Spiritual Practitioner of Zen Tier.
Placed on the 4th Stage, this Spiritual stage decides the fate of cultivator, where if one successfully thread across, ascend to the Upper Heaven Rank will be possible, joining along with the Early Soul Practitioners. But throughout the decade, the number of successfully ascended cultivators range only 20% among 100%. For those where fate is not on their side, standing on the peak of Lower Heaven Rank is the best they could achieve in life.
Acting as border between Lower Heaven and Upper Heaven Rank, this Spiritual Practitioner Stage consist of 3 different cultivation achievement, which is the Spiritual Formation Stage (1st stage to 3rd Stage), the Spiritual Creation Stage (4th Stage to 6th Stage) and lastly the Spiritual Manipulation Stage (7th Stage to 9th Stage).
When the cultivation reaches the Manipulation stage, the Spiritual practitioner would require spending a large amount of effort to successfully Form, Create and Manipulate their Zen Energy to Build their own Soul Dao, which will be the opening step into the Soul Practitioner Stage.
Of course, to thread along the 3 different Stage during the Spiritual Practitioner path is no easy way. Different from the previous few stage, Spiritual Stage required the cultivator to build their own Spiritual Body, and no exact path for one to follow. Although there are many cultivating techniques to guide on the spiritual body one should build first, but in the end, only the practitioner himself can understand which part he should start.
Utilizing the Zen Energy to create the Spiritual Body, the cultivator must start from choosing one from the selection below:
Upper Limbs - Lower Limbs - Upper Body - Lower Body - Heart - Mind - Core - Sense - Feel
Differentiated to two category, the Upper, and lower limbs, and the upper and lower body stand for the physical enhancement, while the Heart, Mind, Core, Sense, and Feel provides the internal enhancement to the Spiritual body. In an example, a formation stage cultivator that focus on Upper and Lower Limbs with Heart cultivation could be stronger than any other cultivator in term of strength and durability but will be at a disadvantage if they met their enemies who cultivate in Upper and Lower body, with Core or Sense.
Without wasting time, Altima quickly consumes a total of 5 million Boosting Zen Pill, which is the balance he holds in hand after he manages to clear the few spatial realm treasury. With the assistance of this 5 million Pills, Altima quickly forms his primary Master stage energy and push through the 9 spiritual gate without any difficulties. With the 9 gate is unlocked, a surge of Essence energy rush inside, until the 9 gate is overfilled with Zen energy, and explode!
With an exploding energy similar to a miniature Supernova, Altima inner body started to form a big Universe of Essence energy, where it will slowly dissipate if no action is taken immediately. Very quickly, Altima gathers all his might to encase the essence energy and giving birth to a Spiritual Body.
For his first Part, Altima actually decided to start with a Spiritual Sense.
Through obtaining Spiritual Sense, Altima could increase his ability to Anticipate, procrastinate, imagine, and creative in his cultivation. Due to the current focus for Altima is on Medicine Concoction, Starting from Sense and later followed with Mind, Core, Feel and Heart will be the best suitable option.
Successfully breaking through into the spiritual stage, Altima suddenly receives a notification from Mobi's Interface.
"Scanning and Unlocking procedure complete!"
The action point Altima had spent on researching the Second Chapter Scroll finally complete!
"Information Currently in Display!"
Demonic Fire Cloud Sect Martial Art - Marquis Fire Cloud Kicking Art (Zen Perfection Martial Art)
(Huo Yun Hou Tui Gong) (Marquis = Hou in Chinese)
Skill Description: One of the most well known Kicking martial arts belonged to one of the 36 protectors of Demonic Fire Cloud Sect, Marquis Fire Cloud. The strength of this Kicking art is well known among the Cultivator of Huo Lin Dalu (Flame Forest Continent), where each time Marquis Fire Cloud act, the corpse is scattered everywhere, torn and decapitate without complete remains, through one kick.
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"A Zen perfection martial arts!"
With shock expression written on his face, Altima couldn’t stop being shocked to his core. Without any expectation, he would not even dare to imagine that the scrolls he accidently won in the auction, actually worth million times more than what he paid for.
One should understand, Although the martial arts scattered among the world is unaccountable, but through records from an ancient era, all the martial Arts came from the Twelve Holy Martial Scriptures. From the Twelve Holy Martial Scriptures, a 24 Different Saint Tier Martial Skills is formed and created.
