CHAPTER 78: CHAPTER 78: HUMAN RACE’S SHACKLES, HEAVEN DOES NOT PERMIT!

"This place is..."

Su Tu looked at everything around him, a few traces of astonishment showing in his eyes.

He should have been trying a new Qi Flow technique, so why did his heart and spirit enter this eerie space?

Although the environment here was completely different from the space he comprehended during Immortal Burial, its essence gave Su Tu a resonant feeling.

He understood that this place and the space he comprehended during Immortal Burial came from the same source.

But what was different was that this space lacked that majestic figure with its impeccable stance; there was only void, deathly silence, eeriness, and ruin.

And, hanging above the sky...

The East Character!!

Looking at the character formed from the nailed bodies of Evil Gods, Su Tu instinctively wanted to utter it.

But...

He was shocked to find himself unable to pronounce the character, as if some tremendous force was intervening in everything.

If he spoke the character out loud, unimaginable changes would occur.

His body, his heart and spirit, could not bear the character.

And as this realization surfaced in Su Tu’s mind, everything around him quietly dissipated like an illusion.

Su Tu knew his heart and spirit were about to return to his body.

In the last moment, he stared fixedly at the character on the starry sky, feeling a hunch that the text carried tremendous fortune and secrets!

The next moment...

Consciousness returned.

When he opened his eyes, he felt a peculiar circulation of qi within his body.

The acupoints, which usually absorbed and released qi independently, now formed a collective absorption and release trend. Introspecting himself, the once ordinary qi flickered with some spiritual light, illuminating the acupoints with extraordinary divinity.

Whether it was the quality of qi, the speed of Qi Flow, or the acupoints’ amplification of qi, all had improved several times over.

Unexpectedly, his flash of spiritual insight became reality.

While delighting, Su Tu also recalled the origin of his moment of spiritual light.

Martial Arts Dao’s fortune...

Before receiving the augmentation of Martial Arts Dao’s fortune, every time he cultivated Immortal Burial, he needed to devote himself fully and, after completion, employ Qi Introduction and Body Cultivation to ensure Basic Skill’s maximum efficiency.

But after receiving the blessing of Martial Arts Dao’s fortune yesterday, finishing the Immortal Burial cultivation, he instinctively introspected and thought of the small circulation concept.

He indeed had thoughts about the acupoints and Qi Flow before, but never had such a good perspective as today.

"Martial Arts Dao’s fortune is indeed amazing," Su Tu sighed internally.

[You’ve mastered Grotto Heaven Qi Refining, Body Strengthening Proficiency +50!]

[Strengthen Body (Middle Tier): 925/1000]

"Hmm? So generous!"

Su Tu looked at the system prompt, feeling somewhat startled. According to his understanding of the system, the closer a skill’s proficiency was to advancing, the harder it was to gain proficiency.

Like previously, a hundred minutes in Immortal Burial could provide 100 proficiency, but now it only provides 50. If the cultivation method hasn’t changed, it might give even less in the future.

But this Grotto Heaven Qi Cultivation, upon grasping it, can gain 50 proficiency at once, giving Su Tu quite a pleasant surprise.

This signifies that even if Strengthen Body reaches High Tier, Grotto Heaven Qi Cultivation can still offer substantial proficiency.

As Su Tu was immersed in joy, a melancholic voice softly drifted in.

"Although I’m used to your blows, you doing this really makes me feel inheriting family wealth back home is a good option."

Only then did Su Tu raise his head, seeing Tang Yangwu looking at him with a face of hopelessness, other classmates had similar expressions.

Brother Hu and the teacher had arrived in the Body Tempering Room at some point, both staring intensely at him.

"Kid, how do you know the Grotto Heaven Qi Refining Technique?"

"Who taught you?"

Zhou Wuliang inquired.

"No one taught me, it was just now I..."

Su Tu paused his stance, explaining his thoughts during Basic Skill cultivation to Zhou Wuliang.

As Su Tu narrated, Zhou Wuliang and Li Hu’s expressions grew more peculiar.

