Volume 1 The Scourge of Ascension Chapter 17 Above the Heavens
Although the relationship between them was clear, he couldn't figure out Nangong Que's intentions.
"That being the case, what is it that makes Nangong's seniors worthy of the entire Qingcheng faction at the expense of the entire Qingcheng faction, but they think that the juniors can help. Cheng Hao couldn't figure it out, so he simply asked directly.
You must know that if one day, the matter of the Nine Turns Jade Pendant has been here with Cheng Hao leaks out. And Cheng Hao entered the Qingcheng faction, but left safely with the cultivation of the Grandmaster Realm, so what would the imperial court think? I am afraid that with just a word from the imperial court, the entire Qingcheng faction will become the target of public criticism.
"Do you know the realm above the innate martial arts?" Nangong Que stroked the teacup in his hand and blew the hot air that was blowing, as if he was deliberately hanging Cheng Hao's appetite, and said unhurriedly.
"Above the Innate, isn't the Innate the ultimate realm of the Martial Dao?" As Nangong Que expected, this statement shocked Cheng Hao extremely much.
The five elders in the back even "rubbed" to stand up and looked at Nangong Que, as a strong person, they were the closest to the innate realm, and they were actually the most eager to understand the extreme of the martial arts realm, but suddenly hearing Nangong Que's sentence about the innate realm, they had been difficult to accept.
The innate realm has already discouraged countless martial artists, and even a strong man like Ye Xuan, who has stayed at the peak of his strength for many years, does not dare to say that he will definitely be able to break through to the innate realm. But even so, he can still represent the entire Qingcheng faction, and he is still the figure at the top of the entire martial arts pyramid. Suddenly, someone told them that even if it was an innate realm, it was still not the ultimate realm of martial arts, and if someone else said this kind of remarks, they could ignore it, but if this came out of the mouth of their own master, it would be another matter.
Everyone stared at Nangong Que with blazing eyes, waiting for his answer.
"Hahahaha... There is no ultimate in martial arts. Don't talk about the innate realm, even the realm I know is still... Not the ultimate of a martial artist. Nangong Que got up and looked at the old pine tree by the stone table, and laughed loudly, but the bitterness mixed in the smile could not be concealed.
"Could it be that the predecessors have seen the realm of legends, otherwise how could they be so sure?" Cheng Hao asked, and it was also the answer that everyone present wanted to know. The bitter meaning in Nangong Que's words makes people feel a little sad, I'm afraid that from his point of view, he should have no regrets about martial arts, but only he knows that this is not the ultimate, and there is a higher realm, but he can't reach it.
"I haven't seen it!" Nangong Que still looked at the pine tree in front of him without looking back, and then said: "But my Nangong clan, the ancestral precepts handed down from generation to generation have reminded us more than once that only by reaching that realm can we break the shackles of this world, shatter the void, and lead the clansmen back to their own clan!"
"Return to your own clan?" Before Cheng Hao could speak, Ye Xuan and the others couldn't help but ask, "What does the head mean?"
Knowing that everyone would have this question, Nangong Que turned around and signaled everyone to be calm: "Since I let you come over, the old man will tell you everything." After everyone sat down, Nangong Que slowly said the matter, "Things have to start from hundreds of years ago...
About 800 years ago, the Nangong clan originally came from the upper realm, and the entire Nangong clan had a population of nearly 10,000. In addition to the main vein, there are six major branches, and the ancestors of Nangong Que are the clansmen of one of the six branches. In the battle for the main vein once every hundred years, the head of each vein must compete for the qualification of his clansmen to become the main vein, and Nangong Que's vein is no exception.
Back then, the patriarch of their lineage, sent the ancestor of Nangong Que to lead a group of people out to look for opportunities, and unexpectedly encountered a powerful catastrophe, and the heavenly catastrophe bombarded the void to shatter. Under the huge pressure, a group of people could not escape from the range of the Heavenly Tribulation, and some of them were not struck by the Lightning Tribulation, but were sucked into the broken void, and then came to the current world.
More than a dozen people came to this world and found that there were no cultivators here, and all of them practiced an almost barbaric way of fighting, which was called martial arts. There were more than a dozen people in their group, and two of them were cultivators and foundation building realm cultivators, and they thought that with their cultivation, it would be easy to deal with the barbarians here.
But when they were frustrated again and again in the hands of some martial arts masters, they knew that they underestimated the heroes of the world. Those masters who can defeat them are called the innate realm, which corresponds to the foundation building realm of the original world, and if it is a hand-to-hand combat, the innate martial artist is far stronger than the foundation building cultivator.
