Chapter 370: Say a Number, Ten Out of Ten!

"Second True Gang... It is not easy to condense. If you don't handle it well, the True Gang will shatter, all your efforts will be wasted, and your foundation will be damaged." Yang Dongxiong put down his teacup, "How many chances of success do you have?"

Liang Qu composed himself and looked serious.

"The disciple thinks it is no less than ten out of ten!"

"Ten out of ten?"

Yang Dongxiong raised his eyebrows. He knew that Liang Qu was the most outstanding among all his disciples, talented, and pragmatic and dutiful in his conduct.

He had expected to hear an answer of six or seven out of ten, but never expected such confidence.

"I ask you, which ten out of ten?"

"Three out of ten from the martial arts, two out of ten from the martial bones, and two out of ten from the Green Dragon Killing Scripture!"

"The sum of the three is no more than seven out of ten. Where does the ten out of ten come from?"

"With those seven out of ten, add one part of the disciple's fate and luck, and that makes eight out of ten! As the saying goes, eight or nine out of ten, isn't that ten out of ten?"

Liang Qu spoke with certainty. Standing to the side, the maid who was serving tea and water was stunned, casting a glance at the center of the hall.

The Ninth Young Master had been hanging out with the Fourth Young Master for too long; he was too unreliable.

In such a major matter, how could he use the saying "eight or nine out of ten"?

He had expected Master Yang to reprimand him, but Yang Dongxiong laughed three times and did not stint on praise.

"What a good 'eight or nine out of ten'! With this mindset, it should be ten out of ten! You are not yet twenty, you have plenty of capital, go ahead and try!"

The maid was numb.

If it were any other matter, Yang Dongxiong would definitely reprimand Liang Qu for being unreliable, but for breaking through to Wolf Smoke, one should indeed have a forward-moving momentum!

The Wolf Smoke realm is completely different from the Four Gates and Galloping Horse realms.

The Four Gates are actually five gates: skin, flesh, bone, blood, and internal organs.

The Galloping Horse realm has nine apertures, three fields, three passes, and three apertures.

The two major realms both belong to inward seeking, tempering the foundation, and strengthening the physique.

There is not much difference between people.

But when it comes to Wolf Smoke, it is completely different.

It is no longer a simple inward seeking, swallowing precious medicine, great elixirs, and water-grinding accumulation, but reflecting the outside inward!

Skin, flesh, bone, blood, organs, and nine apertures all belong to the body itself.

Breaking through Wolf Smoke requires visualization, condensing meridians, forming meridians, and then connecting meridians to build bridges, constructing the tangible from the intangible, and forming an inner world!

For such a breakthrough, there is nothing else.

Seven parts strength, three parts momentum!

If the momentum is leaked before the matter is accomplished, one has already lost half!

Therefore, Yang Dongxiong greatly praised Liang Qu's current "recklessness."

The foundation is solid, the momentum is sufficient, and success will come naturally.

Liang Qu's confidence also came from this.

According to his personal understanding, martial arts cultivation, starting from the Wolf Smoke realm, gradually shifts from "objective" to "subjective."

Great Martial Artists kill with their eyes, staring at people until their livers and gallbladders are shattered and they die.

Grandmasters leave charm in their writing, inspiring later generations and leaving legacies for their descendants.

Martial Saints' will persists; their bodies die but their spirits do not, "leaving disasters" for a hundred years.

All these kinds of things are quite "subjectively idealistic."

The Wolf Smoke Realm is a relatively obvious connecting link and transitional stage in the process of developing toward the higher realms.

It is precisely because of this transformation that once one enters Wolf Smoke, the martial artist's inner energy, blood energy, strength... will all undergo a very huge transformation.

Placing them anywhere, they can become the master of a small force, and their living environment will be completely different.

Therefore, there has always been the title of Wolf Smoke Expert; others dare not look down on them in the slightest, as they are the pillars of the human world!

Those who can enter this realm before the age of twenty-five are all people with extraordinary talent or wealthy family backgrounds, worthy of the word "genius"!

And the most important thing in the transformation from an ordinary landlord master to the master of a small force is undoubtedly the True Gang!

True Gang entering the body is the iconic realm product after a Galloping Horse breaks through to Wolf Smoke, and it is also an important component of a Wolf Smoke Martial Artist's strength.

