Chapter 170: Martial Arts Can Reach the Divine

Traveling to this Shenhan Xuanwu world of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Su Fan was naturally excited. This transcendental world was far more powerful than the previous two worlds.

It was not even a bit inferior to the Main World. At least upon meeting Zhang Jiao, he felt that Zhang Jiao's strength absolutely exceeded the Purple Mansion and Golden Core of the Main World.

As for whether the Nascent Soul and Primordial Spirit realms were stronger or weaker than Zhang Jiao, that was unclear.

After all, he hadn't seen the Golden Core and Primordial Spirit experts of the Main World.

In this world, there were many cultivation paths: literati refine souls, washing and refining the divine soul, using the divine soul to communicate with heaven and earth, and spells and divine abilities are at their fingertips.

Martial arts refine the body, becoming transcendental and holy, assisting with Military School divine abilities, condensing military Qi, and manifesting Dharma images.

The Immortal Dao practices both nature and life, refining Qi for longevity.

There were also the methods of the Hundred Schools passed down from the Pre-Qin period.

However, the mainstream of this world was still the two paths of refining the body and refining the soul. The Immortal Dao was distant, and not many inheritances were passed down, and most were reclusive experts.

Refining the body and martial arts were mostly practiced by chivalrous knights in the rivers and lakes, as well as soldiers and generals in the army.

Literati refine the spirit and nourish the soul.

Su Fan's original body was from the Guangling Gao Clan, so naturally, he had the family's method of literati cultivating the heart and nourishing the soul. Literati refining the spirit and nourishing the soul is divided into nourishing the soul and refining the soul.

The soul-nourishing realm enhances the cultivator's five senses, making the cultivator's spirit transform. The soul-refining realm uses divine sense to control objects, divine thoughts burst forth, and one can communicate with heaven and earth.

Martial arts are divided into refining strength and refining gang. Strength penetrates the body, Qi and blood burst forth, and only then can Qi and blood become gang.

The Immortal Dao practices both nature and life, refining Qi to nourish the spirit, which is actually no different from the immortal cultivation of the Main World.

Literati and martial arts are also just paths of refining the physical body or the divine soul alone.

The original body's memory didn't have much understanding of cultivation. However, by Su Fan's estimation, martial arts below the sixth layer of refining strength are equivalent to below the Innate, while refining gang is stepping into the gate of Datang Grandmasters.

Refining gang and refining soul are both divided into nine layers.

The original owner himself was a literati at the seventh layer of soul-nourishing, which was a rare genius in the Guangling area. Divine sense penetrates the body; although it had no lethality, once it reaches soul-refining, one can communicate with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and release various spells and divine abilities.

The power is enormous.

According to Su Fan's understanding, the divine soul power of the soul-refining realm is comparable to the Foundation Establishment stage. It's just that what the ninth layer of soul-refining is comparable to in the Main World, Su Fan doesn't know. But he knows that above refining soul and refining gang, there must be realms.

It's just that with his current status, he couldn't know.

After Su Fan traveled through, in over a year, he had now recovered to the ninth layer of Qi Refining, with strength roughly equivalent to the first layer of soul-refining or the first layer of refining gang in this world.

After all, in terms of divine soul power alone, he was no worse than the third layer of soul-refining, and his physical body hadn't been neglected either.

Martial arts refining strength was no different from his previous Qi-Blood Martial Dao early stage; both were tempering the physical body and nourishing blood Qi.

It's just that his current strength really didn't count for much in the entire Shenhan. Not to mention top-tier big shots like Zhang Jiao, even Guan Hai, who was closest to him, had strength stronger than his.

He came to Xuzhou and became a Qu Shuai of one side, thanks to Guan Hai. Although Guan Hai was not Zhang Jiao's disciple, his status among the thirty-six Qu Shuai was also in the forefront.

Because his strength at the third layer of refining gang could be said to be at the top level among the many Qu Shuai of the Taiping Dao.

Su Fan had sparred with Guan Hai. Su Fan estimated that the opponent's strength was at least at the Foundation Establishment mid-stage combat power of the Main World, or even stronger.

That terrifying gang Qi was truly terrifying. Compared to the Datang world, the gang Qi Su Fan tempered was even more powerful, at least in terms of attack degree, it was much stronger.

