One Hundred Thousand Years!

"System, spend 100,000 balance to exchange for one hundred thousand years of cultivation time. Cultivate the Azure Mystery Force-Congealing Art!"

Buzzz!!!~~

An invisible aura burst outward with Chen An at its center. The airflow inside the room churned wildly, while the heaven and earth essence within dozens of miles rushed toward him like a hundred rivers returning to the sea.

The dense spiritual energy transformed into a vast white mist, wrapping around him layer upon layer and shrouding his entire body.

Time seemed to race by here—one year, ten years, a hundred years, a thousand years...

Endless heaven and earth essence was absorbed by his body, refined, purified. Strands of incomparably pure energy continuously settled, transforming into wisps of dense, condensed Xiantian true force that flowed into his dantian sea of qi.

In reality, about half an hour later!

[Ding!]

[One hundred thousand years of cultivation time has been exhausted. Cultivation of the Azure Mystery Force-Congealing Art has concluded!]

The surging heaven and earth essence around him suddenly froze, then receded in all directions like the tide, returning to calm.

Chen An slowly opened his eyes. His gaze instantly became distant and vast, tranquil and profound, as though he had personally endured the accumulated vicissitudes of countless ages.

At that same instant, two brilliant, razor-sharp silver divine rays shot from his eyes, condensed almost into substance as they streaked through the air.

With a soft whoosh, the divine rays were like invisible sharp arrows, tearing through the space before him and smashing viciously into the wall.

Two faint muffled impacts sounded. The sturdy wall was instantly pierced through, leaving behind two neat, transparent holes with smooth, even edges that shone like polished mirrors.

Immediately afterward, Chen An's entire body shuddered. A vast, terrifying martial aura erupted from within him and soared into the sky.

The surrounding air abruptly congealed, and faintly visible ripples of distortion spread through the entire space.

The next moment, a white shockwave exploded with a thunderous boom, sweeping outward in every direction from Chen An. Tables, chairs, benches, wooden racks, and utensils within the room were instantly hurled into the air by the violent force, crashing against the walls and shattering across the floor.

The powerful aftershock burst through the door and swept through the courtyard. The entire compound shook violently, the bluestone ground trembling slightly. Every blade of grass and tree in the courtyard was bent and flattened by the gale, while rolling waves of air surged into the heavens like an apocalyptic calamity.

"Not good!!!"

Coming back to his senses and feeling the changes around him, Chen An hurriedly willed the incomparably dense Xiantian true force within his body to retract.

The turbulent true qi returned like tides flowing back into the sea, rapidly coursing through his meridians before withdrawing completely into his dantian sea of qi. The terrifying aura sweeping in all directions receded at a visible speed.

The courtyard's trembling gradually stopped. The grass and trees bent beneath the gale slowly straightened again, while the debris flying throughout the room lost the support of the fierce wind and came clattering down.

In an instant, the surroundings returned to silence, as though that earth-shaking display of power had never happened.

"Phew!!~~"

"That was almost a disaster!!!"

Only after forcing all the Xiantian true force back into his dantian did Chen An finally let out a long breath.

If he had not restrained his Xiantian true force just now and allowed his Great Grandmaster Realm peak cultivation to erupt freely, half the county town would likely have been reduced to ruins, just like the Bai Family.

The reason for what had just happened was not that he had suddenly broken through from the early Grandmaster Realm to its peak and could not control the explosively growing Xiantian true force due to an unstable realm.

After all, his Xiantian true force had been cultivated through the system. Its foundation was incomparably solid; there was no possibility of an unstable realm or loss of control.

Rather, it was because his sudden breakthrough to the peak of the Grandmaster Realm had left the perfected Black Tortoise Breath-Concealing Art unable to suppress the enormous Xiantian true force within him. The Black Tortoise Breath-Concealing Art had failed, causing his cultivation to leak out all at once.

Looks like it's time to deduce the Black Tortoise Breath-Concealing Art further! Chen An thought to himself.

In truth, he had already felt before that the Black Tortoise Breath-Concealing Art was no longer sufficient. He had intended to continue deducing it, but what happened afterward had delayed him instead.

