Chapter 377: Master Teaches, Martial Way

What treatment to give?

Du Xiaofeng and Lin Chen, master and disciple, looked at each other, probing the deep meaning in the Sect Master's words.

In Lin Chen's view, he passed the personal disciple assessment and also took a master, so he is a personal disciple of a Canglan Sect elder and will definitely be able to enjoy the treatment of a personal disciple.

As for higher, he doesn't know.

Let his master worry about this matter. He just entered the sect, so it's not good to appear too greedy.

Du Xiaofeng's old eyes turned, and he smiled: "Sect Master, according to Lin Chen's situation, it wouldn't be too much for the sect to give him personal disciple treatment."

Ji Cangtian was somewhat speechless: "Du Zhanglao, don't play these tricks. This seat will tell you the truth: whenever a personal disciple can break two hundred points in the assessment, the sect will have extra rewards."

"There is such a thing? Why haven't I heard of it?"

Du Xiaofeng was surprised. As a sect elder, and having served as an elder for nearly thirty years, he had never heard that the sect had extra rewards for personal disciples.

"Few people know about this matter, it's just fearing that it will make disciples overdraw their potential in order to obtain high scores in the assessment."

Overdraw potential?

Hearing this explanation, Du Xiaofeng's heart was immediately as clear as a mirror. Disciples can't overdraw martial arts potential. This is fearing that these elders, after knowing this, would use means to forcibly improve the disciples' strength, including potential, in order to let the disciples obtain more sect resources.

The Yan Yan Yan Huang Chao still has some special means, but these kinds of means will bring side effects to martial artists, and a slight carelessness will make it extremely difficult for the martial arts path to improve after that.

Those elders whose disciples broke two hundred points likely also received the Sect Master's instructions, and this secret is not allowed to be revealed to the outside.

"Whenever one can break two hundred points in the assessment, besides the normal personal disciple assessment treatment, the sect can also give two treatments. The first is to let you break through to Innate within three months."

Ji Cangtian's gaze turned to Lin Chen: "The sect helping you break through to Innate will not exist as pulling up seedlings to help them grow, and it will have no impact on your subsequent martial arts cultivation path."

Du Xiaofeng's old eyes brightened: "Flawless Innate Pill?"

"Mm."

Seeing Ji Cangtian nod, Du Xiaofeng looked at Lin Chen: "Disciple, this Flawless Innate Pill is an extremely precious item. Even if this master wants to prepare it for you, I might not be able to find it. Taking this pill can let a First Rank martial artist step directly into Innate, and if one breaks through by oneself, even if the five elements energy is gathered, there is a possibility of failing to break through."

Failing to break through?

Lin Chen replied in his heart: "This disciple absolutely cannot fail to break through."

【Water Flows, Canal Forms】 fate blessing, as long as he absorbs the five elements energy, he can smoothly break through to Innate.

"Sect Master, what is the second treatment?"

Ji Cangtian heard Lin Chen ask about the second treatment, and a smile appeared on his face. He guessed that Lin Chen would choose the second treatment.

A youth genius walking out of a desolate place must have sufficient confidence in martial arts, confident that he can break through to Innate on his own.

"The second treatment is to give you a quota for the Canglan Secret Realm."

"Choose the second one!"

Du Xiaofeng's expression was firm. Lin Chen saw his master's expression and knew that this Canglan Secret Realm must be a good place, so he didn't wait for the Sect Master to ask, and said directly: "This disciple chooses the quota for the Canglan Secret Realm."

For Du Zhanglao's reaction, Ji Cangtian didn't feel surprised, but didn't expect that Lin Chen had just taken Du Zhanglao as his master and was already trusting Du Zhanglao so much, choosing without even knowing what the Canglan Secret Realm was.

"Alright, then this Sect Master will give you a quota for the Canglan Secret Realm, but whether you can enter the Canglan Secret Realm in the end depends on your own ability."

Seeing the look of confusion on Lin Chen's face, Ji Cangtian didn't go to explain, but he believed that Du Zhanglao would explain it clearly to Lin Chen.

Everything that should be said had been said, and Lin Chen followed his master out of the main hall.

"We'll talk when we return to this master's residence."

Du Xiaofeng knew that his disciple had many doubts in his heart now, but he still waited until Lin Chen returned to the courtyard where he lived before opening his mouth: "Are you confused about the Canglan Secret Realm? The Sect Master promised to give you a quota, why did he still want you to strive for it?"

"Mm, this disciple is confused."

Lin Chen nodded. Facing his master, he didn't hide anything: "I always feel that the Sect Master didn't say everything today."

"Not saying everything is because he cannot say everything. In short... one day if you reach this master's realm, you will know."

