Chapter 241 - 1 Third-grade!

Chapter 241 Third-grade!

Words rolled off middle-aged man’s tongue as he cursed, “Open the array formation? Are you trying to bring doom to Qinghe City and Treasure Elephant City? “The disappearance of the Bloodseeker Beasts might be them running back into the underground palace.” “What if it’s not?” Gu Zhanlin was unyielding. “The Bloodseeker Beasts are not beasts without sentience. What if these beasts are plotting something? Are we going to leave them alone and let them cause trouble?”

“In any case, we can’t open the array formation,” the middle-aged man insisted.

He was not from the Changyang Prefecture Army. Instead, he was from the Prefecture City and had come to the Green Cloud Mountain Range under orders from the prefecture administration to cooperate with the army.

After coming to the valley and hearing about the deeds of Xiao Yuanfang and the others, he had been persuading the Flying Lion army to join the prefecture administration.

On the contrary, he wasn’t very concerned about the Bloodseeker Beasts.

With the Nine Lotus Eight Trigrams Array trapping them, the Bloodseeker Beasts wouldn’t be able to escape.

Not even by digging a tunnel.

However, the more than hundred experts in the Flying Lion army were different. They would be a great boost of help.

For this, the middle-aged man, Cao Guanshan tried his best to persuade them. In the end, Wan Sansi became frustrated with him and Zhou Leng ignored him. Only Xiao Yuanfang was willing to interact with him. Of course, he was only learning about the new era through Cao Guanshan.

Although the Flying Lion army had decided to follow their Young General, there were still some matters that had to be clarified.

For example, the current distribution of major factions in Yu Nation, the direction of the cabinet, and so on.

Now that the Bloodseeker Beasts had disappeared, Gu Zhanlin was the one with the biggest headache. The reason why he suggested opening the array formation was to figure out what the missing half of the Bloodseeker Beasts were up

to.

However, while it was easy to open the array formation, it would be troublesome to close it again. If the disappearance of the Bloodseeker Beasts was an intentional act, and they were waiting for the array formation to open and then take the opportunity to escape,

Gu Zhanlin would not be able to bear the consequences. “Report it.”

In the silence, Xiao Yuanfang said, “Report this matter to the cabinet. Tell them to come up with a solution as soon as possible. “If the cabinet is willing to mobilize a large number of experts to surround the valley, it’s not impossible to open the array formation and enter the valley to investigate the situation.” Gu Zhanlin sighed. “That’s the only way.”

If the cabinet really mobilized more than a thousand fourth-grade experts, there was naturally nothing to fear about the Bloodseeker Beasts when the array formation was open.

They would simply suppress one beast each!

In the silent forest.

At the top of an ancient tree that was a hundred meters tall.

Su Jingxing’s main body was sitting cross-legged in the middle of a thick branch. His body was covered in a layer of silvery-black membrane that carried a fiery glow.

There was also a gentle energy flowing through his organs, bones, and tendons. Everywhere it passed, the cells seemed to be cleansed and expelled a large amount of impurities.

True essence!

After continuous tempering, the remaining misty true energy in his dantian finally turned into liquid.

In other words, true essence!

The moment his true essence became completely liquefied, Su Jingxing’s Martial Art True Intent automatically manifested, covering his entire body and swimming up and down. When Su Jingxing put away his Martial Art True Intent, he realized that his perception had been strengthened again.

This strengthening was a combination of his consciousness and physical body.

His perception of worldly energy became clearer, and his understanding of the circulation of the power of nature became clearer.

From this, it could be seen that compared to reaching third-grade in terms of combat ability, doing so in terms of realm possessed even more paths to move upwards.

Su Jingxing spent more than half a year before he finally entered the third-grade. The breath that he had been hiding was mostly released.

There aren’t many third-grade martial artists in Yu Nation who are 16 years old, right?

As he pondered, he put away his true essence and took out a card. He unlocked it and absorbed it.

Swish!

The attributeless true energy entered his dantian and was tempered by the Nine Steps Trampling Heaven, turning into true essence.

