Chapter 4560 — Be Ruthless to Yourself
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Empowered by the force of the stars, the toughness of a perfect golden pill was unprecedented. If Wei Zhao meant to shatter it himself, he would have to strike himself with all his might—a sensation no different from detonating a Wild Sand Thousand Burst Fist inside his own dantian. Anyone with even slightly less fortitude would surely have passed out from the agony.
Pfft! Wei Zhao gave a muffled groan and violently spat out a mouthful of blood. At that moment the perfect golden pill within his dantian had plainly collapsed into pieces, and the commotion inside his body was so great that even Ghost Thing, a mere onlooker, watched with his heart in his throat. He had seen plenty of ruthless men. But someone who dealt himself such a ruthless blow as Wei Zhao—this was the first he had ever seen.
"A man really does have to be ruthless with himself. You're quite the piece of work, kid!" Ghost Thing clicked his tongue in amazement.
"You flatter me, Senior. I'm managing, more or less..." Wei Zhao forced out a smile. That he still had the presence of mind to answer at such a juncture was truly admirable of him.
Even as he spoke, Wei Zhao once more forcibly stirred his true qi and blasted the already collapsing perfect golden pill into utter powder. At the same time, the Star Ink Milk he was soaking in seeped through every pore of his skin, flowing along the eight extraordinary meridians and gathering all the way into his dantian.
Because the perfect golden pill had been shattered, Wei Zhao's dantian had likewise suffered severe damage and teetered on the brink of destruction. The dantian is the foundation of every cultivator; once it is destroyed, no god or immortal can save you. Even if by sheer luck one clung to life, from then on one could never stir the slightest true qi again, becoming a complete and utter cripple.
Fortunately, there was the Star Ink Milk. The Star Ink Milk now streaming into him steadied his precarious dantian and at the same time created a uniquely favorable environment—a peerless environment for condensing the strongest Nascent Soul!
At this very moment Wei Zhao felt none of the agony of a shattered pill. Instead he had entered a mysterious realm beyond mystery, a sensation as though his body had suddenly ceased to be his own and he had become a detached observer, watching from the sidelines. Everything within his body became utterly clear and distinct, and places that had once been murky were now plain as day, thanks to the infusion of Star Ink Milk.
"The Realm of Clarity?!" Wei Zhao's heart stirred slightly. This was a wondrous state that existed only in legend, and to think he had encountered it today.
Cultivation is the cultivation of the heart, a process of gradually coming to know the supreme truth of heaven and earth. And in that process, every cultivator is at the same time gradually coming to know himself anew. Inner vision is one of the necessary stages—only through inner vision can one have complete mastery of every change within one's own body, and only then can one truly unleash one's fullest potential.
Yet inner vision at best counts as a foundational stage of self-knowledge: one can clearly see every point and every drop within the body, but how exactly it all connects into a whole and how exactly it circulates freely—that is very hard to perceive. To achieve this, one must transcend the stage of inner vision and reach the legendary Realm of Clarity!
Legend has it that any cultivator who has once reached the Realm of Clarity can ultimately unleash the full ten-tenths of his strongest potential and become a legendary expert of his generation. Wei Zhao did not much care for such talk, but one thing was certain: the Realm of Clarity could be encountered but not sought—it was not something one could reach simply by wanting to.
This realm beyond mystery could only be attained, with a sliver of a chance, at each breakthrough to a new major cultivation stage! (To be continued)