[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-starlight-professional":3,"chapter-starlight-professional-starlight-professional-chapter-63":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Starlight Professional",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2308723,4512,"Chapter 63: Jade in the Rough","starlight-professional-chapter-63",63,"\u003Cp>Another world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Underground temporary camp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The winter break lasts a month—I can thoroughly explore this place... After breaking through to the Puyu realm, even without using the laser gun, my strength should at least match that of a Foundation Establishment or even Foundation Completion cultivator, right?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Xing sat cross-legged, a vial placed before him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he opened it, a snow-white, jade-like pill rolled out—it was the ‘Primordial Pill’!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The quality of Qingdan Workshop is still reliable... and this vial has never been opened.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stood up and began practicing the Great Dragon Stance and Subdue the Tiger Stance with meticulous precision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huh! Huh!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His breath flowed like a dragon, his movements like the wind; the chamber felt as if it had gained a massive furnace, the surrounding temperature steadily rising.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In motion, Fang Xing felt his skin, flesh, tendons, and bones moving in unison...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Blue Star Federation’s martial arts realms—first realm skin and flesh, second realm tendons and bones—had both already been fully traversed by him!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His physique now could be called Jade Skin, Mystic Flesh, Willow Tendons, Steel Bones!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the absolute peak attainable by practitioners of the first two realms!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He even had a vague premonition: even without taking pills, if he persisted, he would surely break through naturally within three to six months.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the advantage of a solid foundation!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But I clearly don’t have that much time... How precious is the winter break? I must explore this world thoroughly!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Besides, in martial arts competition, one step ahead means staying ahead! What I love most is never fighting unprepared—I prefer to overwhelm opponents with realm superiority every time!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What’s this nonsense about martial spirit meaning to strike at stronger foes? Since ancient times, martial arts have been one horizontal stroke and one vertical stroke: the winner stands, the loser lies down. The one standing can speak reason—everything they say is right; the one fallen, everything they say is wrong!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Xing’s eyes hardened as he swallowed the ‘Primordial Pill’.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sensation from the ‘Primordial Pill’ was entirely different from other body-refining pills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he actively circulated his stomach’s qi to digest the pill, Fang Xing felt delicate threads of coolness spreading from his abdomen, gradually seeping into his five viscera and six bowels...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Puyu Realm—known as the Human Jade—is when internal qi flows continuously, forming a perfect, unified whole!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Simply put, after refining skin, flesh, tendons, and bones, one turns inward—from external martial success arises internal qi!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, one circulates this internal qi to forge the five viscera and six bowels!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the five viscera and six bowels are fully polished and the internal qi becomes seamless, that is the peak of Puyu, the human body perfected—and one may attempt to open the Niwan Palace to break through to the Courage Realm!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Breathe... inhale...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Xing’s breath was long and steady, feeling the delicate threads of coolness radiating outward, easily absorbed and processed by his powerful body... Within his five viscera and six bowels, something seemed to sprout.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was... internal qi!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or, according to this world’s martial artists, it was Primordial True Qi!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Indeed, as easy as turning over one’s hand—like water flowing naturally into a channel!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He exhaled a long breath, staring at his fingers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Puff!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the slightest thought, several inches of Primordial True Qi burst forth from his fingertip.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was incredibly agile, yet sharp as a blade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Previously, forming blade and sword auras required A-grade martial arts to drive them—now, with internal qi circulating through my entire body, everything feels effortless...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Xing murmured, glancing at his status bar:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Name: Fang Xing】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Age: 17】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Profession: Martial Artist】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Third Realm: Puyu (Five Viscera: 11\u002F100)】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Military Boxing Twelve Forms: 53\u002F200 (Proficient)】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Great Dragon Stance: 5\u002F400 (Master）】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Subdue the Tiger Stance: 69\u002F200 (Proficient)】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Ghost God Blade: 37\u002F100 (Familiar)】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Extreme Emotion Sword: 8\u002F100 (Familiar)】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Dragon Elephant Technique: 5\u002F100 (Beginner)】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Gate of the Myriad Heavens (Charging)】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Primordial Pill’s effect is impressive—after opening the five viscera’s cultivation, it even boosted my proficiency slightly...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Glancing at his realm, Fang Xing couldn’t help but smile: “A seventeen-year-old Puyu martial artist? That’s talent even on Chu Ying Star—after all, Gu Yun is still struggling in the second realm...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This world is truly full of treasures!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knew perfectly well the source of his sudden martial surge—and intended to maximize this advantage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The cultivation of a Puyu martial artist is constant accumulation of internal qi, refining the five viscera and six bowels... When they are fully perfected and unified, one may break through to the fourth martial realm!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The marketplace also has pills suitable for Primordial martial artists... Though expensive, made from materials used to craft pills that enhance qi for early Foundation Establishment cultivators, they do greatly increase Primordial True Qi...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Xing’s gaze dropped lower—he had abandoned Military Boxing, yet due to breakthroughs in various martial arts and realms, its proficiency had still risen slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Great Dragon Stance and Subdue the Tiger Stance were his daily foundation, yet their progress was painfully slow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ghost God Blade and Extreme Emotion Sword were no different—mere techniques requiring frequent combat to master.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the final one—Dragon Elephant Technique?