pappabearbooks Chapter 422 - 387: Triple Limit Breaking! Strange Changes in Chaoyuan!
Chapter 422 - 387: Triple Limit Breaking! Strange Changes in Chaoyuan!
Early the next morning, at the Lotus Creek behind Huaqing Pool.Amidst the wind and snow, two spear glows intersected, the sharp crashing sound resounding.
Two waves of momentum collided through the spear tips, beginning their clash in an instant.
For Meng Chuan, it was purely the explosive power of his physique, bringing a shocking force.
Only the rolling white waves followed the spear’s direction, wantonly drifting.
Seeing this scene, Lu Zhuxiao was somewhat shocked.
The reason being, simply, this kid’s capacity was a bit much!
The golden light bursting from his spearhead, more than a foot long, was the embodiment of his manipulation of martial arts momentum.
Clang—!
In the final full-on clash, Lu Zhuxiao felt a sharp pain in his tiger’s mouth, his arms slightly twitching as he struggled to hold onto his spear.
In contrast, Meng Chuan planted his feet firmly, forcefully withstanding the combination of his qi and blood with martial arts momentum’s bombardment, standing as firm as a great bell anchored to the ground.
Though called a stream, under the influence of the weather, it had long frozen into a narrow glacier.
And Meng Chuan and Lu Zhuxiao stood on the ice, reining in their spears.
After the battle, they sat on the ice to regulate their breathing.
Lu Zhuxiao saw the black shell covering Meng Chuan fade away, the colorful mystical light following suit, dissipating slowly.
Shaking his numbed arms, he said helplessly,
"That shell of yours is too hard, it’s worthy of being a Horizontal Training Holy Body, how do you train it to be so monstrous..."
And Meng Chuan’s spear skills, Lu Zhuxiao also felt had greatly improved.
You could see within the movements a certain authoritative power of martialists.
Meng Chuan smiled faintly and said,
"Master Lu, you can also take the time to practice hard skills, there are benefits."
"Sigh... you’re right, I’ll ask Old Dong to teach me later.
Alright, I’ll leave now, I have to go back and stand post, there’s class in the afternoon."
"Okay, Master Lu, you go first, I’ll practice some more boxing."
After Lu Zhuxiao left, Meng Chuan stood up from the glacier, looking toward the panel:
[Snow Walk Fist: Perfection (95%) Pending Limit Breaking]
[Piercing Palm Fist: Perfection (96%) Pending Limit Breaking]
Snow Walk Fist and Piercing Palm Fist, both were recently learned, part of the Five Elements Long Fist lineage.
Benefitting from modern effects and the increasing enhancement of Five Elements martial principles, they reached perfection in a short time.
Retracting his gaze from the panel, Meng Chuan pondered in his heart,
"Today, I’ll break through the limit on both in one go..."
After previously filling the Five Elements Wheel with the characteristics of his War Soul and a new limit-breaking third-tier fire attribute fist,
The proficiency of the Five Elements Qiankun Method had already reached the second limit breaking (95%).
Today, it was time for the third limit breaking!
The snowy scene surrounding him supported this, and within it, his two water attribute fists were executed with a distinct mental realm.
The Snow Walk Fist is easy to understand, while the Piercing Palm Fist emulated the water’s penetrating nature, emphasizing direct strikes and flexible changes.
Though a long fist style, the movements were quick and short, precise like water flowing through narrow crevices.
To break the limit, Meng Chuan’s focus was on "water penetrating every crevice."
Frost scattered, the fist stance fierce, like an ice blade storm from the extreme north, each fist edge carrying a bone-chilling aura.
Meng Chuan’s nostrils flared, already catching the scent of snow.
This scent, enhanced by Qi Observation Skill.
Like the soul of the mountain frozen within ice crystals, shattering with the fist wind to release strands of vitality.
Each strand carried the accumulated memory of Lishan Mountain’s perennial snow.
Its essence was also the spiritual breath of water.
Continuing to execute his fists, the atmosphere around Meng Chuan grew increasingly exaggerated.
This was "borrowing momentum," augmenting his fist techniques with the power of the heavens and earth.
