Narration System for the Journey of Martial Arts

Along the way, all the tribespeople, horses, cattle, sheep, and carts were sucked up by the tornado and swept into the sky, disappearing without a trace.

As the dark clouds drew closer, one could see in the center of the clouds a man floating in mid-air, hands behind his back, utterly indifferent.

Before anyone could cry out in alarm, bolts of lightning converged into a thunder dragon, swooping down madly towards the royal court; all around the camp, the raging wind was like the sharpest blade, cutting everything in its path.

In a short while, this pearl of the grassland was destroyed by the gale and thunder, and then gradually buried by the slowly falling snowflakes, disappearing from the sight of the world.

High in the sky, Su Yuchen concealed the cold silver light in his eyes, looking down without joy or sorrow.

[You are influenced by the will of Heaven, deviating from your own path and evolving towards the desireless and unattached Heavenly Way. Please choose to leave as soon as possible.]

You may proceed to the Temple of the God of War to receive this world's final gift—a gift that is both opportunity and death.

With one last glance at the camp below, Su Yuchen released his right hand, and Bi Xuan, who had been dead for some time, fell from the sky. Su Yuchen then turned and flew away into the distance.

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In the vast desert, the sun scorches everything, and occasionally a few small animals peek out, only to quickly disappear under the yellow sand.

Following the mysterious energy, Su Yuchen arrived at an oasis deep in the desert. Here, exotic flowers and rare herbs grew everywhere, and towering peaks rose up. Among the continuous mountain ranges, a uniquely shaped palace sat nestled among the peaks.

The central main hall is magnificent, with its high roof ridge resembling a wild goose crying out to the sky. The side halls extend outwards towards the mountain peaks on both sides, undulating like two outstretched wings.

As soon as Su Yuchen approached, he could feel a strange aura surrounding the entire oasis, separating it from the desert and protecting it from the elements.

This place corresponds to the Three Constants on earth and is connected to the earth's veins below. It is a creation of this world and forms its own domain.

You can go to the main hall on the left to activate the mechanism, and then enter the Jingyan Palace through the side hall entrance on the right.

Su Yuchen glanced around and headed towards the left-hand hall. A quick scan with his divine sense revealed the location of the mechanism. As the mechanism activated, a rumbling sound echoed from the right-hand hall.

Su Yuchen darted forward, heading straight for the exposed hole. He paused in mid-air before slowly drifting down.

[As you enter the Jingyan Palace, the Heavenly Dao's consciousness weakens, and the influence on you diminishes.]

As he watched the system's narration, Su Yuchen remained silent for a moment. Ever since his primordial spirit manifested, it seemed that the feeling of being omnipotent had always accompanied him and influenced his primordial spirit.

At this moment, the primordial spirit, which was originally cold, became much more lively.

"Is this the Way of Heaven? Unfortunately, I still can't understand it. The path is long and arduous..."

Retracting his pointless sigh, Su Yuchen looked around. The colorful rocks and mineral deposits illuminated the underground world, and a huge underground lake sat in the center. To his right, a waterfall cascaded down from the sky and poured into the lake.

As the enormous, hideous monster peeked out of the lake, Su Yuchen's gaze swept over it, and a sword light appeared.

With a painful cry, the monster, which had not yet surfaced, roared and quickly dived underwater, swimming away into the distance, leaving behind only dark red blood spreading in all directions.

Ignoring it, Su Yuchen took a step, crossed the lake, and arrived at the palace on the opposite side.

Beside the lake, a giant Baxia carries a stone tablet on its back: "Heaven and Earth are ruthless, treating all things as straw dogs!"

Su Yuchen stared at the stone tablet, a peculiar aura flowing through it, protecting it from the erosion of heaven and earth. Su Yuchen extended his index finger, his golden finger capable of splitting stone and piercing through metal, and gently touched it. With a 'thud...', it sounded like metal clashing.

