Chapter 188: The Fourth Rare Item, Laying the Foundation!

Jiangnan Sheng, between mountains and rivers.

At the summit of a mountain peak stands a thatched cottage, quietly towering there.

Inside the cottage, Su Yu sits cross‑legged on the bed, a strong wave of energy radiating around him.

"From now on, you must continuously absorb Spiritual Qi, the more the better, but I have only one condition: you must not breakthrough!"

King Wen's voice sounded beside Su Yu's ear.

"Regardless of the method, within this half‑month I want you to absorb as much of your resources as possible, turning all that energy into your own use."

"Use all of the King-Conferred Strong One Essence Blood immediately."

"In the half‑month, suppress as much as you can, and must reach your own limit!"

This was the advice King Wen gave Su Yu last night.

"Only in this way can you firmly solidify the foundation you previously shook."

Su Yu still remembers the solemn expression on King Wen's face when he spoke.

"Your cultivation has risen too quickly. Take Zhang Xiaobai and his peers; they began practicing from a young age and entered the Martial Artist ranks. They now attain the Golden Body Realm thanks to their solid foundations."

"The reason you can suppress them in the imperial exam is solely due to the Arhat Golden Body; only then can you suppress them while in the Golden Body Realm."

"But if you wish to be invincible in every future realm, follow my words: suppress as much as possible until you can no longer contain it."

"I know the King-Conferred Strong One Essence Blood is immensely potent. I grant you the highest tier, allowing only a breakthrough of two realms; exceeding two realms will make it even harder to re‑solidify your foundation."

After speaking, King Wen led Su Yu here and then departed.

As for where King Wen went—

Su Yu guessed he must have gone to find the Sky Sword King.

After I told King Wen that I gave part of the King-Conferred Strong One Essence Blood to the Sky Sword King, his expression turned somewhat odd.

Su Yu opened the Space Ring and looked at his resources inside.

Two low‑grade Star Stones, about ten drops of King-Conferred Strong One Essence Blood, and one Star Ancestor Master inner pill.

Five Flying Heaven Realm inner pills.

Twenty Golden Body Realm inner pills.

Eighty Organ Tempering Realm inner pills.

With so many resources, even a Great Sun Grand Master would be tempted.

Especially the Star Stones and the King-Conferred Strong One Essence Blood.

Those are things that even a King-Conferred Strong One finds irresistible.

If this got out, even Marquis-level Experts would rush here upon hearing the news.

"According to Senior Brother's words, the more you suppress the better, so the resources must be upgraded as well," Su Yu murmured softly.

Su Yu whispered faintly.

He then opened the Synthesis Slot.

He poured all the Organ Tempering Realm inner pills into the Synthesis Slot at once.

Immediately, forty Golden Body Realm inner pills successfully synthesized.

Su Yu continued synthesizing.

Sixty Golden Body inner pills were synthesized into thirty Flying Heaven Realm inner pills.

Then another synthesis produced fifteen Star Ancestor Master inner pills; together with the previous one, that makes sixteen!

The remaining Flying Heaven inner pill could not be synthesized.

Finally, Su Yu successfully synthesized four Great Sun Grand Master inner pills.

But when Su Yu tried to synthesize further, a message box popped up.

"Host level insufficient; please raise your level before synthesizing!"

Seeing the prompt, Su Yu felt a bit helpless.

After all, he is only at the Golden Body Realm; synthesizing inner pills for the Marquis Realm or even the King-Conferred Strong One Realm still does not appear possible.

Nevertheless, Su Yu did not dwell on it.

Even if he managed to synthesize them, he could not absorb them now.

King-Conferred Strong One inner pills differ from the Essence Blood; the Essence Blood is the energy of one day of King-Conferred Strong One cultivation.

But a King-Conferred Strong One inner pill is the lifetime achievement of a King-Conferred Strong One.

Even just swallowing the Essence Blood requires Su Yu to rely on the Arhat Golden Body and the Devouring Demon Heart Method's suppression to barely ingest it.

Let alone the King-Conferred Strong One inner pill.

The Great Sun Grand Master Realm inner pill is just right for Su Yu now.

Then Su Yu combined two low‑grade Star Stones to synthesize one mid‑grade Star Stone.

Just as Su Yu was ready to begin cultivation,

a column in the Synthesis Slot caught Su Yu's attention.

