Chapter 59: A sudden turn, enemy tracks appear

  Whoosh!

  Suddenly a green shadow flashed across the mountain ridge, and the red leaves rustled loudly in the strong wind, like a joyful melody.

  "Yan Yang Mountain, due to the Red Leaf Forest civilization, belongs to the Xuan Yun Sect's territory, but outsiders are unaware that beneath this ground, the mineral vein convergence gathers the yang energy, forming a spiritual cave. It is often the breakthrough site for high-ranking sect members who practice the Extreme Yang Technique."

  Li Chen scanned the surroundings, following the map in the jade box, and continuously climbed back and forth in the mountains and forests. After searching for nearly two hours, he finally found a cliff.

  This is still because Lichunxiu is not weak, and he is familiar with the terrain of the mountain, plus there are maps to assist him, so he can find it. If it were someone else, just entering the vast mountains would make them unable to distinguish east, west, south, and north.

  "It's here!"

  Looking up, a protruding rock on the cliff above, Li Chen leaped onto the rock wall at dawn and climbed up with his bare hands.

  Squeak!

  Whoosh!

  The howling of monkeys and the screeching of eagles echoed one after another, branches swayed, strong winds shot out, and the two beasts went far away to alert all around.

  "Has the sun risen!"

  Standing on the protruding rock, Li Chen gazed at a thread of light rising in the distance, slowly sat down with his legs crossed, took off his top, opened his storage bag, and pulled out a jade box and several yuan stones.

  Bang!

  Gently opened the jade box, inside which were placed eight walnut-sized jade buttons, and a small booklet, which was the map to enter Flame Mountain.

  "Chi Yang Dan, a second-grade lower-level spiritual dan, contains rich Chi Yang yuan qi. There are eight of them here. The master of the mansion wouldn't have known that I was cultivating the 'Nine Turns Pure Yang Skill' so early on, and had already prepared the matching dan medicine."

  Li Chen squeezed out a jade button, pushed the jade box to the back and put it away properly, opened the jade button, and rolled out a thumb-sized, faintly warm red light-emitting Dan medicine. "Whatever, even if it's poison, it won't work on me anyway!"

  Casually throw the entrance, gulp down, take a deep breath, and move your hands quickly to return to the Dan Tian, according to the meridian trend recorded in "Pure Yang Gong", start the inner breath.

  Wow!

  As the internal energy gradually gathered, Li Chen's skin suddenly surged with green veins, and fine sweat beads evaporated into mist. When sunlight shone on his face, it made him look like he was hiding in plain sight.

  Gradually, the temperature around Lichun began to rise, the fog dispersed, and the sweat beads on his body became more and more numerous, shining brightly. A faint red glow gathered from the left chest and slowly flowed into the Dan Tian.

  It was strange that Li Chen's skin gradually turned black, as if it had endured too much light exposure, and the whole person looked like he had matured by four or five years.

  "Dan Yang San!"

  As the sky gradually darkened, Li Chen, who was covered in dust and dirt all over his body, suddenly opened his eyes, his palms quickly flipping through several major acupoints on his body, finally slapping one palm on his dantian.

  Li Chen's entire body seemed extremely exhausted, and he swayed slightly, propping himself up against the boulder to prevent himself from falling.

  Without resting much, Li Chen gritted his teeth and sat up straight again, adjusting his posture and grasping the yuan stone to meditate.

  It was like this for nine whole days, until the night of the ninth day when I was sitting in meditation at dawn, and suddenly a heavy rain started pouring down from the sky.

  Fortunately, the white clouds and black dogs came quickly in the mountain rain, and left even faster. By morning, it had become a bright sunny day, even brighter than the previous ten days.

  After nine days of exhausting training during the day and practicing at night, Li Chen looked utterly dispirited, as if he had aged several decades overnight.

  What's even more desperate is that for nine days, he didn't eat or drink a drop of water, relying solely on his willpower and the yuan energy absorbed from the primordial stone to hold on until now.

