[Each time you lifted weights, the silkworm threads gradually entwined with your muscles and bones through practice. Every exertion felt like ten thousand ants gnawing at your bones, yet you remained unfazed, persistently lifting weights day after day!]

[A year passed, and the silkworm threads fully merged into your finger bones.]

[You did not stop there but pierced your body’s periosteum with silver needles, sewing the silkworm threads inch by inch into your entire skeleton.]

[Scapula, ribs, spine, pelvis, leg bones... not a single part was missed.]

[Every insertion of the needle, every thread pulled through, came with excruciating pain akin to scraping bones and extracting marrow.]

[The process was as agonizing as the punishment of Lingchi, and the intense pain caused you to faint multiple times, but each time you awoke, you continued to sew yourself without hesitation.]

[This process lasted three full years, spanning three winters and summers, and when the last stitch was made, your entire skeleton was enveloped and penetrated by a resilient network of silkworm threads.]

[You commenced a more brutal "full-body weightlifting" regimen!]

[And this weightlifting spanned twenty whole years!]

[Now, every inch of your bones can manipulate the silkworm threads at will. A hundred pounds of refined iron feels light as a feather in your hand, and when you swing it, it is like embroidering on silk, heavy yet weightless, without any sound of metal clashing.]

[Twenty years of intense practice, finally achieving Great Success with "Thousand Entwining Threads."]

[You left the training ground to find a thousand-foot waterfall.]

[Standing in the torrent at the base of the waterfall, you stopped lifting weights.]

[Instead, you used the silkworm threads all over your body as blades, fighting against the cascading waterfall.]

[You stood there for another ten years!]

[In the thirtieth year, your control over the ’Thousand Entwining Threads’ reached the Transformation Realm.]

[Your threads could bind water into endless waves, forming a transparent vortex around you, which you called "Heavenly Return!"]

[Once ’Heavenly Return’ is executed, ’Thousand Entwining Threads’ reaches Perfection!]

[The joy of Perfection lasted only a moment, replaced by a stronger desire.]

[The ’Thousand Entwining Threads’ had reached its limit, but your limit was not reached!]

[You felt the threads completely merged with your bones, becoming part of your strength but also a "framework" restricting further breakthroughs.]

[Then... demolish this framework!]

[Madly, you tore open your flesh, forcibly pulling apart the threads that had merged with your bones.]

[Every thread removed left splinters of bone scattered, your entire skeletal structure covered with cobweb-like cracks.]

[Blood soaked your clothing, and you resembled a porcelain doll riddled with cracks.]

[Once again, you stood in the torrent at the waterfall base.]

[At this moment, not a single silkworm thread remained in your body, but the true essence of ’Thousand Entwining Threads’ was deeply etched in your heart.]

[As power surged through you, invisible threads of energy flowed over your skin!]

[You had finally reached the supreme realm of "No Thread Surpasses Thread!"]

[After seven days and nights, ’Thousand Entwining Threads’ broke through its limit!]

[The last time you deployed ’Thousand Entwining Threads’, though there was not a single thread, your surroundings seemed entangled in countless invisible threads.]

[Suddenly, the water within three meters around you stood still, each droplet wrapped in invisible thread energy, forming countless small whirlpools in mid-air.]

[It seemed as if the entire waterfall had been severed!]

[A thousand-foot torrent hung suspended, halted three meters around you?!]

[After an eerie 0.3 seconds of stillness!]

[You roared to the sky: "Binding Heaven, Tying Earth, I am the Luo Net!!"]

[The shout was filled with the extreme pleasure of breaking free from constraints and surpassing oneself.]

[Yet, before the laughter subsided, your already fractured body could bear no more burdens.]

[A delicate sound of fracturing emanated from your skeleton, which shattered from toe to skull in an instant, turning to dust!]

[You died with a satisfied smile!]

[You comprehended the Limit-Breaking Skill – Luo Net (Active)!]

[Once activated, a ’Binding Force Domain’ forms within ten feet around you, reducing the movement speed of all enemies entering the domain by 20% and their attack speed by 30%!]

[You consumed a total of 31,000 General Skill Proficiency points, with 5,817 points remaining.]

[Limit-Breaking consumed 1 Universal Skill Point, leaving 3 points.]