Purple radiance flickered continuously over the Synthesis Slot.

Su Yu's eyes lit up.

"Rare item!"

Su Yu smacked his mouth once, and after all those syntheses, the fourth rare item was successfully activated.

For a moment, Su Yu's heart began to feel hopeful.

"Claim!"

Su Yu opened the rare items tab.

Immediately, a message surged into Su Yu's mind.

Spirit Beast Egg: Randomly hatch a spirit beast; once hatching succeeds, it will automatically recognize its master, unless the host dies, its loyalty cannot be betrayed.

Looking at the description above, Su Yu's eyes suddenly flashed with a sharp light.

Spirit Beast!

Su Yu had heard before that some powerful martial artists could tame wild demonic beasts, and after they acknowledged a master, they became spirit beasts.

Such existence is a branch of demonic beasts.

Spirit beasts can increase their master's combat strength, and sometimes certain spirit beasts can even accomplish specific tasks.

It can be said that with a spirit beast, Su Yu's combat power at least doubles.

Immediately after, a green spirit beast egg appeared in front of Su Yu's chest.

The spirit beast egg merely hovered in midair, with a green light constantly flashing on its shell.

On the shell, there were intricate and profound patterns.

Like blue clouds.

This, a mechanical-like voice exploded beside Su Yu's ear.

"Ding, a hatchable spirit beast egg has been detected; would you like to start hatching?"

Su Yu hesitated not at all, and quickly said.

"Hatch!"

"Ding, hatching in progress, hatching time two months, please wait..."

Su Yu instantly felt a white light flash before his eyes, and then the green spirit beast egg disappeared from his sight.

Su Yu opened the synthesis slot.

Indeed, in a corner of the synthesis slot, the words "Hatching" were displayed.

And behind it, the remaining hatching time was shown.

Su Yu smiled slightly and closed the synthesis slot.

Two months of time exactly coincides with when I go to Qianlong Academy to report.

Now it's nearly July; other examinees are still busy filling out their applications, but Su Yu had already been early admitted to Qianlong Academy.

So, there's no need to worry about these.

As for those heaven-chosen ones applying to whatever academies, that's not something Su Yu needs to worry about.

On the contrary, once school starts, he will naturally know.

Su Yu took a deep breath, calming his mind.

Looking at the resources before him.

One Flying Heaven Realm Inner Elixir, four Great Sun Grand Master's Inner Elixirs, one medium-grade Star Stone, ten drops of King-Sealing Essence Blood.

Su Yu directly placed that Flying Heaven Realm Inner Elixir into his mouth.

Instantly, the inner elixir entered his mouth, transformed into massive energy, and surged into Su Yu's whole body and limbs.

Like a warm current, it stimulated Su Yu's flesh and blood.

In just the time it takes to burn an incense stick, Su Yu completely refined that Flying Heaven Realm Inner Elixir.

Su Yu's eyebrows slightly twitched.

"The Flying Heaven Realm Inner Elixir, for me now, is not beyond my capacity to bear; as Senior Brother said, it's best to let all the energy work on the whole body's flesh and blood; if that is the case..."

"The energy of one inner elixir, a large part will meld into the fleshly body, while only a small remainder can be absorbed by the golden body."

"Perhaps, after consuming all these resources, it may not be impossible to suppress them."

Su Yu muttered softly.

You know, when he previously broke through from the fourth to fifth transformation, he only consumed a drop of King-Sealing Essence Blood; Su Yu actually still worries that if in one month's time he exceeds two realms,

that would be troublesome.

If others knew Su Yu's worries, they'd probably spit on him.

Others eagerly want to raise their realm, but Su Yu actually fears raising it too fast.

Of course, Su Yu previously thought the same way.

However, from the moment he clashed with Wen Wang, Su Yu realized how unstable his foundation was.

So, he calmed his mind.

Su Yu placed a Great Sun Grand Master's Inner Elixir into his mouth, beginning to suppress its energy.

At the same time, in the Southern Region.

In the Martial Artists Association.

Heaven Sword King licked his face, sitting on the sofa, pouring tea for the white-clothed middle-aged man beside him.

"Hehe, Senior Brother, what wind blew you here?"

If Heaven Sword King's appearance were to spread, many would surely be shocked to the point of dropping their jaws.

