Chapter 379: The Path to Becoming a God (7)
The day Sajo handed over his True Origin Qi.
‘The Zhenwang Style is martial arts imbued with Chiwu’s teachings. And the gods of myth, including Chiwu, live for hundreds of years. It means that humans, who can barely live a hundred years at most, would find it difficult to achieve great mastery even if they trained.’
Shao Zu explained that due to their lifespan, it was difficult for humans to master the Zhen Wang Style.
Take me, for instance—did I not achieve great success by consuming vast quantities of elixirs and absorbing the essence of the ancient dragon I cultivated for seventy years?
Then how did Lion Clan Chief achieve great success with the Imperial Sword Style, which shares the same roots as the Zhenwang Style?
Did he inherit the inner strength of a previous leader like I did?
Or did he scrape together elixirs using the Lion Clan’s immense wealth?
Of course, that possibility exists.
If I could achieve greatness that way, what could the Lion Clan Leader possibly lack?
But.
‘At that moment, Father realized it. To perfect the Jeonwangryu, there was only one way: to be born with a perfect Heavenly Body. And that a perfect Heavenly Body could no longer exist in this world.’
That too requires a constitution capable of supporting it.
And.
‘Perhaps it was inevitable. As time passed, the bloodline of the gods could only grow weaker. It wasn’t just us. The Cheon family of the Ten Demon Clans, the Yi family of the Wu Huang Fortress, the Shin family of the Northern Sea Heaven, and those Namgung bastards of the Lion Alliance must be in the same situation.’
