Five years have passed in a flash. Over the past five years, the Mingjiao has flourished under the leadership of Xiao Ziyu. Not to mention its apparent strength, it is not comparable to the six major sects.
The number of this secret army reached one hundred thousand, and these troops were all elite soldiers who had been on the battlefield. In the past five years, due to the Ming Cult's fueling the flames, rebels in various places continued to spring up like bamboo shoots.
This made the Mongolian court extremely upset, which was one of the reasons why Xiao Ziyu and the others were able to develop their power with peace of mind.
Of course, Xiao Ziyu has never relaxed his martial arts. In the past five years, in addition to dealing with some major matters of the Ming Cult, he has spent more time in retreat and creating new martial arts.
Fortunately, with the help of Zhang Sanfeng, he now uses Zixia Magic as the basis, plus many Taoist internal skills and mental methods, and finally allows him to create a new internal skills and mental method. Although it is just a new one, it is better than Zixia Magic.
Said it was a lot higher.
At least this new martial arts mental method can support him in cultivating to the peak of innateness.
When he was in Tianwu Continent, during the communication process with Yang Yu, he learned about the main divisions of the innate realm. The innate realm, like the acquired realm, has three realms.
The first state is the Qi Condensation stage. The warrior opens the double bridge of heaven and earth, receives the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and converts all the true energy in his Dantian into the city's innate true energy, and can release the true energy to the outside.
After that, there is the True Gang realm where Qi is transformed into Gang. In this realm, the warrior can use the innate True Qi to form a Gang wall outside the body, just like the sweeping monk in The Eight Parts of the Sky and the Dragon. When fighting Murong Bo and the others,
, an invisible wall of air appeared in front of him.
The last realm is the realm of skeuomorphism, where one can transform one's true energy into various objects outside the body.
The simple explanation is to use the infuriating energy to transform it into a sword or anything else, and then attack from a distance.
As for what realms there are after Xiantian, Yang Yu didn't say much at that time. After all, at that time, Xiao Ziyu was just a warrior of the seventh level of acquired heaven, which was still very far away from Xiantian, let alone one above Xiantian.
However, at that time, Yang Yu told Xiao Ziyu that if he cultivated to the innate realm, even if he was lucky enough to reach the last innate realm, he should not rush to the next realm.
Instead, let him open up more acupoints.
Xiao Ziyu didn't know what this meant at the time, but now he somewhat understands it.
After breaking through to the innate realm, he realized that if he wanted to increase his strength, he had to open up the acupoints all over his body. The more acupoints he opened, the more innate energy he would condense, and the more solid it would be.
Of course, this was all thanks to Zhang Sanfeng telling him.
Otherwise, if it were him, it would definitely take several years or more to figure it out. Therefore, he was extremely grateful to Zhang Sanfeng, and at the same time, he sincerely affirmed his decision to stay in this Yitian world.
With a martial arts master like Zhang Sanfeng, he would have avoided many detours.
In the past five years, he has continued to practice, and at this time he has only opened thirty-six acupoints. This is all thanks to the new inner strength method he created.
If it weren't for it, he might only be able to open twelve acupoints.
However, he had already reached a bottleneck at this time. If he wanted to continue to open the acupoints, he could only continue to complete his new skills, and then find new acupoints to open them.
Of course, he can also choose to break through the second innate realm, turn Qi into Gang, and become the True Gang realm. In this case, his strength will also increase.
But Xiao Ziyu knew that in this way, his future achievements would probably be very low.
Although he didn't know how many acupoints around his body could be opened, there were definitely more than these thirty-six. At least Zhang Sanfeng had opened two hundred and forty acupoints.
When compared with him, Xiao Ziyu is not on the same level at all.
Of course, Zhang Sanfeng had achieved his innate breakthrough decades earlier than Xiao Ziyu. In these decades, Zhang Sanfeng did not know what realm would follow this innate realm.
So he kept looking for acupuncture points all over his body and opened them up.
It wasn't until Xiao Ziyu broke through Xiantian and told him about the divisions of realms in Xiantian that he found the path to cultivation.
So three years ago, the other party began to break through the realm of turning Qi into Gang, and moved towards the third innate realm of imitation.
With two hundred and forty acupoints opened, Zhang Sanfeng's strength is simply terrifying. Even Xiao Ziyu will never be able to take Zhang Sanfeng's ten moves now.
Even Xiao Ziyu now chooses to break through the Zhen Gang realm, but facing Zhang Sanfeng, he also knows that when he fights with Zhang Sanfeng, he is already satisfied if he can catch the opponent's thirty moves.
Therefore, Xiao Ziyu also attached great importance to opening up the acupoints at this time, and secretly decided that he must open up more acupoints before trying to break through, at least no less than these two hundred and forty acupoints.
After all, Zhang Sanfeng can open up these two hundred and forty acupoints, but there is no reason why he, Xiao Ziyu, can't. Although Zhang Sanfeng is a great master of martial arts, at least he, Xiao Ziyu, also has an artifact like the Starry Sky Sect. If this is not as good as Zhang Sanfeng, then
How can he talk about becoming an immortal through martial arts and returning to earth?
Of course, if Xiao Ziyu could practice Zhang Sanfeng's own skills, then he would definitely open up the 240 acupoints.
But in the end Xiao Ziyu rejected this idea.
After all, it is Zhang Sanfeng's own martial arts path. He can learn from it, but he can never use it for practice. After all, he also has his own martial arts path.
All the exercises that Zhang Sanfeng learned were one-third of the Nine Sun Divine Kung Fu, with a touch of Buddhist martial arts. Although later Zhang Sanfeng had the opportunity to acquire Taoist martial arts, and with his intelligence, he integrated the two martial arts.
Dao, walked out of his own martial arts.
And Xiao Ziyu's own martial arts foundation is completely Taoist, and everything is based on Zixia magical power.
"Alas! It seems that we are looking for that old Taoist Zhang again. I wonder what state this old Taoist's martial arts has reached in the past two years?"
After Xiao Ziyu put down the mental technique he created, he looked out the window and said lightly.
Two years ago, Zhang Sanfeng told Xiao Ziyu that he wanted to break through the True Gang Realm. Xiao Ziyu immediately rushed over, watched the opponent break through, and then fought with the opponent. In the end, he was defeated without even ten moves, and he was completely defeated.
He even felt that Zhang Sanfeng did not use his full strength.
But afterwards, Xiao Ziyu asked the veteran why he didn't continue to open up all the acupoints all over his body.
As a result, the other party said sadly: "I don't have much time, do you?"
This sentence shocked him immediately, reminding him that Zhang Sanfeng was already over one hundred and ten years old.
You must know that masters in the innate realm can only live for a maximum of one hundred and twenty-six years. Even if they reach the peak of innate cultivation, they will only increase their life span by ten or twenty years.
And Zhang Sanfeng only has ten or twenty years left to live. If he doesn't choose to make a breakthrough, he may not be able to make a breakthrough in his lifetime.
Besides, they don't know what realm is beyond innateness, so they can only explore it on their own, which is bound to take time.
Therefore, after Zhang Sanfeng opened the 240 acupoints, he stopped and chose to break through.