"You’re saying you just thought of this method out of the blue, right?" Li Hu succinctly summarized, his tiger eyes bulging.

"Yeah, randomly..."

"Don’t say!!!" His already deeply stirred classmates suppressed Su Tu’s words in unison.

Seeing this scene, Su Tu awkwardly scratched his head, wondering why even speaking truthfully wasn’t allowed.

"The world doesn’t lack geniuses for Three-Lock Limit Break, but martial artists starting Grotto Heaven Qi Cultivation at seventy plus acupoints, attempting to unlock the Three Locks, I’ve never seen."

Zhou Wuliang stared into Su Tu’s eyes and slowly spoke.

"Three Locks!" Su Tu recalled this term.

"What are the Three Locks?" Su Tu curiously asked.

"Stop it, it’s pointless, playing like this won’t make friends," Luo Fan’s tone was grave as he glanced at Zhou Wuliang. Upon receiving the teacher’s approval, Luo Fan explained.

"Among myriad races, besides a few lucky ones, most Humans are born unable to wield qi, thus needing Martial Arts Dao for elevating life cultivation and level.

Opening acupoints to build a celestial foundation, only then can one cultivate.

But as beings who can only wield qi postnatally, Humans are naturally cast by Heaven with three shackles, body lock, acupoint lock."

With Luo Fan’s explanation, Su Tu understood what the Three Locks were.

The Three Locks are like three shackles engraved in human genetics, respectively body lock, skill lock, heart lock, corresponding to Martial Arts Dao’s mind-body techniques.

Body lock is acupoint lock; typically, martial artists open 108 acupoints for Martial Arts foundation, yet the acupoints around aren’t fully open, with many hidden acupoints embedded in flesh, qi unreachable, eyes unseeable, akin to Heaven’s lock, firmly binding those acupoints, not allowing acupoint opening.

But later, mighty Humans refused to bow to Heaven, devising various limit-break unlocking methods, attempting to open hidden acupoints, among which the acknowledged hardest yet most effective method is the Grotto Heaven Qi Refining Technique.

The principle hardly differs from what Su Tu stated, though Su Tu’s Grotto Heaven Qi Refining showcased was quite naive, many areas can be improved.

But absurdly, this brat managed to come up with methods it’s taken generations of predecessors to conceive by merely tapping his head and successfully implemented it, isn’t that way too abnormal?

Limit-break methods don’t circulate publicly, only long-standing families, Dao Fields possess such unlocking methods, like those forums Su Tu visited previously containing threads speculating on Opening Acupoints, all are guesses made by those oblivious to the existence of Three Locks.

Wielding Grotto Heaven Qi Refining requires enormous amounts of qi, typically martial artists with 108 opened acupoints qualify for attempting.

Among these people, only geniuses possess the sense for recognizing Grotto Heaven circulation, among numerous circulation sensing geniuses, only one can form a Grotto Heaven circulation among favored ones.

And currently.

Su Tu!!! He has only 78 acupoints!

With 78 acupoints, he self-comprehended Grotto Heaven Qi Cultivation and succeeded in forming Grotto Heaven circulation, hasn’t opened acupoints yet??

Has this kid swallowed Martial Arts Dao’s fortune?? Everyone pondered intensely.

While others still wished to speak further.

Zhou Wuliang’s originally somewhat clouded eyes turned incomparably bright, like a solitary lamp in the quiet night.

Next moment.

Buzz~

An invisible fluctuation erupted centered around Zhou Wuliang.

Everything around was coating in a layer of void’s hue, Su Tu was astounded looking around him; he saw Tang Yangwu, Luo Fan and others frozen in movement at this moment, he and Zhou Wuliang seemed to stand in an entirely higher-dimensional space.

In this world, only Zhou Wuliang and he retained color.

"Teacher, you’ve paused time!" Su Tu exclaimed in disbelief, surprised Martial Arts Dao could achieve this level, and astonished his teacher was so powerful.