Chapter 228 – Enhancement: Gathering the Materials

Chapter 228 – Enhancement Material Gathering
It was just that it was true that Su Yu had the resources to cultivate them, but whether or not they could actually touch the threshold of the YuanYing realm, and whether or not they could step over the one-way bridge of the YuanYing realm, it would ultimately have to be up to the individual girls themselves.

Just like the Su Family’s elders in the past, some of them had not even been able to break through the threshold of the Foundation Establishment Realm, and had simply sat down at the ninth level of the Qi Refining Realm.

Yu Qianqing is even more in the impact of the JieDan realm when the failure suffered serious injuries, and then soon after the fall.

This is a personal qualification limit, very people can change.

Lin Qingxia and other people compared to ordinary immortal cultivators, at most more than the refining pot of miraculous spirit liquid and Su Yu refined superior quality pills and other resources to cultivate.

Yu Ke’er, on the other hand, had the help of Su Yu’s dual cultivation, and was more or less able to change some.

But now Yu Ke’er was already over three hundred years old and her cultivation was only at the seventh level of the JieDan realm, whether she would eventually be able to touch the bottleneck of the YuanYing realm of True Lords was something that Su Yu could not predict.

All he could do was to provide them with some resources and a still good cultivation environment.

Counting those twenty bought back JieDan realm female cultivators, if four or five of these people could successfully break through the YuanYing realm, that would already be very good.

Leaving the Ten Monarch Immortal City black market, Su Yu headed to the Hundred Flower Sect’s cave secret realm.

A sea of flowers surrounded the Immortal Palace.

Su Yu had just arrived here and learned a piece of news from Su Zhi and the others, that over the past year or so, Su Rui’an as well as Yu Wenji had both been seated one after the other and buried in the Dan Mountain Clan Lands Cemetery.

Hearing this news, Su Yu’s expression was in a trance for a moment, many years ago when he was still in the Great Moon Black Market, the family head selected several talented youngsters and young girls from the clan to follow him in practicing cultivation and refining pills.

Among them was Su Rui’an, the nephew junior, and at that time, Su Rui’an was still just a teenager in his late teens and less than twenty years old.

But now in the blink of an eye, but more than two hundred years had passed.

In the past, the young man who followed his own cultivation, along with his Taoist partner, had already passed away.

There was a long silence.

Su Yu asked, “Who takes over as the head of the family nowadays?”

Su Zhi said, “Rui An’s grandson, Su Curtain Immortal, Earth Grade Spiritual Root, has already cultivated at the ninth level of the Foundation Establishment Realm this year, and is polishing his roots in preparation for a breakthrough into the JieDan Realm matter.”

Su Curtain Fairy.
Su Yu thought of the junior that he had gone back to see before, some years ago when he went back, Su Curtain Fairy was still a twenty-six year old Foundation Establishment Realm seventh layer heavenly pride.

Now that more than ten years had passed, Su Curtain Fairy was already forty years old, right?

With this cultivation level as well as age, he could indeed take over the position of Su Family Head.

“Let’s make a trip back together.”

Su Yu brought Su Zhi, Yu Ke’er, Ma Tianling and the others through the teleportation array and quietly went back to the family’s Dan Mountain for a trip, coming to Su Rui’an and a few other family juniors’ graves to pay their respects and see them off.

Starting from sending off clan elder Su Yun and the others, and now sending off Su Rui’an and other nephews’ generation.

Su Yu didn’t know how many more people he would send away in the future, but the path to immortality was far away, and he was only at the starting point so far, his journey to immortality had just begun.

It could be envisioned that in the future, he would send away more clansmen, friends, and even daoists.

Su Curtain Immortal had a good natural talent and practiced the fire line method, and Su Yu passed down to him a YuanYing realm fire line technique as well as a fourth-order lower-grade fire line alchemist’s inheritance.

“Cultivate well, don’t fail your grandfather’s expectations.” Su Yu instructed Su Curtain Fairy.

“Greetings to great-grandfather.”

Su Curtain Immortal watched Su Yu, Su Zhi and the others leave with a calm and steady expression, although he also wanted to follow Su Yu and leave for the Great Immortal Sect to cultivate, he was not able to do so now.

