Chapter 10: Three Years of Pure Cultivation, the Monkey King Proves the Jin Xian

Su Chen didn't know how long he had stayed in that chaotic space; he only knew his soul was enduring the ultimate test.

That "True Explanation of the Primordial Golden Elixir" was too profound, every word seemingly weighing ten thousand jun, and just imprinting it completely on his soul had almost exhausted all his mental strength.

When the last character fell, he only felt darkness before his eyes, and his soul almost collapsed.

Just then, a cool and gentle force wrapped him, giving his exhausted soul a chance to breathe.

"How much you can get depends entirely on yourself."

Patriarch Puti's distant voice sounded in his ear, like a twilight drum and a morning bell, waking him from that state of semi-coma.

Su Chen opened his eyes abruptly, finding that he was already back in that simple house in the back mountain, sitting cross-legged on the bed.

Outside the window, the night was deep, and the stars were full.

Everything he had just experienced, that magnificent cultivation scroll, that profound supreme scripture, had actually been like a dream.

If it weren't for the clear "True Explanation of the Primordial Golden Elixir" in his mind, he would almost have thought he had just had a dream.

Just as he was dazed, golden light flashed before his eyes, and the panel of the Heavenly Secret Treasure Mirror appeared automatically.

【Detected host and Journey to the West protagonist Sun Wukong received the Great Dao together, causing a relatively large impact on the Journey to the West world karma...】

【Obtained Heavenly Secret Points +200】

【Current Heavenly Secret Points: 250】

Seeing this prompt, Su Chen finally confirmed that everything just now was real!

He succeeded!

He not only hitched a ride on this train but also obtained a supreme Great Dao that was in no way inferior to the "Great Grade Heavenly Immortal Art"!

Golden Elixir Great Dao!

Thinking of these four words, Su Chen could no longer be calm, let alone have any sleepiness.

He immediately closed his eyes, his mind sank into his dantian, and he began to try to circulate the "Qi Refining Technique" true Qi corrected by Patriarch Puti according to the foundation-building method at the beginning of the "True Explanation of the Primordial Golden Elixir".

"The beginning of the Dao lies in building the foundation. If the foundation is not firm, the building will not be high. One should lead Qi to return to the origin, gather in the dantian Qi sea, and transform the acquired into the innate..."

He carefully guided the true Qi in his body, following a brand new route that was a hundred times more complex than before, and began to circulate.

This process was even more difficult than he had imagined.

Many meridian nodes on the new circulation route were ones he had never touched before, and every impact brought a burst of needle-like stinging pain.

But Su Chen seemed not to hear it, immersed in the wonderful feeling of this exploration and unable to extricate himself.

He could clearly feel that every time the true Qi circulated for a week according to the new route, it became more pure by a point.

The true Qi that had originally been mixed with some acquired turbid Qi was transforming into pure and flawless "innate true essence" at a slow but firm speed.

This feeling of rebirth made him addicted.

Unknowingly, the horizon had already turned a fish-belly white.

"Creak—"

The door of the house was pushed open, and a figure darted in.

"Little Brother, I seem to have forgotten to call you last night." Sun Wukong said embarrassedly.

Its memory was a bit chaotic; it remembered clearly that it was with Su Chen listening to the Dao in the back hall last night, but when it woke up, only it was there.

It thought it had remembered wrong and had forgotten Su Chen last night.

It was also planning that once it practiced the "Great Grade Heavenly Immortal Art" to some extent, it would find a way to pass a copy to Su Chen.

Su Chen was awakened from his enlightenment, slowly opened his eyes, and spat out a long, turbid breath.

He looked at Sun Wukong's embarrassed monkey face and smiled: "I've always been here."

"Always? That's not right; I only saw Master in the back hall last night, I didn't see you." Sun Wukong scratched its head, full of confusion.

"Perhaps, the master we saw wasn't the same master?" Su Chen stood up, stretched his somewhat numb muscles and bones, and said meaningfully.

Sun Wukong tilted its head and thought for a long time, still not understanding, and finally attributed it to Master's methods being too magical.

"Forget it!" It slapped its thigh, "Anyway, we both got the true transmission! Little Brother, Master taught me a 'Great Grade Heavenly Immortal Art', it's very powerful! What about you? What did Master teach you?"

"Golden Elixir Great Dao." Su Chen said concisely.

"Golden Elixir Great Dao? Sounds not bad!" Sun Wukong didn't understand, but felt the name was very imposing.

It leaned over and lowered its voice: "Little Brother, from today on, we'll practice secretly."

