Chapter Three: Lu Yu’s Past and Present! Sealing the Innate Qi! The Gateway to the Perfection of the Triple Inversion!

By the age of eighteen, Lu Yu had already cultivated the "Triple Inverse Life" technique to the second level. Although he had only just scratched the surface and could not compare to Lu Jin, who had been immersed in the second level for years, it was enough for him to sweep through his peers.

Unfortunately, the Golden Light Mantra required cultivation from a very young age, using innate energy to lay a solid foundation for true mastery. Lu Yu only began practicing it at nineteen, and ultimately, he only managed a superficial level of success, unable to make further progress.

As for the Lightning Method... as the eldest young master of the Lu family, he had lost his virginity early in his previous life, which restricted him to the Yin Five Thunders, making the Yang Five Thunders impossible to master.

And the Heavenly Secret Talisman? Under Lu Jin’s meticulous tutelage, Lu Yu had mastered this one of the Eight Miraculous Skills. However, because the Eight Miraculous Skills were of such great significance, Lu Jin had repeatedly warned him never to display it before outsiders unless absolutely necessary.

Even so, he still towered over the talents of his generation! As for those monsters with protagonist halos, Zhang Chulan and Feng Baobao? Lu Yu was roughly twenty years older than Zhang Chulan. In other words, when Lu Yu was eighteen and making a name for himself in the world of Outsiders, Zhang Chulan had not even been born yet!

But somehow, news leaked that Lu Yu had cultivated the Heavenly Secret Talisman. The Wang family discovered this and, in league with the Lu family, dispatched over a dozen experts to capture him and force him to reveal the cultivation method. For three days and three nights of pursuit, not only did the Wang and Lu families fail, but Lu Yu—the one they viewed as prey—managed to kill thirteen of their experts.

However, human strength has its limits. Even two fists struggle against four hands. After killing the thirteenth expert, Lu Yu was heavily wounded and fell unconscious before he could escape much further. When he woke up, he had arrived on the Douluo Continent, appearing right at the entrance of Holy Soul Village. When he saw the words "Holy Soul Village" on the stone tablet and later heard the self-introduction of the village elder, Jack, Lu Yu realized instantly: he had transmigrated once again!

Taking a deep breath, Lu Yu slowly calmed his mind, pulling his thoughts away from the past to gaze at the Heaven-Turning Seal in his palm. Lu Yu recognized this object; it was a small jade seal he had bought from a roadside vendor in his previous life, engraved with the characters for "Heaven-Turning." At the time, he had simply liked it. Having read many prehistoric myths in his life before that, he knew of this famous "head-smashing artifact." It was known for striking the forehead with unerring accuracy, and those who died under it often met a miserable end. Lu Yu had bought it and carried it with him ever since.

He never expected that after transmigrating to the Douluo Continent, his awakened Martial Soul would actually be this very Heaven-Turning Seal! Compared to the small jade trinket he remembered, the stone lump in his hand was quite unsightly. However, it was significantly larger.

Lu Yu focused his mind, and the Heaven-Turning Seal in his palm suddenly expanded, stopping only when it reached half a meter in size. Throughout this process, he finally felt a certain consumption of his internal energy. His eyes lit up, and he rose abruptly. Grabbing the seal, he swung it with all his might, slamming it into the ground!

"Boom!" With a deafening explosion, a deep crater was smashed into the hard rocky earth. If this blow had landed on an ordinary person, it surely would have turned them into a pulp of flesh and blood!

"This..." Lu Yu blinked, a flash of surprise in his eyes. He had used less than five percent of his strength!

After arriving in this world, Lu Yu had immediately begun practicing the Triple Inverse Life. Although his foundation from his previous life was gone, he was pleasantly surprised. Because his body had reverted to that of a five-year-old, it meant his innate energy had not been depleted! In his previous life, he had started practicing at eleven, by which time most of his innate energy had already dissipated. He had been forced to follow in Lu Jin’s footsteps, attempting to re-condense his innate energy through the Triple Inverse Life—but how easy was that? Lu Jin had practiced for decades and was still stuck at the second level.

The Triple Inverse Life, as the name suggests, consists of three realms. The first is the tempering and strengthening of the physical body. The second allows for the temporary "energization" of internal organs, bones, and even blood, allowing wounded flesh to recover through energy, or even the regeneration of severed limbs! The third is the perfect energization of the body, returning all one's energy to its innate state—it is said that upon reaching this realm, one can ascend to immortality!

When Lu Yu discovered his body was brimming with innate energy upon arriving on the Douluo Continent, he immediately began circulating the Triple Inverse Life, locking all his innate energy within him. This was not difficult for him; despite losing his previous cultivation, he retained over a decade of insight. Under Lu Jin’s exhaustive teaching, his understanding of various techniques was unmatched even in the world of Outsiders. Possessing this innate energy was equivalent to prying open the door to the third realm of the Triple Inverse Life! He only needed to gradually make it his own to have a chance at reaching that legendary state.

Most importantly, with the innate energy and his insights from the past, his cultivation speed was thousands of miles a day! In the year since arriving in this world, he had spent only three months mastering the first level of the Triple Inverse Life, hitting a bottleneck. This bottleneck meant that his soul power had reached level ten, and he could make no further progress until he obtained his first soul ring.

However, Lu Yu was extremely familiar with the Douluo world and knew that even if his修为 could not increase, continued practice would still yield results. During this year, he had never once ceased his cultivation, which was why he had managed to shatter the soul power detection crystal ball during his awakening!

The five-percent strength he had just used was equivalent to the power of an average adult in the Douluo world. In other words, his newly awakened Martial Soul—the Heaven-Turning Seal—possessed the power to crack gold and split stone even without an attached soul ring! A trash Martial Soul? Perhaps only that "Blind God King" would call it that!

Shrinking the seal back to the size of his palm, Lu Yu sat cross-legged on the peak, lost in thought. That this seal could follow him through his transmigration and become his Martial Soul meant it was certainly no ordinary object. Could it be... the true Heaven-Turning Seal from the prehistoric myths?

At this thought, Lu Yu’s eyelids twitched. A bold guess formed in his heart: could his transmigration to the Douluo Continent be related to this seal? During his soul awakening, he had not felt the warm current others described; instead, his body had been enveloped by a majestic, overwhelming force that made it hard to breathe. Could this power also be linked to the seal?

After observing it for a long time without discovering any further clues, Lu Yu put the Martial Soul away, closed his eyes, and began to cultivate.