He was the Su Family’s family head, and nowadays, his most important responsibility was to hold on to the family, and to bring the family step by step to build up its strength and heritage, and to realize a class overturn and metamorphosis.

It was just like what his ancestors had done, bringing the Su Family from a small Qi Refining Family to the current JieDan Great Family.

As for him, his future goal was to bring the Su family from a big JieDan clan into the YuanYing family.

That way, many of the underpinnings left behind by Yu Ancestor would be able to be taken over and succeeded and utilized by their Su Family.

This was the true duty of him becoming the Su family’s head.

After sending Su Yu and the others away, Su Curtain Immortal returned to the clan land with a group of clansmen and once again summoned a group of elders to pave the way for the family’s future plans.

“The next focus of our clan is still to lay out dan pavilions in various state capitals, marketplaces, and immortal cities, and to recruit talented celestial pride to join and marry into my Su Clan, to vigorously promote the development of the clan, and to cultivate various clansmen who harbor spiritual roots.” Su Curtain Immortal continued Old Ancestor Su Peng’s strategy of creating people and set up new incentives.

As long as one was able to give birth to an Earth Grade Spiritual Root Genius, then the father could be honored by the son and directly become a family elder.

As long as one could produce enough spirit root clansmen for the clan, then one could similarly enter the top echelons of the clan and become a clan elder based on such contributions.

Such elders might not have real power, but their status, resources, and benefits would be real.

In Su Curtain Fairy’s opinion, such a strategy was the best way to get the fastest development speed for the Su family, bar none.

Resources, their Su Family did not lack.

What they lacked were geniuses, and Immortal Cultivator clansmen with spiritual roots.

What was lacking were strong clan members at the JieDan level.

And these could only be obtained faster if the Su Family reproduced a large number of later generations of clansmen.

When Su Curtain Immortal took out resources such as Golden Elemental Dan, top-grade magical artifacts, and even absolute-grade magical artifacts as rewards, all the forces and cultivators of the Great Moon House, and even the Phoenix Fall and Violet Light Houses that had already fallen into the hands of the Great Moon House, were all in an uproar.

This movement of the Su Family, that was not ordinary.

And with such a reward, it also attracted many geniuses, heavenly pride, and even strong people to choose to join or marry into the Su Family.

It was just that in doing so, there were always hidden dangers that would arise.

After a trip out, when Su Yu returned to the Immortal Sect’s Da Yu Peak once again, half a year had already passed.

In the forbidden land constructed by the Illusory Heart Stone.

Su Yu sat down on his knees and gently exhaled a breath, he was running the Golden Cicada Method in his mind, his thoughts were suddenly ethereal, the inheritance regarding the Heaven Refining Divine Art that he had previously obtained from the Divine Refining Sect in the Land of Extinct Spirits surfaced in his mind one by one.

The Heaven Refining Divine Art was an ancient body refining art, and the way it was practiced was different from the Heavenly Immortal Body Refining Art, appearing simpler and more brutal.

One only needed to melt magic weapons and treasures to integrate them into one’s body, strengthening and upgrading the level of one’s physical body.

However, this way seemed simple, but actually wanting to do this was very, very difficult.

The slightest mishap would cause the physical body to suffer heavy damage.

Or the cultivation went astray and refined one’s fleshly body to collapse.

And the key point of wanting to practice the Heaven Refining Divine Art was how to achieve the unity of the human weapon.

This was the key to cultivating the Heaven Refining Divine Art, and was likewise the cultivation entry requirement of the Divine Refining Sect’s artifact refiner inheritance.

Human Weapon Unity Su Yu wouldn’t be able to do it either, such a realm wasn’t something that could be sensed casually.

So recalling the inheritance of the Heaven Refining Divine Art, Su Yu held a lower grade magic weapon armor in one hand, closed his eyes and began to silently run the mana circumference in accordance with the inheritance of the Heaven Refining Divine Art.

The five elements of mana flowed through the inferior artifact armor in his hand under his operation, and then flowed back into his body to form a closed loop circumference.

He did not perceive the realm of human weapon unity, so naturally there was no reaction at all to practicing like this.

