Chapter 204 - 194: Furious Advancement

Chapter 204: Chapter 194: Furious Advancement

Inside the Wenda Corridor, the walls on both sides were made of coarse, dark-gray stone, covered in fine textures.

The corridor’s floor was paved with long slabs of the same material, and tiny blades of grass grew in the cracks between them.

A peculiar aura permeated the long corridor. Chen Yue couldn’t quite describe it, but every time his Heart Spirit wavered, something seemed to capture the fluctuation and transform it into a silent response.

Chen Yue walked to the center of the long corridor and stopped. Back on the mountain path, Meng Yu Jin and the others had told him that the so-called Wenda Corridor was a place where one could practice Cultivation Techniques and naturally receive feedback.

Chen Yue looked at his panel.

[Vast Heart Rock Skill Fifth Layer (Perfection 27686/31131)]

[Soaring Void Thousand Layer Step (Perfection 31924/35417)]

[Furious Wave Saber Intent (Great Success 24882/29875)]

[Ten Thousand Forms Tiger Roar Golden Bell (Limit Break 113783/473513)]

Besides the two Pill Formulas for the Nourishing Spirit Pill Yang Pill and the Nourishing Spirit Pill, these four were the only Cultivation Techniques Chen Yue was practicing that had not yet reached full Perfection or Limit Break.

The progress bars for the Fifth Layer of the Vast Heart Rock Skill and the Soaring Void Thousand Layer Step were almost full, just one step away from complete Perfection.

Furious Wave Saber Intent was still at the Great Success stage, a ways off from Perfection.

As for Ten Thousand Forms Tiger Roar Golden Bell, it still required a vast amount of Experience Points. The progress bar was so long it was daunting just to look at. But it was an Innate Realm Cultivation Technique, after all, far beyond comparison with the others.

Chen Yue exhaled. He loosened his wrists and shoulders, then took a stance in the corridor, sinking his body slightly. In the next instant, he executed the Soaring Void Thousand Layer Step.

In an instant, his body blurred into a hazy shadow, darting rapidly through the corridor.

Each step left a faint footprint on the stone slabs. The prints lingered in the air for a moment before quickly dissipating, only for new ones to appear several feet away.

In a flash, a multitude of afterimages appeared in every direction, each frozen in a different pose. Layer upon layer of these phantoms filled the entire corridor, like a motion scroll frozen in time.

Then, in the next instant, all the afterimages vanished at once.

Chen Yue stood on the spot, his body straight and his breathing steady, as if he had never moved at all.

His brow was now tightly furrowed, a faint vertical line creasing the space between his eyebrows.

Just now, while executing the Soaring Void Thousand Layer Step with all his might, a strange sensation had taken hold of his Heart Spirit. He felt as if he had split into two.

One was himself, clearly perceiving his body’s every movement, every exertion of force, and every shift in his center of gravity.

The other seemed to be an entity projected by his Heart Spirit, also performing the Soaring Void Thousand Layer Step, but from a perspective high above, looking down.

The two perspectives existed at once, and both sets of sensations flowed through him simultaneously.

Then, two completely different insights into the Cultivation Technique surfaced in his mind: which step lacked fluid force, which turn had a minute delay in its transition, at which moment his center of gravity had shifted by half an inch.

’The core of the Soaring Void Thousand Layer Step isn’t to seek speed with each step, but to seek smoothness between them. Speed is the result; smoothness is the cause.’

His previous practice had always focused on pursuing speed and shortening the time between steps. But the insight from his Heart Spirit was telling him that speed was a natural product of smoothness.

The furrow in Chen Yue’s brow relaxed for a moment. He stood still, feeling that stream of understanding slowly spread through the deep pool of his Heart Spirit.

’So this is the secret of the Wenda Corridor.’

’It uses my Heart Spirit as a catalyst. Every time I perform a Cultivation Technique, it’s as if another person is performing it with me, leading to different insights.’

’That other self I perceived wasn’t an illusion. It was the power of the Wenda Corridor itself at work.’

’It’s like an invisible echo wall, capturing my every exertion of force, every circulation of energy, and every breath as I perform the Cultivation Technique. Then, it feeds it all back to me from a different perspective, through a different kind of understanding.’

’If my own cultivation is like walking down a single path, then the Wenda Corridor is like walking several parallel trails for me and presenting the scenery from all of them at once.’

’The amount of insight I can gain... it must be related to the strength of my Heart Spirit?’ The thought popped into his head.

’If the Wenda Corridor uses the Heart Spirit to generate feedback and reflections, then a stronger Heart Spirit should trigger a deeper resonance.’

Chen Yue no longer hesitated. He deliberately stirred his Heart Spirit, then once again executed the Soaring Void Thousand Layer Step. In an instant, his still form erupted into extreme motion.

A multitude of afterimages once again filled the Wenda Corridor, denser this time than before.

A hint of a smile touched Chen Yue’s eyes. Two new streams of insight had just appeared in his mind. Including his own, it was as if three people were practicing the same Cultivation Technique at once.

Three people, three perspectives, three completely different sets of feedback—all converged in his Sea of Consciousness at the same instant, merging with and complementing one another.

After performing the Soaring Void Thousand Layer Step twice, Chen Yue stopped. The insights from the three different perspectives continued to ferment within his Heart Spirit.

He rested for a moment to let the insights in his Heart Spirit settle. Then, he sat down cross-legged, took a Nourishing Spirit Pill Yang Pill from his Storage Ring, and placed it in his mouth.

The Elixir dissolved on the tip of his tongue. Its gentle Medicinal Power slid down his throat into his stomach, spreading through his body like an ignited warm current.