Feng Mu reopened his eyes, and the thirty years of vicissitudes, pain, madness, and ultimate satisfaction within his pupils receded like a tidal wave.

He met the gaze of his son, frozen in shock.

If Venom’s initial feeling was vague, this second sensation that followed was particularly clear and real.

So, this is how Father practiced martial arts.

One blink of an eye, and a martial art is mastered?!!

Could this be the real correct way to open the path to martial arts practice – cultivating in the mind?

Fantastical martial cultivation!!!

For anyone else, this would seem like a fantasy, completely unscientific, and not at all martial arts!]

But Venom was merely a monster, a newborn child not even a month old.

So, it was still a blank, pure sheet of paper.

All the "humans" it had encountered so far could be counted on one hand, and its understanding of the world and perception of Martial Arts almost entirely came from Feng Mu’s... teachings (primarily hands-on, with little verbal explanation).

In other words, if Feng Mu dared to teach, Venom dared to believe, and would regard it as the truth!]

Without detailed explanations from Feng Mu, just a demonstration of actions allowed Venom to think independently and mimic spontaneously.

The first step in a newborn’s growth is to imitate its parents, which is an innate biological instinct.

Venom had no mother, only Father!

Therefore, it naturally and unreservedly imitated Feng Mu’s every move.

On this blank page, every stroke made by Feng Mu became the foundation shaping Venom’s understanding of the world.

Fantastical martial cultivation?

Yes!

Fantastical martial cultivation!!!

This must be the ultimate essence of martial arts practice~

Venom did not dare to hope it could reach Father’s level now, but it didn’t stop it from dreaming, like planting a seed in its heart.

If given the opportunity, it would certainly try, experiment, and follow in Father’s footsteps.

What confused Venom more was that after Father mastered this martial art, his entire demeanor subtly changed, with his aura growing even more profound, as if decades of accumulated years had been added out of nowhere.

"Wait, just after achieving [Withered and Flourishing Zen Deceitful Transformation], it felt like this too!"

Venom blinked its large eyes, filled with indescribable confusion and awe.

It was like the feeling just before when it had to call him Father, but in a blink, it seemed to have upgraded to Grandpa.

A father’s father is called Grandpa.

This was a piece of knowledge Venom heard with Father on the ride outside a certain store.

Because it included the word "Father" twice, Venom remembered it well.

Therefore, it would be filial to Father, and shouldn’t it be doubly filial to Grandpa?!!

Feng Mu was obviously unaware of his son’s naive understanding; otherwise, he would take Venom’s head off and teach it the correct understanding of a Grandpa.

Feng Mu did not continue to practice new martial arts but began practicing the Blood and Flesh Initial Solution versions of [Withered and Flourishing Zen Deceitful Transformation] and [Thousand Entwining Threads].

[Withered and Flourishing Zen Deceitful Transformation· Blood and Flesh Three Solutions Skill Proficiency +1!]

[Thousand Entwining Threads· Blood and Flesh Three Solutions Skill Proficiency +1!]

The pace of practice slowed down.

But Venom wasn’t surprised by this and didn’t feel like Father’s talent had suddenly disappeared.

It naturally believed that Father was "reviewing the old to understand the new."

Even though he had mastered the Limit-Breaking, he was still willing to deliberately slow down, honing repeatedly. What else could it be but reviewing the old to understand the new?

These were also the cultivation principles Father taught it.

Venom had a deeper understanding, firmly believing Father was taking time out of his precious schedule to do assignments together with his average-talented self.

The slower pace was unmistakably the gentlest guidance for it to grow!

Father was waiting for it!

No more words needed~

Venom could only practice madly with all its might.

[Venom is practicing madly!]

[Thousand Entwining Threads Skill Proficiency +1+1+1+1.1+1.1...]

[Withered and Flourishing Zen Deceitful Transformation Skill Proficiency +1+1+1+1.1+1.1...]

[Substitute Food effect activated!]

Moreover, because the original versions of these two techniques had already been broken through, the skill proficiency automatically stacked onto the Blood and Flesh Initial Solution versions. The Substitute Food mechanism was unexpectedly wise beyond Feng Mu’s expectations!

Time slowly passed in practice...