Chapter 20: A Generation of Grandmasters

After creating such a special exercise method that already had an extremely high starting point for cultivation, Zhang Sanfeng took great risks and personally carried out theoretical verification and experimental cultivation to solve the problems that arose one by one.

After all, this is a cultivation method that has never appeared before, completely subverting the cultivation rules of ordinary martial arts, and the possibility of no danger is absolutely equal to zero, and he can only slowly discover the problems and improve them through his own continuous attempts, and find a complete and safe cultivation step.

To say that Zhang Sanfeng's greatness is reflected in this point. Since the establishment of martial arts, I don't know how many amazing and brilliant martial arts heroes have been born on the rivers and lakes, and there are countless mythical masters, and there are many ancient martial arts cultivators with stronger qualifications and higher strength than him, but there are very few who can be compared with him, and he can't shake his position as the first strange person in ancient and modern martial arts.

This can be seen from the fact that he was able to create the Wudang faction, one of the martial arts Taishan Beidou, with only one-third of the "Jiuyang True Scripture" and a few iron arhats. All the magic skills inherited by the Wudang faction are almost all created by him alone, and after the age of more than 100 years, he created the foundation work of the Taoist family boxing method - Taijiquan. It can be seen from this that Zhang Sanfeng has maintained a spirit of diligent pursuit on the road of martial arts innovation, which can be called a never-stop exploration and a never-stop progress.

Adhering to the spirit of non-stop exploration, Zhang Sanfeng resolutely devoted himself to the experimental cultivation of the new exercises, completely ignoring the fact that he was already over a hundred years old and was about to break through the mythical realm, even if he did not take any risks, he would soon reach the status quo of the highest level of martial arts cultivation. Life is endless, innovation is endless, probably that is the most critical reason why Zhang Sanfeng was able to achieve the lofty status of the ancients and the future of the future.

After countless times of going mad, Zhang Sanfeng finally survived all kinds of dangers and failures with his profound cultivation and strong perseverance, and after some difficult exploration, he finally perfected the first stage of this peculiar cultivation exercise, and with the help of this exercise, he transformed all his huge innate true qi into qi and blood power, and almost transformed his body like a rebirth, not only greatly strengthened his muscles and bones, improved his ontological strength, but also increased his lifespan by hundreds of years, so that he unconsciously embarked on the road of pursuing physical immortality。

The edge of the sword is sharpened, and the fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold. Although the cultivation of the new exercises had exhausted all of his innate true qi, Zhang Sanfeng had also obtained a completely new body. This body is not only stronger and more prominent, but also has far stronger qualifications than before he was reborn, his potential is infinitely huge, and his cultivation speed is much faster than ordinary people.

Since then, with the newly transformed strong physical qualifications, relying on the profound martial arts insights accumulated before, Zhang Sanfeng quickly returned to the innate Dacheng realm, and easily broke through to the mythical stage, and successfully won the martial arts supreme realm. Overjoyed, he finally named this brand-new cultivation method "Nine Changes of the Fish and Dragon", taking the good omen of the righteous fish leaping into the dragon gate and flying into the sky, hoping that through body strengthening and muscle and bone transformation again and again, he will finally realize the eternal immortality of life, and complete the kind of leap and mutation from human to immortal.

Nine is the extreme, and ninety percent of it is expensive. Zhang Sanfeng named the new exercise "Nine Changes of the Fish and Dragon", also considering the infinite development and promising nature of this exercise, as long as the energy can keep up, it can be reborn almost infinitely and constantly strengthen itself, but it is not immediately certain that this exercise will have nine realm levels. After all, he had only temporarily created the first cultivation method of this exercise, and he didn't know how many more were there, so he could only verify it while cultivating.

It stands to reason that Zhang Sanfeng created "Nine Changes of the Fish and Dragon" such a peculiar cultivation method, which can strengthen and transform his body almost unlimitedly, and realize the eternity of life through the powerful power and huge vitality contained in the body itself, and finally embark on a path that is no different from cultivating immortals, he should live forever, and he should not die after only living for 400 years.

Indeed, if only from the perspective of cultivation theory, if "Nine Changes of the Fish and Dragon" persists in cultivation, it is indeed possible to obtain the ability of physical immortality and the possibility of achieving immortality. However, the cultivation of "Nine Changes of Fish and Dragon" is also very demanding, and the requirements are very high, which is not something that ordinary people can meet.

Not to mention the starting point of cultivation in the innate Dacheng realm mentioned earlier, there will always be people who can reach it. After all, the era in which Zhang Sanfeng lived was the Bronze Age of martial arts cultivation, and there were still many martial arts masters who had cultivated to the mythical realm, which had far exceeded this requirement.

In addition to the relatively high starting point of cultivation, non-innate Dacheng and above realms cannot be successful, "Nine Changes of the Fish and Dragon" also has strict requirements for the purity of the cultivator's internal strength. Zhang Sanfeng once taught Zhang Wuji the exercises after cultivating the first level of "Nine Changes of the Fish and Dragon", and asked him to practice this skill as well, but unfortunately, Zhang Wuji's internal strength would be ready to move every time he practiced, as if he was going to go crazy at any time, and he couldn't continue at all.

