CHAPTER 333: CHAPTER 004 THREE YEARS AS GRANDMASTER (SECOND UPDATE)

The Library, in the end, is not a very important place within the Celestial Essence Sect.

The various martial arts within it are just basic materials in the entire martial world, and the martial arts secret manuals above the middle level of the Celestial Essence Sect could never be stored in such a place.

That Li Hu was able to cultivate to the peak of the Innate Realm relying on the hundreds of basic martial arts secret manuals in the Library, was already considered extremely incredible by outsiders.

As for the secrets above the Grandmaster level, those secrets that concern the rise and fall of a sect, and the sect’s secret teachings, would only be tightly held in the hands of a few high-level sect members like the Sect Leader and the Inheritance Elder.

Even though, with his own realm and the scattered descriptions in the books of the Library about Grandmasters, Li Hu could deduce the techniques of the Grandmaster Realm by himself.

But, it was still not enough.

Wanting to shatter the void and create a path to a realm never tread upon by his predecessors, such difficulty was indeed overwhelming.

Being able to rapidly enhance his cultivation through a high realm did not mean that Li Hu could create another path in this world out of thin air.

He needed to learn.

To learn the knowledge and experiences of predecessors, to integrate various ingenious ideas from the forefathers, and to go one step further in creating a path of void shattering that belonged to him on the foundation of this world.

Thus, Li Hu’s spiritual power began to disperse, starting to expand beyond the Library.

When in the Main World, Austin, who comprehended the Law of Wind, had developed a method of listening to the voice of the wind, forming a secret technique similar to Downwind Ear.

Although this world had no Magic Power, nor the Law of Wind.

But the combination of sound vibrations and wind allowed Li Hu to eavesdrop through powerful spiritual power.

By referencing and improving on some techniques of enhancing hearing mentioned in tens of thousands of books in the Library, Li Hu successfully enveloped the entire Celestial Essence Sect under his surveillance.

The secret teachings of the Grand Elders, the various secrets between sects, the hidden locations of some critical inheritances.

Countless secrets were eavesdropped by Li Hu.

By learning stealthily, Li Hu absorbed the essence of various martial arts from the hands of Celestial Essence Sect Elders, drawing from their profound meanings, step by step solidifying his foundation in martial arts.

Meanwhile, in the dead of night, relying on powerful spiritual power and martial arts strength to sneak past patrolling personnel like a ghost, he infiltrated hidden places and perused the various secret teachings of the Celestial Essence Sect.

Even the highest heart method of the sect, the Celestial Heart Treasure Manual, was memorized word for word by Li Hu.

The Celestial Essence Sect indeed well-deserved its reputation as a renowned sect in the Central Plains, with a variety of ingenious martial arts, each differing from the other, and some martial arts involving the power of Yin Yang Water and Fire, although rudimentary and lacking, the underlying concepts gave Li Hu great inspiration.

For example, the Fiery Palm essentially involves the transformation between True Qi and flames.

As well as the Cold Ice Profound Palm, Fiery Sun True Skill, Yin Luo Claw, etc.

These transformations of True Qi properties are somewhat similar to the natural element transformation of non-attribute Magic Power in the Main World; however, the activity of True Qi ultimately cannot compare to Magic Power, unable to directly condense into Fireball-like techniques as Magic Power can.

Attribute damage for True Qi can only be considered secondary.

This interesting aspect of Inner Power, Li Hu directly noted it down, as if he cannot cultivate to shatter the void in the future, he might be able to use the Four Spirits Sword Array from the Main World, using external power to shatter the void.

This counts as a fallback for the future.

Various martial arts gave Li Hu great enlightenment, causing the Nourishing Essence Technique he cultivated to flow toward the direction of myriad ways converging, continually accommodating new cultivation technique ideas, and perfecting itself.

The one that played the greatest role in this was the Celestial Heart Treasure Manual, the sect’s secret masterpiece.

As the sect’s iconic secret book, it is the supreme martial arts of the entire Celestial Essence Sect.

In the history of Celestial Essence Sect, more than one Grandmaster has achieved the state of enlightenment through this Inner Power Heart Method; it can be said to be a divine skill secret manual that points directly to the Grandmaster.

