Chapter 1: The Seven-Colored Dragon Boat, Azure Pearl...

  "The Great Way directly points to the mysterious and subtle ultimate truth, the first level."

  "What?!"

  The entire square was in an uproar, this commotion even greater than when they saw that Zuo Ci had already reached the third realm of the Qing Xiao Secret.

  Everyone saw that Luo Bei's fist went up, and the wordless stone monument actually only flashed a layer of faint, seemingly nonexistent cyan light.

  Even if they were both at the First Realm, Luo Bei's cultivation was still far inferior compared to Xuan Wuji.

  A renowned figure with a reputation for being first-rate in both character and ability, yet his actual attainment is surprisingly inferior!

  For a moment, almost all of the disciples of Jingyun and Tiānzhu felt an extremely absurd feeling in their hearts.

  "Could it be that he is one of those with exceptional talent, yet lazy every day and doesn't work hard to cultivate? Impossible, as Gorou's master, how could he let him slack off every day."

  "What's going on here? His cultivation is actually seemingly the worst among all the people who have appeared so far...."

  "Why doesn't he come down yet?"

  "This guy is too pitiful, isn't he?"

  Just as the crowd was reporting Luobei's first heavy move without any emotional tone, all the disciples in the field couldn't help but discuss it secretly. At this time, they saw that Luobei didn't come down from the stage, but stood still in front of the wordless stone monument, as if he had been stunned.

  At this time, the sound was already quite loud, but Luo Bei seemed to have not heard it and remained standing still.

  "Brother Luo Bei." A somewhat timid voice rang out, but the mention of Luo Bei's name in this setting where no one dared to speak loudly was surprisingly courageous.

  The one who made this sound was Lin Hang.

  Although he had already known about Luo Bei's progress in private, seeing Luo Bei standing stupidly in front of the wordless stone monument at this moment, Lin Hang didn't know why, but felt an inexplicable sadness and couldn't help but call out to Luo Bei.

  However, after Lin Hang shouted at Luo Bei, Luo Bei still stood there stupidly, as if he had been hit too hard and hadn't even heard Lin Hang's shout.

  "Can't this guy withstand a blow?" Many of the shocked gods and Tianzhu's disciples suddenly had such thoughts, "It seems that being first in talent is not useful at all!"

  At this moment, Jian Hang's heart was racing again, and he couldn't help but want to take a few steps forward and shout at Luo Bei. Because just then, a figure flashed by and appeared beside Luo Bei in an instant.

  In an instant, a stout old man in dark clothes appeared beside Luo Bei. Judging from his attire, he should be a senior of the Shocking God Sect, but even the disciples of the Shocking God Sect did not know what this stout old man was about.

  Lian Hangsheng was afraid that the short and stout old man would make things difficult for Luo Bei, but before he could take a step forward, Cai Shu suddenly grabbed his clothes and said, "Don't move, he doesn't seem to want to make things difficult for Luo Bei."

  Lian Hang stopped, and indeed, the ordinary-looking, slightly white-browed old man did not intend to scold Luo Bei. He just looked at Luo Bei carefully, "En?" Then he slightly furrowed his brow and pointed to Luo Bei's eyebrow center.

  Luobei had already woken up when the short and stout old man approached him, but the old man's finger stretched out, although it seemed slow in motion, Luobei was caught off guard and didn't even have time to react with a conditioned reflex before being struck.

  In an instant, the stout old man's face showed extreme disappointment. "You can go down now." After his finger touched the center of Luo Bei's brow, he only said this one sentence to Luo Bei.

  "What's wrong? He poked your brow, what did he do, Luo Bei, how do you feel?"

  Luobei returned to the side of Caiyu and Kenghang, and the people around him couldn't help but ask in a low voice, but Luobei was speechless for a moment, only subconsciously shaking his head.

  At this time, Luo Bei's heart was already filled with shock and astonishment!

  Just now, Luo Bei stood in front of the wordless stone monument, and it wasn't because he saw that his cultivation was the lowest among everyone, and his mind couldn't take it for a moment.

  Luobei had long expected such a result. Now, facing it, he felt more shame than disappointment, and some guilt towards the teachings of Dan Ling and others.

  Luobei stood there, stunned, because just now when he punched the wordless stone monument, all sorts of thoughts rushed to his mind, until this moment, he, whose brain was not particularly sharp, only felt that he seemed to have grasped some key points, but for a while, he couldn't quite make sense of them.

  "The injuries, it seems like they've all healed!"

  Taking a deep breath, Luobei tried his best to calm himself down, ignoring everything outside and desperately grasping at the thoughts in his mind that seemed to be tangled into a mess.

  At that time, when Luo Bei punched out, he was extremely bitter in his heart. However, as soon as the punch hit the stone tablet, Luo Bei suddenly discovered that there was no obstruction to his flow of energy. The meridians and internal organs that had been severely damaged due to his rashness the day before had not only fully recovered but also seemed to have changed somehow.

