Chapter 103: An Eight-Thousand-Year-Old Virgin Body, Martial Dao Golden Core!
You’re starting to doubt life itself. This is nothing like the cultivation method you imagined.
“Shouldn’t martial cultivation start with the fundamentals? Like horse stance, standing post, that sort of thing? Why am I getting beaten up right from the start?” you complain to Little Nannan, inwardly on the verge of tears.
In the hands of a little girl who looks no older than ten, you are beaten without the slightest ability to fight back.
Little Nannan blinks her big eyes and looks at you adorably. “That’s because you’re a Body Cultivator, Big Brother. Your physical foundation is very solid.”
“As for why you need to be beaten…” Little Nannan ponders for a moment. “I forgot the reason. Anyway, that’s how Grandpa Village Chief taught me.”
“Back then, Grandpa Village Chief beat me pretty badly too!”
“Come on, let’s continue!”
Since it was the Old Village Chief’s teaching method, you had no choice but to accept.
You and Little Nannan, with mortal bodies, resume your sparring.
The first year, throughout the entire process of martial cultivation, you are beaten by Little Nannan without any ability to fight back. Every day, your entire body is covered in bruises. If not for the foundation laid by your Spirit Transformation fleshly body, you likely would have been beaten to death by Little Nannan long ago.
Though you are tormented miserably, your martial progress is extremely rapid. You successfully step into the tenth heaven of the Martial Way.
Within your body, something called internal force appears. With internal force, you can already accomplish picking a leaf and injuring someone.
In the mortal world, you could now be considered a Martial Dao grandmaster of your generation!
“Not bad. Reaching the tenth heaven of the Martial Way in a single year. Your talent surpasses others!” the Old Monster praises you.
“Big Brother is amazing! You’re almost catching up to Nannan!”
“Uh…” You glance at Little Nannan. After confirming she isn’t mocking you, your large hands pinch her chubby cheeks and you cannot help but knead them.
The tenth year, you can barely withstand Little Nannan’s attacks, no longer beaten without any ability to fight back. Of course, this is with Little Nannan at the same cultivation realm as you.
Late at night, you constantly circulate the Yi Jin Jing within your body. Your abundant internal force is continuously compressed, gradually condensing into a drop of water.
You look inside your body at the water droplet transformed from internal force. You know this is the legendary true qi!
True qi, appearing in the form of a water droplet within your dantian, signifies you have stepped into the hundredth heaven of the Martial Way. Your strength is comparable to a Foundation Establishment cultivator!
You walk out of your room and arrive at the courtyard where you usually practice martial arts. The Yi Jin Jing circulates within your body, and the water droplet condensed from true qi travels through the meridians of your body.
You press your right hand’s two fingers together. True qi gathers between the two fingers. Pointing at the wooden post in the courtyard, you thrust out a finger!
The wooden post, originally used for Foundation Establishment cultivator training, is directly pierced by you, leaving a hole two fingers wide!
“This power is no less than spiritual qi, and it’s even easier to control.” After the strike, you unconsciously compare it to spiritual qi in your heart.
This kind of power, which does not rely on external objects, is cultivated through years of bitter training, and depends on one’s own body, is clearly more like an extension of one’s arm.
“Wow, Big Brother broke through to the hundredth heaven and condensed true qi just like that!” Little Nannan, startled awake by you, comes to the small courtyard, her face filled with surprise.
“Haha, I had a sudden premonition tonight and broke through by luck.”
“Big Brother’s cultivation speed is so fast it defies common sense.”
“That’s because he’s still a virgin!”
The Old Monster appears from who knows where, stating the reason for your rapid martial progress.
Little Nannan, hearing this, looks at you with a strange expression, her heart thinking who knows what.
You feel insulted…
“Virginity is nothing. For cultivators, there’s nothing strange about it.” The Old Monster, seeing your expression of shame and indignation, explains with a chuckle.
“Cultivators have long lifespans. I’ve even seen an eight-thousand-year-old virgin. Nothing to be surprised about.”
Only then do you feel a bit better. The night passes without words.
The thirtieth year, at the same cultivation realm, you can finally fight Little Nannan to a draw. Your Martial Way has achieved a qualitative leap!
The next day, the Old Monster personally comes to the small courtyard to be your opponent.
“Thirty years, and your Martial Way cultivation has reached the three hundredth heaven. You are already comparable to what I was back then!”
The Old Monster looks at you with a smile, then nods. “From today on, I will personally instruct your martial training!”
Hearing this, the smile on your face vanishes instantly. You know the road of getting beaten is about to begin again!
After ten moves, you lie on the ground motionless. At the same cultivation realm, you can only last ten moves against the Old Monster.
Bang! A petite figure flies over and lands beside you, motionless.
You look at Little Nannan, who was mercilessly sent flying by the Old Monster, and cannot help but laugh.
From then on, on the road of getting beaten, you have one more person for company. Every day is painful and happy.
The fiftieth year, your Martial Way advances steadily at a rate of ten heavens per year.
After fifty years of dedicated cultivation, you feel the difficulty of the Martial Way for the first time.
“The rules of the Heavenly Dao have already begun to heal. I believe it will recover before long,” the Old Monster tells you.
You know the battle on the Old Village Chief’s side has probably ended. You just don’t know whether the current Heavenly Dao is still the same one from back then.
“Grandpa Village Chief, and the uncles and aunties…” Little Nannan says in a low voice, fighting back tears that refuse to fall.
“Don’t worry. That old fellow’s strength is unfathomable, far stronger than mine.”
“If I can live until now, what about him?” The Old Monster comforts Little Nannan.
You think for a moment, then ask, “Old Senior, are you not worried about your son’s safety?”
“Children and grandchildren have their own blessings. Without children and grandchildren, I enjoy my own blessings!” the Old Monster says with a chuckle, seemingly completely indifferent to his son’s life or death.
You say no more and continue cultivating.
The hundredth year, you are once again sent flying by the Old Monster, crashing heavily to the ground, motionless.
Within your body, the Yi Jin Jing begins circulating involuntarily. In your dantian, nine drops of true qi slowly merge and grow stronger.
The Old Monster also cannot help but stop and look at your dantian.
“Embrace the origin and guard the one. Cast aside all distractions. Circulate your technique with all your strength!”
You follow the Old Monster’s words, hastily scrambling up and circulating your technique with all your strength.
Within your body, the nine drops of true qi merge into one, becoming something the size of a soybean. You sense the aura of a Golden Core.
“A hundred years, and you can actually condense a Martial Dao Golden Core!!!” Even the Old Monster, who has lived for over ten thousand years, cannot help but be astonished.
Looking at the Martial Dao Golden Core within your body, the Old Monster is filled with emotion, which finally becomes a single sentence.
“After a hundred years in seclusion, you can go out and temper yourself. The rules of the Heavenly Dao are about to be perfected soon!”