Seeing the fingerprint, which was only a shallow layer and as thin as paper, Su Yuchen remained silent for a moment, carefully sensing the strange material of the stone tablet. He didn't know whether it was created by this energy or naturally transformed by this place over countless years.

Su Yuchen tried to approach that aura, but it was elusive and impossible to grasp. It seemed as if there was an infinite space-time barrier between them, making it unfathomable and intangible.

You observe... the handwriting, but you cannot understand it.

After a long while, Su Yuchen reluctantly gave up, stepped onto the stairs, and at the end of the stone steps, a towering gate deep into the darkness appeared before him. The stone gate of the palace, visible to the naked eye, was at least thirty or forty meters high, as if it had been built for giants.

Chapter 403 You're dead, and you don't know it.

Through the open stone gate, Su Yuchen stepped into the main hall, which was vast and boundless, like a huge plaza.

At the top of the main hall, a flickering light illuminated its depths, the light far from dim. Su Yuchen looked up and a huge star map appeared before his eyes, with occasional lights traveling between the celestial bodies, demonstrating peculiar trajectories.

After looking at it for only a short while, Su Yuchen realized that he didn't recognize most of the celestial bodies shown on the star map, and their fleeting trajectories were impossible to grasp. He felt a little dizzy after just a short time and then lowered his head to stop looking.

You saw it... but you can't understand it.

Looking at the system's narration, Su Yuchen felt slightly helpless, wondering what he was seeing. In this Jingyan Palace, all the key information had been automatically blocked by the system.

A beam of light from the glass-like sword cut away his distracting thoughts. Su Yuchen stopped thinking and turned his gaze to the surrounding stone walls. From left to right, huge reliefs were arranged one after another, from the first one to the last forty-nine, which circled the main hall.

Su Yuchen looked at the first relief. On the left side of the relief, nine broken clouds rushed out to both sides, and a humanoid figure wearing strange armor and a mask rode on a monster that looked like a dragon but was not a dragon, rushing down from the clouds.

The humanoid figure gripped the monster's neck with its left hand, while its right hand was raised as if to throw a punch downwards. Both hands were tilted downwards, and in the lower right corner, a large, raging fireball was visible.

Su Yuchen tried to touch the relief with his primordial spirit. In a daze, he seemed to see a blurry phantom in the raised right hand of the human figure, which seemed to be a hand seal.

The dantian and the tanzhong dantian moved simultaneously, the three treasures united, and the true qi flowed along the mysterious route, converging towards the right hand. Before the true qi could reach the right hand, it seemed to lose its strength and retracted back to the dantian, making Su Yuchen so frustrated that he vomited blood.

By the time Su Yuchen realized what was happening, his primordial spirit had already severed its connection with the relief sculpture. When he tried to look at it again, a surge of energy pushed his primordial spirit away. Su Yuchen understood that his opportunity had come to an end.

Su Yuchen recalled the vague hand seal, and made a seemingly unrelated hand seal with his right hand. His true energy suddenly surged, and his energy and strength merged. His physical strength and true energy became one, and a surge of energy appeared in his palm.

Su Yuchen felt an overwhelming force emerge, and involuntarily pressed his palm down. Silently, a palm print was imprinted on the ground, with the palm lines clearly visible.

"What kind of mark is this?" Su Yuchen wondered in surprise.

Upon careful recollection, Su Yuchen was certain that he had never seen that blurry hand seal in his past memories. He tried to recall it again, but the vague hand seal in his mind became even more blurred, leaving only a faint impression.

[You have observed... the seal, and you have gained a tiny, insignificant understanding of the Law of Force.]

Following the system's narration, Su Yuchen put aside his thoughts and continued looking ahead.

The second relief also depicts the right hand of a human figure, but the hand gesture has changed, leaving Su Yuchen equally puzzled.

The narration was equally vague, and the original Law of Power was replaced with insights into life and death.

Looking back at each relief, some offered no insight, while others hinted at the understanding of a certain principle. The principles of understanding also varied, ranging from the initial concepts of force, yin and yang, to the five elements, wind, rain, thunder, and lightning, and so on.

