Chapter 41: First Heavenly Cycle, Great Grandmaster Realm
“Yi Jin Jing, created by Shaolin’s Patriarch Bodhidharma, is profound and vast, combining hardness and softness!”
“The scripture is divided into the first, second, and red, yellow, blue, white, black seven major Heavenly Cycles, hence also known as Seven-Level Pagoda Skill!”
“The First Heavenly Cycle can open all meridians and acupoints in the body, and sense the Magnetic Field Energy existing in cosmic space!”
“The Second Heavenly Cycle can expel all impurities from the body, making Qi and Blood and physique purer, spiritual senses clearer, and strength more vigorous!”
“The Third Heavenly Cycle, Red Level, allows faster absorption of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy, stronger Vital Energy absorption, accelerating cultivation speed!”
“The Fourth Heavenly Cycle, Yellow Level, allows Qi and Blood to flow in reverse, remolding the physique and achieving a complete transformation!”
“The Fifth Heavenly Cycle allows Qi and Blood to flow in reverse again, reforging the body, making it tough as iron, impervious to blades and spears, with stamina reaching the power of nine oxen and two tigers, able to shatter a hundred-jin boulder with one punch!”
“The Sixth Heavenly Cycle, White Level, enables all 360 acupoints in the body to independently store Vital Energy and emit force, penetrating three zhang beyond the body, injuring enemies invisibly with controlled energy!”
“The Seventh Heavenly Cycle, Black Level Pagoda Skill, upon completion, turns the entire body into a container for energy, with Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy inexhaustible and boundless, no weak points anywhere on the body, and cultivation transcending the mortal realm…”
“The day Black Level Pagoda Skill is mastered is the day of half-step martial god, immune to all poisons, without need for sleep or food, riding clouds and commanding winds, invincible under heaven!”
“You have comprehended Seven-Level Pagoda Skill, currently at the entry level of the First Heavenly Cycle!”
As a series of prompt sounds fell, countless shadowy figures appeared before Su Mo’s eyes, some standing, some meditating, or practicing in various strange postures.
These shadowy figures’ postures were exactly the cultivation methods of Seven-Level Pagoda Skill, as well as the ways to sense the cosmic Magnetic Field through the technique.
With the enlightenment of Seven-Level Pagoda Skill, these cultivation postures and methods continuously emerged from Su Mo’s mind and quickly imprinted themselves in his consciousness.
His entire body’s Qi and Blood also seemed to become more surging with the enlightenment of Seven-Level Pagoda Skill.
Su Mo felt the Qi and Blood in his body surging like raging river currents, then glanced at the others and said:
“You all stay here first, I’ll go up and take a look!”
The top of the Seven-story Black Stone Tower had no exit, but one side had a small vent window, about two or three meters above the ground.
Su Mo leaped up, passing through the vent like a flying bird, one hand grasping the tower top outside, flipping in mid-air, and landing beside the huge black eye on the tower top.
The scenes of Jing Jue Ancient City came fully into view!
Su Mo glanced around, then sat cross-legged, using the technique of Seven-Level Pagoda Skill to concentrate his mind and gather energy.
As he concentrated his mind and gathered energy, the energy flow in his body became more surging and majestic, like a roaring river endlessly scouring his body’s strange acupoints.
A series of light crackling sounds burst from all over his body!
After the Qi and Blood completed a Heavenly Cycle, the Vital Energy stored in Su Mo’s Dantian became more vigorous, and his stamina seemed to increase further.
At this moment, with a raise of his hand or a step of his foot, he could easily exert several hundred jin of force.
Qi and Blood continuously scoured the meridians throughout his body, finally impacting the Baihui acupoint.
Finally, a booming sound suddenly echoed in his mind.
The entire world suddenly became crystal clear!
Hearing, vision, smell, and other senses all became sharper than before.
At the same time, the world in his eyes had also become somewhat different from before.
The distorted energy veins in Jing Jue Ancient City, influenced by Zaghrama Magnetic Mountain, seemed faintly visible to him.
“You have broken through Grandmaster Realm, reaching Initial Great Grandmaster Realm!”
