In the bathing room, steam swirled thickly, suffused with the heavy scent of medicine.
Wang Chen sat in a large tub more than half a man's height tall, his entire body submerged and wrapped in dark brown medicinal liquid.
The charcoal fire beneath the tub burned fiercely.
This large wooden tub was sheathed in iron and specially used for Martial Artists' medicinal baths.
The children of many prominent clans began soaking in medicinal baths from a young age, using them to temper their sinews and bones and strengthen their physiques. Their starting point in martial cultivation was far ahead of ordinary people.
Poor scholars, rich martial artists—nothing described this world more truthfully!
And the medicinal bath Wang Chen was soaking in was far more precious than those used by ordinary scions of great clans.
This tub of medicinal liquid contained aged ginseng, lingzhi, rhinoceros horn, deer antler, gastrodia, snow lotus, and other medicinal ingredients, worth more than five hundred taels of silver!
As the life force within Wang Chen circulated, the rich, potent medicinal power was continuously absorbed into his skin, flesh, sinews, and bones, ultimately transforming into potential stored within him.
In the past, this process had required one or two shichen to fully absorb the medicinal power in an entire tub.
But now that Wang Chen had broken through to the major realm of a fifth-tier Martial Grandmaster and condensed a martial cultivator's dantian, his ability to absorb medicinal power had surged dramatically.
Thus, the soaking time had been compressed to less than the time it took to burn an incense stick!
When the medicinal liquid in the tub turned light brown, Wang Chen suddenly leaped high into the air amid a cloud of vapor, then landed firmly on the ground.
The instant his feet touched the floor,