After Xiaomiao's death, Teng Qing Shan devoted all his energy to pursuing the pinnacle of martial arts.

  Martial Arts Summit!

  This is Teng Qing Shan's pursuit deep in his heart. Even if it's this life, Teng Qing Shan has never given up on creating a path that belongs to Internal Fist! However, for so many years, he has been as if in the dark, unable to find the way!

  Until stepping into the vast grassland, suddenly enlightened.

  Although interrupted, it also made Tun Qing Mountain clear about his direction!

  Go to Beihai Continent to watch that "Thirty-six Open Mountain Styles"? Teng Qing Shan was no longer so anxious. He now had his heart set on creating an even higher level of internal fist technique!

  "If in the future you arrive at 'Beihai Continent' and reach Shenfu Mountain! Witnessing the '36 Styles of Opening the Mountain'. As they say, all things are interconnected! Whether it's Mani Temple or Yu Huang Men, Ying Shi Family, cultivating to the level of Bodhisattva, Void Realm, all have the same epiphany about heaven and earth. And my internal fist, reaching this level, is also the same!"

  "Watching '36 Styles of Opening Mountains' has been beneficial for me in understanding the universe."

  Teng Qing Shan was well aware of this.

  "But... " Teng Qing Shan was also puzzled in his heart, "If it wasn't for the Tian Hong Water Palace, and being tempered by the Kai Shan Shen Fu's energy to strengthen my body! My body would probably only have around 200,000 jin of strength. Pure physical power, and I could only compare with 'Xian Tian Xu Dan'!"

  "Can I comprehend the Way of Heaven now?"

  Hong Qingshan also had some doubts!

  He was very clear that his strength had surged inside the Tian Hong Water Palace. It was purely an external force! Not something he achieved through his own fist techniques and step-by-step practice.

  Although perplexed, Qing Shan still devoted himself to arduous cultivation in the grassland!

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  Hong Qing Shan carried a bundle on his back, like a Buddhist monk in ascetic practice, walking step by step across the vast grassland.

  Sleeping under the sky and using the earth as a bed!

  Forget all troubles and grudges, with only the pursuit of the Great Way in mind!

  In the first month of entering the grassland, the range of grasslands that Teng Qing Shan walked was still under the influence of Xue Ying's power! This belongs to the outer periphery of the Great Grassland. Along this road, although Teng Qing Shan encountered some minor troubles, it wasn't a big deal.

  In the second and third months of entering the grassland, Teng Qing Shan was walking in the sphere of influence of the three major kingdoms of the grassland. During these two months, Teng Qing Shan had a fierce battle! That time, blood flowed like rivers!

  It was because a group of horse bandits were sweeping and robbing on the grassland when they discovered Teng Qing Shan, who was traveling alone. At that time, Teng Qing Shan was wearing tattered clothes, with a big beard on his face and broken shoes on his feet, looking like a beggar. Perhaps those horse bandits didn't find their prey, so as they galloped past Teng Qing Shan, one of the bandits casually swung out with his knife, intending to kill Teng Qing Shan!

  Bandits, killing people at will on the grasslands, this is all too common!

  Unfortunately, they kicked an iron plate this time!

  This team of over 90 people was killed by Teng Qing Shan on the spot, with more than 30 people dead. The others immediately mounted their horses and fled in a hurry. Teng Qing Shan didn't care at all, continuing to cultivate hard and pondering the "Earth Walk" fist method. But what Teng Qing Shan didn't expect was——

  This bandit group turned out to be a troop from the 'Canglang Army' of the 'Jinlang Kingdom', one of the three major kingdoms on the grasslands.

  The three great kingdoms of the grasslands were mutually hostile.

  Due to the brutal and lawless nature of the Grassland people, surnamed Ge, the three major kingdoms also indulged their own armies, sending out some troops disguised as horse thieves to plunder within each other's spheres of influence.

  More than 30 people were killed by Tian Qing Mountain, and more than 60 surviving soldiers escaped to the border of the kingdom. Here, they stationed the "Cang Lang Army" with a force of one hundred thousand soldiers! As one of the five garrisons of the Cang Lang Army, would the Beizhen Great Army go to the vast grasslands to find a lone traveler for more than 30 people?