After his true energy completely transformed into true essence, his previous true energy cultivation of more than 800 years had been converted to more than 80 years of true essence cultivation.

A ratio of 10 to 1.

10 years of true energy cultivation could only be converted to one year of true essence cultivation.

The cultivation that he had been used to being hundreds of years suddenly became decades.

Su Jingxing wasn’t used to it.

He immediately took out a backup True Energy Card and unlocked it to absorb the true energy before converting it into true essence.

The six True Energy Cards he had just extracted were the first to be unlocked, granting him 85 years of true energy cultivation.

Then, he took out the spare one from before and accumulated 182 years of true energy cultivation before converting everything into true essence.

Reaching a hundred years of true essence cultivation!

A hundred years of true essence cultivation was one of the symbols of the first-grade.

The Ethereal Sword Immortal had said that the true essence cultivation of a first-grade expert was only about a hundred years.

Third-grade, about 30 years. Second-grade, about 60 years.

Therefore, in terms of true essence cultivation, Su Jingxing was no weaker than a first-grade martial artist.

Of course, for the top ranks, true essence cultivation was only one of the symbols.

Martial Art True Intent was the foundation.

A third-grade martial artist did not need to rely on lightness skills to fly in the sky. What they relied on was Martial Art True Intent to circulate worldly energy and move their body to fly freely.

At this moment, true essence was nothing but a windbreaking oxygen suit.

However, things were different in the second-grade.

In the second-grade, true essence could materialize and become battle armor. Martial Art True Intent could invade the consciousness of others and erase their memories, turn them into puppets, protect them, assimilate their thoughts, and so on. They possessed all kinds of powerful abilities.

And in the first-grade, true essence could leave the body and not dissipate for thousands of years.

As for Martial Art True Intent… He did not know the exact changes.

Su Jingxing had never come into contact with such information, and neither did the Ethereal Sword Immortal.

But come to think of it, Martial Art True Intent in the first-grade would only be stronger than in second-grade.

Su Jingxing had the Heaven Trampling Elephant for mental defense and the Heaven Origin Saber for mental killer moves.

He might not be as good as a first-grade martial artist.

However, Su Jingxing was confident that he could fight a second-grade martial artist.

This was enough for his main body to protect himself.

As for his doppelganger…

To be honest, Su Jingxing didn’t know what level the Blood Doppelganger’s strength was currently at. After absorbing the Bloodseeker Essence Energy of more than 500 Bloodseeker Beasts and the refined Blood Elemental Essence Energy, the Blood Clone was now extremely powerful.

It was impossible to tell whether it was comparable to a fourth-grade martial artist or a third-grade martial artist.

It seemed strange to hit himself at this time.

Su Jingxing thought for a moment and gave up on experimenting.

It was just becoming stronger. There was nothing to despise.

The remaining Bloodseeker Beasts would not be spared either.

Sealing these beasts in the valley was a complete waste.

Once they escaped, it would be even more disastrous.

Letting the Blood Doppelganger devour them would save so much trouble.

Half of the Bloodseeker Beasts had been killed and disappeared without a trace. The remaining Bloodseeker Beasts were no longer as easy to ambush.

Bloodseeker Beasts were intelligent.

After sensing the invisible danger, most of the remaining beasts actually ran back to the underground palace.

This gave Su Jingxing a lot of trouble with sneak attacks and assassinations. After advancing to the third-grade, Su Jingxing could release four blades at once when he executed the Heaven Origin volume of the Three Origins Saber Art.

The consciousness to kill four Bloodseeker Beasts!

However, the remaining Bloodseeker Beasts no longer spread out in pairs. Instead, they were always gathered in dozens or in several tens.

This made it troublesome to kill them, and equally troublesome to gather the Bloodseeker Essence Energy. Fortunately, the Blood Doppelganger was growing stronger and the amount of Bloodseeker Essence Energy it absorbed in one go was also increasing.

It could absorb the Bloodseeker Essence Energy from five dead Bloodseeker Beasts in one go.

Therefore, even though it was troublesome, there was still a chance…