My SSS-Rank Clone Talent: I Level Up Endlessly!-Chapter 69: The Six Stages of Martial Realm!

There were six stages of the divine cultivation technique.

The first stage was the seedling stage. If one reached this stage, it was where one established their inner core, and with the help of the visualisation technique, they could create a "Will" of their own or merge their own "Will" with the visualisation to gain "Demonic Will."

In the first step, one has already reached the third-stage Martial Realm, directly skipping the Martial Trainee realm; this was simply unimaginable and hard to understand for a moment.

As Chun Ma read more about the technique, the more he couldn’t help but take a breath of cold air.

"Gaining a ’Demonic Will’, the power of the will increases significantly and a wild nature is born from it. It devours the energy of nature to absorb energy. The burst of power is terrifying, but there is no stability in it."

"The second stage is the sapling stage, where the Demonic Will is strengthened through Qi from the Martial Artist’s Qi to let the Will gradually adapt to it. Upon completion, one will reach the Second-stage Martial Realm."

"The third stage allows one to merge their Demonic Will with themselves and become one, allowing terrifying strength to be displayed. This is the First-stage Martial Realm."

Chun Ma turned the last few pages and frowned immediately, there was nothing there!

Although in the introduction there were six stages written, in this manual, there were only up to three stages, and the three more were left with the realm’s name only.

"Transcendent, Heavenly, and Divine, huh. Is the Heavenly Demon only giving me the first verses because he has chosen me as a successor but wants me to earn through my own effort?"

Anyway, Chun Ma shook this unnecessary thought and went back to cultivate. First he focused his mind to drive away unnecessary thoughts.

Then he opened his mouth and spoke in a low and deep voice, chanting the mantra:

"My will is infernal, my heart unbound.

I see Death, I embrace it.

From thought, I awaken. Through fire, I ascend."

The Qi in the surrounding area was immediately drawn towards him like moths to a flame and entered his body in a violent way, circulating in the visualisation of a giant lotus that Chun Ma had in mind.

Behind him, a faint image of a black lotus formed. The Qi was being rapidly changed into Demonic Qi and gathering at the center of his body to form the inner core.

The process was slow and steady, but the core was forming ever so slightly.

But Chun Ma stopped the process at the appropriate time. Then he gathered the Mana sent by the main body and merged it with the Demonic Qi.

Initially, the Qi was green. When it changed into Demonic Qi, it turned dark, and now the energy converted into purple again.

"Luckily, the Atherion hasn’t changed. The only thing it has changed is that now it has both Demonic Qi and Mana instead of Qi and Mana."

Chun Ma heaved a sigh of relief in his heart. If the energy caused an unknown change, then it would be truly troublesome for him.

Anyway, the process of forming a core is becoming slower, now that it has to go through several steps just to proceed.

Time passed in the blink of an eye, and the night quickly went by, but Chun Ma was unaware of it in this dark demonic cave.

After some more time had passed, he snapped open his eyes, wiping off the cold sweat from his forehead.

His clothes were soaked in cold sweat all the way through, and the ground was muddy just because of the sheer amount of the sweat.

"Sigh, this is taking too long."

Chun Ma could only sigh in resignation.

"Forming an inner core is really hard. Not to mention, I have to maintain the visualisation and chant the mantra in my heart, but the filtering of the energy to turn into Atherion is taking more time as well."

From his calculation, it would take him several months or even years if he wanted to achieve that result, but Chun Ma didn’t have time currently.

"Forget it, let’s complete the training for now."

Chun Ma went outside and was immediately greeted by people who looked at him with gazes of bewilderment and fear.

It was impossible that they didn’t see the fight between him and the others that night, and they still had nightmares about it.

’Hmm, I seem to have grown taller again.’

Chun Ma’s pupils looked down at them.

When he first came here, he was scrawny and small, but now he has grown taller, stronger!

The bearded instructor appeared as usual, and the trial began.

Chun Ma didn’t start walking; he just stared ahead at all the people who were frantically running with all their strength.

He looked at Rim Soo-Yun, who was already in first place, even beating that bulky person, but Chun Ma shook his heart:

"Her growth is not enough."

With a shake of his head, he drew in as much air as his lungs could hold. The Atherion surged from his meridians in a single burst, and he stomped the ground, generating the momentum he needed to launch into the air.

Chun Ma soared upward, more than fifty feet into the sky, carrying all 140 kilograms of his weight with him.

His figure became a blur against the heavens(skies) as he swiftly closed the distance to the hilltop, landing halfway up with a thunderous crash.

Boom!

The ground trembled as if struck by a magnitude-six earthquake.

The children stumbled, unable to keep their footing.

But Chun Ma wasn’t done. The earth compacted beneath him as he launched once more, shooting straight to the summit.

With two jumps, Chun Ma had already reached the peak of the hill!

"This brat, his strength has already surpassed me," the bearded instructor looked on with an extremely depressed look. How couldn’t he be depressed?