Chapter 19: Honglian

After Lady Mingzhu finished explaining the realm classifications and asked a few questions about martial arts realms, Su Xuan let her leave.

If the previous time is counted, this was already the second time Su Xuan had let Lady Mingzhu go.

One can be forgiven once or twice, but not a third time.

He hoped that when they met for the third time, Lady Mingzhu would be a little more sensible.

After Lady Mingzhu left, Su Xuan compared the realm classifications he had obtained from her with the realms of his own Qi Refining path and discovered... there was absolutely no comparability.

Literally, they could not be compared at all.

After all, the Seventy-Two Earthly Transformations were not techniques that should have existed in this world, so the cultivation system within them was completely different from any sect's system in this realm.

Even the Daoist and Yin-Yang Schools, although they have techniques, essentially belong to this world's cultivation system. Compared to those swordsmen, they are merely different because they have their own unique methods, can borrow the power of heaven and earth, and use their own internal force to drive them, evolving them into techniques.

Their techniques and the techniques within the Seventy-Two Earthly Transformations are completely different things.

The "Guidance" Qi Refining technique Su Xuan obtained has a realm classification closer to the classical xianxia novels he read in his previous life, divided into four stages: "Refining Essence into Qi," "Refining Qi into Spirit," "Refining Spirit into Void," and "Refining Void into Dao." Among them, the first stage, "Refining Essence into Qi," can be called "Shedding Mortality"—shedding the mortal body, henceforth not eating grains, and those who eat Qi become divine and long-lived. After finishing Qi Refining, the second stage, "Refining Qi into Spirit," is called "Primordial Spirit." Once the Primordial Spirit is initially formed, one senses the wonders of heaven and earth, which is the third stage, "Refining Spirit into Void." This realm is called "Mysterious Penetration"—penetrating the mysteries of heaven and earth.

As for the final realm, it is called "Immortal Spirit," resembling both immortal and spirit, extremely profound.

However, according to Su Xuan's guess, there seems to be a realm after "Immortal Spirit," but because he is currently cultivating the Earthly Daoist "Guidance" Qi Refining technique, rather than the higher Heavenly Daoist techniques, he has not yet learned of it.

Back to the main topic.

Because his own cultivation system is completely different from the system of this world, Su Xuan cannot determine his own strength.

Based on the Earthly Taoist techniques, the strength and methods he can exert far exceed the imagination of ordinary people, but he is not sure if he can contend with guys like Donghuang Taiyi or Master Beiming from the original work.

To use a phrase from the Tide Enchantress earlier, who is strong and who is weak can only be known after a fight.

He didn't think about those messy things.

Su Xuan continued to take elixirs, using the technique of consumption to digest the medicinal power and enhance his own strength.

Compared to comparing realms, enhancing his own strength is the most important thing.

After moving into the Han Wang Gong, the King of Han sent him so many precious medicinal materials; these are extremely valuable cultivation resources and cannot be wasted. They must be used up as quickly as possible.

Only after using them up can he go to the King of Han to ask for more resources.

Similarly, as long as his own strength is raised to a certain level, whether it is Donghuang Taiyi or Master Beiming, it would be a matter of one move.

However, today does not seem to be a day suitable for cultivation.

If he had known that so many people would visit today, Su Xuan would have used the "Knowing Time" technique to calculate it in advance, and then prepared tea and water to wait for the guests to arrive.

When Su Xuan had digested more than half of another elixir.

The door of the palace room where he was staying was pushed open cautiously.

A girl in pink clothes poked her head in, looking around carefully. After confirming the situation inside, mainly discovering that Su Xuan was looking at her with a strange gaze, a shy expression appeared on the girl's face. Then she straightened her body and walked in gracefully.

Who else could ignore the King of Han's ban and come here so openly, besides the King of Han's favorite Princess Honglian?

After she arrived here, she couldn't help but look at the environment in the palace room.

Several shelves were filled with all kinds of medicinal materials.

Then, in the center of the palace room, there were several huge pill furnaces. In some furnaces, the flames had not yet gone out, and a faint medicinal fragrance still permeated the air.

Su Xuan was sitting on a futon, and on the ground in front of him was an opened medicine bottle. It was unknown what he was doing at this moment.

"Do you always refine pills here?"

Honglian asked Su Xuan curiously.

Ever since their meeting in the Imperial Garden a few days ago, she had been curious about Su Xuan to the extreme.

Especially the scene where he summoned the wind with a word and danced with flowers with a wave of his hand still made her heart flutter.

As the King of Han's favorite little princess, she grew up in the palace and was well-protected by the King of Han and her brothers, which fostered her arrogant nature.

When she became interested in someone, even though her father had scolded her before and did not allow her to be too presumptuous, she still violated her father's requirements and came to find Su Xuan.

"Did the Princess come here to inspect my living environment?" Su Xuan asked Honglian in a calm tone.

"Of course... not!" Honglian was a little playful, and in the second half of the sentence, her tone changed suddenly.

She walked to Su Xuan and suddenly looked at him carefully.

"Is there something on my face?" Su Xuan couldn't help but be stunned.

Honglian withdrew her gaze and shook her head: "That's not it. I just really want to see what a master who can summon wind and rain is different from us."

Su Xuan said: "The Princess is joking. Indeed, although I have mastered some mysterious methods, essentially, I am still an ordinary person, and there is no difference between me and the masses."

"You, an ordinary person?" Honglian looked as if she had heard a joke.

Although he looked like an ordinary person on the outside, just based on the methods Su Xuan displayed, he didn't look like an ordinary person at all. ===== CHAPTER 21 =====