The Thirty-Seventh Chapter: Heaven and Earth Treasure Medicine, Qi and Blood Cultivation Methods!

"What you just..."

On the country road, the bright moon hung overhead, and the wild fields stretched beneath its quiet song.

Luo Puxin and Chen Yan walked silently.

Luo Puxin exhaled a puff of smoke, the scene of Chen Yan breaking Secretary Ye's finger resurfacing in his mind.

He hadn't expected Chen Yan to be so decisive.

Chen Yan spoke calmly. "He was the one who tried to break my teacher's finger first."

"Mm, I know. You did nothing wrong." Luo Puxin smiled.

"What I mean is, if you intend to make an enemy for good, you can't let him go.

"He's seen a few important people in his time. He might not be able to threaten you, but he could still cause trouble.

"If you don't deal with little troubles, they'll pile up until they become a thunderclap."

Chen Yan was taken aback. Luo Puxin was telling him to leave no loose ends.

"Understood." Chen Yan nodded.

"Mm." Luo Puxin smiled.

"You'll handle this. Finish it within a week—that'll be my test for you.

"Be discreet. Leave no evidence for anyone else.

"If you pass, I'll give you a reward."

A flicker of surprise crossed Chen Yan's face, and he nodded.

He had already planned to finish the job. He hadn't expected there to be a reward, too.

"You've already undergone Limit Breaking Awakening, so you've officially stepped into the Five Viscera Realm. Every step you take from now on will make you a little stronger than other people.

"Limit Breaking Awakening is an enormous opportunity, but it's also an enormous danger." Luo Puxin spoke quietly. With a wave of his hand, the cigarette butt crumbled into ash.

What kind of technique was that? It was powerful!

Chen Yan was secretly startled.

"Please explain Limit Breaking Awakening in detail, Bro Luo."

"Mm." Luo Puxin said, "After Limit Breaking Awakening, Zhou Ming granted you a talent. It belongs to you, but anyone else who underwent Limit Breaking Awakening just like you will have the same talent.

"If they kill you, they can take your talent."

A cold glint appeared in Chen Yan's eyes.

Fortunately, he hadn't said a word since awakening.

"Of course, that only happens when a few of them reveal their location.

"But even if you never meet, they still have a chance to seize the source of your talent." Luo Puxin's expression turned grave.

"When someone reaches the Hundred Meridians, they can open a certain kind of passage. Then there'll be no distance between you, and they can absorb the source of your talent from thin air.

"Of course, if you're stronger than them, you can absorb theirs instead.

"If the source is absorbed, your talent will disappear, but your Blood Energy quality will still be far beyond that of your peers.

"Don't complain. That's what Limit Breaking Awakening is. There are very few who achieve it, but every one of them can crush their generation and stand unrivaled!"

Chen Yan fell silent. So the Yin Zhe within him wasn't safe.

Others could absorb his, and he could absorb theirs.

That seemed fair enough.

He knew that some people refined ordinary people—or even martial artists—alive into Treasure Medicine so they could absorb them.

The Martial Dao had always been a struggle for resources.

Limit Breaking Awakening simply made the enemies clearer.

Those people were powerful, and they had tremendous willpower.

They were formidable enemies!

Chen Yan shook his head.

There was no point complaining. If he wasn't strong enough, he didn't deserve a talent source like Yin Zhe.

"Is there any way to protect Yin Zhe?" Chen Yan asked.

"Kill them." Luo Puxin smiled.

"That's the simplest way. But you might not be able to find them, so you'll need to strengthen your talent source as quickly as possible."

A glint flashed in Chen Yan's eyes. Did that mean he just needed to keep absorbing Ice Attribute Elemental Energy?

He asked seriously, "Please show me the way, Bro Luo."

"You're too polite. Once you join the Town Martial Division, we'll be colleagues—superior and subordinate, and comrades-in-arms." Luo Puxin continued, "First, there's the Ice Attribute Qi and Blood Cultivation Method we're going to the City Martial Division for tonight. Practicing it will improve your Elemental Energy.

