The moment this feeling arose, a sharp glint flashed in Qin Fang’s half-closed eyes. The next instant, his face suddenly flushed crimson!

His Qi Blood began to surge wildly and uncontrollably. A terrifying Force erupted and churned within him. On his forehead, veins bulged as if they were about to burst.

An unprecedented feeling of suffocation suddenly swept over him. He felt as if an invisible wall was holding his entire body in a tight grip.

’Break through! Break through!’

’I must break through this invisible wall. Once I do, the shackles will be shattered, and I will enter a completely new Realm!’

...Such an understanding surfaced in his mind.

It drove him to disregard everything else!

Within his body, the sound of the Qi and Blood Tide, which had long since vanished, suddenly boomed forth once more!

This sound was like a monstrous tide, surging madly!

His blood vessels felt as if they were expanding. The terrifying heart, which could normally supply his entire body with a single pump, suddenly began to pound with frenzied intensity!

THUMP, THUMP, THUMP, THUMP...

The sound of his heart actually formed a deep, resonant boom, like a temple bell, which mingled with the ever-growing roar of the Qi and Blood Tide, creating a peculiar symphony of sounds.

The speed at which his Qi Blood surged was terrifying. If this were happening to Ordinary People, this single surge would likely cause their entire body to explode as their blood burst from their vessels!

However, Qin Fang’s Physique was far too strong.

He had used the mysterious liquid and Bee Meat, and had recently eaten the Treasure Fish!

Since the beginning of his cultivation, he had not neglected his Inner Refining for a single day. This had tempered his entire body—his bones, organs, flesh, skin, meridians... even his blood vessels—to an unimaginable degree. Thus, he was still able to keep this monstrous tide of Qi Blood locked firmly within his body.

But his face grew redder and redder, and his body even began to tremble uncontrollably.

The intermingling Force, both overt and hidden, shattered the cascading water of the waterfall, which gradually formed into a white mist.

Until a certain moment...

BOOM!!!

A roar suddenly erupted in his mind.

The next moment...

All the strength in his body seemed to find an outlet in that instant, surging out with a thunderous roar.

An unprecedented feeling of exhilaration filled his heart.

...The invisible wall was gone.

...He had broken through!

Huajin!

It had taken him one year to go from an Ordinary Person to the Huajin Realm!

An intense, irrepressible joy surfaced in his heart at that moment...

...

The changes in his body were what he felt most acutely in this instant.

He could clearly feel that his Force had changed... There was no longer a distinction between overt and hidden; it was now a pure Force!

With the same single Force, if he willed it to be overt, it was Mingjin.

If he willed it to be hidden, it was Anjin!

This Force constantly roamed just beneath the surface of his skin, and whenever an external object made contact, it would react naturally.

For example, right now, the water from the waterfall was crashing down.

And yet, not a single drop could land on his body... because the instant the water was about to touch his skin, it was shattered by the Force beneath.

Previously, he could barely manage to do this, but it required his conscious reaction.

...He had to sense the water, then activate the Force in the corresponding area to destroy it.

But now was different. An unprecedented cool, refreshing sensation emerged in his mind. This coolness made him feel as if, by sitting there with his eyes closed, he had gained an extra pair of ’eyes’ that could look down upon himself.

He could see his own self...

The effect of the Epiphany allowed Qin Fang to understand in an instant...

’This is what Master was talking about before—Seeing God!’

...The body is God!

’To see one’s own body... is to achieve Seeing God!’

This unprecedented realization gave Qin Fang an unprecedented sense of satisfaction...

and Control!

He could seemingly see his own body—the skin, the flesh and blood, the meridians, the bones...

Everything, all of it, was reflected in his mind’s eye as if in a clear mirror.

This was looking inward. This was Introspection!

And looking outward, he could clearly feel the enhancement of his five senses. Within a radius of several dozen meters, nearly a hundred, not the slightest rustle of grass in the wind could escape his perception!

The wind was soughing, and he could even sense a single bamboo leaf drifting down from a stalk in the distant bamboo forest...

The leaf fell silently, yet the instant it separated from the stalk, Qin Fang perceived it with sharp clarity.

And this wasn’t because Qin Fang had been staring at the bamboo tree...

Rather, he had naturally become aware of it the moment it fell.

Throughout the entire process, he hadn’t even a shred of ’deliberate’ preparation.

...’This... is Huajin?’

’This feeling is simply too wonderful.’

’Unbelievably wonderful!’

He was in a daze, savoring the wonder of this Realm.

And it was at this time, in his trance, that he seemed to see a thick, heavy gate.

The gate was archaic, heavy, and appeared mysterious to behold!

Qin Fang ’widened’ his eyes.

The gate seemed to be both real and illusory; it could be seen, but it felt untouchable...

’This is...

...the ’gate’ that Master mentioned?!’

’Push open the Divine Gate, and you can enter the Divine Domain?’

His eyes widened.

But after just a moment, the gate vanished.

Qin Fang hurriedly tried to sense it again...

After a long, long time, he slowly opened his eyes.

An unprecedentedly brilliant light shot from his eyes, as if it had physical substance.

"The gate is still there, but if I want to glimpse it, I have no path..."

he murmured.

’The gate is right there.’

’But it’s like a flower in a mirror or the moon’s reflection in water—visible, but untouchable.’

...He lacked the path to open that gate.

He was dazed for a moment. After a long while, he slowly raised his head and looked toward Prefecture City...

’The path is in Prefecture City!’

’Prefecture City must have the way to push open the gate!’

An inexpressible excitement and anticipation surged in his heart.