Chapter 5: Is he still human? Is he still human?!

Green lamps and ancient Buddhas in the Great Zen Temple.

Five years of time had not left any traces here.

Scripture Pavilion.

"It has been five years."

Lin Yuan sat cross-legged, his gaze deep and profound.

Unconsciously, he had already descended into this world for five years.

A quarter of the twenty-year residency limit had already passed.

During these five years, apart from immersing himself in comprehending the Dao and cultivating,

Lin Yuan also gained a certain degree of understanding of this world.

As for the channels of understanding, they naturally came from the Great Zen Temple.

As a Buddhist Holy Land and a grand martial arts sect of the world,

it was naturally impossible for the Great Zen Temple to truly live in seclusion.

On the contrary, the intelligence dark net of the Great Zen Temple

had almost penetrated into every aspect of the world.

Laying out intelligence under the guise of Buddhist faith, it could be called omnipresent.

According to what Lin Yuan knew,

the current Great Li Dynasty ruled the Central Plains and was at the Peak of its prosperity.

All directions and the four seas submitted to it without exception.

Even a thousand-year-old major sect like the Great Zen Temple

had to bow its head when facing the Great Li Dynasty.

According to the intelligence investigated by the Great Zen Temple,

at least six martial arts Grandmasters served the Great Li Dynasty.

You must know that

if you added up all the martial arts Grandmasters in the world today, there were probably only a dozen or so.

With a single Grandmaster presiding over it, the Great Zen Temple could overawe the Jianghu.

One could well imagine the deterrent force of the Great Li Dynasty mobilizing six martial arts Grandmasters.

The reason why the Great Li Dynasty had such a Foundation was precisely because its founding Emperor

was a Great Grandmaster.

Grandmaster.

Great Grandmaster.

A difference of a single word.

Resulted in a difference as vast as heaven and earth.

Since ancient times, every era would give birth to some Grandmasters,

ranging from a few to dozens.

But a Great Grandmaster was hard to produce even once in several centuries.

The Great Li Dynasty swept across the world, forcing major martial arts sects like the Great Zen Temple to bow their heads.

What it relied on was that invincible founding Great Grandmaster in the world.

So much so that today, even though the founding Emperor of the Great Li Dynasty had passed away for many years,

it still had the means to command so many martial arts Grandmasters.

If one said that Acquired, Innate, and even Grandmaster

were merely enhancements and transformations of the Physical Body,

then a Great Grandmaster was the sublimation of the spirit and Soul.

a single gaze from a living Great Grandmaster was enough to make ordinary Grandmasters tremble in their hearts.

"spiritual exotic power."

Lin Yuan touched the center of his brows.

The founder of the Great Zen Temple a thousand years ago, Ancestral Master 'Bodhidharma', was also a Great Grandmaster.

Therefore, the Great Zen Temple did not lack descriptions concerning Great Grandmasters.

Compared to Grandmasters,

the greatest characteristic of a Great Grandmaster was that they began to develop the power of the spirit and Soul.

To Breakthrough to a Great Grandmaster, one must condense and master spiritual exotic power.

However, how ethereal were the spirit and Soul?

Ordinary Grandmasters probably couldn't perceive this kind of power even after decades.

Even if a Grandmaster perceived it,

during the period of condensing the spiritual exotic power, the slightest mistake

would lead to irreversible consequences.

After all, injuries to the Physical Body could be slowly recuperated and recovered,

but on the spirit and Soul, not the slightest negligence could be tolerated.

Normally speaking,

out of one hundred Grandmasters,

eighty of them would never touch the level of spirit and Soul throughout their lives.

nineteen of them, after perceiving the level of spirit and Soul, would fail and die during the period of condensing the spiritual exotic power,

and in the end, only one Grandmaster could ascend to the Great Grandmaster Realm.

"The one hundred and sixty-third secret method to break into the Great Grandmaster has almost no danger anymore."

Lin Yuan thought to himself.

Ever since four years ago, when he nourished his Physical Body with the 'Muscle-Tendon Changing, Marrow-Washing, Body-Forging, Blood-Changing, and Spirit-Tempering Divine Skill' and successfully stepped into the Grandmaster realm,

Lin Yuan, besides cultivating, had been racked with thought on how to promote the method to advance to a Great Grandmaster.

With Lin Yuan's Heaven-Defying Comprehension, comprehending and even developing the spirit and Soul was a breeze.

What was difficult was how to condense spiritual exotic power without any risk.

This kind of essential power involving the Soul required even Lin Yuan to be extremely cautious.

That 'Bodhidharma' Ancestral Master of the Great Zen Temple had indeed left behind a method to Breakthrough to a Great Grandmaster.

And it was kept on the third floor of the Scripture Pavilion.

However, the mortality rate of this method was quite high, reaching ninety-six percent.

A ninety-six percent mortality rate… compared to the ninety-nine percent mortality rate outside, it was already an improvement.

But for Lin Yuan, it was still far from acceptable.

Precisely because of this,

Lin Yuan intended to use his own Heaven-Defying Comprehension to create a secret method to step into the Great Grandmaster with zero risk.

After creating one hundred and sixty-two secret methods,

the one hundred and sixty-third Breakthrough secret method from a few days ago made Lin Yuan quite satisfied.

Not only did it reduce the risk of breaking through to a Great Grandmaster to almost zero,

even if some extreme situation occurred, such as being disturbed by external forces during the Breakthrough,

or Lin Yuan suddenly not wanting to Breakthrough anymore,

there was still room for redemption.

