Chapter 578: First Glimpse of the Path

"Blazing Kill!"

Ye Yuan released all his primal power, trying to shatter this world of ice and snow.

But it was all in vain; his Blazing Kill couldn't even stir a single ripple.

Yet Ye Yuan had no intention of giving up. He just kept throwing punches over and over, charging into the flames like a moth, until he froze to death—then did it all over again!

Ye Yuan could no longer remember how many times he had died or how many punches he had thrown.

In short, every punch he threw, he went all out, pushing the Blazing True Intent to its limit!

"Just a little more, only a little more!"

These countless punches were not in vain. By constantly maintaining a state of extremity, his use of Blazing True Intent became more refined, and his understanding deeper.

And now, Ye Yuan finally felt he was gradually touching that threshold!

This feeling made him both excited and frustrated. Excited because the door to the Supreme Blazing True Intent was right before him; frustrated because that step always seemed impossibly far away, refusing to be crossed.

Was the door to Supreme True Intent so easy to step through?

But patience was something Ye Yuan never lacked. In his previous life, to research a single pill, he would conduct millions of tedious experiments.

Without such painstaking effort, he could never have become the youngest peak Pill Emperor in the Divine Realm.

What he faced now was child's play to him.

And so, he swung his fists again and again, searching bit by bit for that feeling of breakthrough.

On the hundred and seventieth day, Ye Yuan finally found a spark of inspiration!

"Boom!"

Ye Yuan threw a punch with all his might, and the ice-and-snow space finally showed a change!

That single change filled Ye Yuan with indescribable excitement.

That punch had, for a very brief moment, shattered the extreme cold!

Though it was only an extremely short time, Ye Yuan had clearly felt it!

But that punch also drained all his primal power, and Ye Yuan soon froze to death.

Reborn again, Ye Yuan did not immediately strike wildly but instead carefully savored that feeling from before.

Gather power, throw punch, break through the air!

This was the feeling!

Once again, Ye Yuan felt the instant the extreme cold shattered, and the frigid weather loosened just a tiny bit.

Though the cold was stubborn and quickly reclaimed its ground, that feeling was unmistakable!

"Heh, hard work pays off. Finally, I've glimpsed the path!"

Even Ye Yuan himself couldn't help feeling a sense of pride.

In just a hundred and seventy days, he had caught his first glimpse of the Supreme Blazing True Intent—an absolutely remarkable achievement.

Even the Lingzhe Divine King back in the day had spent at least decades to gain his first glimpse of this Supreme True Intent.

As they say, the hardest part is the beginning. The most difficult part of comprehending an artistic conception is not the process itself but finding the method to enter.

Even though Ye Yuan had already comprehended the Blazing True Intent, advancing further to Supreme True Intent was an entirely different realm.

The difficulty was no less than that of a native ascending from the Boundless Realm to the Divine Realm.

Except for Ye Yuan, it might take centuries for a single native to ascend from the Boundless Realm to the Divine Realm—the difficulty was unimaginable.

That Ye Yuan could gain his first glimpse in just a hundred and seventy days was an incredible feat.

Of course, even with that first glimpse, the road ahead was extremely difficult. But this step taken was the most solid one.

The black-clad man's inner shock was immense: "Just what kind of freak is this kid? This is the Supreme Blazing True Intent, not some common street goods! A hundred and seventy days! He only used a hundred and seventy days to get his first glimpse!"

The black-clad man's pride had been utterly crushed by Ye Yuan, though Ye Yuan himself was unaware.

Along the way, Ye Yuan had accomplished too many impossible tasks. The black-clad man thought he had grown numb, but he was once again astonished by Ye Yuan.

Although the black-clad man hadn't told him how long he could stay in the inheritance space, Ye Yuan estimated that time was almost up.

Even if there was still time, there probably wasn't much left. To make any further progress in the Blazing artistic conception, time simply wasn't enough. So Ye Yuan thought of the Nine-Character True Word Art.

Ye Yuan decided to use the remaining time to study this Nine-Character True Word Art.

This Nine-Character True Word Art was vastly different from ordinary martial techniques. It had no general outline, no cultivation method—only nine very blurry characters, giving a feeling of having no place to start.

Ye Yuan calmed his mind to a state of stillness and began to visualize the 'Lin' character. This had become a habit for Ye Yuan. In the state of a still mind, whether cultivating or fighting, his efficiency was extremely high. But the next moment, Ye Yuan suddenly trembled all over!

The state of a still mind actually resonated with the 'Lin' character in an indescribable way!

"Could it be that there is some connection between the two?" Ye Yuan wondered in great surprise.

This state of a still mind was something he had comprehended by chance on the Nine Heavens Road, seemingly unrelated to the 'Lin' character.

Yet he clearly felt that his mental state, which had been stuck at a bottleneck, seemed to loosen just a little.

On the other hand, the originally extremely blurry 'Lin' character in his sea of consciousness seemed to gradually become clearer under his visualization.

The two seemed like dry kindling meeting a raging flame, instantly resonating!

Under this resonance, Ye Yuan's mind was inspired, and he involuntarily began to form strange hand seals.

The hand seals were not complicated, but for some reason, forming them was extremely strenuous for Ye Yuan.

Even though the method of forming the seals was clear in his mind, he couldn't even complete the first hand seal no matter how hard he tried!

It seemed that this seal contained an immense repulsive force, pushing his hands apart.

Ye Yuan was also a stubborn person. He had already formed most of the first seal, only the last step remained to succeed.

At this moment, he absolutely did not want to give up.

So, he used all his primal power to try to complete the hand seal.

"Pfft!"

Ye Yuan couldn't hold back the sweetness in his throat and spat out a mouthful of blood.

"This seal is so domineering, it actually gave me internal injuries! Even the first seal is this profound, how terrifying must the later seals be!" Ye Yuan wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and couldn't help sighing.

Though he hadn't succeeded, Ye Yuan could be certain that the 'Lin' character was probably connected to the mental state.

Ye Yuan had not made any progress in his mental state for a long time; he had been stuck in place, clearly at a bottleneck.

But through this visualization, Ye Yuan clearly felt that the state of a still mind had loosened again.

If he continued to visualize, Ye Yuan's mental state would surely break through!

But what excited Ye Yuan even more was that if visualizing the 'Lin' character could help break through in mental state, then wouldn't he have obtained a method to cultivate the mind?