Chapter 363: Chapter 363

This is the subtle play of the comprehension of the Five Elements Fist.

The role of comprehension goes without saying, especially when entering the path of cultivation or when stuck in a bottleneck, it feels as if there’s divine intervention.

As long as the true essence is there, he won’t take detours or stray from the right path.

With comprehension online, the confusing junctures are understood with forceful thinking.

When it feels a bit off... practice hard and it gets through.

Such is the case now, as time slowly passes within his fists and feet.

Due to the continuous agitation of the thunder and fire qi in Meng Chuan’s fist stance, the surrounding temperature slowly climbs.

Lu Zhuxiao wiped the sweat off his forehead, gave a comment or two, then nodded slightly.

"This scorching scene already has a few rudimentary forms of an intention."

"Didn’t expect this kid’s comprehension of the Five Elements Fist to be this good, hadn’t noticed before..."

[Intention] is an advancement from [Stance], an exclusive ability of a Martial Arts Master of the Xingyi Sect.

Although Lu Zhuxiao hasn’t reached it, he’s striving towards this step, so he can see it at a glance.

At this moment, Meng Chuan’s entire heart is immersed in the fist technique, unaware of what Lu Zhuxiao has in mind.

This is because his comprehension has been dynamically enhancing.

This growth indeed surprises others.

The tree crowns probing through the outer wall, their leaves were already steamed and curled.

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He could feel that the kid’s fists were becoming more and more refined.

Just as he was about to encourage him, he saw Meng Chuan’s fist stance suddenly change, and he swallowed back the words he was about to say.

"Looks kid got it..."

"Got it," meaning he comprehended the true essence within the fist technique, a sign of entering the path.

Seeing Meng Chuan’s inner fire-type true qi shift from fluttering flames to a solid mass.

Gathering momentum, like molten rock erupting!

Each punch thrown seems to collect, gather, and compress the fire energy between heaven and earth to a point and focus it at the fist tip, striking out with explosive flame!

His eyes gleamed with spirit, his heart and spirit fully merged into the true essence of the fist technique:

The cultivation technique states that the [Molten Core Flame Burst Fist] is derived from the Five Elements Qiankun Fist.

Its foundational cultivation technique also incorporates modern technological means, a product of a standard modern fist technique research room.

As a low-level true skill, it records a total of six forms.

Namely the Molten Core Opening Move [Sparks Spread], Earth Vein Eruption [Molten Rock Piercing], [Explosive Flame Chain], [Scarlet Chain Restrain], along with the true skill move [Setting Sun Strike], and the final gathering and ending move [Heart Fire Returns].

After punching through once, except for the hesitations during the move, it can already connect together.

But... Meng Chuan felt no joy, instead, there was a hint of doubt in his heart.

He always felt there seemed to be a few techniques missing...

Martial Arts moves are sequential, flowing naturally, rather than regrouping and transforming after ending a punch.

He always felt that between moves like Molten Rock Piercing and Explosive Flame Chain, it seemed a control move was missing.

Meng Chuan punched through it again, his doubts not decreased but increased.

Scarlet Chain Restrain connecting Setting Sun Strike, in combat terms, is connecting a big move after controlling and restraining.

Nothings lacking there, but the other moves, the more he thought the more it felt off...

The true essence of Martial Arts is present, the six-style connection can also normally link.

But the feedback from his mind and body keeps telling him there’s just a bit off...

This is martial rationale, or one might say it’s the extraordinary comprehension of the Five Elements Fist at play.

He "understood", something’s lacking within!

After another round, he sensed the entrance to the cultivation technique, looked at the panel...

At the same time, seeing this scene, Lu Zhuxiao clapped and smiled:

Looking at the panel information, Meng Chuan isn’t as happy as Master Lu.

It’s done, but not fully done...

[Molten Core Flame Burst Fist · Fragment: Beginner (1%) Pending Limit Break]

[Limit Break Trait: ?]

"Technique Completeness: 66%"

Meng Chuan furrowed his brow, repeatedly pondering if something went wrong during practice.

Lu Zhuxiao sensed his anomaly, although surprised, he stood quietly aside not to disturb.

Flipping through the cultivation technique, he kept replaying the entrance process in his mind.

It felt unreasonable.

Upon careful consideration, suddenly, a flash of insight crossed his mind.

[This is the complete content of the Molten Core Flame Burst Fist, take it to study, consider it a reward for your Martial Extreme True Inheritance.]

He thought to himself:

"Could it be... Professor Li is deceiving me? Is this just a fragmented version?

Or... is the other party still researching and thus unsure of its completeness?"

Seeing Meng Chuan deep in thought, Lu Zhuxiao presumed he had another sudden enlightenment.

Quietly, he left so as not to disturb.

The second question, Meng Chuan immediately dismissed.

Slightly reviewing his memory, he remembered what Professor Li said when he piqued his interest.

The counterpart finally said this method is a true skill level fire attribute fist technique, not a fragmented version.

As a Martial Arts Venerated teacher, with his martial rationale couldn’t discern, is this complete or fragmented?

Meng Chuan does not believe.

Why does this fragment contain [Martial Arts True Essence], it’s evident who has imprinted it.

During practice, he could feel some moves seemed to lack something in between.

A Martial Arts Venerated along with the creator of the technique, couldn’t sense it?

It doesn’t make sense, his comprehension of the Five Elements and fire attribute martial rationale has seen much progress lately, but hasn’t hit the fifth limit.

"Could it be... he wanted to test me?"

Just say it directly, why hide it?

