Chapter 558 - 310: Accumulating Strength, 13 Zhang of Spiritual Power!

The night falls, Su Mu extinguishes the pill fire and closes the furnace.

He casually stores a Qi and Blood Pill into the Sumeru Ring. Even in the Cyan Fish Gang, such a seventh-grade elixir is not something ordinary members can freely enjoy.

Generally speaking, in Donglai County, powerful forces capable of nurturing their own alchemists typically provide elixirs at least one grade lower for their disciples’ daily cultivation.

For instance, only cultivators like Cao Yu of the sixth grade are entitled to obtain a certain amount of seventh-grade elixirs monthly for cultivation, but this does not mean that fifth-grade cultivators in the Cyan Fish Gang can definitely obtain sixth-grade elixirs for cultivation.

Even as one of the major forces in Donglai County, Cyan Fish Gang only allows fifth-grade elite disciples with a certain status within the gang to obtain a few sixth-grade elixirs monthly, while more fifth-grade cultivators in Cyan Fish Gang tend to consume seventh-grade elixirs more often.

This is because lower three grade and middle third grade elixirs are a hurdle, and alchemists naturally require higher talent than ordinary cultivators, with less than one among every hundred cultivators having decent alchemist talent.

Lower third-grade alchemists are already rare, and those able to craft middle third-grade elixirs are even fewer.

Currently, the highest grade visible in Donglai County is only a few fourth-grade alchemists, and so far, no upper third-grade alchemy grandmasters have been born.

However, even in Donglai County City alone, there are no fewer than a dozen upper third-grade great cultivators visible, and counting those across all of Donglai County’s hundred counties, the number of upper third-grade great cultivators will only be greater.

Highly skilled alchemists are cherished wherever they go, all capable of becoming honored guests of major forces.

An alchemy grandmaster’s status is undoubtedly far superior to that of ordinary great cultivators.

This is the appeal of being an alchemist.

Su Mu returns to his own courtyard and swallows the Qi and Blood Pill and Small Returning Pill together like two candy beans.

"The quality of today’s batch of Qi and Blood Pills is higher, the effect is much stronger, by over thirty percent more than the ones I refined before, and the pill yield has also returned to eighty percent..."

"Refining middle third-grade elixirs will attract phenomena, this is not urgent for now."

Feeling his healing meridians within, Su Mu nods quietly, everything progressing orderly towards his expectations.

Now, his strength that he can wield has recovered from less than ten percent before joining Cyan Fish Gang to nearly fifty percent.

"Fifty percent strength is more than enough against fifth-grade cultivators, I’m also not afraid of fourth-grade ones."

With the meridians firmly on the path to healing, just after experiencing high-pressure trials like the big match of slaying Tao Jidong, complemented by the Sun Family Ancestor’s sword slicing of Tao Family’s second patriarch atop Donglai County City.

As life calmed down, the fortune gained from life-and-death at Bai Jiao Mountain accelerated in digestion.

Life-Attracting Technique (Small Success 16%)

Comprehension: 185 (Dragon-and-Phoenix Level)

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Ziyang Viewing Qi Technique (Small Success 21%)

Comprehension: 188 (Dragon-and-Phoenix Level)

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Qingfeng Crossing Cicada (Great Success 29%)

Comprehension: 189 (Dragon-and-Phoenix Level)

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Molten Fire Golden Body (Great Success 33%)

Comprehension: 193 (Dragon-and-Phoenix Level)

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Hundred Battles Fist (Great Success 36%)

Comprehension: 197 (Dragon-and-Phoenix Level)

Su Mu breaks through continuously in Martial Arts. Besides these Martial Arts, the Three-Turn Dragon Elephant Skill, Five Elements Technique, Pill Technique, and Profound Demon Five Transformations have also all rapidly progressed.

In less than half a month, his comprehension has increased swiftly by thirteen points, approaching the threshold of two hundred, and Su Mu feels an ever stronger and clearer premonition of breaking the shackles in comprehension and ushering in a new transformation!

Then, with the breakthrough to Great Success in Qingfeng Crossing Cicada, Molten Fire Golden Body, and Hundred Battles Fist, three sixth-grade Martial Arts, Su Mu now also generated three entirely new Martial Arts forces within.

Altogether, his Gang Force surreptitiously reached a terrifying twenty-seven forces, an event if revealed, would surely astonish the world.

Time flows quietly as water, turning another three days.

Deep autumn rain drapes sorrow, often falling all night long, deep in the woods more than ten miles east of Commandery City.

Dark clouds obscure the moon, the dark night envelopes a place too dark to see one’s fingers, clusters of white light appear in succession, like scattered stars forming a river.

"It is the energy of grandiosity, existing eternally with awe."

"When it pierces sun and moon, life and death are insignificant."

Under a tree, a handsome youth speaks aloud, the scattered white lights intensify, forming clusters of exceptionally pure Vast Qi, the Vast Qi encircles the youth surrounded like stars supporting the moon.

Ten clusters coalesce into one Vast Lantern.

Ten Lanterns.

Thirty Lanterns.

Fifty Lanterns.

Beyond fifty Lanterns, the area around Su Mu’s body brightens greatly, moving with his heart, black and white diagonal moon and three stars flicker on his chest, the Vast Qi roils within his dantian.

Buzz!

An invisible barrier bursts instantly with the full Vast Qi.

Confucian Sect Seventh Grade!

Su Mu naturally advances into the third realm of lower three grades, yet his surrounding Vast Lanterns do not halt, still rapidly coalescing.

Sixty Lanterns.

Sixty-five Lanterns.

Only at sixty-nine Lanterns does the aggregation slowly pause, with six hundred ninety-nine strands of Vast Qi forming sixty-nine Vast Lanterns illuminating the deep forest like daylight.

Each Vast Lantern seems like a star, surrounding the sole bright moon, the star river dazzling.

"Whew—!"

Su Mu exhales gently, regaining clarity, silver light twinkles in his eyes, bright like stars.

Nurturing Vast Qi (Perfection)

Comprehension: 199 (Dragon-and-Phoenix Level)

As the scroll "Nurturing Vast Qi" obtained from Shuangbai Academy reaches perfection, comprehension breaks through again, streams of comprehension warmth continually transform into Vast Qi.

The seventieth Vast Lantern coalesces instantly, now Su Mu perceives an invisible shackle, realizing this Confucian cultivation technique has been mastered to the utmost.