Chapter 137: A New Martial God is About to Appear?
After finishing his second run-through of the Star Shattering Tai Chi Technique.
Lin Yi said goodbye to the old master.
He took the bus and headed straight for the Martial Arts Hall.
With most of the Blood Drop Believers having been wiped out.
Coach Yang Yong had also returned to the Martial Arts Hall to resume teaching.
There was only one week left until the martial arts exam.
Yang Yong wanted to use the limited time remaining.
to lead the students preparing for the exam in a final sprint.
By the time Lin Yi stepped into the Martial Arts Hall.
he saw that the arena was filled with an energetic and tense atmosphere.
Every student was training seriously, improving their various stats.
Yang Yong, dressed in a Martial Arts Uniform, weaved among the students.
giving them pointers and correcting their form...
Lin Yi changed into his Martial Arts Uniform and came out of the locker room.
Yang Yong just gave him a casual glance and gestured for him to join the training.
...
「Meanwhile.」
While Lin Yi returned to the Martial Arts Hall.
the old master went directly to Xinghai City’s largest martial arts library.
"Lao Yi? You’re a rare sight!"
As the old master stepped into the library.
another elderly man with a ruddy complexion walked over.
He clearly knew the old master, and they seemed to be on good terms.
"Old Qiao, quick, help me find some books on the Heart Spirit Domain. I need to look something up!"
"Heart Spirit Domain? What are you looking that up for? Haven’t you already opened your Heart Spirit Domain?"
Old Qiao gave him a strange look.
"It’s not for me..." The old master shook his head.
Seeing the anxious look on his face, Old Qiao stroked his silver beard and smiled.
"Then you don’t need to look. Just ask me if you have any questions!"
"The books in this library might not even be as clear as my memory!"
Hearing this, the old master finally remembered.
Old Qiao had a nickname: the "Walking Library."
His repository of knowledge was even more complete than the records in this library.
Some things couldn’t necessarily be found in books.
But if you asked him, you were guaranteed to get the answer you were looking for.
The old master nodded, hurriedly pulling Old Qiao to a deserted spot to sit down.
"Let me ask you, is there such a thing as a boxing technique that can establish a Heart Spirit Domain?"
The moment the words left his mouth, a trace of confusion flickered in Old Qiao’s eyes.
He looked at the old master in astonishment. "Lao Yi, are you running a fever?"
"What fever? I’m just asking you if it exists or not!" the old master asked anxiously.
Old Qiao stroked his silver beard, lost in thought.
After a long moment, he finally said, "Establishing a Heart Spirit Domain with a boxing technique? It’s not unheard of. It happened several hundred years ago, back when Martial Arts was just taking off and the new era had just begun."
"A rising star of Martial Arts burst onto the scene. He was the one who established a Heart Spirit Domain through a boxing technique, becoming the number one figure in Martial Arts..."
"Are you talking about... the Martial God?"
"That’s right, him... By the way, why are you asking about this?"
Old Qiao looked at the old master strangely.
In several hundred years, there had only been one such rising star in Martial Arts.
And his status had reached a level no one could challenge.
’This Lao Yi has nothing better to do? He’s not commanding battles or staying at the Martial Arts Hall.’
’He runs to the library just for this?’
A Heart Spirit Domain could only be gradually established after reaching a certain realm.
Even the likes of Chu Zhengxiong today couldn’t manage to establish one.
Besides, establishing a Heart Spirit Domain required an extremely complex process.
It was closely related to one’s own talent, comprehension, and spirit.
To put it simply, for those with extremely high Martial Arts talent and a sufficiently powerful spirit...
...like those martial arts geniuses, the exceptionally gifted...
...it might take them three to five years to form the prototype of a domain.
Then, it would take several more years to slowly perfect the initial construction of the domain.
If they wanted to completely establish a full Heart Spirit Domain...
...the time required would be even longer.
Take the old master, for example. At his current realm, the Heart Spirit Domain he had constructed was only halfway complete.
It couldn’t yet be considered a complete domain.
In fact, it was still a long way off.
The old master’s brows furrowed slightly as he fell deep into thought.
After a long while, he finally looked up and said, "What are the key conditions for establishing a Heart Spirit Domain through a boxing technique?"
"Establishing a Heart Spirit Domain through boxing? I heard the Martial God mention it before. It’s considered a shortcut, but not one that just anyone can take... To put it simply, establishing a Heart Spirit Domain through a boxing technique mainly depends on talent and comprehension—those are the basics!"
"But you still need a medium to act as a nexus!"
