Chapter 88: Chapter 79: The Three Realms of Essence, Qi, and Spirit
"Betting on my grandfather’s name, I must uncover this secret."
Professor Naxika was born into a noble knight family, staking the family’s honor on this.
Her mind worked rapidly, connecting the threads and traces.
Boom!
"The truth..."
She vaguely felt she had grasped something.
Over the years, she continually visited the American continent, researching ancient myths, not only wanting to study historical civilizations’ relics but also seeking the possibility of breaking through the fourth realm within them!
Previously, the historical records she visited were very vague.
But now, having crossed a distant space-time wormhole, this ancient myth of "killing Jiaxia" was extremely detailed and real!
She believed that indeed, when Jiaxia was about to depart, she hid the possibility of the fourth realm within.
Now, as she pondered, this possibility grew larger.
Gradually, she felt she’d seen faint glimpses of the true historical text in this Witch’s Library amidst these half-true, half-false ancient tablets....
The truth of history!
"I must experiment!"
Naxika exclaimed in this ancient stone tablet library, "Li Yi, let’s go and meet His Highness Yudula. I have some terrible suspicion that needs verification!"
"Ah?"
Li Yi was puzzled but went to meet the witch.
They traversed the bustling witch streets, arriving at the magnificent tower palace.
Yudula sat high above, with an unimaginable grand presence, filaments of spirit threads blurred the surrounding space-time like willow branches, overlooking below and asking, "Oh, have you seen through the possibility of the fourth realm?"
"Yes."
Naxika smiled, her expression solemn, "The distant prehistoric stories are always lengthy. Through tablets, I have thoroughly restored the truth about prehistoric Jiaxia.... Please listen to me narrate patiently."
What is the historical truth about Jiaxia?
Fu Qingjun secretly came to the hall, this dazed angel listened slightly shocked, slightly surprised.
"Your Highness!"
A witch guard beside exclaimed.
This was the mentor of the Witch Ancestor Yudula, rumored to be a mysteriously powerful being who brought ancient civilization and witchcraft systems.
Unknown how long it had been since its appearance.
How come now?
"Keep it down." Fu Qingjun smiled, placing a finger on the witch’s soft lips.
...
"Great Witch Ancestor!"
"First, please allow me to explain some content regarding realms."
In the magnificent palace, Professor Naxika boldly stated: "According to our world, Martial Arts Realm is divided into three, Muscle Weight, Called Bone, Breaking God! Can be called Essence, Qi, and Spirit, the three great realms."
"Essence, Qi, Spirit?" Yudula sat elegantly in wizard’s black robes on the throne, holding a snow-white writhing snail staff, smiling faintly.
Then we are Essence, Qi, and Spirit?
Professor Naxika, with a serious face, said: "Muscle Weight is refining essence, seemingly hammering muscles. According to enemy scientists, frantically dissecting martial artists found, not only do martial men hone over six hundred muscles through stake work, they even reach a realm called Muscle Weight Great Perfection!"
"Muscle Weight Great Perfection divides into eleven realms, each honing the final eleven ’internal muscles’."
"Eleven internal muscles?"
"We found they are the five internal organs and six bowels!"
"By perfectly mastering movement, the tremors of over six hundred muscles vibrate the final eleven of heart, kidneys..."
"Muscle Weight Great Perfection is actually nine deaths, one life!"
"A slight mistake leads to demonization, heavily causing heart rupture, arrhythmia, lightly injuring kidneys, rendering one lifelong broken, infertile!"
Baiyu from a medical family naturally has immensely powerful kidney-piercing skills based on this principle.
Naxika solemnly stated: "This is Muscle Weight Realm! Seemingly simple first realm, yet terrifying! Ordinary people won’t train to perfection because the Great Perfection is too scary and difficult!"
In reality, without breaking Muscle Weight Great Perfection, one directly enters Called Bone, begins bone cultivation, lifelong achievements aren’t high, can’t enter Grandmaster.
That’s why in many gangs, though many Called Bone Realm experts seem numerous, only a few Called Bone experts are valued.
Like Miao Chun Hall.
Called Bone experts are not just two, but only Baiyu and Little Trumpet are treated as leaders.
Other Called Bone experts, though their muscles and bones are terrifying, haven’t fully honed the five internal organs and six bowels, directly broke through, leading to weak points in one or two internal organs, a fatal flaw.
The heart muscle is usually the hardest to train.
In combat, the heart wildly beats, blood surges, can’t bear fierce fighting.
A perfect Muscle Weight Realm master can control internal organs’ movement, rapidly transposing, evading vital points in the abdomen, internal organs gracefully dancing in battle, a non-human feat!
Devil Muscle Martial Arts...
This was why Fu Qingjun found this WWII world extraordinarily mysterious and eerie.
Unknown who passed it down, such fear!
Naxika continued: "Second realm, Called Bone."
"Through eleven internal muscles and over six hundred external muscles, starting with specific internal energy, vibrates increasingly hard bones, continually exercising over two hundred bones throughout the body."
"Ultimately, powerful bones generate blood, tendons and bones return to life and nurture Qi, this is known as returning to the innate skeletal structure!"
