Chapter Fifty-Three: Inner Spiritual Awareness

  Majestic high mountains, low-lying river valleys, bear the weight of Chongqing's 3,000-year civilization. In the vast expanse of history, Chongqing has become an ancient regional military and political center and an important commercial hub with its enormous cohesive force and radiation power, enduring for thousands of years without decline, freely absorbing and emitting all things, nurturing new life. Over the past century or so, Chongqing has experienced a development path of prosperity through commerce, flourishing through relocation, and taking off through reform. From an ancient military stronghold, it has developed into an open and strategic hub connecting China's central and western regions; from an ancient regional commercial center, it has grown into the economic center of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River; from a single-type transshipment trade city in the 19th century, it has become the largest multifunctional modern industrial and commercial city in western China; from a port city located in the eastern part of the Sichuan Basin, it has developed into a centrally administered municipality standing on China's inland, facing the five continents and four seas.

  The headquarters of the Wang family is in Chongqing, and due to the urgency of the matter, Wang Botao and others chartered a plane back to Chongqing.

  Wang Jia's current family head, Wang Ningxuan, sat in the great hall, listening to Wu Qian carefully recounting the battle process to him. Meanwhile, Wang Botao and Wang Tianyun, who had been ordered to hurry back, stood obediently by his side.

  Wang Ningxuan, who looks like he's only in his early forties, is actually approaching sixty this year. Wang Botao is his youngest son, and Wang Ningxuan himself is only a congenital second-level martial artist.

  Wu Qian was now able to stand up by himself, but his face was very pale. This injury was not light or heavy, and it was enough for him to bear.

  "This person's combat power is absolutely at the level of a congenital fourth-level warrior. As for how strong it is, I don't dare to confirm. However..." Wu Qian worriedly said: "I'm worried that if he isn't a super-strong warrior who can reach the congenital seventh level and control his own strength at will, then with his age reaching such a degree, he must have an extraordinary background behind him. Moreover, he gives me a feeling..."

  "What's with the tone?" Wang Ningxuan still had a lot of authority.

  "It's best not to mess with him!" As a congenital third-class martial artist, Wu Qian's status in the Wang family was also very high. Even when facing Wang Ningxuan, he could sit and talk back, whereas people like Wang Botao and Wang Tianyun had to stand aside and respond.

  "Alright, I understand." Earlier, Wu Qian had already shared his suspicions and thoughts with Wang Ningxuan. Wang Ningxuan nodded and immediately ordered someone to send Wu Qian and his brother Wu Lin to recover from their injuries.

  Wen Tao... is actually a doctor, yet he has such formidable strength. If we can win him over, that would be great, but if someone else wins him over!! Wang Ning Xuan thought of this and glared at Wang Bo Tao standing beside him: "Not enough to make things happen, but more than enough to mess things up."

  "How did the kid think of it, halfway through killing such a guy, originally a ten-to-one sure thing, who would have thought...” Wang Botao knew his father too well, although he was born to a concubine, but Wang Ningxuan loved him the most and always wanted to support him, including giving him opportunities to pursue Biqi. Wang Botao said with grievance: "The kid was beaten by him for several days and couldn't get up, until now he dare not do strenuous exercise."

  Upon hearing this, Wang Ningxuan's expression eased: "A person who can defeat even a congenital third-level strongman is indeed not someone you can handle. For now, don't bother with this matter and stay at home for a while. Also, hold off on going to Shanghai for the time being, lest others take advantage of the situation."

  "What about Wen Tao, can't just let it go like this?" Wang Bo Tao was very unwilling.

  Wang Ningxuan stood up and said: "I will handle this matter myself. It seems that I can only ask the elders to come forward..."

  However, Wang Ningxuan didn't say much either. No matter which family, they wouldn't want to let a first-rate warrior with a cultivation level above the third grade slip away. If this warrior had no background, they would be an object of their all-out efforts to win over and recruit, after all, in this era, a first-rate strongman couldn't be bought with money.

  …………………

  Wen Tao went to the Imperial Court Fitness Club after finishing his medical examination in the afternoon. He learned from Hong Hao that Biqi was being interviewed and would need some more time. Wen Tao directly entered the fitness room and started practicing.

  This time, Wén Tāo did not continue with the simple extreme point training. During the last Xuan Jing explosion, he was severely injured and even reached the brink of life and death. However, for the first time, he truly surpassed his limits that he had cultivated over the years.

  Beyond the extreme point, it didn't collapse like before, and soon the body recovered.