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Now that my body has become Puyu and possesses Primordial True Qi, does it also benefit Dragon Elephant Technique?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his mind, he visualized the Dragon Elephant Golden Strength Bodhisattva; his blood and qi surged, countless strands of Primordial True Qi intertwining, weaving together into layers of ‘Dragon Scales’!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And upon his skin, it seemed as if an invisible ‘Elephant Armor’ had formed!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This is Dragon Scale Elephant Armor! After entering the beginner stage of Dragon Elephant Technique, my defense has surged dramatically... As for strength increase? I haven’t felt much yet—perhaps because my martial arts have been advancing so rapidly, my strength has been growing continuously...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“With this three-layer defense—Dragon Scale on the outside, Elephant Armor in the middle, and my own physique as the innermost layer—I feel like I’m wearing an iron armor over thick leather armor, yet still move as freely as if naked!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A flash of cold light—Fang Xing drew a steel blade and slashed it casually against his body!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bing!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The steel blade bounced off instantly!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Indeed—once an A-grade martial art is mastered, even bare skin resists ordinary steel!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shing!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After testing ordinary steel, Fang Xing drew the Ink-Text Sword.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This sword was as sharp as a low-grade magical artifact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He extended his strong, muscular arm—its skin translucent as jade—and laid the blade’s edge across it, gently dragging it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Xing clearly felt the sword’s sharpness—it sliced through the Dragon Scales, met the Elephant Armor, and was steadily deflected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He silently increased force; the Ink-Text Sword struggled to cut through the Elephant Armor, then struck the Jade Skin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the Jade Skin deflected the force again, a strike that could have severed a Primordial martial artist’s arm now only slightly pierced his skin, leaving a faint blood trail.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And under Fang Xing’s powerful bodily recovery, the wound rapidly faded and vanished...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Three layers of defense, each one deflecting force? Excellent, excellent...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Xing was fairly satisfied: “It should match the defense of early Foundation Establishment body cultivators...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Early Foundation Establishment body cultivators absolutely cannot block low-grade magical artifacts barehanded!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The more one specializes in body cultivation, the more one needs magical armor to reinforce defense!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Xing understood this well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Early Foundation Establishment body cultivators can be wounded by low-grade magical artifacts but aren’t easily killed by a few strikes... If they wear magical armor, they become walking killing machines—charging into groups of Foundation Establishment cultivators, enduring spell bombardments and artifact attacks... The key for body cultivators is endurance—their ability to withstand penetration and impact from low-grade magical artifacts and low-tier spells!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even body cultivators who rely solely on their physique to brawl with enemies are foolish.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, if Fang Xing were to duel with cultivators, his first move would be to don his nanofiber protective suit—and even stick on several defensive talismans!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“With these three layers of defense, plus nanofiber suit and talismans... I’d dare take a few direct hits from high-grade magical artifacts or late Foundation Establishment spells!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I will never be the kind who survives the protection but dies from the shock!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Combined with my mental resistance... Below Foundation Establishment, there are virtually no opponents worth worrying about.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Body cultivators still have a weakness: fragile spiritual awareness and low mental sea defense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But for Blue Star martial artists, if mental defense is even slightly weak, they die or go insane immediately!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, Blue Star martial artists possess extremely strong mental defense!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to body cultivators here, they have virtually no weakness!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, Fang Xing had never seen a second-grade body cultivator comparable to Foundation Establishment, so he didn’t know how these cultivators performed at higher levels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But based on what he’d seen, this principle still held true in the Foundation Establishment stage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Too bad... ordinary nanofiber suits only offer defense up to Puyu level... Higher protection requires military exoskeletons or mechs—unavailable even on the black market.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Xing internally groaned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If given the choice, he’d really like to try piloting a mech.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he could fight cultivators in a mech—the image was too beautiful to imagine...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Besides, this isn’t even my limit... Now that I’ve broken through to Puyu, I can train S-grade martial arts!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That one—Great Golden Vajra Divine Strength—Xia Long held it in such high regard, clearly it’s no ordinary technique...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Moreover, it can be fused with Dragon Elephant Technique to evolve into Dragon Elephant Golden Indestructible Divine Skill!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Divine Skill... just the name alone tells you it’s extraordinary.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Alright, I can't count on any divine abilities anytime soon, but if I master the Great Vajra Prajna Divine Power, perhaps I can challenge Foundation Establishment?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But still, I must remain discreet... after all, there are Golden Core true cultivators in the marketplace!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just a fleeting glimpse of the drone's data was enough to deduce that a Golden Core true cultivator is absolutely deadly—his metrics rival those of military fighter jets...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Blue Star Federation’s military must directly confront the Chosen of Demonic Gods!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Any military-grade weapon represents immense power—nothing like those ancient models!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They are exceedingly rare even in ordinary black markets!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Xing entered the surveillance room and began reading the logs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Come to think of it, he hadn’t come in a while, what with preparing for final exams.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, he returned directly to break through.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, his eyes narrowed: \"What’s going on here?\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1749,"2026-06-20T11:03:20.053Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","3ebedf418a3649a8ebab71956821263edfb3383baed229d0f6da3d62acd3a942","starlight-professional-chapter-64","starlight-professional-chapter-62",726,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fstarlight-professional-cover.jpg"]