Meng Chuan was no longer the naive and innocent person from before. After a brief thought, he straightened things out.

The purpose of Li Zhenyue, summed up, was to "test talent without saying it, and there must be ulterior motives."

Fortunately, I have the panel; otherwise, I would have fallen for his scheme.

At that time, I’d practice diligently, discover issues later, and still think I improved on the original cultivation technique, rushing to claim credit.

Little did I know, it was just an incomplete version!

"No...if I didn’t have the panel, I might not even get to meet him..."

Effort and the panel are both indispensable.

Once he figured it out, next...

Meng Chuan simply tossed it aside and instead focused on the third-rate Five Elements trait.

Why practice this incomplete technique when there are countless complete versions in the Hidden Martial Pavilion?

The United University Yong’an campus certainly doesn’t lack low-level original true skills.

Although it’s not all-inclusive, there are several of each of the Five Elements.

As a Martial Extreme True Inheritance, when he takes a cultivation technique to find the corresponding teaching instructor, it doesn’t cost many credits, so there’s no need to be fixated on this technique.

While practicing fist skills, he continued to ponder:

"I wonder if that old man has plans for me with ’Five Thunders Boom’..."

Thunder attributes are scarce in the first place, and there’s no other original, intermediate true skill level thunder technique in the Yong’an campus.

Thinking of this, Meng Chuan felt a bit reluctant.

He had high expectations for this technique.

Whether used by himself, activating thunder through the Five Elements Heart Fire;

Or transforming into the "Ancient True Man," wielding it with the Tao Heart, the power is terrifying.

"I should try to grasp the basics soon and see for myself..."

Three days later, after Meng Chuan finished his routine, he stood in front of the mirror to admire himself.

The reflection showed him under the warm yellow light, like a mighty block of tungsten steel.

Veins coursed along the pathways, emphasizing the rugged, mountainous muscles even more powerfully.

Turning his Heart Spirit, his body’s surface was driven by the Treasure Appearance Golden Venerable Breathing Technique, sporadically flickering with golden points.

[Treasure Appearance Golden Venerable Skill: Beginner (3%) → (4%) Awaiting Limit Breaking]

"This technique is indeed difficult to train in; even with the enhancement from the meat flower ’Meat Wisdom’, I can’t even achieve 1% proficiency in a day..."

The mark of the meat flower on his chest faded in and out as Meng Chuan pondered deeply about his physical body.

"There’s no change as of now because my corporeal foundation is relatively high. It probably won’t have any tangible effects until I reach proficiency..."

He had anticipated that cultivating multiple hard skills isn’t just piling sheets of paper higher and higher.

It’s a process needing accumulation, a quantitative change leading to a qualitative change.

"Forget it, in action, it is Zen; in stillness, it is Zen; in speech and silence, in movement and stillness, the body is at peace..."

This was a "Buddhist saying of wisdom" that Meng Chuan had just learned, describing the insight in daily practice.

No need to rush. Every action is cultivation.

At the same time, he realized something through studying resources:

The previously imagined "Greater Tathagata True Form" above the "Lesser Tathagata Illusory Form"...

Buddhism teaches that "illusory" does not mean true or false, but refers to the temporary manifestation through converging causes and conditions.

The "Lesser Tathagata Illusory Form" means the appearance of the Tathagata Buddha’s [small] part, the "transformative body" imagined by people.

As for traits, Meng Chuan guessed it meant bestowing oneself a certain great power.

The extent of this power is only known after surpassing the limit.

And the "illusory form" means the non-real main body in Buddhism.

If truly the Greater Tathagata True Form...

isn’t that equivalent to possession...to being taken over...

What blatant disrespect!

Meng Chuan shook his head to clear his thoughts. He didn’t believe in these things but respected them.

When it comes to Buddhism, there are so many things like true form, illusory form, real body, transformative body...a huge pile of things.

From studying these topics recently, Meng Chuan felt his head was about to explode.

Now he no longer delves into getting caught up in details; he just aimed to understand Buddhist cultivation techniques, not become a "Buddhist Studies Master."

However, he recently started to set aside about half an hour every day.

While keeping up with the news, he also learned about related Buddhist matters.

He felt the principles were profound and gained a lot from them.

During lunch, Meng Chuan’s phone vibrated, delivering a task notification.

[The "Meng Chuan Squad" is requested to assemble at the Yong’an Police Department’s Operations Section at 3 PM on the day following receipt of this message.

Please prepare the relevant equipment in advance. If you lack armor but hold an ’Armor Holding Certificate,’ you can collect a temporary military battle armor from the Equipment Department.]

Meng Chuan put away his phone and calmed his Heart Spirit.

"No need to bring the Tiger Soul; preparing the bridge moon and the Fierce will be sufficient..."

Those many-times-refined Demon Path leaders will be naturally restrained by Chief Long Jiu and other police department powerhouses.

Their task is to "assist."

Meng Chuan’s idea was straightforward, to eliminate all Demon Path disciples of level one and below, assisting through physical obliteration.

With his current full armament, accomplishing this wasn’t challenging...

After lunch, Meng Chuan and the Tiger and Dragon brothers headed together to Chen Qiushui’s office.

For Grandmaster Class students undertaking external missions, they must report to a person in charge in advance.

Upon reviewing the three’s tasks, Chen Qiushui candidly stated:

"This task is not without its challenges, involving the Great Ritual of the Demon Summoning Hall’s six-time ascension.

Even though Chief Long Jiu is handling the opponent, you three must absolutely keep distant from their battlefield."

The three replied in unison.