Unfortunately, even so, Su Yuchen only had a vague feeling about the laws he had comprehended.

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Perhaps the system felt a little embarrassed by its stinginess, because just as Su Yuchen was examining the relief for the second time, the visuals suddenly changed.

His gaze began to rise infinitely, and a dazzling array of colors flashed by. Finally, Su Yuchen's eyes fell upon a gigantic hand that blotted out the sky. The giant hand slowly descended, forming a hand seal. The surrounding space and time seemed to freeze, allowing the giant hand to bend and manipulate it at will.

Just as Su Yuchen's primordial spirit was about to collapse, his vision blurred and his perspective changed again.

This time, it was still that colossal hand that blotted out the sky. The hand seals changed once more, and two streams of energy, one black and one white, appeared in the palm. These streams seemed to control life and death, giving life or death at will.

The next moment, the view changed again. The giant hand seal summoned wind, boundless and varied, some carrying life, others carrying bone-chilling malice...

The gaze shifted again, and this time, the fingerprints brought about a change in the Five Elements. The acquired Five Elements and the innate Five Elements were captured by a single palm strike, and all elements were unable to escape under the giant palm.

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After a long while, Su Yuchen's eyes were glazed over, and countless streams of information poured into his primordial spirit. His originally silvery primordial spirit continued to expand, as if it would crack at any moment.

Immediately afterwards, without Su Yuchen's knowledge, the figures and the dragon on the relief seemed to come alive, and a gaze from who-knows-where fell upon them.

Su Yuchen's body trembled, and his physical body collapsed silently, turning into a cloud of blood mist.

The next moment, a silvery-white light appeared, enveloping the blood mist and the primordial spirit. The primordial spirit, which was on the verge of shattering and collapsing, was gathered together by an invisible force, and streams of information were cleared away.

The silvery-white light blocked the prying eyes. No matter how hard the two gazes tried, the silvery-white light remained unmoved, steadfastly completing its predetermined goal.

Just then, a gaze, seemingly appearing out of nowhere, silently descended. This gaze, though invisible, revealed a hint of keen interest.

The moment the gaze appeared, the silvery-white light paused slightly, then emitted a dazzling brilliance. The gaze on the relief seemed startled and quickly faded away, leaving only that unattached gaze that remained motionless.

Seemingly somewhat annoyed, the silvery-white light trembled slightly, and an invisible black hole appeared behind him, enveloping Su Yuchen's primordial spirit as it entered.

The gaze that wanted to follow the light was blocked by a small patch of chaos in front of it. By the time the chaos dissipated, the silvery-white light had already disappeared.

His gaze swept over the room briefly, then faded with boredom. The vast hall returned to its former deathly silence, continuing to await the next visitor.

Without a sound, lines of narration appeared in Su Yuchen's primordial spirit...

You are watching "The War God Chronicles"

[You have glimpsed a trace of the true meaning of the "Qingyuan Miaodao Zhenjun Subduing Demon Diagram"]

[You have glimpsed a trace of the true meaning of earth, fire, feng shui, and you have seen the underlying rules of heaven and earth; your primordial spirit has comprehended the Dao.]

[You are being watched by... a celestial demon. Your physical body is collapsing, your primordial spirit is injured, and you are about to die.]

[System startup, clearing information flow, removing contaminants...]

[You are being watched by... a celestial demon; your ascension goal is changing...]

[You are being watched by a single gaze... your ascension goal has changed.]

[You are being watched by..., and your ascension goal is changing again...]

[System in progress... Detection successful, your transit target changed... Transiting...]

P.S.: Sorry, the ending went awry. Uh, I got carried away while writing and it doesn't seem to be the ending I envisioned.

I want to finish it as soon as possible, but I'm also afraid of starting strong but ending weakly. It's so troublesome.

It seems that without a powerful backer, becoming a high-ranking official would be a dead end. After all, even high-ranking officials have varying strengths, so we can only try to find him a powerful backer.

