Chapter 325 - 300: Combining Divine-level Martial Arts_1

"Subordinate, I have completed the Third Refinement of my True Body."

Lu Yan said.

"The Third Refinement of the True Body? You have advanced two levels at once?"

Chu Long was somewhat surprised.

"By fluke, this subordinate came across two Purple Flame Lotus plants, which allowed my true body to transform consecutively."

Lu Yan explained.

"Purple Flame Lotus."

Chu Long’s eyes lit up, he exclaimed, "Purple Flame Lotus, a rare find in the world. How deep your luck is to have found two of them."

Then he changed the topic, "Lu Yan, you did an excellent job this time in Nanjiang, and you’ve advanced to the Third Refinement of your True Body. Once we return to the Mansion of King Ming, I will apply to my father to reward you with a divine-level martial art."

"Thank you, leader."

Lu Yan expressed his thanks.

"Hmm, the matters in Nanjiang have temporarily reached a conclusion. After three days, we shall return to Mingwang City."

Chu Long said.

Three days later, Lu Yan and Shen Yinuo left with Chu Long and returned to Mingwang City.

Then, it was a quiet waiting period for news of the reward.

Lu Yan did not idle around, but began to study the Supreme Physical Martial Arts Wenxing had given him.

He had already mastered eight body refining martial arts. After adding this one, he would have nine.

Whether he could fuse them depended on this one.

Seven days later, Lu Yan received a message. Chu Long was summoning him.

"Lu Yan, my father has agreed to bestow the divine-level martial arts to you. There are three divine-level martial arts in the Mansion of King Ming. One is a spear technique, which I’m practicing. One is a palm technique, and the third one is a leg technique. Which one do you choose?" Chu Long asked.

"Spear technique, palm technique, leg technique."

Lu Yan muttered, pondering.

In fact, what he really wanted was a body refining martial arts or archery technique. If not, a knife technique would also be good.

But they were not available, so he had to settle for the next best thing.

He ruled out spear technique immediately.

Because he was unfamiliar with spear techniques, he had never practiced them.

He could consider the palm technique.

But he had already completed the True Dragon Nine Strikes, which was also a hand technique. If he practiced another, they would overlap, and their true power could not be released.

So, the leg technique was the natural first choice.

It could be used for attacks and could also enhance his speed. At key moments, it increased his chances of escaping.

So, after a few moments of contemplation, Lu Yan chose the leg technique.

"Lu Yan, divine-level martial arts cannot be taken out to cultivate. You must cultivate it in the designated practice room of the Mansion of King Ming. Prepare yourself, in three days, you will select the martial arts, enter the practice room, and if you have anything to do during the process, you can return it first, finish the matter, and then cultivate."

Chu Long said.

Lu Yan nodded, returned to his residence, and told Shen Yinuo that for some time to come, he might not return often.

"Go ahead, I also want to practice my martial chef skills. I have been focusing on enhancing my cultivation level recently, and almost lagged behind in my martial chef skills, my biggest goal is to become the Martial Chef God."

Shen Yinuo waved his hand and said.

Three days later.

Lu Yan saw Chu Long again.

Chu Long handed Lu Yan an ancient-looking iron box and took him to a huge practice room.

"Off you go, cultivate well. If you don’t understand anything, I can arrange for a master who practices this leg technique to guide you."

Chu Long said.

Lu Yan thanked him, walked into the practice room alone, closed the door, and opened the box.

Inside, there was a secret manual and a Divine Intent Diagram.

Lu Yan opened and read it.

The leg technique, called Star Leg.

It allowed users’ feet to tread the stars and attack like falling meteors. When running, they moved like comets across the sky.

Not long after, Lu Yan had memorized the secrets of the Star Leg.

"The Star Leg has only seven levels. The difficulty of cultivating it is much less than the True Dragon Nine Strikes. At least no external help is needed. If your understanding is good enough, you can comprehend it on your own."

Lu Yan smiled and put away the manual.

It’s easier to split firewood after the knife is sharpened.

He planned to comprehend the ninth Supreme Physical Martial Art first.

If he could fuse one God-level Body Refining Martial Art, his cognition of God-level Martial Arts would greatly improve, and his horizons would be much broader. Then, the difficulty of comprehending the God-level martial arts would be greatly reduced.

The ninth Supreme Physical Martial Arts, Lu Yan had already almost comprehended it. Therefore, in less than two days, he got through the doorway and materialized a Martial Arts Avatar.

Then he took out the immortal bone to enhance it.

After one day and one night, the ninth Supreme Physical Martial Arts officially reached the Unity of Man and Martial Arts realm.

Suddenly, nine Martial Arts Avatars raced towards each other and burst into dazzling light.

"Success."

Lu Yan was overjoyed.

The nine Supreme Physical Martial Arts really began to merge.

Soon after, the nine Martial Arts Avatars transformed into one.

A line of characters appeared above the Avatar: Divine-level Martial Arts, unnamed, sixth level.

"As expected, it’s a divine-level martial art."

Lu Yan’s smile widened, but then it turned into a puzzled look.

"But why is it only the sixth level instead of the seventh or even the eighth?"

Lu Yan murmured.

In the past, when lower-level martial arts were merged into higher-level martial arts, they would directly reach the highest level, the Unity of Man and Martial Arts.

But this time, it changed.

It was just the sixth level.

Even the most ordinary divine-level martial arts, have seven levels. According to past experience, even if the fused divine-level martial arts is the most common, it should be at the seventh level.

"It seems that divine-level martial arts are strikingly different from the previous martial arts, so there are many different changes."

Lu Yan speculated.

For example, Lu Yan speculated that divine-level martial arts are more pure, hand-to-foot martial arts and body refining martial arts cannot fuse into divine-level martial arts.

