Chapter 33: Ji Hun

"That monkey..."

Li Hao broke open the fragrant crispy cake and, while slowly tasting it, told the story behind it to the three little fellows who were looking forward to it.

In the pavilion, Uncle Zhao and Li Fu watched from afar, both smiling helplessly.

The young master didn't know where he got these storybooks. If he could use all this thought on body refining, he would definitely have some achievements in the future.

However, watching Li Hao be lazy for so long, they had seen through many things. Let it be. Just as that Second Grandfather said, the vast Li family didn't lack a body-refining powerhouse, but that child might lack a happy childhood. After all, without parents by his side, this should be the only happiness that child had.

As the sun set, the story was finished. Li Hao coaxed the three little fellows away, and incidentally instructed Li Yun, the most jumpy one among them:

"Be honest when you go back, don't get beaten by your mother again."

Previously, when this guy heard the part about making trouble in the Heavenly Palace, he was so excited that he grew a rebellious bone at a young age and argued with his mother a few times, wanting to change from practicing sword to stick. Later, under his mother's personal guidance, he still felt that the sword was more suitable for him.

"Yes." Li Yun's face turned red, and he ran away quickly.

"Brother Hao, I'll come to see you tomorrow." The younger sister Li Zhining said softly and weakly with a smile.

"Brother Hao..." The little fatty Li Yuanzhao also wanted to say something but stopped.

"Go, go, go."

Li Hao waved them all away.

After the few children left the backyard, Li Hao calmed down and continued to paint.

After gaining dozens of points of painting Dao experience, the moonlight in the sky had already come out.

Li Hao had dinner with Li Fu and Uncle Zhao, returned to his room, and picked up a martial arts book he had taken from the Listening Rain Tower to read.

This book was not a cultivation method, but a popularization of knowledge about various realms.

"Ji Hun Realm, as the name suggests, inheriting the soul of the ancestor!"

"If there is no background, ordinary people can worship in the Wumiao. If they can be favored by the heroic soul, they can also inherit the soul."

"Furthermore, join the army and worship the heroic souls of the soldiers who died in battle in the past dynasties of Great Yu, and receive a trace of soul thought inheritance from them!"

"Also, apprentice in famous mountains, famous teachers, and there are also ancestral heroic souls in the sect..."

Li Hao read quietly, light flashing in his eyes.

He brought up the panel to look.

【Name: Li Hao】

【Age: 8】

【Cultivation: Tenth Level of the Zhou Tian Realm】

【Sword Dao: Third Stage (Flying Stage) (Hidden Bow)】

【Sword Skill: Sea Without End · Tide (Supreme) Falling Snow Sword Technique (True State)】

【Physical Body Path: Fifth Stage (Myriad Phenomena) (Tiger Pressure)】

【Physical Body Skill: Stone Skin Thousand Refinements (True State) Thousand Flood Dragon Saint Body Fourth Layer (Thousand Flood Dragon Body Entry) Primordial Third Layer (Tongyou Body Perfection) Dragon Cicada Vacuum Body Fourth Layer (Dragon Soul Body Entry)...】

【Imperial Dao: Third Stage】

【Imperial Skill: Heavenly Gang Zhou Tian Art (Perfection) Hundred Battles Zhou Tian Art (Perfection) Dragon River Divine Pulse (Perfection) Nine Turns Star Art (Perfection)...】

【Chess Dao: Fourth Stage (28/10000)】

【Fishing Dao: Second Stage (97/1000)】

【Painting Dao: Second Stage (231/1000)】

【Cooking Dao: Second Stage (736/1000)】

【Chess Manual Collection: Myriad Phenomena, Tiger Pressure, Flying Stage, Hidden Bow】

【Fishing Collection: None】

【Famous Painting Collection: Thousand Mountains Birds Flying Map, Snow Mountain Spirit Fox Map, Qilin Steed Map】

【Cooking Recipe Collection: None】

【State of Mind: Chess Heart (Embedded)】

【Skill Points: 0】

The current panel was obviously longer than before. Although Li Hao omitted dozens of body-refining cultivation methods, it was still a dense string. He used all 6 skill points obtained from painting, cooking, and fishing. The physical body path was promoted from the 3rd stage to the 5th stage. When crossing between 3 and 4, there was also a threshold like Chess Dao, which required entering the heart to continue upgrading.

At this time, after panel prompting, the previously condensed Chess Heart could actually be embedded like a chess manual.

It was just that after the Chess Heart was embedded in the physical body path, he successfully passed the threshold, but his love for chess didn't have any decay.

On the contrary, the physical body path, although it passed the state of mind threshold, he didn't have any extra love for the physical body path, and it was still the original normal feeling.

Although the panel could transfer the state of mind, it seemed it couldn't transfer the power of emotion.

And when the physical body path reached the 4th stage, the original numerous Lower Grade body-refining techniques underwent strange changes, all transforming into higher-level cultivation methods on the original basis.

