The Path to the Gods and Immortals
After taking a shower, Su Tu noticed that Li Hu had added him to a group chat.
The group was called:
Moonstep Squad
Including Su Tu, there were eight people in total.
Aside from Li Hu, who was the group owner, everyone else was one of Zhou Wuliang's students.
No one in the group was talking.
Li Hu had only sent a meme.
Several people had privately added Su Tu as a friend, though.
After accepting their requests, Su Tu stopped paying attention to them.
Instead, he opened the website Li Hu had sent him.
It looked like a forum.
There were all kinds of posts.
Some were educational discussions.
Three Theories on Forging a Martial Arts Foundation with Foundation Arts
The Relationship Between Techniques and the Physical Body
Of course, there were also plenty of eye-catching clickbait posts.
SHOCKING!! The Federation Is Hiding Such a Terrifying Conspiracy! The Truth Behind the Prodigy Ranking Is Actually...
The Ancestral Planet Is Opening Martial Arts to the Public... The Real Purpose Is...
So That's How It Is! This Is How True Prodigies Are Actually Trained!!
Su Tu opened several of them.
Honestly...
They really were no different from ordinary clickbait articles.
Most of the content was nothing but phrases like, According to this editor's bold speculation, or, Let us imagine the possibilities.
Basically useless nonsense.
However, there was one pinned post at the top of the forum.
Miscellaneous Notes on Martial Arts
This post contained a fairly detailed introduction to basic martial arts knowledge.
Su Tu carefully read through it.
His understanding of the Federation and martial arts gradually deepened.
As it turned out, as early as three thousand years ago, when humanity first attempted interstellar colonization, the First Martial God had already discovered just how powerful martial arts could become.
Among the countless races of the heavens, every race ultimately treated its own body as its foundation.
Technology might be powerful.
But one's own existence was the true foundation.
A sufficiently powerful martial artist could destroy an entire race alone.
From that day onward, martial arts had quietly begun spreading throughout the Federation.
After more than three thousand years of development, the Federation's martial arts system had become extremely complete.
Nutritional supplements, scientific equipment, and countless supporting technologies had all been developed alongside it.
At present, three major paths dominated the Federation:
Martial arts cultivation.
Genetic warriors.
Mechanical augmentation.
Yet the people of the Ancestral Planet knew almost nothing about any of this.
For certain reasons, the number of martial artists allowed on Blue Star had always been strictly limited.
No one was permitted to reveal the existence of martial arts to the public in any form.
The Federation would even periodically seal off and investigate the Ancestral Planet to ensure ordinary people remained completely unaware.
That changed one month ago.
The Federation suddenly announced that the restrictions on the Ancestral Planet would be removed.
There were obviously many suspicious things behind this decision.
But those matters weren't something Su Tu needed to worry about right now.
He continued browsing.
Soon, another post caught his attention.
Speculation on How to Achieve the Strongest Branch-Glimpsing Realm
The first stage of martial arts was the Branch-Glimpsing Realm.
Its meaning was simple.
All truth in the world was like a towering tree.
Ordinary people couldn't perceive it.
Only after entering the Branch-Glimpsing Realm could one glimpse a tiny branch and leaf of that great tree.
At present, Su Tu merely had a strand of Qi inside his body.
He couldn't actively control it yet.
It could only passively strengthen him.
Therefore, he still hadn't officially entered the first martial stage.
He needed to continue cultivating his Foundation Art and guide Qi into his acupoints.
Only then would he officially enter the stage.
After entering the stage, he would need to fill all 108 acupoints throughout his body with Qi.
Only after doing that could he complete the Branch-Glimpsing Realm.
But this post proposed something different.
According to the writer, the human body possessed more than 108 acupoints.
Beyond those obvious acupoints, there were another thirty-six Hidden Acupoints.
Ordinary people couldn't perceive them.
But true prodigies could guide Qi into them.
For every additional Hidden Acupoint filled with Qi, both talent and combat strength would rise another level.
There were many comments beneath the post.
Some supportive.
Some mocking.
Some openly hostile.
But not a single person claimed to have successfully done it.
Su Tu thought for a moment.
It's still too early for me to worry about this.
Once I can guide Qi into my acupoints, I can try looking for these so-called Hidden Acupoints.
He bookmarked the post.
Then continued reading.
There was something else he had been curious about for quite some time.
What exactly was the relationship between Dao Gathering and martial arts?
He had already heard Zhou Wuliang mention Dao Gathering before, but the old man hadn't explained it in detail.
At the time, Su Tu hadn't continued asking.
There should be an explanation somewhere on this forum.
Sure enough...
It didn't take long before he found one.
The post gave a detailed introduction to Mental Dao Gathering.
Its very first sentence immediately caught Su Tu's attention.
Physical cultivation can shatter stars and destroy entire worlds.
But the path of the mind is the road leading toward the gods and immortals!
Su Tu's eyes narrowed slightly.
He continued reading.
Martial arts cultivation is divided into the external and internal paths.
Externally, Foundation Arts are used to temper the physical body and qi and blood.
Internally, Dao Gathering is used to temper the mind.
Dao Gathering was created by the previous generation's Martial God after combining numerous spiritual cultivation methods, including Qi Gathering, Consuming Dawnlight, Meditation, and other mysterious mental arts.
Its meaning is to gather heaven and earth, taking the Dao into one's heart.
His Majesty the Martial God believed that humans are born within heaven and earth, with the heavens themselves acting as a prison.
The mind is then imprisoned once more by the physical body.
Dao Gathering allows the mind to break free from these restraints and perceive heaven, earth, and all living beings.
After reading this, Su Tu finally understood.
Dao Gathering was a method used to temper and refine the mind.
Once the mind became sufficiently powerful, it could develop abilities beyond imagination.
Those with extremely powerful minds could even be called Great Divine Ability Users.
Such a person could stand right in front of you...
Yet if they didn't want you to perceive them, you simply couldn't.
It would feel as though an entire world separated the two of you.
That explained why Zhou Wuliang had been standing right beside Su Tu earlier, yet Su Tu hadn't noticed him at all.
The difference between their mental realms was simply too great.
The post continued.
The first step of Dao Gathering was to use a Secret Painting as a guide.
One would attempt to perceive the mysterious phenomena hidden within it, using those phenomena to temper the mind.
Su Tu immediately thought of something.
So the painting Brother Feiyang kept in his office was a Secret Painting?
But then...
He frowned slightly.
Still... my situation seems a little different from what this post describes.
Su Tu closed his eyes.
The image of that painting appeared within his mind.
The next instant...
He once again entered that strange world.
The black mountain.
The white tiger.
The green serpent.
The twin moons.
Everything appeared before him.