At most, a few years of recuperation would restore him.

Unlike other Breakthrough secret arts which left no way back.

"Stepping into the Great Grandmaster, it is today."

Lin Yuan pondered repeatedly for a moment and decided to start the Breakthrough immediately.

Meanwhile,

the Great Zen Temple Abbot was chatting with Huiwen, the Abbot of the Martial Monks Hall, and several other Abbots.

"Come to think of it, Junior Brother Hui Zhen hasn't stepped out of the Scripture Pavilion for three or four years, has he?"

The Abbot of the Disciplinary Hall thought for a moment and spoke.

Junior Brother Hui Zhen was none other than Lin Yuan.

After taking the Long-browed Old Monk, a Grandmaster, as his master,

Lin Yuan's seniority in the Great Zen Temple became the same as the Abbot and the other Abbots,

belonging to the 'Hui' generation.

Usually, when the Abbot and Abbots mentioned Lin Yuan, they addressed him as Junior Brother.

"Indeed."

The Great Zen Temple Abbot nodded and said.

Ever since Lin Yuan moved into the Scripture Pavilion five years ago, except for occasionally coming out to stroll in the very first year,

for the subsequent four years, he had never stepped out of the gates of the Scripture Pavilion again.

"It is said that Junior Brother Hui Zhen cultivated Innate internal Qi at the age of three, making him a once-in-a-millennium martial arts prodigy, but Junior Brother's dedication to martial arts is also something ordinary people cannot compare with."

The Abbot of the Menial Hall spoke.

The remaining few nodded inwardly.

Not stepping out of the Scripture Pavilion for four years and accompanying martial arts classics all day long,

this kind of concentration and patience was something many eminent monks did not possess.

"I wonder how Junior Brother Hui Zhen's cultivation is going?"

A trace of curiosity surfaced on the face of the third Abbot.

He had just watched the martial monks practice the Arhat Fist and smoothly stepped into the Innate Realm.

Now that he had stayed in the Scripture Pavilion for five years, everyone wanted to know what level Lin Yuan was actually at.

"Given Junior Brother Hui Zhen's Aptitude, perhaps he is already at the Innate Peak."

The Abbot of the Disciplinary Hall guessed.

"Innate Peak?"

The Great Zen Temple Abbot hesitated for a moment.

The martial arts of this world were divided into Acquired, Innate, Grandmaster, and Great Grandmaster.

Although Lin Yuan stepped into the Innate Realm as a three-year-old child,

a three-year-old child inherently lacked Qi and blood.

Stepping into the Innate Realm with such a Foundation would certainly require a massive amount of time to make up for it.

In five years, Lin Yuan might have just finished making up for it, reaching the standard of ordinary Innate martial arts Experts.

"Perhaps."

The Great Zen Temple Abbot pondered for a moment and nodded slightly.

He did not believe that Junior Brother Hui Zhen, on the premise of having made up for his Foundation,

could also Cultivate to the level of the Innate Peak.

But Lin Yuan was a Disciple of the Long-browed Old Monk and of the same generation as them, so they could not be too dismissive in their words.

"You two old fellows, why have so little confidence in Junior Brother Hui Zhen?"

"Perhaps Junior Brother Hui Zhen is already a Grandmaster now."

The Abbot of the Martial Monks Hall glanced in the direction of the Scripture Pavilion and said with a smile on his face.

He was, after all, the first person to discover Lin Yuan's martial arts talent.

"Grandmaster."

The Abbot of the Disciplinary Hall and the Abbot of the Menial Hall exchanged glances and shook their heads slightly.

Even though they heard the joking intent in the Abbot of the Martial Monks Hall's words, the two of them did not echo along.

After all, that was a Grandmaster.

Pillar-like giants in the entire world that could be counted on two hands.

"Alright, stop discussing Junior Brother Hui Zhen."

Feeling that the topic of their idle chat was getting more and more outrageous, the Great Zen Temple Abbot immediately spoke to stop it.

However,

just at this moment,

Rumble!!!

an invisible fluctuation soared into the sky, turning into ripples that spread in all directions.

"This is spiritual exotic power?"

"It's a Great Grandmaster, the spiritual exotic power of a Great Grandmaster?"

The pupils of the Great Zen Temple Abbot and several Abbots shrank violently.

Immediately, their scalps went numb, and their faces were filled with panic.

When did a Great Grandmaster emerge in the world?

And this Great Grandmaster even came to their Great Zen Temple?

"No, this spiritual exotic power comes from the Scripture Pavilion!"

"This is Junior Brother Hui Zhen's aura!"

The Abbot of the Disciplinary Hall seemed to have perceived something, his eyes wide open in disbelief.

"Junior Brother Hui Zhen's aura?"

"spiritual exotic power? A Great Grandmaster?"

The Great Zen Temple Abbot and the Abbot of the Martial Monks Hall opened their mouths wide, as if they had seen a ghost.

According to the source and aura of this spiritual exotic power,

a possibility couldn't help but surface in their hearts.

Could it be that Junior Brother Hui Zhen, who had stayed in the Scripture Pavilion for five years, had stepped into the Great Grandmaster Realm?

Realizing this, a sense of absurdity surged in the hearts of several people.

Being Innate at the age of three was one thing.

But now a Great Grandmaster at eight years old?

Is he still human?

Is he still human?!!