Su Chen nodded.

From then on, the cultivation life of the man and the monkey entered a brand new stage.

They still lived as usual, one chopping wood, one sweeping the floor, showing no difference in front of other senior brothers.

But secretly, the two practiced diligently every day, and their cultivation improved by leaps and bounds.

Sun Wukong obtained the "Great Grade Heavenly Immortal Art", like a dragon entering the sea, a fierce tiger returning to the mountain.

It was a spiritual creature born of heaven and earth, and its foundation was terrifyingly deep.

That domineering method was perfectly compatible with it; it didn't even need to practice deliberately, just breathing and exhaling every day, and its cultivation was growing rapidly.

The spiritual energy between the mountains and the essence of the sun and moon seemed to be actively gathering toward its body.

And Su Chen's cultivation was a completely different scene.

His "Golden Elixir Great Dao" emphasized the word "grind".

Every day, he still went into the mountain to chop wood.

He integrated the method of the "True Explanation of the Primordial Golden Elixir" into his "Axe Dao".

Every axe strike was a tempering of the true Qi in his body.

He condensed all his essence, Qi, and spirit onto the axe blade and chopped toward the wooden stake.

At the moment the axe blade touched the wooden stake, he would take back the power, along with the vitality of the grass and trees contained in the stake, into his body, and incorporate it into his dantian Qi sea for repeated tempering.

This was an incomparably boring and mentally exhausting process.

But he enjoyed it.

Time flew, and in the blink of an eye, three years passed.

In these three years, the Mountain of Spirit Terrace and Square Inch was as calm as ever.

Senior brothers like Wu Ming were still struggling to break through a small realm.

And the man and the monkey who had obtained the true transmission had long since left them far behind.

This day, the wind was gentle and the sun was bright.

Under a waterfall in the back mountain, Sun Wukong sat cross-legged on a giant rock, golden light flowing around its body, its aura so powerful that the surrounding air distorted.

Suddenly, it opened its eyes wide, and two golden lights shot out from its eyes, rushing straight into the sky!

A vast and boundless mana fluctuation erupted from its body!

"Boom!"

The giant rock beneath it instantly turned into powder.

"Success! I, Old Sun, have also succeeded!"

Sun Wukong roared to the sky, its voice piercing the clouds and cracking the stone.

It only felt that its whole body was full of inexhaustible power; with a movement of its heart, it could fly to the sky and escape the earth, pluck stars and take the moon.

In just three years, relying on the deep foundation brought from the immortal stone and the domineering nature of the "Great Grade Heavenly Immortal Art", it broke through the difference between immortal and mortal, crossed the threshold of Heavenly Immortal and Mysterious Immortal, and achieved the Jin Xian realm in one fell swoop!

The five Qi in its chest gathered, condensing into five-colored brilliance, from then on immortal, living as long as heaven and earth!

On the other side, in the mountain forest.

Su Chen had just finished chopping the last piece of firewood for the day.

He also felt the astonishing fluctuation coming from Sun Wukong's side, and a bitter smile couldn't help but appear on his face.

"Monkey Brother's talent is truly unreasonable."

He looked inside himself.

Three years of bitter cultivation, his progress was also astonishingly fast.

All the true Qi in his body had been transformed into innate true essence.

In his dantian Qi sea, a phantom elixir shadow the size of a longan, emitting a faint golden light, was slowly rotating.

This was the "foundation of the Golden Elixir".

His realm had also broken through from the initial Refining Qi into Spirit to the perfection of Refining Spirit and Returning to Emptiness, and he was only one step away from Refining Emptiness and Merging with the Dao.

This speed was enough to make any cultivator in the mortal cultivation world feel ashamed.

But in front of Sun Wukong's perverted progress, it still seemed a bit insufficient.

One was an immortal, omnipotent Jin Xian.

One, however, was still only a mortal cultivator with a lifespan of five hundred years, not worth mentioning in front of immortals.

The difference between immortal and mortal had already begun to appear.

Su Chen put away the axe, but there was no jealousy in his heart, only an increasingly strong sense of urgency.

He knew this was the gap in origin.

Sun Wukong was a natural stone monkey, and its starting point was too high.

And he was just a mortal; to have today's achievements was already a huge creation.

The Golden Elixir Great Dao was originally a path of accumulating and then breaking out.

Being slow in the early stage was to build the most perfect foundation.

Once the Golden Elixir was completed, he could soar into the sky!

"Don't rush, take it slow." Su Chen adjusted his mindset, carried the firewood, and walked toward his residence. ===== CHAPTER 11 =====