Sovereign to Immortality

Chapter 135 – Martial Realm

This aura rose from within the hut, and it was as if a ferocious tiger was lying on the peak of a mountain, overlooking its entire life from afar. Ouyang Xulin suddenly had a feeling of insignificance, and that majestic aura was no longer the undulating aura from before, but instead, was like a mountain standing in front of him, towering and unmoving.

Pressure, Ouyang Xulin who had long since advanced in martial arts realm for nearly two years, felt pressure from the aura that surged out from the hut!

As for Yang Junshan, who was in the hut, after he converted all of the condensed spirit energy from the three Immortal roots into spirit essence, more than half of the spirit energy in his Immortal Foundation was already empty.

At this time, the last four Wutu Essence Stones under Yang Junshan had been activated by the Wutu Spiritual Art, and the tottering Spirit Convergence Array finally collapsed on its own, while the unending flow of Wutu Essence Qi was converted into Wutu Spirit Essence within Yang Junshan’s body, and converged onto the three great Immortal Roots, until they reached their maximum capacity.

This process continued for an entire seven days. When all of the spirit energy in his body and the three great Immortal Deity Roots had been converted into spirit essence, Yang Junshan finally started to open his dantian, officially breaking through his martial arts realm.

Spiritual essence rushed out from the three Immortal roots and flowed along the meridians in his body to his dantian which was three inches below his abdomen. At this moment, everything suddenly converged, as if it was waiting for the final moment.

Just as the three spirit energies converged at the location of the Dantian, a strange vibration suddenly came from the inside of his body. Even though Yang Junshan had experienced it once, he could not help but palpitate.

Dantian open!

The moment the three raging waves of spirit energy met each other, even if it could break through the dantian, the spirit energy tide would at the same time cause destruction to the cultivator’s body. Moreover, the higher the cultivation, the more immortal roots one had, and the more spirit energy they would have, the more violent the surge of spirit energy would be, causing greater damage to the body.

If a cultivator’s physical body could not hold out at this time, then he would either have to interrupt his advancement in time and perhaps have a chance of making a comeback in the future. Or, he could takisk and continue to have a successful fleshly body, and if he did not succeed, his dantian and physical body would both be damaged, and he would have no hope of advancing even if he managed to preserve his life.

In fact, this was the last reason why the majority of the cultivators at the peak of the Mortal Realm had lost all hope of advancing their martial arts realm. Furthermore, the more cultivators with good aptitude, the greater the impact one would have on their physical body when sprinting into the martial arts realm. It was unknown just how many geniuses in the cultivation world before the martial arts realm had ended up stuck at the Mortal Realm their entire lives just because their physical bodies were weak and could not withstand the impact of the spirit energy tide.

From the very start of his cultivation, Yang Junshan had been practicing body forging, first it was the low rank Frenzied Bull’s Fist, then it was the top rank Mountain Monarch’s Map, and then it was even more mysterious and unfathomable. At the same time he had trained in four to five different types of middle rank body forging, although he was confident that his body, which was comparable to that of a Martial Realm Cultivator’s, would be able to withstand the impact of the Spirit Yuan Wave, the moment his Dantian was opened, the feeling of almost causing all the flesh and bones in his body to fall apart, Yang Junshan’s heart couldn’t help but palpitate.

Not only was he able to “see” everything around the hut clearly, he could even see the terrified expression on Ouyang Xulin’s face as he looked towards the hut through the shed. He could even see the rapid movement of the mortals outside the courtyard in order to make a living, and Yang Junshan wanted to continue extending his “gaze”, but unexpectedly, he felt his vision turn black, and his entire body seemed to sink down. Yang Junshan suddenly opened his eyes, and the pitch black hut seemed to light up at the same time!

Yang Junshan knew that the strange feeling he had previously was only formed after his spirit sense was born, but based on the range that his spirit sense had covered, his spirit sense seemed to be able to cover an area of one hundred and forty meters.

After Zhang Yueming advanced into the martial arts realm, his spiritual sense was able to coveadius of several hundred meters, and could exceed his by several tens of meters. Yang Junshan felt that it wasn’t much, after all, the will of his soul was much stronger and tougher than those of the same age as him in his two lifetimes.

However, this was not the time to be paying attention to all these. The most important thing was to check on the situation of his Dantian being opened, since his spirit sense had already been born, Yang Junshan was able to use his inner vision, and was able to control his inner organs more and more smoothly.

In the chaos, the mountain range like object gradually became clear, but Yang Junshan’s dantian was actually a small hill!

In his previous life, the dantian that Yang Junshan opened up after advancing to the martial arts realm had been manifested as a field, but at that time, he cultivated the Overlapping Earth Spirit Art that was passed down in his family. Now that he changed to Wutu Spiritual Art, it wasn’t surprising for his dantian to appear as a small hill.

knew that because his father cultivated the Overcast Earth Spirit Art, his Dantian was no different from Yang Junshan’s in his previous life, they were all in the same stage. As for her mother, Han Xiumei, who trained in the wood type of the Eternal Spring Arts, her Dantian would transform intine tree; His seventh uncle, An Xia, cultivated a technique that was related to wind, while his Dantian would transform into a dragon.

