Chapter 4: The Nine Heavens True Water Formula

  Near the town of Xiyuan, a thin figure flickered in and out of sight on a nameless small hill, his palms flying as he practiced his martial skills. The owner of this thin figure was Su Han.

  Su Han practiced the family's traditional martial art, Three Yang Palm, for a while. Suddenly, he felt a suffocating sensation in his chest, and a mouthful of fresh blood spurted out from his mouth, falling onto the ground, leaving a shocking red stain on the floor.

  "Damn it!! As expected, I'm still not good enough!! I've indeed become a useless piece of trash who can't cultivate!! Damn it!!" Su Han knelt on the ground, his heart filled with anguish, and his fists fiercely pounded the earth. Countless sharp rocks pierced through his hands, and fresh blood slowly flowed out from his tender hands, but he didn't feel even a hint of pain. Compared to the pain in his heart, the pain in his hands was nothing.

  The world's martial arts are divided into nine grades, with the first three grades being lower-level martial arts, from grade three to six being mid-level martial arts, and from grade six to nine being high-level martial arts.

  Apart from this, there is also ordinary martial arts. The so-called ordinary martial arts refer to Black Tiger Piercing Heart and Monkey Stealing Peach, which are common and do not have any additional attributes.

  The Su Han family's traditional martial art, the Three Yang Palm, is a lower-level martial art of the third rank. Once it reaches the state of great perfection, every move will stir up a rolling heat wave, making the enemy feel as if they are in the midst of flames, extremely extraordinary.

  That's why high-level martial arts require internal energy to be effective, and Su Haichuan couldn't even master the Three Yang Palms, precisely because his dantian was damaged. Even if he possessed the most profound martial arts techniques, he wouldn't be able to cultivate them.

  "No way! Must cultivate internal energy!!"

  Su Han followed the heart method to operate the San Yang Gong, a thread of internal energy circulating in his body's meridians. Every time he circulated one cycle, that thread of internal energy grew stronger by one thread. However, after he operated the San Yang Gong for three complete cycles, he helplessly discovered that the internal energy he had cultivated was completely dispersed, just like the past few days, and could not be condensed and guided into his dantian.

  Su Han's face turned pale: "Indeed, my dantian was damaged too severely and cannot be cultivated."

  The dantian is the life of a martial artist's martial arts, all the internal energy cultivated will gather in the dantian, once the dantian is destroyed, the martial artist can no longer cultivate internal energy, and the martial arts life will also end.

  The Great Flame Dynasty was founded on military power, with a strong martial culture. The fastest way to gain power and prestige was to cultivate martial arts, join the army, and earn honors through battle achievements.

  A person without the ability to cultivate martial arts can only engage in farming, business, or imperial examinations. To stand out and gain significant power, it's unknown how much time and energy must be spent, and it's also very difficult to achieve great accomplishments, let alone compete with a powerful family like the Yongsheng Marquis'.

  Su Han's heart was filled with a chill as he thought about being unable to continue practicing martial arts. He had tasted despair countless times in the past few days, but he still persisted in his practice, hoping for a miracle to occur. However, each time he practiced only led him further into despair.

  The Su family can stand firm in this Western Yuan Town, relying on their master Su Yan being a post-heavenly seven-layered spiritual energy boundary peak expert and recruiting a large number of high-ranking guards. Otherwise, their industry would have been divided up by other forces.

  Many people are eyeing the Su family's business, and under such circumstances, Su Han's future is at best being assigned to a store in the Su family as a shopkeeper, living a mediocre life. If the Su family declines, he may even be killed by the Su family's enemies.

  Just as Su Han's body was icy cold and his heart had given up all hope, a sudden flash of inspiration struck him, and he thought of the mysterious text that had appeared before he fainted.

  As the mysterious text flashed through Su Han's mind, his spirit immediately began to unconsciously enter a profound and abstruse state, as if breathing naturally, entering the inner vision realm that only legendary innate experts could enter.

  "Is this really my Sea of Knowledge?"

  Su Han's consciousness entered his own sea of consciousness, where he saw a vast expanse of golden waves rolling in the distance, filled with an ancient, sacred and magnificent aura, after a layer of gray mist.

