the window.
The night deepened.
In the smoky interior, a young man was sitting cross-legged. His face was flushed, dripping with sweat, and his exposed skin was similarly afire.
It was as if he had been roasted by red-hot charcoal.
Zhao Rong’s brow knitted unconsciously.
A few monts before, he had already opened the Ren ridian.
Currently, he was straining to guide the red snake to strike the last of the Du ridian.
His brows grew more furrowed.
At that mont.
Zhao Rong suddenly opened his eyes.
He had a feeling.
In an instant, he rose lightly and struck an ancient Fist Stance.
His body shook.
The Du ridian, opened!
The shaking of the clothes had arrived.
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