Longevity Martial Arts: Starting from Inner Core Skill

The Dao of Letters emerged into the world; the news of Lin Chao breaking through four realms in a single day spread throughout Datong.

All living beings knew that a brand new path had appeared, and it was even possible to break through four realms in a single day.

For a time, countless beings aspired to embark on this path.

But Vast Righteous Qi is difficult to cultivate, and it also requires an extremely high level of scholarly knowledge in the Dao of Letters—very few true cultivators existed. Despite this, a substantial number still entered this path.

Datong's official stance also demonstrated great importance, providing an abundance of support.

From then on, every branch of Datong College had its own cultivation system, which expanded once again, increasing its influence even further.

And according to Lin Chao, his success in establishing the Dao of Letters was because he had been favored by a predecessor in the Book Collection Pavilion, where he obtained the legacy from those who came before.

Then the others came to realize that the predecessor had showed up in the Book Collection Pavilion of Datong College, causing a dramatic increase in visitors to the Pavilion. Everyone wanted to become the second Lin Chao, or if not, even just gaining some guidance was considered worthwhile.

At this moment, Wang Sheng had already returned to Qingshan Village and no longer paid attention to the Book Collection Pavilion, naturally unaware of these events.

With Lin Chao entering the path, aiding him in taking that critical step, he naturally intended to complete it.

"Lin Chao's Vast Righteous Qi was extracted from complex energies, recognized by the starry skies. Vast Righteous Qi is Yang to the extreme, rigid to the core, and one of the purest forces in the world. When extracting it..."

He recalled the process of Lin Chao's enlightenment, modifying Lin Chao's method of attaining Vast Righteous Qi and immediately absorbed some Life Essence Qi, applying the method to it.

"Indeed, the energies composing Life Essence Qi are very complex..."

If the diffusion of spiritual power was a blend of two colors, then Life Essence Qi was like a radiant spectrum.

In Wang Sheng's eyes, the scattered energies of Life Essence Qi—usable and non-usable—were all entangled together, like a bundle of strings mixed up, one single strand could cause the entire thing to become even more tangled.

For seven or eight years, Wang Sheng sorted through energies, trying to comb through and identify the essential energies, but even with the divine thought of the Ninth Realm, it was not easy.

It seemed that to utilize Life Essence Qi, one must endure a price.

Yet this time, he gained an inspiration out of the blue and finally began to sort through it.

Others might only be able to sort out part of the energies, obtaining only relatively pure Life Essence Qi, unable to reach the utmost limit.

But Wang Sheng was different—at the moment of his initiation, a new progress bar appeared before his eyes.

"Life Essence Qi Sorting Method: 1%"

Once the progress was complete, he would be able to separate out completely pure Life Essence Qi, just like Pure Spiritual Power.

"I've finally done it..."

With the appearance of the progress bar, Wang Sheng let out a huge sigh of relief.

All he needed now that the progress bar had appeared was time to sort.

He continued to sort through the diffused Life Essence Qi, improving the progress. It wouldn't take long to see results.

He took a deep breath and slowly pulled out a "thread" of entangled "lines," but as he did, other "threads" moved along.

Pull one hair and the whole body is affected.

Yet as Wang Sheng employed the recently developed method, the other "threads" seemed to be pinned down, similar to forcibly extracting one from a tangled bundle of many threads. But as he drew it out, the bundle became tighter. A more efficient method was needed, and that method was "Sorting."

With the start of sorting, the progress also gradually increased.

Time passed in this way, and the new calendar year of 72 arrived.

Wang Sheng cultivated while lifting the progress of the "Sorting Method."

After two years, he finally brought the progress of the "Sorting Method" to a hundred percent.

And now in his hands was a mass of pure Life Essence Qi, emitting a faint white glow, with the breath of life continuously emanating.

"So this is what pure Life Essence Qi is like, still complex, but without negative forces, ready for direct absorption..."

Without hesitation, Wang Sheng absorbed the Life Essence Qi in his hands.

The amount of Life Essence Qi was not much, the improvement not significant, but Wang Sheng could clearly feel his own advancement.

"Qi-Blood, spiritual power, strength, and other areas all improved, although it is a composite force, there is a bias, and the enhancement of the physical body is higher than that of the spiritual aspect, which suits me."

Life Essence Qi had a stronger effect on the improvement of Qi-Blood, strength, and other aspects, just as he had estimated, and perfectly complemented Pure Spiritual Power.

"In the future, the elixirs used to enhance cultivation can be made at a slower pace. It could shift towards other aspects, like energy recovery, healing injuries, and similar matters..."

After obtaining both Pure Spiritual Power and pure Life Essence Qi, the need for Blood Creation Pills might not disappear, but their frequency of use would surely decrease.

They would only be used as a substitute for cultivation when Pure Spiritual Power was insufficient.

However, as elixirs represent significant potential, he would not abandon them, just change the direction.

Of course, these were for the spare moments of ordinary cultivation. For now, he was to separate out the diffused Life Essence Qi accumulated over many years.

"Who knows how much the speed of cultivation can be increased!"

...

The separation did not require him to do it bit by bit, but was like separating Pure Spiritual Power, setting up a similar program in the Virtual World for automatic separation. He only needed to take what he required.

Once the setup was complete, he could directly take it.

This task did not consume much of Wang Sheng's time, but in the process of establishing the "program," Wang Sheng discovered another use of the "Sorting Method"—sorting the path of the Inner Core Skill.