Chapter 100: Entry

For seven days, Su Xing did not waste a single moment, maintaining at least sixteen hours of physical tempering and martial arts practice daily, with two-thirds of the time dedicated to physical tempering and one-third to Wu Gong.

As Su Xing's strength grew, especially after his Wu Gong reached the Jin Dan stage, his understanding of the Wu Gong system deepened, and his grasp of fist theory, Qi Jin, blood-Qi, and human meridians reached the level of a Grandmaster.

A so-called Grandmaster is someone capable of carrying on the past and opening up the future, developing a path best suited to their own characteristics within the existing system.

This naturally cannot compare to the existence of a founding patriarch, but it is far beyond the limits of a martial artist.

Su Xing is currently at this stage, or rather, it is through the enhancement of the Main Brain and the acquisition of the personal information datafication that he has stepped from a Master into a Grandmaster. Only now has he begun to integrate and change his own Wu Gong.

During these seven days of practice, Su Xing felt this particularly deeply.

When practicing Wu Gong, he gradually stopped being constrained by palms and claws; Qi Jin erupted with every movement. In the intervals between each move, Qi Jin condensed in the dantian. Between movement and stillness, Su Xing gained various insights into fist theory, the mysteries of which could only be understood intuitively and not described in words.

However, Su Xing knew that this "intuitive understanding that cannot be described in words" actually meant his purity was insufficient.

He had spent too little time immersed in the path of Wu Gong, gaining his current strength through various fortuitous encounters, yet his understanding of the path was shallow. Even though his strength had reached the Jin Dan stage, he still could not summarize a fist theory that belonged to him.

This requires slow precipitation and long-term immersion. What he is doing now is just increasing his foundation bit by bit, a process of accumulation leading to a qualitative change.

Only when he can gradually turn intuitive understanding into verbal description will he be a true Martial Arts Grandmaster. By then, he can integrate and summarize everything he has learned in the Wu Gong system into the attack methods most suited to his own conditions, and perhaps even go a step further to become a Great Grandmaster, or even attempt to integrate Wu Gong and the Immortal Martial Dao into one.

By then, the two combined would not just be a multiplication of power, but a true qualitative change.

However, Su Xing could also feel that this qualitative change was still too extravagant for him now, far from reaching the threshold of such a change.

Seven days later, just as Su Xing finished his fist practice and physical tempering, and was warming his body while eating a pig demon heart, he suddenly stopped eating.

Huang Lian was drinking soup from a small plate, her face covered in grease. She tilted her head curiously at Su Xing and let out a "chirp."

Su Xing ignored her, immediately stood up, crouched slightly in a horse stance, and closed his eyes to focus.

In that instant, he felt his entire body's blood-Qi and blood-Qi solidify at a single point in his dantian. At this moment, it was as if he had a new heart; his dantian had become his third source of life. He even had an intuition that even if his heart were shattered and exploded, he could still maintain normal activity for a few minutes, relying on the dantian's third source of life to gain power.

At the same time, the meridians throughout his body seemed to have been flushed open by the dantian's third source. The circulation of Qi Jin was smoother than ever before; every movement and eruption of Qi Jin encountered no obstacles. His entire body was transparent and unobstructed.

Every capillary, every inch of skin, every muscle, every organ—except for his brain—was transparent throughout. His thoughts moved, and blood-Qi and blood-Qi surged wildly. In stillness, his heartbeat slowed to about twenty beats per minute, each beat more powerful than before, capable of transporting blood to his entire body.

Then, Su Xing discovered that there were small "dark" spots all over his body—this was the disharmony in his inner transparent perception. With a thought, Qi Jin rose, and all the "dark" spots began to be flushed away.

Externally, beads of blood began to appear on Su Xing's skin. These blood beads were dark red and incredibly foul-smelling.

Huang Lian had been watching, and she became so anxious that she chirped loudly.

Only then did Su Xing open his eyes. Looking at the bloodstains all over his body, he laughed heartily and said to Huang Lian, "Don't be afraid, I'm undergoing marrow cleansing! Wait for me."

Su Xing immediately strode to the maintenance station to wash up. When he returned to the sleeping pod room, Huang Lian blinked, feeling as if she saw Su Xing glowing all over. His skin was cleaner than ever, and in some places, it was even jade-colored, revealing the muscle texture beneath.

Su Xing sat back in his original position and finished the pig demon heart in a few bites. He touched his teeth and laughed, "This is the first marrow cleansing. There should be another one when I reach the Gang Qi stage, though it won't be as deep or large as this one. After that, it's the end of Wu Gong—breaking the void and seeing the divine without destruction. Only then will it be a true qualitative change. According to the descriptions in the Wu Gong books I've read, I might even grow forty teeth, and my bones could turn into jade. That is the true breaking of life's limits."

Huang Lian continued to blink, looking at Su Xing's pupils. Those eyes were brighter and clearer than ever before. When she looked closely, she felt as if she were looking at two peerless gems. And she didn't know if it was an illusion, but she felt Su Xing seemed to have become more handsome...