Hearing his master's words, Lin Chen's pupils contracted. Listening to his master's meaning, it seems that the Yan Yan Yan Huang Chao still has some secrets, but only those who reach a certain realm are qualified to know.

Even the Sect Master and his master are very wary of this secret.

"The Canglan Secret Realm is a secret realm our Canglan Sect opens to martial artists of the Innate First Stage. Calculating the time, there are only six months left until the Canglan Secret Realm opens. This means that if you want to enter the Canglan Secret Realm, you need to break through to Innate within six months; otherwise, you can only wait another five years for the next time the Canglan Secret Realm opens."

Lin Chen understood. The so-called striving is that he needs to break through to Innate within six months; otherwise, even if the Sect Master gives a quota, he won't have the qualifications to enter.

"Master, what is inside the Canglan Secret Realm?"

"How much do you know about Innate martial artists?"

Du Xiaofeng didn't answer directly, but instead asked Lin Chen.

"This disciple only knows that Innate martial artists need to absorb and refine five Innate energies before they can step into it, and the Innate realm is divided into six stages in total. As for others, I don't know."

Lin Chen smiled bitterly. He really didn't know much about the Innate realm. Back then, when Innate martial artists appeared in the Nine Countries, he was busy challenging on Martial Way Mountain. Not long after the Martial Way Alliance was established, Deacon Gao arrived.

On the way here, Gao Zeming didn't tell him too much about the Innate realm, not because Gao Zeming didn't want to tell Lin Chen, but out of his own little thoughts.

In his view, after Lin Chen entered the sect, he would definitely be taken as a personal disciple by some elder. But Lin Chen wasn't a disciple cultivated by the Canglan Sect from childhood. Taking an elder as a master and letting the elder tell Lin Chen about the Innate realm could also let the elder have the feeling of being a master, and could deepen the relationship between master and disciple.

It can be said to be painstaking.

The excuse was also thought out: he was only Innate Second Stage, and didn't dare to guarantee that his understanding and cognition of the Innate realm were absolutely correct. To avoid misleading his disciple and causing Lin Chen's understanding of martial arts to deviate, he didn't dare to say too much.

"You are on an island overseas, so it's normal not to understand the Innate realm. Today, this master will tell you properly about the Innate realm."

Du Xiaofeng was old and shrewd, and could guess why Gao Zeming didn't tell Lin Chen too much about the Innate realm on the way here.

"The Innate realm is divided into six stages. The first stage is the Qi-Transforming Stage. The so-called Qi-Transforming is the energy in the body transforming into Innate Qi, and this requires gathering five elements energy. Only five elements can transform into Innate Qi."

Du Xiaofeng's palm slowly slapped out, and Lin Chen could clearly feel the air around him surging like water waves.

"But do you know why refining five elements energy can transform into Innate Qi?"

"This disciple doesn't know."

"That's because gathering five elements energy, when the five elements energy fuses with your own Qi and blood, new energy will appear, which the martial arts world calls Innate Power." "These Innate Powers flow in your body, and as the Innate Power continuously increases, finally condensing into Innate Crystals in the acupoints, it is the second stage of the Innate realm, the Crystal-Condensing Stage."

"Twenty-four acupoints each condensing Innate Crystals counts as stepping into the second stage, and if one can condense three hundred and sixty-five Innate Crystals, one can attempt to impact the third stage of the Innate realm."

Du Xiaofeng told Lin Chen about the situation of the first and second stages of the Innate realm in one breath. After waiting for Lin Chen to digest it, he continued: "Besides this, the martial arts will of Innate martial artists is also different."

"Master, what is the difference between this martial arts will and the spirit soul?"

Lin Chen asked a question he was concerned about. Until now, he still hadn't figured out the difference between the two in terms of spirit soul and martial arts will.

In Daliang, several adults told him that martial arts will is born from the spirit soul and is a product of the spirit soul.

But Lin Lin Shixiong Pei could use sword will to make Innate martial artists wary with Second Rank strength, and Lin Lin Shixiong Pei's spirit soul grade at that time was at most First Rank.

Since martial arts will is born from the spirit soul, how could it be stronger than the spirit soul?

Hearing his disciple's question, Du Xiaofeng smiled slightly, pointed to a tree in the courtyard, and asked: "Does this tree have threat to people?"

"No?"

"Mm."

Du Xiaofeng nodded. The next moment, his withered hand grabbed into the air, and a branch of the tree was cut off. The leaves on the branch fell, leaving only the bare trunk, and it flew into Du Xiaofeng's hand.

"Now, I am holding this branch, does it have threat to people?"

"Yes."

Lin Chen nodded. The branch could still hurt people.