According to his understanding, the gang Qi of martial arts in this world is gang Qi refined by melting heaven and earth spiritual energy with Qi and blood. Different attributes have different powers.

However, gang Qi combined with martial arts will indeed opened Su Fan's eyes. Perhaps it might be the difference in world laws.

So Su Fan was very honest. Guan Hai was only at the third layer of refining gang. Although his talent was not bad, judging from the historical *Romance*, he barely reached first-rate among the many martial generals at the end of the Han Dynasty.

Then how strong should those top-tier martial generals be? At their peak, wouldn't Lu Bu and the others reach the ninth layer of refining gang, or even surpass refining gang?

In the original body's memory, there were records of martial arts powerhouses. During the end of the Qin Dynasty, Xiang Yu faced hundreds of Great Qin sorcerers who summoned a great mountain. The latter directly chose to resist it head-on, "the power to pull mountains and the spirit to cover the world," and shattered that great mountain with one spear.

Such strength was absolutely above the Purple Mansion. At the very least, he knew that Purple Mansion cultivators could hardly shatter a great mountain with one strike.

So Su Fan knew that this world's level was not low, and was even very high.

He wanted to be like the previous Datang world—that was impossible.

In the previous world, he could suppress the world with martial arts. This time, it would be difficult. Not to mention the old monsters hidden in this world, even those top-tier fierce generals—he didn't know if he could catch up.

This world could extend life, especially Daoist immortal cultivation, which could extend life. Some profound cultivators could easily live for a thousand years.

Literati and martial arts could also extend life, but it was worse than Daoist immortal cultivation.

Martial arts powerhouses living for three to five hundred years was already quite good. After all, great wars often easily consumed one's origin.

Of course, this world being powerful naturally had benefits for Su Fan. Not to mention anything else, the Qi Refining method Zhang Jiao gave Su Fan—Su Fan could see that its level was at least higher than the techniques he had in the Main World.

It's just that Su Fan didn't practice it.

Who knew if there were any hidden tricks in it?

Additionally, there were those spells that made Su Fan pleasantly surprised. For example, the "Scattering Beans into Soldiers" technique was actually a kind of alternative puppet artifact refining technique.

The beans in "Scattering Beans into Soldiers" were not ordinary soybeans, but specially refined golden beans. Once unleashed, they would turn into Dao soldiers.

Besides that, the Yellow Turban Warrior was also actually a kind of spell.

As for the "Summoning Wind and Rain" technique, it wasn't that profound.

But these three spells were very useful for Su Fan. They could even be used in the Main World later to increase the family's strength.

Of course, these three spells were indeed very profound. Su Fan had only barely comprehended a little bit of the first two until now.

Wanting to unleash them, I'm afraid it would still take some time.

As for the "Summoning Wind and Rain" technique, Su Fan could already skillfully unleash it.

And he had unleashed it on a large scale in Ganyu County, Donghai.

Su Fan had come to Donghai Commandery for over a year. Relying on Guan Hai's support, he had hundreds of thousands of Taiping Dao believers under his command.

Su Fan arranged them in Ganyu, close to the coast, farming and making salt, while also training troops.

This world was too high-level, and Su Fan felt even less secure. He didn't want to participate in the struggles of those big shots.

The Taiping Dao had developed for so many years. In fact, Su Fan knew that the court and the local authorities had noticed it, but they hadn't moved. It was estimated that it was a secret struggle between the local authorities, the court, and the Taiping Dao.

Su Fan knew how dangerous the future would be. He needed to have the power to protect himself, and the best way was to develop quietly first.

Donghai Commandery was not bad.

Because of Guan Hai, the local government officials mostly focused their eyes on Guan Hai's side. After all, Guan Hai had a million strong men under his command. Even if most were ordinary farmers, gathering them together was also very shocking.

The garrison of the Donghai Commandery government only had ten thousand.

Even half were old and weak. Shenhan had been peaceful for a thousand years, and there was much corruption in the army, not to mention the local areas.

So Guan Hai being outside forced the government officials to keep their eyes on him, which gave Su Fan a certain amount of time to develop. ===== CHAPTER 171 =====