Huang Lian turned her head away and continued to peck at the soup in her small plate.

Su Xing didn't notice this; he was carefully sensing his increase in strength.

"My conventional strength has reached about eight tons."

Su Xing clenched his fist and muttered to himself, "If I erupt with full force now, I might have enough explosive power to exceed a hundred tons. And with the Jin Dan integrating my power, the damage to myself is much less than before. The duration of my full-power combat has at least doubled!"

"Excellent!"

Su Xing was very satisfied with this qualitative improvement. It truly was a case of "swallowing a Golden Core into the abdomen." He was now at least twice as strong as he was before the qualitative change!

"Eat, eat quickly. After we finish, we'll enter the 0.6-level baseline reality world today!"

Su Xing said excitedly, then picked up a large pot and began to guzzle and drink.

Huang Lian chirped, her eyes glancing at Su Xing from time to time.

After eating, Su Xing still had things to prepare, such as the pork meatballs. These foods provided far more than so-called compressed rations; a single one provided at least ten times the calories of ordinary ingredients of the same volume. He naturally made ten more of these pig demon meatballs, packed them in a leather pouch, followed by the wild boar tusk knife, which he had to bring this time, and the alloy fragments for sharpening it.

Su Xing looked at the prepared items and muttered to himself, "It's a pity there's no modern or future Dream World, otherwise the preparations should be more sufficient, especially emergency medical equipment. That's what I'm most lacking now... but there's no other way. I have to explore it."

Huang Lian stood on his shoulder and chirped.

Su Xing nodded and said, "Right, I can bring the pig demon core this time... but speaking of which, you're really weak. You've eaten so many demon cores, yet I haven't seen you spit fire or ice."

Huang Lian immediately pecked at Su Xing's face incessantly.

Su Xing brought these items with him, came to the sleeping pod, and lay down, with Huang Lian standing on his chest.

Su Xing took a deep breath and said, "Main Brain, starting from the Buddha Mud Yaksha world, penetrate downwards into the Dream World."

"Starting penetration downwards from the Buddha Mud Yaksha Dream World. Judging... Judgment complete. Open penetration?"

"Open."

In the next instant, Su Xing and Huang Lian disappeared from the sleeping pod simultaneously.

!

When Su Xing regained consciousness, he appeared in a small forest covered in thick fog, with Huang Lian standing on his shoulder.

Before him were many trees, though not dense, and a hundred meters away was non-forest terrain.

The sky was dim, but there was still a little moonlight, obscured by thick clouds.

Su Xing looked around and found no threats, so he walked toward the edge of the forest, saying to Huang Lian, "It's a pity the Main Brain can't display the time and location in this 0.6-level baseline reality world, so we are completely ignorant of this world."

As he spoke, Su Xing reached the edge of the forest and looked out. The first thing he saw in the far distance was an extremely magnificent, extremely huge, and extremely exaggerated super-giant castle.

How huge?

It was about two thousand meters high on the plain!

This was not a small mountain, but a building two thousand meters high. Even from a distance, Su Xing could clearly see the main body of the towering building.

As for the area, it was even more so. The visual length was at least ten kilometers, and that was just the size of the castle itself, not counting the area occupied by the attached buildings and city walls below.

This was simply not a building that could be built by human power!

Not to mention anything else, would the ground not sink under a two-thousand-meter-high building? Would the building itself not collapse? If it were built against a mountain, it would be one thing, but to build two thousand meters straight up on flat ground... what were they thinking!?

This castle itself was a supernatural phenomenon!

Moreover, Su Xing could vaguely see some flying giant objects circling and entering and exiting above the castle's spires. Judging by their size, each was over three meters in wingspan, looking somewhat like giant bats or similar humanoid or beast-like creatures.

"Looks like we've come to quite an extraordinary place," Su Xing muttered, looking at the super-giant castle in the distance.

Suddenly, his ears twitched, and he immediately turned to look at one side of the small forest. Huang Lian followed his gaze and looked over as well.

About a minute later, a little girl in tattered linen clothes appeared in Su Xing's line of sight.

She was of the white race, with azure eyes and brownish-yellow hair, looking only seven or eight years old. Her linen clothes were tattered, just enough to cover her body.

The little girl saw Su Xing, and Su Xing looked at her. Neither spoke. Suddenly, the little girl said in a hoarse voice, "Give it to me!"

"Huh?" Su Xing said, muttering to himself, "Wait a minute, isn't that my line?"

The little girl seemed very irritable. There were bloodshot eyes in her pupils. She looked up at the sky. At this moment, the full moon in the sky revealed a little from the thick clouds. The little girl's face was full of surprise, and then she bent down toward Su Xing.

"Give it to me! Give me the meat on your body!"

The little girl trembled all over, and then fur grew from her body. Her physique began to change, her face gradually became ferocious, and finally...

A Samoyed appeared before Su Xing and Huang Lian.

"=0=!"

(End of chapter)