Chapter 25: The Crimson Sun and Purple Mist Technique
You have infused ten strands of Mortal Aura into the Red Sun Divine Art.
The Red Sun Divine Art is a method of cultivation characterized by utmost strength and blazing yang energy. It produces Red Sun True Qi, which is invincible—it shatters all obstacles, resists blades and arrows, is impervious to water and fire, immune to poison, and untouched by material transformations.
In the first year, you cultivate the Red Sun Divine Art with a calm mind, dedicating five hours each day to its practice. The proficiency of the Red Sun Divine Art grows swiftly.
After one year, your Red Sun Divine Art advances to the Minor Accomplishment realm.
In the second year, you focus your efforts, and your Red Sun True Qi becomes increasingly refined. Your martial cultivation, blood, flesh, bones, and meridians have already stepped into the Innate realm, making your practice of the Red Sun Divine Art doubly efficient.
Your Red Sun Divine Art rises to the Major Accomplishment realm.
In the third year, as you continue your cultivation, a conflict arises between Red Sun True Qi and Purple Mist True Qi. Your blood feels as if it is boiling, your meridians ache sharply, and you nearly succumb to inner demons.
At the critical moment, spiritual energy hidden within your flesh and meridians spontaneously repairs your body, allowing the two distinct True Qis to coexist within, assimilated by the spiritual energy.
In the fourth year, under the influence of spiritual energy, Red Sun True Qi flourishes and becomes even more pure.
Your Red Sun Divine Art reaches Perfection.
In the fifth year, spiritual energy again propels Red Sun True Qi forward, elevating it to a new realm.
Your Red Sun Divine Art attains the state of Mastery.
Your martial cultivation advances once more, but remains at the Innate realm.
In the sixth year, your martial cultivation advances again, yet still stays within the Innate realm.
In the seventh year, you begin experimenting with combining the Red Sun Divine Art and Purple Mist Art, successfully merging them with the aid of spiritual energy.
In the eighth year, the new internal cultivation method continues to produce strong yang True Qi, now imbued with highly active attributes. Your control becomes more refined and exhilarating, your flesh, physique, and meridians grow robust, and you gain the benefit of longevity.
Lifespan +20.
In the ninth year, you persist in cultivating the new internal method. Your martial realm improves again, but you still cannot break through the Innate realm.
In the tenth year, you continue refining the new internal cultivation method. Your martial realm advances again, but the boundary of the Innate realm remains unbroken.
His lifespan has increased by another twenty years, and now, even without the augmentation of Mortal Aura, his life expectancy astonishingly reaches 150 years!
With a thought, Zheng Yi withdraws from his sea of consciousness.
In an instant, he feels a surge of scorching energy spreading through his limbs and bones, circulating swiftly throughout his body.
Especially at the vital acupoint, the heat and hardness seem to possess boundless energy, flooding his body and then merging at his dantian.
Almost simultaneously, the familiar Purple Mist True Qi emerges within his dantian.
At first, the two coexist peacefully, but as the Red Sun True Qi grows, they begin to repel each other.
He can feel a chilling, piercing pain throughout his meridians.
But this sensation lasts only an instant, vanishing as quickly as it appeared.
Immediately, a completely different aura arises within him, suppressing both the Red Sun and Purple Mist True Qis, and under its influence, the two merge.
Ultimately, Red Sun True Qi and Purple Mist True Qi unite, becoming warm and active, circulating from the dantian to every limb and meridian.
His entire being, his every meridian, seems transformed into a river sharing the same origin—unceasing and full of life.
This is the new internal energy and True Qi derived from the fusion of the Red Sun Divine Art and Purple Mist Art!
After an unknown length of time, Zheng Yi slowly opens his eyes, a sharp gleam flashing in them.
Cultivating martial arts with Mortal Aura has proven effective.
Red Sun True Qi and Purple Mist True Qi have fused, ultimately forming a new True Qi.
He names this new energy... Purple Sun True Qi.
Though it has not yet reached the level of spiritual energy, it undoubtedly points him in the right direction.
Especially since his body, nourished by spiritual energy, had long achieved the Innate realm.
This explains why the Red Sun Divine Art reached Mastery in only ten years—or rather, in just five years.
The remaining five years were spent merging Red Sun Divine Art and Purple Mist Divine Art.
Yet...
Under the influence of spiritual energy, the new method was practiced for three consecutive years, but his martial cultivation still remained at the Innate realm, with no growth.
Why is this?
Is the Innate realm the highest achievable in martial cultivation?
No!
Zheng Yi shakes his head, recalling the records from the Former Jin.
The overseas nation, Yuanwu, possesses martial artists who surpass the Innate realm.
Otherwise, the Supreme Profound Sword Qi would never have been created.
Cultivating the first six layers can reach the Innate realm.
The subsequent methods allow one to break through the Innate realm and reach new heights!
Perhaps because his body had already entered the Innate realm and was nourished by spiritual energy, this breakthrough produced no impurities—his body remained as pure and refreshed as ever.
“A new internal cultivation method…”
Zheng Yi’s consciousness returns to the sea of mind, gazing at the Mortal Aura Compendium floating in the midst of chaos. He immediately makes a decision.
“The new internal cultivation method shall be named Red Sun Purple Mist Art.”
As soon as he speaks, the personal attribute panel on the Mortal Aura Compendium changes.
Red Sun Divine Art and Purple Mist Art vanish, replaced by Red Sun Purple Mist Art.
Even his lifespan entry shifts from 61/130 to 61/150.
He exhales softly, withdraws from the Mortal Aura Compendium, sits cross-legged, and adjusts his state and calms his mind.
Quickly, he enters a realm where self and the world are forgotten.
After dining and resting, once his state has returned to normal, Zheng Yi once again enters the meditation chamber.
Today, he will cultivate the Supreme Profound Sword Qi!
Opening the copied manual of Supreme Profound Sword Qi, Zheng Yi’s consciousness quickly sinks into it.
Unlike other internal cultivation methods, Supreme Profound Sword Qi is a sword technique, with few passages of internal method.
Of the copied manual, only one-fifth is internal cultivation; the remainder consists of dozens of pages depicting human figures with meridian diagrams.
On these vivid illustrations, the flow of internal energy through different acupoints and meridians is shown for each realm, transforming one’s energy into sword Qi with lethal sharpness!
By employing various moves and methods, the sword Qi can be projected outward, its power extremely domineering.
It can be said that Supreme Profound Sword Qi is at once an internal method, a sword technique, and a formidable art of destruction.
Most importantly, this sword art hails from Yuanwu—a nation renowned for martial artists beyond the Innate realm.
The Supreme Profound Sword Qi passed down from there must possess the effects Zheng Yi anticipates.
With his martial cultivation at the Innate realm, Zheng Yi needs only three days to gain preliminary mastery of Supreme Profound Sword Qi, transforming his internal energy into a strand of sword Qi imbued with fierce yang energy.
On the Mortal Aura Compendium, a prompt appears indicating entry-level mastery of Supreme Profound Sword Qi.
He glances at his Mortal Aura—215 strands remain.
His eyes flicker as he makes up his mind.
“Consume 100 points of Mortal Aura and infuse it into Supreme Profound Sword Qi!”
A hundred years—he refuses to believe he cannot break through Supreme Profound Sword Qi and the limits of the Innate realm!