His spiritual consciousness descended on his Dantian. Because the nine foot tall mound had just materialized, not only did it look short, it was also bare from the foot of the mountain. There was only black and yellow soil and stones.

The fact that Yang Junshan’s dantian had manifested into a nine feet mound meant that Yang Junshan’s dantian had been opened extremely perfectly. The quality had almost reached the pinnacle in the midst of his martial arts realm and it had at least had a much greater potential than the six feet of land that Yang Junshan had opened up during his previous life when he first advanced to the martial arts realm.

With the birth of his spirit consciousness and the establishment of his Dantian, the spirit energy in his body surged and after fusing with his dantian, it turned into mud stones within his dantian. However, no matter how much spirit energy was poured into Yang Junshan’s body, the mud rocks were all stacked at the bottom of the mountain, unable to increase the height of the mound even a little.

At this time, Yang Junshan could clearly feel everything that was happening in his body, although his Dantian had successfully opened up and manifested, but Yang Junshan’s body was not even slightly harmed by the impact of the Spirit Qi tide.

Although Yang Junshan only had three Immortal Roots, and his Innate talent was only considered normal, any one of his Immortal Roots were nurtured far more than ordinary cultivators, and the amount of Spirit Essence contained inside was half or even double that of ordinary cultivators. The ferocity of the Spirit Essence Tide was not inferior to the cultivators with the best Innate talent, so it could be seen that Yang Junshan’s physical body was already far stronger than any ordinary cultivator could imagine.

At this time, Yang Junshan could feel that if he were to use these three life techniques again, their power would definitely increase explosively. The strength of the Crushing Stone Technique was already not only capable of shattering fist-sized rocks, but it would also be able to shatter the mountain boulder. Under Yang Junshan’s attack, it would also be smashed into smithereens.

In his hands, magnetic field techniques could only be used to interfere with the opponent’s gathering or movement of their spiritual energy. Instead, it could directly imprison the opponent’s body and neutralize their spells into nothingness.

However, the purpose of these talismans and seeds entering the dantian was not only to increase the power of the spell, but more importantly, to lay an important foundation for further cultivation of the spirit art.

At this moment, the mound suddenly shook, as if there was an earthquake. A lot of the mud rocks formed from the fusion of spirit energy with the mound crumbled, turning back into origin energy and dissipated.

This was because Yang Junshan had just levelled up to the martial arts realm and his cultivation had not been completely consolidated yet. If he did not go into seclusion foeriod of time to completely stabilize the newly opened Dantian, then the object which the Dantian had manifested to the point of completely disintegrating, allowing the cultivator to return to the original Mortal Realm.

Inside the hut, Yang Junshan raised his head and looked at the Mountain Monarch Seal floating above his head. Suddenly, he inhaled, and the three inch square stamp was suddenly attracted. As the magical equipment flew towards his mouth, his body kept shrinking until it entered his mouth and disappeared.

In the air above the mound, a huge sizzling sound came from the sky and landed on the top of the mound, after which, the entire mound shook intensely. However, not even a small piece of mud or rock fell out of the mound.

Outside the hut, Ouyang Xulin saw that after the release of the aura that made even himself depressed, the repressive atmosphere started to slowly disappear. It did not completely collapse, but he knew that Yang Junshan had already successfully broken through his martial arts realm, and gradually began to consolidate his own cultivation.

Just like this, another month had passed. The aura in Yang Junshan’s hut that was undergoing closed door cultivation had become increasingly faint and weak, to the point that it was almost undetectable. If it wasn’t for Ouyang Xulin who clearly knew that Yang Junshan was in closed door cultivation, he would have even thought that this hut was empty.

However, he did not know that Yang Junshan had done this on purpose. After a cultivator gave birth to their martial arts realm, most people would think of ways to strengthen their Spiritual Awareness, which would allow them to cover an even larger area, and allow them to control an even wider area of the world. At the same time, they would be able to sense danger coming sooner so they could prepare for it.

However, Yang Junshan did the opposite. Not only did he not try his best to expand his own Spiritual Awareness, he even tried his best to compress the range that his Spiritual Awareness could reach, so that it could cover an area of one hundred and forty meters, and he could only sense a distance of seventy meters.

This was the lesson Yang Junshan learned from his experience with the blood fire after the great change of the heaven and earth. Although the extreme spread of his spirit sense was beneficial to him, it also made the cultivators unable to observe the range of his spirit sense in a precise manner. In the future, when the heaven and earth underwent a great change, there were too many enemies and methods that could easily deceive cultivators from their spirit stones detection.

Although Yang Junshan had compressed the range of his spiritual consciousness, he could still control everything within a hundred meters of himself more meticulously. At the same time, as an array master, what he needed the most was control of the formation, and compressing his spiritual consciousness might be inconceivable for other cultivators. However, among array masters, Yang Junshan was not the first to do so.