Constitution Improved

After Su Han left.

Chen Yixi and the others fell into another long silence in the private room.

In the end, Zhao Lei was the first to speak, his tone sour and tinged with frustration.

"Hundred Refinements in a day? What the fuck kind of monster is he?"

The bald man shook his head too, disbelief written all over his face.

"I've trained for three months, taken medicinal baths and eaten tonics every day, and I'm only at the middle stage of Hundred Refinements. He reached Hundred Refinements in a day. Captain, does that make any sense?"

Zhao Lei ventured another guess.

"Could this kid have come from where we did too? Maybe he practiced Immortal Martial Arts before..."

"Impossible." Chen Yixi shook her head.

"People like us are easy to identify. We have a special sense, and we can sense one another."

"Su Han doesn't have that feeling about him, which means he isn't one of us."

"But why was he able to train his qi and blood to that level in a single day?"

"Is his talent really so heaven-defying?"

"But as far as I know, in all the years since Immortal Martial Arts were created, the only person who could reach that level in a day..."

"Was probably Li Heng'e, right?"

At the mention of Li Heng'e's name.

The atmosphere in the private room visibly changed.

The short-haired woman drew a sharp breath.

"Vice Cult Leader Li? That can't be..."

"She's an unparalleled heaven's chosen. Before she came here, she was already the Guanghan Palace's senior true disciple, with peerless talent."

"After her descent, she also gained the status of a god, and lacked neither talent nor resources. It's only natural that she cultivated quickly.

"But Su Han..."

No one could make sense of it, however hard they thought.

If every disciple of the Ten Thousand Immortals Cult was a genius, a heaven's chosen.

Then Li Heng'e was a heaven's chosen among heaven's chosen, a T0.

What did that make Su Han?

What gave him the right to be mentioned in the same breath as Li Heng'e when it came to cultivation speed?

"Zhao Lei, you found Su Han through the patrol security system. What information did you find? What's his background?" Chen Yixi asked.

Zhao Lei nodded and began recounting what he had learned, his tone complicated.

"According to what I found, his parents ran a noodle shop, and his older sister was a kindergarten teacher. They were just an ordinary family."

"He was an ordinary student at school before, too. He even gave up on Secret Martial Arts after only two months.

"His grades were above average, but there was nothing special about him."

"His parents were killed before, and his sister was beaten badly enough to end up in the ICU. He was thrown in a cell and had no ability to resist at all."

"Later, he seemed to show some talent for Secret Martial Arts, and that's how he got where he is now."

"Then how do you explain this?" The short-haired woman was even more puzzled.

"A child from an ordinary family broke through to Hundred Refinements in a day?"

"This isn't just a matter of good talent. It makes no sense at all!"

That was what puzzled everyone.

Comparing their identities and resources, the two were as far apart as heaven and earth.

Vice Cult Leader Li, Li Heng'e, was an acknowledged genius, with countless resources, status, background, and aptitude on top of that.

Only then had she managed to reach the Hundred Refinements realm in a day.

But Su Han was, by all rights, just a local native.

He should have been no more than an ant, cannon fodder.

With no resources or status, could his talent really be even more heaven-defying than Li Heng'e's?

How was that possible?

The room fell silent for a moment.

Chen Yixi was quiet for a while before slowly speaking.

"A child from an ordinary family, with no resources or background, broke through to Hundred Refinements in a single day."

"Talent alone can't explain that."

Everyone's expression changed slightly.

"Captain, you mean he has a secret?"

"He definitely does," Chen Yixi said with certainty. "And it's a big one."

She stood and walked to the window, watching Su Han's retreating figure below.

Her eyes narrowed slightly as thoughts ran through her mind.

"I'll report this to Senior Brother Kong."

"You continue preparing for the Giant Whale Sect mission."

"As for Su Han..."

She turned and looked at the three of them.

"Keep a close eye on him."

Meanwhile, Su Han returned home.

He took out the combat data watch Chen Yixi had given him and strapped it to his wrist.

The watch face lit up, displaying a number:

[Current combat power: 16000]

That was his normal combat power when he wasn't activating his qi and blood or exerting his strength.

With a thought, Su Han circulated his qi and blood.

He began unleashing it.

The number on the watch face immediately began to soar.

20000... 25000... 30000...

The reading finally stopped at [33000].

"Still not enough," Su Han murmured.

He took out the Heavenly Phenomenon Secret Martial Arts booklet and turned to the sections on Baodan and True Gang.

He still needed to keep improving his strength.

Although the path of Secret Martial Arts offered limited gains in pure combat power-even a True Gang grandmaster only had ten to thirty thousand combat power.

It was, after all, a way of training force and techniques for exerting it.

That was a tremendous help in actual combat, and an advantage it had over other systems of growing stronger.

Su Han immediately took up a stance and began practicing the Heavenly Phenomenon Secret Martial Arts.

His comprehension was increasing at every moment, and by now it had nearly reached five hundred.

Looking at these techniques again.

It was like a college student looking at elementary school math problems. They couldn't have been simpler.

Once.

Twice.

Three times.

First the training method, then the combat techniques.

He only needed to perform each move once to grasp it perfectly in an instant.

In fact, Su Han felt he had already learned it just by reading the training method. He only performed it once to go through the motions and cultivate True Gang.

A few minutes later.

Su Han stopped.

By now, he had finished practicing everything in the Heavenly Phenomenon Secret Martial Arts: Baodan, the True Gang that followed it, and the final nine combat moves.

He had reached complete mastery with ease.

There had been no difficulty at all.

He exerted a little force.

The force within him was already circulating perfectly along the True Gang route, and a faint layer of gray gang qi quickly appeared over his body.

That was the defining feature of the Celestial Phenomenon Art's True Gang.

The gang qi protected his body while increasing his strength and explosive power by roughly threefold.

"It really works."

Su Han was delighted and didn't want to waste time.

He immediately took out the Red Thread Fist booklet he had seized at the Red Fist Sect.

This Secret Martial Art emphasized precision, producing force as fine as a strand of hair.

Once cultivated to True Gang, the force would turn dark red and cover the entire body.

Su Han began practicing.

It was just as simple.

The training method, the combat techniques.

He only needed one try at each to understand them thoroughly and master them perfectly.

A few minutes later, he had likewise brought the Red Thread Fist's True Gang to complete mastery.

The gang qi covering Su Han's body had now turned dark red.

A closer look revealed countless strands of force, fine as hair, flowing through the gang qi like living things.

Immediately afterward, something miraculous happened.

When the two kinds of True Gang, Heavenly Phenomenon Force and Red Thread Force, circulated at the same time, they began to slowly merge.

Like two colors of ink mixing to form a new color.

The merged gang qi was still dark red.

But a closer look showed that the force within it had turned into countless threads, flowing ceaselessly.

Dense and tightly packed, they wrapped around Su Han's entire body like a net.

A terrifying power could faintly be unleashed from it.

Su Han could feel his constitution improving at a tremendous rate.

He hurriedly opened his attribute panel.

His eyes froze.

[Constitution: 625] (+100)

[Comprehension: 528]

His constitution had actually increased by a hundred points out of nowhere!