Invincible Starts From Dao Fruit-Chapter 50 - 31 The 1st ’Dao Fruit’!

Unwilling to be tainted by right and wrong, how ironic that things never go as hoped.

The flowers in my heart have withered; time goes on, never to return.

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In the sea of consciousness.

The lotus blooms radiantly, dazzling the world.

As the brilliance surged, past memories emerged, and the trials and experiences in the Great Yann World flooded into my heart — freeweɓnovēl.coɱ

First entering Great Yann, arriving at Langning Mansion, encountering Lul Peng.

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Practicing martial arts, cultivating inner strength, earning money, managing businesses.

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Challenging the Lingnan experts, making a name for myself in Great Yann, spreading the fame of the ’Southern Dynasty Chen’.

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Founding the Chen Sect, scouring the world for martial arts, shocking north and south with the Seventy-two Extreme Skills.

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Training dark strength, comprehending inner cultivation, eventually becoming a martial arts legend.

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"A lifetime."

"It’s over."

Scenes of the past flashed by, two hundred years suddenly gone, and Chen Jichuan seemed to have lived through yet another lifetime. When he snapped back to reality, he couldn’t help but let out a long sigh.

Three days after the battle.

There was the joy of mastering dark strength, but also an unsettling awareness of life slipping away bit by bit before his very eyes.

People all say that between life and death, there lies great fear.

Such words are true.

Even though Chen Jichuan knew that death in the Great Yann World isn’t true death, he still couldn’t restrain the deep-seated fear in his heart.

What a pity.

It cannot be avoided.

Even if he leaves the Great Yann World, coming back means facing the same final moments of life.

Three days.

From sitting idly to being unable to sit any longer. In a daze, he lay down, only to feel his entire body drained of strength, his essence, spirit, and vitality completely depleted.

Later.

Sometimes lucid, sometimes unconscious.

Unnoticed, when he regained his senses, he found himself back in this sea of consciousness.

In front of him.

A lotus.

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"Lotus."

Chen Jichuan calmed his heart and looked toward the sea of consciousness.

The lotus glimmered, and suddenly, a lotus pod formed, exuding fragrant lotus seeds.

Strands of information became intertwined.

"Dao Fruit."

"Lotus seeds."

The trials of life and death brought Chen Jichuan a new level of composure amidst chaos.

The realm of ’unmoved by joy or anger’ he once spoke of with Chen Shaohu was not far off now. Feeling the information carried by the lotus pod, his heart was glad, yet he calmly took to organizing it.

Name: Chen Jichuan [First Instance]

Age: 195

Immortal-order: None

Official position: None

Level: 6

Talent: Creation·Insight

Martial Techniques: Chen’s 72 Skills (Sixth Layer), Divine Pouncing Saber (Sixth Layer), Fire Control Technique (Fourth Layer), Blood Burning Skill (Fourth Layer); Ghost Fall Sword (Fourth Layer); Wusheng Saber (Fourth Layer); Thousand-mile Eye (Third Layer); Sharp-Hearing Ear (Third Layer)

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Looking at the lotus pod.

It revealed Chen Jichuan’s final achievements in the Great Yann World.

Decades of arduous cultivation.

Nearly two hundred years of time.

Until the pinnacle battle atop Taiqing Mountain.

Expending all life forces, with organs pure, strength extending to the four extremities—teeth, tongue, nails, and hair—and dark strength permeating the entire body.

At last, he reached the zenith of dark strength.

One step further, he could have reached the ’Transforming Strength’ realm of ’no feather adds weight, no fly lands’.

What a shame.

Though Chen Jichuan clearly glimpsed the realm beyond dark strength, even at life’s final juncture, there was hope to break through this barrier.

But destiny dictated otherwise—

The Great Yann Heaven and Earth do not tolerate Transforming Strength beings!

Dark strength throughout the body is already the limit for mankind.

Beyond this.

In theory, the path exists; in practice, it is utterly severed.

"Transforming Strength beings boast clean, immaculate viscera, strong muscles and bones, marrow brimming with vitality. With proper care, living to one hundred thirty or forty years is no issue."

"This parallels the innate realm of inner cultivation."

Chen Jichuan felt a twinge of regret.

Upon comprehending dark strength and mastering inner cultivation, he did not hoard it selfishly. Instead, he leveraged the influence of the Chen Sect to widely disseminate the secrets of dark strength and inner cultivation techniques.

Fifty to sixty years.

Two to three generations of learning and exchange brought forth dark strength experts across Jianghu like bamboo shoots sprouting after the rain.

