Chapter 6: Recreating the Precious Medicine

After Xiao Hanzi left, Su Chen began to accelerate the growth of his medicinal herbs.

The Path of the Body.

The Fifth Grade is the Skin and Flesh Realm, the Fourth Grade is the Tendon and Bone Realm, the Third Grade is the Marrow Cleansing Realm, the Second Grade is the Viscera Realm, and the First Grade is the Realm of No Leakage—where the circulation is complete and the body is entirely sealed, also known as a Lesser Grandmaster.

The "Six-Zhang Golden Body Formula" is of a very high grade; it is likely capable of training one to the peak of the First Grade Lesser Grandmaster realm.

However, it is also very difficult to enter.

The threshold is extremely high.

It requires a hundred-year-old blood-nourishing treasure herb, a Blood-Nurturing Plant, just to begin the practice.

For blood-nourishing treasure herbs, the longer the age, the better the effect, and the higher the quality of the golden body blood-qi condensed.

External hard-body training, much like internal cultivation methods, requires not only talent but also martial arts resources.

They are both martial arts prodigies.

A martial arts prodigy on the Path of Qi can soar to the heavens with just one superior cultivation method.

A martial arts prodigy on the Path of the Body, if they only have one superior hard-body training method, simply cannot take flight. But if you add massive amounts of resources, they can definitely fly much faster than those on the Path of Qi.

Treasure herbs?

Su Chen is not lacking in such things; he has as many as he wants.

A hundred-year-old treasure herb to enter the "Six-Zhang Golden Body Formula"?

Who are you looking down on?

As if anyone couldn't afford to eat that.

Eat.

Eat one, soak in one.

And so.

Su Chen began to accelerate their growth.

He was utterly reckless, preparing to use two thousand-year-old blood-nourishing treasure herbs—one for internal consumption and one for external soaking—to enter the "Six-Zhang Golden Body Formula."

Even the founder of the "Six-Zhang Golden Body Formula" probably wasn't as insane as Su Chen, squandering thousand-year-old treasure herbs so lavishly just to enter the threshold of a single technique.

One must know.

A single thousand-year-old treasure herb can basically indirectly create a Second Grade expert.

The blood-nourishing treasure herbs Su Chen chose were the Blood-Nurturing Plant and the Qi-Condensing Fruit.

These can be considered the two most effective blood-nourishing treasure herbs for entering the "Six-Zhang Golden Body Formula."

Soon.

Forty strands of Longevity True Qi were completely consumed.

In their place.

Were the Blood-Nurturing Plant, which looked like a potted plant emitting a red glow, and the white jade fruit with golden veins that sat under the sun.

With this, only twenty-eight strands of Longevity True Qi remained swirling in Su Chen's dantian.

There was no sign of them growing or recovering.

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Su Chen was somewhat surprised.

He looked at the two thousand-year-old treasure herbs in front of him, the dogtail grass, and the direction where the thousand-year-old Ginseng King was stored, and he understood.

If his Longevity True Qi didn't disappear after being injected into the treasure herbs, the Longevity True Qi within his body wouldn't be able to recover.

Sixty strands of Longevity True Qi + one strand + thirty-one strands.

Plus the eight in his dantian.

His Longevity True Qi had actually already reached one hundred strands, surpassing the limit of martial arts prodigies.

"So there's this limitation too."

Su Chen realized, and in his heart, he extinguished the idea of making money with hundred-year-old treasure herbs.

Every portion of treasure herb he accelerated, if it were in someone else's hands, he would have no way to control whether it was used, which was equivalent to losing the Longevity True Qi that the herb represented.

"One hundred strands of Longevity True Qi... it's not quite enough."

Su Chen sighed, held the Qi-Condensing Fruit in his mouth, his cheeks bulging like a hamster, and cut the Blood-Nurturing Plant—which looked like a small potted tree—into small pieces, placing them into a wooden tub. He took off his clothes and sat cross-legged in the water to practice the "Six-Zhang Golden Body Formula."

The entire Library Pavilion was permeated with a strange fragrance.

Fortunately, this place was too remote.

Otherwise.

The Grand Eunuch would have long since followed the scent to investigate.

A night passed.

Su Chen opened his eyes and woke up.

The wooden tub, which had been blood-red, had returned to the appearance of clear spring water, and the Qi-Condensing Fruit in his mouth had long since flowed like water into his internal organs.

Boom!

The wooden tub shattered into pieces.

At this moment, surging blood-qi coursed through Su Chen's body, making his physique feel like a furnace, and a dull, powerful heartbeat resounded violently.

The naked Su Chen walked forward, his steps heavy and light, wanting to put on clothes, but he left deep footprints in the bluestone tiles beneath his feet.

