novelraw Chapter 30 – Five Gates of Heaven
Chapter 30 – Five Gates of Heaven
[You enter the Scripture Repository and encounter an elderly man with white hair.]
[He asks you to demonstrate your bone stage, sword intent, and martial techniques.]
[You comply truthfully.]
[Upon seeing your Heaven and Earth Sword Slash's sword intent, he squints his eyes and asks about your relationship with Lu Yi.]
[You say he is your master.]
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[The elderly man nods and tells you there's no need to demonstrate your martial techniques and that you can proceed directly to the second floor of the Scripture Repository.]
Hearing this, you silently head upstairs.
Does Old Lu have such a big reputation?
It seems not surprising, considering that in the last simulation, he used an Earth Grade Supreme martial technique, which is something that could be stored on the third floor as a prized possession.
I wonder if, without the Sword Maniac talent, Lu Yi would still take me as a disciple if I sought him out again.
Chen Shi thought to himself.
[You arrive on the second floor and notice that the number of martial techniques and skills on the shelves has significantly decreased.]
[There are only about a hundred.]
[Most of them are Profound Grade - Supreme Quality and Yellow Grade - Low Quality techniques.]
[There are nine Earth Grade - Mid Quality techniques.]
[There is one Earth Grade - High Quality technique, engraved on a large turtle shell.]
[You examine the turtle shell closely and discover it contains a technique called the "Dragon Elephant Sutra," which is divided into five levels and can be cultivated to the Heaven-Human Realm.]
[However, you can't understand it.]
[The text is full of obscure and incomprehensible words.]
[It's like a Heavenly Tome.]
[At this moment, the elderly man's voice sounds behind you: "Young man, the higher the grade of the technique, the harder it is to understand, and the more stringent the cultivation conditions. This Dragon Elephant Sutra follows the path of proving the Dao through strength and requires a special physique to cultivate. It's not suitable for you."]
[You turn around and humbly seek the elderly man's guidance.]
[The elderly man explains that the kidneys are the foundation of one's innate constitution. Observing your scattered brows, he suspects long-term indulgence has severely depleted your innate foundation. Even with the best body-tempering techniques, your efforts would be twice the work for half the result, making it difficult to achieve success. However, fortunately, you haven't engaged in yin-yang exchanges, so although your primal yang is weak, it remains pure, leaving a glimmer of hope.]
[He suggests you might as well choose the Qi Absorption Method, relying on resources to temper Bronze Bones without issue.]
Upon seeing this, Chen Shi's first reaction is whether this elderly man holds a grudge against Lu Yi, deliberately advising his "disciple" to choose a Qi Absorption Method to sabotage him. After all, Li Ping mentioned that with the current scarcity of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, the Qi Absorption Method has long fallen out of favor.
But then he recalls the last simulation, where Lu Yi went to the Hundred-Thousand Great Mountains to slay a demon king and temper his body.
That also seemed like a method relying on resource accumulation, right?
The elderly man probably isn't trying to sabotage him.
[After some thought, you decide to follow the elderly man's advice.]
[Following his direction, you arrive at a shelf in the corner and, after some searching, find only three Qi Absorption Methods, covered in dust, clearly untouched for a long time.]
[This doesn't surprise you.]
[Li Ping mentioned that entering the second floor of the Scripture Repository requires at least High-Grade Bronze Bones. Such prodigies have excellent innate bones, and even a fool wouldn't choose the Qi Absorption Method for cultivation.]
[You wipe away the dust.]
[The cover reveals four large characters: "Five Gates of Heaven."]
[Yellow Grade - Low Quality.]
[Seeing a Yellow Grade - Low Quality Qi Absorption Method on the second floor of the Scripture Repository, your eyes flicker with interest.]
[You open the first page.]
[You see the author of the book—Lingweizi.]
[He was a Heaven-Human powerhouse from a top force tens of thousands of years ago. His greatest regret in life was never witnessing the elegance of Jade Bones. For this, he devoted himself to studying countless techniques and ancient texts, exploring numerous secret realms and ancient tombs. After a century of effort, he finally created the "Five Gates of Heaven," which, if practiced step by step, theoretically allows one to temper the legendary Jade Bones.]
[You are utterly shocked, unable to believe that such a method exists in the world.]
[The more you read, the more serious your expression becomes.]
[And the more disappointed you feel.]
[After spending half an hour reading, you find it a profound yet utterly impractical technique.]
[It's profound because this technique can indeed temper Jade Bones.]
[The so-called Five Gates of Heaven refer to five mysterious gates within the human body: the Life Gate, Heart Gate, Vitality Gate, Death Gate, and Heaven Gate.]
[According to Lingweizi, merely opening the Life Gate can temper Supreme Iron Bones, the second Heart Gate for Supreme Bronze Bones, the third Death Gate for Supreme Silver Bones, the fourth Vitality Gate for Supreme Golden Bones, and the fifth Heaven Gate for Supreme Jade Bones.]
[More importantly, the Five Gates of Heaven doesn't require the cultivator's innate bone quality. As long as one practices according to Lingweizi's Qi Guiding Method, even a waste can theoretically temper Supreme Jade Bones.]
[It's impractical because to succeed in this technique, one must endure a vast amount of time.]
[According to Lingweizi, opening the first Life Gate takes 5 years, the second Heart Gate 20 years, the third Vitality Gate 50 years, the fourth Death Gate 100 years, and the fifth Heaven Gate 200 years, totaling 375 years.]
[Moreover, once you start cultivating the Five Gates of Heaven, you can't switch to other techniques midway. You must follow this path to the end, and during cultivation, you need a massive amount of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi to continuously impact the body's five gates.]
Seeing this, Chen Shi understands why this technique is rated as Yellow Grade - Low Quality.
A martial artist at the Innate Stage can barely live up to 300 years.
A Bone Refining Stage martial artist, even with perfect health and longevity practices, can't live beyond 375 years.
And even if you spend 375 years cultivating Jade Bones, what then?
By then, you'd be old and frail.
It's like a middle-aged internet celebrity taking the college entrance exam at thirty or forty.
What's the point of getting into Tsinghua or Peking University when you're already past your prime learning years?
The same applies to martial arts cultivation.
"I wonder if, with my simulator, I could successfully cultivate this technique..."
Chen Shi feels tempted.
After all, the one thing he doesn't lack is time.
But he also notices that to succeed in cultivating the Five Gates of Heaven, a massive amount of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi is needed. He isn't sure how much "massive" entails, and with the current depletion of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, even with a simulator, he might not manage it.
[You turn to the last page of the "Five Gates of Heaven" and find a page written in blood.]
[You only read halfway through.]
[And decisively give up on this Qi Absorption Method capable of tempering Jade Bones.]
[Because the person who wrote the blood letter was a Holy Son from a top force tens of thousands of years ago. His master, upon seeing this technique, decided to devote the entire sect's resources to help him cultivate the Five Gates of Heaven, determined to nurture a legendary Jade Bones prodigy.]
[They poured in massive amounts of spirit stones and alchemy pills... and then, in just two hundred years, the sect was bankrupted by him and met its demise.]
[In the blood letter, the Holy Son bitterly accuses Lingweizi, evoking sorrow and tears from those who read it.]
[After reading, you extract one core message.]
["Gamblers meet a bad end!"]