Meeting the heavens with his fists, absorbing nature’s beauty within his moves, condensing the flurrying snow into the cold gleam of his fist’s edge.
Turning the bitter frost wind into a river of spiritual breath surging within his meridians.
Two hours later.
As expected, the panel continuously prompted that both martial arts successfully broke through the limit.
...
"Whew..."
Meng Chuan let out a deep breath, forming a long white mist in the low temperature.
"The Qi Observation Skill is truly marvelous, capturing a natural breath that can assist my cultivation..."
He opened his hand, gazing at the lingering snow mist’s spiritual breath in his palm.
Vaguely observing the natural rhythm circulating within.
"Truly profound..."
If he weren’t practicing martial arts, Meng Chuan might suspect he was cultivating immortality.
But one has to admit, the Daoist cultivation technique does have that lingering flavor...
Not dwelling on these curious thoughts, in an instant, Meng Chuan’s heart spirit reached the panel.
The Five Elements Wheel emerged, dragging the limit-breaking trait of [Snow Walk Fist], named Condensed Frost, onto it.
The effect of the low-level trait [Condensed Frost], Meng Chuan glanced at, and then paid no more attention.
Just like the previously broken through Piercing Palm Fist trait, [Penetrating Cold].
Both were practical combat traits that held little utility to him.
The limit-breaking traits of these ordinary third-tier fist skills mostly couldn’t keep up with Meng Chuan’s growth, not even serving as embellishments.
"For future Five Elements Fist practice, I’ll start from the second-tier.
This minor practical combat trait needs to be accumulated to about ten or eight before it becomes useful..."
The practical combat traits post-limit breaking of third-tier fist skills could only raise his combat base.
For enemies he could defeat swiftly, such traits had no room to play.
Against opponents requiring his full effort and release, the utility of such traits was nonexistent.
With the elevation of martial arts strength, regarding practical combat traits,
He needed effects that could raise his combat ceiling, rather than these "extras."
Of course, it still depends on the next Limit Breaking requirement of the Five Elements Qiankun Method.
If the low-level traits are still useful, it’s not that I can’t continue...
For courses related to the Five Elements Fist, everything prioritizes [Five Qi Chaoyuan] as the highest priority.
A few breaths later, the Five Elements wheel finally digested [Gathering Frost].
The Five Elements Qiankun Method has successfully completed, and the last 5% proficiency is achieved.
On the traits panel, Five Qi Chaoyuan shines brightly, and the second-tier characters are slowly erased.
Meng Chuan focused his mind and looked:
[Five Qi Chaoyuan (third-tier core)]
Effect one: Foundation for the five organs...
Effect two: Five Elements generating each other...
Effect four: Five Elements rotation...
Effect five: Chaoyuan wisdom...
Effect six: The beginning of Chaoyuan, Xingyi Five Elements traits fall under the umbrella of Five Qi Chaoyuan, proficiency can be enhanced (?).
This enhancement still hasn’t resulted in any new effects.
But the effects of the first five have been improved.
It involves the efficiency of spiritual breath conversion, comprehension of Five Elements Fist, and the power of Five Elements Fist technique, as well as the recovery speed of Five Elements True Qi, which has made great progress compared to the second-tier core.
After some insights, Meng Chuan pondered:
"The most crucial thing about the third-tier core is that it has enhanced my Five Elements martial principles.
Like [Molten Core Flame Burst Fist], this low-level true skill Five Elements Fist technique should be relatively easy for me to cultivate..."
Unfortunately, this method is still incomplete and needs to be deduced by myself.
Meng Chuan thinks it might be more worthwhile to cultivate other methods.
His gaze moved to the lowest effect, [The Beginning of Chaoyuan].
Meng Chuan was a bit puzzled; previously, the place of (?) was the Five Elements Qiankun Method.
"Is this... the Five Elements Qiankun Method’s core trait rank, can’t be improved anymore?"
On second thought, his spirit returned to the Martial Arts panel.
[Five Elements Qiankun Method: three times Limit Breaking (1%)]
"Just like the Secret Technique, it lost [awaiting Limit Breaking] and Limit Breaking trait characters..."
