Alchemy Room.
The center of the room was occupied by a giant copper furnace.
Inside the furnace was a pale red liquid, emitting wave after wave of rich medicinal fragrance that made one feel warm and restless just by smelling it.
"Uncle Fu, after I enter the furnace tripod, you will control the Inner Earth Fire and refine the medicinal strength, ensuring that I can fully absorb it."
"This is crucial to me, there can be no room for error."
Chen Mo said earnestly.
In terms of power, the butler Chen Fu might not even be a match for Cen Long.
But when it comes to mastery of the Alchemy Dao and Fire Control Technique, no one in the Chen Mansion could surpass him, not even He Yuzhi!
Chen Fu heaved a sigh of relief upon hearing this.
"So it's this matter, I thought..."
"Thought what?"
"Cough, nothing."
Seeing Chen Fu's embarrassed look, Chen Mo always felt something was odd.
However, he didn't think much of it, stripped off his clothes, and leaped into the furnace tripod.
"Young Master, are you ready?"
"Begin."
Chen Fu formed a hand gesture and activated the Inner Earth Fire; red flames burned fiercely within the furnace chamber.
In less than a moment, the medicine liquid began to boil and tumble.
He controlled the heat excellently, enough to refine the medicinal power to the greatest extent while also ensuring that it wouldn't harm Chen Mo at all.
"Dragon Yang Blood Boiling Soup is made from numerous most yang materials, and can greatly improve the activity of the blood, unleashing the body's potential."
"This time, I not only intend to bring the Cultivation Technique to Mastery,
but also take this opportunity to make a concerted effort and break through to Sixth-Rank!"
Chen Mo opened his palm, and an amber-colored crystal hovered in the air, surrounded by several ribbons of golden dust swirling around it, as if the sounds of the Great Dao resonated in his ears.
The attribute panel unfolded before his eyes.
Behind the Cultivation Technique and Martial Arts, a "+" symbol appeared.
Chen Mo did not hesitate to choose the Mixed Element Body Refining Technique.
The crystal shattered with a bang, turning into countless specks of light, and surged into his brow like a tide.
Everything before Chen Mo suddenly went dark, all was silent, as if he was in the vast, boundless cosmos.
A golden figure sat cross-legged in the void.
Its body was crystal clear like amber, and through the skin, one could see flowing lights moving within.
Following the direction of the figure, Chen Mo involuntarily operated the Cultivation Technique, and the previously blocked acupoints were suddenly penetrated, with the circulation speed of his True Qi increasing manyfold!
In the void, stars lit up one by one, corresponding to the acupoints he had opened!
"Inclusive of everything, lacking nothing, vast without limit, minuscule without bounds..."
"Using heaven and earth as the furnace, True Yuan as the fuel, to refine the self, to forge the body and communicate with the divine; this is Mixed Element Body Refining!"
"A miss is as good as a mile; the previous cultivation method was wrong!"
Chen Mo experienced an epiphany, as if the clouds had parted to reveal the sun, immersed in the profound comprehension.
At the same time, the medicine liquid formed a vortex around him as the powerful medicinal force poured into his body through the pores!
Pain!
Intense, bone-piercing pain!
Under the stimulation of the medicinal properties, Chen Mo's Qi-Blood churned, clashing with the True Qi, as if his body was about to be torn apart!
He disregarded everything, continuing to run the Cultivation Technique.
With the unceasing enhancement from the medicinal power, the Qi-Blood gradually gained the upper hand, continuously impacting the Qi Sea, compressing the True Qi step by step.
Until a critical point—
A drop of liquid fell into the Dantian.
Two drops, five drops, ten drops... the True Qi was quickly refined, impurities removed, condensing into pure True Yuan.
But it still wasn't enough.
Somewhere in the depths, Chen Mo "saw" numerous points of light being drawn towards him under the guidance of the Mixed Element Body Refining Technique.
Refining, non-stop refining.
He absorbed greedily, like a black hole ceaselessly devouring everything.
Not until a sense of fullness came did Chen Mo stop operating the Cultivation Technique and looked inward at his own body; the vast True Yuan almost filled his entire Dantian!
