Chapter 113: Upheaval
“Lord, your subordinate has a request.”
Yang Kun half-knelt on the ground, his expression becoming even more respectful.
“Speak”
Yang Kun pleaded: “There are still three Insect Blood Pills remaining. Your subordinate wants to give them to his younger brother. He has a similar realm to me and will definitely be able to break through to True Intent Realm. This way, he can also help Lord conquer more forces in the Desolate Mountains.”
Yang Kun had a bold idea: two True Intent Realm martial artists together would be a top-tier force in the Greenwood.
If they were willing to put in the effort, they might even help Lord seize a larger territory.
“Give them to him”
Su Yan didn’t mind this and just smiled, saying: “As for unifying the Greenwood? Do you think the forces in Yun Cang Town will give you such an opportunity?”
The existence of mountain bandits is because there are vacuum zones in the forces’ territories, and each side also needs some buffer zones to avoid constant friction.
They allow you to exist, even allowing some mountain strongholds to become a certain force’s black gloves.
But that doesn’t mean they allow you to become an open, seat-at-the-table participant.
“You two brothers should stabilize San Die Stream and Grindstone Mountain, and help me collect Illusion Heart Grass, Heart Protecting Flower, Rosemary Green… these medicine refining medicinal herbs.”
“Yes”
Yang Kun left Su Yan’s side and immediately went to find his younger brother Yang Lun.
The two brothers had relied on each other for life their whole lives. Now that there was hope of breaking through to True Intent Realm martial artist, they were naturally anxious in their hearts.
“Beast Spirit True Intent takes the form of insects. Although it advances further, it is also more deeply controlled by the Blood Marrow Worm and Blood Fiend Mother Worm. This is an unexpected joy.”
The Blood Fiend Mother Worm lay beside Su Yan, its body hidden in the shadows of the room, inconspicuous, looking as if it were asleep.
But it wasn’t truly asleep; rather, it was observing Yang Kun’s changes from the mother body’s perspective.
From the fusion and parasitism of the Blood Marrow Worm to the Insect Blood Pill that promotes the Beast Spirit True Intent metamorphosis, the root source is all it.
Yang Kun’s changes were perceived most accurately by it, without a doubt.
The Blood Marrow Worm becomes even more powerful, and at the same time, a portion of essence, qi, and spirit merges into the Mist Insect Ghost Ram, this special true intent, becoming one of its foundational components. Naturally, it has a huge impact on the true intent.
Moreover, the root source of true intent power is the Blood Fiend Mother Worm, so when facing the Blood Fiend Mother Worm, it is innately suppressed. This is the check and balance.
This is also one of the reasons why Su Yan is not worried at all about Yang Kun and the others breaking through first.
He showed a somewhat regretful expression: “The Insect Blood Pill can be considered a substitute for True Intent Pill, specifically for those fused and parasitized by Blood Marrow Worm. It’s just a pity that there are fewer Blood Marrow Worms.”
There are currently only about 10 Blood Marrow Worms, with 5 used on Yang Kun and the others. How to use the remaining ones cannot be rushed.
He released the White Bone Poison Centipede and Red Armored Mad Scorpion, took out Beast Essence Pills from the Insect Realm Space, and fed them.
【White Bone Poison Centipede 271/400(Mature Stage）】
【Red Armored Mad Scorpion 277/400(Mature Stage）】
【Blood Fiend Mother Worm: 78/100（Nascent Stage)】
【Gold-Eating Demon Insect 80/100（Nascent Stage）】
After continuing with the Beast Essence Pills, after several days of feeding, the four fierce insects each made progress.
The White Bone Poison Centipede and Red Armored Mad Scorpion’s progress has already passed halfway. In a little more time, they will naturally be able to step into the Metamorphosis Stage.
Su Yan himself, as usual, first took a Blood Essence Condensing Pill, then supplemented with True Essence Pill and Five Aggregates Pill for cultivation.
Trait: Insect Bone Armor Body manifests.
He raised his body’s endurance to the maximum, then absorbed Insect Yuan all at once, continuously merging it into his body, then circulated the Poison Dragon Golden Body Technique, Golden Ape True Skill, and Tiger Body Bone Forging Technique, these three cultivation manuals.
Insect Yuan enhances bone structure, and the Insect Bone Armor Body also strengthens continuously as strength increases.
At this time, his bone structure was already much stronger than when he first obtained the Fierce Insect Cauldron.
In terms of accumulating true essence and nurturing qi and blood, the speed was already not slow.
Now with sufficient pill resources supplied, his cultivation was not far from Spirit Nurturing Great Accomplishment.
On top of physical body strengthening and true essence accumulation, he far surpassed ordinary Spirit Nurturing Realm martial artists.
‘At this rate, it won’t be long before Spirit Nurturing Great Accomplishment. If there is a True Intent Pill, breaking through to True Intent martial artist will also become much easier…’
True intent breakthrough is a process of turning the illusory into the real.
