Chapter Eighteen: The Threefold Nature of Post-Heaven

  Xu Fang's face changed, her voice took on a few degrees of coldness: "Han Dongyu, do you really want to make an enemy of me and Yue Shixiong for the sake of a junior?"

  "I just can't get past it, what can you do?" Han Dongyu's voice was even colder.

  "Hey!" Xu Fang was furious, her whole body trembling with rage, but she didn't dare to make a move. Although they were both divine transcendence cultivators, Han Dongyu was not only the sect's great master of alchemy, but also a senior cultivator, his status even higher than that of Zhan Kongchen, so she really didn't dare to call him out.

  "Hey, Han Shi Di, Yue Shi Di, Xu Shi Mei, don't let a small matter affect your relationship." War Empty Dust said, "I'll mediate this once and for all, what do you think?"

  "I have no opinion, I'm just afraid someone won't let it go." Han Dongyu said calmly.

  "Alright, you're all staring at that little beast." Yue Zifeng said in a cold voice: "But I, Yue Zifeng, am not someone to be trifled with either. Whoever dares to harm my disciple, I will make them pay the price. Today, I'm putting down the word here, for what this little beast has done to Bu Fan and Yuan Yao, I will definitely make him pay back in full!"

  His face completely lost, Yu Zifeng didn't want to stay in the arena for another second, and he left with Zhuo Bufan's support.

  Xu Fang's face turned iron-green, holding Li Yuanyao's hand, also followed away.

  Zhan Kongchen looked at the backs of the two people, although annoyed, but also helpless.

  Although he was the sect leader, he had no power to exert pressure on other gods and communication boundary cultivators. Just like fellow mortal disciples, as long as their cultivation levels were not much different, they could not thoroughly suppress each other. At most, he could only question them in his capacity as sect leader.

  In the sect, everything is respected for its strength. Only a few masters with higher cultivation can truly intimidate Yue Zifeng and Xufang.

  "Think you can just leave? Yue Zifeng, Xu Fang, stop right there!" Suddenly, Xia Chen's icy voice rang out from the martial arts arena.

  "You dare to address me by my name directly!" Yue Zifeng and Xue Fang were taken aback, then suddenly flew into a rage.

  Xia Chen said in a cold voice, "You want to overthrow me? I still consider you as my seniors in the sect! Yue Zifeng, Xu Fang, although my cultivation is not as good as yours now, I, Xia Chen, swear that three years later, I will definitely enter the Divine Realm. Today's matter, let you pay back a hundred times!"

  The whole audience was silent as if all the crows had stopped making noise!

  Even Zhan Kongchen and Han Dongyu were shocked, staring at Xia Chen, who dared to make a vow to challenge the Divine Transcendence realm cultivators in three years with his current Second Heaven cultivation. This madness, this bravery, this momentum, had already exceeded everyone's imagination.

  Yue Zifeng and Xu Fang's faces turned iron-green, as divine transcendence cultivators they were actually being challenged by a newly joined disciple like an ant, the two of them were already furious, hating that they couldn't immediately take action to kill Xia Chen.

  However, as two powerful cultivators, they valued their reputation and wouldn't attack a young new disciple!

  "You'd better pray that you can survive the next three years first! I'll be looking forward to seeing how you break through the Divine Realm in three years!" Yue Zifeng suppressed his anger and turned to leave.

  "You ignorant ant, if you can reach the realm of divine power in three years, that would be a miracle!" Xu Fang sneered coldly and left with Yue Zifeng side by side.

  In an instant, both of them and their disciples below had left the arena.

  "Xia Chen, although you are the ancient Yuan Saint Body, doing this is extremely disadvantageous to you." Zhan Kongchen said slowly. He also didn't expect Xia Chen to have such audacity, and under his surprise, he couldn't help but admire Xia Chen somewhat.

  "Thank you, Master, but I have confidence that I can reach the Divine Realm in three years!" Xia Chen said calmly, his confidence naturally stemming from the foreign object within his body.

  Zhan Kong shook his head, even if he was a peerless genius, it would be impossible to advance to the Divine Realm within three years. This disciple's courage was commendable, but he probably still didn't know the difficulty of breaking through realms.

