Chapter 74

As for Su Xuan himself, after nine months of effort, he broke through levels one after another, and his martial arts cultivation had already surpassed Wen Pin, reaching the peak of the Transformation Realm in one go.

He was not far from breaking through to the Danjin stage.

It was simply terrifyingly fast.

There was no help for it; with no bottlenecks, plus the cheating acceleration of the 'Heaven-Devouring Storage Technique', it was just that terrifying.

And this was the result of his efforts to solidify his foundation and concurrently practice the Human-Immortal martial arts.

Human-Immortal martial arts was a body-tempering cultivation method Su Xuan had created five months ago.

【Based on the fragmented scroll of the external body-tempering cultivation method, after long-term observation and analysis of the effects of Qi and blood on cells, meridians, bone marrow, blood... and so on, you have understood its essence and laws, combined with the inspiration from your past life's memories, and deduced and created the 'Qi and Blood Martial Arts: Human-Immortal Martial Arts'.】

(Human-Immortal martial arts realm division: Strength Refining Realm, Tendon Changing Realm, Skin Refining Realm, Bone Forging Realm, Organ Refining Realm, Marrow Washing Realm, Blood Exchange Realm, Human-Immortal Realm.)

The entire process of Human-Immortal martial arts was to consume Qi and blood to temper the entire body one by one, tempering it to one's own limit, and finally breaking through the limit to reach the Human-Immortal Realm.

This process was extremely consuming of Qi and blood.

But it could continuously and gradually strengthen a person's muscles, tendons, bones, skin membranes, bones, internal organs, bone marrow, blood... and so on.

In this process, vitality, strength, defense, reaction speed, recovery ability, vitality... and so on, would all increase with the improvement of the realm.

Su Xuan spent five months, consuming a portion of the Qi and blood converted from food every day, before he barely crossed the Strength Refining Realm and stepped into the Tendon Changing Realm.

To a certain extent, this dragged down the progress of his internal energy martial arts.

But the benefits were also huge; after completing the Strength Refining and tempering a small portion of his meridians, his strength surged by 2,000 jin.

Under conditions where other factors were equal, his combat power was at least comparable to the mid-stage or even late stage of the Danjin stage.

And with Su Xuan's understanding of martial arts and combat experience, which far exceeded so-called martial artists of the same level, relying on his peak Transformation Realm + Tendon Changing Realm cultivation, he could even suppress those at the peak of the Danjin stage.

He could even trade blows with those at the early stage of the Gangjin Realm.

Mm! The premise was that they were not monsters with natural divine strength like Dian Wei or Lu Bu.

Against those, he could only cross two or three small realms.

In short, there were pros and cons!

Furthermore, Su Xuan felt that practicing both internal energy martial arts and Human-Immortal martial arts would be of great benefit to his future breakthrough to the "Seeing God Without Defect" realm and even higher realms.

Therefore, he did just that.

Huang Zhong and the others had not yet mastered the 'Heaven-Devouring Storage Technique', so none of them were concurrently practicing Human-Immortal martial arts.

Huang Zhong was preparing to wait until he broke through to the "Seeing God Without Defect" realm before concurrently practicing it.

Dian Wei and Wen Pin were preparing to wait until they obtained sufficient merit and exchanged it for the 'Heaven-Devouring Storage Technique' before concurrently practicing it.

Of course, over the past year, they had also been working hard to save and earn money.

Preparing for the practice of the 'Heaven-Devouring Storage Technique'.

This divine secret technique was a gold-swallowing beast!

They had no choice but to do so.

Furthermore, after nearly a year, the Shadow Guards had successfully established their framework.

They had even rendered quite a few meritorious services.

For example, helping Su Xuan defect and recruit Han Zhong and Sun Xia from the Nanyang Taiping Dao.

After signing the Spiritual Contract, these two also temporarily joined the Shadow Guards as peripheral members.

With their help, Su Xuan more smoothly planted quite a few undercover agents into the Taiping Dao in Nanyang and even Yanzhou and Yuzhou.

Currently, the person in charge of the Shadow Guards was his second younger brother, Su Yu.

He was just in time to use the commercial network of the Chamber of Commerce to better expand the Shadow Guards.

Of course, Su Yi helped Su Yu share quite a bit of the commercial matters.

This was the only reason Su Yu was able to handle it.

The Dark Guards were mainly for external intelligence, while the Shadow Guards were mainly for internal supervision and intelligence.

Currently, the scale of Su Xuan's forces was not yet large, so the scale of the Shadow Guards was not yet large; over the past year, the main development had been the Dark Guards.

The core members of the Dark Guards currently numbered 124, with 267 peripheral members.

While the core members of the Shadow Guards currently numbered only 30, with 65 peripheral members.

In the second month of 184 AD,

Tang Zhou, a disciple of the Taiping Dao, betrayed the Taiping Dao and reported them to the authorities.

Exposing the Taiping Dao's plan to rebel and rise up before the eyes of the Son of Heaven.

The Son of Heaven was furious and immediately ordered the blockade of Luoyang, arresting members of the Taiping Dao in Luoyang and even the Sili region.

At the same time, he ordered the arrest of the Taiping Dao leader, Zhang Jiao, and other rebel leaders.

A few days later, Zhang Jiao received this bad news.

Although he was not yet fully prepared, time waited for no one, and he had no choice but to rise up in a hurry.