Immortality Begins with Breathing Exercises

”Friend, you have a keen eye. ’Gale Slash’ is a rare high-grade martial skill that allows a martial artist to fight beyond their level.”

”’Gale Slash’ is nine hundred and eighty taels of silver, no bargaining,” the stall owner said.

”Alright, give me one,” Lin Zheyu said straightforwardly.

Money is meant to be spent after earning it.

The stronger you are, the faster you earn money. As long as you improve your strength, you need not worry about making money.

If not for relying on the improved Ninth Layer of the Golden Swan Skill paired with the Mountain Shattering Palm, allowing him to easily hunt powerful Qi Blood Realm beasts, it wouldn’t have been easy for Lin Zheyu to earn so much money in a short time.

Even for a Bone Marrow Refining Realm martial artist, hunting powerful beasts is no easy task.

You need strong lightweight skill paired with powerful offensive techniques; both are indispensable.

Lin Zheyu took out nine hundred and eighty taels of silver from his chest and handed it over.

He took the secret manual given by the other party and started browsing right there.

Twenty minutes passed.

Lin Zheyu memorized ’Gale Slash’ in his mind.

He looked at the data in his consciousness, above which appeared the data related to Gale Slash, indicating that this cultivation technique worked fine and, reaching advanced stages, could unleash tenfold power strikes.

After confirming there were no issues with the manual, Lin Zheyu continued wandering in the black market.

Later, he found two more martial skills, but both were similar to the Mountain Shattering Palm, and there was no need to replace them.

There were two body refining secret manuals with exorbitant prices and unsatisfactory effects; Lin Zheyu browsed and then gave up.

Body refining techniques were rare for sale in the black market. After browsing, Lin Zheyu found only a few, all of which were ordinary.

In this world, body refining techniques aren’t mainstream; martial artists mainly focus on Qi blood cultivation.

Even if they can’t advance further in Qi blood, they mostly opt to study a powerful bursting martial skill.

Or learn a lightweight skill.

”I’ll come and check again next time. Buying ’Gale Slash’ today wasn’t fruitless.”

Lin Zheyu muttered to himself.

Back in the courtyard, he couldn’t wait to begin cultivation.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh—

Under the bright moonlight, Lin Zheyu continuously slashed with his saber.

’Gale Slash’ consists of nine moves, easily mastered with his Martial Arts Realm combined with powerful Qi blood control ability.

But the difficulty of ’Gale Slash’ lies not in its moves but in understanding and applying ’momentum’.

This martial skill integrates several advanced techniques, including momentum, borrowing force, and power storage, making it highly challenging to cultivate.

After over an hour.

A powerful aura surrounded Lin Zheyu, which he comprehended from the Wild Bull Fist. However, there had been little improvement since gaining this understanding.

There’s been a slight regression.

Lin Zheyu hadn’t refined the corresponding martial belief, making it hard to maintain this aura.

Whoosh—

Lin Zheyu swung his saber, condensing the aura onto the blade, slashing out with the saber’s edge.

”I was overly optimistic before. To unleash a tenfold power strike, a strong enough momentum is needed.”

”With my current momentum, I estimate at most I can unleash around threefold power.”

Lin Zheyu muttered to himself.

These martial skills that allow people to unleash power far beyond their capability are highly challenging to cultivate and have inherent limitations.

Take the Mountain Shattering Palm, for instance; it requires extraordinary control over one’s Qi blood force, limiting use after three consecutive moves.

Lin Zheyu relied on the properties of Source Power to enhance his body’s resilience, allowing the continuous use of sixteen Mountain Shattering Palms.

The limitations of ’Gale Slash’ are similarly significant.

The entry barrier for this martial skill is ’momentum’, eliminating most martial artists.

Once momentum is comprehended, its strength directly correlates with the martial skill’s power potential.

If the momentum’s strength is mediocre, relying solely on power storage and force-borrowing techniques, at most, it can unleash threefold attack power.

”Threefold is fine; integrating it with the Qi and Blood Burst Skill can unleash ninefold attack power.”

”I need to think of ways to quickly enhance ’momentum’. Without it, even if I reach the peak of marrow refining at my current rate, I might not comprehend ’intent’.”

Lin Zheyu mused to himself.

’Momentum’ is the embryonic form of ’intent’, and ’intent’ is necessary to advance to the Transforming Force Realm.

If unable to comprehend ’intent’, Lin Zheyu’s rapid advancement is futile, as he can’t progress to the Huajin level.

By then, he might have to consider other methods or find another martial path.

Of course, this is a reluctant choice. If an established path is available, taking the well-trodden martial route is most stable.

[Heaven rewards diligence]

Name: Lin Zheyu

Source Power: 4

Skills:

Gale Slash (Entry 45%)

Golden Swan Skill (Ninth Layer 100%)

Turtle Breath Skill (Third Layer 100%)

Lin Zheyu looked at the data in his consciousness, having advanced to forty-five percent of the entry level in over an hour’s cultivation.

”Integrate the Qi and Blood Burst Skill into Gale Slash.”

Lin Zheyu’s thought emanated, intending to elevate by directly combining the Qi and Blood Burst Skill into Gale Slash.

As the thought projected, the consciousness data transformed.

[Heaven rewards diligence]

Name: Lin Zheyu

Source Power: 4

Skills:

Gale Slash (Entry 15%)

Golden Swan Skill (Ninth Layer 100%)

Turtle Breath Skill (Third Layer 100%)

”It’s not much different; when cultivating the Mountain Shattering Palm earlier, most of the muscles, tendons, skin, and bones of my arms were refined, able to withstand multiple robust Qi and Blood Burst Skill activations.”