  Seeing that golden ocean, Su Han's heart was filled with shock. Although the Su family was weak and small, there were many books in the house about martial arts cultivation, and there were also some records of the recognition sea. He had never heard of any human having a golden recognition sea.

  A cluster of azure light hovered in the center of the golden ocean, emitting a noble and sacred aura. The threads of blue light emitted an aura that almost shattered Su Han's soul.

  Under the influence of that terrifying power, Su Han's soul was unable to take a single step into the golden ocean in his own spiritual sea. His soul constantly wailed and warned him that if he took one step into the golden ocean, his soul would shatter and cease to exist in this world.

  Just as Su Han was about to exit his inner vision state in frustration, a blue light shot out from the ball of light and landed on Su Han's body.

  The next moment, Su Han appeared in the center of that golden ocean. He looked up at the sky and saw that within the blue light was an eye that seemed to be condensed from blue crystal. The eye was quietly closed, but it emitted endless majesty, holiness, and icy coldness. He felt that if the eye were to open, something extremely terrifying would happen.

  "Nine Heavens True Water Decree!"

  Suddenly, a mysterious and profound symbol condensed into a blue light beam shot out from those blue eyes, shining onto Su Han's body. A mystical and profound technique was imprinted on Su Han's soul.

  That one move was imprinted on Su Han's soul, and in an instant, he became immersed in that mysterious and profound technique. His body began to move along a mysterious trajectory, and his internal energy started circulating along an extremely mysterious path, performing cycle after cycle of circulation, completing thirty-six cycles with just one breath.

  If a martial arts master knew that the first time he practiced this skill, he had already circulated 36 weeks, his eyes would be shocked to fall off.

  In the Daxing Dynasty, the gongfa that was passed down can be divided into four levels: Wuji, Xiacheng, Zhongcheng and Shangcheng. Gongfa without a level is called Wuji Gongfa. This type of gongfa has been widely spread, many people practice this gongfa to strengthen their body, refine their physical and spiritual energy.

  The Wuji Gongfa can only circulate the internal energy for one week, or even half a week, at most once. Exceeding that would harm the body. Lower-level gongfa are divided into three grades, each grade corresponding to a certain number of weeks. The Su family's Three Yang Gong is a third-grade gongfa, and can circulate internal energy for three weeks with each practice. This is already considered an extraordinary gongfa in Xiyuan Town.

  As for the Zhong Cheng Gong Fa and Shang Cheng Gong Fa, they are all in the hands of the military, royal family, and major sects, and will not be easily leaked out.

  If someone knew that Su Han's cultivation method was able to rotate the 36 weeks from the very beginning, it would definitely trigger countless strong men to take action and fight for it. The entire Dayan Wang Dynasty would be plunged into a bloody storm.

  After the internal force in Su Han's body circulated for thirty-six weeks, it changed again. A gentle internal force flowed along his meridians to his dantian, and when it entered the dantian, that gentle internal force slowly leaked out from the damaged part of the dantian. However, a thread of extremely pure internal force remained in the dantian, and Su Han's damaged dantian was also repaired by a thread under the nourishment of that gentle internal force.

  Those gentle inner forces that had dissipated from Su Handan's Dantian were about to disappear into his body like the inner forces he had cultivated in the past. A blue light shot out from the stone eye and landed on those gentle inner forces, which suddenly regained their strange power and continued to run forward along a mysterious meridian.

  That gentle and internal force running through the meridians was an unexplored meridian within Su Han's body. Every time that internal force advanced a little, Su Han felt as if his body had been repeatedly slashed by a knife.

  That intense pain could drive an ordinary person mad, but Su Han's heart gave birth to a thread of enlightenment. If he could get through this hurdle, then the situation where his dantian was severely damaged and unable to cultivate might be reversed. If he couldn't get through it, he would become a useless waste that couldn't cultivate, forever muddling along in mediocrity, with life and death not under his control.

  "I must get through this!! I will never again be trampled to death like an ant. My family will be protected by me! My fate will be controlled by myself!!" Su Han thought, recalling how he was suddenly and inexplicably knocked flying by Yun Tianhai, and then swatted dead like an ant, his heart filled with humiliation and anger, a raging fire burning within him, supporting him so that he didn't pass out from the pain.

