Chapter 234: One‑Month Grandmaster

【Shadowless Heart Sutra: Not Entered (0/10,000,000)】

Yes.

The entry Experience Bar for the Shadowless Blade core method is as high as ten million points.

Jiang Cheng, after hearing Niutou Mianju finish speaking, stared at this line of information appearing on the panel and was stunned for a while.

But when he recalled the words Niutou Laoge said at the beginning, he understood.

The Shadowless Blade Technique has a total of seventy acupoints, most located on the arms and a few distributed on the torso.

If the first twenty acupoints are opened, one can enter and immediately become a First-level Force Master! Opening another eighteen, for a total of thirty‑eight acupoints and reaching the Proficient level, allows a breakthrough to Second-Level Master.

Opening fifteen more acupoints, for a cumulative fifty‑three, reaches the Mastery level, enabling one to become a Third-Level Master.

Continuing to open twelve, for a total of sixty‑five acupoints, reaches the Great Completion level, allowing one to become a Fourth-level Grandmaster.

Opening the final five acupoints, thereby unlocking all acupoints of this Secret Martial Art and entering the Perfect Realm, makes one a Fifth-level Grandmaster.

At first glance, the later stages require fewer acupoints to open, whereas several Human Weapon arts are the opposite, needing more acupoints the further one goes.

The reason is simple: the early acupoints are all in the arms, while the later ones involve the body's torso.

The torso is far more important than the limbs.

Because it houses a large number of organs within the body shell.

For example, the heart, called the source of life; the lungs that inhale and exhale external energy; the kidneys that contain the body's essence; and so on.

These organs contain many acupoints, and each opened point grants the body a tremendous boost, far beyond what limb acupoints can provide.

Therefore, the improvement is not great.

However, every advantage has a drawback, making the later stages extremely difficult; even in the Introductory Chapter, opening twenty acupoints is very hard, comparable to refining an Earth Martial art to the Perfect Realm.

The Shadowless Blade Technique is like this, and the Heaven Martial arts that open even more acupoints than the Shadowless Blade Technique are similarly difficult, even more so, with higher danger.

The required Experience Value is, of course, enormous.

But if one thinks carefully, this Experience Bar is actually not that large.

Take Shattering Jade Skill as an example: from Not Entered to the final Perfect state, the total Experience Value required reaches one million five hundred thousand.

The best Earth Martial has an upper limit of First-level Grandmaster.

The Experience Value needed for the five realms is most likely over ten million points.

And the Shadowless Heart Sutra requires only ten million points, which, seen this way, isn't much.

As for what follows.

Jiang Cheng let out a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, he has a panel.

He doesn't need to take such great risks or hit a bottleneck where acupoint locations are undetectable; he just needs to continuously refine Force and fill the Experience Value.

"First, let's see how this Secret Martial Art's Force conversion rate is."

Jiang Cheng closed his eyes and silently operated the Shadowless Heart Sutra.

In almost an instant, a little over one Force Light Point was refined.

【Experience Value +2.5】

Jiang Cheng was overjoyed.

This speed isn't much slower than the Perfect Shattering Jade Skill, is it?

The key is that he hasn't entered yet.

After a minute passed, Jiang Cheng opened his eyes.

During that minute, he refined one hundred Force Light Points, indeed not much slower than the Perfect Shattering Jade Skill.

At this rate, the remaining under forty thousand Force Light Points would take only four hundred minutes—six or seven hours—to fully refine. Even if he expends Spiritual Power to actively absorb ten thousand Force Light Points, it would take one or two hours.

This let Jiang Cheng sigh in relief again.

Now he need not worry about wasting Force.

After all, before this he spent hundreds of thousands buying pills to quickly raise his strength to Fifth Level; wasting them now would hurt his heart.

His gaze fell on the panel.

The Shadowless Heart Sutra's Experience Value increased by 150 points.

The ratio of Experience Value gained is the same as Shattering Jade Skill's, only the efficiency is higher, refining more Force Light Points per unit time.

Jiang Cheng did a quick calculation.

A ten‑million Experience Bar, at 150 Experience Value per minute, requires 66,667 minutes, i. e., 1,112 hours, or 47 days.

It seems the time isn't long—under two months—to become a First-level Grandmaster.

In reality, those 47 days would require nonstop eating and drinking, refining Force every second; aside from whether he has the stamina, even the daily amount of Force Light Points he can absorb isn't that high.

Now, counting the Force Light Points he actively absorbs, he only gets about 64,000 per day; at a rate of 150 per minute, he can only sustain seven hours.

Thus, the 47 days would at least triple, requiring five to six months.

"Again, I'm short on Force Light Points."

Jiang Cheng gave a wry smile.

But being able to become a Grandmaster in half a year, this speed is indeed fast enough.

It's like the Gym Master of the Eagle‑Fist Martial Arts Hall, who is in his dozens of years old yet still a Fifth-level Force Warrior; breaking through to Grandmaster is probably hopeless in his lifetime.

The Gym Master of Kuangfeng Martial Arts School is slightly better; his age is similar, but his strength far exceeds the former's, already an Eight-level Force Warrior. Partly it's his talent, partly the abundant money he spends on cultivation resources, since that loan company has ruined many families.

Whether he can break through to Grandmaster is hopeful, but uncertain.

"If my Spiritual Power were raised another step, the time could be shortened considerably."

Jiang Cheng thought to himself.

If the Visualization Method reaches Mastery, Spiritual Power triples.

The twenty thousand Force Light Points actively absorbed each day can become sixty thousand, which is double the original total Force Light Points.

The time required for the Shadowless Heart Sutra will also be halved, and three months will be enough to become a Grandmaster.

If the Visualization Method reaches Great Completion, the actively absorbed sixty thousand Force Light Points become one hundred twenty thousand, and one can obtain one hundred eighty thousand per day, reducing the time to become a Grandmaster again to two months.

If it's perfected? One month!

One month, and you can become a First-level Grandmaster! If this speed were told to others, it would probably scare the Force Masters outside.

But, everything has a "but"; the ideal is beautiful, but reality is cruel.

Just speaking of the two conditions for the Visualization Method to reach Mastery.

First, nine million pills; second, a Visualization Diagram that accelerates cultivation time; neither can be obtained in a short while.

Jiang Cheng shook his head.

He decided to first convert what he currently has into combat power.

Ten hours remain before this day passes.

First, expend a large amount of Force Light Points on the Shadowless Heart Sutra.

When there are still over two thousand points left, then go cultivate Flower Fist.

At this pace, if we cultivate a bit more tomorrow, the Flower Fist can reach perfection, and we'll see how much improvement we can gain then.

(End of Chapter)