Chapter 3: Becoming an Apprentice

  In the dimly lit room, there were occasional dull hums coming from time to time, sometimes short and sometimes long.

  Jiang Hao has been impacting the Wind Pool acupoint for three days, but the major Wind Pool acupoint still shows no signs of loosening. Jiang Hao's lips are tightly closed, his face is completely red, and from time to time, small black blood beads can be seen seeping out of the fine pores on his skin. At this moment, Jiang Hao's body is even more chaotic, as the shockwave from impacting the Wind Pool acupoint has affected other smaller meridians, causing many small meridians to become entangled and abnormally disordered!

  Suddenly, the pendant on Jiang Huan's chest lit up, and a young man floated out, looking at Jiang Huan with furrowed brows, saying in a low voice: "This kid is so impatient, his accumulated battle energy is insufficient, resulting in inadequate follow-up power. I'll help him out this time, success or failure depends on this one move." He waved his hand casually, and a light point merged into Jiang Huan's forehead, disappearing from view. Jiang Huan's body slowly calmed down afterwards. His shadow then gradually dispersed.

  Jiang Hao felt like he was being burned by fire, his consciousness almost sinking into sleep. He hadn't expected Fengchi Cave to be so difficult to break through! But suddenly, he felt something in his mind, and the scattered war energy began to gather together, showing signs of condensation. Seizing the opportunity, Jiang Hao immediately manipulated this war energy to slowly move towards Fengchi Cave, constantly widening and solidifying the tiny meridians, accelerating the flow of war energy until it all converged at Fengchi Cave!

  Looking at the large hole in front of him, Jiang Huan did not choose to charge hard this time, but tried to use his war energy to nourish the small meridians around the acupoint. After several hours of nourishment, just as Jiang Huan was about to give up, the Fengchi acupoint suddenly cracked open a small gap, and in that instant, the war energy found an outlet and surged forward, tearing apart with pain again, causing Jiang Huan to hiss and gasp for air.

  After the battle energy broke through Fengchi, it actually went to Quzhong and Baihui two major acupoints on its own, escaping Jiang Hao's control. Jiang Hao thought to himself, no good, has he gone mad from excessive energy?

  However, things did not go as expected. The Qi easily broke through the Quzhong and Baihui acupoints and returned to the Dan Tian, forming a large cycle. Although there was pain, it was much less than what I experienced at Fengchi acupoint.

  Jiang Hao slowly opened his eyes, and in the darkness, he only saw a ray of light flashing by. He slowly let out a mouthful of turbid air, looking at his body in astonishment. It was so simple to succeed! The Tian Ding, Xia Guan, Que Yin, Feng Chi, Qu Xie, and Bai Hui were all unblocked! As he felt his body, it seemed as if every muscle was filled with explosive power. He estimated that he should now have the strength of a five-star warrior. In the Jiang family, reaching the level of a five-star warrior at the age of six was not unprecedented, but it was certainly less than a handful of people.

  "It seems that I'm not bad at this either, haha, I can be considered a small genius too, hahaha!" Jiang Huanle muttered to himself.

  "Already proud of yourself just as you're getting started?" At this time, the young man poked his head out from behind the necklace again, looking at Jiang Huan with disdain.

  "Now I've actually reached the strength of a five-star warrior!" Jiang Huan argued.

  The young man let out a soft sigh, thinking to himself that he was still just a kid after all. He spoke seriously: "In my time, even warriors didn't amount to anything, only those at the level of war generals could barely survive."

  Jiang Hao was stunned, in his eyes, the warlord had always been a top-notch strongman, but to the young man, he was just barely able to survive. For a moment, he was speechless. Looking at the young man's serious gaze, Jiang Hao realized that this might be the truth. As if determined, Jiang Hao knelt down and kowtowed several times in front of the young man.

  "Hmm?" A faint, imperceptible smile flashed in the young man's eyes.

  "Please accept me as your disciple, I vow to cultivate and dominate the world." Jiang Hao shouted firmly.

  "Great, actually at first I was just trying to see, didn't expect you young man really have some perseverance, this period of time your performance I also saw with my own eyes, very good, to my taste, this apprentice I accept, hahaha!" The young man laughed loudly.