Opening his eyes, there seemed to be a flash of lightning.
He slowly extended his right hand, and the medicinal liquid in the furnace rolled back, gathering into a transparent long knife in his palm!
With a casual swing, he split the copper furnace in two!
Sharp as a real weapon!
"True Yuan leaves the body, remotely controlling objects... This is the hallmark of the Returning to the Origin Realm!"
"Young Master, have you made a breakthrough to the Sixth-rank?"
Chen Fu's expression was stunned, unable to believe his own eyes.
He thought the Young Master was just using medicinal power for body forging, who would have thought he actually broke through a major cultivation realm?!
Yet at such a young age, he has already achieved Transcend Mortality at the Sixth-rank!
Such talent, even the prodigies on the Cloud Top Ranking are no more than this, right?
"My Chen Family has produced a dragon!"
...
After finally sending away the ecstatic Chen Fu, Chen Mo opened his attribute panel.
Name: Chen Mo
Title: None
Realm: Sixth-rank Transcend Mortality · Returning to the Origin Realm
Cultivation Technique: Mixed Element Body Refining Technique · Mastery
Martial Arts:
Blazing Eight Slashes · Mastery
Wind and Thunder Release · Proficient (73/100)
Divine Skills: None
True Spirit: 1
...
Ninth-Level Martial Artist.
Ninth-Rank Body Tempering, Eighth-Rank Bone Forging, Seventh-Level Tendon Changing, this is the mortal flesh.
Sixth-rank Returning to Origin, Fifth-Level Pure Yang, Fourth-Level Divine Sea, this is what it means to Transcend Mortality.
Reaching the Sixth-rank Returning to the Origin Realm, where True Qi transforms into True Yuan, marks the first watershed on the path of Martial Cultivation.
Only by stepping into this realm does one truly begin the practice of Martial Arts!
"Normally, the amount of True Yuan for martial practitioners in the Returning to the Origin Realm occupies only one-tenth of the Dantian, but mine is almost filled, isn't this a bit too exaggerated?"
"What exactly are those light spots?"
"It feels far purer than True Qi..."
Chen Mo was somewhat puzzled.
Suddenly, his face changed, sensing that something was amiss.
Although his realm had successfully broken through, the medicinal power was still lingering in his body with no way to be released!
To maximally stimulate his Qi-Blood, he had chosen the most yang and sturdy spiritual herbs, with the effects of more than a dozen herbs stacked together, not to mention a normal person, even a eunuch would sprout something!
"I forgot about this..."
Chen Mo felt burning hot all over, as if he was about to catch fire.
He noticed there was a large water tank next to him, filled with cold water just drawn from the well, and he plunged straight into it.
...
A carriage stopped in front of the Chen Mansion.
Shen Zhixia descended from the sedan, wearing an apricot-yellow long dress, her goose-egg face was pale and plump, with delicate and picturesque eyebrows and eyes, like the tender buds in spring, radiating a youthful and sweet aura.
Qing'er stood behind her, her little face chubby with baby fat.
"Miss, didn't you say just a few days ago that you never wanted to see Chen Mo again?"
"I... I'm just here to return something to him."
Shen Zhixia was holding a Jade Pendant in her hand.
It was the very same one that Chen Mo threw to her outside the Imperial Music Bureau to prove his identity.
"For such a small matter, you could have sent a servant, why bother coming yourself?"
"And, this morning you started dressing up, changing more than a dozen outfits, you usually never wear dresses..."
"Shut up."
"..."
Qing'er shook her head helplessly.
Shen Zhixia was an Innate True Martial Body, the top prodigy ranked sixth on the Qingyun list!
In her eyes, someone worthy of her Miss should at least be at the level of the "Top Ten Talents".
But that Chen Mo was nothing more than a wastrel playboy, apart from having good looks, what other merits did he have?
"I really don't know what the Miss sees in him..."
"Miss, Miss?"
By the time Qing'er came back to her senses, she found that Shen Zhixia had already walked through the gates of Chen Mansion, and she hurriedly scurried after her.