Chapter 22: Post-Heavenly Realm Four Layers Renmai Realm

  Zhongxi Peak is extremely high, like a pillar piercing the sky. From halfway up the mountain, clouds and mist begin to gather.

  There are ten villas on the Zhongxi Peak, each accommodating about a hundred outer door disciples. In addition to these ten villas, there is also a bustling commercial street called Zhongxi Street built in a relatively flat area.

  This Zhongxi business street is quite lively, and the outer disciples of the ten mountain villages often come here.

  A youth wearing tattered blue clothes and carrying a hemp sack stood at the entrance of Zhongxi Commercial Street.

  Gu Chao took a deep breath, his 15-day cultivation on Yingxia Peak had come to an end, and now it was time to return to Zhongxi Peak to sell the spoils of war.

  Gu Chao walked on the Zhongxi Business Street, this business street was about five meters wide, much wider than the mountain roads he was used to. There were all sorts of shops on both sides. The wine flag in front fluttered in the wind, clearly a wine house. Further away was a clothing store. Although the Taishan Sect issued two sets of summer clothes and two sets of winter clothes every year, there was still a need for ready-made clothes, especially for the female disciples who loved beauty.

  In front of that was a weapon shop, like the outer disciples of Xin Xue Mountain Villa who had just entered the door used the uniform fine steel long knife issued by the Tai Shan Sect, but after entering the door for a long time, the requirements for knives became higher, so they needed various better long knives. Of course, it's also because some knife techniques have been practiced, and different long knives are needed, such as practicing heavy knife techniques that require heavier long knives, and practicing light and agile knife techniques that require goose feather knives and the like.

  Apart from this, there are all sorts of shops, including pawnshops and the like. The whole street is full of ancient charm, a flavor completely different from that of the previous world. There are also many people on the streets, some in their teens, others in their twenties, all of whom are outer disciples of the Taishan Sect.

  These outer door disciples are obviously much earlier than Gu Chao, and Gu Chao also looks at them with a look of looking at rookies. Of course, Gu Chao is now a rookie among the many outer door disciples of the Taishan Sect.

  Gu Chao walked on the road of Business Street.

  In front of us was a shop with the five golden characters "Zhong Xi Materials Shop" shining brightly in the sunlight, which specialized in collecting demon beast hides, furs, bones and other materials.

  Gu Cha stepped into this store.

  The style of this shop, there are some older outer disciples coming in and out, with a counter inside, several apprentices busy behind the counter, on the wall is written: "Zhongxi Materials Shop, material buying and selling, no cheating, absolutely fair." A row of red characters.

  "I'm here to sell materials," Gu Chao said.

  "Oh, you're here to sell materials? I'll take them." a young voice said.

  Gu Chao was taken aback, the person speaking had a youthful face and an energetic demeanor, he was a twelve-year-old boy, and one that Gu Chao knew. Wasn't this one of the sixty-one people from New Snow Mountain Villa? Gu Chao searched his memory and immediately recalled that this person's name was Fang Dong, who ranked fifty-sixth in the monthly assessment at New Snow Mountain Villa, three places higher than Gu Chao.

  "How did you end up here?" Gu Chao asked involuntarily.

  "I'm naturally here, I'm the son of the shopkeeper." Fang Dong said with a smile, seeing Gu Chao's confusion, Fang Dong explained: "Although we are people within the Tai Shan Sect, we also have to go through formal assessment to become outer disciples of the Tai Shan Sect. At most, we can let it slide a bit during the assessment, so it's perfectly reasonable for me to be at Xin Xue Mountain Villa now."

  That's right, rules are rules.

  Those who want to send their children to Tai Shan Pai must also follow the rules.

  Gu nodded slightly, seeming to understand.

  "I heard you took a leave of absence half a month ago to cultivate, what spoils of war did you get?" Fang Dong asked.

  "Blood Flower." Gu Chao replied.

  "Have you harvested Blood Blossoms? That's indeed a suitable cultivation for our current strength. How many Blood Blossoms have you cut down in the past half month, three, five? One intact Blood Blossom is worth thirty taels, and if it's damaged, the price will be lower depending on the extent of the damage." Fang Dong asked casually, ranking fifty-sixth, similar to Gu Chao's fifty-ninth. Fang Dong thought to himself that he could harvest at most six Blood Blossoms in half a month, so he estimated Gu Chao's number to be around three to five.

  Gu Chao started taking out the Blood Flower from the sack on his back, a blood-red flower that seemed to have an enchanting effect on people.

