Five-Viscera Yuanchen

Malice permeated the air...

It came from the trial prodigies of the various human races before him.

Su Bo's eyes were filled with goodwill when he heard that they planned to rob him of his Five-Viscera Yuanchen Fruits...

The goodwill in Su Bo's eyes...

Slowly, gradually overflowed!

Boom... Crackle, crackle, smack smack smack, boom boom boom... Thud thud thud...

It took a little effort, perhaps just over ten minutes.

On Essence Lake, a sleek lone boat sliced through the water, sending up sprays as it charged straight toward the center of the lake amid Su Bo's surging blood vitality.

"Your strength doesn't seem like much, does it?"

"You talked such a big game. I thought you'd be much stronger than Liu Yue and the others..."

"You're not even as good as Black Armor..."

On the shore, a group of bruised and swollen prodigies lay sprawled across the ground, listening to Su Bo's faintly drifting voice.

Every one of them wished they could dig a hole and bury themselves deep inside it.

Shame. Humiliation...

Not only had a whole group failed to beat one person together, they had even been beaten senseless in return, nearly beaten until smoke came out of them.

It hurt. It ached. Everything hurt and ached, as though every bone and tendon in their bodies was about to fall apart.

"Who exactly is that guy?"

After a long while, when Su Bo's lone boat could no longer be seen on the lake, one of the prodigies who had been beaten particularly badly asked in a low voice.

He did not understand. Since when did the Ancient Human Race have such a monstrous figure?

With this Ancient Human Race member's strength, shouldn't he have gone to a Trial Star of the first sequence?

"Who knows?" Someone less seriously injured slowly climbed to his feet. "He's already this strong, yet he still came to compete with us for resources. He has no shame at all."

"What do we do next without the Five-Viscera Yuanchen Fruits?"

The Five-Viscera Yuanchen Fruits concerned the final trial. Without the fruits to temper their internal organs, their cultivation before the ninth body refinement would be slowed by at least two months.

By then, those people exploring the forbidden lands would probably have taken all the slots.

The prodigies looked at one another...

"The Yuanchen Fruit Tree produces quite a lot every round. Maybe..." someone muttered.

At once, many eyes began to flicker.

If that person truly could not use them all, they could still fight over the remaining Yuanchen Fruits. There might be enough for several people to complete the cultivation of the ninth body refinement.

But it certainly would not be as plentiful as before.

After all, the stronger a martial artist's foundation and strength, the more Five-Viscera Yuanchen Fruits they required.

Given that person's strength, he could probably consume more than half the Yuanchen Fruits by himself. Naturally, there would not be much left to share.

A vast fog blanketed Essence Lake.

After traveling several miles into it, everything became hazy and indistinct. It was difficult to see anything more than ten meters ahead.

Fortunately, martial artists often relied more on their own senses. Su Bo sped onward, his lone boat tearing through the water as it raced deeper into the lake.

He did not sense any danger either.

Soon, an enormous tree growing in the lake, with nearly half its trunk submerged in the water, gradually came into Su Bo's view.

The giant tree's trunk was like dark-blue glazed crystal, while its leaves resembled pieces of pink crystal.

Its canopy spread over several miles around the center of the lake, blotting out the sky and sun. Boundless vitality and dense essence filled the space between the tree and the lake.

Even Su Bo was briefly stunned by the sight.

It was far more breathtaking than a place like the Soul-Spirit Burial Grounds.

But he had no time to admire such scenery. His gaze fell upon the canopy as he searched for the Five-Viscera Yuanchen Fruits he had been longing for.

Sure enough, deep within the canopy, he found several unusual fruits.

Five-Viscera Yuanchen Fruits...

The Five Viscera represented the five elements of heaven and earth.

Yuanchen corresponded to the twelve Yuanchen laws between heaven and earth.

According to Liu Yue, the Five-Viscera Yuanchen Fruits borne by the Five-Viscera Yuanchen Tree contained the powers of the five elements through their twelve Yuanchen.

Thus, dragons belonged to one of the five elements, tigers belonged to one, roosters belonged to one...

The fire fruit Liu Yue had given him was a fire fruit of the Goat Yuanchen, while the metal fruit Yi You had given him was of the Snake Yuanchen. The qualities of the Five-Viscera Yuanchen power contained within the two fruits were also different.

