Chapter 313: Meng Jingzhou Realizes the Dao on the Ring

"You fought well. I originally thought that after your breakthrough to the Golden Core stage, your fundamental swordsmanship wouldn't keep pace with your current realm, and I intended to offer a word of warning. Now it seems my worries were misplaced."

"It is all thanks to your excellent guidance, Eldest Senior Sister."

Lu Yang dared not relax his training in the fundamentals for even a moment. Thinking back to when he had first begun his cultivation, in order to train his basic skills, Eldest Senior Sister had made him play with tofu by day and soak in boiling water by night. If not for their massive reserve of miraculous pills and elastics, whether he would even be alive today was open to question.

If Eldest Senior Sister discovered that his foundation was shaky and put him through all that a second time... Lu Yang shuddered at the mere thought.

He absolutely could not go through that again!

"Xiaotao, it is a good thing to comprehend the Golden Core of Yin-Yang transformation from the Twin Stalked Lotuses and link it to your illusions, but you must not forget that you also possess the Ascendant Celestial Physique. Do not neglect its development."

"Yes, Eldest Senior Sister!"

"Very well, you two can review this battle after you return. For now, let us observe the fight between Xiao Meng and Xiao Man."

"Have those two been fighting for this long?" Tao Yaoye was astonished. Her match with Lu Yang had lasted long enough, yet she had not expected Meng Jingzhou and Mangu to be even more resilient.

"Both are physical cultivators, so it is difficult to determine a victor between them." Lu Yang was not surprised. Meng Jingzhou's Golden Core had miraculous effects against demons and ghosts, but it was useless against Mangu, who was also a physical cultivator.

Mangu wielded a leg bone of a demonic beast, a trophy from the dense forest taken from a Nascent Soul stage beast he had slain in tandem with Tao Yaoye.

Mangu brandished the bone, howling and shouting like a savage, his eyes filled with wildness and brutality.

Lu Yang was perplexed; he had never seen Mangu in such a state, and this style did not seem to align with Mangu's usual character.

Mangu fought with brute strength, but he had never been this frenzied, looking as though he were hunting beasts in the wilderness.

Meng Jingzhou was also taken aback by Mangu's appearance, losing the initiative in the battle and being suppressed from the very beginning, expending most of his energy on defense and rarely attacking.

Furthermore, although Mangu's fighting style appeared chaotic, a closer look revealed a meticulous finesse beneath the roughness, balanced in both offense and defense—a style formed after countless trials and refinements.

"Oh, this fighting style looks so familiar! It's just like those Barbarian tribesmen I used to encounter, swarming forward with stones and bones to bash the enemy's brains out!" The Immortal Fairy grew quite excited upon seeing something familiar.

Lu Yang wondered, "This is the fighting style of the ancient Barbarians? But how did I hear that their style had long been lost to history?"

The generational divide of the Barbarians was also severe, with very few records remaining of ancient events.

"Have you forgotten? Mangu's bloodline was blessed by me! Demonic beasts can pass down divine abilities and talents through their bloodline, so naturally, this Immortal can do the same!"

Once a demonic beast reached a certain realm, the ancestral heritage hidden within its bloodline would unlock, allowing it to learn its innate divine abilities.

The "Devouring" of the Taotie clan and the "Charm" of the Nine-Tailed Fox clan were both like this.

The purer the bloodline, the earlier the heritage would unlock.

"By the way, what kind of Golden Core did Mangu form?" Lu Yang turned to ask Tao Yaoye. At this point, there was no need for secrecy.

"It should be like mine, a Golden Core that has never existed before. I think it's called the Ancestral Assembly Core. It can summon the spirits of the ancestors in heaven to possess him and assist in battle."

"That powerful?!" Lu Yang was greatly shocked. "Does that mean the souls of the ancient Barbarians are still around?"

Yun Zhi slowly shook her head. "It is not as you think. For a soul to endure for three hundred thousand years without dissipating, only an Immortal possesses such capability."

"Then what is happening with Mangu?"

"Although the souls of Mangu's ancestors have dissipated and returned to heaven and earth, they share a blood connection with him. Sensing the presence of their descendant, the ancestors have reassembled a portion of their scattered souls from the world, descending into Mangu's body through the ancient Barbarian bloodline. However, this form of possession is driven mostly by instinct and lacks conscious intellect."

Lu Yang recalled the Immortal Fairy. This was somewhat similar to her method, but far less defiant of the heavens than hers.

"So Meng Jingzhou's opponent is not just Mangu alone, but the entirety of the ancient Barbarian race?" Lu Yang felt that this match would be difficult for Meng Jingzhou.

The ancient Barbarians were a race that had once run with the Immortal Fairy; fighting was as frequent to them as eating meals, and their combat experience surpassed one another. How could Meng Jingzhou be a match for that?

On the arena stage, Meng Jingzhou was being beaten back step by step, his Arhat Fist and the Six Heavens-Shaking Forms proving ineffective.

Mangu's eyes were vacant, completely taken over by his ancient Barbarian ancestors, his combat relying entirely on instinct.

In terms of physical strength, Meng Jingzhou was a fraction stronger than Mangu, but he could not withstand Mangu's sheer experience.

The combined combat experience of the ancient Barbarian ancestors amounted to hundreds of thousands of years. How could Meng Jingzhou compete with that?

Although Mangu held the upper hand and suppressed Meng Jingzhou, he could not truly defeat him in a short amount of time.

"Does Meng Jingzhou's condition seem a bit off?"

Meng Jingzhou felt himself falling into a bizarre state. Inside his body, his two Single Golden Cores sensed Mangu's Golden Core and, as if provoked, began to spin uncontrollably like two miniature suns, bathing his body in warmth. His physique became translucent, his acupoints opening up to swallow and spit spiritual qi.

As the two Golden Cores spun, Meng Jingzhou's mind went blank, and his past experiences flashed through his head one by one.

His past experiences compressed to the absolute limit, and suddenly, his mind roared as it exploded outward.

Meng Jingzhou's head swayed slightly, and he felt the world become clearer than ever before.

"Did I just enlighten to the Dao and comprehend a fist technique?"

Meng Jingzhou clenched his fists, somewhat incredulous.

He had heard that the state of Dao enlightenment was a rare stroke of luck that most cultivators never encountered in a lifetime. He was only at the Golden Core stage, yet he had enlightened?

And looking at the experience just now, were his two Single Golden Cores assisting his enlightenment?

"I knew my Single Golden Cores were invincible!"

Meng Jingzhou mentally rehearsed the fist technique he had just acquired, his expression turning strange.

"This fist technique seems like..."

"Stop!" Meng Jingzhou extended a hand, halting Mangu's oncoming attack.

"I just comprehended a fist technique. Ancestors of the Barbarians, if you insist on fighting, do not blame me for deploying this technique!"

Mangu froze in place, seemingly wanting to hear what else Meng Jingzhou had to say.

"The fist technique I comprehended involves the power of karma, the power of curses, and carries the accumulated grievances of my bachelor lineage!"

"Anyone struck by my fist will be just like me, remaining a bachelor for the rest of their life. This is a karmic curse!"

"I name it the Bachelor's Curse Fist!"

"This should be the innate talent fist technique that comes with the Twin Single Golden Cores!"

"If you are willing to let Mangu take this punch, by all means, continue attacking me!"

The ancestors of the ancient Barbarians hastily used Mangu's body to leap off the arena stage and forfeit the match.

Their instincts told them that Meng Jingzhou was speaking the absolute truth!