After all, long before Chen Jichuan, there were already numerous masters who had perfected Ming Strength to great depths. Once the veil of dark strength was lifted, these experts inevitably excelled further.

Precisely because of this.

Princess Nanping, backed by the court and Prince Ji, consolidating power, could easily gather a great number of dark strength experts.

Understand this.

Even though Great Yann is visibly waning, to the wandering martial arts world, it remains irresistible. Under Princess Nanping’s command, gaining even a small official post would bring glory to one’s lineage.

Take Langning Mansion’s ’Thousand-mile Chasing Wind’ Yangg Qing from years ago—his skill remained top-notch within Martial Arts circles. Yet, all for the sake of a mere Ninth-grade Prisoner role, he willingly served as Langning City’s diligent constable for ten years.

Despite how disdainfully these Jianghu figures speak of court officials—with sneering titles like ’lapdog’ and ’lackey’—

When truly offered an official post, each one beams with joy.

Even the eminent martial artists.

They are also mere common folk.

Their yearning for official posts rivals that of ordinary citizens.

Perhaps it is ’sowing good karma yields good fruits’.

Chen Jichuan’s propagation of dark strength and inner cultivation techniques enabled numerous great experts to rise in Great Yann; many of these experts were later recruited by the court.

And he, in turn, seized upon battles with these experts during his declining years to achieve a breakthrough.

If not for the limits of the Great Yann World, he would already have propelled his body into the Transforming Strength realm, potentially elevating his inner cultivation to the innate realm.

"Transforming Strength."

"Innate."

"I can only wait longer."

Chen Jichuan felt regret, but he remained composed.

In terms of real-world time, it had been less than half a year since he began cultivation and attained mastery in dark strength. Pushing just one step further would grant him the possibility of living 130 to 140 years, or even longer.

This one hundred thirty to forty years is truly real.

Time is abundant.

No rush.

Moreover.

The Great Yann World’s limit of dark strength has, in another sense, proven advantageous.

At the very least, it complies with the requirement for condensing Dao Fruit.

All of the Great Yann World’s experiences are now condensed within this lotus pod, forming the first ’Dao Fruit’.

"The mystery of ’Dao Fruit’."

"It encompasses all of my learnings from the Great Yann World. The lotus seeds it bears can be manifested and imbued with my martial arts insights. Those who gain them and comprehend deeply will achieve outcomes ten times better than if I were personally instructing!"

Chen Jichuan could not help but smile.

In the Black Prison, he often told Chen Shaohu: ’When one ascends Dao, even the chickens and dogs rise to heaven.’

But after truly escaping the Black Prison and beginning cultivation, he realized how difficult achieving this truly was.

Cultivation.

It is the most personal endeavor.

Others can assist, but only to a limited degree.

Chen Jichuan taught Chen Shaohu martial arts and frequently offered guidance. Yet martial arts, particularly inner cultivation, contains countless aspects that are teachable only through understanding and intuition.

Though Chen Shaohu’s progress had been adequate so far, he still lagged far behind Chen Jichuan. With the Dao Fruit, the gap between them would only grow ever wider.

Without foresight, one faces imminent precarities.

This thought brought pangs of concern to Chen Jichuan.

However.

Things are better now.

"With the help of Dao Fruit lotus seeds, Shaohu will have a much easier time thoroughly grasping the first six layers of the Divine Pouncing Saber."

Chen Jichuan looked forward to it.

Yet.

The true efficacy of the lotus seeds remains to be tested.

"No hurry."

"Let Shaohu focus on his own cultivation first. When his foundation is solid and his mind has gained insight, then I will give him the lotus seeds. By absorbing and verifying them, the results will undoubtedly be better."

Learning without contemplation leads to confusion; contemplating without learning leads to peril.

Lotus seeds can serve as an aid.

But they cannot become a crutch that fosters laziness and passivity.

Chen Jichuan carefully calculated.

Turning again.

He looked back at the ’lotus pod’.

"Besides the lotus seeds."

"Relying on this ’Lotus Pod Dao Fruit,’ I can repeatedly observe and reflect upon all the years spent in Great Yann."

As the saying goes: Review the old, and gain new understanding.

In this way.

Chen Jichuan could not only revisit his learnings but also discern the many issues he overlooked while immersed within them, from a detached perspective.

Thus allowing himself to progress further.

Through this ’Lotus Pod Dao Fruit,’ he could also, as before, condense his body to enter the Great Yann World at any time.

In this way.

Reflecting and summarizing while simultaneously refining and validating—in this world, there is no better method of learning.

The four-hundredfold time difference is yet another potent weapon!

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