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Suddenly obtaining three secret manuals, Liao Ya's pretty face flushed red with excitement, her body trembling.

"To acquire three secret manuals in casual conversation! Each one could serve as a sect-protecting divine skill!"

Li Pei and Liao Qe were also extremely impressed and delighted! The prestige of each secret manual was greater than the next; all of them highly useful even for someone in the Golden Body Realm!

Yu Yanmei immediately picked up "Tathagata Divine Palm: Buddha Shakes Mountains and Rivers" and started reading.

Li Pei coughed, wanting to remind her master who didn't consider herself an outsider, but then she thought... indeed, she wasn't an outsider.

Everything from the "Moon Star Sect" had basically been learned by the three of them, including the sect-protecting divine skill, and Li Pei herself was now a wife.

Moreover... her husband seemed utterly unconcerned.

What she didn't know was that through the drone, the three of them had witnessed many of Yu Yanmei's highlights and had a favorable impression of this Innate Grandmaster.

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Yu Yanmei had flipped through the three secret manuals and, after a slight moment of contemplation, took out "Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill" and "Dragon Chant Golden Bell Cover" and said:

"These two secret manuals are commonly referred to as 'clumsy kung fu', where effort begets reward, requiring a massive investment of resources for cultivation. Lu Xiaozi isn't short of elixirs or money, so he should have no difficulty practicing them."

Previously, Lu Yao had given her elixirs in a big vat; just now he spent 3,000 taels without batting an eye! Wealthy martial artists can avoid countless troubles and indecision.
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Next, Yu Yanmei took out "Tathagata Divine Palm: Buddha Shakes Mountains and Rivers," her expression becoming serious:

"This one... is tremendously powerful and requires Mind Force to activate, strictly speaking, it is a Spirit Refinement secret manual. It is extremely difficult to practice, with high monks having once meditated for 8 years to master it."

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Everyone went to the practice field to study the most challenging "Tathagata Divine Palm."

Li Pei spoke eloquently of the origins of the "Tathagata Divine Palm":

"The Buddhist sects have been large landowners and wealthy throughout the dynasties. Emperors in need of money often looted famous temples to enrich the state treasury.

Having learned from bitter experience, six grand monks from the Sui dynasty created this divine skill, possessing unmatched power! From then on, no one dared covet monk's possessions and Buddhist lands!"

Liao Ya and Liao Qe listened with perplexed faces…

Liao Ya whispered, "That's not right, the Tathagata Palm is said to be a peerless martial skill given to mortals by the Buddha himself to save all beings and avert disasters..."

"That's just tooting their own horn~" Li Pei spoke with the distinctive tone of someone in the know, with a hint of disdain:

"Which sect doesn't gold-plate their own face, but martial arts was originally created to kill, nicely put as 'protecting the martial path.'"

Then, she glanced at Lu Yao, who was deep in thought, and whispered, "On the other hand, it's the Spirit Refinement that's for pursuing immortality."

While the girls were whispering among themselves, Lu Yao set down the secret manual, having already learned it.

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The movements of the "Tathagata Divine Palm" weren't difficult. The challenge lay in infusing "Mind Force" into the technique at the moment of execution, creating a miraculous reaction with the Inner Breath.

But this was not difficult for Lu Yao. Confidently, he said to Liao Qe, "Fetch me a target."

"Got it~" Liao Qe immediately rolled a stone block over.

The stone block, weighing over a thousand jin, was swung by the girl and tossed over with a 'thud', embedding it seven inches into the ground.

Lu Yao approached, executed the move perfectly as the book prescribed—Mind Force wrapped around the Inner Breath; his left hand formed the Immovable Fundamental Seal, while his right hand swiftly struck out!

Underneath the expectant gaze of several beautiful eyes, his palm sent the stone block tumbling several times.

It looked okay, but martial artists in the Blood-Exchange Realm inherently have the strength of ten thousand jin, and this display didn't showcase the might of the "Tathagata Divine Palm."

Lu Yao furrowed his brows. He had infused Mind Force into the palm technique as instructed; why wasn't there any change!?

He took a deep breath with a stern face and struck three more palms. But they only made the stone block roll around, knocking off a few fragments.

