High Martial Arts: Enlightenment after Practices

My time for Cultivation had indeed decreased.

Previously, on the front lines, I could guarantee at least six hours of deep Cultivation every day. Now, I was lucky to squeeze in three.

But Xu Wuyi wasn’t worried. Even though his Cultivation time had been reduced, his progress was still steadily increasing.

At his Realm, Cultivation was no longer a simple matter of putting in the hours.

What mattered more was "understanding."

After his Heart Image had transformed from a mountain into a great marsh, his understanding of the concept of "weight" deepened daily.

He didn’t need to meditate intentionally. Whether he was walking, eating, or even chatting with relatives, he could feel the subtle changes in the dark golden great marsh within his sea of consciousness.

It was a wondrous state.

It was as if his Heart Image had taken on a life of its own, autonomously growing and adjusting.

His role wasn’t to force its development but to flow with its rhythm—offering occasional guidance, but mostly just observing.

「On the third day of the Lunar New Year, he paid a visit to Honghe First Middle School.」

Elder You had contacted him earlier, saying the students in the Martial Arts class wanted to meet their "legendary senior brother."

Xu Wuyi didn’t decline and made time to visit the school that afternoon.

The Martial Arts class was held in the old gymnasium, where the conditions were much better than they had been in his time.

Elder You and a few other teachers were there to greet him at the entrance personally. Behind them stood more than thirty teenagers, the oldest seventeen or eighteen and the youngest only fourteen or fifteen.

The students’ eyes lit up when they saw Xu Wuyi.

"Hello, Senior Brother Xu!"

Their unified greeting was tinged with unconcealable excitement.

Xu Wuyi smiled. "Hello, everyone."

Elder You walked over and clapped him firmly on the shoulder. "Good kid. You’ve really made our Red River proud."

"How have you been, Elder You?" Xu Wuyi asked with a smile, looking at the old man who now considered himself a local of Red River.

"Couldn’t be better," Elder You boomed with a laugh. "Training with this bunch of rascals every day, it’d be hard not to be."

Inside the gymnasium, Xu Wuyi was invited onto a makeshift stage.

He didn’t give a long speech, simply answering a few questions and demonstrating some basic Fist Techniques.

During the demonstration, he used none of his Power of Heart Image, only the purest Techniques. Yet in his hands, even these basic moves seemed to transform the mundane into the magical.

The students watched, captivated.

Afterward, a few of the bolder students surrounded him, asking for autographs. Xu Wuyi didn’t refuse, signing for each of them.

A little girl asked, blushing, "Senior Brother Xu, can I become as strong as you someday?"

Xu Wuyi looked into her earnest eyes, thought for a moment, and said, "I don’t know. But you have to work hard first. Only then will you find out."

The little girl nodded vigorously, her eyes sparkling.

As he was leaving the school, Elder You walked him to the gate.

"This group of students will be looking up to you from now on," Elder You said, his tone uncharacteristically solemn. "You’re their role model. The farther you go, the more they’ll believe that they can forge their own path too."

Xu Wuyi understood the weight of those words.

"I will."

...

「Early morning, the fifth day of the Lunar New Year.」

Xu Wuyi was cultivating in the backyard as usual.

He wasn’t practicing with his spear. He just sat cross-legged under the old pagoda tree, his eyes closed in Introspection.

In his sea of consciousness, the dark golden great marsh was perfectly calm. Its surface was like a mirror, reflecting the Golden Crow Illusion suspended above.

The Golden Crow’s wings were lowered, and the Flame runes on its feathers flowed slowly, each one emitting a deep, restrained light.

The Heart Image had completely stabilized.

Several days had passed since the great marsh had taken form.

Over these past few days, the great marsh had transitioned from its initial agitation to a state of calm, from blurry to distinct, from loose to solid.

Now, it was like a true great marsh—stable, profound, and all-encompassing.

Xu Wuyi could feel the connection between his Heart Image and his physical body growing stronger.