The Five-Viscera Yuanchen Fruits were divided into upper, middle, and lower grades according to the twelve Yuanchen.

Dragon, Tiger, Horse, and Monkey were upper grade; Ox, Snake, Rooster, and Dog were middle grade; Rat, Rabbit, Goat, and Pig were lower grade.

The gap in quality naturally led to a gap in the speed of tempering the internal organs. Upper-grade Five-Viscera Yuanchen Fruits could increase the speed of internal organ tempering by more than fivefold.

Middle-grade fruits could at most provide around a threefold increase, while lower-grade fruits only doubled the speed.

Yi You had told him to seize all the upper- and middle-grade Five-Viscera Yuanchen Fruits if possible, so that he could complete the internal organ tempering stage as quickly as possible.

And break through to the peak of the ninth body refinement.

At most, they would need two months to finish tempering their internal organs, complete the ninth body refinement, and begin the final trial.

After all, besides them, Beast Planet had many prodigies on the same level as them—well, the same level before acquiring innate divine abilities.

Once they finished their forbidden land trials, they too would complete the ninth body refinement as quickly as possible.

Then they would begin the final trial and compete for slots to be transported to the first-sequence Trial Stars, where they could search for resources better suited to their cultivation.

The martial path was all about competition. One step ahead meant staying ahead at every step, and no one wanted to fall behind.

Even if those people could not defeat the prodigies on the first-sequence Trial Stars, they could still hide and search for resources.

The Trial Stars were so vast and filled with so many heavenly treasures that no one would bother digging them out over a few scraps of resources.

With that thought, Su Bo leaped straight onto the tree...

There were only ten slots for Beast Planet on the first-sequence Trial Stars. He had to get one, so he could compete for the great opportunity Liu Yue had mentioned.

Before long, Su Bo gathered one upper-grade and middle-grade Five-Viscera Yuanchen Fruit after another.

After plucking nearly all the Yuanchen Fruits from the tree, Su Bo simply found a spot within the canopy and began cultivating, swallowing one Yuanchen Fruit after another.

His blood-vitality dragon roared as it charged toward the precarious internal organ barrier...

Beyond the starry sky...

"Hahaha, hahahaha..." Situ Ting's laughter shook the starry sky and spread across hundreds of miles of stellar space.

He looked at Lin Chen and asked, "Hey, you, my former defeated opponent—was that bruised and swollen kid by the lake your descendant?"

"Hahaha, your descendant lost to me decades ago, but he still struggled for dozens of moves, didn't he?"

"Several decades have passed, and now your descendant lost to my student. This time, he couldn't even last one move. Isn't that a bit too pathetic?"

"And that whoever-it-was, the one who uses lightning—is that your descendant?"

Lin Chen and Kong Ao's expressions turned ugly to the extreme.

Their descendants were among the talented martial artists by Essence Lake. They had reached the seventh body refinement, and their strength was fairly good among the group of geniuses.

Yet the entire group had failed to hold out against Su Bo for even a quarter of an hour.

In particular, their descendants had not even withstood one move before Su Bo knocked them to the ground with a single punch, leaving them bruised and swollen as they rolled around on the ground.

But that was not the most important matter.

After all, they had seen clearly from above that even the Yi Clan, who had awakened innate divine abilities, and the prodigies of the Celestial Human Race wanted to befriend Su Bo.

That meant his strength was at least on the same level as Yi You, who had awakened an innate divine ability.

Therefore, losing to Su Bo was not truly shameful.

The shameful part was...

Damn it, that bastard Situ Ting had gotten to laugh at them.

The two looked at their juniors, a faintly terrifying killing intent surfacing in their eyes as they secretly thought, When we get back, we have to beat them up hard a hundred times. A hundred times...

"If we beat them to death, they deserve it. If they don't die, then their crimes don't warrant death!"

Situ Ting looked at the two Martial Alliance martial artists with their dark faces, feeling utterly delighted.

If circumstances allowed it, he would have wanted to dance in celebration. This was such a boost to his reputation—Su Bo was bringing him glory.

Not bad. Very good. His years of nurturing had not been wasted.