But it didn’t matter, Su Yu only needed to cultivate step by step so that the proficiency panel would show the proficiency bar of the Heavenly Refining Divine Art, then this body refining art would be cultivated for initiation.

Time slowly passed.

Su Yu squeezed out two hours a day to cultivate the Heaven Refining Divine Art.

The rest of the time was daily daily cultivation, comprehending the Five Elemental Skill, alchemy, drawing talismans, and so on. Half a year passed in such a leisurely life.

One day after half a year.

Buzz!
Su Yu only felt that his divine sea was shaken, his divine soul entered into some kind of subtle state in a trance, and almost instantly, he was able to detect the existence of the lower-grade magic weapon armor in his hand.

Like an arm, this piece of inferior magic weapon armor seemed to have a breath of its own in his heart as if it belonged to him.

This feeling was simply too marvelous.

“Is this the human weapon unification recorded in the Heaven Refining Divine Art? It’s really magical.” Su Yu was horrified in his heart, with this sense of human weapon unity, that magic weapon, magic treasure, and other things that fell into his hands might exert more than just a mere ten percent of their power.

Instead, it could very well be eleven or even twelve percent.

The mere realm of human weapon unity would allow him to increase his strength.

In accordance with the inheritance of the Heaven Refining Divine Art, the five elements of mana in Su Yu’s body were poured into the inferior artifact armor in his hand, and he began to carefully melt this armor with his mana as well as his divine soul power.

The so-called melting was to use his own flesh to refine and ‘swallow’ the armor little by little.

The armor would no longer be an armor, but a part of his body.

It was as if he had given the armor life force.

About ten days later.

Su Yu finally succeeded in ‘swallowing’ that inferior artifact armor with his physical body, a ball of residual residue ash drifted away from his hands and landed on the ground, the true first layer of the Heaven Refining Divine Art was initiated.

“Whew.”

He opened his eyes, a strand of divine aura erupted in his eyes several feet away for a long time, he slowly let out a breath, a small smile on his face, “It’s done.”

He looked at the proficiency panel.

[Technique: Heavenly Alchemy Divine Art (1st level, proficiency 7.94%)].

Although the first layer of the Heaven Refining Divine Art introductory level did not have much of an effect on Su Yu’s physical body right now, it was a good start.

There was no conflict between the power of the Heaven Refining Divine Art and the Heavenly Immortal Body Refining Art.

The two body refining arts complemented each other and might even be able to bring Su Yu’s physical body power to a higher level.

His mind moved.

As his mind condensed, all of a sudden, the lower-grade magic weapon armor that he had just melted and ‘swallowed’ resurfaced on the surface of his body.

This was when the Heaven Refining Divine Art was at its most powerful.

By manifesting the ‘artifact’ into shape, the power and defense of the Heaven Refining Divine Art was able to be brought to its peak.

“Continue.”

Su Yu continued to melt the inferior artifacts to raise the proficiency of the Heaven Refining Divine Art, the first time the melting speed was the slowest, the second time he melted the inferior artifact armor again, Su Yu’s speed was much faster.

In just seven days’ time, Su Yu melted and ‘swallowed’ the second piece of lower-grade magic weapon armor.

This kind of smelting and swallowing was actually similar to a dao body puppet devouring the ore essence with the help of the puppet soul’s ability to enhance its own body.

The Heaven Refining Divine Art was similarly so.

When Su Yu swallowed a lower-grade artifact armor again, he was enhancing the ‘Heaven Refining Divine Armor’ that he had previously condensed, allowing the defensive power of this armor and the power that could enhance Su Yu’s physical body to all grow and improve.

As for the proficiency of the Heaven Refining Divine Art, it was raised to 12.81% at the first level.

Five years passed in a flash of time.

Su Yu started melting from lower grade magic weapons, and it was only at the second layer that he melted middle grade magic weapons and upper grade magic weapons, and by the time he reached the third layer, Su Yu had melted a full eighteen absolute grade magic weapons.

In the evening of this day.

As the aura of Su Yu’s body changed little by little, a magic treasure prototype flying sword in his hand was being melted and swallowed by his flesh little by little.

This magic treasure fledgling flying sword was melted into his palm.

