Martial Peak

For an entire day, Aunty Xiang was busy tending to the fire, from time to time tossing additional herbs into the bath. It wasn’t until evening, panting slightly, a fragrant sweat dripping down her neck, that she informed Yang Kai that the treatment had finished and he could come out, return to his room to rest.

Having soaked in the bath the whole night, Yang Kai could feel his entire body infused with the medicinal effects.

Arriving back at his room, he quickly closed his eyes and examined the changes in his physique.

His realm had advanced slightly and his True Qi had also become a bit purer; however, the most significant improvements were to his meridians and constitution.

Aunty Xiang had told him that the most important role of this medicinal bath was to improve a person’s foundations, especially their meridians, which would allow them to more easily cultivate and quench their Yuan Qi in the future, allowing it to become more vigorous and pure.

The benefit of this was not immediately apparent, but over the course of one’s life it would no doubt become significant.

Upon circulating his True Yang Secret Art, Yang Kai was surprised to find that it too could revolve faster than before. Not only that, the rate at which his body absorbed the surrounding World Energy was also a little bit quicker.

Such a change was very subtle, but like water trickling onto a stone, many grains of sand would eventually build a tower. Accumulated over many years of cultivation, the effect would be extraordinary.

That this medicinal bath and magical Secret Art, being able to do all this showed just how Heaven defying Xiao Fu Sheng’s methods were.

In terms of combat strength, in this world his name was likely not worth mentioning, but as one of the few Mysterious Grade Top Ranking Alchemists alive today, his technique and achievements in Alchemy had reached the very peak. His insights into Alchemy were so great that they could even be described as a work of god.

The next morning, Xiao Fu Sheng called Yang Kai and Dong Qing Yan to his house.

Once more he did not pass them anything related to Alchemy, but instead a set of exercises designed to improve their Yuan Qi control.

Yuan Qi control was of paramount importance to Alchemy because when an Alchemist was refining a pill they would use their own Yuan Qi to control all the various aspects and processes. The slightest misstep would lead to a massive difference in results. If one wanted to refine a good pill, subtle Yuan Qi manipulation was essential.

Controlling one’s Yuan Qi was also strongly related to the cultivator’s battle prowess. In a fight, the strength of one’s martial skills depended greatly on one’s Yuan Qi control.

Anyone strong would know how to effectively utilize their own Yuan Qi to the point of mastery. Effective use of one’s Yuan Qi would allow a skilled cultivator to display the full might of their martial skills using only half the effort! Mastering this kind of control was extremely important. It allowed a cultivator to attack more explosively and sustain themselves longer in combat.

So whether it was Yang Kai or Dong Qing Yan, both of them studied these exercises seriously.

This set of techniques was something Xiao Fu Sheng had created over the course of his life while studying the Alchemic Path; it could be said to be one of his most valuable insights and now, without reservation, he had gifted it to them.

Teaching them for several days, interspersed with periods of time for self enlightenment, Yang Kai and Dong Qing Yan gradually became familiar with these exercises; all that remained after that was for them to cultivate diligently.

At this time, Yang Kai suddenly remembered something Xiao Fu Sheng had once said.

“Who says an Alchemist cannot stand at the Martial Peak?”

these words, his face had been

possible to spy on the mysteries of the pinnacle of

Xiao had said to them seemed to contain

the next few days, Yang Kai and Dong Qing Yan’s ability to manipulate their Yuan Qi became increasingly sophisticated. Yang Kai also found that these exercises not only allowed him to better control his

now faintly felt that his True Element Second Stage cultivation had reached its peak and there was only a thin line to cross before reaching the Third

Yang Kai and Dong Qing Yan were outside their houses practicing their Yuan Qi control by executing their own martial skills, they surprisingly found that the various other

“How come there are so many outsiders within

only shake his

will start a few days from now.” Aunty Xiang and Aunty Lan strolled over and

the world’s Great Forces, so every time such a summit is held, many cultivators will come to the various Peaks to visit

Cloud Peak till now, the two of them had spent their time in near isolation and hadn’t noticed that many days had quickly passed by. They were completely unaware until now that the Alchemist Summit

are quite lively around this time except for

always remains a bastion of calm!” Aunty

Master was to open his doors to outsiders, I’m sure everyone would come rushing here!

scolding look and shot back, “Then I and your Aunty Lan would soon faint from exhaustion! With so many visitors, we’d soon be

were very fond of Dong Qing Yan, the two beautiful women were neither married nor had children, so they looked upon Dong Qing Yan as if she were their own daughter and took

once looking down upon them because they were ordinary people or because of their status as

speaking, Xiao Fu Sheng’s door suddenly opened, accompanied by a burst of laughter,

“Master!”

“Old Xiao!”

cupped their fists as they saw

something good happened?” Dong Qing Yan asked in a polite and flattering tone, causing Yang Kai to feel a slight prickle in his heart, this little cousin of his always acted so casually

is coming to visit, naturally I am happy.” Xiao Fu

Qing Yan’s eyes fluttered slightly at these words, “I thought master did not like it when outsiders visited but I suppose that

disciple’s comment, “It all depends on who is visiting; those who come here simply to ask me to do things for them I naturally don’t welcome, but the guest who is coming soon is not the

come here to ask you to do something for him; you won’t chase me away now will

voice, Yang Kai’s face couldn’t help

could it

in surprise as they heard someone call their master ‘Old Man Xiao’, what was also strange was that neither

even the patriarchs of the Eight Great Families

would dare be so brazen as to call him

annoyed by this rude fellow, Old Xiao even quipped back in a joking tone, “How could this Old

and Aunty Lan suddenly understood, this man turned out to be Old Xiao’s saviour, quickly fixing their pretty faces and preparing to

last few thousand meters between

it wasn’t just one person, there

who appeared to be around the same age as Old Xiao, his smiling face showing a few wrinkles here and there, and following him was a pretty young woman. This woman had a pair of mesmerising eyes filled with pure innocence that seemed to shimmer like stars; donning a pale green dress, her jade like forehead was adorned with a sky blue gem while the rest of her face was concealed behind

causing her veil and dress to sway gently, making it seem like she was a floating immortal fairy, untouched by