"Still not right!"

Lu Yao was puzzled, having followed the instructions in the secret manual exactly, why was the power so weak?

The scene was somewhat quiet for a moment.

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At that time, Yu Yanmei drew the Longquan Sword and said, "Lu Xiaozi, you've combined the three essentials of 'essence, energy, and spirit' into the technique. But don't you think something's missing?"

Lu Yao asked in puzzlement, "Essence (blood), Qi (Inner Breath), Spirit (Mind Force)... isn't that sufficient?"

"What you lack is 'heart,' which is emotion. Your moves are just rigid tools and do not contain your intentions,"

Yu Yanmei concentrated True Qi on the Longquan Sword. The treasured sword immediately became cold and sharp, emanating an indescribable sense of danger that seemed to cut those who glanced at it.

"Be it the sincere devotion and firm belief towards the Martial Path, or sadness, anger, fear; let the 'heart' merge into your moves and transform into—Martial Will!"

Having finished speaking, Yu Yanmei lightly swung the sword, slicing off a corner of a stone block as smoothly as slicing through tofu.

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Lu Yao fell silent for a long while, engrossed in thought.

"Heart... it's emotion."

He looked up at the beauties.

"I want to bring a stable and beautiful life to my women; I need strong power to protect them."

"In this world of Otherworld, where beasts thrive on corruption and the wolf-hearted dominate! I want to handle injustices! This too requires strong power!"

Lu Yao then looked up at the somewhat smaller sun in the sky.

"And also the monsters that have involved Blue Star... be it to support the heavens or to protect myself, I need strong power."

"In a world where supernatural powers exist, authority and wealth are illusory, only power is fundamental!"

"So my heart is simple—Power! Protection!"

Upon understanding this, Lu Yao suddenly felt a sense of clarity in his mind, as if a dusty pearl had been wiped clean and became transparent in an instant.

He stood in front of the stone block again, with an unstoppable determination and a strong desire for power, he slowly unleashed a palm!

This time, the Mind Force didn't entangle but completely integrated with the Inner Breath, indistinguishable from one another, together transforming into the energy driving the divine palm!

Under this energy's drive, Lu Yao clenched the Immovable Fundamental Seal with his left hand and his right palm thunderously striked out, blasting a ring of white airwaves!

Simultaneously, he entered a peculiar Spirit Refining State—

The world suddenly seemed diminutive, the stone block that was one person tall became a walnut, and his own palm was like a colossal hammer falling from the sky, sure to smash it to pieces!

The next second, the palm hit the target!

A thunderous roar akin to a rumble of thunder was heard, and the thousand-pound stone block, as if hit by a cannonball, exploded into the air, shattering into countless pieces that shot in all directions!

That was the power the Tathagata Divine Palm should possess!

Yu Yanmei gently applauded, a smile appearing on her face for the first time, "Not bad! This strike could seriously injure an Innate Martial Artist!"

The three sisters also cheered happily, even more delighted than if they had learned it themselves.

Lu Yao bowed with his fists and said, "I have not failed to live up to your expectations! However, the power is great, and so is the consumption."

At this moment, the hand that struck the palm trembled slightly, half of his body ached. Moreover, his Inner Breath and Mind Force were largely depleted, leaving him utterly exhausted in both mind and body.

At his current level of cultivation, using the Divine Palm was still somewhat forced.

Nevertheless, he was very satisfied. "Tathagata Divine Palm" lived up to its name as a divine skill, with power comparable to cannonballs, a direct hit to the head could instantly kill an Innate!

It could definitely serve as a trump card!

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Lu Yao was surrounded by the three sisters congratulating him, and everyone was very happy.

At this moment, Yu Yanmei's hands trembled. In fact, she was feeling very astonished inside.

A high monk once took eight years of facing a wall to learn this move of "Tathagata Divine Palm," whereas Lu Yao, despite some setbacks, had taken less than an hour in total!

While surprised, Yu Yanmei was also somewhat worried.

The world is getting more and more chaotic; anyone could see—it was a time of great strife for the changing of dynasties.

And at such times, countless talents would emerge, fighting and slaughtering each other, with lives regarded as mere grass.

The emergence of Lu Yao seemed to confirm this point.