This made them pay more attention to the natives of this place, and gradually they found that the aura here was extremely thin, and it was difficult to maintain their cultivation at all. There were also more than a dozen Qi cultivators who were teleported over, and the cultivation was even more slow to regress, which immediately caused them to panic.
So, leaving this place and returning to the original world became their lifelong goal. After years of intensive research, they found that the space here is relatively weaker than the original world. Because with the full strength of the two foundation building realm masters, they were able to break the void through a crack, although it was only so, it also gave them hope.
After years of trying, they have understood that the ultimate thing that this place can withstand is the foundation building realm, and if they can break through the foundation building realm, they can shatter the void of this world and return to the original world. The aura of heaven and earth, which is so thin that it is almost none, makes it impossible for cultivators to practice here at all. So they set their goal on the martial artist, as long as they can break through the innate realm of the martial artist, they can also break the space here.
The innate realm is the ultimate of martial arts, and this is the deep-rooted thinking of all people in this land. However, after continuous deduction and exploration of the cultivation principles of martial artists, they found that if martial artists can break through the innate nature, they can also become Dan.
In order to cultivate the clansmen with excellent martial arts roots, they did not hesitate to stimulate the bloodline of the newborn clansmen with the secret method of consuming essence and blood, but the final result was disappointing, the long-term use of the secret method of consuming essence and blood affected the reproduction ability of the clansmen, and in Nangong Que's generation, only his two brothers remained. But they have never given up, and returning to the family is a lifelong wish of their ancestors, and they cannot give up in their generation.
"It's... Is this true... It's incredible."
"There is such a thing, what does the predecessor mean that if you break through the innate and reach a higher realm, you can fly to the upper realm? What is the realm above the innate realm?" Cheng Hao and the others exclaimed, what Nangong Que said, as if the door to a new world was opened for them.
"That's true, I don't know what the realm above the innate is, because no one has broken through so far. Nangong Que replied, as soon as these words came out, Cheng Hao and the others instantly cooled in their hearts, but then they heard him say: "However, for cultivators, the realm of practicing qi or building a foundation is only the starting point of a cultivator, but it is very similar to the strength and innate realm of this world. ”
"Nedan, does it mean that Cheng Hao can reach the Grandmaster Realm at a young age, and maybe he will be able to come this far in his lifetime?" Maybe Cheng Hao is too far away from the innate realm to understand, but Ye Xuan and the others are different.
From the time they began to cultivate martial arts when they were young, until they became the transformation energy, the internal energy generated in the body and then transformed into true qi, the difficulties and the worlds required were immeasurable.
Often the breakthrough of each realm and the transformation of energy in the body are a qualitative change. For example, when the internal force is transformed into true qi, after the internal force accumulated by a grandmaster in his lifetime is transformed into true qi, there is only a trace left. And then the transformation of strength to break through the innate true qi from the gaseous state to the liquid state, the same is true. As a result, there are often those people with extremely high qualifications, even if they can break through to the innate realm, none of them can break through before the age of fifty.
As strong as Zao Wou-ki, when he broke through the innate level, he was already over fifty years old. Therefore, regarding Nangong Que's trust in Cheng Hao, Ye Xuan and the others suddenly felt that it was too hasty.
Don't look at Nangong Que's appearance that he is only in his forties, his real age may be older than Zao Wou-ki. I already knew that a martial artist could generally have a lifespan of more than one hundred and fifty years, and there have even been innate masters who are nearly three hundred years old throughout the ages.
Innate martial artists, if they want to, can make it impossible for people to judge their age by their appearance.
"Of course, it's more than that. Nangong Que said with a smile, and turned to stare at Cheng Hao, "Part of the reason for his cultivation is that, if it is just that, the old man can go and create a younger martial arts genius by himself." He was chosen because of his physique!"
"Physique?" Cheng Hao was uncomfortable being stared at by Nangong Que, what kind of physique made Nangong Que so confident?
"Exactly, but you won't understand these things after you break through, maybe you can feel it! So I need a promise from you, I can let the entire Qingcheng faction secretly support all your actions, and even if you go that far in the future, the old man is ninety percent sure to help you break through." But you must promise to help my two brothers return to the clan in the future. After speaking, Nangong Que smiled slightly, waiting for Cheng Hao's reply. Cheng Hao was confused, and even Ye Xuan and others didn't know why.
I have only heard of judging whether a person is suitable for cultivating martial arts by looking at the quality of his bones, but he has never heard of a statement about his physique.
"Thanks to the trust of the predecessors, Cheng Hao should make this agreement, if there is really such a day. "Since Nangong Que can tell him this kind of secret news, for a martial artist, the news itself is of great value, so what's the harm in agreeing to him?