You know, in front of outsiders, Heaven Sword King has always been an extremely overbearing image, even when facing the Southern King.

Yet, in front of this white-clothed middle-aged man, Heaven Sword King actually became as docile as a little dog.

The middle-aged man lightly sipped his tea, crossed his legs, and looked at Heaven Sword King.

Heaven Sword King, feeling that gaze, trembled slightly and spoke carefully.

"Senior Brother, I haven't caused you any trouble recently, have I?"

This person turned out to be Wen Wang.

After leaving Su Yu, Wen Wang directly sought out Heaven Sword King.

Wen Wang said nothing, merely continuing to sip his tea lightly.

However, the less Wen Wang spoke, the more Heaven Sword King's heart felt uneasy.

He feared nothing in heaven or earth, but in the Human Race, he feared three people.

The first was his teacher, Slay Dragon King.

The second was the Wen King before him.

As the saying goes, an eldest brother is like a father. Heavenly Sword King was picked up by Slay Dragon King; at that time, Slay Dragon King was already a King-Conferred Strong One, and had been stationed in Mie Long Cheng all along.

So Heavenly Sword King was raised by Wen King from childhood.

Deep down, Heavenly Sword King still had some fear of this senior brother of his.

As a child, he had taken no few beatings.

As for the third, it was Wu King, who was as renowned as Wen King.

In Heavenly Sword King's words, that was a treacherous villain just like Wen King.

If you didn't curry favor with him, it was a dead end.

Wen King took another sip of tea and said unhurriedly.

"The King-Conferred essence blood meant for our youngest junior brother — you took quite a bit of it, didn't you?"

The moment these words came out, Heavenly Sword King's entire body instantly stiffened.

He gave a dry laugh.

"Senior Brother, I have to say this — it's not as if I forcibly demanded it from our youngest junior brother. He wanted to give it to me himself, and I had no way to refuse."

"Besides, I was standing guard for our youngest junior brother at the time. He probably felt I was working too hard, so he gave it to me. It didn't have the slightest thing to do with me!"

Heavenly Sword King said hastily.

In his heart, he secretly made a vicious vow.

"You little junior brother, you actually told senior brother! Just wait until I, your second senior brother, get past this hurdle — see how I deal with you. If I don't beat your backside raw, I won't be called Heavenly Sword King!"

Wen King looked at Heavenly Sword King with a half-smile, then said coolly.

"If you took it, you took it. I won't blame you for it!"

Heavenly Sword King's eyes lit up, and he immediately leaned his face closer and said.

"Senior Brother, you said that yourself — no blaming me."

"Hehehe!"

Heavenly Sword King was overjoyed. He had originally thought Wen King was going to deal with him, but Wen King said he wouldn't blame him, and the tension in his heart instantly released.

"I know you're about to break through too, and wanting some resources is understandable, but after all, that was our youngest junior brother's stuff. You also know what a gold-swallowing beast the Arhat Golden Body is — without resources, it will be extremely difficult for our youngest junior brother to break through to the Flying Heaven Realm."

Wen King said unhurriedly.

Heavenly Sword King instantly understood Wen King's words and hurriedly said with a cheerful smile.

"Rest assured, Senior Brother. After I break through, I'll go to the Myriad Race Battlefield and get some resources for our youngest junior brother!"

Only then did Wen King reveal a trace of a smile.

"Mm, it just so happens that Mie Long Cheng is short of a King-Conferred One to be stationed there. After you break through, go straight to Teacher's place and report in — that's the fastest place to gather resources."

"I've already arranged it with Teacher, so I didn't look for any other King-Conferred Ones."

Wen King looked at Heavenly Sword King with a smiling expression.

The smile on Heavenly Sword King's face began to stiffen.

What kind of place was Mie Long Cheng?

The Human Race's foremost main city, and a great thorn in the side of the Myriad Races. There were even Half-Emperor Realm strong ones prowling near Mie Long Cheng from time to time.

If in other cities, a King-Conferred Strong One could roam freely.

Then in Mie Long Cheng, even a King-Conferred Strong One could fall.

Therefore, within Mie Long Cheng, there were always three or more King-Conferred Ones stationed year-round.

Even Slay Dragon King personally oversaw Mie Long Cheng, rarely moving about.

Even King-Conferred Strong Ones shrank back from Mie Long Cheng, a place of such peril.

Heavenly Sword King looked at Wen King with a stiff expression and said.

