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Time flew. Ever since the reform of the Great Ming Dynasty's business, the Great Ming Dynasty had undergone rapid changes. The citizens were rich and the country's power was growing day by day. After twenty years of many commercial reforms, the emperor began to build roads, using yellow sand, stones, and other things to synthesize cement. He repaired jetties from the north to the north, south to the south, and west to the west to the Yumen Pass.

Zhengde began to build roads in the various countries in the Western Regions, even opening up roads to ancient countries like India and Greece to let more countries know of the existence of the Ming Dynasty. At the same time, it also attracted countless countries from the Western Regions to come here and witness the so-called Ming Dynasty from afar.

After thirty years of reform, the Great Clarity Heaven was now like the sun in the sky, with a population of nearly a hundred million. The commoners were rich enough to eat and sleep without worry, and the hundreds of officials in the imperial court were working together with many princes to control the political affairs of the imperial court. As for the righteous emperor, who allowed the Great Ming Dynasty to flourish, he had already gradually retreated behind the scenes, accompanying the empress and a few concubines. As for the crown prince, he was his eldest son, and had the other princes help him.

As for why he did not immediately abdicate and allow the crown prince to ascend to the throne, it was to let him familiarize himself with the political affairs of the Great Ming Dynasty so that he would not be flustered when he ascended to the throne. After all, he could point out the inadequacies of dealing with the imperial government. If he could deal with the imperial government conveniently after a few years, the righteousness would naturally be passed to him.

After handing over the imperial government to the crown prince and the other princes, Righteous De began to relax throughout the day. When he had nothing to do, he would take his empress and several concubines to fly around and experience the divine days of the Twilight Zone's immortals.

Yes, that's right, it was the Imperial Sword Technique.

This was an ability that Zhengde could only display after he had cultivated the Heaven Mending Divine Art to the third level a few years ago and condensed the Heaven Mending Golden Pill. It had to be said that the cultivation method of Qi Refining was much stronger than the cultivation method of martial dao at the beginning.

After breaking through to the Xiantian realm, one could leave one's zhen qi layer, while after breaking through to the Grandmaster Realm, one could shatter boulders and break down trees with just a wave of one's hand. As for breaking through to the Grandmaster Realm, he was the overlord of the land, it was normal for him to split mountains and rivers, and he could even destroy a small mountain with his full strength.

However, after breaking through to the second level of the Foundation Establishment Stage, there was a fork in the road between the cultivation of Qi and the cultivation of the martial arts. After reaching the Foundation Establishment Stage, one could use a variety of techniques, summoning flames, ice, vines, etc., to assist in combat.

Especially after breaking through to the Third Stage of the Aurous Core Stage, one could borrow the power of magic treasures to fly. Although this would consume mana, it was still much weaker than the direct flight when a cultivator broke through to the Fourth Stage. However, compared to a Third Stage Grandmaster, a martial cultivator would only be able to leave the ground for a short period of time.

Putting everything else aside, if a Stage Three Aurous Core stage cultivator controlled a flying sword to attack you while you were in the sky, you would only be able to passively take beatings. If you continued to waste energy, you would be slowly grinded to death.

Of course, there were benefits to cultivating Qi Refinement, and there were benefits to cultivating martial arts as well. The attack power of a Qi Refining cultivator surpassed that of a martial artist, but they also had a huge weakness: their physical body was not strong enough. In terms of long range attacks, martial arts cultivators were not as good as Qi Cultivators. However, in close combat, it was completely the opposite. If a Qi warrior got close to a martial artist, that warrior could rip out your neck before you could even make a move.

He successfully broke through to the third level of the Heaven Mending Divine Art, which made him quite happy. In just ten short years, he successfully trained in the Heaven Mending Divine Art to the third level and was able to control swords and fly at a speed of a thousand miles per day. Although there was quite a large gap between him and the peak of the third level, he was still very happy. This meant that when he returned to the Great Void, he could cultivate to the third layer in the shortest amount of time. Compared to when he started from the beginning, he was much stronger, and it would also save him a lot of time.

