Mythical Three Kingdoms

Lyu Bu in other aspects aside, but in martial arts, he is indeed the most terrifying figure of his time. After sending his willpower and Inner Qi across thousands of miles last time, Lyu Bu touched upon the essence of Essence, Qi, and Spirit.

The so-called Essence, Qi, and Spirit, to put it simply, means going from tangible to intangible. After that super long-range transmission, the willpower instantly reached its destination, the Inner Qi managed to transmit across distances after forcefully tearing the void, yet the body could not truly descend; the difficulty level is self-evident.

Likewise, this essence made Lyu Bu inexplicably guess certain things, leading to Lyu Bu’s plan to forcefully make up for his deficiencies. Of course, this hasn’t been verified yet, but with Lyu Bu’s confidence, even if there are mistakes, he believes he can handle any unforeseen events.

Lyu Bu’s strongest point naturally is his invincible willpower — the kind of confidence to prevail no matter how many people he faces, allowing him to show prowess slightly above Zhao Yun, despite being somewhat inferior to Zhao Yun in terms of mere physical stats.

Then there’s his Inner Qi. Frankly, Lyu Bu’s cultivation level of Inner Qi is only at the Ultimate Inner Qi Manifestation stage and hasn’t reached the Qi Burst Boundary. Yet, every strand of his Inner Qi is infused with his willpower, making each strand comparable to Zhao Yun’s eighth-turn Inner Qi.

To be precise, Lyu Bu lacks in the amount of Inner Qi. However, now his spirit is so strong that it can forcibly strip away the willpower attached to other martial artists’ Out-of-Body Inner Qi. This means the normal fighting style doesn’t show Lyu Bu’s Inner Qi being exhausted.

After all, Lyu Bu forcibly draws upon the Heaven and Earth Essence and instantly imbues it with his willpower, thus its potency already surpasses most purified Out-of-Body Inner Qi.

As for forcibly repelling surrounding Heaven and Earth Essence or absorbing dry the Heaven and Earth Essence around him, ordinary people cannot do this, hence why Lyu Bu is nearly invincible. In a confrontation with Lyu Bu, not to mention the psychological effects, practically speaking, facing him brings a lot of debuffs that reduce recovery.

Nevertheless, the truth is anyone facing Lyu Bu is beaten half-dead before they can even feel these negative effects, so no one has noticed this yet.

In conclusion, though Lyu Bu’s current Inner Qi cultivation is merely at the Ultimate Inner Qi Manifestation stage, he has more advantages in Inner Qi than typical Inner Qi Breakthrough Level martial artists, although Zhao Yun’s method is a different case, which requires both extraordinary talent and fortuitous opportunities.

After talking about Lyu Bu’s strongest attributes, we should mention his weakest attribute — his body. Lyu Bu’s physical quality is not particularly strong. In this era, he has formidable strength, but his physical quality is lacking considerably. Without using the Divine Stone to boost his body, refined realm breaking needs an extraordinary talent.

Unfortunately, Lyu Bu is quite ordinary in this aspect. If Xuu Chu’s body talent is defined as a ten, then Dian Wei nearly scores nine-point-eight, Zhou Tai and Zhang Fei nearly nine-point-five, Zhao Yun also scores about nine-point-five, whereas Lyu Bu is only seven-point-five.

This is why Lyu Bu was so awkwardly beaten twice when Dian Wei approached closely, while others like Xuu Chu and Zhang Fei could endure Dian Wei’s blows, and then force him back without falling behind. Lyu Bu’s physical talent is quite just average.

But anyway, Lyu Bu is still the strongest military general who has forcefully passed the Heart Tribulation beyond the Breakthrough, and if external forces are accounted for, this guy can meet Xiang Yu on Wu River. If not for Xiang Yu possessing an entire Divine Stone Core, who would win is uncertain.

After the Ultimate Heavenly Passage, Lyu Bu is the only character to pass the Heart Tribulation. Looking at Xiang Yu still lying dormant in the Datong Volcano reveals how hard the Heart Tribulation is to overcome.

Four hundred years have passed, Xiang Yu is almost a living fossil, yet the Heart Tribulation hasn’t been crossed, leaving him stuck in an endless dream, unable to awaken.

It can be said that Lyu Bu, having overcome the Heart Tribulation, placed in the ancient times when Heaven and Earth Essence was abundant, essentially was at the level of Gods and Demons, or destined to become an Undying God and Demon.

Sadly, unless Heaven and Earth Essence is replenished, Lyu Bu’s Essence, Qi, and Spirit’s Essence pathway will never be completed. Essence serves as the foundation of the three pathways, and unless it’s completed, Lyu Bu cannot take that step — even if he resolves the hardest part, missing one pathway cannot be mended.

Yet, after all, Lyu Bu is the Pioneer of martial arts and can be said to be the strongest ahead of everyone. Thus, after the transmission experiment, Lyu Bu relied on his deductions to once more refine his martial arts path.

By refining Great Kun’s Inner Qi and merging it with his own Inner Qi, entering the Qi Burst Boundary state, and opening Celestial God Mode. Then, using his strong will, suppressing the Celestial God Mode into his body, and inversely devouring Spirit and Qi into his body.

After all, the combination of Spirit and Qi was already verified with the previous super long-range transmission. Since the union of Spirit and Qi was correct, theoretically, the body as the most basic container should not have issues accommodating the Spirit and Qi.

Moreover, for unknown reasons, Lyu Bu recently has been inexplicably anxious, feeling a sense of urgency and crisis regarding Kushan’s city construction in Malacca.

This is why Lyu Bu is attempting to forcefully communicate the pathways of Essence, Qi, and Spirit through Qi, to open the three channels — this is the reason for attempting the Three Boundary Breaks.

However, Lyu Bu’s current Inner Qi hasn’t reached the Breakthrough level, and even by relying on Great Kun, refining enough Inner Qi, only by using Spirit to try hard he can barely enter Qi Burst Boundary, how could he possibly open the pathways of Essence, Qi, and Spirit to forcefully enter the Three Boundary Breaks stage.

Watching Gan Ning leave, Lyu Bu stood heavy-hearted on the sea surface, realizing his impatience, yet he certainly doesn’t want to continue tolerating Kushan’s construction of the city in southern Malacca. The faint sound from that city is making him extremely irritable.

[This time the city must be destroyed before it finishes nurturing and strengthening itself, consolidating all the recently refined Inner Qi from Little Black to obliterate it in one blow, regardless of the annoyance, solve it once and for all.] Lyu Bu took a deep breath, firmly suppressing his restless heart, then flickered onto the head of Great Kun.

Great Kun sensed Lyu Bu’s movements and silently released its Inner Qi, allowing Lyu Bu to extract rapidly. Soon Lyu Bu refined a sphere of Inner Qi about a foot in size, and then began to purify it with his Spirit, making it homogeneous with his own, to prevent conflicts during use; this time he really intended to forcefully enter the Three Boundary Breaks.