Having remained in the Vast Ocean World for a rather long period of time, Shi Jun who had always been diligently cultivating without slacking off, his current cultivation base was already not low.
Of Broad Creed Mountain's younger generation, Shi Jun was ranked at the top.
What was especially noteworthy was that he was Xu Fei's disciple, and was actually the current fourth generation disciple of Broad Creed Mountain.
Right now, not only was he at the top of the fourth generation disciples, but he had even surpassed many seniors.
Of Broad Creed Mountain's third generation disciples, other than Yan Zhaoge, Feng Yunsheng and Xu Fei who were far ahead, only Sikong Qing was superior to him.
Ying Longtu's talent was higher, but he had cultivated for a shorter period of time. His current cultivation level was similar to Shi Jun's.
After coming to the World beyond Worlds, Shi Jun had not relaxed at all as he had instead worked even harder, causing Yan Zhaoge, Yan Di, Yuan Zhengfeng and Xu Fei to feel incomparably gratified.
At this moment, this damaged horsetail whisk in Yan Zhaoge's hands was something that Shi Jun had inadvertently obtained while travelling outside a few days ago.
"Yes, Grand Master and the others have judged correctly. There is indeed some hint of the Grand Clear direct lineage's aura within," Analysing that horsetail whisk, Yan Zhaoge discovered that the spiritual qi within was too thin to be of much use.
However, the runes on the surface of the horsetail whisk formed a few runes. Even though they were badly damaged, one could still make out some clues.
It could be seen that this horsetail whisk was once a Saint Weapon.
However, that was already history.
Yan Zhaoge's finger streaked across the broken horsetail whisk, "Since the time is not yet ripe, we should just wait patiently, waiting for that cave manor to appear before making our plans."
After settling down, Yan Zhaoge also began pondering about the problem of his own cultivation.
While Yan Zhaoge had only seen half of the great battle between the Brocade Emperor and Mars Halberd this time, it was still an extremely precious experience for him.
As compared to most of the spectators, Yan Zhaoge's gains were even greater.
The clash between the Jade Clear lineage's Heaven Opening Scripture and the Grand Clear lineage's Earlier Heaven supreme martial arts resulted in mutual reinforcement and suppression.
Other than the Taiji Yin Yang Palm, Yan Zhaoge had not grasped any of the other supreme martial arts.
However, as a cultivator of the Three Pure Ones, he still felt that he had benefited greatly from watching such a high-level battle.
As for the study of his own martial arts, he had gained many new insights.
At the sixth level of the Martial Saint realm, the late Seeing Divinity stage, he began refining many obscure acupoints to see Divinity, resonating with the actual stars of the universe.
This process was not difficult for Yan Zhaoge who had accumulated so much.
In the mountains, one did not know the length of the sun and moon.
Two years passed in the blink of an eye.
Yan Zhaoge's cultivation these past two years had been extremely smooth.
As long as the first hidden acupoint was successfully refined to become a god, it would be a good start and a good start. The rest would follow naturally.
Therefore, to Yan Zhaoge, there was no need for him to expend much energy here. He only had to patiently advance one step at a time.
However, he was about to face a difficult problem.
The bottleneck between the sixth and seventh levels of the Martial Saint realm.
That was stepping onto the Immortal Bridge, breaking through from the late Seeing Divinity stage to the early Immortal Bridge stage.
Only upon ascending the Immortal Bridge could a martial practitioner be considered to have truly taken a step towards the path of Immortality.
After much hard work, with great talent, perseverance, and luck, he finally arrived before the Immortal Gate and tried to push it open.
Before the Immortal Bridge Realm, Seeing Divinity Martial Saints all strove to refine their acupoints to see Divinity, causing their acupoints to be like actual stars as it was like a primordial universe had been opened within their bodies.
However, just refining one's aperture to achieve divinity and resonating with a real star was still a long way from opening up a universe within one's body.
He was just laying the foundation and making preparations.
The simplest principle was that in the real universe up in the sky, the sun rising and the moon setting, numerous stars gathering in an endless cycle that circulated without end.
There were profound principles within, patterns, star orbits, heavenly rivers, life and death. How was it unchanging, rigidly remaining where it was?
What did not move were the lamps lit by humans, not the stars up in the sky.
Therefore, the hallmark of the early Immortal Bridge stage was that martial practitioners had to be able to circulate the stars within their bodies.
It was not the circulation of their true essence. Instead, their acupoints that had already seen Divinity would have to circulate as well.
