Blood Tempering
Su Han had nowhere to go, so he returned to Jiayuan Residential Complex.
The entire building entrance had been cordoned off, with several layers of yellow tape stretched across it.
Printed on the tape were the words: scene sealed off, no entry.
Still, it was good that no one was guarding it.
The patrol officers were all dead, and new ones had yet to be assigned.
The residential complex had instead become the quietest place around.
Su Han ducked under the tape and went upstairs.
The door to room 503 was still open. The patrol officers had smashed it open that morning, and no one had closed it afterward.
Fortunately, the corpses had been cleared away early on.
Su Han walked in and shut the door.
The room was still a mess, with tables and chairs overturned on the floor. The bloodstains had dried to a dark red.
A faint smell of blood still hung in the air.
But Su Han didn't mind.
He set the fallen furniture in the living room upright and did a little cleaning.
Sitting on the sofa, he took out Azure Waves Immortal Martial Arts: Body Tempering Chapter and opened it again.
This time, he read it carefully, word by word.
He couldn't see anything wrong with the cultivation method.
The text flowed smoothly, the diagrams were clear, and the reasoning made sense.
So he prepared to try cultivating it right away.
As for whether there really was anything wrong with it, that was a matter for later.
Right now, Su Han only wanted to grow stronger.
He sat cross-legged on the sofa, closed his eyes, and began cultivating according to the method.
Su Han's comprehension, which was well into the hundreds, took effect instantly. He only needed a few attempts to circulate it.
He mastered the Immortal Martial Arts cultivation method in an instant.
This was far too easy for Su Han.
Take sensing qi and blood, the first difficulty at the beginning, for example.
With his constitution at well over a hundred points, Su Han could clearly feel the blood rushing through his body as soon as he closed his eyes.
It was like a surging river, rolling with waves of heat, frighteningly hot.
According to the method, he should then guide his qi and blood to stimulate his skin, sinews, and bones, thereby strengthening his body.
But Su Han tried it and soon discovered a problem.
His constitution was already strong enough.
With a constitution of over three hundred, his skin, sinews, and bones were far tougher than those of ordinary people.
An ordinary blade couldn't even leave a white mark on his skin.
Stimulating them with qi and blood had a negligible effect.
His body had already been strengthened to a terrifying degree by his Divine Body talent.
Such basic tempering with qi and blood was utterly useless to him.
Su Han opened his eyes, frowning slightly.
If it couldn't make him stronger, what use was this cultivation method?
No, that wasn't right.
Su Han looked at the booklet again, his gaze settling on the words "qi and blood."
A sudden idea sparked in his mind.
Since my body doesn't need strengthening, what if I temper the qi and blood itself?
Qi and blood were the vessels of energy. The purer the qi and blood, the greater their power.
If I can remove the impurities from my qi and blood and make them purer, my combat power can soar too!
No time like the present.
Su Han closed his eyes again and sensed his qi and blood.
This time, instead of guiding his qi and blood to temper his body, he controlled them to circulate and boil within him, tempering them naturally.
Worn-out blood was disappearing, while new blood was being generated at a furious rate!
Su Han could feel his qi and blood surging at that very moment.
A faint layer of blood-red flames began to glow on his skin, enveloping his whole body like a thin veil of fire.
At that very moment,
if Zhao Lei had been there, his jaw would have hit the floor.
It wasn't just because Su Han was cultivating too quickly.
It was because what Su Han was cultivating wasn't from the Body Tempering Chapter at all.
It was the cultivation method for the second realm of Immortal Martial Arts, Hundred Refinements.
It was a profound method specifically for tempering qi and blood, transforming it from Mortal Blood into Essence Blood.
No one had taught Su Han, yet he had figured it out himself?
He had only just been introduced to the Immortal Martial Arts system.
Yet he had comprehended the second realm's cultivation method on his own and cultivated it perfectly?
He was nothing short of a monstrous genius!
Su Han couldn't have known any of this.
Right now, he only felt that he had finally found the right cultivation method. His qi and blood were still increasing, growing purer and hotter.
He immersed himself in the pleasure of growing stronger, gradually losing track of time.
By the time the sky darkened and night fell,
Su Han had been cultivating for two hours straight.
All the blood in his body had been tempered over and over again.
The flames around him rose several meters, nearly touching the ceiling and casting the entire living room in blood-red light.
The temperature continued to soar with them, and the whole room became unbearably hot.
The air warped, the surface of the sofa began to smoke, and its wooden armrests began to blacken and char.
Su Han was like a blazing torch.
And he could freely control those blood flames with a thought.
With a thought, he concentrated the blood flames on his right fist. They instantly enveloped it in a huge fireball that radiated scorching heat.
With another thought, the blood flames spread out and covered his entire body like a suit of armor.
Moreover, the force he had cultivated through Secret Martial Arts was completely unaffected.
He tried circulating Hua Jin at the same time, and the blood flames on his fist immediately withdrew, becoming a thin, dark red film clinging to his skin.
But their power increased rather than diminished. The internal and external forces stacked upon each other repeatedly, and the damage they could inflict kept increasing!
Su Han's combat power soared exponentially.
"Looks like this so-called Immortal Martial Arts really is better suited to me."
Su Han opened his eyes, the blood flames slowly withdrawing as a trace of delight flashed in them.
Cultivating this method required a great many resources, yet he needed none at all.
His constantly improving constitution alone allowed him to cultivate this method at an unimaginable speed.
Su Han stopped cultivating and let out a long breath.
Once the blood flames had fully withdrawn into his body, the temperature in the living room began to drop.
He stood up and stretched his body.
He felt relaxed all over, as if he had laid down a thousand-pound burden.
Blood rushed through his body with the sound of a river, and a sense of power filled every inch of his muscles.
He went into the bathroom, turned on the tap, and took a rare bath.
Cold water poured over him, washing away the grime on his body and easing some of his fatigue.
After bathing, Su Han found a clean set of his old clothes and changed into them.
He walked out of the bathroom and stood by the window, looking at the night outside.
Only now did he finally feel a little more at ease.
But at that moment, Su Han's gaze suddenly sharpened.
He abruptly turned toward the door.
He sensed two powerful auras downstairs, slowly making their way up.
Each step landed firmly on the stairs.
They gave off a terrifying killing intent.
That killing intent slowly drew closer, finally arriving at his door.
They were here.
"Boom!!!"
The door was suddenly kicked flying!
The entire security door flew into the wall, badly deformed and deeply embedded in it.
Dust filled the air.
Two men walked in through the doorway.
One was in his forties, with a square face and thick eyebrows. He wore a close-fitting gray martial outfit and held his hands behind his back.
The other was tall and lean, in his early thirties, with eyes as cold as the stare of a venomous snake.
Both were Secret Martial Arts experts hired by the Sturgeon Group to deal with Su Han.
The two glanced around the room, then fixed their gazes directly on Su Han.
"Su Han?" the square-faced man asked, his expression calm.
"Yes," Su Han replied.
"Then we've got the right person."
Having confirmed Su Han's identity, the two said no more.
In an instant, their figures flashed and shot forward, both attacking at once!