Liang Qu believes that True Gang can be called a bankrupt version of "Law of Heaven and Earth."

It is not as exaggerated as the great supernatural power of "Law of Heaven and Earth," imitating heaven, mimicking earth, as tall as heaven, as wide as earth, able to be as tall as heaven and earth, but it can also greatly enhance one's own body.

The Tiger-form True Gang of Cheng Chong, the Third Master of the Shahe Gang, was a *zhang* high. Suspected of not having a strong heart of resistance, he relied solely on fist and foot kung fu plus True Gang to beat a group of formation practitioners, Galloping Horse upper-stage, and extreme-realm experts until they suffered internal injuries and cried for their fathers and mothers.

Liang Qu exerted all his strength and used the Fubo divine weapon to sneak attack at a critical moment to succeed in defeating him; otherwise, he would not have been able to take him down and obtain the great merit of capturing the thief.

Without weapons, only one realm higher, the gap was so large, which is evident.

When True Gang appears, the petty people will naturally be scared out of their wits and flee a thousand miles away.

The importance is much higher than breaking through from Four Gates to Galloping Horse, using spiritual energy to open several apertures, and saving several years of hard work.

If you can't open the apertures, you just waste a few years; if you don't condense the True Gang well, you almost have no chance to change it.

As for the formation of the True Gang, it is inseparable from martial arts.

Intermediate martial arts require condensing true intent to bear fruit.

Advanced martial arts, step by step, have a high probability of cultivating the corresponding True Gang without true intent.

Different martial arts cultivation leads to naturally thousands of forms of True Gang.

Hawks, Peng demons, fierce tigers, gods, and even divine spears, divine swords, clouds, streams!

The higher the quality, the stronger the bankrupt version of "Law of Heaven and Earth."

However, the world is full of wonders.

The world is vast, with capable people emerging in large numbers, and many strange people and things.

When quality reaches the top, then increase the quantity.

Having one True Gang does not mean one cannot derive a second True Gang!

The so-called second True Gang is like condensing a human form, then gathering a long spear, using the human gang to hold the weapon gang, complementing each other!

The effect is by no means as simple as one plus one.

However, condensing one advanced True Gang is extremely difficult, and two is even more difficult, harder than breaking through Galloping Horse and opening three apertures!

Fortunately, "Wansheng Baoyuan" has a way!

Master Yang passed down this method, and apart from prolonging life, it has its own wonderful methods.

Its third layer, the "Storing Spirit" realm, has huge help for condensing meridians and condensing True Gang!

In the three parts of the martial arts, the "Dragon-Subduing Tiger-Felling Diamond Skill" only accounts for half a part, while the "Wansheng Baoyuan" entering the "Storing Spirit" realm accounts for two and a half parts!

Storing Spirit, also known as Thinking Spirit.

As the name suggests, storing and thinking about various "gods" in the human body and between heaven and earth.

By storing and thinking about the appearance, activity state, etc., of a certain object or god in inner observation, one hopes to achieve the result of concentrating thoughts, removing distracting thoughts, and imitating power.

The objects of storing and thinking are very wide, including storing and thinking about celestial phenomena: sun, moon, five stars, clouds and mist.

Scenery: energy, water, fire.

And even strong people seen before: Yang Dongxiong, old monk.

Through Storing Spirit, the practitioner temporarily leans toward them, doubling their power.

It is quite like inviting a great god, exploding power by inviting the "god" to possess the body.

It's just that Storing Spirit does not need the "god" to agree to possess the body; just by observing a few points of power, one can store the "god" in the heart.

It belongs to a kind of alternative overdraft method, but the side effects are very small—weakness and lethargy for several days.

It does not hurt the body, does not hurt the brain, and does not shorten life.

The cost-performance ratio is high.

The purpose of "Wansheng Baoyuan" is to prolong life, and even the overdraft method inside is quite "restrained."

Such storing and thinking methods obviously have the same effect as Wolf Smoke condensing meridians and gathering True Gang.

Therefore, Liang Qu had long planned to pave the way and enhance his own foundation.

With Storing Spirit as the foundation, the difficulty of condensing True Gang is greatly reduced.

And cultivating the second True Gang is harder than opening three apertures, but not harder than opening four apertures.

If he can open four apertures, can he not cultivate the second True Gang?

Ten out of ten! ===== CHAPTER 371 =====