After cultivating the Heaven Mending Divine Art to the third level, he began to talk about the righteousness and the shift of his gaze from Qi Refining to Martial Dao Cultivation. In these ten years, although he did not deliberately practice martial arts, but the cultivation of the Heaven Mending Divine Art was mainly focused on qi cultivation, and the martial arts was complementary to the cultivation technique. He had achieved a great achievement in the Heaven Mending Divine Art, and although it was just a side effect of martial arts cultivation, it also smoothly broke through to the late Great Grandmaster level.

However, when one reached the late stage of the Grandmaster Realm, one could feel that one's own martial arts cultivation could no longer improve. It was as if there was an invisible wall blocking one's path; no matter how hard one tried, it was difficult to improve one's cultivation.

In this regard, Zhengde understood that the zhenqi in his body was based on the power that had been passed down to him from the ancient times, not the power that he had arduously cultivated. He had yet to comprehend the trick behind it, to the point that his foundation was floating. At the very most, it could only reach the level that Gu San had reached in the past. It was almost impossible for him to advance any further.

"There are only two or three ways to achieve a breakthrough in the martial way right now. The first method was to borrow more true energy to forcefully break through. However, with my current cultivation level, I'll have to suck dry ten late Great Zongshi realm experts before being able to advance one step further! "In the entire martial arts world, there are quite a few great grandmasters, but very few late stage grandmasters. This method will not work."

"As for the second method, it is sudden enlightenment. Rumor has it that once a cultivator has some comprehension of the heavens and the earth, they can enter a mysterious state where they can cultivate for a day and work hard for a thousand days." If he could attain enlightenment, not to mention breaking through to the Zongshi realm pinnacle, even breaking through to the Fourth Order wouldn't be impossible. "It's just that enlightenment is a lucky chance, and can only be met by luck and not sought. It's far too ethereal."

"If that's the case, then I can only use this third method to break through the formation." Righteousness murmured to himself.

The meaning of breaking it was naturally extremely simple. That was to waste all of his martial arts. The Blood God's Stash would automatically close down and return to a state where it did not cultivate any martial arts. If he continued to cultivate like this, he would be able to study the mysteries of each realm and solidify his foundation. At the same time, because he had the previous cultivation experience, he could reduce a large amount of cultivation time and return to the peak of cultivation.

After this decision was made, Zhengde informed Xia Yuyan and the others, making them all feel worried. After all, true energy was the foundation of cultivators. Once true energy was wasted, one's lifespan would be greatly damaged. Many old cultivators would pass on their true energy to others and directly pass on their true energy. Although he was currently only forty years old and had trained in Qi Refining, his body would inevitably be weakened for a period of time.

"Your majesty, since the path of martial dao is impassable, you can wholeheartedly focus on the path of qi training. Isn't it the same if you use the path of qi training to break through?" Why must you cripple your martial arts and cultivate it anew? " Consort De couldn't help but try to dissuade her with a soft voice.

Righteousness couldn't help but smile wryly. "My beloved concubine doesn't know!" I only have the third stage of Qi Refining. In other words, unless I create the next stage of my own cultivation method, it will be impossible to break through to the fourth stage. "However, to create the next level of cultivation methods, I don't have a lot of similar books to research, so how can I create them. Therefore, I can only start with the Blood Essence God's Stash."

The few of them immediately understood that in this world, martial arts cultivation was prevalent, but there really was no such thing as Qi Refining. This meant that the Righteous Emperor couldn't find a large number of third stage cultivation methods to improve his fourth stage cultivation, so they could only start from the aspect of martial arts.

Everyone became silent for a while, and then righteously said, "You don't need to do this, Qi Cultivation has no chance of breaking through, so you can just go on with martial arts cultivation." "With my potential, breaking through to the great grandmaster level will be an easy feat. Only the great grandmaster will be my true goal."

"Forget it, since the Emperor has already decided, chenqie will naturally not go against him." The Xia Queen sighed inwardly before opening her mouth to speak.

"But Your Majesty, it is truly a pity that your skill has been wasted like this. Why don't you pass it on to your sisters? This is especially true since Jade Immortal is already at the peak of the Grandmaster Realm. If the emperor passes his power on to her, you might be able to help her break through to the Grandmaster Realm. " The Xia Queen spoke up.