"The body will manifest a mysterious energy named Inner Qi, capable of constantly nourishing the body, enhancing its terrifying regeneration ability. Unless completely severed, even if a piece of flesh is cut off, it can gradually recover."
"This is called the Bone Realm, increasingly superhuman, with Inner Qi surging within the body, constantly adjusting, it can be called nurturing Qi."
Nurturing Qi?
Yudula pondered deeply.
The other party’s Martial Dao cultivates Inner Qi, yet in their realm, what is cultivated is... Telekinesis.
"It appears, the second Bone Realm is indeed nurturing Qi... Our foundational differences cause the Qi we nurture to branch out at this realm!" Yudula muses to herself.
Professor Naxika smiles, "The Third Realm, Breaking God, is forging the body’s last mysterious forbidden area, the brain! It’s the forging of the soul, seeing through oneself, then knowing who I am."
"I see, this is the essence, Qi, spirit of your world’s three realms." Yudula smiles.
"I might have already touched upon the true historical secret."
Excited, she loudly says, "If I’m not mistaken, the beings indeed guessed it back then! Jiaxia, the deity, deliberately remained in the Third Realm to have beings slay him, symbolizing the breaking of inner gods, smashing reverence, with painstaking intent!"
"Oh?" Yudula feigned confusion, "Isn’t the Third Realm of Martial Dao breaking God? Then why is Jiaxia’s Fourth Realm indication also breaking God?"
"These are different gods."
Professor Naxika excitedly says, "The Third Realm is knowing who one is, awakening the true self within. In contrast, Jiaxia signifies breaking reverence, breaking fear within, breaking the soul’s confinement."
Yudula nods, "I see, the Third Realm is understanding the heart, the Fourth Realm is breakthrough!"
"However, just that alone is insufficient!"
Naxika says, "Jiaxia’s divine oracle, the world guessed half, hence the constant inability to break through."
Yudula grows curious.
Naxika speaks sternly, "In reality, if the Fourth Realm was merely breaking the spiritual limit again, then in our civilization era, spanning over four thousand years, breakthroughs should have existed!"
She loudly declares, "I have researched so much archaeology!"
"In the long years, time flies, countless geniuses, historical records of teenage Grandmasters, prodigies are not uncommon, yet ultimately end as nothing but bones and dust!"
Yudula, completely agreeing with this logic.
If it were purely a mental issue, among their billions, surely there would have been breakthroughs.
"I personally believe that the Fourth Realm requires two layers of difficulty, one being heart’s lock, the other body lock!" Naxika says.
Heart lock, was just mentioned, breaking spiritual confinement, what does body lock entail? Breaking physical confinement?
All were puzzled.
Body confinement is a hard condition, one that is insurmountable?
Naxika elaborated, "When Jiaxia faced the encirclement assault on earth, what did he say? He claimed his true form wasn’t that frail!"
"Please observe."
She brings out a battle mural.
In it, a muscular giant comparable to the Divine Mountain gazes down upon the earth.
"Subsequently, the body of the Ancient God furiously swells, reaching an inhuman realm, indescribably twisted form, destroying all beings..."
"Indeed, at this point, it’s a form no normal life can achieve! Transcending ’human’, Jiaxia is a supreme life form unknown and beyond human."
That mural, a flood of muscles covering the sky, reminiscent of Van Gogh’s Starry Night abstract ink painting, an arm’s innumerable muscles explode open like bamboo, transforming into muscle tendrils overwhelming the world.
"Are you saying..."
All vaguely sense unveilment of historical mysteries.
"Yes." Naxika states, "Breaking the human lock, transcending the genetic limits of the human species, perhaps called a genetic lock."
"Long periods, from evolution until now, humans have limits."
"Our genes inform us of the body’s limits, this is a protective mechanism."
She proclaimed, voice echoing in the hall, filled with confidence,
"For instance, if our genes dictate our muscles can only lift objects a thousand pounds, even Martial Arts Grandmasters possessing transcendent strength cannot lift,"
"For the body immediately warns, such a feat would injure one’s body."
"Animals lacking this protective mechanism, through the long evolutionary history of our planet, have already been eliminated due to muscle strain, severe injuries, leading to incapability to hunt, becoming prey and being phased out."
"Yet at this moment, this genetic constraint power protecting the continuation of our race through evolution, becomes a lock preventing our species’ advancement to the next stage."
"I name it, Naxika’s biological self-lock theory!" Naxika enthusiastically states, "I must publish this internationally, as an outstanding conjecture."
Yudula smiles.
Others are confused, but she comprehends.
"So, how do you propose breaking this genetic lock?"
Naxika explained, "This deep life lock is distributed within each cell, almost impossible to break, constantly limiting our physiological maximum."
"No!" Naxika earnestly declares, "In ancient prophecies, Jiaxia, descending from the heavens, would lead ground civilization to glory."
"In his final moments, he already provided us the means to break through the Fourth Realm!"
"Oh?"
"Moreover, there are two kinds!" Naxika looks worshipful.
This revelation shocks everyone.
Within Jiaxia’s historical records, they saw none at all.
Yet here, Naxika, this historian professor, has discerned as many as two kinds?