Rapid Advancement!

"Consumed 2 Medicine Spirits, generated a new talent: Hundred Profound Gang Body (Purple)."

Hundred Profound Gang Body (Purple): Toxin immunity; advanced Marrow Cleansing and Hair Rejuvenation; Spiritual Energy possesses a unique effect that can nourish plants and trees, further extracting and sublimating elixirs; provides an extremely high boost to wood-element techniques.

The instant the new talent was generated, Su Hao's spirit jolted, and the world seemed to become clearer.

His sensitivity to the Spiritual Energy of heaven and earth surged.

He gained an even greater degree of control over the condition inside his body.

From the depths of his marrow, blood and flesh tissues, and meridian patterns, to his limbs and bones and his five viscera and six bowels.

He could clearly sense all the impurities, toxins, and faint remnants of medicinal power accumulated within him.

At any moment, he could undergo an even more thorough Marrow Cleansing and Hair Rejuvenation, truly expelling all the elixir toxins and impurities.

Moreover, his absorption rate of medicinal power approached a full ten-tenths, infinitely close to perfection.

At any time, he could make his body more perfect, entirely free of impurities!

His Spiritual Energy was also changing silently, gaining a wondrous quality and an extraordinary affinity for plants and trees.

This talent was enough to turn an ordinary person into a genius of wood-element techniques and a grandmaster of alchemy!

They were both purple talents, but Hidden Kill seemed somewhat inferior—or rather, Hidden Kill was better suited to professional assassins.

The crowd did not understand what was happening. For an instant, they sensed a powerful pressure from Su Hao, but the feeling vanished in the blink of an eye.

"Senior Brother Su, what's wrong? Why are you laughing?"

Chen San instinctively retreated, faintly feeling that Su Hao was some kind of pervert.

Su Hao reined in his smile and glanced at the corpse. "Chen San, you were the one who killed him. Go deal with the body. When Alchemist Lin comes out of seclusion, explain it to him yourself."

As he spoke, however, his gaze could not help sweeping over the many medicine slaves.

Twenty-two medicine slaves remained.

One of them had already awakened the Medicine Person talent.

The rest all possessed the Medicine Person talent.

If all these people died, there would be more than twenty Talent Powers of "Medicine Person."

Eight Medicine Person talents could generate another Hundred Profound Gang Body. Combined with his own talent, perhaps he could continue synthesizing them further?!

The thought flashed through Su Hao's mind, and a trace of greed appeared in his eyes, as if he were looking at a group of prey.

Everyone felt a chill run down their spines.

"What are you standing around for? Get lost. Don't bother me unless there's something!"

Several seconds later, Su Hao suppressed his greed and turned to leave.

He truly could not bring himself to slaughter innocents.

These people, like him, had been forced to take medicine and cultivate, becoming cultivation materials.

If he killed them, how would he be any different from that beast Lin Zhi Shan?!

Lin Miao and Xiong San Yan were Lin Zhi Shan's dogs, harboring evil intentions. Those two deserved to die.

"I won't kill them. But everyone has their own fate. These people have no ability to protect themselves, nor can they resolve the elixir toxins from the Heart Nurturing Pill. They'll either die from the elixir toxins or at the hands of Lin Zhi Shan or other disciples. There's no need to rush."

Su Hao abandoned the idea of killing the more than twenty people.

After returning to his room, he began testing the effects of Hundred Profound Gang Body.

First, he readjusted his qi and blood, coordinating them with his Spiritual Energy as he actively began Marrow Cleansing and Hair Rejuvenation. The effect far surpassed that of the Medicine Spirit talent.

After the time it took an incense stick to burn, Su Hao's body was covered in a faint layer of black grime.

After rinsing himself off, his whole body felt comfortable. The refreshing sensation of every pore breathing was extraordinarily wondrous.

Bare-chested, Su Hao stood in the hall. He suddenly circulated a wisp of Spiritual Energy and struck the flower bud of a potted plant.

The flower bud's color grew more vivid, and it began to slowly bloom.

This was the effect of nourishing plants and trees—it could accelerate ripening!

Combined with planting techniques, the effect would be even more perfect.

"Extracting and sublimating elixirs..."

Su Hao secretly speculated about the information displayed by the talent and experimentally took out a Pure Qi Pill.

He wrapped the pill in Spiritual Energy.

The instant the two came into contact, Su Hao instinctively circulated his Spiritual Energy, causing it to vibrate at a strange frequency.

The pill slowly released specks of gray-black impurities.

The pill, which had already been faintly white, visibly became smoother, whiter, and more refined.

Its impurities had decreased by seventy to eighty percent, making its effects purer. Naturally, its absorption rate would increase as well!

In other words, he had raised the pill's quality by an entire grade!

Su Hao was both shocked and delighted. Judging by the prices at the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion, a High-grade Pure Qi Pill cost three times as much as an ordinary Pure Qi Pill!

With this skill alone, he could earn a fortune by profiting from the price difference.

Toxin immunity, Marrow Cleansing and Hair Rejuvenation, and pill purification.

These three abilities alone were enough for Hundred Profound Gang Body to instantly crush the other purple talent, Hidden Kill.