Its underlying concept is, more than anything, to harmonize between the human heart and the Celestial Heart, to perceive the power of heaven and earth nature, to gather the world’s majestic power into oneself.

The concept alone surpasses the various martial arts Li Hu gleaned from the sect elders by several levels, providing him with the greatest help.

This martial art gave Li Hu a particularly peculiar feeling.

It seems that the Celestial Essence Sect’s founding ancestor who left this martial art, had already touched the limit of a Grandmaster.

Perhaps, had explored the bottleneck of the next realm.

Celestial Being!

That is a realm that the world of martial arts history has never reached before.

Li Hu had no intention of switching to the Celestial Heart Treasure Manual, because he felt that even if he truly cultivated the Celestial Heart Treasure Manual to the highest level, and broke into the Grandmaster, it would still be unlikely to shatter the void.

Thus, Li Hu, using the Celestial Heart Treasure Manual as a foundation, incorporated various concepts and profound meanings into his Inner Power.

With knowledge beyond the limits of this world, and powerful spiritual deduction abilities.

The Inner Power Li Hu cultivates today is no longer the original Nourishing Essence Technique; it’s an Inner Power method based on it, absorbing a large amount of martial arts essence.

This martial art, created by Li Hu himself by observing numerous martial arts and through extraordinary insight, is already a rare supreme skill in the world.

Now, having absorbed some of the concept’s essence of the Celestial Heart Treasure Manual, it’s elevated further.

Time,

Thus passed another year with Li Hu sweeping through the Library, listening to whispers around the Celestial Essence Sect’s gates, secretly learning martial arts secrets, and refining his own cultivation technique.

A year later, with the Nourishing Essence Technique as the core, Li Hu integrated a vast amount of martial arts essence from the Celestial Essence Sect, creating a powerful Inner Power that surpassed the Celestial Heart Treasure Manual, ultimately achieving great success in divine skill, naturally breaking through the bottleneck of the peak of Innate, entering the Grandmaster Realm.

Everything fell into place quietly and silently.

In absolute silence, no one knew there was already a second Grandmaster within the Celestial Essence Sect.

Moreover, this newly promoted Grandmaster was unbelievably young.

Yet, despite the breakthrough to Grandmaster, standing among the top masters of this world, Li Hu’s life was without the slightest ripple.

He still read books, cultivated, and managed miscellaneous tasks.

In the Grandmaster Realm, through powerful spiritual power to manipulate True Qi, it was easy for him to clean the Library thoroughly.

Li Hu then devoted more time to studying martial arts and cultivation.

Striving for cultivation, reading more books, hoping to reach the realm of void shattering as soon as possible.

The entire Celestial Essence Sect had basically no secrets in his eyes, with the foundation of a whole sect, it was enough for Li Hu to cultivate to the Grandmaster Realm.

After he integrated the martial arts of the entire Celestial Essence Sect to create that divine skill, the path for a Grandmaster was already a smooth one.

Next, what he needed to do was cultivate.

To continue cultivating until breaking through to the Grandmaster, or even to a higher realm.

Three years to achieve Grandmaster, Li Hu had already become one of the top level masters in this world, but he had no intention of leaving the Library to experience the outside world.

He needed to reach void shattering faster and return to the Main World, not having time to play games of wandering the martial world, acting chivalrous and upholding justice.

Unless there was no further progress, then Li Hu would go down the mountain, seeking greater opportunity for advancement.

In the third year when Li Hu calmly achieved the Grandmaster realm, many things happened within the Celestial Essence Sect as well, with the reputed protagonist Zhang Feng’s fame spreading throughout the Sect, and beginning to show his edge in the martial world.

First participating in the martial competition of the major factions in the Central Plains and winning first place, later braving several adventures, thwarting a certain Demon Sect conspiracy, with the title of Celestial Essence Sect’s foremost young talent beginning to spread across the world, with allied forces all saying that the Celestial Essence Sect had a promising future.

During this period, Zhang Feng also made numerous enemies, once even attracting an enemy at the Grandmaster level, requiring the Grand Elder to take action.

Looking at his experiences, it can be said that he is like a jinx, causing trouble wherever he goes.

Meanwhile, Li Hu, as a Library servant, continued to sweep peacefully.