Time flew by. The weeds around the small wooden cabin withered and greened, greened and withered. In the blink of an eye, Zhao Ping'an had been under house arrest in the Zhennan Marquis Estate for one year and seven months.
Late at night.
Jiang Manor, Osmanthus Moon Courtyard.
Jiang Shuyue refined an Essence Pill. Her Essence Sea finally expanded to its limit—ten thousand feet, ten times that of a newly formed Essence Sea!
Moreover, her Essence Sea was filled with countless strands of True Essence, nearly brimming to capacity.
She opened her eyes, a sharp gleam shooting from them. "I've finally reached the great perfection of the Primordial Sea Realm."
Without resting, she immediately took out the "Clear Void Xun Wind Art," turned to the third layer, and began reading and comprehending it.
The third layer of the "Clear Void Xun Wind Art" corresponded to the Third Realm—the Divine Treasury Realm.
The Divine Treasury Realm was also called the Five Treasury Realm, and it had five levels in total.
The five treasuries were the five internal organs of the human body—the liver, heart, spleen, lungs, and kidneys.
The human body was a vast divine treasury with limitless potential. The five treasures of the liver, heart, spleen, lungs, and kidneys were important divine treasuries that were comparatively easy to open. Every divine treasury opened granted immense power, each with its own wondrous abilities.
After Jiang Shuyue finished reading the third layer of the "Clear Void Xun Wind Art," she immediately entered a state of enlightenment, countless insights flooding into her mind.
She had experienced this kind of enlightenment before. At once, she slightly closed her eyes, guarded her mind, and devoted herself to receiving those insights.
The enlightenment lasted for the time it took half an incense stick to burn. When it ended, she had completely comprehended the third layer of the "Clear Void Xun Wind Art."
This is the enlightenment Ping'an left for me before he was born! Delight appeared on Jiang Shuyue's exquisitely beautiful face.
Thinking of Zhao Ping'an, she could not help thinking of how he was confined within the Zhennan Marquis Estate. Tears instantly streamed down her beautiful eyes like a river, and she began to sob in grief.
A child of only four, imprisoned in a tiny patch of land, without elders to care for him, without friends or playmates, unable to go out onto the streets, unable to... How lonely and agonizing that must have been.
After crying for a while, Jiang Shuyue raised her head again and fiercely wiped away her tears. Determination and madness shone in her eyes. "Ping'an, Mother will definitely rescue you!"
She sat down cross-legged once more, slightly closed her eyes, and began cultivating the third layer of the "Clear Void Xun Wind Art" to open the five divine treasuries within her body.
It was as though she had cultivated the third layer of the "Clear Void Xun Wind Art" countless times, as though she had opened the five divine treasuries countless times.
Familiar with every step, Jiang Shuyue opened her Lung Divine Treasury first, taking only the time it took an incense stick to burn.
As the Lung Divine Treasury opened, an incomparably pure and dense surge of vital essence erupted first, swiftly flowing throughout her body.
Before she could explore the wondrous abilities of the Lung Divine Treasury, her breathing rapidly grew stronger. Like a dragon-whale drawing in water, she madly absorbed the Heavenly Essence around her.
For a time, she absorbed all the Heavenly Essence in the surrounding area. Heavenly Essence from farther away swiftly rushed in to replenish it, forming a vortex of Heavenly Essence centered around her.
The vortex of Heavenly Essence rapidly expanded, spreading beyond Osmanthus Moon Courtyard and extending throughout Jiang Manor.
Sensing the abnormal fluctuations of Heavenly Essence, the Primordial Sea Realm experts within Jiang Manor were all awakened. They quickly left their bedrooms and looked toward the center of the disturbance.
"It's Osmanthus Moon Courtyard—it's coming from Little Sister's place!" Jiang Fazheng's expression changed slightly. Worried that something had happened to Jiang Shuyue, he immediately raced out of his courtyard toward Osmanthus Moon Courtyard.
When he arrived outside Osmanthus Moon Courtyard, he discovered that a tall, aged figure had gotten there before him.
It was his father, Jiang Wen.
"Dad, Little Sister..." Jiang Fazheng asked anxiously.
