Rise from a Low-class Family to Martial Artist

Walk thousands of steps!

The steps disappeared, and the path suddenly opened up!

When Lin Chen felt his body could barely withstand the cold, the mist dispersed, and the steps beneath him turned into flat ground.

The frozen blood circulated again with Lin Chen’s thought, and in just a few breaths, his body became warm once more.

Passed?

There was a bright light in Lin Chen’s eyes. The mist disappeared, the cold dissipated, so he had passed the test and had the chance to attain this body tempering opportunity?

No wonder the elder said that no one in the Huang Family had been able to obtain this opportunity for so many years. His Qi Blood was so vigorous, yet he almost couldn’t hold on, and among the Viscera-Refining Martial Artists under the age of twenty, there were probably not many with Qi Blood compared to his.

Not many, but there definitely are!

But one also had to qualify to cultivate the Mountain Suppressing Chart, and be given this opportunity by the Huang Family, leaving very few who met all these selection criteria.

More accurately, he was likely the only one in Liang who met all these criteria.

Looking forward, he saw a valley with mist swirling above, but strangely, the entire valley did not give Lin Chen a dark, damp, and cold feeling. The sunlight filtered down like through a soft veil, giving a warm and sunny sensation.

On the contrary, looking at the upright towering green pines, the green vines hanging high on the cliff walls, and the streams flowing from the crevices in the cliff walls converging into babbling brooks, it felt like a light symphony.

The entire valley was filled with the scent of vegetation, with even each breath seeming to infuse fresh air into the lungs, invigorating Lin Chen’s spirit.

The next moment, Lin Chen’s gaze fell on a stone tablet to the front left, with vines covering it but faintly revealing some inscriptions through the gaps.

Lin Chen stepped forward, tore off the vines, and the inscriptions on the stone tablet were fully revealed.

"This place is where the Earth Element Qi of Huang Mountain accumulates, harboring an Exotic Stone. I sat cross-legged on the Exotic Stone for several years, comprehending the Body Tempering Technique Mountain Suppressing Chart, carved on the Exotic Stone. If any successors come, they can sit on the Exotic Stone, and if they can induce the Earth Element Qi into their bodies, they can begin the path of body tempering... Left by Huang Xiong!"

After reading through, Lin Chen’s gaze turned to the large bright yellow jade stone at the center of the valley.

Upon stepping into the valley earlier, he had already noticed this giant stone, as big as a bed and about a zhang high.

"This Exotic Stone is the fortune the elder spoke of."

Lin Chen pondered, the words on the stone tablet left by the Huang Family ancestor, whose name was exactly Huang Xiong.

According to what the Huang Family ancestor said, this Exotic Stone could only birth a thread of Earth Element Qi every twenty years, and could only retain one thread of Earth Element Qi. Once stepping on the Exotic Stone, if unable to absorb this thread of Earth Element Qi, it would dissipate.

This was the reason why the elder said it was possible to enter the ancestral land only once every twenty years.

What is Earth Element Qi?

Lin Chen didn’t know what Earth Element Qi was, but after stepping into the Refining Viscera Realm, the teacher had mentioned the Five Elements Theory.

The five viscera correspond to the five elements: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth.

The Nine Kingdoms established the United Martial Arts Academy also related to the five viscera corresponding to the five elements.

Pills and resources for the Refining Viscera Realm mostly have divisions among the five elements. For instance, the heart corresponds to fire, and to refine the heart, the Heart Tempering Pill from Liang is best, as its key ingredient, Dragon Breath Grass, is only found there.

Similarly, other kingdoms also have their own five-element medicines, which is why the Nine Kingdoms chose to establish the United Martial Arts Academy.

To allow each martial prodigy to use the best pills, enabling a perfect attainment in the Refining Viscera Realm.

Most Refining Viscera Realm martial artists who haven’t attended the martial academy only have access to local pills, advancing from refining viscera to entering the grade, but such martial artists are deemed ordinary and cannot develop their body’s potential to the extreme.

The first two stages of the martial path lay the foundation.

The more solid the foundation, the stronger martial potential post-entering the grade, not to mention the strength in the same realm far surpasses ordinary martial artists.

With doubts, Lin Chen approached the Exotic Stone and saw the true third layer mantra of the Mountain Suppressing Chart engraved on the side of the Exotic Stone.

The Huang Family ancestor had engraved the third layer of the body tempering version of the Mountain Suppressing Chart on the front of the Exotic Stone, and the fourth layer on the other side. As for the fifth and sixth layers, they were absent. The body tempering version of the Mountain Suppressing Chart only had four layers. According to the Huang Family ancestor’s stone tablet, he only comprehended the fourth layer, and the subsequent layers needed the successors to explore on their own.

[There must be the fifth layer, as for further progressing to the sixth layer, I too am uncertain. Since I comprehended the Mountain-Subduing Body Tempering Technique past my youth, my bones and Qi Blood were already formed, only faintly touching the fifth layer. If a successor can train to the sixth layer, the seventh layer, or even higher, if not of the Huang Family, I hope they leave a cultivation technique for my Huang Family, repaying this legacy of imparting skills; if from the Huang family, see this tablet as seeing me.]

This was the original text the Huang Family ancestor left on the stone tablet.

Lin Chen also felt emotional, thinking the Huang Family ancestor was quite a pragmatic person, but this demand was not excessive.

If it were him, if it were someone from another tribe, at least the successor would have to kowtow and accept him as a master. If the Lin Family declined, bring prosperity to the Lin Family; if the Lin Family remained a Martial Arts Clan, take talented descendants from the Lin Family as disciples.

Accepting disciples...kowing to master...

An idea flashed in Lin Chen’s mind, and the next moment he returned to the stone tablet.

[Repaying this legacy of imparting skills; if from the Huang Family, see this tablet as seeing me]