The Tongyou Sword Seal collapsed, the Inner Family True Qi scattered, the five viscera and six bowels burning like a furnace, the whole body's muscles and bones seemingly broken.

Lu Chengfeng's seven orifices bled, and even black blood seeped out from all his pores.

Only now did he understand the difficulty of abolishing his martial arts and rebuilding his cultivation. If one's spiritual will is not strong enough, at the moment of abolishing martial arts, that dreadful pain can instantly destroy one's will, causing everything within to collapse, leading promptly to Qi deviation.

Yet more importantly, this pain is not momentary but persistent.

Until all traces of martial arts within are completely destroyed, abolished, leaving only the purest Essence, Qi, and Spirit.

It is practically like scraping one's bones to heal wounds, causing pain everywhere, inside and out.

Lu Chengfeng was originally a person of resilient spirit, having undergone several blessings, especially after the Red Dragon Heart Refining, his spiritual will far more resilient and powerful than ordinary top-notch experts.

He was unwavering in his thoughts, aware of every condition within, as time slowly passed, past cultivation in the Bixiao Sword Manual and Profound Radiance Thousand Shadows Ghostly Sword Technique were all abolished.

At this moment, his body was empty, as if everything had been hollowed out, yet there was an indescribable sense of swelling, with cultivation abolished, True Qi scattered, returning to simplicity, transformed into the purest Essence, Qi, and Spirit, making him feel void and painful all over, yet as if he'd taken a tonic.

Lu Chengfeng took a deep breath, the profound meaning of Eight Desolates Divine Fire Dragon Grand Outline flowed in his mind.

The Eight Desolates represent the four corners of Heaven and Earth; Divine Fire gives birth to Yang from extreme Yin;

The Dragon can be large or small, rise or hide, changing unpredictably.

Gathering the Essence of the Eight Desolates, obtaining the wonder of Yin and Yang, mastering Dragon Transformation, integrating the impermanence of human heart...

This is both the mystery of the Heavenly Dao and the change of the human heart. Only by maintaining a pure Yang thought can one not be confused by changes, not be deceived by the Red Dust.

Lu Chengfeng cautiously steadied his mind, starting from the First Layer, operating along the simplest route, gathering Essence, Qi, and Spirit within, then operating along exceptionally profound paths.

But cultivating Divine Skill differs from ordinary Cultivation Techniques, focusing on spiritual will as the root, forging True Intent.

Therefore, even the First Layer is not something ordinary martial artists can comprehend and cultivate. Without a Grandmaster-level foundation and accumulation, it's utterly impossible to perceive its True Intent.

Lu Chengfeng, blessed by the Zhao Family Ancestor, was adept in all this. As the cultivation technique operated, it was as if warm energy flowed through his limbs and skeleton, and the original pain gradually dissipated.

He immersed himself in cultivating the technique, unaware of the passage of time.

Unknowingly, night had fallen, and there were no candles lit indoors; reaching out his hand, he couldn't see his fingers.

Yet a hazy layer of firelight seemed to envelop Lu Chengfeng's body, but upon closer inspection, it turned out to be an illusion.

Roar!

Lu Chengfeng's Spirit Platform and sea of consciousness seemed to reverberate with the sound of dragon roars, a thread of red True Qi converging at the brow, seemingly condensing into a Dragon Pearl, or as if nurturing a True Dragon.

The dragon roar grew increasingly grand, yet struggled to cross the final step.

"This is the most crucial step!"

Lu Chengfeng realized well that cultivating Divine Skill differed entirely from ordinary Cultivation Techniques, even if bestowed, yet everyone's cultivation varies greatly.

The most crucial aspect within is Stable Heart and Thought.

Aligning one's belief with the profound meaning of the cultivation technique, only then can the heart move at will, resonating with Heaven and Earth, unleashing power far beyond other cultivation techniques.

To put it simply, those who cultivate Divine Skill, every move contains martial arts profundity as well as personal belief.

It involves both comprehending martial arts profound meanings and tempering the spirit, starting from the First Layer, emphasizing the alignment of Heaven and Earth Truth with the human heart, not merely following texts, just being craftsmen.

Therefore, even those cultivating the same Divine Skill, will have myriad differences if their thoughts differ.

For the step of Stable Heart and Thought, Lu Chengfeng had pondered countless times, even deliberately reading many tales and legends about Celestial Human Realm experts, which embody many beliefs of Celestial Human Realm experts.

Like Black Shark Loose Man, who lived freely, wandered the four seas and Eight Desolates, unbound by Sect, unconstrained by Dynasty, once witnessed riding a whale on the sea, singing loudly, truly resembling the freedom of an Immortal.

Like the Heaven-Suppressing King, who watched Central State as a battleground, the North and South often opposed and clashed here, killing so vastly that corpses piled up like mountains, blood flowed like rivers. Past Central State was also called Border Desolation, a desolate, bandit-ridden place.

The Heaven-Suppressing King set up a war platform in Central State, invited battles with heroes from the Eight Regions, undefeated across the world, then defeated an army alone, subdued the crowd with hands folded, established the Celestial Patrol Department, patrolled the Nine Prefectures of the Central Province, only to suppress peace forever.

Like the founder of Sunset Sect, wandering the Northern Lands, seeing the Demon Race invading from Yun State, endless beast tides overwhelming the land.

