NOVPUBWith Su Changkong’s alchemy skills, making low-tier Spirit Pills was as easy for him as a chef frying up a homestyle dish, effortless and relaxed.
Having plundered four Evil Sects of Demon Gate with profound foundations, his Bag of Book Fragrance was not short on Spirit Grass and Spiritual Medicine, providing for the cultivation of over a hundred Innate Martial Artists was no problem at all!
"This is really... like a dream!"
Night fell, and Zuo Qiu, the first to revert from acquired to Innate status with the help of Su Changkong, looked at a Refining Qi Pill radiating with Spiritual Energy and couldn’t help but exclaim.
Spirit Pill-level Pill Medicines were treasures that not common Martial Artists, and even ordinary Innate Martial Artists, would necessarily enjoy.
But now there was enough Spirit Pill medicine for practicing Inner Strength!
"Practice hard! We must not let Elder Su down!"
Zuo Qiu then swallowed the Refining Qi Pill in his hand and lay down on the bed, breathing steadily, like a slumbering turtle.
The Turtle Breath Technique didn’t require much innate talent, and as Zuo Qiu and the others were elite disciples of the Spirit Taoist Sect with a solid foundation in Martial Arts and had also Ascended to Innate status, not to mention the help of Spirit Pills, their cultivation of the Turtle Breath Technique naturally progressed at a rapid pace, advancing by leaps and bounds.
Zuo Qiu worked hard on practicing the Turtle Breath Technique, hoping to repay Su Changkong for his great favor of rebirth, and he wasn’t the only one; the other 99 Innate Martial Artists were also diligently cultivating.
To become an elite disciple in the Spirit Taoist Sect, none of the chosen Martial Artists were slackers, and as long as they practiced the Turtle Breath Technique and made rapid progress, there was the reward of ’Spirit Containment Pills’ from Elder Su to enhance their Martial Arts Realm—none were foolish, all wished for nothing more than to diligently train for 12 hours a day.
Every ten days, Su Changkong would check the progress of these hundred Innate Martial Artists and, using his own Mysterious Turtle True Essence as a guide, would lead the Turtle Breathing True Qi they cultivated into his Dantian, merging it with the three droplets of Mysterious Turtle True Essence within to act as nourishment and refine it, causing them to grow stronger!
In the beginning, the increase in Turtle Breathing True Qi from the hundred Innate Martial Artists every ten days wasn’t much, but as their practice of the Turtle Breath Technique became more profound, it was bound to lead to a qualitative change!
While this method wasn’t as fast as directly refining Innate Qi, it was more reliable and could provide a continuous supply. The former required plundering Spirit Veins, drawing resources until they were depleted, while the latter could continue like a gentle stream.
Four more months had passed, during which Su Changkong was busy with alchemy, supplying the Spirit Taoist Sect’s many Innate Martial Artists with what they needed to practice the Turtle Breath Technique.
Over those four months, every ten days, Su Changkong would timely absorb the Turtle Breathing True Qi from the people.
"Crack!"
Within Su Changkong’s Dantian, the three original droplets of Mysterious Turtle True Essence, having absorbed a great amount of Turtle Breathing True Qi, expanded to their limit and then began to split, with the 4th droplet of Mysterious Turtle True Essence slowly condensing into form.
It took four months to condense a new droplet of Mysterious Turtle True Essence, which was slow, but as the hundred Innate Martial Artists’ practice of the Turtle Breath Technique grew deeper and the quality of the True Qi they provided improved, this time was sure to be continuously reduced!
"Four droplets of Mysterious Turtle True Essence... With this pace, it’s possible to steadily condense hundreds, thousands, even tens of thousands of droplets. When my Dantian is filled, perhaps then I can find a way to induce a qualitative change!"
Su Changkong was secretly overjoyed, as initial efforts would eventually reap benefits.
This was destined not to be easy and would require time and effort! But feeling his own gradual progress, Su Changkong was not in a rush.
Sometimes Su Changkong would go out, and to avoid missing the scheduled extraction of Turtle Breathing True Qi and wasting it, he taught Zuo Qiu and the other ten Martial Artists who progressed the fastest in practicing the Turtle Breath Technique the Xuanming Secret Scripture.
They could extract and store the Turtle Breathing True Qi on his behalf, and when Su Changkong returned, he could extract it all at once from them.
If Superior Xuanming were still alive, learning that his proudly acclaimed Semi-Ultimate Skill was being used by Su Changkong in such a manner, merely as a container to help store True Qi, he would definitely vomit blood in frustration!
For the current Su Changkong, it was very difficult for anyone below the status of Martial Saint to pose a threat to him. Cautious in actions, but without need for excessive apprehension, if there was something he wanted to do, he did it!
(Preview for updates on QiDian Zhongwen Wang, the next chapter will be updated at 22:00 on the 23rd.)