Only then would their internal universe begin to possess some of the flair of the actual starry sky of the universe.
Only when martial practitioners left the mortal realm and ascended towards the Immortal realm could they be considered to have taken their first true step.
It was precisely because of this that starting from the seventh level of the Martial Saint realm was known as the Immortal Bridge, the bridge to ascending to Immortality.
This would not be easy.
In the Royal Reed Sea that year, the Radiant Light Sect's Luo Zhiyuan, the Dim Darkness Sect's Zhou Haosheng, the Grand Xuan Dynasty's King Xuanmu and the Chief of Copper Men Island's Gongsun Wu had all been stuck at the peak of the sixth level of the Martial Saint realm for many years.
They were only a half-step away from ascending the Immortal Bridge. Yet, this half-step was so close yet so far away, resembling a heavenly chasm.
With an Immortal Bridge Martial Saint presiding over them, their status in the entire World beyond Worlds would be completely different.
This was because the martial arts of many sects were insufficient for people to cultivate to the Immortal Bridge stage.
If they wanted to achieve a breakthrough, they would either have the guidance of an expert, a great fortuitous encounter or an unparalleled genius that was hard to come by even once in a thousand years would appear in their sect, assisting them in improving their martial arts to the next level.
Still, whatever the method, it would clearly not be that easy.
Broad Creed Mountain was currently rather renowned in the World beyond Worlds, even having overturned massive entities like the Grand Xuan Dynasty and the Star Plucking Practitioner Guan Lide.
Still, many people who had only heard of Broad Creed Mountain and not had direct contact with it would still be unconsciously looking down on it.
What they were more concerned about was the Immortal Artifact left behind by the Dim Radiant Emperor, the Extreme Yang Seal and the Extreme Yin Crown.
This was directly related to Broad Creed Mountain not having an Immortal Bridge.
Still, Yan Zhaoge believed that the situation would be completely different in a few days.
His father Yan Di had directly entered secluded cultivation the last time he had returned to the Mountain.
While he had not explained it in detail, Yan Zhaoge had a premonition.
His father had likely encountered some unique fortuitous encounter in the outside world previously, giving him a chance to attempt a breakthrough into the Immortal Bridge stage.
Like Yan Zhaoge, after cultivating in his first obscure acupoint to the Seeing Divinity stage and stepping into the sixth level of the Martial Saint realm, the opening of his other obscure acupoints and dark acupoints would not pose much difficulty to Yan Di.
Ever since stepping into the sixth level of the Martial Saint realm, Yan Di had still been advancing triumphantly like before.
What he lacked was a chance to ascend the Immortal Bridge.
Yan Zhaoge guessed that Yan Di had hopes of breaking through this bottleneck this time.
On the other hand, if he only cultivated in the Primordial Heavenly Scriptures of the Jade Clear lineage, Yan Zhaoge himself was actually confident that he would definitely be able to ascend to the Immortal Bridge in a year or three years at the latest.
Still, Yan Zhaoge did not want to do that unless he had no other choice.
That would be equivalent to giving up on the foundation that he had painstakingly established while simultaneously cultivating in the Three Purities.
Still, if he wanted to merge the Three Purities and ascend the Immortal Bridge, Yan Zhaoge now required a peak martial art of the Three Clear direct lineages.
Of the ten Primordial Heavenly Scriptures of the Jade Clear direct lineage, Yan Zhaoge possessed a total of six of them as he did not have to worry about this.
When he had Transcended Mortality and entered Sainthood, he had possessed the Immortal Ending Sword in the Prime Clear lineage as he had also used the legacy of virtue to return to simplicity in place of the Grand Clear martial arts.
When he had broken through space and seen true Divinity, he had possessed the Immortal Trapping Sword in the Prime Clear lineage and the Taiji Yin Yang Palm in the Grand Clear lineage.
Yet, if he were to attempt to ascend the Immortal Bridge now, the Grand Clear lineage and the Prime Clear lineage were both lacking.
If there was no way to resolve this, cultivating in the Three Purities simultaneously would be equivalent to cutting off his path forward.
"The cave manor shows signs of opening," Yan Zhaoge looked at the broken horsetail whisk in his hand.
The horsetail whisk which had not moved for two years now shockingly flickered slightly.
"I hope that it really is a legacy manor of the Grand Clear direct lineage. If there are any martial arts left behind within, that would be of great help to me."
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