  However, the illusory vortex on his head grew denser and seemed to be about to burst at any moment.

  "Dan Yang converges, pure yang goes to life, true energy begins to condense, give me a breakthrough!"

  All that could be heard was a dull rumbling sound, as if something had shattered. Li Chen opened his mouth and let out a loud roar, his hands swiftly waving forward, fiercely slashing out a circle of red light.

  The true energy is exposed, representing that Li Chen has finally broken through to the Refining True Realm.

  As his eyes opened, two piercing gazes shot out, and with the circulation of his internal energy, the true energy transformed into a misty aura that flowed within him. The moisture in the surrounding air slowly gathered around his body.

  By dusk, his body had finally regained a bit of luster, but his face still looked like that of someone in their twenties.

  "The first transformation is finally complete!"

  No relief in sight, only bitter smiles. Li Chen didn't know if his choice of practicing the Nine Turns of Pure Yang Skill was right or wrong, but now that he had already cultivated to the first turn, he could only continue on.

  Otherwise, it will be burned by the impure pure yang true gas in the body, and all the meridians in the body will be broken and die.

  But now, after slightly mobilizing the pure yang true energy that had just been generated in his body, feeling its powerful flow, Li Chen knew that the hardships he had endured were not in vain.

  Hmph!

  Operating the true energy, with a stroke of his hand on the giant stone, the ravine responded to his finger and was born. Li Chen secretly calculated that it had increased by at least ten times, or even tens of times stronger than before.

  It's not just that, looking far away, within sight, the tiny insects and birds hundreds of feet away are clearly visible, as if every detail is present, and my hearing has also increased a lot.

  He patted the palm of his hand where the yuan stone powder had turned to ash, and then took over the storage bag. With a casual input of true energy, it easily opened.

  Reaching into his pocket, wanting to pull out a few snacks to fill his stomach, he suddenly stopped moving his hand.

  Hiss!

  In the high sky, came the warning of Lei Peng.

  "You really have patience, and you actually found this place!"

  He casually pulled out a few pieces of dried meat and gazed coldly at the distant mountains.

  This place is extremely remote, only the high-level members of the Xuan Yun Sect know its unique use, and there are no special products or treasures. Few people come here on ordinary days. Looking at those few figures that suddenly flashed by, they seemed to have the appearance of the knights who chased him back then.

  It was clear that these few people had heard Li Chen's sudden breakthrough earlier and couldn't help but let out a long sigh, following the sound to come over.

  Squeak!

  Before long, the little monkey's warning also came through.

  Whoa!

  He casually put on his clothes, picked up the storage bag, this cliff was invisible from the outside, but in the mountains and forests it was not considered a secret, let alone those few people were all strong warriors, at this time they came to the front, already unable to hide.

  He dashed straight down the precipice, like a heroic eagle flying downwards, and every time he fell, he would stretch out his hand to gently pat the rock wall, slowing down the force of the fall.

  After dozens of breaths, he stood at the foot of the cliff with a loud crash.

  At this time, the figures of the two men and one woman had already caught up from behind.

  Two of them were Li Yuqing and Zhang Chulang, but as for the last one, Li Chen didn't recognize him.

  "As expected, you're no ordinary person! No wonder you were able to escape from Zhang Shidi that day!"

  The tall and majestic man in front of him slowly lowered his palm, with a faint smile on his face.

  "What? Can't even wait for me to attend the birthday banquet?"

  Li Chen ignored him and looked at Li Yueqing.

  "Hmph, Brother Li wants to make it difficult for his sister to find him, isn't this because he's afraid you won't go, so he specially came to invite you!"

  Li Yuqing smiled and swayed her willow waist, a pair of charming eyes scanning Li Chen's face back and forth, looking at Li Chen's suddenly older appearance by five or six years, somewhat surprised.

  "Early this morning, didn't you see Master Qiu and he hasn't come to pay his respects yet?"

  Zhang Chulang's eyes rolled over and he said in a cold voice.