  And then, in an instant, another thought occurred to him. When Luo Bei punched the wordless stone stele, he suddenly felt that the golden true yuan of the Wan Nian Tian Chang Sheng Jing in his sea of consciousness was also stirring restlessly, as if it wanted to move on its own and merge with the Great Way, pointing directly at the Cui Xu jue through his arm, surging towards the stone stele. However, just then, some empty spaces in his body that even his divine sense couldn't reach seemed to have an indescribable golden light flash by, and in that instant, the golden true yuan in his sea of consciousness calmed down, still and steady within his sea of consciousness once again.

  Luobei was standing in front of the wordless stone monument, savoring the mysterious and indescribable feeling that flashed by like a golden light. Suddenly, he found the stout old man from the Surging Spirit Peak standing beside him. As the old man pointed at him with a questioning gaze, Luobei knew that he was only trying to understand why his progress had been so slow. At this moment, Luobei felt a surge of fear in his heart, worried that the stout old man would discover that he was Luo Fu's disciple and had secretly cultivated the "Mystical Longevity Scripture".

  It was hard to put into words the feeling that Luo Bei had at that time. He only felt that the old man's finger pointed at his own brow, and a true yuan that made his heart tremble instantly passed through his brow and entered his meridians. This true energy was extremely condensed, like a poisonous snake that could penetrate every pore, and Luo Bei felt that it had even penetrated to every single hair follicle of his body, as if it had carefully explored the entire structure of his body. And at the same time, the golden light from just now flashed again.

  Judging from the look of disappointment on the old man's face, Luo Bei believed that the old man had not discovered the fact that he was practicing the Wild Thought Heaven Longevity Scripture.

  "The true yuan of the Longevity Scripture has also decreased significantly!"

  Those chaotic thoughts were entangled together, and Luo Bei found it difficult to clarify them. Now that Luo Bei had calmed down and was slowly reasoning things out, he was having an effect. After Luo Bei quieted his mind, he discovered that his injuries had completely healed, and then he also discovered that the golden true yuan of the Wan Nian Sheng Jing in his body had decreased by more than half.

  On the contrary, the originally severely damaged meridians and five internal organs seem to have become stronger than before they were injured. Under inner vision, the blood also seems to have turned a light golden color.

  A faint golden energy pulses through his body, subtly shaking his bones and flesh, as if an indescribable vitality flows throughout him.

  "Refine the blood and Qi, temper the bones and skin!"

  For a moment, Luo Bei almost couldn't help but shout it out on this stage of testing his cultivation.

  Unbeknownst to him, Luo Bei's Wild Thought Heaven Longevity Scripture had actually broken through the first layer and reached the realm of Qi and Blood Fusion, Refining Bones and Skin!

  This realm is where, apart from the meridians, the Qi and blood also start to truly temper the physical body outside of the meridians!

  "I reached the first heavy boundary of Blood Refining in just over half a month, but it took me three whole months to unknowingly break through this first heavy boundary. It seems that the cultivation of the Wild Sky Longevity Scripture increases in difficulty and time by several times with each additional heavy boundary, and later on may even increase by tens or hundreds of times! There may also be many unforeseen dangers, no wonder Master said that practicing the Wild Sky Longevity Scripture is extremely difficult, a life-and-death struggle!"

  This is the first thought floating in Luo Bei's mind.

  "My meridians and five internal organs have recovered so quickly, it must be because of the False Sky Longevity Scripture. And the reason why the golden true yuan of the False Sky Longevity Scripture has decreased is that it has been used to repair and nourish my damaged and injured meridians and five internal organs!" Luobei immediately thought of this point.

  As soon as he thought of this, Luo Bei's mind suddenly cleared up, and all the tangled thoughts were smoothed out.

  "The delusional heavenly longevity scripture's usual accumulation of true yuan, it turns out that most of it was used to temper and repair the meridians and flesh! All of these consume true yuan, no wonder I felt like I had refined a lot but only stored a few strands!"

  "So that's it! My Great Way of Direct Pointing to the Azure Void also has its true origin applied here! The reason why my Great Way of Direct Pointing to the Azure Void is so slow should be because of this!"

  "Master transmitted the Wan Nian Tian Chang Sheng Jing to me, and when I was about to leave Luo Fu for training, he placed a grain of golden sand-like true yuan in my body. He said that he had planted the Kong Sheng Mie Hai Wan Xin Zhou in my body, and if I did something against my conscience, my body and spirit would be destroyed together. Master wouldn't deceive me, but this restriction might have this effect. However, looking at it now, it's definitely the true yuan he left behind that allowed the Wordless Stone Stele and the Sheng Shen Yi Mai master to not discover the fact that I was cultivating the Wan Nian Tian Chang Sheng Jing."

  "Uncle Shi and the others, who usually can easily see our cultivation progress, now bring us to this wordless stone tablet once every three months. The intention is not for them to know our cultivation, but to let all disciples have an intuitive understanding, so that everyone can see the progress of their cultivation. This is the most direct way of knowing, and its greatest use is to inspire each other!"

  One through all, Luobei suddenly understood everything at once!

  Wishing all classmates, brothers and sisters, uncles and aunts in advance: Happy New Year's Day! 2010 will be a great year!