Crack.

His clothes were torn apart instantly.

His body was like a furnace, his heart like a great bell; every step he took carried a thousand pounds of force.

This was the level that only a top-tier martial arts prodigy could reach at the Fifth Realm, the peak of the Flesh Realm.

And now.

Su Chen had only just stepped into the Flesh Realm, not yet having begun to temper his flesh to perfection, yet he was already comparable to a top-tier martial arts prodigy at the peak of the Flesh Realm.

"Let's test it."

Su Chen walked up to a massive bluestone and threw a punch.

The Fifth Realm of the Path of the Body is much stronger than the Path of Qi; with this punch, he should be able to leave a fist mark on this bluestone.

Just as Su Chen thought this.

Boom!

The bluestone, which required two people to embrace, shattered instantly, with countless small stone fragments flying everywhere.

"Ah, this..."

Su Chen was dumbfounded, clutching his forehead.

He was strong.

He knew that now!

Even weaker Fourth Grade experts could be beaten until they howled by him.

But.

This mess all over the floor—how long would it take to clean up?

...

The night grew deep.

The Great Liang was located in the north.

It snowed often.

It was snowing again tonight.

With such a formidable Fifth Grade Flesh Realm, Su Chen finally possessed some self-preservation ability. Otherwise, if he had to face enemies with his Fifth Grade Internal Qi Realm that only increased vitality, he feared that after two hits, the enemy would be howling with pleasure.

That night, Su Chen slept very soundly.

Early the next morning.

The True Qi in Su Chen's body had recovered to sixty-eight strands.

If it weren't for the fact that the medicinal properties of the thousand-year-old Ginseng King were too vast, and throwing it out would definitely stir up a bloody storm across the Great Liang, Su Chen would have used it himself or sold it to others to replenish the thirty-one strands of Longevity True Qi.

The medicinal properties of the two thousand-year-old blood-nourishing treasure herbs were very potent.

Basically.

Su Chen's body was packed with medicinal power.

Even without practicing the "Six-Zhang Golden Body Formula" to temper his body, the flesh and blood in his body were being automatically refined by the medicinal power. As time passed, he would sooner or later be able to automatically advance to the peak of the Flesh Realm, or even penetrate into his tendons and bones, refining them to reach the peak of the Fourth Grade Tendon and Bone Realm, or even higher.

After all.

Since the founding of the Great Liang.

It had never been heard of that anyone used thousand-year-old treasure herbs just to enter the threshold of a hard-body training technique.

And two of them at once, no less.

Thousand-year-old treasure herbs were always used to save lives, or for a peak Third Grade expert to break through to the Second Grade.

Time passed quickly.

Ever since the last time he left the Library Pavilion to find Zhang Gui and brought about the incident with the Black-Clad Envoys, Su Chen had not stepped out again. Anyway, with Xiao Hanzi serving him below and Zhang Gui looking after him above, he was living a very comfortable life in this imperial palace, eating for free.

The last day of the twelfth month.

Xiao Hanzi didn't come as often.

When Zhang Gui attained the Dao, his chickens and dogs ascended to heaven.

As Zhang Gui's godson, Xu Xiaohan, relying on the merit of serving Su Chen, had officially become a Fifth Grade practitioner and a deputy to a Blue-Robed Steward, busy all day long.

The daily delivery of meals had become the job of a young eunuch in black robes who had just entered the palace.

Only when Su Chen had something to do, or Zhang Gui had something to do, would he hurry to the Library Pavilion.

On this day.

The young eunuch in black robes stood respectfully by Su Chen's side, waiting for Su Chen to finish his meal before clearing the bowls and chopsticks and leaving.

It hadn't snowed for a while recently.

Su Chen was loosening the soil in the herb garden, clearing away the snow, waiting for the two main ingredients of the Heart-Devouring Powder to sprout.

The other herbs were easy to handle; low-age herbs could be collected.

But these two were too rare; he could only collect the seeds, and only if Su Chen planted them himself would they have a chance to survive.

Second Grade poison, Heart-Devouring Powder.

This was the most powerful means Su Chen could prepare.

"It looks like they will take root and sprout in two more days, and I'll be able to harvest them in a week. The remains of a peak Third Grade expert really nourish this poisonous herb well."

Su Chen muttered to himself.

At this moment.

A voice rang out in the courtyard, quite inappropriately.

"You have a lot of nerve! A black-robed eunuch, daring to have other eunuchs serve you your meals, and even destroying a corner of the Library Pavilion from the Taizu era to plant grass and trees. So lawless—do you know this is a capital offense!"

(End of chapter)