Chapter 687: Chapter 308: Reunion of Deep Affection_3

Exactly.

For example, Lu Yuan’s current Immortal Realm could already use the Earth Element Energy he cultivated within his body to perfectly guide and stimulate the Immortal Spirit energy within the jade pieces, helping Sun Siwen to quickly absorb this spiritual energy.

If Sun Siwen could refine all the spiritual energy Lu Yuan had allocated for him, his cultivation would undoubtedly skyrocket to the top level.

Moreover, he could unblock two or three bizarre meridians at this level.

If such an effect could be achieved, it would be like saving two or three years of hard work.

Even with Lu Yuan’s help this time, it might allow Sun Siwen’s soul to undergo some early transformations, allowing him to break through Innate more easily.

After all, the so-called Innate is just the initial cultivation of magical power in the Immortal Method, not even considered a beginner.

As in the case of Anqiu, who had not yet condensed the Five Elements Energy, he was already comparable to the second stage of Martial Arts.

Today, Lu Yuan has condensed a Five Elements Energy, officially entered the Immortal Method, and his Divine Powers have become extraordinary.

The Yellow Turban Strongman he casually trained has the strength of the second stage of Martial Arts.

With his Divine Powers being so capable, it is more than enough to shorten the time it takes for Sun Siwen, who has already accumulated enough time, to break through Innate by a few years.

‘Moreover, it is beneficial to let Brother Sun break through Innate earlier.’

Lu Yuan looked at the surprised and overjoyed Sun Siwen in front of him and thought.

Breaking through Innate requires not only spiritual objects, Inner Strength, and state of mind, but also strict age requirements.

For any martial artist, if they cannot break through Innate before the age of sixty, they will never have such hope for the rest of their lives due to the exhaustion and dispersion of the three treasures of essence, qi, and spirit.

It is for this reason.

Many talents with enough aptitude can quickly accumulate a state of mind, but they lack resources, cannot complete the accumulation and transformation, and have to endure time and eventually miss the sixty-year deadline.

There are also many people from aristocratic families and great martial sects who have no shortage of resources, but lack talent and thus accumulate slowly in their state of mind. Even by the age of sixty, they cannot achieve enough state of mind to break through Innate.

Not everyone is like Sun Siwen, who has a friend like Lu Yuan, who can learn from the Buddhist and Taoist classics while studying the sages’ books and unknowingly accumulate their state of mind.

Not everyone is like him, who has a supportive friend and can follow the experience of local officials, honing their skills in the mortal world. Eventually, they even serve as the prime minister in charge of a country’s politics, using millions of people in a country to polish their state of mind.

It is because of these countless difficult-to-replicate strict conditions that Sun Shiwen was able to achieve such a state of mind at the age of forty-five.

For the vast majority of ordinary people, breaking through Innate is more about relying on talent to complete the accumulation of state of mind.

And all of these ordinary people are one in a million, rare and brilliant examples.

It took a thousand years for the Five Poisons Sect to produce a Lan Cai’er.

Zhou Qing, with a blood feud and Lu Yuan’s help, was able to achieve Innate over 18 years.

Most of Lu Yuan’s progress relied on various adventures and his background advantage.

All three of them were able to break through Innate in their thirties, which was extremely difficult to replicate, if not impossible.

And the other powerful Innate inheritors trained by various great forces mostly break through Innate at the age of forty or fifty, even as many as fifty years old.

It is also for this reason.

At the White Phoenix Temple, when Jihui was about to die of old age, they found themselves in such an embarrassing situation, unable to find a suitable successor.

Because in his temple, those with enough state of mind were all over sixty years old.

These old monks, with their declining energy and spirit, even with enough state of mind, could not meet the Innate conditions and had no hope of achieving this level.

And the other young people with enough talent did not have the ten to twenty years for them to gradually cultivate their state of mind.

If the state of mind is not enough, even if it is filled with resources, it is just a castle in the sand or a rootless tree without the ability to consolidate and unify, collapsing completely as soon as it is touched, and ending with a powerful outburst and death.

Without Lu Yuan’s help, breaking through Innate is not that easy for ordinary people or even the descendants of great families.

From this point of view, Zhou Qing and Sun Siwen were indeed much luckier than most other beings and even Innate Grandmasters.

Zhou Qing realized this, so every time he faced Lu Yuan’s praise, he would modestly say that it was all his master’s credit.

This was not modesty, but what he truly believed.

If not for Lu Yuan’s generous teaching, from an early age instructing him in Buddhist and Taoist classics, explaining the essentials of the Chi Yang Divine Skill, pinpointing the risks and breakthroughs when breaking through Innate, providing a large amount of elixirs and spiritual energy, helping him complete the transformation of his body and soul…

Zhou Qing would not have been able to complete his state of mind and cultivation accumulation at such a young age, and break through Innate so smoothly.

All these factors cannot be erased by mere talent alone.

If it weren’t for Lu Yuan, even if Zhou Qing was exceptionally talented, it would have been difficult for him to achieve Innate on his own, merely breaking through to the top level would have been a stretch.

Similarly, the same applies to Sun Siwen.

However, for Lu Yuan, helping them both was also helping himself.

Putting friendship aside.

Zhou Qing presented Lu Yuan with the Chi Yang Divine Skill and the treasure trove of the Yuzhong Guo Family, which was a great contribution. Later on, he even helped Lu Yuan in his Southern Expeditions and Northern Border wars, achieving numerous merits.

Sun Siwen also helped Lu Yuan with his internal affairs, keeping watch at the rear, allowing him to fight in campaigns without worrying about internal matters.

The contributions of both were sufficient for Lu Yuan.

The three of them were in a relationship of mutual achievement and growth.

Furthermore, on top of this relationship, the friendship behind them formed the stability of Chu’s core group.

It is precisely for this reason that Lu Yuan is so candid and generous with the two of them.

Because the three of them are a single unit.

There is no question of who gives more and who is at a loss.

Monarchs and ministers getting along, master and disciple with deep affection, close friends discussing matters of friendship, the ultimate in worldly affairs is no more than this.

Lu Yuan thought about all this and then laughed heartily with Zhou Qing and Sun Siwen, saying, “Now that Xiaoqing is back, let’s not hurry to leave. The situation is stable now, and there’s no worry about wars. You don’t need to hurry back to the Northern Border, so stay here for the New Year.

And the same goes for Brother Sun.

Now that you’re back, stay in Baling, and I’ll personally guide your martial arts practice.

As for He’er and Hao’er, although I started their Enlightenment, I don’t have much time to look after them.

I would also like to ask you to serve as their teacher, responsible for He’er and Hao’er’s Enlightenment.

With Brother Sun’s talent, I am sure you can teach them well and bring two more outstanding princes to Chu.”

The rare reunion of the three filled Lu Yuan’s heart with joy.

Similarly, Sun Siwen and Zhou Qing also felt the same.

Therefore, when faced with Lu Yuan’s request, Sun Siwen happily agreed, “I will not disappoint Brother Lu’s trust.”