"This medium can be diverse; it’s hard to say what it is specifically. In short, to use the Martial God’s own words, it’s a kind of ’blessing from a mysterious and special power’!"
"Once you have the blessing of this mysterious power, at a certain specific point, you might be able to unconsciously establish a Heart Spirit Domain!"
As he finished speaking, Old Qiao smiled, stroking his silver beard as he glanced at the old master.
"It’s easy to say, but as for what that mysterious power actually is, even the Martial God himself couldn’t explain it clearly!"
"However, there are portents. For example, the establishment of a person’s Heart Spirit Domain will definitely resonate with the thing they have the most contact with!"
"For instance, you’re at the Martial Arts Hall every day, and the thing you’re in contact with most is the Martial Arts Arena. When you establish your Heart Spirit Domain, perhaps you’ll use the Martial Arts Arena as the medium!"
"Or if someone spends all their time deep in the mountains, among forests, waterfalls, and boulders, then when they establish their Heart Spirit Domain, it might be centered on the deep mountains..."
"Besides, establishing a domain through a boxing technique is just one way of putting it. It doesn’t have to be a boxing technique.
It could also be a saber technique, a spear technique, a staff technique, a palm technique..."
"In short, these are all just mediums for establishing the domain. They aren’t that important!"
"It’s only when all the innate conditions—the right time, the right place, and the right person—are met, and then pierced through by that mysterious power, that you get a chance to establish a Heart Spirit Domain!"
"For all these years, the Martial Arts Alliance has been researching these very things!"
"Especially the research into that mysterious power—it has never stopped!"
"It’s just that the description of this mysterious power is too vague, and there’s no clear answer, so finding it is actually quite difficult!"
After Old Qiao finished his detailed explanation.
The old master nodded.
He couldn’t help but be reminded of Lin Yi’s Heart Spirit Domain from just a moment ago.
It was a vast cosmos.
Within that cosmos, Lin Yi was like a god.
A being who could dominate all of existence.
’Could it be that this mysterious power comes from the cosmos?’
’If that’s the case, how did Lin Yi come into contact with Cosmic Power?’
’Or maybe... he was hit by a meteorite when he was a kid?’
Suddenly, the old master thought of something else.
Yang Yong had told him more than once that Lin Yi had a certain boxing technique.
That, unintentionally, he would strike with a power that resembled a Star River.
Although it would vanish in an instant.
But that terrifying power was suffocating.
He had also asked Lin Yi about the origin of that technique.
The answer was that even Lin Yi himself didn’t know what was going on.
That punch didn’t even have a name.
Connecting this to what Old Qiao had just said about portents...
SMACK—
The old master raised his hand and slapped himself right on the forehead.
This made Old Qiao jump. He hurriedly said, "What are you doing? Have you lost your mind? Why are you hitting yourself?"
Hearing this, the old master ignored him.
After pondering for a moment, he asked, "Old Qiao, let me ask you one more thing. With your vast knowledge, have you ever seen someone establish a Heart Spirit Domain based on the starry sky?"
"Establishing a Heart Spirit Domain based on the starry sky? That’s not so rare, is it?"
"I seem to recall other Martial Artists who have established Heart Spirit Domains based on the starry sky..."
Before Old Qiao could finish.
the old master continued, "What if the Heart Spirit Domain was established *through a boxing technique*, and *it was* the starry sky?"
"Hiss..."
Old Qiao looked at the old master in shock.
One thing is to simply establish a Heart Spirit Domain.
Perhaps it’s someone who was already immensely interested in the cosmos.
Or maybe a Martial Artist who specifically studies the cosmos and the starry sky establishes a domain based on it.
All of that is plausible and not particularly rare.
But to establish a Heart Spirit Domain through a boxing technique, and to have the starry sky as the core of that domain...
...those are two completely different things.
Suddenly, the look in Old Qiao’s eyes changed.
Seeming to realize a more serious issue, he said, "Lao Yi, something’s off about you today!"
"Running over here to ask me all these questions... Don’t tell me you’ve discovered..."
The old master chuckled softly. "Pretend I was never here, and you never saw me. I’m leaving!"
Before Old Qiao had even finished speaking, the old master got up and walked out.
Old Qiao still wanted to verify his theory.
But in the blink of an eye, the old master had already left the library.
After a long moment, Old Qiao finally cursed under his breath, "That old coot... don’t tell me he’s discovered some kind of genius? Someone who established a starry sky domain through a boxing technique?"
Old Qiao calmed himself down and mulled over the old master’s words.
Instantly, he couldn’t help but gasp.
If it was true, wouldn’t that mean a new Martial God was about to appear?