  Then, Gu Chao took out another one from his pocket.

  It's already three o'clock!

  Five Blood Blossoms have withered; this should be about the limit.

  Gu Chao took out six Blood Blossoms, not bad, but this should be about the limit.

  Wait, seven, eight, nine! Gu Chao broke through the limit.

  Ten, almost exhausted from the intense movement. With their own and Gu Chao's strength, they should have been limited to five or six. How did Gu Chao get ten Blood Blossoms?

  Thirteen! The conventional wisdom of Fang Dong continues to be broken.

  Fifteen!

  Twenty!

  Twenty-five! What is the common sense of square movement?

  Thirty pieces! Exceeded normal limits by six times! Fang Dong's eyes were wide with shock.

  Thirty-five!

  Forty-five!

  Fifty! Exceeding the normal limit by ten times! Fang Dong is speechless now.

  Fifty-three! He finally stopped, Gu Chao didn't take out the Blood Flower again, and Fang Dong was almost driven mad. Did Gu Chao really create these fifty-three Blood Flowers himself? That's impossible, it's absolutely impossible for someone ranked fifty-ninth to produce so many Blood Flowers. How did Gu Chao do it?

  In addition to the 53 Blood Blossoms, Gu Chao also discovered a first-class inferior medicinal herb, Juemi Grass, which is an excellent wound-healing herb. Gu Chao sold it too. In the end, Gu Chao earned 1,500 taels of silver from the Zhongxi Material Shop. Then he spent 1,200 taels at the nearby medicine shop to buy a Feiyan Chongmai Pill.

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  Gu Chao held a sealed wooden box in his hand and sat on the bed in the dormitory. The sealed wooden box was made of a kind of wood that could prevent the leakage of spiritual energy, and if it was not opened, it could maintain its efficacy for three years. Once the box was opened, he had to take it immediately to avoid the loss of efficacy.

  On the lid of the box, there was a delicate button. When pressed, the lid popped open with a "click". At this moment, Gu Chao's mind wandered to a martial arts novel he had read in his past life where opening a box would trigger two poisonous needles to shoot out and pierce one's throat, but he immediately stopped himself from imagining further.

  The sealed box was opened, and inside, there was only a light yellowish dan-sized pill, which was the Fei Yan Chong Mai Wan.

  Gu Chao swallowed the pale yellow, dragon eye-sized Fei Yan Zhong Mai pill. The elixir was a ball of scorching heat in his throat and esophagus. Gu Chao didn't dare to slack off and immediately started practicing Tai Shan Yuan Qi Gong. Using the three long and seven short methods of Tai Shan Yuan Qi Gong, he circulated the internal energy at his Dantian, absorbing the fiery medicinal power brought by the pill. The scorching heat transformed into a stream of internal energy.

  Gǔ Chāo is now at the early stage of the third layer of the acquired realm. The third layer of the acquired realm, Qì Zhuàng Jìng, requires internal energy to fill the dantian to reach its peak. Originally, Gǔ Chāo's internal power only occupied about half of the dantian. At this time, the Fei Yàn Chōng Mài Wán provided a constant supply of internal energy, filling up Gǔ Chāo's lower dantian, and gradually, the internal energy in the lower dantian below the navel was completely filled, full to bursting.

  And the effect of Fei Yan Chong Mai Wan was not over yet, but it kept impacting the first acupoint of Renmai, and this lasted for a long time. With a loud noise, Gu Chao had already reached the early stage of the fourth layer of Houtian Realm, Renmai Boundary.

  This is simply a huge progress.

  The five months of cultivation time was originally from the second layer of the acquired realm to the third layer of the acquired realm.

  And now, from the initial stage of the third layer of the acquired realm to the initial stage of the fourth layer of the acquired realm, this kind of progress is really not ordinary. Of course, there is the contribution of the expensive Blood Flower, and also the lucky discovery of the first-class medicinal herb, Honey Grass, which was used to exchange for money.

  Haha, I'm now at the initial stage of the fourth layer of the Post-Heaven Realm, plus I've made some progress with the 72 Routes of Knife Techniques.

  Combat effectiveness has been greatly improved.

  Now his own combat power, among the sixty-one people in Xue Shan Zhuang, should be able to rank in the middle, and no longer at the bottom.

  Of course, I still need to work harder, so that in the future, I can be at the forefront of Xue Shan Zhuang.

  (Um, today's first chapter is delivered.)