Otherwise, hand-to-foot combined with body refining would have exceeded nine doorways long ago.

In addition, the fusion into body refining martial arts does not directly reach the highest level.

The martial arts avatar radiates new light, and a wealth of information about this new martial art emerged in Lu Yan’s mind.

"This martial art is divided into nine levels, on par with the True Dragon Nine Strikes, not bad. Now, what should I name it?"

Lu Yan smiled.

"Among the nine supreme body refining martial arts, the Tian Gang Red Dragon Body is the strongest, and then there is Divine Jiao Gold Body, so let’s just call it True Dragon War Body."

Lu Yan murmured.

It’s just right to pair with the True Dragon Nine Strikes.

Immediately, the word above the martial arts avatar’s head changed: Divine-level Martial Arts, True Dragon War Body Sixth Level.

"Let’s test the power."

With a move in Lu Yan’s heart, he circulated the True Dragon War Body. His body surface emerged with scales, similar to the previous use of Supreme Physical Martial Arts.

However, his body did not swell up, only a little stronger than usual, it looked much more natural and balanced, as if he was wearing a layer of scale armor.

And the power...

Lu Yan clenched his hand, the air in his hand compressed and emitted the sound of an explosion.

It was obviously much stronger than before.

In the past, even if he simultaneously used the stack of nine Supreme Physical Martial Arts, it was far from now.

His overall combat power increased by another chunk.

"The True Dragon War Body has a total of nine levels. After fusion, it’s only at the sixth level. So, can it reach the highest level like newly cultivated martial arts, can it be cultivated into an Acquired Martial Body, and receive the gifts of heaven and earth?"

Lu Yan started thinking about this problem again.

But there was no answer, no reference, he could only explore it on his own.

"To enhance divine-level martial arts requires a lot of energy, especially for the later layers. The immortal bones I have at hand are not enough to elevate the True Dragon War Body to the ninth level."

Lu Yan finally decided to put a hold on the upgrade of the True Dragon War Body and start comprehending the Star Leg.

He took out the Divine Intent Diagram of Star Leg and began to comprehend it.

After a bit of comprehension, Lu Yan realized he had underestimated the Star Leg.

Naturally, understanding divine-level martial arts is not that easy, each has its difficulties.

The cultivation of the True Dragon Nine Strikes requires fighting against Flood Dragons, watching its form and understanding its spirit, and practicing it with its blood.

But it is precisely because of these external conditions that the time required for interpretation is not very long. The time used by Lu Yan is only about a month and a half.

But Star Leg, although it does not need external conditions, it is harder and more time-consuming to comprehend.

Two months went by in a blink of an eye, and Lu Yan had not yet succeeded in comprehension.

He adjusted his mentality, focused on comprehension, and continued.

Another two months passed, and it took four months before Lu Yan finally completed the first level of the Star Leg and condensed into a Martial Arts Avatar.

Then he began to swallow the immortal bone to improve, and elevated the Star Leg to the third level in one fell swoop before stopping.

There’s no need to continue improving.

Because, whether it’s the True Dragon Nine Strikes or Star Leg, after reaching the fourth level, they involve the realm of the Primordial Spirit and need to be in the Primordial Spirit Realm to fully reveal the subtleties.

This one was different from the True Dragon War Body.

True Dragon War Body is a pure body refining martial art, mainly involving the physical body.

Therefore, even in the True Body Realm, the power of the True Dragon War Body can be played out seventy to eighty percent.

"I have some immortal bones left, I’ll use them all to enhance the True Dragon War Body."

Lu Yan took out another Immortal Bone to devour.

When he had consumed all the immortal bones on him, the True Dragon War Body had just barely reached the seventh floor.

The last two floors required a huge amount of immortal bones.

Thinking about this, Lu Yan felt a headache.

Where could he get so many immortal bones for the Dao Book to devour?

"This fellow, is really choosy in its taste, apart from Martial Food, it only eats Immortal Bones, or Dao Food containing immortal power, why doesn’t it eat Demon Bones?"

Lu Yan rubbed his temples.

Afterwards, he walked out of the Practice Room and summoned Chu Long to return the secret scriptures and the Divine Intent Diagram.

Four months to practice the first level of Star Leg, if put on the average martial cultivator, that would be an astonishing speed, but on Lu Yan, Chu Long thought it was slow.

Because Lu Yan’s fame was already well known, and he was being compared with Wang Tianyu.

So, Chu Long was not the least bit surprised.

After saying goodbye to Chu Long, Lu Yan returned to his residence. As soon as he walked into the room, he smelled a strong aroma.

"Lu Yan, you are just in time, I’ve researched a new type of Martial Food during this time. Try it and see how it tastes and its effect."

Shen Yinuo brought a large pot of Martial Food, exuding a tantalizing aroma.

Lu Yan has been in closed cultivation for more than four months, eating martial pills every day, and his mouth was pale. So he started eating heartily. He felt the lingering fragrance on his lips and teeth, and it melted in his mouth. Then it transformed into a warm current, flowing throughout his body.

This was a four-level Martial Food.

"Yinuo, not bad, what’s the name of this Martial Food you invented?"

Lu Yan asked.

"This dish is made of Dragon Armor Shrimp, Eight Treasure Chicken and other eight kinds of precious alien beasts. It’s simmered for three days and three nights, so I named it Dragon Eight Stew."

Shen Yinuo said triumphantly.

Spit!

Lu Yan, who had just taken a bite, sprayed it far away, his temples throbbing and exclaimed, "Damn, eight stews?"

"Yes, how about it? Does it not suit your taste?"

Shen Yinuo looked at Lu Yan curiously.

"No, it’s a really good name."

Lu Yan looked seriously at Shen Yinuo, gaining a new understanding of her naming skills.