Chapter 404 Flower-Filled Pavilion

Su Yuchen woke up.

An indescribable weakness welled up in my heart; it was not physical weakness, but weakness of the primordial spirit.

In fact, this body was terrifyingly strong. Its powerful blood and qi were like a furnace, radiating scorching energy. Otherwise, the weak primordial spirit would not have awakened so quickly. The body was like a cauldron, and the primordial spirit was tightly wrapped inside it, with waves of hot energy soothing it.

Using his divine sense to scan the area, he observed that with each surge of qi and blood, the meridians within his body expanded slightly, and each acupoint deepened, transforming into a bottomless abyss.

Although the meridians and acupoints are empty, this body is like an untapped treasure. With just a little cultivation, one can catch up with the efforts of others over decades.

"A complete transformation, achieving twice the result with half the effort, nothing could be better." Thinking of this, Su Yuchen smiled.

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"you're awake!"

A gentle, jade-like voice rang out, and the phrase "a gentleman is like jade" involuntarily came to mind.

Unfortunately, before he could turn his head, the exhaustion of his primordial spirit made Su Yuchen frown. When he turned his attention back to his primordial spirit, he immediately saw countless tiny and faint cracks.

The primordial spirit is now like a beautiful white jade plate, but unfortunately, the plate is covered with tiny cracks, and it seems that if you exert a little force, fine powder will fall off.

Ignoring the voice, Su Yuchen turned to check the narration. The voice seemed to sense something and stopped speaking.

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"So, what exactly did I see?"

"Qing? Qingyuan Miaodao Zhenjun? Erlang Shen Yang Jian?"

Su Yuchen was stunned as he looked at the system's narration. Why would a world that wasn't considered a high-level martial arts world frequently feature super masters like high-dimensional beings and high-dimensional energy?

Suddenly, Su Yuchen's mind stirred. These powerful beings seemed to possess the supernatural ability to sense what one thought. Would he be watched again?

You have awakened. You attempted to probe into a higher dimension, but your primordial spirit has been damaged, and your destination has changed.

[A portion of your physical strength has already merged with your current body. Beneath your frail exterior, your vital energy is like a furnace, warming and nourishing your primordial spirit.]

[System energy has been shielded from higher-dimensional memories, which can be unlocked later... Due to insufficient strength, the memories are currently sealed.]

Do not recall higher-dimensional beings that are unrelated to you, lest you trigger unnecessary dangers during your journey.

[Energy reduction in progress... Congratulations, you're back after just leaving the starting area!]

Seeing this, Su Yuchen breathed a sigh of relief. Curiosity really killed the cat. If it weren't for the system, he would have ended up in some random place.

"Fine, I'll go back to the starting village if I want to. As long as I'm still myself, that's fine."

"The energy of Qi and blood is still too hot and dry, so it is not suitable for nourishing the primordial spirit."

With a thought, the energy of blood and qi, like a furnace, flowed through the dantian, as if opening a black hole within the body. Instantly, all rivers flowed into the sea, and endless blood and qi surged in like the Yangtze River, transforming into a colorless true qi.

With the opening of the dantian and the sea of ​​qi, true qi surges along the meridians, which are as vast as rivers and seas, without stopping. There is no danger of qi deviation or demonic possession. Under the control of the primordial spirit, it instantly permeates the whole body, breaks into the dantian, and then goes upwards, breaks through the mysterious gate, and merges with the primordial spirit.

At the same time, the five internal organs trembled, and five different forces of qi and blood formed a subtle vortex, which opened up five-colored seeds in the five internal organs.

The Qi and blood of the five internal organs rushed in and, under the strange vibration, became one. Before the changes in the body could be reflected to the outside world, they were already eliminated without a trace.

At this point, his primordial spirit could no longer conceal his exhaustion and weakness, and Su Yuchen drifted off to sleep again.

A moment later, a figure walked to the bedside, took out a slender-necked porcelain bottle from his bosom, put a pill into Su Yuchen's mouth, and then left silently.

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After a long time.