Chapter 102.2 : Cultivation by Blazing a New Trail (Part 2)
This time, he was no longer as frail and exhausted as before.
Not only that—at this very moment, the Su Mo within the scene in Chu Ge's mind was sitting cross-legged atop the bed, his hands forming seals.
Judging by his posture, he was actually cultivating.
Chu Ge sensed Su Mo's cultivation state—and it was the Third Heaven realm?!
This shocked Chu Ge greatly.
However, as Chu Ge examined more carefully, he soon noticed something amiss.
Su Mo's Third Heaven was far too weak!
Let alone compared with others of the same realm—even an ordinary cultivator at the Second Heaven, Seed-Condensation Realm, possessed an aura stronger than that of the current Third Heaven, Aperture-Opening Su Mo!
So feeble—how could this possibly be the bearing of a so-called child of fortune?
Just as Chu Ge was feeling puzzled and curious, the cross-legged Su Mo slowly opened his eyes.
A look of dissatisfaction surfaced on his face, as if he were unhappy with his own cultivation progress.
"Four days now… This unorthodox path, while it does allow me to ignore the flaw of constant spiritual power leakage caused by my Spirit-Aperture Body, still means starting cultivation directly from the Third Heaven. Even for someone like me, I must be extremely cautious."
"And moreover, this method is far too dangerous for my current self. One careless mistake, and I'll die from my body exploding!"
Hearing this, Chu Ge's heart jolted, and the confusion in his mind was instantly resolved.
Only now did he realize that Su Mo was actually born with the Spirit-Aperture Body, a naturally crippled constitution.
And at this very moment, Su Mo had adopted a method that could only be described as absurd, aimed precisely at this defective physique—
He had skipped the First and Second Heavens entirely, beginning cultivation directly from the Third Heaven, Aperture-Opening Realm!
Upon closer thought, although the cultivation world was vast beyond measure,
truly being born with a Spirit-Aperture Body—one that made cultivation completely impossible—was actually quite rare.
There were plenty of people with mediocre aptitude, but for them, cultivation was merely difficult, not utterly impossible.
As for those who possessed a crippled constitution like the Spirit-Aperture Body, they were usually born into ordinary backgrounds.
Children of great clans would be nourished by all manner of spiritual materials and medicines while still embryos, reducing the chance of developing a Spirit-Aperture Body to the absolute minimum.
As for the remaining Spirit-Aperture Bodies born to ordinary families—
some were treated as research material,
while others never even learned that they possessed such a constitution, as not everyone had access to cultivation in the first place.
And among the few Spirit-Aperture Body holders who did come into contact with cultivation and learned that they were crippled, most would simply give up outright.
Those who would actually think about solving the problem of being unable to cultivate were exceedingly rare.
After all, when the matter doesn't concern oneself, who would invest great effort into researching someone else's predicament—especially when any results would bring no benefit to themselves?
And thus, despite the Spirit-Aperture Body having existed since ancient times, it had remained unsolved to this very day.
Su Mo's current act of blazing a new trail truly made one's eyes light up.
Even Chu Ge couldn't help but feel a trace of admiration rise within him.
"Forget it. Though this path is arduous, it's not entirely impossible to walk. In my previous life, it was precisely because I did not possess my original body that I was forever trapped in a bottleneck, unable to break through to the Twelfth Heaven."
"Having been reborn, I naturally cannot repeat the same mistake. So what if it's a Spirit-Aperture Body? So what if no one in all of history has been able to truly embark on the path of cultivation with this physique?"
"Then let it be me, Su Mo—
the first to achieve Supremacy with a Spirit-Aperture Body!"
As Su Mo's firm, resounding words fell, the scene within Chu Ge's mind gradually faded away.
This time, he did not see any prompts in the intelligence, unlike the previous occasion.
Coupled with the nighttime on Su Mo's side and the timing he had mentioned, it seemed that the scene shown in his mind had occurred just now.
"This round of intelligence didn't really reveal much useful information…"
Chu Ge murmured softly, sinking into thought.