Stone Skin Hundred Refinements transformed into Stone Skin Thousand Refinements, Savage Bull Strength became Bull Demon Savage Strength, the cultivation methods were enhanced, and the effects were also enhanced, all bringing huge improvements to the physical body.

Other numerous Lower Grade cultivation methods were also like this, which caused all parts of his body to undergo new transformations and enhancements. Now, just physical strength reached eighty thousand jin! And several supreme body-refining techniques, although they didn't transform in grade, all entered the Fourth Layer.

It was just that at the Fourth Layer, some special problems were encountered.

Relying solely on heaven and earth energy could no longer satisfy the cultivation conditions of these supreme body-refining techniques. Even if his physical body path continued to improve to the 5th stage, he couldn't erase the requirements of external limiting conditions.

For example, to cultivate the Fourth Layer of the Thousand Flood Dragon Saint Body, one must personally kill a flood dragon, take its soul, refine it into oneself, and subdue and imprison the flood dragon soul, in order to help oneself break through the Zhou Tian and step into the Ji Hun Realm.

The Dragon Cicada Vacuum Body was also like this. The Fourth Layer, Dragon Soul Body, required a drop of True Dragon Essence Blood to be cultivated.

Without solving the external conditions, no matter how much physical body insight he had, even if he knew how to cultivate, it was like a clever woman unable to cook without rice, and there was nothing he could do.

Fortunately, these two cultivation conditions were not difficult for Li Hao to satisfy.

As long as he opened his mouth, Li Muxiu could help him get it done in minutes.

It was just that the Ji Hun methods of these two body-refining cultivation methods both belonged to small paths that took a different approach. Even if successful, they only belonged to the middle stream in the Ji Hun Realm and were not outstanding.

The strength of the Ji Hun Realm depended on the strength of the inheritance brought by the inherited heroic soul.

Therefore, great forces still maintained their advantages in this regard, widening a huge gap with ordinary martial artists.

Like a famous mountain grandmaster, he could let his personal disciples worship before the ancestral heroic soul hall. If they were lucky, they could be favored by the ancestral heroic soul inheritance and reach the sky in one step. This was the supreme level.

After all, those guys who could pass on heroic souls were all old monsters of long ages. Being able to leave behind their own inheritance was at least a Four Standing Realm existence that could defy the heavens and change fate!

Such strength could be counted on one's fingers across Great Yu.

The inheritance of such a trace of soul thought was like a treasure vault key, with infinite benefits.

And martial artists without this kind of foundation and background, unless their aptitude was heaven-defying and they apprenticed in famous mountains, could only choose to inherit the soul in the Wumiao.

The heroic souls in the Wumiao were all meritorious figures of the past dynasties, some strong and some weak, uneven. This depended on the inheritor's own aptitude and character, and which heroic soul in the Wumiao favored them.

Only lastly were the flood dragons, ghosts, monsters, and mountain spirits.

These kinds of great demons were not stingy about bestowing souls, but the soul thoughts of mountain spirits and ghosts were too weak, and the things they could inherit were limited.

Born in the Li family, Li Hao had countless choices, and the best choice among them was to enter the Li family ancestral hall.

There, the ancestors of the Li family were enshrined, from the first generation—the founding Divine General who followed the first emperor of Great Yu to open up the Great Yu territory—to the more than ten generations later, among whom there was no lack of top-tier powerhouses.

And because of the family bloodline, inheriting the soul was easier, which was one of the reasons why martial arts families endured for so long.

Foundation, what is foundation? It is the existence that can be passed down layer by layer.

After successfully inheriting the soul in the Li family ancestral hall, and then continuing to practice the two supreme body-refining techniques, capturing the flood dragon soul and True Dragon soul thought was just strengthening oneself, not entering the realm with it, so the gap was large.

However, before this, Li Hao planned to let his own accumulation become even richer.

Imperial Dao, as he thought, corresponded to normal cultivation.

Qi circulation methods, pulse opening, the Imperial Soul of the future Ji Hun Realm, and even the Shenyou Realm, would likely have to rely on the existence of the Imperial Dao.

Relying on the 3rd stage of Imperial Dao, he cultivated the two Li family supreme Qi circulation methods, and they were perfected.

One had to know that others, even if their aptitude was monstrous, only dared to cultivate one, because every time they cultivated one, it was equivalent to re-cultivating the Tenth Level of the Zhou Tian Realm!

But with the insight of the 3rd stage of Imperial Dao, Li Hao achieved it naturally after practicing several times.

And the two top-tier Qi circulation techniques, compared to the body-refining Qi circulation techniques brought by body refining, had some differences, which caused the overlapping parts to be not as large as the two body-refining Qi circulation techniques, and they intersected extremely much, so a very exaggerated situation appeared.

Li Hao's Zhou Tian circulation, from 143 Zhou Tian circulations, reached one pulse...

248 Zhou Tian circulations! That's right, a very exaggerated degree, which was a full 80 Zhou Tian circulations higher than the 168 Zhou Tian circulations of the imperial family's 'All-Heavens Zhou Tian Art'!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 34 =====