Within a desolate mountain in the Northern Lands, he protected the people fleeing to this mountain, wielded a long spear, slaughtered so much that blood flowed like rivers, making all demon beasts unable to cross the Thunder Pool, and soon detouring.

To prevent demon beasts from returning, he couldn't leave that desolate mountain, but started killing demon beasts with archery, his accuracy improving, shooting further, until one day, an arrow shot a thousand yards, hunted the Demon King Chi Wu, no demon beasts dared approach thereafter.

That desolate mountain is now the origin of Sunset Sect.

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Throughout history, each Celestial Human Realm expert had their own belief, whether to conquer the world, protect the people, maintain peace, or live freely.

Without transcendent belief, accomplishing the Path of the Celestial Human is impossible.

The first step in cultivating Divine Skill is Stable Heart and Thought.

Deceiving others is easy, deceiving oneself is hard.

In Martial Path cultivation, the heart cannot be deceived!

It's not about randomly picking one; only what's most fundamental, from the heart, worth defending with a life or lifetime can be called belief.

If the wrong path is chosen, even with Celestial Human's blessing, Lu Chengfeng cannot achieve Celestial Human.

Cultivation has always been an intensely personal matter.

At his level, the cultivation of the mind is far more important than any external matter.

Lu Chengfeng had thought about many things. He once considered making it his duty to protect his sect, but then felt there were many people and affairs within the sect not worth his protection.

He also thought about protecting his family and friends from being bullied, but even they have their own paths and might have disagreements with him.

What he persisted in may not be what they wanted.

He even thought of being invincible across the thirteen states, but whenever he thought of this, he inexplicably recalled Luo Suyi under the candlelight.

Yes, he had ambition, but he was not obsessed with martial arts.

Lu Chengfeng enjoyed beauty but was not obsessed, loved the martial path but only for self-defense, decisive in killing, but only to survive.

He was, after all, an ordinary person, who luckily received a gifted talent, without any earth-shattering ambitions.

When he analyzed his heart, he only saw a most ordinary mortal.

Greedy for money and lust, fearing death, that was all!

Lu Chengfeng couldn't help but laugh, "When faced with destitution, maintain personal integrity; when prosperous, benefit the public."

"If I had to choose, I would choose to control destiny."

"From a small perspective, to control my own destiny, to act as I wish, freely and without restraints."

"A bit larger, to control the destinies of myself and my family and friends, so that we can all live the lives we want."

"If even larger..."

Lu Chengfeng shook his head; he wasn't thinking about controlling the fate of all living beings. He didn't have such ambitions and aspirations, "If even larger, then let more ordinary people have the power to control their destinies!"

"Even if not complete control, having the power to resist destiny would be enough."

He recalled when his family was destroyed; if he had the power to resist, he could have changed everything.

He remembered when Li Mo's parents and family were killed by bandits; if they had the power to resist, they could have changed everything.

He thought of Yun Cang and the sect; if the sect had the power to resist, it wouldn't be so suppressed and desperate.

He also thought of those killed by the bandits of Three Immortals Mountain and the women harmed by Immortal Tower; if they had the power to resist, everything could have changed.

Lu Chengfeng didn't know if this was good or bad. Perhaps if ordinary people had the power to resist, it would only cause greater conflicts.

Just like those innocent people who died by his hand back then, they shouldn't have died, and if they had the power to resist, perhaps he would be the one dead.

But his heart wasn't so vast, nor did he have the wisdom and conviction to change the world; this was as far as he could think.

"I am not a sage, just want to have the power to resist!"

"If I can make it so those ordinary people can resist, that would be my greatest hope for this world!"

He thought of a saying, a common man's fury spills blood in five steps, letting every well-meaning ordinary person have the power to resist in desperate situations; that was what he wanted!

"So, it's the path of a common man!"

Lu Chengfeng told himself, "Not some sage, not a great hero, not a tyrant, not a mighty warrior, just an ordinary common man among the masses!"

A change was born as soon as his heart moved.

Between his eyebrows, the seal revealed a three-inch flame; the sound of a dragon's roar appeared in the world for the first time, reverberating within the room.

Poof!

Lu Chengfeng seemed to see a crimson flame burning at his brow's spirit platform. It wasn't the power of gifted talent but his own spiritual will, his own Red Dragon True Intent.

The profound meaning of the first layer of the Eight Desolates Divine Fire Dragon Grand Outline merged with this common man's thought, transforming into this flame.

Although it was currently just a flame, as his mind grows stronger and his martial arts deepen, one day it will transform into a Red Dragon, existing between heaven and earth.

In fact, this flame did not exist; it was merely a reflection of Lu Chengfeng's mind, yet he had never felt so powerful and determined.

This strength was not from power, but from deep within the heart.

He was certain that even if an Immortal stood before him, threatening his life, he could still draw his blade and fight to the death.

"A common man's anger, blood splashes five steps!"

Lu Chengfeng felt joy from the bottom of his heart, sensing the flow of True Qi within him, the flickering flame between his brows, and an unprecedented ease of mind.

"This is my Red Dragon True Intent!"

He did not stop; his abundant Essence, Qi, and Spirit were enough to push his Red Dragon True Intent to a higher realm in one go.

After stabilizing his heart and thoughts, initially condensing his Red Dragon True Intent, everything else became a matter of course.

His cultivation advanced at a terribly fast speed.

Sweeping ahead unstoppably!

The second layer, the third layer, the fourth layer...

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