"Then what about this?"

Du Xiaofeng grabbed into the air again. This time, the tree in the courtyard suddenly broke. The trunk seemed to be chopped by an invisible knife and axe, and soon it turned into a long sword shape and fell into Du Xiaofeng's hand.

Although it was wood, the tip of the knife was still sharp.

"The lethality has increased a lot."

Lin Chen looked at the wooden sword in his master's hand. The wooden sword could also stab people, especially where the tip of the sword was sharp.

"The wooden sword comes from this tree, it is only a small part of this tree, but its lethality is greater than the whole tree. Now you should understand the difference between spirit soul and martial arts will, right?"

"This disciple understands."

His master had explained it so thoroughly; if he still didn't understand, he would have practiced in vain.

"Spirit soul is the foundation. All martial arts wills are evolved on the basis of the spirit soul. But no matter how powerful the martial arts will is, it has a limit."

Du Xiaofeng flicked his hand, and a long sword on the weapon rack placed in the courtyard fell into his hand.

The black long sword and the wooden sword collided at the same time, and the wooden sword was directly cut into two pieces by the black long sword.

"If your spirit soul is just a tree, no matter how much you can practice martial arts will to the extreme, it's nothing more than a wooden sword or a wooden spear. Its essence is still wood. If you encounter weapons made of other materials, it will break at a touch."

"No matter how sharp a wooden sword is, it is not as good as an iron sword. No matter how sharp an iron sword is, it is ultimately not the opponent of a sharp sword made of stronger materials. This is the relationship between spirit soul and martial arts will. The strength of the spirit soul determines the upper limit of martial arts will."

Du Xiaofeng looked at his disciple: "What you are confused about now should be how powerful the martial arts will can be, right? Can it cross stages to defeat opponents?"

"Mm."

"Martial arts will is divided into four levels: ordinary, refined, flawless, and perfect flawless... Most martial artists' martial arts will is ordinary level, a small number are refined, and a very small number possess flawless martial arts will. As for perfect flawless... it is as difficult as ascending to heaven."

"Below the Innate realm, relying on the power of martial arts will, one can cross grades to defeat opponents with higher grades than oneself. But the Innate Sixth Stage has a huge gap in every stage. Unless it is a perfect flawless level martial arts will, otherwise it is impossible to cross stages to defeat opponents."

"Besides the level, the comprehension of martial arts will also has differences in difficulty. It is distinguished according to the characteristics of martial arts will. Do you know some musical instruments?"

"Musical instruments?"

Lin Chen didn't know why his master suddenly talked about musical instruments.

"This disciple knows a little."

"Flutes, guqin, pipa, guzheng, huqin, drum hammers, which of these musical instruments do you think are difficult to practice?"

"Ten years for the flute, a hundred years for the xiao, a thousand years for the pipa, ten thousand years for the guzheng, and a lifetime for the huqin."

Lin Chen thought of a jingle he heard in his previous life and blurted it out.

"A bit exaggerated, but the principle is about the same."

Du Xiaofeng heard Lin Chen's answer and smiled: "Musical instruments are like this, and martial arts will is the same. Some martial arts wills are harder to comprehend, so even if they are ordinary level, they are stronger than others. The sword will that your Lin Lin Shixiong Pei mentioned is relatively difficult to comprehend, and flawless sword will is even rarer. This is also the reason why he could make Innate martial artists wary with sword will before entering the Innate realm."

"This disciple understands."

The principle, once understood, is understood in all things.

"Master, what is the most difficult martial arts will to comprehend?"

Asking this question was purely out of Lin Chen's curiosity, not to say that he had such ambition.

"This question has no answer."

Du Xiaofeng shook his head, and seeing Lin Chen's confused eyes, explained: "Difficulty is divided by person. Sword will is difficult, but your Lin Lin Shixiong Pei was able to comprehend flawless sword will by himself without anyone teaching him. In his view, I'm afraid sword will is not difficult at all."

"Don't overly pursue powerful martial arts will. The one that suits you is the most suitable."

"This disciple accepts the teaching."

Lin Chen nodded, understanding that his master was worried about him being overly ambitious and pursuing powerful martial arts will.

"The level of martial arts will can be improved. Even if you comprehend a powerful martial arts will, it always stays at ordinary or refined. Others, even if the initial power of their martial arts will is not as good as yours, as the level improves to flawless, the power will be surpassed."

Speaking of this, Du Xiaofeng's old eyes blinked: "Now you should know what is inside the Canglan Secret Realm."

"Martial arts will upgrade."

Lin Chen's eyes brightened, and he also understood why his master let him choose the Canglan Secret Realm.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 378 =====