A breath-concealing art was crucial to him now. Otherwise, if he went out with his current cultivation, a seventeen-year-old martial artist at the peak of the Grandmaster Realm would absolutely cause a tremendous uproar and draw the attention of countless powerful experts.

"System, spend 1,000 origin crystals to deduce the Black Tortoise Breath-Concealing Art!"

[Ding! System activated!]

[One thousand years of Black Tortoise Breath-Concealing Art deduction experience is now being issued...]

Buzzz!!!~~~

Chen An felt his mind shake, followed by countless memories of deducing the Black Tortoise Breath-Concealing Art flooding into his head.

Ten seconds later!

Chen An came back to his senses and reviewed the newly deduced Black Tortoise Breath-Concealing Art in his mind once more. His brows could not help but furrow slightly.

The deduction of secret arts was far more difficult than he had expected. Even after spending a thousand years on it, he had only deduced a breath-concealing art roughly at the peak of the Profound tier.

Although the new Black Tortoise Breath-Concealing Art could more or less conceal his current aura, anyone whose cultivation surpassed the Great Grandmaster Realm would still be able to spot something amiss.

"No, this isn't safe enough!"

Chen An's eyes sharpened. He stopped hesitating and shouted inwardly:

"System, spend 4,000 origin crystals. Continue deducing the Black Tortoise Breath-Concealing Art!"

[Ding! System activated!]

[Four thousand years of Black Tortoise Breath-Concealing Art deduction experience is now being issued...]

Buzzz!!!~~~

Within Chen An's sea of consciousness, the Black Tortoise Breath-Concealing Art, which had already been deduced to completion, was dismantled once more, then reconstructed and elevated.

About twenty seconds later!

Chen An opened his eyes, and a thread of silver light seemed to flash through his pupils before vanishing.

"Let's try it!"

Taking a deep breath, Chen An circulated the newly deduced breath-concealing technique.

The next moment, he felt the mountain-heavy Xiantian true force within his body, as well as his terrifying qi and blood and physical strength—which had surpassed the Houtian Realm and Xiantian Realm to reach the peak of the Grandmaster Realm—all sealed away by an invisible force.

In an instant, he had gone from a peak Grandmaster Realm expert capable of dominating Wurong County to an ordinary person who appeared to possess not the slightest trace of strength, utterly powerless.

Even the aura of intent around him was completely withdrawn into the depths of his mind.

At this point, even if a Martial King Realm martial artist stood before him, they would not be able to discern the slightest detail about him.

"Good!!!"

Feeling the changes in his body, Chen An could not help but smile, quite satisfied with the newly deduced technique.

This new breath-concealing art, which had taken five thousand years to deduce, had roughly reached the peak of the Earth tier.

Beyond concealing one's aura, it had even developed the ability to conceal the fluctuations of one's consciousness and even the power of one's soul.

"From now on, I'll call it the Spirit-Concealing Art!" Chen An gave this newly deduced breath-concealing secret art a concise new name.

In the north of the city, within an imposing three-courtyard residence.

Boom!~~

A deafening explosion suddenly rang out. A sturdy bluestone table in the courtyard shattered with a bang, fragments and stone chips scattering everywhere.

The servants passing by turned deathly pale at the sound, their bodies trembling slightly. Every one of them stood on tenterhooks, scarcely daring to breathe as they kept their heads lowered from afar, not daring to approach.

In the courtyard, Liu Zhixing's face was as dark as water. Looking at Liu Qingyun before him, he spoke in a tone filled with bone-chilling ruthlessness and killing intent. "Yun'er, if you run into Chen An during tomorrow's county examination, don't hold back. Cripple him for me!"

"Father, don't worry. As long as I meet Chen An, I'll definitely kill him!" Liu Qingyun nodded, a flash of venomous resentment crossing his eyes.

If not for Chen An, his father would not have been suspended from the county academy and might not even have faced the loss of his teaching position.

Moreover, if those ten students joined the Treasure Gathering Trading Company this time, father and son would not only receive one thousand origin crystals in benefits, but they could also collect three hundred origin crystals in kickbacks from those ten students every month.

With that sum of origin crystals, he could buy a third-tier realm-breaking pill and break through to the Houtian Realm.

"Chen An, you deserve to die!!!"