Chapter 137: Breaking Through the Xuanwu Realm

  Xuán Wǔ Realm is the first hurdle that martial cultivators need to overcome. Almost all ordinary martial cultivators are stuck below Xuán Wǔ Realm and cannot break through no matter how hard they cultivate their entire lives.

  That's why when sects choose their disciples, they will select those with higher innate talent. Even if they are not ordinary geniuses, they will look for those who are better than average martial artists. However, even so, ordinary martial artists can hardly break through the Xuanwu Realm, even if they take the Xuanwu Pill.

  Because ordinary martial artists can reach the 9th level of Qi Wu Realm, it generally takes a lifetime to achieve. Even children from families with cultivation resources need 40-50 years to do so. For example, Qin Tianhu is already nearly 50 years old, but he has only reached the 8th level of Qi Wu Realm and still has some distance from reaching the 9th level.

  Ordinary geniuses have a relatively small chance of breaking through the Xuanwu realm. The distinction between genius levels is not only the speed of cultivation, but also the extent to which they can reach. Of course, it's not that one must reach the level of a genius in order to break through; rather, without reaching this level, martial artists will find it very difficult to succeed, and such cases are extremely rare.

  From this point of view, those geniuses with cultivation speeds that are tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of times faster than terrifying ones are no longer so. However, in any case, the Xuanwu Realm is the first hurdle for martial artists, it's the breakthrough from internal to external Qi, if there is no realm, attribute Qi or powerful martial skills, these things that can help martial artists fight across levels, then the nine-layered Qi Wu Realm martial artist will absolutely not be able to compare with a one-layered Xuanwu Realm martial artist, this is the difference.

  Qin Yong is currently facing the hurdle of breaking through the first level of the Xuanwu Realm. At this moment, Qin Yong is circulating not true energy but rather pre-heavenly sword energy. In essence, there is no difference. Currently, Qin Yong must not only condense the pre-heavenly sword energy to form a qualitative change that can be emitted from his body, but also expand his meridians and acupoints to meet the conditions for releasing true energy externally. Even though Qin Yong has already reached eight times the speed of cultivation and has the boost from the Wu Xing pattern, it is still not easy for him to achieve these things.

  The congenital sword energy is running, absorbing the spiritual energy to expand, and gathering in the dantian. Qin Yong cultivates the congenital sword energy on one hand, and uses it to temper his tendons and acupoints on the other. The congenital sword energy technique tempers the three major tendons and fifty-six acupoints, which is the key to breaking through the first level of the Xuanwu Realm.

  With sword in hand, the sword's spirit is refined, the sword's courage is tempered, the sword's will is concentrated, and my sword is the sword of the world!

  At this time, Qin Yong was silently reciting the 27-word mantra of the Xiantian Sword Qi, and at this time, Qin Yong, who had grasped half of the sword intent, actually felt that the half of the sword intent was gradually solidifying during his silent recitation, advancing towards a complete sword intent.

  This situation made Qin Yong's heart move slightly, and the twenty-seven-word mantra of this innate sword intent technique was indeed mysterious and unparalleled. Before, he had not grasped the intention of the sword, only feeling that it was extraordinary, but now he had a more intuitive experience, perhaps this mantra could help him refine his sword intent, which was an unexpected gain.

  It was only Qin Yong who understood that breaking through the realm of intent was not easy, and it was not something that could be achieved overnight. Unless one consumed heavenly treasures or certain elixirs, they would not be able to achieve such an effect, and these treasures were hard to come by. Qin Yong had been extremely lucky to obtain the Clear Wind Intent Fruit and the Flowing Cloud Water Intent Fruit. Even if he had possessed his current amount of luck points back then, he believed that they would have been completely depleted when he obtained the treasure.

  At this time, wanting to break through the sword intent is clearly an undesirable idea. Otherwise, Qin Yong would have stopped cultivating his innate sword energy and instead focused on understanding the sword intent. Now, Qin Yong can only put all his attention on cultivating his innate sword energy.

  Jian Xin Hua Jing, Jian Dan Lian Qi, Jian Yi Ning Shen. The twelve words in the incantation are the cultivation of essence, energy and spirit, as well as the key to breaking through the Xiantian Sword Energy. To break through the Xiantian Sword Energy, one must start from here. Qin Yong's Xiantian Sword Energy has already possessed wind attributes at this time, although it is powerful, but the difficulty of cultivation has increased.

  The innate sword energy finally returned to the dantian under Qin Yong's operation and converged together. At this time, the innate sword energy was constantly gathering towards the dantian. In the past, doing so would only harm the dantian, as it exceeded its own saturation state. But now, Qin Yong was trying to break through, and the simplest way was to trigger a qualitative change through quantitative changes.

  The congenital sword energy converged together, and at this time the congenital wind sword energy was like a whirlwind, rotating and moving forward, driving more congenital sword energy. Slowly, the congenital sword energy began to compress and merge, which was a very good phenomenon, but it also brought an enormous burden to Qin Yong.

  The fusion of the innate sword energy produced a shockwave, causing Qin Yong's internal energy and blood to become unstable, and his body was secretly painful. More seriously, the original innate sword energy that had been walking towards the dantian in an orderly manner became violent and rapid under the influence of this pulling force, which made the muscles and veins bear even greater pressure.

  Fortunately, Qin Yong's tendons and ligaments were extremely resilient, and although he felt pain, there was no sign of fracture, which made Qin Yong slightly relieved. Nevertheless, Qin Yong still had to muster up his spirit and carefully control himself, ready to stop the breakthrough at any moment if something unexpected happened.

  At this time, with the rotation, compression and fusion of the innate sword energy, the collection of quantities is compressed together, making the innate sword energy gradually stronger. The original innate sword energy was only at the level of ninefold Qi Wu, unable to be released externally, but now it has begun to transform and metamorphose.

  Qin Yong's momentum was also rising steadily, originally already reaching the peak of the 9th layer of Qi Wu Realm, and although he still hadn't broken through at this time, he became even stronger. The extreme limit at the peak, half a step into Xuan Wu Realm, an even higher level.

  Qin Yong's breakthrough seemed to be slowing down, but this was the most critical period. After a brief lull, what followed was bound to be a sudden and drastic breakthrough, just like the First Heaven Sword Qi, so was the momentum. Qin Yong, who was completely focused on his cultivation, was now drenched in sweat, gritting his teeth, making the final sprint.

  Finally, Qin Yong's momentum reached its ultimate limit and stopped here. Qin Yong's face also flashed, and he turned pale, his body swaying as if he was about to fall down. This situation seemed to be on the verge of defeat, but what followed was a brief pause and then a sudden explosion.

  Clap! Clap! Clap!

  Qin Yong's momentum suddenly reached a new height, with Qin Yong as the center, a strong gust of wind blew up, blowing Qin Yong's clothes to flutter and making a rustling sound.

  Qin Yong's originally pale face, however, instantly recovered, and he completely steadied himself. His eyes snapped open, a sharp glint flashed through them, and his entire being seemed to be elevated, completely different from before.

  "The first level of the Xuanwu Realm has finally been broken through." Qin Yong revealed a faint smile, and his whole person suddenly relaxed, feeling as if he had gone through dozens of battles, but his body was full of vitality, with strength far surpassing before.