  Under that seemingly endless pain, Su Han's body was tense, his face twisted, and sweat fell like raindrops. He clenched his fists in unbearable agony, and drops of fresh blood kept dripping from his hands to the ground. His body was also constantly trembling, as if it might collapse at any moment.

  That gentle inner force in Su Han's sea of consciousness, under the blue light shot out from that mysterious stone eye, ran steadily in Su Han's unopened meridians, and finally merged into a powerful vortex three inches above his dantian.

  That vortex took shape, and a large amount of loose inner energy in Su Han's body was attracted to it, eventually gathering into this vortex, forming a new dantian.

  As the new Dan Tian took shape, Su Han's heart skipped a beat, and a strong sense of joy surged up: "Is this the legendary Middle Dan Tian?"

  Ordinary warriors can only rely on the lower dantian to cultivate throughout their lives. In legend, some geniuses against the sky are born with two dantians, and both dantians cultivate at the same time, cultivating much faster than ordinary people. At the same time, their two dantians carry internal force vortex, internal force is extremely thick, far surpassing the same level. Such geniuses are the favored children of heaven, making it easier for them to break through to the pre-heavenly realm than ordinary people.

  Legend has it that Yun Tianhai is a freak born with two dantians, which is why he can cultivate at a speed far surpassing ordinary people and reach the Later Heaven Eighth Heavy Spiritual Energy Realm at just eighteen years old, becoming the number one among the younger generation of the Great Flame Empire.

  Su Han's past talent was already considered good among ordinary people, but compared to Yun Tianhai, it was like the difference between an ant and a divine dragon, with a gap as wide as the sky.

  At the moment when Su Han's dantian was formed, a surge of internal energy burst out from his dantian and extended into even more mysterious and unusual meridians.

  This time the opened meridian is even more mysterious and strange, that strand of inner force has only gone forward for a short distance, it has almost been exhausted, there is no possibility of running a complete cycle.

  A blue energy shot out from the stone eye and merged with the inner force, forming an abnormally cold, seemingly capable of freezing stars, time, space, and sacredly unparalleled magical inner force.

  That mysterious inner force continuously operated and opened up the unfamiliar meridians within Su Han's body. Every time it ran for a period of time, it would absorb a cluster of blue energy shot out from the stone eye.

  Finally, that mysterious inner force flowed into Su Han's sea of consciousness, forming a blue vortex that shone like the stars.

  That blue vortex formed, and the surging internal force spread to Su Han's limbs, causing his skeleton to emit a crisp sound like popping beans. The boundless internal force flowed through Su Han's body, constantly nourishing and strengthening his skeletal system. Under the reinforcement of that mysterious internal force, every inch of Su Han's skeleton underwent astonishing evolution and transformation. Finally, all his bones became as hard as iron under the reinforcement of that mysterious internal force, achieving the ultimate mastery of the Threefold Bone Refining Realm!

  After the Bone Refining Realm was fully achieved, that mysterious inner power did not disappear but continued to break through and roam around Su Han's body, limbs, and bones, opening up one by one the obscure and difficult-to-penetrate meridians, finally entering Su Han's Zhong Dan Tian, achieving the Post-Heavenly Fourfold Condensation Realm!

  The third stage of postnatal practice, the Bone Forging Realm, is to temper and refine every inch of the practitioner's skeletal structure, making it as hard as iron, with a strong and powerful body. The fourth stage of postnatal practice, the Energy Condensing Realm, is to allow the internal energy to penetrate throughout the entire body, and during combat, to stimulate the internal energy to strengthen oneself, so that every movement, from lifting one's hand to kicking one's foot, has immense power under the enhancement of internal energy.

  Many people can only cultivate to the Postnatal Fourth Layer of Qi Condensation in their lifetime, but Su Han has already cultivated to this level at such a young age. If word gets out, it will surely shock countless people.

  People with such extraordinary talents like Yun Tianhai are rare, and in Xiyuan Town, there aren't many youngsters who can cultivate to the fourth stage of postnatal Qi condensation by the age of fifteen.