Li Yun carefully flipped through 【Coiling Silk Force】, feeling astonished.

This was a Body Refining Realm Martial Arts manual, but even among Body Refining Realm Martial Arts, it could be considered High-Grade.

The Martial Art centered around gentleness and flexibility; through cultivating, it converted one's strength into soft, feminine force. Coupled with eighteen grappling maneuvers, striking was like wrapping countless threads around an opponent, locking them in place.

It was extremely powerful, yet exceptionally difficult to cultivation.

The reason was simple: the vast majority of Body Refining Realm Martial Artists lacked a deep comprehension of the martial path. Their understanding of their own power was still stuck at the fierce and overbearing level; whenever they struck, they used brute force, simple and crude. It was difficult for them to appreciate the wondrous yin-softness of 【Coiling Silk Force】 that countered rigid violence.

Li Yun tried it out himself, but he couldn't do it either.

He was clearly thinking about being gentle in his mind, but when actually executed, the practical effect was merely weak force—just executing grappling techniques with less power, completely detached from true yin-softness.

Even though his physical strength was not insignificant, holding back his strength just for the sake of being soft felt exceedingly awkward. After only a few attempts, he almost sprained his back.

This was a deficiency in his Realm, and even more, a lack of martial comprehension.

The root cause was simply that his Aptitude was insufficient.

The fifth-grade Aptitude detected when he entered the sect was truly meager compared to those Geniuses who casually possessed first-grade or second-grade Aptitude.

However, Li Yun was not troubled.

He had merely wanted to test cultivating without relying on the System. Now that it proved his paltry Aptitude was utterly inadequate without the System's assistance, he was not foolish enough to beat his head against a wall.

Decisively, he directly chose to add points via the System.

He still had over 160,000 martial cognition pointss on the System Panel. If he didn't spend them, they wouldn't give birth to babies, would they?

With that, things became easy and comfortable.

He didn't have to do anything except calm his mind and comprehend the silhouette practicing 【Coiling Silk Force】 in his mind.

What followed was an exaggerated, lightning-fast progression.

200 Comprehension Points: 【Coiling Silk Force】, Entry.

500 Comprehension Points: 【Coiling Silk Force】, Initial Accomplishment.

1,200 Comprehension Points: 【Coiling Silk Force】, Proficient.

3,000 Comprehension Points: 【Coiling Silk Force】, Minor Achievement.

6,000 Comprehension Points: 【Coiling Silk Force】, Proficient.

10,000 Comprehension Points: 【Coiling Silk Force】, Great Mastery.

20,000 Comprehension Points: 【Coiling Silk Force】 directly reached Perfection!

From start to finish, it took merely an hour and a half and 40,900 martial cognition pointss, yet he had directly attained a Realm that would take other Outer Sect Disciples at least a year or more to reach.

Needless to say, the feeling made Li Yun feel thoroughly exhilarated once again.

Especially after fully assimilating it, when he truly executed the eighteen grappling maneuvers of 【Coiling Silk Force】 in the small woods, both of his hands seemed to transform into two serpents—nimble and eerie.

Testing it by coiling around a sapling, a trunk as thick as a wrist was snapped effortlessly by him.

Yet he did not feel it took much effort at all.

"Martial Arts are truly incredible... And this is merely the most basic martial path. One day in the future, when I charge into the Innate Realm or even higher Realms, wouldn't that feeling be...?"

Li Yun's face was full of yearning.

In his past life, money made the man; money might not have been everything, but without money, one could hardly take a step forward.

Yet in this life.

Martial might was what made the man, and formidable strength was decidedly superior to money.

With 【Coiling Silk Force】 reaching Perfection, it allowed Li Yun to truly experience a sense of security he had never felt before.

Having had a taste of sweetness,

Li Yun prepared to invest his remaining martial cognition pointss into 【Basic Stance Training】.

He decided to comprehend all twelve martial intents contained within 【Basic Stance Training】 as soon as possible to enhance the efficiency of his Body Tempering.

After all, as strong as the yin-soft subtlety of 【Coiling Silk Force】 was, it ultimately could not be divorced from the support of one's absolute physical strength.

If he lacked sufficiently formidable strength himself, no matter how high his 【Coiling Silk Force】 Realm was, even if he could snap a wrist-thick tree trunk, he wouldn't be able to damage a waist-thick trunk in the slightest.

cultivation and Martial Techniques always complemented each other.

However, just as he was about to continue sublimating 【Basic Stance Training】, as if possessed by ghosts and gods, he suddenly thought of the 【Reversing Fate Art】 Zhao Chuanfeng had given him, and he took it out.

Li Yun hesitated slightly.

He wondered: other people couldn't master this 【Reversing Fate Art】, but he had the System—could he manage it?

A Martial Art capable of upgrading Aptitude—if he could truly master it, it would be nothing short of heaven-defyingly changing his destiny. For someone like him with only fifth-grade Aptitude, it carried immense significance.

Li Yun instinctively looked around. Since no one was watching anyway, he might as well try.

If it truly didn't work, it wouldn't be too late to throw 【Reversing Fate Art】 away then.

Immediately—

Li Yun flipped open 【Reversing Fate Art】.

This copy of 【Reversing Fate Art】 was not thick, spanning merely seven or eight pages, with no more than three or four thousand characters in total.

Spending a bit of time, Li Yun easily finished reading it.

On the System Panel, a new line appeared under the Martial Arts record: 【Reversing Fate Art】, Not Yet Entry.

This immediately gave Li Yun tremendous encouragement.

Being recorded by the System and displayed on the System Panel proved one thing first and foremost: this was genuinely a Martial Art, and just like 【Basic Stance Training】 and 【Coiling Silk Force】, it could be upgraded using Comprehension Points.

Since that was the case, why should he hesitate?

He straightforwardly stowed 【Reversing Fate Art】 into his robes and used martial cognition pointss to upgrade it directly.

However, in the very next second, he was stunned.

The very first upgrade actually consumed ten thousand Comprehension Points.

The Comprehension Points on the System Panel instantly dropped to 119,665.

With these ten thousand martial cognition pointss, 【Reversing Fate Art】 officially reached Entry, and Li Yun naturally comprehended a peculiar breathing method.

Apart from that, however, he did not feel any changes occur within himself.

It made him feel as if spending those ten thousand Comprehension Points was somewhat of a loss.

Yet an arrow loosed from the bow cannot return.

Since he had already begun to cultivation it, he couldn't just give up halfway, could he?

Moreover, reaching merely Entry had directly consumed ten thousand Comprehension Points, which was enough to prove the extraordinary nature of 【Reversing Fate Art】.

It was completely incomparable to Body Refining Realm Martial Arts like 【Basic Stance Training】 and 【Coiling Silk Force】.

Therefore,

Li Yun gritted his teeth, steeled his resolve, and initiated a second upgrade for 【Reversing Fate Art】!

Whoosh!

The martial cognition pointss consumed this second time were even more exaggerated—a staggering 100,000!

In just this instant, his martial cognition pointss shrank until only 19,665 remained, which was not even enough for him to perform a second sublimation on 【Basic Stance Training】.

Li Yun felt a pain in his heart like being cut by a knife.

It truly hurt so much he could barely breathe.

However, 【Reversing Fate Art】 consequently reached the Initial Accomplishment Realm; not only did the breathing method he had comprehended become more complex, but on this foundation, he also comprehended a deeper method to circulate the Qi and Blood within his body.

With breathing combined with Qi and Blood circulation, the situation became vastly different.