Through the 24 Saint Tier Martial Skills, another total of 96 Perfect Martial Masteries is created. Lastly, from the 96 Perfect Martial Masteries, came variations of twelve to hundreds of martial arts, which branched from one of the 96 Perfect Martial Masteries.
In Example, Although Spirit Moon of Yin or the Flaming Sun of Yang Technique is strong, they are just the variation of the hundreds of martial arts origin from one of the 96 Perfect Martial Masteries. And through observing the quality and depth of profound Martial Scriptures among the Martial arts, one could only guess, that this martial art is just the 4th branched Martial arts from the 96 Perfection Martial Masteries.
Although the Nine Yang Mortal Skill, which categorized as the Spiritual Martial Arts, are actually only on the 3rd branch!
Based on this grading system, one could expect how profound is the Perfection Martial Arts Altima currently obtain in his hand now.
"This is where I will carve my name into the new history of Lan Shen Dalu!"
Altima continued:
"With this Zen Perfection Martial arts, although I might not be undefeatable at the moment, but at least, I can still join into the top tier cultivators among my rank!"
"Big Brother Yang! Very soon we will be able to fulfill what we aim to achieve 4 years ago!"
Altima looked towards the opened area within the Training room, reminiscing the moment when he and Yang Wu Di met.
With new motivation etched in his mind, Altima dare not to slack. As he spent most of his remaining close door cultivation to research and practice his newly obtained martial art. While on the outside, An event which will come every 5 years finally arrived.
"The Demonic Bridge Ritual is finally here!"
"The Obelisk is erected on the same location! The Ritual will start soon!"
Screamed one tall and healthy man, running around spreading the news throughout the whole Village.
Within the first week, whole Lan Shen Dalu is well informed with this event. Participants started to swarm to the nearby town and villages located near to the Ritual's entrance, while powerhouse from North, South, East and West started to reinforce the City located near the border to ensure the visitors and booming business could be accommodated immediately.
Recruitment started to get rougher, where the 6 Alliance , 9 Corporation , 12 Sect , 15 Clans and 18 Guilds started to gather more and more cultivators to participate in this ritual. While for the Royal family, instead of recruiting additional cultivators, they choose to strengthen their participant's strength so the expedition dispatch for the ritual could return with better success.
One need to know, that this Demonic Bridge Ritual only came every 5 years.
No notice or any guidance was given beforehand. but when this ritual date came, the continent will have a major phenomenon within the 4 different state. Extreme Wind and Thunder rained across the state of West and East for a total of 16 days, while Extreme Hot and Cold weather across the state of North and South, for a total of 16 days.
During this moment, it is well known as the cleansing ritual, where it's believed to be the act of gods to clean the trash before allowing qualified cultivators to participates in the ritual.
Demonic Bridge Ritual.
With the cleansing ritual end, One huge Obelisk will be erected in the middle of the Lan Shen Dalu, between the borders of 4 State. When the ritual begins, hundreds of spatial realm will be opened across the border, spread towards north, south, east and west. There are no limits of participants to enter the ritual, but a minimum requirement of Master Practitioner of Zen Tier is required.
The reason is due to the examiner, or more likely to be known as the "executioner of the ritual" is at least an early Master practitioner stage.
The participants will be divided into a total of 12 different bridge, which is wide enough to place a village in the middle of the bridge, where all participants forced to explored the path ahead. Various type of beast and demonic beings is scattered along the bridge, where it is identical to human populations. The bridge holds different ecosystem as well, where each different bridge carries different tribes, beast, land, and surroundings.
Along the path, abundant resources, cultivation techniques, weapons, and treasures are available to be obtained, while much ancient inheritance is also available within the path.
But one should always remember, Human nature is always greedy, being aware towards your opponent is important, but being careful among your side is even more. Since ancient time, the number of death from internal conflicts is even higher than the number of death by the ecosystem.
This Ritual will last for a total of 1 month if the participants failed to reach the central of the Ancient Empire connecting the 12 different bridge. As written in the history, throughout the records from 3,000 years ago, only 2 Bridge is successfully passed from the 600 previous Demonic Bridge Ritual.