Chapter 222

Murong Wan opened the Heavenly Spirit Aperture, you gained 50 times Murong Wan's harvest.

In the cultivation chamber, Murong Wan withstood the impact of Lu Xun's divine sense and in one go broke through the Heavenly Spirit Aperture.

The Heavenly Spirit Aperture is the first secret aperture of the ancestral aperture; when opened, a martial cultivator's spirit and will undergo a qualitative leap.

One can also gain some basic abilities, such as a clear and bright spirit platform, granting immunity to ordinary illusions, and sudden flashes of spiritual light, allowing one to anticipate danger.

Murong Wan opened the Purple Mansion Aperture...

Not long after, Murong Wan opened another secret aperture.

The Purple Mansion Aperture.

The Purple Mansion Aperture is located deep between the eyebrows, that is, three cun behind the Yintang point, overlapping the Niwan Palace.

Otherwise, how could one say that Immortal-Martial Dual Cultivation is heaven-defying?

Normally, an immortal cultivator must reach the Sixth Realm before breaking the elixir to form the infant, thereby opening the Purple Mansion in the Niwan Palace.

This is the Sixth Realm of immortal cultivation, the Purple Mansion Realm, or what is called the Nascent Soul Realm.

But a martial cultivator at the Third Realm can open the Purple Mansion Aperture.

The Purple Mansion Aperture and opening the Purple Mansion are still different; certainly it is not as mighty and comprehensive as opening the Purple Mansion.

However, after a martial cultivator at the Third Realm opens the Purple Mansion Aperture, if they practice Immortal-Martial Dual Cultivation and push the immortal Dao to the Sixth Realm to then open the Purple Mansion, the strength of the Purple Mansion will far exceed that of ordinary immortal cultivators.

Therefore, some immortal cultivators also wish to practice Immortal-Martial Dual Cultivation, but only cultivate martial arts up to the Third Realm.

However, without opening the martial meridians, this is very difficult.

Who can't think of it?

But when it comes to actually doing it, how many people can manage?

After opening two apertures in succession, Murong Wan continued to push upward.

Thereafter, she no longer needed Lu Xun's help.

At first, the effect of Lu Xun's divine sense was equivalent to applying pressure.

Compress a spring to its limit, and when it rebounds it will naturally be more fierce.

Over the next dozen or so hours, she successively broke open all twelve secret apertures of the ancestral aperture.

Murong Wan awakened the divine ability Three Heads Six Arms...

You obtained the Myriad Kalpas Battle Body (Complete).

After the ancestral aperture was opened, Lu Xun successfully awakened the complete version of the Myriad Kalpas Battle Body.

That is, an upgraded version of Three Heads Six Arms, namely Eight Heads Twelve Arms.

Of course, Eight Heads Twelve Arms is the state of greatest combat power for the Myriad Kalpas Battle Body.

If he feels it's not enough, Lu Xun can have the Heaven-Earth Dharma Form manifest more heads and arms.

Murong Wan awakened the Knowledge of Destiny, you gained 50 times Murong Wan's harvest.

You obtained Source·Knowledge of Destiny.

After opening the ancestral aperture, Murong Wan also awakened a divine ability.

Knowledge of Destiny.

Of course, Lu Xun himself actually awakened it as well, but the return from Murong Wan was more potent.

In fact, Lu Xun also awakened another divine ability, Knowing Others' Minds.

Knowing Others' Minds requires opening the Heart Aperture and the ancestral aperture before it can possibly awaken.

Its function is to sense others' mental states and changes, equivalent to telepathy.

If someone harbors malice toward you, even if they do not show it, Lu Xun can still feel it.

Even, one can hear others' inner voices.

This depends on one's strength; if the opponent is too strong, it is naturally difficult to hear.

"Knowledge of Destiny..."

This ability, as the name suggests, is related to fate and destiny.

At the Third Realm, it is actually rather ordinary.

A mere Third Realm cultivator actually wants to probe fate?

What are they thinking?

But this divine ability, like the Heavenly Eye, only truly shows great use when one's cultivation becomes powerful.

"Good, after awakening the Knowledge of Destiny, when you undergo the tribulation, your chance will increase by thirty percent!"

Upon learning that Murong Wan had awakened the Knowledge of Destiny, Fu Yue was quite pleased.

In her view as a powerful expert, many divine abilities that Third and Fourth Realm cultivators consider useless actually have great utility.

For example, the Heavenly Eye and Knowledge of Destiny, which in the early stage do not greatly boost combat power.

Thus far,

Murong Wan opened all the secret apertures.

In one go she reached the peak of the Third Realm.

Next, it is to assault the Fourth Realm.

"In the Third Realm, there's no such thing as breaking limits, right?"

Lu Xun thought.

Each realm of martial cultivation is different.

The First and Second Realms of martial cultivation can both break limits.

But the Third Realm is different, because the Third Realm is about opening apertures.

Therefore, even with a fiftyfold return, it did not let Lu Xun creep upward; instead, it made the effect of opening apertures fifty times better than Murong Wan's.

