Chapter 101: Breaking Through The Six Passes Grants World-suppressing Power!
Disinfection Bureau Chief’s Office.
Huang Qingyi brought Yang Jie over with a smile on his face and said with a laugh, “Bureau Chief, I’ve brought the person.”
“Mm.”
Li Ye nodded, took out a rectangular object about a finger thick, stamped several seals on it, and flicked it with his finger, sending it flying right in front of Huang Qingyi.
Huang Qingyi caught it between two fingers, showing a puzzled expression.
“Hulong Palace’s talisman token.”
Li Ye said, “The talisman token has six activation permissions. Going in can speed up cultivation progress. When you’re free, go for martial arts training. As a captain, you can’t be too weak.”
Huang Qingyi beamed with joy: “Thank you, Bureau Chief!”
Li Ye had obtained a fiefdom, which he knew about. At first, he didn’t know what a fiefdom was and specially asked Sun Shun about it. After learning the effects, he was quite envious for a while.
Unlimited high-quality ingredients, and treasured lands beneficial for martial arts training—these were things he had never heard of before.
Li Ye didn’t mind. The buffs from Hulong Palace weren’t very useful to him. It was better to eat some demonic creatures, which could feedback to those close to him.
Huang Qingyi’s [Gale Clear Net Quick Sword] didn’t match well with Hulong Palace in terms of circulating energy and moves, but he was only at Dragon Gate Realm, so the buffs wouldn’t be reduced too much.
As for this talisman token, it was prepared by Sun Shun. After all, they couldn’t use white paper for stamping every time. Li Ye didn’t care, but Sun Shun felt it didn’t match the style of the emerging Ningjiang Li Family.
The talisman token was made from materials of a demonic creature called a spirit-connecting beast, which had a strange sensitivity to fiefdom tokens. It could be used six times, and it wasn’t expensive—one ten thousand per piece. Sun Shun had given twenty to Li Ye.
There were even higher things called ‘talisman sections.’ Stamping one seal on them also granted permission to use fiefdoms, but those were too expensive—one million each, and supply couldn’t meet demand.
Li Ye accepted Sun Shun’s gift frankly because as Bureau Chief, he was doing even better than during Pan Zhengyang’s time. Back then, Pan Zhengyang hadn’t torn faces yet, and the Disinfection Bureau continued as usual. After Li Ye took power, he did a good purge, benefiting even the Information Section greatly.
Everyone in the Disinfection Bureau had been given gifts, just so that when something happened, these intelligence people could give them a heads-up. Sun Shun had already reported this to him.
It was human nature, and Li Ye didn’t want to stop such things.
These were benefits he had punched out one fist at a time—why stop them? It was a deadly job to begin with; what was wrong with more benefits?
“Practice well. When you reach Nine Dragon Gate, I’ll give you a few martial arts techniques, all top-grade ones that match Hulong Palace’s buffs. Don’t worry about ingredients. Next year, I’ll allocate some of the fiefdom’s aquatic products for your martial arts training.”
Becoming stronger would allow them to handle affairs better.
Six Dragon Gate could only pull the tiger skin, but if they reached Nine Dragon Gate, practiced a few more techniques, or even broke through, they would be quite good at helping him manage Ningjiang.
Huang Qingyi was the first martial artist he had formally met, and it was through him that he had contact with Pan Zhengyang.
Plus, he was a good person. Though a bit illiterate, he could get things done and was considered one of Li Ye’s own confidants, worth cultivating well.
Giving two cartons of Zhonghua was a joke. Returning the favor, Li Ye was happy to do it.
Huang Qingyi saluted and said with a smile, “I guarantee I won’t disappoint you, Bureau Seat!”
Li Ye laughed and cursed, “Get lost. Don’t get me demoted.”
In this world, there was no pattern of ‘looking south for the king’s army year after year, but the king’s army never lands.’ Shenzhou had already unified when it was established.
“Bureau Seat” now was just a joking title.
After Huang Qingyi took his leave, Li Ye looked at the somewhat at-a-loss Yang Jie and said, “Sit.”
“Brother Li, Li Bureau, Lord Li, no, it’s not…”
Yang Jie tried all sorts of addresses and still felt they weren’t right. He smiled bitterly, “I don’t even know what to call you. I didn’t expect you to be the Bureau Chief.”