  Logically speaking, this matter should have been settled long ago.

  But ——

  Teng Qing Shan marched northward! Finally, he arrived at the border of the Golden Wolf Kingdom! Moreover, he was spotted by soldiers who were patrolling and had survived among the more than sixty people from before! These soldiers gritted their teeth, wanting to avenge their fallen brothers. They immediately notified the higher-ups!

  Since the lone traveler is right under our noses, of course we'll send someone to kill him!

  This move will tear the sky apart!

  Ten thousand soldiers of Beizhen!

  When the general of Beizhen learned that one person had killed 800 people, he was furious and ordered: "Even if it's a strong Xiantian Golden Elixir cultivator! He is still just one person. Drain his Xiantian True Essence and kill him!" On the vast grassland, none of the eight major sects were qualified to control the three major kingdoms.

  In the central part of the vast prairie, the three kingdoms are the most powerful!

  The massacre has begun!

  The grassland people, the Ye family, were determined to fight to the death. So many brothers had died, and they clutched the thought of exhausting their opponent's true energy to kill them off. The battle... raged from noon till dusk! The crimson sunset filled the western sky. And on that patch of grass... was dyed red with blood!

  At first, the lone traveler didn't kill quickly, but later on. The lone traveler got faster and faster, with a fist that seemed slow as pushing a millstone, yet was fast as lightning, almost killing over ten people in the blink of an eye. In just that last short half hour, the number of dead soldiers caught up to the previous nearly three hours of slaughter!

  One war!

  The Northern Garrison suffered heavy casualties, with over 16,000 dead and more than 3,000 injured!

  From the very beginning, with an attitude of superiority, they wanted to execute Cong Qingshan. Later on, with the intention of exhausting Cong Qingshan to death, countless soldiers surrounded him. Then later still, so many people died that many soldiers went mad! Until finally...

  Scared to death!

  Fall back! Fall back!

  Run! Save your life!

  The general of the northern town's army turned pale: "He is not human, he is not human! He is Arata! The devil 'Arata'!"

  On the grassland, Teng Qing Shan also experienced the life of the people on the grassland.

  On the vast land of Jiuzhou, Teng Qing Mountain knew that Youyan's two states were a place of bitter cold, and had been killing each other with the grassland people for a long time. The fierce degree of the folk customs in Youyan's two states was enough to be crowned as the champion of the nine states! And the grassland people on the vast grasslands were attacking Youyan's two states all year round!

  This can give you an idea of the ferocity of the prairie people! To be exact, it's not ferocity, but cruelty!

  For several months, walking thousands of miles from the outskirts to the hinterland. Teng Qing Shan discovered ——

  Generally, the grassland tribes are still very hospitable to outsiders. When Teng Qing Mountain wants to eat a meal, he usually eats one in a certain tribe and then gives some silver coins.

  The grasslands are made up of small tribes, which are the grassroots of the vast grasslands! They herd sheep and cattle, follow the grass to live, and have weak strength!

  And some big tribes are very overbearing and cruel, oppressing small tribes. Even looting like bandits!

  And the three great kingdoms are even more bloody in existence! Within the kingdom, there are also powerful warriors, and even innate strongmen exist! Because of the vast territory and sparse population, the territories of the three great kingdoms have also reached their own controllable limits. Normally, what needs to be done is to weaken the opponent and strengthen oneself!

  The three kings [***] team is more terrifying than the horse bandits!

  ……

  For these brutal troops, wanting to kill themselves. Teng Qing Shan would not hold back! However, originally, Teng Qing Shan wanted to kill some people and then leave quietly. But who would have thought... those soldiers all had war horses. They came and went like the wind, heavily surrounding Teng Qing Shan!

  Bows and arrows! Divine crossbows! Rolling oil!

  Even large numbers of heavy cavalry charged! In short, they wanted to exhaust Qing Shan to death! If it was really a strong Xiantian Golden Elixir, if surrounded by thousands of troops and horses, being exhausted to death is not impossible!

  What a pity...

  They met Tun Qing Shan! The only internal fist master in the entire Jiu Zhou continent.