  These days, Tian Tao has been thinking about it all the time. He still remembers that near-death experience from back then. If it weren't for Gu Han's selfless help, he would have lost his life long ago.

  But why did it happen last time? Although his body had already exceeded its limits under the explosive pressure, he felt that his body was about to collapse. After days of contemplation, Wentai didn't have a very accurate answer, but he had somehow found some clues.

  That powerful counter-shock ability within oneself, although that counter-shock force was only a flash in the pan, its impact will not be so simple.

  If it's said that after surpassing one's limits, one still hasn't collapsed, then perhaps there's a connection with that.

  And the power within himself, is probably related to the absorbed heavenly tribulations, because last time he exceeded his own limit and collapsed, there was no power of heavenly tribulation in his body.

  It seems that surviving last time and the current changes are all related to Tian Jie.

  Although it's not a full-body workout, the most basic gravity equipment is still worn, and then sit down, just like a qigong practitioner practicing. He thought, recalling these battles.

  Wen Tao's body gradually abandoned everything around him, and his spirit seemed to return to the battlefield once again, constantly repeating and changing. Sometimes, Wen Tao became his own opponent, breaking through his own attacks, then turning back into himself, accelerating his speed and changing his tactics to continuously launch a fierce offense.

  So many times, Wén Tāo's spiritual consciousness grew in such a process.

  Strength, speed, combined with the structure of the body and its changes, adjusting his body every time he throws a punch. As he becomes more and more familiar with his body, Wén Tāo begins to integrate his own body with his training and combat, like a single entity.

  People who practice the Tao rely on their intuition of the Heavenly Way to cultivate their spiritual consciousness. At this time, Wén Tāo created a brand new realm, introspectively perceiving the subtle changes in his body and cultivating his spiritual consciousness. If we say that practitioners of the Tao cultivate their spiritual consciousness through intuition of the Heavenly Way from the outside, then Wén Tāo's is inner spiritual consciousness.

  Spiritual awareness, the initial stage is the sixth sense or keen intuition. Some people are born with a strong sixth sense and keen intuition. As martial artists cultivate themselves, they enhance their senses through organs such as eyes, nose, tongue, body, and skin, increasing sensitivity by several times, tens, or even hundreds of times.

  If you reach the congenital boundary, you can start to have some self-awareness and cultivate your senses. As a cultivator of truth, this is a sign of the boundary, and it must be cultivated through special means. Only when you reach the seventh level of congenital martial arts or the golden elixir period will you truly possess spiritual awareness that can be released externally.

  Like Wén Tāo borrowing the help of Jù Líng Yī to enhance his spiritual awareness, he can temporarily possess the spiritual awareness of a strong person in the early stages of crossing the tribulation. However, that is after all borrowed power. The true might may not be comparable to the spiritual awareness of a high-ranking expert in the later stages of Dòng Xū, but for Wén Tāo at present, it already has a great effect.

  Although the Jilingyi continuously gathered spiritual energy to nourish his body, and he had taken many elixirs, Wentai's spiritual consciousness had never changed. It wasn't until he arrived in Shanghai that a change occurred, allowing him to break through from the early stage of a First-Heavenly Tier warrior to the middle stage of a First-Heavenly Tier warrior.

  But now, Wentai is creating a miracle. A congenital first-class martial artist can actually cultivate his spiritual consciousness, and even if he has just started cultivating, Wentai's current spiritual consciousness has already reached the level of an ordinary congenital sixth-class strongman or a condensing pill cultivator.

  If Wén Tāo could calm down and concentrate on his cultivation at this time, his spiritual consciousness would have grown rapidly. However, he had a preconceived notion of time in his mind, so by the next morning, he automatically ended his internal spiritual consciousness cultivation.

  The growth of spiritual awareness has exceeded the degree of its own power, this feeling is very strange. At this time, Wen Tao looked at himself practicing fist and it seemed as if there was a teacher looking from above.

  There is something wrong with it, and it can be corrected immediately. After getting up, he quickly entered the state of cultivation.

  At this time, his own spiritual consciousness can be controlled without relying on the Ling Spirit Robe, it's just that it is still very weak now, but after all, it is his own spiritual consciousness.

  It can be used anytime and anywhere. In his own practice, Wentai discovered that he was wrong in many places before.

  The way to correct these mistakes is to combine your own understanding of the body with spiritual awareness to make the body's energy flow smoothly.

  A simple set of long boxing came down, and the body that had already reached its limit was like countless small rivers flowing smoothly, finally gathering together, surging and expanding, Wen Tao reached the realm of a second-level Wugong warrior.

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