The Disinfection Bureau was relatively secretive in the eyes of ordinary people, but as a martial artist, especially one with a high qi blood leap frequency, if he made an effort to inquire, he could still find out the information.
Yang Jie had looked it up later and learned that the Disinfection Bureau was an organization specifically targeting demonic creatures, just like the Public Security Bureau specifically dealt with crime—it was a department specialized in its field.
But it was still a department after all. For a high school student to become Bureau Chief, and so impressive at that.
Yang Jie had listened to Lu Zhe before, clearly looking down on the Disinfection Bureau in his words, but when the man came to the door, he shut up.
“Call me however you’re comfortable. The title isn’t important.”
Li Ye said with a chuckle, “You’re at Five Dragon Gates now, just short of the threshold. No matter what martial arts, qi and blood is still qi and blood. Only at Six Dragon Gate can you react to demonic creature pollution.”
He took out a talisman token, stamped a seal on it, and pushed it in front of Yang Jie. “Take this too. For dietary supplements, go find Sun Shun, the Information Section Chief. You don’t need to worry about the rest—just go to school and cultivate as usual. Aim to reach Seven Dragon Gate by gaokao, and practice the Foundation Establishment Technique as much as you can. When you get into a top Martial Arts University, come straight here for internship.”
Just like how liberal arts track and martial arts track students had completely different growth paths, Martial Arts Universities were different too.
Ordinary Martial Arts Universities still required classes, with targeted studies based on different focuses.
Martial Arts Universities above key level qualified for internships in various places, but it still took two years to qualify.
Only top Martial Arts Universities at Seven Dragon Gate and above allowed free play from enrollment, taking on tasks or interning at big companies.
However, the Disinfection Bureau wasn’t a desirable place; generally, no one came.
“I understand.”
After his initial discomfort, Yang Jie took the talisman token, thought for a moment, and said worriedly, “Brother Li, our martial arts school’s headmaster seems very powerful too. Doing this—won’t it…”
Li Ye waved his hand dismissively and said, “You don’t need to worry about that. No matter how powerful he is, in a place like Ningjiang, even a dragon must coil and a tiger must crouch. Don’t worry.”
When checking information, there were records on that Zheng Jun, Zheng Taibao. He was a Two Passes martial artist, and an outstanding one among Breaking Through Realm martial artists.
Dragon Gate Realm had differences in martial arts, and Breaking Through Realm also had levels.
After breaking through, martial arts reach great completion, nourishing back the mysterious pass until perfection, allowing entry into the Three Origins status.
Its mysterious pass progresses with the martial arts, like the waxing and waning of the moon, from crescent to full, gradually perfecting in three levels.
Trace, string, and surplus—these three levels. Trace is a mark, like one corner of the circle; string is half-circle, like a half moon; surplus means full.
The lowest, with all three passes at surplus, allows entry into the Human Origin status of Opening Origin Realm.
Zheng Jun had both of his two passes at the ‘surplus’ level.
This kind of martial artist was outstanding in the Three Realms. Among the few Breaking Through Realm martial artists Li Ye had killed before, the only one at ‘surplus’ level was the Jiang Crocodile Sect Sect Master whose Vajra Pass had been broken.
And then he had torn off his four limbs.
Li Ye’s martial arts training focused on efficiency. When breaking the three passes, he didn’t feel much because upon entering the three passes, they all went straight to ‘surplus’ level, reaching the top at once.
Only after integrating one hundred thousand martial arts and cultivating [Six Extremes World-Suppressing Dragon-Tiger Fiend] did he sense the differences in levels.
Li Ye’s current Six Passes levels were:
Vajra Pass · Surplus.
Qi Meridian Pass · Surplus.
Army Breaking Pass · Surplus.
Divine Movement Pass · Trace.
Five Senses Pass · Trace.
Soul Settling Pass · Trace.
Three Surpluses and Three Scars.
Normally, if he cultivated the other three passes to ‘surplus’ level, he could break the three realms and enter Heavenly Origin status.
But integrating one hundred thousand martial arts and cultivating a divine technique had given him a new level.
Above these three levels, his martial arts could ascend yet another level, reaching a higher realm.
Extreme.
At this level, his martial arts could be called great completion.
For realm progression, this was a drawback, unnecessarily increasing breakthrough difficulty, but in terms of strength…
Li Ye didn’t take any Three Realms martial artist seriously.
Breaking the six passes to extreme would allow him to suppress the world!