  "The apprentice pays respects to his master."

  "Alright, now that I've accepted you as my disciple, it's only natural for me as your master to guide you properly, but the prerequisite is that you must persevere."

  The young man paused for a moment, then continued: "My name is Usurper of Heaven. In my time, there were only a few people who could be considered my opponents." After finishing his sentence, he seemed to recall ancient events and closed his eyes.

  "Master, can you tell me about those ancient things?"

  He opened his eyes and saw Jiang Hao's clear eyes, saying: "I don't know how many tens of millions of years it has been. The world now is very different from the one in my time, but there is one thing that hasn't changed - we also cultivated martial energy back then. So when I heard you are also cultivating martial energy, I thought maybe this is fate."

  "As for the ancient times, I'll only tell you that back then, an ordinary strongman could easily wipe out your Jiang family with just a wave of their hand. Someone like your father would only be considered slightly stronger than average in my time. As for what true strength looks like, you can probably imagine it yourself. I don't want to say more." Tianya said calmly.

  "Ah, how did you know what my dad is capable of? You've never even met him." Jiang Hao asked in confusion.

  "Don't you know what spiritual power is? Let alone your Jiang family, every single person in this city right now, whatever they're doing or saying, I can know it all clearly with just a thought."

  "Soul power?" Jiang Hao became more and more confused.

  "Alright, you're still young, you'll gradually understand later on. What's most important for you right now is to lay a solid foundation. Your body is too weak; the further you cultivate, the more you'll realize the importance of your physical body."

  Jiang Hao smiled slyly and said, "Master, since you're so strong, why don't you just casually give me some top-level battle techniques?"

  "Don't worry, kid, the teacher won't treat you unfairly."

  "There's a list of materials here, with some medicinal herbs on it. You go get them first, as for the combat skills, we'll talk about that later. Alright, I'm going to take a nap now, don't disturb me, come find me when you've gathered everything." Having said that, before Jiang Heng could even react, Yi Tian disappeared.

  Jiang Hao cursed inwardly, not giving it to him was one thing, but he was also being led on a wild goose chase. He lowered his head and took a look at the list of medicinal materials: Thousand Year Snow Mountain Ginseng, Silver Snake Fruit, Second Tier Water System Beast Core, Blazing Flame Grass...

  "My god, where am I supposed to get this from? The medicine is fine, but this second-tier water-elemental beast core is really hard to come by."

  Beast core, as the name suggests, is where the essence of a demon beast lies. The higher the level of the beast core, the more energy it possesses, and it can be used to refine elixirs. A second-level demon beast is already equivalent to a high-ranking warrior, but this little warrior can't defeat it, what a headache. A second-level beast core can sell for thousands of gold coins on the market, but after working hard for so long, he only has a dozen or so gold coins, which is far from enough, looks like he needs to think of another way.

  "If only Big Brother were here, he could help me take down that demon with ease." Jiang Huan muttered to himself, sometimes money was really important! Looks like I'll have to think of ways to get more gold coins in the future.

  On the east side of Sun City, there is a mountain range that stretches for tens of millions of miles, with countless magical beasts inhabiting it. It's said that in the deepest part of the mountain range, there exists a fifth-tier magical beast, which would be equivalent to a powerful human War Emperor. Of course, since the physical bodies of magical beasts are extremely strong, even a powerful War Emperor wouldn't dare to clash with a single fifth-tier magical beast.

  On the outskirts of the mountain range, there are people coming and going every day, most of whom are entering and leaving in the form of mercenary groups. The members of these mercenary groups are all men who lick blood on their knives all day long, hunting monsters for a living, collecting beast cores to exchange for gold coins. However, not all monsters have beast cores, which also depends on luck. Often when a mercenary group kills a monster with great difficulty, they find that there is no beast core, which is also a very frustrating thing.

  Jiang Hao didn't have enough gold coins to buy the beast core, so he turned his attention to those mercenaries. Although it was a bit risky, Jiang Hao understood that wealth and honor were often found in danger, and he seemed to have made up his mind. He stopped thinking about it and sat cross-legged, continuously absorbing the battle qi and gathering it in his dantian, strengthening his meridians.

  ;