The moment this magic treasure flying sword was completely merged into Su Yu’s physical body, an unspeakable sharpness burst out from Su Yu’s body.

At this very moment, this fleshly body of Su Yu was as if it was a supreme Dharma sword.

And the aura of the Heaven Refining Divine Art similarly reached the extreme of the third layer.

“One more piece.”

Su Yu murmured a sentence in a low voice, and with a flip of his hand, he took out another Falcon Prototype Flying Sword, there were quite a lot of Falcon Prototypes in his hands, and some of the treasures that he had previously seized from the Finger Moon Pavilion, Star Picking Tower, and later in the Wasteland from the hands of True Lords of Ten Thousand Immortal Palaces, Yulong Palace and other Immortal Sect Forces, had landed in his hands.

Just in time, it would allow him to cultivate the Heaven Refining Divine Art to his heart’s content on his own without worrying about not having the resources to continue cultivating.

When the second magic treasure fledgling flying sword melted into Su Yu’s other hand, the aura on his body instantly had a metamorphosis.

The Heaven Refining Divine Art proficiency had smoothly broken through from the third layer, to the fourth layer.

[Technique: Heaven Refining Divine Art (4th layer, proficiency 0.01%)].

At the time of the Heaven Refining Divine Art breakthrough, Su Yu’s physical body also had a small metamorphosis, and the body that had not changed much before when he practiced the Heaven Refining Divine Art was able to feel the power of the Heaven Refining Divine Art’s power boost to his physical body at this very moment.

He looked at the proficiency panel, the longevity item, the breakthrough of the Heaven Refining Divine Art did not cause Su Yu’s longevity to increase.

The other information had likewise changed little.

And when Su Yu’s mind moved and executed the Heaven Refining Divine Art as well as the Heavenly Immortal Body Refining Art together, in an instant, the aura of Su Yu’s body changed greatly.

The golden immortal light on the surface of his body shone, a pair of protective armor that was close to the surface of his body as if it was an inner armor coalesced, while in his hand, a green colored magic sword was condensed.

At the same time, deep within Su Yu’s body, another Heavenly Immortal Body Refining Technique Dao pattern coalesced and erupted.

The power and defense of the two body refining arts intersected and merged, and a huge force of great power lurked between the flesh and blood of his body.

At this moment, Su Yu felt as if he was wearing two pieces of inferior treasure armor as well as holding a true inferior treasure sword.

The power within his body gave him a surging feeling of being able to punch out a thousand or ten thousand feet of mountains.

Even if he only relied on the power of his body refining technique, Su Yu dared to harden himself against an ordinary YuanYing Realm Sixth Layer True Lord, or even a Late YuanYing Realm Seven Layer True Lord!

With his current physical body defense, an ordinary YuanYing True Lord would not necessarily be able to break a bit of his skin.

Both body refining arts had reached the fourth layer, and the effect under the combination of the two caused Su Yu to look delighted, “This power is still really strong, it’s not in vain that I’ve spent so many years of my heart and soul cultivating the Heaven Refining Divine Art!”

The Heaven Refining Divine Art had reached the fourth layer, so the next step was to simply continue melting lower grade magic treasures to improve.

As for Su Yu, in addition to his daily cultivation, he also planned to spare some more time to cultivate the Divine Refinement Sect’s Refiner’s Inheritance, and then later on, he would slowly accumulate proficiency to raise it.

However, just when he was in a happy mood to leave the gate, an elder of the Affairs Hall personally came to pay a visit to Da Yu Peak and delivered Su Yu a fire line fourth rank upper grade source spirit stone that he had previously asked the Affairs Hall to collect.

The quality of a fourth rank upper grade was enough to be used to make the core of a fourth rank middle grade Red Shadow Puppet.

Although this source spirit stone alone had cost Su Yu a full three million medium grade spirit stones, almost emptying his pockets, but if he could refine a fourth rank middle grade top quality Red Shadow Puppet, then this resource was worth spending.

Su Yu happily paid the spirit stone to get the fire source spirit stone, and secretly said in his heart, “Refining a fourth rank middle grade top Red Shadow Puppet, that dao body puppet will be able to be the underground overlord of the Qingxuan Immortal Sect’s sea area.”

(End of chapter)