Chapter 229: Chapter 154: Terrifying Gap_2
Translator: 549690339
But now, with my Inner Strength having reached major success, I’ve come to realize that, with an individual’s power, I can indeed break an army of a thousand soldiers and slaughter a thousand men.
With my Red Sun Domain, there isn’t a single martial artist below the first-tier who could break through it.
And even if they could not break through my defense, as long as they were approached by me, I wouldn’t even need to lift a finger, those ordinary soldiers and even second- or third-tier martial artists would be burned to death by the Red Sun Domain.
Except for second-tier martial artists who can resist it using their Inner Strength, martial artists below the third-tier would probably turn into human furnaces.”
At this moment, Lu Yuan released a little bit of his Red Sun Domain, and the surrounding air instantly ignited and twisted with visible heat.
He felt the temperature, which was probåbly around four to five hundred degrees Celsius.
This is the temperature of the Red Sun Domain when it’s released externally.
But if the Inner Strength is kept within the body, the temperature can rise even higher, up to a thousand degrees Celsius.
At such a temperature, calling Lu Yuan a walking furnace would not be an exaggeration.
“However, the consumption of Inner Strength when releasing this Red Sun Domain externally is a bit terrifying. My current Inner Strength, despite its purity and vastness, can last only around half an hour.
If it were an ordinary first-tier peak expert, it could only be sustained for ten minutes or even less.”
Actually, when a martial artist reaches the first-tier, they are already considered to have achieved major success in Inner Strength and can release it externally.
But for first-tier martial artists who just entered, even if they can release their Inner Strength, it can only expand a few inches from their body and barely adhere to the surface of their bodies.
Moreover, even after releasing their Inner Strength, there is no particular advantage, their protection might not even be as effective as wearing a suit of armor.
However, the consumption of Inner Strength increases by ten times or even a hundred times.
First-tier martial artists who have practiced three or four meridians have a better situation than those who have practiced only one or two meridians, but they still cannot form any particular attribute, just a slightly larger external range and longer lasting time.
So generally, first- tier martial artists will not release their Inner Strength unless necessary.
After all, there is no need to release Inner Qi when dealing with weaklings below the first-tier, and the effect of releasing Inner Qi when facing experts on the same level is not significant, making it somewhat useless.
Only when they have practiced five or six meridians and trained their Inner Strength to its peak, forming a particular attribute of the top-tier expert, can they release their Inner Strength and create a Red Sun Domain like Lu Yuan has now.
This is a symbol of top-tier experts, a manifest of their Inner Strength’s perfection.
Only at this level, releasing Inner Qi can become an important means for a martial artist to truly battle.
Withdrawing the released Red Sun Domain back into his body, Lu Yuan regained his composure, excitement cooling down, but he couldn’t help wonder, “If I already have such capabilities at the first-tier peak, what kind of spectacle should those Grandmasters who have pierced through both Governing and Conception Meridians and stepped into the Inborn level be like?”
Inborn Grandmasters are said to break through an army of ten thousand soldiers single-handedly.
If only comparing simple quantities, the gap between an Inborn Grandmaster and a first-tier peak expert who can break through a thousand troops is nearly ten times.
In reality, Lu Yuan is well aware that the difference in power between the two is absolutely not something that can be described by a mere ten times gap.
For example, although they are both first-tier martial artists, an innate expert’s Inner Strength manifests in special attributes, allowing them to unleash a powerful domain far beyond that of ordinary first-tier experts.
The difference in quantity of Inner Strength between a first-tier and a first-tier peak martial artist might only be three to five times, but there are differences in quality aside from quantity, and differences in Inner Strength attributes.
There is even a difference in the martial artist’s level of achievement.
When these various differences are added up, it’s not as simple as one plus one equals two.
It should be three times three times three, several times, or even ten times the difference.
Moreover, considering that the difference between realms becomes larger towards the end of one’s cultivation journey,
So theoretically, the gap between Inborn Grandmasters and first-tier peak martial artists would be even larger than the gap between first-tier peak and ordinary first-tier martial artists.
“In this world, there is a saying that has been widely spread.
Without an Inborn expert, there can be no country.
It means that without an Inborn expert, a nation cannot exist.”
The protector of Jinghai Country, previously slain by Wuan Marquis Bai
Mengyang, and two months later, Jinghai Country collapsed,
Li Xiong in Xichuan became an Inborn Grandmaster, so two months later, Shu State was established.
The Poison Sect produced a Grandmaster, so now they were able to gain control over four counties in Dongting, maintaining an army of soldiers in the hundreds of thousands, becoming powerful enough to set up a nation.
In other countries, like Zhou, Liang, or Yue, which have managed to become powerful nations, every one of them has several Inborn Grandmasters guarding the kingdom.
Even some small countries, like Jinghai Country, are supported by one or two Inborn Grandmasters.
Whether a country has a sufficient number of Inborn Grandmasters is a more important criterion for measuring the strength of a nation than its population, military, and supplies.
So when Xichuan’s rebellion led to Li Xiong of Xi Shu gaining power, the court was not panicked because the court had five Inborn Grandmasters, and they knew that Li Xiong alone could not create a wave.
However, after Li Xiong and the Poison Sect assassinated Wuyang Marquis Li Gui, the court lost an Inborn Grandmaster and gained a new Inborn expert, The court panicked.
So Wuan Marquis Bai Mengyang hurriedly went to Xi Shu to quell the rebellion, and the court began to contact the Inborn Grandmasters in Jianghu, preparing to cooperate with them to stabilize the world’s situation.
All these things are because the court itself has lost Inborn Grandmasters, and their foundation has been damaged..