In the third realm, Lu Xun and Murong Wan's realms maintained absolute consistency.

Therefore, there should be no talk of breaking limits in the third realm.

According to Lu Xun's understanding, for a third-realm martial practitioner to break through to the fourth realm, the first thing to do is to comprehend true intent.

This needs to be achieved through martial techniques.

By repeatedly practicing a martial technique to a profound level, one can comprehend true intent.

Comprehending true intent is the first step.

After this step, the second step is to officially break through to the fourth realm.

Using true intent to forcibly temper one's Qi sea, giving birth to vigorous qi, allows one to become a fourth-realm grandmaster.

For Murong Wan, it's actually not difficult.

Generally speaking, for martial techniques of earth rank or higher, training to third rank or higher enables comprehension of true intent.

Lu Xun achieved this through the system's returns; when Lu Xun was still in the third realm, the system's returns were not mainly true intent but continually made his martial techniques stronger.

Only when his martial techniques could no longer be made stronger did he have to return true intent.

After all, it's impossible not to return, right?

Murong Wan doesn't need to do that.

Like the Myriad Tribulations Formless Sword that Lu Xun taught her, if she trains it up one more rank, she has a chance to comprehend true intent.

True intent is something one comprehends on one's own.

However, Lu Xun obtained it through cheating.

For example, the Rushing Thunder Palm that Murong Wan learned is also an earth-rank martial technique, currently only up to fifth rank.

Murong Wan being able to train it to above third rank also gives her a chance to comprehend true intent.

It all depends on her.

"Why not teach her again?"

Lu Xun has been with Fu Xue for the past couple of months, but each time he returns, he spends some intimate time with Murong Wan.

He still hasn't had time to teach Murong Wan sword practice.

If Lu Xun were to teach her, Murong Wan's progress would be much faster.

However, Fu Xue still promised to take him to the last Spirit Realm; when he returns, it won't be late.

"The Insect Realm has been found; I will go to campaign in the Insect Realm. Will you go?"

At that moment, he suddenly received a message from Fu Xue.

Insect Realm?

Does this refer to the Spirit Realm occupied by the Insect race?

"Just right."

Lu Xun actually thought it was just right.

He could bring Murong Wan along to wage a great battle in the Insect Realm.

"Teacher, I'll go too."

Lu Xun hurriedly replied to the message.

"Little Wan, I've found the Insect Realm; I'm preparing to campaign there. Come with me, don't worry, I'll protect you."

At that moment, Fu Yue sent an invitation to Murong Wan.

"She also wants to go to the Insect Realm?"

Lu Xun couldn't help but look at Fu Yue.

"Lu Xun, you can also go; the Insect Realm's nests contain much life source essence. If obtained, it can greatly extend lifespan, and this is also an opportunity to earn military merit."

Fu Yue smiled slightly at Lu Xun.

"Mm, I am preparing to go, Teacher Fu Yue."

Lu Xun said.

"Okay, Teacher."

Seeing this, Murong Wan agreed.

"So many people want to go?"

After Lu Xun and the others left the training chamber, they discovered a large number of cultivators appearing on the South Heaven Gate.

These cultivators appeared to be preparing to campaign in the Insect Realm.

Campaigning in the Insect Realm not only yields life source essence, but most importantly completely eliminates the Insect race's threat.

Otherwise, the wormhole will remain stuck to Lan Xing, and Lan Xing will never be able to enter the dark universe.

Don't look at the Insect race's attack weakening now; who knows when a fierce wave might come.

Only by thoroughly resolving the Insect race's threat will it work.

"Liu Xinghe?"

At that moment, Lu Xun saw an acquaintance.

Liu Xinghe.

He was together with Liu Changfeng and a group of people.

"This guy... broke through to the fourth realm????"

What surprised Lu Xun especially was that Liu Xinghe broke through to the fourth realm before Murong Wan did.

Great fellow!

The Stellar Saint Body excels in combat power, not cultivation speed, yet it's this fast.

The Ancient Road Node provides too much boost to the Stellar Saint Body.

Several thousand stars are densely packed together, using their stellar power, Liu Xinghe's cultivation speed is actually faster than Murong Wan's.

It's even much faster.

This is equivalent to giving Liu Xinghe an artificial cheat.

Furthermore, the Liu family lacks no resources, so Liu Xinghe manages to get ahead of Murong Wan.

A freshman Fourth Realm!

This is almost impossible under normal circumstances.

But in the Ancient Road Node, it is possible.

There won't be only one student like Liu Xinghe.

When Lu Xun saw Liu Xinghe, Liu Xinghe also saw him.

In front of other cultivators, he, who is usually calm, couldn't help but lift his head high, a trace of pride appearing in his expression.

As if saying, 'Look, I'm going to catch up to you.'

Heh.

Lu Xun is very composed.

Just the Fourth Realm.

I don't even know how many Fifth Realm cultivators he has killed.