"I refuse to believe I can't kill Lin Zhi Shan!"

A fierce glint flashed in Su Hao's eyes. He immediately poured an entire bottle of Pure Qi Pills into his mouth, chewing and swallowing them.

A powerful talent several times stronger than Medicine Spirit was enough to let him withstand fiercer medicinal power and elixir toxins.

In just one night, Su Hao consumed ten bottles of Pure Qi Pills and three doses of Spirit Gathering Powder.

Those disciples at Qi Refining Level 10 certainly possessed powerful absorption and digestion abilities, but even if they could do this, they would not dare.

Every cultivator understood the principle that medicine was three parts poison.

Swallowing large quantities of pills would cause Spiritual Energy to become unstable and one's foundation to become unsteady.

Elixir toxins would accumulate over the years, prematurely exhausting the body's potential. Future breakthroughs would become increasingly difficult, and one would encounter more bottlenecks without realizing it.

But Su Hao had no such worries. He possessed an extremely strong resistance to the side effects of elixirs and could directly ignore the toxins and impurities in low-grade pills.

Three more days passed in the blink of an eye.

"Qi Refining Level 5!"

On the eighth day after reaching Qi Refining Level 5, he reached Qi Refining Level 6!

Twenty bottles of Pure Qi Pills, twenty doses of Spirit Gathering Powder, eight bottles of Foundation Solidifying Pills, and eight bottles of Tiger Heart Pills, worth a total of 580 low-grade spirit stones.

All these elixirs had been consumed.

"Sigh... If Huang Shanyu were willing to give me all the elixirs as promised, I'd have twice as many pills. I could definitely reach Qi Refining Level 7!"

Su Hao was unwilling to accept it. Because Huang Shanyu did not trust him, he had refused to provide all the elixirs, giving him only an amount equal to the share of Lin Zhi Shan's elixir profits.

In just over ten days, he had advanced from Qi Refining Level 4 to Qi Refining Level 6!

Such an astonishing cultivation speed was rare even among the outer sect of the Golden Light Sect, let alone the entire cultivation world. He had reached the level of a genius!

It was only because he lacked enough elixirs.

Su Hao had been unable to swallow pills at full strength.

He had spent part of his time cultivating Extreme Intent True Art.

The Hidden Kill talent had opened a fourth spiritual aperture.

The upgraded Hundred Profound Gang Body had widened the third spiritual aperture opened by Medicine Spirit to twice its original size!

Only spiritual apertures opened by purple talents were in their perfect state.

After more than ten days.

He had not opened a fifth spiritual aperture. The spiritual essence formed from a white talent required dozens or even hundreds of times the effort of a blue talent to open a spiritual aperture, so he simply stopped wasting time on it.

All four spiritual apertures had been filled during these days.

Two purple spiritual apertures and two blue spiritual apertures.

Su Hao estimated that he could unleash twice his strength, meaning he had already pushed the incomplete Extreme Intent True Art to its limit.

If all ten spiritual apertures were opened, its power would definitely surpass what was described in the incomplete version.

Name: Su Hao

Realm: Qi Refining Level 6

Talents: Hidden Kill (Purple), Hundred Profound Gang Body (Purple), Fire Elemental Sword Physique (Blue), Sword Heart (Blue), Golden Spirit Body (White), Martial Artist (White), Initial Yang Qi (White)

On the eighteenth day of his seclusion.

Su Hao had more or less mastered all the techniques and secret arts. Continuing his seclusion would no longer bring any obvious progress.

He opened the door. His beard was unkempt, his eyes carried a faint redness, his hair hung loose, and his entire body exuded a thick stench that seemed almost tangible.

He looked even more disheveled than the most slovenly beggar in the world.

Even his room was filled with the stink.

By relying on pills and cultivation, he could go without sleep, food, or rest.

But his body still metabolized, and Marrow Cleansing and Hair Rejuvenation expelled impurities and toxins through his pores. He had not had the time to deal with them and did not want to waste time bathing.

Only now did he notice the stench on his body. Even he could not stand it.

Footsteps came from outside the courtyard. A servant covered his nose. "What's that smell? It reeks... It seems to be coming from Young Master Su's courtyard."

Su Hao gave a self-mocking smile. He channeled Spiritual Energy into his feet and suddenly stomped off the ground, soaring up. His movements were as light as a swallow, and after several turns, he had already flown into the bamboo forest.

There was a waterfall and a clear pool in the woods behind the mountain.

Wearing only a pair of shorts, Su Hao stood beneath the waterfall. The roaring cascade washed away all the filth on his body in an instant.

At a height of 1.8 meters, his body had unknowingly filled out with muscle. Even abdominal muscles had appeared, displaying the full vigor of a man.

"Sir, come on, hurry... I'm so hot..."

In the bamboo forest beside the clear pool, a woman wore revealing clothes, with only a thin veil covering her body. It could not conceal her warm, jade-white figure at all.

Her voice was coquettish and sweet as honey, and she beckoned with a slender finger.

The young man was bewitched by lust. His eyes were filled with the woman's stunning beauty as he impatiently pushed aside the grass.

He no longer cared that the sharp blades of grass cut his arms and palms. He wished he could pounce on the woman immediately!