Meng Chuan saw for the first time in the Martial Arts panel that he could still continue grinding proficiency, yet unable to break the limit.
The ability to continue grinding means the limit isn’t reached.
But due to some reason, it’s temporarily unable to continue Limit Breaking.
The Five Elements wheel is still there; he tries to drag the newly acquired Subtle Cold trait into it.
The panel dimmed for a second, and the Five Elements wheel pushed out the Subtle Cold trait.
[Condition insufficient, cannot fill.]
Meng Chuan pondered:
"The current situation is very clear, it’s because Five Qi Chaoyuan has ’gone off-track’.
Due to changes in the effect of The Beginning of Chaoyuan, the cultivation technique that can enhance its tier has become (?).
This is because... currently, the Five Elements Qiankun Method is unable to nurture a fourth-tier quality of Five Qi Chaoyuan, right."
What should I do?
The panel flickered, and in the midst of it, Meng Chuan realized:
"Just as the Qiankun Fist transformed into the Qiankun Method, I need to let it transform again, breaking the existing Martial Arts constraints.
Unlike Limit Breaking, which is continuing the deduction on previous foundations, raising the ceiling.
What I need to do is to let the martial arts overall rejuvenate, optimizing and enhancing.
Create a land that can carry more Five Elements martial principles, allowing [Five Qi Chaoyuan] to blossom and bear fruit again."
Practically speaking, with my current martial principles, it’s impossible to create from 0 to 1.
Create a core method of the Xingyi Sect more powerful than the Qiankun Method.
Therefore, it requires ’integration and comprehension’.
Just like how the five ancient martial fists integrated together, comprehending resulted in the Five Elements Spiritual Breath Fist;
Four Doma Hard Skills combined with Brahma’s stat added, comprehended resulted in Brahma Town Prison.
He needs to find a Fist Skill compatible with the Five Elements Fist to try integration and comprehension.
Integration and comprehension require martial arts Limit Breaking.
A fist technique that can encompass metal, wood, water, fire, earth—the overall outline of Five Elements.
He currently has one in his hand, and it’s not far from Limit Breaking either.
"I wonder if these two can be integrated... Let’s first limit break the Spiritual Breath Fist.
Martial arts integration doesn’t have a quantity requirement.
Perhaps after integrating the two techniques, although it can allow Five Qi Chaoyuan to advance again, it might only advance once.
The subsequent five times, six times advancements might still need continued integration..."
Meng Chuan feels, just like Grandmaster Chen Qiushui previously mentioned, martial arts are like rivers converging to the sea, deducing the principle of Divine Skill.
If I keep integrating and comprehending the Five Elements Qiankun Method like this.
Maybe it can ’synthesize’ a Five Elements Divine Skill...
"Let’s not think about these for now. Since the Five Elements Fist cannot be advanced temporarily, let’s move the training time of the third-tier Five Elements Fist to Thunderbolt Scatterhand and Five Lightning Strikes.
Breaking Two is imminent, by then the progression of two fist techniques will considerably increase the Qi Blood Value, just to fill the second major limit’s circulation of celestial bodies..."
The 355 serious acupuncture points are these stars.
If one wants to achieve perfection in the second limit, it requires 35,550 points of Qi Blood Value.
Such quantity cannot be underestimated, Meng Chuan is already planning ahead, ’stuck’ on the timing of technique progression.
...
To advance to the second major limit early, heart technique cultivation cannot stop.
With his physique’s strength, Meng Chuan is not afraid of the severe cold on Lishan Mountain’s peak, and he sits down to start cultivation on the spot.
Two hours later, as the meridians conveyed a sense of soreness, today’s major circulation practice ends.
A prompt sounded in his mind, on the panel, the progress of the final sprint is nearly half:
[Tao Heart Demon Planting: Layer 4 (44%) → (45%)]
"Achieving perfection in the fourth layer within next month, breaking the second limit, is certain!"
Meng Chuan has listened to Grandmaster Chen talk many times, martial artists advancing to the second major limit, need to fulfill these conditions: