Supreme Martial Arts: Unlock Boundless Power!

Chapter 32

Zhou Yi was unaware of the enormous changes that would come to him after his performance in the New Year's competition. Since that day, his status within the family seemed to have inexplicably risen, and he even faintly felt that he had replaced his elder brother in the hearts of his grandfather and others.

This feeling made Zhou Yi uneasy, especially when he sensed the vague hostility coming from his elder brother. It only intensified his unease. For a fourteen-year-old boy, these changes in social dynamics were extremely vexing, and he couldn't find a solution at all.

After all, if he disregarded the extraordinary encounter in the lake, Zhou Yi was just an ordinary young boy. And how many ordinary young boys could handle these messy affairs?

Therefore, he made the simplest choice: to seclude himself once again.

During this seclusion, he went to great lengths. Aside from having servants deliver his daily meals and change of clothes, he completely shut himself off in a secluded space.

Of course, evading the strange atmosphere within the family was indeed one reason, but the true underlying reason was Zhou Yi's desire to break through to the realm mentioned by his elder brother—the Innate Realm.

After their discussion, he had come to understand that the Innate Realm surpassed the cultivation level of his grandfather. This was a fresh discovery and a higher goal for him. Upon realizing the existence of this realm, his heart was instantly moved, completely and thoroughly.

He had never felt such excitement before, not even when he was desperately trying to break through on the fifth level in the past. He didn't have the same anticipation as he did now.

He seemed to have a vague feeling that since he had obtained the extraordinary encounter in the lake, if he didn't strive to advance and attempt to break through to the Innate Realm, he would undoubtedly suffer divine punishment and thunderous calamities.

Days passed by, seemingly in the blink of an eye, and nearly half a year had gone by.

Inside the secret chamber, Zhou Yi sat cross-legged, his palms, soles of his feet, and the top of his head aligned in a specific direction, the quintessential Five Hearts Facing Heaven posture. Within his body, the aura of Primordial Qi surged and flowed along the path of the eighth level like a bubbling spring.

After a moment, he leaped up and extended his palms. They were light and gentle as they executed the Soft Palm combat technique. His body seemed as flexible as a strand of gluten, imbued with a yin-like sensation. However, within this yin-like feeling lay a powerful and indomitable metal internal strength.

During the New Year's competition, Zhou Yi fortuitously used the water-based internal strength technique in conjunction with Rolling Stone Fist to spar with his second brother. The result was an unexpected display of power. Even though both were practitioners of the sixth level technique, Zhou Yi's water-based technique unexpectedly overcame his second brother's fire-based technique, leaving everyone puzzled. However, when Zhou Yi displayed the seventh level internal strength and the immense power of the Thirty-Six Forms of Mountain-Crushing, the mystery was resolved.

Yet, only Zhou Yi understood that his advantage in the duel with his second brother was not solely due to his internal strength or the Innate combat technique. It was the result of merging two completely different techniques, water-based and metal-based, together.

During the nearly half a year in the secret chamber, he had made countless attempts and finally discovered that when two different elemental techniques were combined, they often unleashed unexpected power. However, what puzzled him was that his grandfather and others seemed oblivious to this, as they had never mentioned it to him.