  "Xia Chen, although three years is a short time, I will do my best to help you improve your cultivation. If you are willing to acknowledge me as your master, I guarantee that no one will dare to harm you." Han Dongyu said suddenly.

  Xia Chen was shocked and delighted at the same time. He had actually thought about asking Han Dongyu to be his master, but didn't know if this powerful cultivator would accept him as a disciple. Unexpectedly, Han Dongyu brought it up himself.

  Zhan Fengchen exclaimed: "Xia Chen, aren't you going to hurry up and pay your respects to your master! Master Han is a great master of alchemy, and in the past, he has never taken on any disciples. To be chosen by him is a tremendous blessing! Moreover, with Master Han looking after you, others will not find it easy to cause you trouble!"

  "Disciple Xia Chen, greetings Master!" Xia Chen hastily knelt down towards Han Dongyu.

  "Congratulations, congratulations! Han Shidi's acceptance of a disciple today is a great joy for our sect, worthy of celebration!" War Wind Dust chuckled.

  Other cultivators of the Mystic Arts also congratulated him.

  "Congratulations, Master Han! You've finally taken on a disciple, and it's even one of the ancient Yuan Sheng Ti's disciples. It makes me, your junior brother, so envious!"

  "Brother Han, if you hadn't just said you wanted to take in Xia Chen, I would have proposed taking this child as my apprentice. Gu Yuan's physique is rarely seen in the world, and it's even harder to find someone with a mind as firm and will as strong as this child's. In the future, he will definitely stand out from the crowd."

  "Hehe, I also wanted to take Xia Chen as a disciple, but since it's Master Han who discovered the ancient Yuansheng body, naturally I wouldn't dare fight with my senior brother over him!"

  The crowd of disciples looked at Xia Chen with envy, Han Dongyu being the elixir master of the Zhengxuan sect, countless later-generation disciples wanted to follow him in cultivation, but not one was favored by Han Dongyu, this guy is really lucky.

  Han Dongyu also smiled and nodded, saying: "Xia Chen, since you've already become an apprentice, why don't you move into my Medicine Garden Cave Abode to live? I have a few bottles of Dan medicine here, take them first and use them. After entering the garden, your master will personally guide your cultivation."

  He casually tossed out a small bottle, and Xia Chen hastily caught it: "Thank you, Master."

  Everyone watched with envy and admiration, indeed a great master of elixirs, wealthy and generous, casually tossing out a bottle of elixir without even blinking an eye!

  The assessment of new disciples continued, but the trial had no suspense at all. Xia Chen naturally won first place, and Sun Li, Fang Qiu, and Chen Lie were also among the best, receiving many rewards.

  This time's new disciple assessment, almost all disciples remembered Xia Chen and Gu Yuan's sacred body.

  In the blink of an eye, several months have passed.

  After becoming an apprentice, Xia Chen moved to Yao Yuan Dong Fu and followed Han Dongyu's practice.

  Han Dongyu was very kind to Xia Chen, not only carefully guiding Xia Chen's cultivation and teaching her techniques, but also often giving Xia Chen medicinal pills to aid in her practice, and even teaching Xia Chen the art of alchemy, causing Xia Chen's progress to be extremely rapid.

  Xia Chen was naturally grateful and his cultivation efforts doubled. Whenever he thought of Yue Zifeng and Xu Fang's oppression, he gained endless motivation.

  On this day, Xia Chen sat in a quiet stone room, meditating with his eyes closed. In front of him was a black cauldron half the height of a person.

  From the outside, Xia Chen seemed completely normal, as if he was just sitting quietly. However, his internal true energy was circulating ceaselessly, permeating from within his skin to his entire body, and had already saturated almost all of his muscles.

  When the true energy permeates from the skin to the entire body, it also represents the great achievement of the threefold cultivation of acquired nature.

  But at this moment, Xia Chen's body moved slightly, and the flow of true energy slowed down, but the true energy generated in the dantian was not enough.

  Xia Chen opened his eyes and muttered to himself, "I'm still a bit short of breaking through the third layer of the Post-Heavenly Refining Flesh Realm. If I cultivate at a normal speed, it'll take at least another ten or so days. However, cultivating while refining pills is much faster than normal cultivation. Who knows, maybe I can use the Yuanyi Pill to break through ahead of time."

