Now, the twenty-six-year-old Supreme Grandmaster not only surpassed the elder Supreme Grandmasters in both theory and practice, but could also be called the number one person in the northwestern martial arts world.
It also thoroughly shocked the various nations.
Such a young Supreme Grandmaster had never been seen in ancient times, and likely would never be seen again.
He had already reached a level that shook the past and present, with no predecessors and no successors.
Naturally, it attracted the attention of all the countries in the entire northwestern region.
In this life, Chen Hao successfully lived to the age of one hundred and fifty, the natural limit of human life, before passing away.
For a full hundred years, he had met with several cultivators and learned that he did not possess spiritual roots, making it impossible for him to cultivate immortality. This further solidified his martial arts philosophy.
After a hundred years of martial arts cultivation, he was still unable to break through to a realm that ordinary people had never glimpsed.
Fourth life...
Fifth life...
Sixth life...
After experiencing several lives, in the sixth life, Chen Hao even discovered a method to achieve the Supreme Grandmaster realm in just one year.
This led to the birth of a sixteen-year-old Supreme Grandmaster, which greatly astonished everyone.
And it was in this life that Chen Hao finally succeeded in developing a method to step into the immortal path through martial arts.
"Artificial spiritual root?"
Before Chen Hao, a cultivator in the Enlightenment stage had eyes full of shock and disbelief towards his friend.
He had never imagined that his friend could enter the Dao through martial arts and create something that the entire cultivation world had failed to research.
Reaching the pinnacle of martial arts, and then taking a step further, using a special method to create something akin to a "spiritual root"!
To cultivate immortality, one needed spiritual roots. Without them, it was impossible to cultivate magical power, no matter what.
This was an eternal truth, and it had been this way on this planet since ancient times.
The quality of the spiritual root determined the efficiency of cultivation, while the presence or absence of a spiritual root determined whether one could cultivate at all.
A person without spiritual roots could not even talk about cultivation efficiency, because they couldn't cultivate in the first place.
Efficiency was naturally out of the question.
This cultivator now discovered that spiritual roots could actually be artificially created.
Chen Hao had pioneered a "Spiritual Root Method" in his martial arts journey, which could condense an object similar to a spiritual root after surpassing the Supreme Grandmaster realm in martial arts.
This object was different from a true spiritual root.
However, its effect was almost identical to that of a true spiritual root, allowing others to possess the qualifications to cultivate immortality.
Since the outcome was the same and the effect was the same, even if its essence was not a spiritual root, it was still a spiritual root.
This method shocked the cultivators.
But soon, he thought of the practicality of this method.
Although this method was miraculous, allowing mortals without spiritual roots to cultivate spiritual roots and thus embark on the path of immortal cultivation.
It truly lacked the conditions for widespread promotion.
Chen Hao was someone who had cultivated to the Supreme Grandmaster realm in just one year. A sixteen-year-old Supreme Grandmaster, who in history could compare?
Even such a genius only managed to develop a method to step into a higher level of martial arts near the end of his life at one hundred and fifty years old.
He spent over a hundred and thirty years developing this method.
From the Postnatal realm to the Supreme Grandmaster realm, it only took one year.
How could a normal martial artist possibly reach such a realm?
Naturally, they could not afford to cultivate this Spiritual Root Method.
Therefore, although the artificial spiritual root seemed to open up another path for the world to reach the immortal path, its success rate was infinitely lower than that of true immortal cultivation.
This method was unique to one person!
After understanding this, the cultivator sighed slightly.
Chen Hao also knew that his artificial spiritual root method was not something that ordinary people could cultivate.
No one could have the experience and insights from six lives like he did.
Among the thirty-six nations of the northwest, there were only a handful of Supreme Grandmasters, and they all reached this realm in old age.
There was a difference of only one realm between a Supreme Grandmaster and this new martial arts realm achieved through an artificial spiritual root, but the gap was actually enormous and extremely difficult to ascend.
In the eyes of ordinary people, Chen Hao spent over a hundred years creating this method. Only he knew that he had not only spent over a hundred years, but had also spent his third, fourth, fifth, and sixth lives...
A full four lives.
Nearly six hundred years in total.
A mortal's lifespan was a hundred years. Even a Supreme Grandmaster could only live to the natural limit of one hundred and fifty years.
Where could one find six hundred years to accumulate foundation in the Supreme Grandmaster realm and then gain enough insight to break through to a new realm?
Therefore, this realm belonged only to him.
This method could only be used by him.
Chen Hao originally intended to create a martial path that was on par with the immortal path.
The immortal path had realms like Nascent Soul and Mahayana, and martial arts could also be on par with them.
However, after practicing for several lives, he realized the difficulty involved.
Even creating the next realm after Supreme Grandmaster from martial arts, which could rival the lowest-level cultivators, was so difficult.
It was almost impossible to rival Nascent Soul or Mahayana.
It wasn't that Chen Hao couldn't do it.
Rather, there was a more convenient option.
That was to use martial arts as a threshold and transition to the path of immortal cultivation.
This was called entering the Dao through martial arts.
The path of immortal cultivation was originally only accessible to those with spiritual roots. Chen Hao, without spiritual roots, had no possibility of cultivating.
It was by using the pinnacle of martial arts as a stepping stone that he opened the door to the path of immortal cultivation.
For Chen Hao himself, this was enough.
Transitioning to immortal cultivation methods was far easier than creating a complete martial path comparable to the entire immortal path by himself.
He naturally chose this path.
The path of immortal cultivation began with abstaining from grains.
Abstaining from grains meant not consuming worldly food, but instead subsisting on spiritual energy.
From this point alone, one was separated from mortals.
Even if a mortal cultivated to the Supreme Grandmaster realm, they were still essentially mortals and still needed to eat.
The first step of immortal cultivation was to no longer be a mortal.
The first realm did not require eating.
After obtaining spiritual roots, Chen Hao quickly reached the first realm, the Grain Abstinence realm.
After the Grain Abstinence stage came the Enlightenment stage.
In the Enlightenment stage, one could see what mortals could not see. Enlightenment meant awakening, sudden realization, and seeing through the mundane world.
The Fusion stage focused on the integration of body and consciousness, heart and thought, matter and spirit, achieving a state of being merged with all things.
Cultivators who could integrate senses, matter, and spirit were Fusion stage cultivators.
The Heart Movement stage was a dangerous stage in cultivation. The so-called heart movement had nothing to do with love; it was when the cultivator's mind became lost, and the true meaning of cultivation became scattered.
This was a necessary path on the road to forming a core. Only by experiencing the Heart Movement stage could one hope to condense an inner core.