The sudden group message left everyone in the chat group stunned.
Huang Rong: “?”
Li Shimin: “Open up a path of cultivation?”
Yukine Shirayuki: “Cultivate Righteous Qi?”
“In terms of practical application, Righteous Qi is indeed more suitable for the Song Dynasty than martial arts.”
Lin Fengjiao: “World Origin reward!”
“The World Will is equivalent to the ‘Heavenly Dao’ of a world, while the World Origin is a part of the ‘Heavenly Dao’.”
“Even if it’s just a sliver, it’s enough to make those ancestors of mine who hold positions in the Heavenly Court and the Netherworld envious.”
Ying Zheng: “Master of Heaven and Earth? Is this a higher level of destiny than the Mandate of Heaven?”
Li Yi: “Son of Destiny, Mandate of Heaven, Master of Heaven and Earth.
“A Son of Destiny is the protagonist of an era. They are blessed by the Heavenly Mandate, able to turn misfortune into good fortune and escape from danger.”
“But this kind of destiny only exists in that specific era.
“Once their own era passes and a new era begins,
“the destiny of the Son of Destiny from the previous era will dissipate and transfer to the Son of Destiny of the new era.
“Therefore, Sons of Destiny are products of their era, and they will appear in every era.”
“Those with the Mandate of Heaven are blessed by the Mandate of Heaven itself. The Mandate of Heaven will only emerge when there are major turning points in the development of history.”
“Compared to Sons of Destiny who are created by destiny, those with the Mandate of Heaven themselves are the masters of destiny.”
“They are born in accordance with the changes in the long river of time, holding the Mandate of Heaven to lead the world towards change.”
“As for Masters of Heaven and Earth, they fit the saying ‘When time comes, Heaven and Earth will work together’.”
“Masters of Heaven and Earth are neither created by destiny nor born with the Mandate of Heaven.
“Their existence is to create their own era with their own hands.”
“Therefore, Masters of Heaven and Earth can indeed be regarded as a higher level of destiny than those with the Mandate of Heaven.”
“Although, they are not even in the same race.”
After answering Ying Zheng’s question, Li Yi took a glance at Li Qingzhao’s situation through the chat group.
In the short time they were chatting,
the sixteen-year-old talented woman had already broken through the ‘Grandmaster’ realm.
Her True Qi, driven by the rapidly growing Righteous Qi, was circulating according to the ‘martial arts’ method of the ‘True Self Meditation Scripture’, and she had already broken through to the Heavenly Man realm.
And even though the Righteous Qi had grown to a level comparable to the True Qi of a martial arts Heavenly Man,
the literary aura accumulated in Bianjing over the past hundred years still showed no signs of stopping its restless movement.
It was like a water pond that was finally able to find an outlet after being filled to the brim, with a strong desire to drain every last drop of water.
However, after breaking through to the Heavenly Man realm in martial arts, Li Qingzhao no longer had a reference for guiding those surging literary auras into Righteous Qi.
To have her create a method based on existing techniques,
even with the assistance of the power of Heaven and Earth, it would not be something that could be accomplished overnight.
Therefore, facing the continuously converging literary aura, she was at a loss for what to do.
Seeing Li Qingzhao’s predicament, Li Yi directly sent her an exclusive red packet in the group and tagged her to receive it.
Li Yi: “【Li Qingzhao Exclusive Red Packet】, time is of the essence, consider it an advance payment, you can repay me when you have enough points @Li Qingzhao.”
Upon receiving the notification from the chat group, Li Qingzhao did not hesitate and clicked to receive the exclusive red packet sent by Li Yi.
As soon as the red packet was opened, a golden light directly entered her mind.
The next moment, the martial arts stele in Li Qingzhao’s mind displayed the complete Heavenly Man and Soul Realm chapters of the ‘True Self Meditation Scripture’.
As well as a complete body-tempering technique called ‘Confucian Dao Body Tempering Technique’, from the Flesh Refinement to the Marrow Refinement realm.
With new techniques in hand, Li Qingzhao did not hesitate at all.
Following the descriptions in the techniques, she began guiding the vast literary aura that was still continuously converging towards her body.
With the higher-level techniques as a reference, the surging literary aura finally found an outlet.
Under Li Qingzhao’s guidance, with the assimilation of the existing massive Righteous Qi, the literary aura was constantly being condensed into pure Righteous Qi.
She then controlled this Righteous Qi, using the ‘Confucian Dao Body Tempering Technique’ to continuously refine her muscles, tendons, skin, bones, and internal organs.
With the assistance of the literary aura accumulated by Bianjing over a hundred years,
it wasn’t long before Li Qingzhao completed the refinement of her bones, muscles, skin, and five internal organs. Her internal cultivation also reached the Heavenly Man Perfection realm, with Righteous Qi replacing True Qi.
But even after reaching this step, the trend of literary aura converging towards her body from the world remained undiminished.
With the complete ‘True Self Meditation Scripture’ Soul Realm chapter and ‘Confucian Dao Body Tempering Technique’ Marrow Refinement chapter as references,
she practically seamlessly entered the Soul Realm and Marrow Refinement cultivation of martial arts.
Above the Heavenly Man realm, each stage of advancement requires a tremendous amount of resources.
Even though Bianjing was the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, and even though its accumulations over a hundred years had practically gathered the literary aura of all the Northern Song Dynasty literati and scholars,
but after reaching the Soul Realm and Marrow Refinement realm, Bianjing’s literary aura began to show a significant trend of being rapidly consumed.
As the literary aura of Bianjing continued to decrease, being rapidly refined into Righteous Qi,
Li Qingzhao’s ‘martial arts’ cultivation, using Righteous Qi to replace internal force True Qi, also continued to rise.
Early Soul Realm, Mid Soul Realm, Late Soul Realm, Soul Realm Perfection.
Early Marrow Refinement, Mid Marrow Refinement, Late Marrow Refinement, Marrow Refinement Perfection.
It wasn’t until her internal cultivation reached Soul Realm Perfection and her body-tempering reached Marrow Refinement Perfection,
with the literary aura of Bianjing over a hundred years almost completely exhausted,
that Li Qingzhao’s cultivation finally stopped.
Of course, cultivating Righteous Qi with ‘martial arts’ methods, although the core of the ‘martial arts’ has changed, its external appearance still retains the skin of ‘martial arts’.
Therefore, for Li Qingzhao, this was just a stopgap measure to avoid wasting the literary aura of Bianjing over a hundred years.
Since it’s a path-opening, it can’t just change the core.
Based on the change of the core, gradually stripping off the ‘martial arts’ skin as well, that would be considered a true opening of the complete path of cultivating ‘Righteous Qi’.
However, the core of Righteous Qi cultivation is Righteous Qi.
As long as the Righteous Qi becomes established, the path is considered opened.
The rest of the details are just continuing to refine based on the foundation of Righteous Qi.
Temporarily covering it with a ‘martial arts’ skin has no impact on her, the opener of the ‘Righteous Qi’ cultivation path.
After all… even someone as powerful as the Great Heavenly Emperor who dominated the ages, didn’t he also first cultivate ‘Ancient Immortal Arts’ to the Supreme Realm before creating the ‘Zhetiantianfa’?”