Hearing the prompt sound by his ear, Su Mo couldn’t help but feel a surge of wild joy in his heart.
He hadn’t expected that just viewing the Seven-story Jing Jue Black Stone Tower once would allow him to comprehend Seven-Level Pagoda Skill.
Although he was currently only at the First Heavenly Cycle, possessing Seven-Level Pagoda Skill had allowed him to rapidly refine his Qi and Blood through another Heavenly Cycle, breaking through Grandmaster Realm to reach Initial Great Grandmaster Realm!
The speed of this progress far exceeded Su Mo’s own expectations.
Coming to Jing Jue Ancient City had truly been worthwhile!
At that moment, Wang Pang Zi’s voice came from below:
“Master, how are you?”
It turned out that Wang Pang Zi and Hu Ba saw Su Mo had been up there for a long time without coming down, and couldn’t help but worry, so they called out to ask.
Su Mo replied:
“Wait a moment, I’m searching for the entrance to Jing Jue Royal City!”
He had now reached the First Heavenly Cycle of Seven-Level Pagoda Skill, which could sense changes in the cosmic Magnetic Field, and combined with the Zi Wei Guan Xiang Fa, it was perfect for finding the entrance to the Royal City Underground Palace.
Thinking of this, Su Mo immediately focused and looked around.
He saw that on a stone temple in the distance, the power of Magnetic Field energy veins twisted and converged here, emitting a strange glow like a rainbow.
And right beneath the rainbow glow was a pitch-black spot like a black hole, seemingly bottomless!
That patch of rainbow glow was like a giant eye, emitting gorgeous colors under the sunlight, while the black hole was like a pupil, filled with eerie and strange sensations.
Su Mo focused on the black hole deep in the stone temple and immediately confirmed it was definitely the entrance to the underground palace.
Otherwise, there wouldn’t be such eerie and profound energy!
He then flipped over, grabbed the tower top, and flew back through the vent like a bird, returning to the tower.
Wang Pang Zi and the others saw Su Mo return and were all very happy:
“Master, how did it go?”
Professor Chen and the others were also looking at Su Mo eagerly.
Su Mo smiled faintly:
“I’ve found the general location of the underground palace!”
“Really!”
Xue Li Yang was immediately delighted, her beautiful eyes full of joy.
Professor Chen, Hao Ai Guo, and the others looked at Su Mo with expressions of admiration.
They had also looked out from the Black Stone Tower’s vent for a long time but couldn’t make sense of anything.
The area near the royal city was full of ruins and broken walls, most things buried under yellow sand; for them, unless they dug everywhere with an excavator, it would be impossible to find the general location of the Royal City Underground Palace.
But Su Mo had found the general position of the underground palace just by looking for a short while; how could they not admire such ability.
The group then descended from the Black Stone Tower and followed Su Mo forward.
Before long, they arrived in a temple.
This temple was entirely built from Zaghrama black stones, with a stone door carved with a giant beast’s open mouth, the interior lined with grim black stones.
On the floor deep in the stone temple, there was a Jade Eye enshrined, and remarkably, the jade even had natural red veins like bloodshot eyes, with clear contours, looking just like a real eye!
Xue Li Yang saw a groove on the Jade Eye that matched the shape of Fatty’s jade pendant extremely well, so she had Fatty take out the jade pendant to try.
Fatty took out the jade pendant, installing it on the eye while laughing:
“If this fits, this eye is mine, none of you can compete with Fatty for it!”
As he spoke, the jade pendant clicked into place on the eye, and the entire eye suddenly made a clicking sound, detaching from the stone pillar.
Caught off guard, Fatty failed to catch it, and the Jade Eye fell straight to the ground, shattering into several pieces with a snap!
Everyone was startled, feeling very sorry for the shattered Jade Eye.
But at this moment, Su Mo looked up at the ceiling.
The instant the Jade Eye fell and shattered, he sensed a cold aura suddenly appear on the temple’s rooftop.
Looking up, his expression instantly turned grave.
A huge eye as big as a washbasin quietly emerged from the darkness between the temple’s rooftop beams, as if a giant was peering at them eerily through the roof.