To his surprise, Jiang Wen laughed happily. "It's a good thing. Yue'er has opened her Lung Divine Treasury and become a Divine Treasury Realm expert!"
"Ah?!" Jiang Fazheng cried out in shock and disbelief. He was so stunned that he thought he had heard wrong. "Little Sister, she... she's entered the Divine Treasury Realm already?"
Every realm was a chasm that reached the heavens. The chasm between the Primordial Sea Realm and the Divine Treasury Realm had ground away the lofty ambitions of countless people.
Out of ten thousand Primordial Sea Realm cultivators, only two or three would ultimately enter the Divine Treasury Realm!
He and his eldest brother, Jiang Fatian, had possessed greater talent than Jiang Shuyue since childhood and had entered the Primordial Sea Realm ten years before her. Yet even now, they had not touched the threshold of the Divine Treasury Realm.
Who would have thought that Jiang Shuyue would enter the Divine Treasury Realm before them?
"Of course she has." Jiang Wen confirmed Jiang Fazheng's question with a face full of smiles.
By then, the other Primordial Sea Realm cultivators in Jiang Manor had hurried over, along with many others who had been alarmed.
When they learned that Jiang Shuyue had entered the Divine Treasury Realm, they were both shocked and overjoyed.
From this day onward, Jiang Manor had two Divine Treasury Realm experts!
More than half an hour later, Jiang Shuyue finished her cultivation. Sensing many people outside, she walked out.
"Little Sister, congratulations on entering the Divine Treasury Realm!" Her two brothers were the first to eagerly and joyfully step forward to greet her.
A rare smile appeared on Jiang Shuyue's face. "Thank you, Eldest Brother, Second Brother."
Then she walked up to Jiang Wen, her face resolute and determined. "Dad, agree to the Life-and-Death Arena Battle the Li Family has proposed. Set the date for one month from now."
Over the past few years, the Jiang Family had made a fortune selling soap.
Although the Jiang Family had been extremely cautious in its operations, taking the high-end, limited-market route, selling soap as a rare treasure, vigorously promoting how difficult and costly it was to make, and sharing some of the profits with others, it had still attracted many covetous eyes seeking to seize the soap formula by force.
Among them, the Li Family was currently the strongest coveter.
The Li Family was immensely powerful, with a large population and strength far surpassing that of the Jiang Family. In terms of Primordial Sea Realm and Divine Treasury Realm experts alone, they had five or six times as many as the Jiang Family.
As for peak combat power, the Jiang Family had previously possessed only Jiang Wen, a single Divine Treasury Realm expert, while the Jiang Family had five Divine Treasury Realm experts.
Recently, the Li Family had lost patience and issued the Jiang Family an ultimatum: either hand over the soap formula, or accept a Life-and-Death Arena Battle.
A Life-and-Death Arena Battle meant that each side sent out five people—the list of participants determined before the decisive battle—to take turns ascending the arena for duels. It was a fight to the death, ending only when everyone on one side had died or one side agreed to surrender to the other.
Hearing this, Jiang Wen frowned deeply and shook his head. "Yue'er, you've only just entered the Divine Treasury Realm. Besides, our Jiang Family has only two Divine Treasury Realm experts, while the Li Family has five. We simply can't defeat them."
"Within one month, I'll reach the Divine Treasury Realm Fifth Heaven. I alone will slaughter my way through all five of them!" Jiang Shuyue said firmly.
Soap was currently the Jiang Family's most important source of income. Losing that source of income, or suffering a steep decline in its earnings, would greatly affect her ability to obtain Cultivation Resources, affect how quickly she could raise her cultivation and strength, and affect her ability to rescue Zhao Ping'an.
She would not allow the soap formula to be stolen.
What was more, the soap formula belonged to her son, Zhao Ping'an!
"Ah?" Jiang Wen could not help being horrified. He did not believe her at all.
She had only just entered the Divine Treasury Realm, yet she wanted to reach the Divine Treasury Realm Fifth Heaven within one month? That was simply a fantasy. Even a Saint reincarnated could not accomplish it.
My poor daughter has truly gone mad. She has already lost her mind.
Knowing that her father would not readily believe her, Jiang Shuyue said, "In two days, I'll enter the Divine Treasury Realm Second Heaven. Dad, please wait and see."
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