"In this way, the old man thanked Xiaoyou first. After speaking, Nangong Que stretched out his hand to Cheng Hao's forehead and lightly touched it, and a breath slowly entered Cheng Hao's body. The true qi that was originally uncontrollable and appeared from time to time slowly stabilized, but it was absorbed in an instant.
Cheng Hao didn't have time to come over anyway, and immediately meditated to run his internal strength. The true qi turned into an internal force and continued to flow towards the dantian, without the pain of almost bursting the meridians that appeared when the previous breakthrough was due to too much internal force.
"Boom!" When the internal force reached the extreme that it could bear today, the dantian was instantly expanded, and the internal force that had nowhere to be stored surged, causing a roar in the body!
"Thank you seniors!" Cheng Hao got up and felt his cultivation, he had already broken through Grandmaster Xiaocheng and reached the realm of Dacheng, and he was not far from the peak. Although there is no previous situation of breaking through two realms at once, it is also extremely terrifying, breaking through a big realm in just two days, it is estimated that no one will believe it.
"Haha, no need to say thank you, we're already allies, aren't we?" Nangong Que said with a smile.
"The seniors helped me point out the future, and I also helped the younger generations break through the cultivation and naturally thank you! But the seniors said before that you have two brothers, I don't know who the other is?" Nangong Que mentioned more than once before that his Nangong clan now has two of their brothers left, but he doesn't know who the other one is. Not to mention Cheng Hao, even the sect elders such as Ye Xuan and Song Ren, who get along almost day and night, don't know that they have a brother in charge.
"Yes, I also have a younger brother, it is not convenient to reveal his name now, and when the time comes, you will naturally know his identity. Nangong Que smiled mysteriously, "It's not too early, Xiaoyou may have to leave, otherwise it will be too late and someone will be aware of it." After saying that, he turned around and left.
"That's fine, the senior, don't say goodbye, the junior is gone. "What Nangong Que said is not unreasonable, his cultivation is too fast, I am afraid that it will not be long before someone notices that something is wrong, and it will inevitably expose the relationship with the Qingcheng faction too soon. After saying that, he left with the elders.
"Elders, I hope that no one other than us will know about today's affairs, and as for maintaining the relationship with Cheng Hao, it depends on a few of you. Ye Xuan, Song Ren and the other five elders trembled in their hearts, and the sound was transmitted into the secret!
The meaning of the words means that there may be opportunities left for them in the future, even if it is just the bait thrown by Nangong Que in order to let them do their best to maintain their relationship with Cheng Hao, for that slightest possibility, to see the world in the teleportation, they are also willing to fight. Even Song Ren, looking at Cheng Hao's eyes at this time, slowly changed a lot.
On the top of a high mountain somewhere in the back mountain, Nangong Que looked at Cheng Hao's departing figure, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he held a jade piece in his hand. If a cultivator sees it, he will definitely find that this is a "jade slip" that should not exist in this world
"Ancestors of the Nangong clan for generations, have you seen it? If this son can't do it, I, Nangong Que, can't do anything. "The entire Nangong clan has given everything to return to their clan, if they still can't do it, he Nangong Que is worthy of the ancestors of the generations.
From the moment he saw Cheng Hao, Cheng Hao's cultivation that was extremely asymmetrical with his age made him seem to see hope. It's just that he hasn't been able to succeed for generations, so he is a little unsure, just how difficult it is to break through the innate nature, he himself knows best. After that, he decided to let Cheng Hao choose whether to come or not, but when Cheng Hao stood in front of him, he found that he might have made the right bet. Because Nangong Que is not only a martial arts innate powerhouse, but their family itself is also a cultivator from the outside world.
When a cultivator reaches the foundation building realm, he can open the eye of heaven and see a person's physique at a glance, which is an ability that martial arts cultivators do not have. Nangong Que is in the innate realm of a martial artist, and he can also use secret methods to temporarily open the eye of heaven.
When Cheng Hao appeared in the forbidden land, he discovered that Cheng Hao was special, not only because Zao Wouji had spent his energy on the empowerment technique, which gave him a martial arts foundation that surpassed the limit. More because of Cheng Hao's terrible physique.
This kind of physique, even if it is recorded in the jade slips left by the ancestors of the Nangong family, is only a legend. But he saw in Cheng Hao the various characteristics of this physique in the records of the jade slip.
If Cheng Hao still can't meet that requirement, even if he Nangong Que violates the ancestral teachings and gives up the goal of returning to his own clan, he can be regarded as worthy of his ancestors.