"Senior Brother, aren't you asking for my life? That's Mie Long Cheng! If a Half-Emperor strong one comes and Teacher doesn't stop him, won't I just die?"

Wen King said coolly.

"Once you break through, you'll be a third-step King-Conferred One. Even if a Half-Emperor wanted to kill you, it wouldn't be that simple."

"But..."

Heavenly Sword King still wanted to say something, but was mercilessly cut off by Wen King.

"There's no 'but.' Teacher is about to undergo the Emperor Tribulation. If he can successfully pass it, the Human Race will gain another Half-Emperor. For something this important, I trust no one else — only you can go."

Hearing this, Heavenly Sword King's expression also turned serious.

"Alright. After I break through, I'll go straight to Mie Long Cheng to report in."

Heavenly Sword King was somewhat helpless.

It was indeed Wen King — first using Su Yu's matter to warn him, and after the warning succeeded, using Teacher's matter to leave him no room to argue.

Wen King drained the tea in his cup in one gulp and said coolly.

"Alright. If there's nothing else, I'll be leaving first. Wu King and Su Yu are still waiting for me, and I'm very busy."

After saying this, Wen King's figure actually vanished on the spot.

As if he had never appeared at all.

Only after Wen King left did Heavenly Sword King gaze gravely out the window.

"The Emperor Tribulation, huh..."

"Sigh, it will be another fierce battle when the time comes!"

"I wonder how many King-Conferred Ones will fall this time."

The Heaven Sword King let out a faint sigh and shook his head.

Someone come, spread the word: I, the king, will enter seclusion; all matters shall be handled according to the South King's wishes!

After the Heaven Sword King issued those commands, he went straight into his seclusion quarters, began secluding himself, and pushed for a breakthrough to the third stage.

Time flew by; in the blink of an eye, a month had passed.

Jiangnan Sheng, amidst the mountains and rivers.

Su Yu sat cross-legged in the thatched hut.

Inside his body, a suffocating wave continually permeated.

On Su Yu's skin, white jade-like patterns had somehow been etched.

These patterns were exactly the same as those on the Arhat Golden Body.

In the next moment, Su Yu opened his eyes and directly consumed the final drop of King-Sealing Essence Blood before him.

Violent energy instantly rampaged through Su Yu's body.

However, Su Yu seemed to have no reaction, letting that violent energy rage unchecked within his body.

Yet it caused not the slightest ripple.

Over the course of that month, Su Yu continually absorbed energy, and finally he discovered with astonishment.

His fleshly body seemed like parched land; whenever energy entered his flesh, it was instantly devoured.

One's own fleshly body seemed like parched land; any energy that entered it was instantly devoured.

But after Su Yu took the second Great Sun Grand Master inner core, this condition became increasingly apparent.

Su Yu finally understood why King Wen said his foundation was like duckweed.

Martial Artists temper their own fleshly bodies.

From the Qi Blood Realm, to the Blood Refining Realm, to the Organ Tempering Realm, up to the present Golden Body Realm, and even the future Flying Heaven Realm.

This is simply a continual process of tempering one's fleshly body.

When cultivating, his speed was fast, but all of it went toward raising his realm, while his fleshly body received little tempering.

This caused his foundation to abnormally float.

But after a month of tempering, a huge influx of energy surged in, solely to temper his fleshly body.

His fleshly body had already reached an extremely terrifying state.

Su Yu even felt that even the fleshly body of a Flying Heaven Realm expert was probably not much different from his own.

The enhancement of his fleshly body brought with it an increase in his combat power; although his realm remained at the fifth transformation, his combat power was absolutely double what it had been before!

But at this very moment, Su Yu's body trembled slightly.

Behind him, an Arhat Golden Body instantly appeared.

Behind, the Arhat Golden Body instantly appeared.

The surrounding space let out a faint wail.

Immediately thereafter, an immensely terrifying energy burst forth from the Arhat Golden Body.

In the next moment, a sixth pattern slowly emerged on the Arhat Golden Body.

The next moment, on the Arhat Golden Body, the sixth pattern slowly emerged.

Six-transformation Arhat Golden Body!

After consuming the final drop of King-Sealing Essence Blood, Su Yu ultimately broke through!

After consuming the last drop of King-Sealing Essence Blood, Su Yu ultimately still broke through!