Chapter 42: Entering the Seventh Layer

  At night, Shen Xiang swallowed four pills of marrow-washing dan and began to operate the Taiji divine art to digest the medicinal power. As soon as it dawned, he hastily went to Danxiang Medicine Villa to buy twenty sets of medicine materials for refining gaseous dan.

  At this time, Shen Xiang's spiritual money was almost all used up. He had been investing continuously and as long as the Dan Wang Pavilion opened for business and started selling elixirs, he would have a profit to make.

  During the day, Shen Xiang stayed in his room to refine the Ling Qi Dan. Each furnace was so easy, and they were all six grains. In half a time, two furnaces would be completed, and in five hours, the twenty materials would be refined, totaling 120 grains of Ling Qi Dan! If calculated at the lowest price of 5,000 large spirit coins per grain, that would be 600,000 large spirit coins. The cost of the medicine was only about 100,000 large spirit coins, showing how profitable refining pills was.

  That Meng Bo didn't understand the blood recognition, so he didn't truly obtain the Yan Long treasure furnace. Otherwise, he wouldn't have given it to Shen Xiang. Thinking of this, Shen Xiang felt a bit guilty. Then, he secretly gave Meng Bo a golden spirit fruit and a small piece of hell spirit ganoderma, which made him feel much better.

  At night, Shen Xiang took the batch of Ling Qi Dan to the mountain forest outside the city and swallowed ten pills in one breath, just like eating beans, which would make others know that they would be shocked to drop their jaw.

  Shen Xiang operates the Taiji divine power, refining and transforming the medicinal properties, bringing out the extraordinary spiritual energy within the elixir, slowly sensing the faint aura within the Luan Qi Dan...

  Every night, Shen Xiang would take ten grains to cultivate his true energy. During the day, he would cultivate the Azure Dragon God Technique and the Vermilion Bird God Technique of the Four Symbol Divine Arts. As for the White Tiger God Technique, it required cultivation in a place with extremely heavy killing intent, while the Black Tortoise God Technique was water-attribute and needed to be cultivated in water, and one also had to possess strength above the ninth level of the Mortal Martial Realm.

  In the blink of an eye, the Wang City Martial Arts Conference is about to begin, with only three days left.

  At night, the moonlight was like a wash, and the stars were scattered all over the sky. Shen Xiang, as usual, absorbed a large amount of spiritual energy in the mountains and forests, and at the same time took some Ling Qi Dan. In recent days, he had consumed a lot of elixirs, which made up for the lack of spiritual energy in this thin environment.

  Shen Xiang's body was surrounded by a faint white mist, which emitted a strange energy. The fallen leaves that touched the mist would instantly disintegrate into fragments!

  That white mist is the "Gang Qi", Shen Xiang has now grasped the key to converting his true energy into Gang, but after using true energy to draw Gang, a large amount of true energy will be consumed. Only when the true energy is thick can he continuously use "True Gang" to attack.

  In the early morning, outside the city, in the mountain forest, a robust young man with his upper body exposed was punching the wind-solidified stone wall of the mountain with his fists. The fist winds howled and the air waves surged, only to see that before his fists even touched the stone wall, countless shattered stones were flying out, making "Boom Boom" explosive sounds. Such solid rocks were as fragile as mud in front of his fists wrapped in "True Qi".

  "This is the power of the Seventh Layer of the Mortal Martial Realm! I can now freely transform my true energy into a True Qi Shield!" Shen Xiang clenched his fist and stomped his foot, causing the ground covered in gravel to suddenly crack open. The gravel was crushed into powder by the terrifying aura he released.

  Shen Xiang only felt that his current strength was many times stronger than when he was in the sixth level of the Mortal Martial Realm! However, this power was nothing within the Dà Mén Pài, and only those who possessed a cultivation above the ninth level of the Mortal Martial Realm could stand firm within it. This was also why Shen Xiang would never look down on others because of his own strength - he understood the principle that there were always higher heavens beyond one's own.

  The Dan Wang Ge has Meng Bo, the King of Southern Wu, join in, making the reputation of Dan Wang Ge increase day by day. Although it hasn't opened yet, many people are eagerly waiting for its opening, and there are always many people asking when it will open at the door of the shop. Of course, due to Meng Bo's joining, the Medicine Family feels a lot of pressure, they worry that the Shen Family will become stronger because of Dan Wang Ge, which will threaten their position in the field of Dan medicine in Southern Wu State.

  Although Danxiang Medicine Hall also sells dan, it doesn't sell much. Mainly they sell medicinal materials, so the Danwang Pavilion has little impact on them and even established a cooperative relationship with them.

  Shen Xiang put on his clothes and returned to Wang City, he was thinking about the opening time of Danwang Pavilion.

  On his way back to Wang City, Shen Xiang suddenly felt that something was off. He could sense that there were people hiding in the surrounding forest.

  "Come out, don't hide!" Shen Xiang's voice was icy and filled with murderous intent. Ever since he had a falling out with the Yao family, he had become extremely vigilant, after all, he had been targeted for assassination by the Yao family before.

  His voice had just fallen when a "whoosh" sound came, Shen Xiang flashed out his hand and caught the arrow that was shot at him. Then he stepped quickly like flying, his body agile and swift, shuttling in the forest.

  Shen Xiang appeared under a tree, rotating his aura, and suddenly heard a loud explosion. With one punch, he shattered the big tree, and behind it came a miserable cry. The person hiding behind the tree was directly killed by Shen Xiang's overbearing fist.

  Shen Xiang furrowed his brow, and all the changes around him were within his grasp. After entering the seventh layer of the Mortal Martial Realm, his divine sense had increased greatly. In that instant, he could clearly feel through his divine sense that arrows were shooting towards him like rain.

  He only saw him raise his hand, and a burst of green aura suddenly surged out, forming an aura wall in front of him. The arrows that shot at him like a storm were all blocked by the aura wall.

  "Three hundred arrows, three hundred people! It seems you all want to kill me!" Shen Xiang's face turned cold, and a surge of murderous intent burst forth from his heart.

  "In that case, I won't be polite." Along with this voice, a sky-shrouding killing intent accompanied by a cold wind swept through the forest.

  The White Tiger is a god of slaughter, and after cultivating the White Tiger Divine Technique, one can produce a strong killing aura that can intimidate opponents and also increase their own strength. Now Shen Xiang has just displayed the most basic "Killing Intent" in the White Tiger Divine Technique. Only by mastering this move can one cultivate other martial arts within the White Tiger Divine Technique. The best and fastest way to cultivate "Killing Intent" is through slaughter!

  Shen Xiang released his powerful spiritual sense and soon sensed that there were many people hiding on the big trees around him. They hid very well, but were still discovered by Shen Xiang.

  "Hmph, don't think that just because you have a large number of people, you can kill me!" Shen Xiang let out a cold snort, his body like a phantom, rapidly darting through the forest with incredible speed. This made it extremely difficult for the archers hiding in the trees to lock onto his position, and even if they occasionally managed to hit him, their arrows would still be deflected by the aura surrounding Shen Xiang's body.

  Shen Xiang's fist burst forth with a cyan glow, lightning flashing on his fist. He flashed to the side of a tree and struck the trunk with a loud crash.

  Rumble... rumble... rumble...

  The whole tree was flashing with green lightning, the trunk burst open, spewing out waves of flames and electric sparks, the top of the tree crown was charred, burning with flames, six charred corpses fell from above.