Chapter 408

Upon entering the second stage of the Empty State, Lu Sheng’s brain cells became extraordinarily active, exceeding the norm by ten to a hundred times. His thought processes accelerated.

His vision, smell, touch … all five senses were enhanced, becoming more acute. At this moment, he could clearly see numerous colored light spots around him. These were the cosmic energies dispersed in the natural world, the source of his elemental control power.

“In a sense, I’m now infinitely close to the state of enlightenment of an ordinary martial artist. Whatever I do, my efficiency is ten or even dozens of times higher than usual …”

As his mind operated slightly, countless ephiphanies burst forth. In this state, fighting someone would result in more exquisite attack moves, often producing miraculous strikes like those of a unicorn hanging its horn.

Even though Lu Sheng had entered the second stage of the Empty State countless times, he was still amazed by its wonder each time.

“Combining this with the second form of Absolute Martial Path, my martial creativity will be exponentially enhanced …” Lu Sheng thought, then began attempting to communicate with the Heaven and Earth Twin Bridges as per the information he had searched in the dream space.

“The Heaven Bridge is at the Baihui point on the top of the head, and the Earth Bridge is at the Yongquan point on the sole of the foot …” Lu Sheng knew these two acupoints, and the method to open the Heaven and Earth Twin Bridges was simple.

Spiritual power impacted the Heaven Bridge at the top of the head, while blood energy impacted the Earth Bridge at the sole of the foot.

If the supply was sufficient, it would naturally open up. If the supply was insufficient, it would feel like an insurmountable obstacle.

Lu Sheng gathered his spiritual power, slowly impacting the top of his head. His blood energy sank, gradually gathering towards the soles of his feet.

This reminded him of something he had read in either a novel from his past life or in the “Natural Breathing Technique”: Clear energy rises, turbid energy sinks, then exert force and release …

“Focus and clear your mind, banish all distractions!” Lu Sheng hurriedly shook off the chaotic thoughts in his mind.

Too active a mind wasn’t good either; it was easy to get distracted.

However, this phrase did give Lu Sheng some inspiration.

“It feels a bit like the scene in myths of creating the world. If clear and turbid are distinctly separated, wouldn’t that mean I could create a world within my body?”

As soon as this idea popped into Lu Sheng’s mind, it was like a bolt of lightning tearing through the dark sky, endless inspirations bursting forth.

Flowers, birds, beasts, mountains, rivers, lakes, oceans, stars, land, cities, satellites …

Countless chaotic images flashed through Lu Sheng’s mind. In a fraction of a breath, they jumped through billions of frames.

Finally, these images all shattered with a “boom,” turning into a piece of chaos.

In the chaos, a gray wheel spun, endless light spots radiating from it.

In an instant, the light spots filled the space, transforming into a vast starry sky, the image of an infinite universe.

“This is …”

When Lu Sheng’s consciousness normalized, he suddenly realized that he had inexplicably entered the third stage of the Empty State.

At this level, the activity of his brain cells increased tenfold, his thought processes surpassing the speed of light, with countless inspirations bursting every second, countless thoughts emerging, and countless ideas perishing.

In this state, when Lu Sheng re-examined his martial arts cultivation, many subtle flaws, gaps, and minor obstacles were all clear at a glance.

It couldn’t just be described as having a bird’s-eye view, but rather … It felt like a college student correcting a first-grader’s homework. The speed of advancing accordingly was also vastly accelerated.

“This means that if I maintain the third stage of the Empty State, even without relying on the Dream World’s help, I can quickly push various martial arts to the mastery realm … eventually even creating a Domain!”

Lu Sheng’s eyes lit up.

His Absolute Martial Path had been stuck in the second form for a long time.

It wasn’t that he didn’t want to improve, but pushing all martial arts from the Intricate level to Mastery was extremely tedious and difficult. He had to find grandmasters or late-stage Grandmasters specializing in certain martial arts to hunt them down.

Many obscure martial arts had plenty of low-level practitioners, but few high-level ones.

Otherwise, why call them obscure? The higher one goes, the narrower the path.

Moreover, with Lu Sheng’s continuous emergence of various powerful new abilities, he had temporarily shelved this laborious practice, planning to fill it in later when he had time.

Now, the third stage of the Empty State perfectly solved Lu Sheng’s problem.

“If I had understood the third stage of the Empty State in my lifetime as an Absolute Martial Sage, I might not have died from exhaustion of spiritual power …”

In just a short moment, while thinking about other things and musing, several of his martial arts stuck at the micro level broke through to the mastery realm.

“So fast, finally seeing the dawn of the third form of Absolute Martial Path.”

Lu Sheng couldn’t help but sigh, “Entering the third form of Absolute Martial Path, my combat power in the Martial God State will likely soar again.”

Understanding the Unmatched form had already boosted his combat power in the Martial God State once.

That time it enhanced the “strength” of the Martial God State.

This time, it would likely enhance the “skill” in the Martial God State.

The Martial God State was about fully unleashing all of Lu Sheng’s abilities to achieve a theoretical limit. And the height of this limit was closely related to Lu Sheng’s foundational abilities. The more solid and vast his foundation, the higher the limit he could achieve.

“My elemental control ability has also greatly improved …” Lu Sheng observed his surroundings.

The light spots of different colors he saw in the second stage of the Empty State had now turned into strips and clusters of light … With the same spiritual power, he could manipulate at least ten times more elemental energy.

“My body’s ‘radar’ has upgraded, naturally enhancing my ability to receive cosmic energy signals …” This also meant that Lu Sheng’s “Unmatched form” had become stronger too!

At this moment, Lu Sheng felt a massive influx of energy continuously pouring into his body from the soles of his feet. With this energy’s assistance, the tiny blood pellet in his chest quickly expanded, as if on steroids.

“So, the Heaven and Earth Twin Bridges have been opened?” Lu Sheng realized.

He stood up from the ground, feeling as if he was connected with heaven and earth.