  More than 16,000 people were killed and over 3,000 injured. The death toll exceeded 20,000!

  This news can't be hidden, it spreads like the wind across the vast grasslands. Countless horse bandits are terrified, afraid of running into this lone traveler! Even the strong among the three kingdoms of the grasslands tremble with fear. To be able to kill nearly 20,000 people... only a 'Void Realm Expert' with boundless True Yuan can achieve such a feat.

  ******

  Teng Qing Shan entered the grassland for the fourth month!

  A crescent-shaped lake, like a mirror, is inlaid with pearls on the vast grassland. The sun shines on the lake surface, and the gentle breeze blows, causing ripples on the lake surface, and the reflected sun also undulates.

  By the lake shore.

  Teng Qing Shan was practicing his fist technique, which only had three moves, repeated over and over. However, these seemingly simple three moves, when executed by Teng Qing Shan, possessed a profound and heavy atmosphere, and the speed was also very strange, causing visual disorientation.

  "Hmm...huh..."

  One move and one style, Teng Qing Shan's whole body shook, the sound of his muscles and bones resonating together could be heard by those standing beside him. It was much louder than when he practiced "Tiger Shape Divine Skill"!

  Faintly, a yellowish electric light flashes occasionally on the surface of Mount Tengqin!

  From noon till sunset, the western sky is painted red.

  "Hah!" Teng Qing Shan finally stopped his momentum.

  "In the morning I heard the Way, in the evening I can die!" Teng Qing Shan muttered.

  These four months were the most astonishing four months of Teng Qing Shan's transformation. From the first day he entered the Great Prairie, after his epiphany... Teng Qing Shan devoted himself to arduous cultivation... using the sky as his blanket and the earth as his bed, vaguely, Teng Qing Shan felt that he seemed to have sensed the great earth!

  When he encountered some poor tribes, Teng Qing Shan no longer pretended to be a bystander, but instead helped them. Teng Qing Shan seemed to feel the broad tolerance of Mother Earth.

  Especially in that battle with the Beizhen army, Teng Qing Shan gained enlightenment and figured out his third move amidst the slaughter.

  At this time, Teng Qing Shan finally understood that killing was a natural part of the cycle of heaven and earth. The death of animals and humans were no different to heaven and earth.

  ……

  After mastering the third move, Teng Qing Shan also meditated quietly for a month before integrating the three moves into one.

  "The way of heaven and earth can be divided into five elements. My fist method should be the first section of 'earth element' fist method." Teng Qing Shan felt... his own fist method was still far from fully interpreting the 'earth element' in the heavenly way!

  But ——

  Even so, Teng Qing Shan discovered an astonishing result!

  "I was wrong before, and I thought wrongly!" Teng Qing Shan sighed, stretched out his arm, and with a movement of his mind, a faint yellowish electric light flashed by. "Last time I was confused. But this time, I created the first segment of the 'Earth Element Fist' technique, everything is finally clear!"

  Buddhist cultivation, ordinary martial monks are internal energy, and later in the Mudra Palace, a thread of internal energy merges into the "spirit", taking the "spirit" as the main practice, producing sarira. The appearance of sarira power is also called Buddhist yuan.

  Taoist cultivation, ordinary martial artists are internal strength, and then in the dantian, a thread of spirit is merged into the internal strength, taking 'internal strength' as the main, practicing the golden elixir, for the golden elixir true yuan, also known as pre-heavenly true yuan.

  Neijiaquan training, ordinary martial artists also have internal strength, what's next?

  The entire body's meridians are all unblocked and flowing freely, able to control the tendons, bones, muscles, internal organs, etc.! In fact, this is only the premise of the 'Zongshi' realm.

  It's just like, the limit of the elixir field, the spirit is sufficient, it is a prerequisite for reaching the innate!

  What's next?

  Neijiaquan has no cultivation method. The so-called "Tiger Shape Spirit Technique" is just a method created in the previous world where the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was thin, it's just to increase strength!

  While Teng Qing Shan is now creating 'Earth Walking Fist', it's only the first segment!

  But let Teng Qing Shan discover the secret!

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