"Second, you need to find treasures that can increase your Ice Attribute Energy and absorb them. There might be some at Qingshan, and the Town Martial Division has some, too.

"Third, learn to control your talent. You need to know how to use it when you use Blood Energy, and how to use Blood Energy without it."

Chen Yan listened attentively, committing each point to memory.

His Yin Zhe was incredibly powerful; he simply couldn't bring out its potential yet.

Others saw him as Treasure Medicine, and he saw them the same way.

He coveted other people's Yin Zhe, too—coveted it badly.

He really wanted to eat it!

That Chen Min looked like he came from a major lineage. They'd surely spent a fortune cultivating his Yin Zhe.

He wanted it so badly.

Beside him, Luo Puxin had a lot more on his mind.

Chen Yan had a strong will, and his Horizontal Refinement talent was strong, too.

There was no need to risk everything for a single talent source.

The path of Limit Breaking Awakening was difficult, and the odds of success were tiny.

He'd be better off giving up on the Qi and Blood Path and focusing on Horizontal Refinement.

Not that he had to abandon Qi and Blood altogether. He could simply skip cultivating Elemental Energy and focus on Qi and Blood; that would work just as well.

There were other ways to obtain Elemental Energy besides Limit Breaking Awakening. They just gave a weaker foundation.

Luo Puxin was about to advise Chen Yan when he saw the fighting spirit in his eyes.

Luo Puxin froze. Wasn't the kid afraid?

Most people, upon learning something like this, would be filled with doubt and anxiety.

Why did Chen Yan look so greedy right now?

The kid had ambition. How could someone raised in a village have such grand ambitions?

Luo Puxin grabbed Chen Yan by the shoulder. The kid had plenty of ambition, but he still needed to see how big the world was.

"Bro Luo, what are you doing?" Chen Yan asked, bewildered.

"We're going to Yunmeng City. Don't you think this way is a little too slow?" Luo Puxin said with a faint smile, exerting force with one hand.

Chen Yan suddenly felt a strange, tremendous force well up inside him. It was as if a flying mountain had launched him forward.

Luo Puxin flung him like a cannonball. Wind howled around him as the fields fell away beneath his feet, and village after village appeared below, then vanished into the distance.

In the blink of an eye, they were thousands of meters away.

Chen Yan's body was about to fall when Luo Puxin appeared beside him again and hurled him forward once more.

"This..."

Chen Yan's eyes were full of wonder.

What realm was Luo Puxin in? This wasn't the strength of someone in the Seventy-two Patterns Extreme Forging Realm.

In a flash, they had left Luoshan County behind.

Along a mountain path, Chen Yu hurried forward when the Red-dressed Woman in her Consciousness World suddenly cried out, "Careful, a powerful expert!"

Chen Yu's face twitched. She immediately hid in the grass beside the path and looked up.

Two tiny black figures flashed across the night sky beneath the bright moon, then vanished in an instant.

"So strong!"

Chen Yu gaped.

"Not that strong, but pretty impressive for this place." The Red-dressed Woman smiled, then suddenly changed expression.

Who was that other figure?

Why did she seem so familiar?

Chen Yan stopped in front of a skyscraper that soared into the clouds, his legs still a little unsteady.

The tower before him stood tall and steep, like a greatsword piercing the night. At a glance, it seemed to have been chiseled from the blades of ten thousand swords. A sharp, imposing aura rushed toward him, carrying an inexplicable solemnity.

Luo Puxin patted Chen Yan on the shoulder, and they entered the building together.

"I'll pick an Ice Attribute Qi and Blood Cultivation Method for you, then take you to the Blood Sensing Chamber to practice.

"I have a pass, but you haven't registered your file with the Town Martial Division yet, so you're not allowed to use the Blood Sensing Chamber.

"Once you're inside, if anyone asks, just say you're from the Gong Family."

Chen Yan nodded, though it felt a little dishonest.