Transforming true intent from an illusory shadow of artistic conception into a unification of essence, qi, and spirit, thereby completing the transformation.
First is spirit, namely forging spirit with will. The martial artist’s mental power and will constitute the spiritual essence of the beast spirit, bringing the beast spirit to life.
Second is vital energy forming a body, using true essence to construct the body of the Beast Spirit True Intent, with the dantian acupoints accommodating the Beast Spirit True Intent. This is also the main content of turning illusory into real.
Finally, bloodline as the guide, with Beast Spirit True Intent and the martial artist’s bloodline drawing each other, mutually connected. The martial artist can control the Beast Spirit True Intent as they please, and even after cultivating to a certain degree, it will influence the bloodline.
In martial artist families, there can even be those born with true intent. Although such true intent may not have the strength of a True Intent Realm martial artist, the innate Beast Spirit True Intent continuously nourishes the martial artist themselves, constantly strengthening their physique, soul, and bloodline.
Such talent is at least that of a True Intent Realm martial artist, and can even go further.
Su Yan’s current cultivation is constantly tempering his spirit, while accumulating true essence and strengthening dantian acupoints…
‘The primary breakthrough will be White Ape True Intent, but the Green-scaled Poisonous Flood Dragon must not fall behind either. In this way, the dantian must be tempered even more solidly, and the meridians throughout the body as well…’
Su Yan himself knew his own situation: he would absolutely not be someone who condenses only one true intent.
Just the insect beasts around him, with such close connections, are probably even more useful than visualization diagrams. Condensing insect-form true intents holds no great difficulty for him.
In this way, if he doesn’t condense them, it would be a waste.
However, condensing more true intents places higher demands on his acupoint strength and meridian strength, so he now needs to temper his foundation well.
“Lord, there is news of some changes in Yun Cang Town.”
Yang Kun knocked on the room door and came before Su Yan, respectfully reporting.
“What happened”
Although Yun Cang Town is chaotic, the apothecary business is being gradually divided up now, so there shouldn’t be any big waves.
“Little Mountain Association and Hundred Herbs Hall are fighting openly and covertly. They fought several times in the past few days, leaving quite a few corpses, but on the surface, they haven’t broken the Lin Family and official rules, attributing it to chaos caused by martial world guests.”
“We took San Die Stream, and Tianhe Gang got involved in the Desolate Mountains river affairs, but was repelled back by second brother. There won’t be other actions for the time being.”
“There is one more thing: Seven Blades Martial Arts School’s chief disciple Long Rui went to Golden Ape Martial Arts School to challenge, and Golden Ape Martial Arts School’s chief disciple Li Jinshan was no match and suffered heavy injuries.”
“Hm?”
Su Yan frowned slightly: “What is Long Rui’s strength? How could he defeat Li Jinshan?”
Although Li Jinshan wasn’t as young and talented as him and Bai Yun, his skills were extremely solid.
Golden Ape True Skill as the main, Golden Ape Jade Body Skill and Tiger Body Bone Forging Technique had both reached Great Accomplishment.
Among Spirit Nurturing Great Accomplishment, he was just a thread away from Perfection, preparing to impact True Intent Realm.
In such a state, even if he lost, he absolutely wouldn’t end up like this.
“Long Rui received Long Qidao’s true transmission, and his cultivation is also Spirit Nurturing Great Accomplishment. It is said that he used a Second-order Low-grade Green Slash Blade that day.”
Yang Kun’s expression was calm as he said: “Rumors say Li Jinshan had an old injury that hadn’t healed, and it happened that Golden Ape Martial Arts School’s several chief disciples were absent, with only him being specifically challenged, leading to his injury.”
Yang Kun was an old martial world hand, and these many coincidences made him smell a scheme.
Su Yan narrowed his eyes, also showing a cold expression. How could there be so many coincidences?
“Golden Ape Martial Arts School’s chief disciple suddenly has an old injury. That’s quite strange.”
Yang Kun said: “We haven’t found out about this point, but it’s heard that Golden Ape Martial Arts School’s eldest daughter has already learned of the news and appeared in Tiger God Temple City, looking for someone.”
“I understand. You can go now.”
Bai Yun was also cultivating in the mountains and had come out first upon receiving the news.
Su Yan didn’t even need to suspect: the person she was looking for was definitely him.
“True disciple absent, senior brother injured, and someone comes knocking. So many coincidences… can’t explain it away…”
Too many coincidences are no longer coincidences.
If the other true disciples were there, this challenge wouldn’t require Li Jinshan to step up personally. It could only be said that it really coincided.
“Since senior sister is looking for me, I should go over. To avoid her coming to find me. I always feel like she has noticed something…”
First update two thousand words. Got up this morning, yesterday’s mess isn’t resolved yet. Will update another two thousand words later, really sorry.