Afterwards, after careful deliberation and trial by Zhang Sanfeng and Zhang Wuji, they finally determined that if they wanted to cultivate the "Nine Transformations of the Fish and Dragon", their own innate true qi must be extremely pure, and it was best to use the true qi of Taoist health preservation attributes, and other types of true qi internal force basically had no hope of success.

At that time, although Zhang Wuji's major "Jiuyang Divine Skill" was also a Taoist exercise, and the internal force itself was also very pure and profound, he had already broken his child's body and lost his innate pure yang qi, and his breath was mixed with some women's pure yin qi, which eventually led to the impurity of his innate true qi, and he had no chance to practice "Nine Changes of Fish and Dragon", so he could only give up with great regret.

From this, they finally determined that if they wanted to successfully cultivate the Nine Transformations of the Fish and Dragon, they had to be an unbroken child.

Taoist masters who have not broken their childlike bodies and have cultivated to the realm of innate Dacheng, it is actually not difficult to find people who meet these conditions. In the martial arts, in order to cultivate to a higher realm, there are many top martial artists who have never been married in their lives.

In this way, it seems that cultivating "Nine Changes of the Fish and Dragon" is not a very difficult thing. In fact, if there are still many martial arts masters who can meet the prerequisites for cultivating "Nine Transformations of the Fish and Dragon", then in the process of cultivation, the extremely huge energy requirements will make people powerless.

Regarding this matter, in the cultivation codex left by the Wudang faction, Zhang Sanfeng also spent a lot of pen and ink to describe and discuss, and frankly admitted that when he first conceived and founded "Nine Changes of Fish and Dragon", he did not take this issue into account. He didn't think about the complexity and mystery of the human body itself, and he ended up with endless regrets.

Indeed, is it so simple to develop the infinite potential contained in the human body itself and pursue the eternal immortality of the physical body? Although the cultivation of martial arts and immortal cultivation is equally powerful and has a long life, before reaching an extremely high realm, the physical body is still quite fragile, and it is simply impossible to realize the eternity of life with the physical body alone. It is certainly impossible to achieve that kind of purpose without paying a huge price!

Regarding this point, Ye Qiuli immediately understood, because cultivation is such a process. If you want to achieve spiritual eternity, break through the Jindan period, and cultivate the Yuan Baby, the so-called "Yuan Infant is immortal, that is, immortal!", which means that the spirit is immortal. But if you want to be immortal in the flesh, it's difficult. Even if it is the true yuan washing body after the broken pill becomes an infant, it is only a preliminary realization that the physical body is not bad and immortal, and it is far from being eternal in the physical body!

Moreover, even such a physical body that is not bad and immortal still needs the energy of the Yuan Infant to support it. Once the Yuan Infant is lost, no matter how powerful the cultivator's body cultivation is, it will quickly decay and dissipate, not much different from ordinary people. If you want to achieve the eternity of the physical body, you must at least ascend to the immortal before you can talk about it. In the human world, there is no legend left for the eternity of the physical body, which is obviously impossible to achieve.

It's just that even so, Ye Qiuli still has some doubts that the immortal can keep his body intact even after death. Maybe even immortals don't have that ability, I'm afraid they really have to cultivate to the realm of gods before they can realize the eternity of the physical body. But in any case, it is always extremely difficult to achieve eternity by cultivating the physical body, and the huge power of the evolved physical body is not something that ordinary people can accumulate!

Zhang Sanfeng also encountered this kind of difficulty when he practiced "Nine Changes of the Fish and Dragon". When he first cultivated and realized the first transformation, he had exhausted all of his true qi in the innate stage of great maturity before he reached it. When he cultivated again and broke through the second change, he couldn't satisfy the energy consumption in the cultivation process on his own.

As a last resort, he had to spend decades traveling all over the world, searching for various famous mountains and rivers, collecting countless spiritual herbs and elixirs, refining them into elixirs that nourish vitality, and using them as an aid, so that he successfully broke through the second change and successfully cultivated into the unprecedented land immortal realm.

However, this is also the highest level that Zhang Sanfeng has cultivated, when he cultivated the third transformation of the "Nine Changes of the Fish and Dragon", intending to break through to a new realm equivalent to the infancy stage of a cultivator, he could no longer meet the huge energy consumption in the cultivation process, even with the help of pills. Because, on the earth at that time, there was no spiritual herb elixir that still had an effect on him!

The lack of aura, the scarcity of spiritual herbs and elixirs, and the fact that other resources have been exploited have finally trapped a generation of cultivation wizard Zhang Sanfeng in the process of cultivation because of its barren cultivation environment, allowing him to pass away with regret, leaving only the "Nine Changes of the Fish and Dragon", which basically has no possibility of success, proving that he once had a persistent pursuit on the path of immortal cultivation!