Before, the Heart Image and his physical body had been separate, with a clear barrier between them.

Now, that barrier was vanishing. The power of the Heart Image could flow more smoothly into his body, and his body’s feedback could, in turn, more directly influence the Heart Image.

It was an incredibly subtle change.

It was as if the Heart Image was no longer an independent entity in his sea of consciousness but had become a part of his body—another kind of "organ."

Xu Wuyi slowly exhaled.

As he exhaled, the Qi and Blood in his body began to circulate on its own.

With no deliberate guidance or active circulation on his part, it simply flowed naturally along the pathways of the Hundred Refinements Melting Furnace technique.

With every cycle, his Qi and Blood grew a fraction more solid, and his life force a fraction more vibrant.

One cycle, two cycles, three cycles...

After thirty-six cycles, the circulation speed of his Qi and Blood suddenly quickened.

Xu Wuyi could clearly feel an intangible barrier inside him being breached. There was no violent tremor, no painful impact. It was as natural as water carving a channel, as effortless as snow melting into water.

Without even checking, Xu Wuyi knew his Life Energy Level had leaped from Level 43, where it had been stuck for a long time, to Level 44.

The breakthrough process was surprisingly peaceful.

Xu Wuyi didn’t even open his eyes, simply maintaining his state of Introspection to observe the changes within his body.

After the breakthrough, his Qi and Blood didn’t stabilize immediately but continued to increase—slowly, but ceaselessly.

Still, Xu Wuyi did not stop.

He controlled his Qi and Blood and began to compress it. He wasn’t trying to suppress his Level, but to solidify his foundation.

The increase in Life Energy Level from the Heart Image’s breakthrough was a good thing, but growing too quickly could easily lead to an unstable foundation.

He didn’t need superficial strength; he needed every step of his progress to be solid.

Compressing, refining, compressing again, refining again.

The process continued for a full two hours.

When Xu Wuyi finally opened his eyes, the sun was already high in the sky. Winter sunlight filtered through the pagoda tree’s branches, casting dappled shadows on the ground.

He stood up and stretched his limbs.

The sensation in his body was strange.

There was no illusion of a massive power surge. Instead, he felt "lighter." It wasn’t a decrease in weight, but rather that his control over his body had become more refined, more effortless.

He casually threw a punch.

He didn’t use any Qi and Blood, only his pure Physical Strength. The force of his fist cut through the air, creating a soft WHOOSH.

It wasn’t the sharp whistle of extreme speed, but a deeper, more restrained sound.

It was like a stone dropped into a deep pool—the surface remained calm, but a powerful undercurrent churned below.

Xu Wuyi pulled back his fist, a satisfied expression on his face, and called out to Anna.

"Anna, pull up my current physiological data. Focus on the assessment of my foundational stability."

A blue light screen materialized before him, and Anna’s elegant figure appeared.

"Scanning..."

A soft light shot out from his wrist device, enveloping his entire body. A few seconds later, a stream of data scrolled across the screen.

[Life Energy Level: 44.0]

[Qi and Blood Purity: 92.6% (Excellent)]

[Heart Phase Stability: 89.4% (Good)]

[Foundation Comprehensive Score: 87.3 (Instability Index: 3.2%. Consolidation recommended.)]

In his early years of practicing Martial Arts, if Xu Wuyi wanted to test his Life Energy Level, he had to go all the way to school to use a testing machine.

Later, at Star Martial University, this function was integrated into the Virtual Pods. Now, he could check it anytime, anywhere.

After all, the personal terminal on his wrist was a top-of-the-line model worth twenty million Federation Coins, with its functions integrated to the highest possible degree.

"Instability Index at 3.2%," Anna’s calm voice announced.

"This is a normal phenomenon after a rapid increase in Life Energy Level. It typically subsides naturally within two to three months. However, if you wish to solidify your foundation in a shorter time frame, I recommend using supplementary medication for targeted conditioning."

Xu Wuyi looked at the data on the screen and nodded.

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