"Didn't that man just now look a little like Commandant Zhou Shan from before?"
A centurion said quietly.
"Impossible. No matter how talented Commandant Zhou Shan is, he couldn't possibly break through to the Innate Realm in such a short time. You must have seen wrong." Someone shook his head. "For this man to kill Xu Haoran, his cultivation must be deeper than Xu Haoran's. How could he be Commandant Zhou Shan?"
"Whoever he is, it has nothing to do with us. Report this matter. The Commander-in-Chief and the Guiyuan Sect experts will naturally investigate it then. This isn't something we can meddle in."
"Profound Fire Three Transformations!"
After leaving Luyang County, Zhou Shan took out the beast hide and read it as he walked. What was recorded on it was actually a secret art, and one that could only be cultivated after reaching the Innate Realm.
Profound Fire Three Transformations was a combat secret art.
By using a special method to burn True Qi, it could forcibly raise the quality of one's True Qi for a short time.
Upon mastering the First Transformation, an Innate Realm practitioner's First Refinement True Qi could be strengthened by fifty percent. The Second Transformation could double it, while the Third Transformation could raise First Refinement True Qi to the level of Second Refinement True Qi. Yet for True Qi to undergo a second refinement, one had to be a Grandmaster who had undergone Blood Transmutation once.
In other words, if one mastered the Third Transformation of Profound Fire Three Transformations, an Innate Realm Grandmaster's First Refinement True Qi could be elevated to the level of Second Refinement True Qi, granting strength comparable to a Grandmaster who had undergone Blood Transmutation once for a short period.
However, after activating the Profound Fire