[Your current theoretical lifespan is two hundred years, and your current age is sixty.]

[Therefore, with "Half-Emperor for a Thousand Ages" exchanged, your realm has directly reached Martial Saint!]

[However, if you want to cultivate, you still need to follow the Martial King Realm method of training.]

[After breaking through, your masters sent you the Holy Land's Qi Refining Art — the "Free and Unfettered Heart Sutra."]

["Disciple, this Qi Refining Art was created by our Holy Land's Free and Unfettered God. It is a high-quality Earth-Grade Qi Refining Art!

Throughout the entire human world, only the Shen Family's 'Stellar Heart Sutra' can match it.

As for other forces, even the Mountain and Sea Holy Land and the Firmament Holy Land, they only have at most High-Grade Qi Refining Arts!

You must practice it diligently. Let your master elaborate further on the path of True Qi cultivation..."]

[The human world once experienced a break in its heritage.]

[The highest Qi Refining Art circulating in the world today is only at the Earth-Grade.]

[And only the Free and Unfettered Holy Land and the Shen Family of the Starry Domains possess one.]

[They have them because their founding ancestors lived through the twilight of that glorious era.]

[Creating Three Energies techniques and martial arts is easier than creating Qi Refining Arts.]

[So, after the heritage was severed, as long as geniuses talented in techniques emerge from generation to generation, combining their ideas with the fragments left by predecessors, they still have a chance to create a series of new techniques.]

[But Qi Refining Arts... over thirty thousand years, although people have tried to create them, both in quantity and quality, they have never been able to improve.]

[After all, one cannot ignore an important reason.]

[If a person hasn't reached the Martial King Realm and doesn't know what True Qi is, no matter how talented they are, they cannot possibly create a cultivation method for True Qi.]

[Yet the Martial King Realm is so difficult to break through to; in each era, the number of people who achieve it is very small.]

[Without a sufficient base, creativity naturally remains low.]

[Every talented practitioner of techniques shines only in their own era, with no one to even exchange ideas with. Creating a higher-grade Qi Refining Art is naturally extremely difficult.]

["Thank you for the guidance, Master. Your disciple will practice diligently."]

["Don't forget to delve into formations either. Your current skill has already surpassed ours. You are just one step away from becoming the human world's only Immortal-tier Formation Master!"]

["Your disciple won't forget. I'll grasp both, make both strong!"]

["Good, good, good!"]

[In reality, you had no intention of cultivating the "Free and Unfettered Heart Sutra." You had something better — the Heaven-Grade Qi Refining Art, the "Heart-Burning Immortality Art"!]

[It was a reward from the last simulation mission.]

[Finally, it could be put to use.]

[The Martial King Realm can be broadly divided into three cultivation stages: Early, Middle, and Late.]

[What each stage requires is to condense more True Qi within the body.]

[True Qi is dispersed throughout the body, but the body has an upper limit on the amount of True Qi it can carry.]

[To gather more True Qi, one needs to open up "foundations." Otherwise, no matter how much you cultivate or how good the technique, your True Qi will not increase.]

[Foundations are similar to physical strength, but the two are not equivalent.]

[Foundations are a more fundamental aspect of physical constitution — the bodily cornerstone that carries all supernatural power.]

[For example, in the second simulation, you once had your lifespan shortened due to poisoning and were chronically weak.]

[That was essentially damage to your foundations.]

[However, in battle, as long as you could endure the pain, you could still exert the physical strength and power you should have.]

[Opening up foundations is the step that truly begins a cultivator's transformation, creating a qualitative gap between them and ordinary mortals.]

[This step is often even more difficult than cultivating True Qi.]

[However, the Heaven-Grade Qi Refining Art, "Heart-Burning Immortality Art," solved this problem for you all at once.]

[You casually fiddled around with the "Proficiency" trait tag for a few days, and the "Heart-Burning Immortality Art" directly entered its initial stage.]

[Afterward, when you circulated the "Heart-Burning Immortality Art" to enhance your True Qi cultivation, a heart-devouring, searing pain swept through your entire body, turning you completely red from head to toe. Waves of heat surged, as if you were being roasted in a blazing inferno.]

[This is one of the unique effects of this technique. While cultivating True Qi, it uses the True Qi itself as a sharp blade to forcibly open up foundations!]

[The only downside was that it hurts.]

["It hurts this much?! I should have brought the 'Superbeast's Pain Threshold' with me..."]

[Then, thinking about it, you realized you wouldn't have equipped that trait tag on yourself. You definitely would have said:]

[What does it matter if it hurts in a simulation? Just endure it.]

["That smug bastard who talks without feeling the pain!"]

[On second thought, that bastard was also you. That's exactly what you had done before.]

[Damn it all!]

[After mastering the "Heart-Burning Immortality Art," all your True Qi manifested in the form of flames.]

[All your attacks, even a simple punch — what we would call a basic attack — were imbued with fierce, raging flames.]

["This isn't even the most powerful aspect of this technique..."]

[The word "Immortality" in the technique's name wasn't just for show.]

[When the realm of the "Heart-Burning Immortality Art" reached Perfection, as long as the cultivator's True Qi was not exhausted, no matter how severe the physical trauma they suffered, they could be reborn from the flames, regrow severed limbs!] 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

["No wonder it's the system's reward. Too powerful. It crushes all the Qi Refining Arts of the human world!"]

[During a break from cultivation, you "called" Shen Qingshan — using the Free and Unfettered Token.]

[Last time Shen Qingshan came to see the Free and Unfettered God, the God gave him a Free and Unfettered Token.]

[Learning that you were still alive, Shen Qingshan was overjoyed. He said that Third Sister had been very worried about you, and now she could finally rest easy.]

[You inquired about the plan led by the Shen Family to arm and strengthen the low-to-mid-level martial artists of the human world, and how it was progressing.]

[Everything was going very smoothly.]

[As more and more evidence regarding the Dragon-Man tribe's impending invasion surfaced — especially the experiences shared by you ten upon returning from the otherworld — no one doubted it anymore.]

[All sides were preparing earnestly.]

[The older generation was doing their best to train the younger generation.]

[The younger generation was cultivating hard to improve themselves.]

[The middle generation was gearing up for battle, ready to face the enemy at any moment.]

[In fact, the Free and Unfettered God had given Shen Qingshan a large stack of Free and Unfettered Tokens.]

[He asked Shen Qingshan to distribute the tokens to all major factions.]

[Whether it was the Five Regions and Holy Lands on the continent, or the island nations and overseas forces beyond it, they all had to receive one.]

[This way, no matter where the Dragon-Man tribe's attack began, they could promptly notify the entire human world.]

[Thus avoiding being caught off guard and defeated one by one by the Dragon-Man tribe.]

[The esteemed Shen Family Founding Ancestor, Shen Qingshan, naturally wasn't going to deliver the Free and Unfettered Tokens himself.]

[The Shen Family lacked nothing, least of all people. There were plenty of errand runners.]

[After that, you contacted Hua Wuyan to find out about Li Lingyue's situation.]

[You learned that Li Lingyue had already proclaimed herself Emperor in the Southern Borderlands and was receiving a massive amount of faith and worship.]

[Now, Li Lingyue was in seclusion, pushing to break through to the Martial Saint Realm.]

["Lingyue's Faith Sacred Physique is still so unreasonable. Once her faith base is established, her cultivation rises like a rocket. Maybe she could even become a Martial God?"]