Luo Puxin had already explained the Blood Sensing Chamber to him.

Its walls were made of Inscription Steles imbued with Blood Energy. Blood Qi Martial Artists could enter and absorb the Blood Energy from the steles.

It was a tremendous opportunity, and it wouldn't be recorded in his file. It was practically a free gift.

Chen Yan was grateful.

It was already four in the morning, and hardly anyone was in the City Martial Division.

Luo Puxin led Chen Yan through one checkpoint after another. When they reached the Blood Sensing Chamber, Chen Yan sat down on a chair in the corridor while Luo Puxin went to pick out a cultivation method for him.

The Skill Room was an extremely important place, and Chen Yan certainly couldn't go in. He didn't know what cultivation method Luo Puxin would choose, either.

Even if he were allowed to choose one himself, he wouldn't know where to start.

Before long, Luo Puxin brought back an iron box and handed it to Chen Yan. His expression was complicated.

"It must be fate. This Chaos Abyss Art... An old senior in the Town Martial Division used to cultivate this same method, but unfortunately..."

He slowly shook his head and used his pass to open the Blood Sensing Chamber door.

"Go in. I can't give you too much time. We'll leave after five hours."

"Thank you." Chen Yan bowed again and walked inside.

Luo Puxin nodded and closed the door behind him.

"Five hours isn't enough, but at least he'll have a foundation to build on. I'll bring him back next time."

He thought it over. Chen Yan's file still hadn't been prepared, and according to the rules, he wasn't allowed to start cultivating yet.

But every second mattered after Limit Breaking Awakening, so Luo Puxin had broken the rules.

If anything happened, Shen Yiwei would take responsibility.

"I should go see Old Shen. That workaholic never sleeps." Luo Puxin smiled and headed upstairs.

Inside the Blood Sensing Chamber, red mist filled the room. Chen Yan couldn't find the walls even after feeling around for a long time, so he simply sat down.

Within the Saint Breaking Realm, rolling Red Light surged like great rivers, thick and abundant.

The Blood Energy was so rich that Chen Yan felt every pore on his body opening. Blood Energy from all around rushed toward him.

"Chaos Abyss Art..."

Chen Yan murmured and opened the iron box in his hands. A gleaming Origin Crystal, glowing with icy light, came into view.

At the same time, golden light and Black Light appeared within the Saint Breaking Realm. The Black Light, which represented Elemental Energy, was held back three feet from the Saint Breaking Tree.

So this was the Ice Attribute Qi and Blood Cultivation Method!

Chen Yan's eyes shone. A dark, frigid aura radiated from his body, swirling around the Origin Crystal as he began to visualize.

Inside the Origin Crystal was a person, someone powerful who could conjure ice mountains with a wave of his hand, surrounded by countless layers of cold light.

Chen Yan's thoughts sank into it, and profound Skill Energy surfaced in his mind.

Inside the Saint Breaking Tree, the [Skill] Character Saint Breaking Fruit and [Blood] Character Saint Breaking Fruit rapidly grew.

[Saint Breaking Realm: Level 3 (15/75)]

[Saint Breaking Fruit:

Strength: (59/100)

Blood: (78/100)

Skill: (52/100)

Physique: (85/100)]

On the Saint Breaking Tree, the [Blood] and [Skill] Character fruits grew at astonishing speed.

Faster than ever before!

Since the first one was already nearly ripe, it matured in just five minutes.

Half an hour later, the second [Blood] Character Saint Breaking Fruit matured!

Forty minutes later, the first [Skill] Character Saint Breaking Fruit matured. Chen Yan absorbed the fruit, which contained the Skill Energy of the Chaos Abyss Art, and his visualization grew even faster.

An hour later, the third [Blood] Character Saint Breaking Fruit matured.

Two hours later, the fourth [Blood] Character Saint Breaking Fruit matured.

Two hours and twenty minutes later, the second [Skill] Character Saint Breaking Fruit matured.

A great harvest!

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