Chapter 5

Su Han slowly opened his eyes, his clear and distinct pupils filled with excitement: "Great!! I can finally cultivate!!"

Being able to cultivate meant that Su Han had the hope of avenging himself and controlling his own destiny.

Opening his eyes, Su Han leaped up from the ground, his figure flashing as he circulated his internal energy. His palms moved swiftly, and a wave of scorching heat surged from his palms, sweeping outwards.

"This is the Lesser Perfection Realm of the Three Yang Palm! How could it be so easy?" After completing a set of the Three Yang Palm, Su Han looked at the grass around him, which had turned yellow from the heat, and a strange expression flashed in his eyes.

The Three Yang Palm was a third-grade martial technique, extremely difficult to cultivate. It usually took over a decade of practice to reach the Lesser Perfection Realm. In the entire Su family, no more than seven people had achieved the Lesser Perfection Realm in the Three Yang Palm.

Above the Lesser Perfection Realm was the Greater Perfection Realm. If one could cultivate the Three Yang Palm to the Greater Perfection Realm, it could even unleash the formidable power of a mid-grade fourth-grade martial technique.

"This Three Yang Palm seems to be off somewhere." The golden sea in Su Han's mind trembled, and he frowned slightly. Following his intuition, he began to modify the Three Yang Palm.

A new palm technique gradually took shape as Su Han's figure flashed. The heat wave that would normally dissipate was instead gathered and condensed by Su Han's internal energy, added to the new palm. The rolling heat wave continuously overlapped, becoming increasingly powerful.

"Break!"

When the rolling heat wave reached its peak, Su Han roared and struck a large tree with his palm. The scorching heat surged out like burning flames, scorching all the leaves on the tree to a charred yellow. A pair of charred palm prints appeared on the tree.

Seeing the charred palm prints on the tree, Su Han felt both surprise and confusion: "Fourth-grade, this should be the power of a fourth-grade martial technique. How could I have improved this third-grade martial technique to a fourth-grade level by just making a few adjustments?"

Originally, with Su Han's Condensation Realm strength, he could not have left such charred palm prints on the tree with the Three Yang Palm. Clearly, after his modifications, his Three Yang Palm had been elevated from a third-grade martial technique to a fourth-grade or higher martial technique.

Internal energy was the foundation of a martial artist. If one's internal energy was strong enough, even the slightest movement could have tremendous power. Martial techniques, on the other hand, were combat skills that maximized the use of internal energy. A high-level martial technique could fully unleash a martial artist's strength, even exceeding it by 120%. A low-level martial technique, however, could barely unleash even 10% of a martial artist's true strength.

A fourth-grade martial technique was already a mid-grade martial technique, and there were very few in the entire Xiyuan Town. The Zhao family treated their fourth-grade mid-grade martial technique, the Wave Palm, as a treasure, allowing only direct descendants to practice it, while others couldn't even see it.

After the initial elation, Su Han regained his composure, and a doubt arose in his mind: "No, the Three Yang Palm was created by a martial arts master. How could it be so easily modified? Why did I manage to elevate this martial technique to the fourth-grade level with just a few adjustments?"

Su Han was very intelligent and quickly thought of the cultivation method that had given him a new lease on life: "It must be this miraculous cultivation method that has brought about this tremendous transformation."

"I should write down this cultivation method and teach it to Father and Eldest Brother!"

Thinking of this, Su Han felt a surge of excitement. He rushed to a nearby stone table, picked up a pen and paper, and began to write down the profound cultivation method of the Nine Heavens True Water Technique, the first level.

Su Han had brought writing materials to practice his martial techniques in the back mountain. Over the past few days, he had been diligently practicing martial techniques but had not neglected his studies of the classics for the imperial examinations. If he could not cultivate martial techniques, he would have to take the imperial examinations as a narrow path.

Boom!!

Just as Su Han was halfway through writing the first level of the Nine Heavens True Water Technique, the paper under his pen exploded under the influence of a strange law. The stone table beneath the paper also shattered into pieces, sending dust and debris flying.

"What's happening?"

Seeing this, Su Han was stunned and felt a deep shock.

"The Records of Strange Tales once mentioned that the cultivation methods of immortals contain the laws of heaven, which mortals cannot hear or write down. Only special immortal treasures can bear the cultivation methods of immortals. Could it be that the Nine Heavens True Water Technique is a cultivation method of the immortals?" Su Han recalled a legend he had read in the Records of Strange Tales, feeling both joy and fear.

The Records of Strange Tales was a miscellaneous book circulating in the Great Yan Dynasty, recording various strange tales and countless legends, including many about immortals. Su Han had always considered the records in this book to be baseless and read it for entertainment. Seeing the strange behavior of the Nine Heavens True Water Technique, Su Han realized that the records in the Records of Strange Tales were not baseless.

Su Han took a deep breath, his eyes flashing with determination: "No, if this is true, I cannot teach this cultivation method to Father and Eldest Brother until I am strong enough. Otherwise, if it spreads, our Su family will be destroyed in an instant."

If the Nine Heavens True Water Technique were a high-grade cultivation method, the Su family could still manage with great caution. However, if the Su family possessed a cultivation method that only immortals could practice, and if this were discovered, even the royal family of the Great Yan Dynasty would send a powerful army to flatten the Su family and seize the cultivation method.

Cultivation methods for immortals were rare in the world. The most powerful cultivation methods in the Great Yan Dynasty were the high-grade methods held by the royal family and the great clans. If one could successfully cultivate an immortal's method, becoming a marquis and founding a nation would be as easy as turning one's hand.

Thinking of the records in the Records of Strange Tales, Su Han frowned and fell into deep thought: "Cultivation methods for immortals must be extremely profound and mysterious. It is said that mortals cannot hear them, and if they do, they will forget. Only those with boundless wisdom, surpassing the innate realm, can remember a fragment of it. How could I remember the cultivation method of an immortal?"

In a flash, Su Han thought of the blue crystal eye in his golden sea of consciousness, which emitted a sacred, ancient, and great aura: "That's it! It must be that blue crystal eye. It is definitely a unique treasure, and because of it, I can remember and cultivate this immortal's method."

"Great, with this cultivation method, I finally have a chance to take revenge." Thinking of this, a sense of joy welled up in Su Han's heart. His body trembled slightly, his fists clenched, and his eyes burned with a fierce flame: "Yun Tianhai, wait and see. One day, I will crush you under my feet, like an ant!"

After his dantian recovered, Su Han did not tell anyone and spent two months in intense cultivation on an unnamed small mountain. He knew that even with such a heaven-defying cultivation method, if he did not work hard, he would still not be a match for Yun Tianhai. His cultivation talent was only average, while Yun Tianhai was a monstrous genius. The resources Yun Tianhai could obtain were far beyond what Su Han could compare. If he did not work hard, the gap between them would only grow larger.

After two months of intense cultivation, although Su Han did not advance to the fifth level of the Postnatal Realm, he did reach the peak of the fourth level of the Condensation Realm.