  He was in charge of finding herbs when he was a miscellaneous worker. The foundation of alchemy was already very deep, and after more than a month of hard work day and night under the guidance of Han Dongyu, his progress in alchemy was extremely fast, and he could already start refining pills.

  She stood up, picked up a bundle of herbs from the ground, opened the lid of the cauldron and put them in, then ignited the flames.

  Sitting on the ground, Xia Chen stared intently at the cauldron. After a moment, as the flame temperature rose, the lower part of the cauldron also showed a dark red color. From the gap in the cauldron lid, the fragrance of the medicine gradually emerged.

  Xia Chen's face was solemn, he took a deep breath, and with a virtual slap of his palm beside the flame under the tripod furnace, a majestic true energy poured into the charcoal fire.

  Immediately, the flames surged up and raged fiercely for a time.

  Xia Chen's body was filled with surging true energy, carefully controlling the fire and concentrating on refining the yuanqi dan.

  In the pure mind, the foreign object in the body still transmits that extraordinary feeling of having a spiritual connection, although there is no demonstration, but it allows Xia Chen to clearly feel the strength and weakness of the flame, and make fine adjustments to the fire at any time, as if it were an extension of his arm.

  Generally, at least the cultivation of post-heaven sixfold or above is required to truly refine the elixir, because the true energy of post-heaven sixfold is powerful and can give birth to post-heaven true fire, with a control degree much smaller than that of controlling external fire.

  The day after tomorrow, with a weight of five or less, the ability to control external fire is insufficient, and the possibility of successful alchemy is slim.

  Of course, there are also some disciples who have a strong talent for alchemy and can accurately control the fire of the external flame, or like Xia Chen, who has the ability to transmit foreign objects in his body, whether it is refining pills or cultivating, there is no obstacle at all.

  Controlling the external flame in this way, the consumption speed of true energy is extremely fast, and after just a moment, Xia Chen felt that the true energy in his dantian was rapidly decreasing.

  However, as the true energy gradually spread out, his mind became bright and clear, as if a pair of invisible eyes saw all sorts of situations inside his body.

  The day after tomorrow is triple, introspecting the physical body. This introspection is not really seeing, but it is far more subtle and real than seeing, and there are no blind spots at all, so to speak, every detail is present.

  Xia Chen's control of the alchemy fire timing was just right, and the fragrance of the medicine became more and more concentrated. There was already a faintly discernible aura that had taken shape, spreading upwards along the cover of the cauldron.

  At this time, Xia Chen's physical body was filled with true energy, and the true energy of his whole body gathered together, like countless tributaries, converging towards the Dan Tian. As long as the gathering is successful, it will be the success of the post-heavenly threefold refinement of the flesh realm cultivation.

  The black tripod furnace was slightly trembling from the flame's burning, and the fragrance of medicine had already filled the entire room, with an inexplicable intoxicating effect. The medicinal materials inside the tripod furnace had completely transformed into a dark green color, and had condensed into a spherical shape; once it was fully solidified, the elixir would be successfully refined.

  This is the most critical moment.

  Suddenly, Xia Chen's true energy showed a hint of exhaustion, and the flame controlling the cauldron also appeared to be shaking. The true energy in his body had already gathered to the edge of the dantian, and the speed suddenly slowed down.

  However, Xia Chen's expression didn't change at all, and he directly took out a Yuanqi Dan from his bosom and swallowed it.

  The yuanqi pill entered the body and immediately transformed into a ball of pure yuanqi, which was then absorbed by Xia Chen. His true energy, which had been gradually depleted, was instantly replenished, like countless rivers flowing together, finally gathering in Xia Chen's body.

  In the moment when he gathered into his dantian, Xia Chen suddenly had a feeling of being as light as a swallow, as if his entire body had turned into a willow catkin, and with just a slight movement, he could fly up.

  But in this light and airy feeling, Xia Chen suddenly had an indomitable feeling, as if his entire body was made of steel.

  The flesh is soft as cotton, yet firm as iron, which is exactly the sign of the threefold refinement of the flesh in the acquired realm.

  The day after tomorrow, Triple Refining of Flesh Realm is completed!