Chapter 26: Advancement to the True Qi Realm

  "What's that thing?"

  Suddenly, Su Han felt a crystal clear water spirit power surging from the southwest direction, pouring into his body. He instantly opened his eyes, concentrated his mind and looked in that direction.

  Su Han's right eye suddenly appeared with mysterious symbols, looking towards the southwest direction. Only to see in the dark river bottom, a faint white light flickered. This white light was more intense than the one Su Han saw on the wooden emperor's secret book.

  "There's treasure at the bottom of the river." Su Han's heart skipped a beat with excitement as he swam towards the riverbed.

  At the bottom of the river, a cluster of stagnant mud emitted a faint white glow.

  Su Han used the thick-backed large knife with a rolled edge to scoop up the surface of the muddy water, revealing a stone about the size of a thumb, transparent throughout, emitting white spiritual light, floating in the water.

  Su Han stretched out his hand and grabbed it, instantly grasping the stone that emitted white spiritual light in his palm.

  The stone that flashed with white spiritual light was caught by Su Han, and a pure water attribute power slowly flowed into his body from his hand.

  "What is this?" Su Han's heart was slightly shocked, the Nine Heavenly True Water internal force in his body turned once, and began to refine that pure water attribute power.

  That pure and unparalleled water attribute power was quickly absorbed by Su Han's refining, only to be followed by another surge of pure and unparalleled water attribute power gushing out from the transparent stone that flashed with spiritual light.

  Su Han didn't dare to be careless and quickly circulated the Nine Heavens True Water inner power, crazily refining that pure water attribute energy.

  After refining dozens of strange water attribute powers, Su Han's internal strength not only recovered to its peak state but also reached a new level, forming a torrent that impacted the hidden acupoint within his body. With ease, the Nine Heavens True Water internal strength, which had refined dozens of strange water attribute powers, broke through the hidden acupoint and circulated within Su Han's body in a new way.

  Every time he completes a cycle, Su Han's internal force transforms into a strand of true energy. When all his internal force is transformed into true energy, he truly breaks through and advances to become a strong practitioner in the Later Heaven Sixth True Energy Realm.

  The post-heavenly sixfold true energy realm and the post-heavenly fivefold strong energy realm are a huge watershed. The strong energy realm's martial artist has internal force flowing through their body, while the true energy realm's strong practitioner has true energy circulating within them. True energy is far more refined than internal force and its power is much stronger. A true energy realm strong practitioner who hasn't practiced any horizontal exercises can mobilize true energy to strengthen a certain part of their body, allowing that part to withstand sword slashes for a short period of time, which is incredibly formidable. At the same time, a true energy realm strong practitioner can be considered a top-notch expert throughout the entire Flame Emperor Dynasty and can blend in seamlessly anywhere they go.

  Promoted to the realm of true energy, Su Han's refinement and transformation of that strange water attribute power suddenly became extremely fast. Those pure and powerful forces surged into his body and were quickly refined by him. The true energy within his body was also rising steadily.

  As Su Han's true energy reserves continued to rise, the transparent stone that emitted a spiritual glow also began to dim and eventually shattered with a loud crack, turning into a pile of debris.

  Su Han opened his eyes, looking at the pile of debris in his right hand, a flash of regret passing through his eyes: "What a good treasure, I don't even know what kind of heavenly material it is, and yet it allowed me to directly advance one level, becoming a strong True Qi Realm cultivator, saving me several years of bitter cultivation. If I could have such treasures to cultivate with all the time, I would definitely be able to surpass Yun Tianhai in a short period of time."

  This transparent stone emitting white spiritual light is absolutely a precious treasure, otherwise it would be impossible for Su Han to break through and become a true energy realm master.

  At this point, Su Han was only sixteen years old. A sixteen-year-old True Qi Realm expert was extremely rare in the entire Dayan Dynasty, and compared to that talented genius Yun Tianhai, he was only slightly inferior.

  Su Han quietly calculated the gap between him and Yun Tianhai in his heart: "Now, I am already a strong True Qi Realm cultivator, plus the small success of the Wood Emperor Seal, enough to match the late-stage Seventh-Order Spiritual Qi Realm expert. However, compared to Yun Tianhai, the gap is still enormous. Moreover, with his talent, he's probably already become a Grandmaster Realm expert."

  Yun Tianhai was almost the most freakish genius in the entire Dayan Dynasty, with a cultivation speed that was abnormal to the extreme. He had two dantians and cultivated superior techniques, at this time Su Han was still not his opponent.

  After finishing his cultivation, Su Han directly swam upstream and soon floated out of the water.

  It had been a whole day since Su Han jumped into the river, and there were no more wolf shadows on both sides of the small river.

  Su Hansheng swam to the shore, took out a set of dry clothes from the blue ring and changed into them. Then he took out some clear water and dried rations and began eating greedily.

  After finishing his meal, Su Han's body technique unfolded, and he jumped continuously to the top of the tallest tree in the surrounding area, looking down. He had to confirm his current location.

  Su Han carefully observed the surrounding terrain, and his heart slightly moved. He took out the treasure map obtained from Zhao Jun and examined it carefully. Soon, a hint of joy flashed in his eyes: "The terrain here is indeed the same as the map."

  Su Han came to the Red Leaf Mountain Range with two main purposes, one of which was to hunt and kill demonic beasts in order to temper himself through actual combat, while the other purpose was for this treasure map.

  Su Han made a decision: "Since I've come here, then I'll go get that treasure."

  The Nine Heavens True Water Technique was unparalleled in its wonder, and the pure water attribute energy emitted from the transparent stone also possessed the marvel of healing the body. As the two combined, most of Su Han's wounds had already healed and scabbed over. Moreover, since he had advanced to become a true Qi realm expert, his current strength was more than double what it was in his prime. It was only then that he chose to go treasure hunting.

  Following the map's guidance, Su Han carefully navigated through the dense forest.

  The woods nearby had been swept by the pack of demonic wolves, and most of the demonic beasts were either killed or driven away. Su Han arrived at a small valley with great ease.

  In front of that small valley, there was a dense bamboo forest, and a straight path appeared in the midst of the bamboo forest, full of artificial carving flavor.

  "It's here." Su Han saw the dense bamboo forest and first showed a slight joy, then a hint of disappointment flashed in his eyes: "It seems that the things inside are probably already taken away clean."

  The entrance of this small valley is not very secretive. As long as someone passes by and enters, they can easily take away everything inside.

  Although somewhat disappointed, since he had already arrived at this place, Su Han followed suit and stepped into the bamboo forest.