Chapter 3

"Ha ha!" Lin Jianhao forced a laugh, pretending to be generous: "A real man, what does a little injury matter? However, you have truly grown up and become sensible; nothing can be hidden from you anymore! Don't worry, your father was once a peak expert at the Fourth Level of the Four Extremes Realm, and I know what I'm doing. I am already a cripple, and I cannot let my son become one too, no matter what the cost!"

Lin Jianhao, a direct descendant of the Lin family, was once a peak expert at the Fourth Level of the Four Extremes Realm and the top genius of the Qianyuan Kingdom eighteen years ago. However, shortly after Lin Nan's birth, he lost everything, his cultivation was stripped, and his glory vanished!

Back then, the family spent countless resources and invited numerous experts to treat him, but nothing changed. Now, he doesn't even have the资格 to participate in the ancestral worship, and he has endured all kinds of bullying, contempt, and ridicule within the family, experiencing the warmth and coldness of human relationships. If it weren't for his son Lin Nan, he would have long given up and committed suicide.

Lin Nan could be said to be his hope for survival, but now his meridians are shattered. No one understands Lin Nan's feelings more than he does. No matter what the cost, he cannot let his only son follow the same path, even if it means sacrificing his life!

"Father... why do you have to do this? The Hundred Herbs Soup is useless for reconnecting meridians, but the other injuries in my body have already healed..."

His father's words stirred Lin Nan's emotions. If he could, he would immediately tell his father that he has already recovered and is even stronger than before. However, he knew that now was not the time, so he had to suppress his feelings.

"No, Nan, you only know one side of it. Although the Hundred Herbs Soup cannot reconnect meridians, it can maintain the vitality of the broken meridians. When the guest expert from the Chaoyuan Realm arrives, it will allow you to recover to the greatest extent! Now, Nan, drink it while it's hot!"

"Father..."

"Drink it!"

"Thank you."

"You, my son, do you need to be so polite with your father?"

Lin Nan didn't say anything more. He directly took the bottle from his father's still slightly trembling hand and drank it in one gulp. The warm medicinal power, filled with his father's deep love, sank directly into his dantian and then spread throughout his body, warming not only his meridians and flesh but also his heart...

"Alright, the food is here. After the medicinal power has taken effect, you can eat it. If it gets cold, heat it up yourself."

"Okay, Father, starting tomorrow, you don't need to bring me food anymore. I will go and eat by myself. You don't need to worry about me. This time, although my meridians are shattered, I have gained new insights into the martial path! I believe that in no time, even without the help of experts, I can once again step onto the martial path and become a powerful expert!"

"New insights? Good! Good! Nan, you are stronger than your father! Your father believes in you!" Lin Jianhao looked at his son's determined eyes, slightly surprised and excited.

It wasn't that he believed Lin Nan had any real martial insights, but the indomitable fighting spirit Lin Nan displayed made him feel relieved. This was much better than the defeated and dispirited him of the past.

"Father!"

As Lin Jianhao was about to step out of the door, Lin Nan called out again.

"Hmm?"

"This is the last time for the Hundred Herbs Soup. I have grown up. From now on, don't go to the training ground anymore! Otherwise, I would rather become a cripple and never take the spiritual medicines you give me again. I mean it! I don't have a mother, and I don't want to lose my father!"

"Nan..." Lin Jianhao's steps froze, his nose tingled, and his voice trembled uncontrollably.

"Promise me, Father."

"Alright, Nan, your father... promises you!"

Lin Jianhao stepped out of Lin Nan's courtyard with a complex heart. He could sense that his son had changed a lot after this severe injury, becoming much more mature and stronger than the young him. The sharp and determined gaze, the slightly domineering but touching and compelling words, were all things he had never seen before the injury.

"My son, you have a mother, but telling you would only add to your worries... don't blame your father, this is all for your own good, sigh..."

Lin Jianhao let out a long sigh, revealing endless loneliness and melancholy. Two clear tears flowed uncontrollably from his eyes.

He thought back to the encounter nineteen years ago, the woman of unparalleled beauty, the most glorious and happiest moment of his life, but it was gone forever!

At this moment, his prematurely white hair, which did not match his age, gave off an endless sense of sorrow and sadness, and his departing figure seemed even more hunched.

...

The night was cool, and the stars were brilliant.

After the ancestral worship, the young disciples of the Lin family had hurriedly left, returning to their respective academies. Even Lin Nan's best cousin didn't have the chance to say goodbye to him, showing the hardships of the martial path.

In the courtyard, Lin Nan sat cross-legged, bathed in starlight, emitting a faint red glow. The surrounding spiritual energy of heaven and earth gathered at his Baihui acupoint at a visible speed. If others saw this, they would be greatly surprised, as the speed of absorbing spiritual energy was far beyond what a True Essence Realm martial artist could achieve.

With his meridians fully restored, Lin Nan had already recovered to the peak of the True Essence Realm. However, with the powerful *Qiankun Decisive Technique*, he decided to re-temper his body. The quality of the cultivation technique directly determined the strength of the body and meridians after tempering. Lin Nan, who had inherited the first layer of the *Qiankun Decisive Technique* and understood its essence, was certain that the *Qiankun Decisive Technique* was much stronger than the *Bear King Body Tempering Technique* he had practiced before. Once he completed the re-tempering, his strength would increase significantly.

It was already late at night. After his father left, Lin Nan locked the courtyard gate and began to practice the first layer of the *Qiankun Decisive Technique*, tempering his body repeatedly.

In this world where the strong are respected, to become a true expert, one must put in several times the effort of others to have even a slight chance. Relying solely on talent is far from enough. Although he was among the top ten young disciples in the Lin family, it was nothing compared to the Qianyuan Kingdom, let alone the vast and talent-filled Divine Martial Continent.

"Thirty-six times! Phew..."

At dawn, Lin Nan took a deep breath and woke up from his cultivation state.

"The *Qiankun Decisive Technique* is indeed extraordinary. In just one night, I have completed one-tenth of the tempering. If this continues smoothly, it will only take ten days to complete the tempering! The cultivation speed has indeed increased by about three times! This is still limited by the capacity of my meridians. Once they are widened and strengthened, the speed of absorbing spiritual energy will be even faster! In a month at most, I will complete the re-tempering and advance to the Three Flowers Realm, which will be as easy as catching a chicken in one's pants! Hehe..."

A smug smile appeared on Lin Nan's face, but it quickly turned to confusion: "What's up with the Qiankun Immortal Palace?"

The reason Lin Nan started practicing as soon as his father left was to not waste the power of the Hundred Herbs Soup. However, as soon as he began to circulate the *Qiankun Decisive Technique*, a strange change occurred. The bead in his mind, inscribed with "Qiankun Immortal Palace," suddenly generated a terrifying suction force, completely absorbing the spiritual energy from the Hundred Herbs Soup, leaving nothing for Lin Nan. The previous tempering was entirely based on the absorbed spiritual energy.

"Stabilizing the Sea Needle!" "Swoosh!" The needle appeared without any abnormality.

"Qiankun Immortal Palace!" Lin Nan called out again. As expected, his mind "boomed" once more, but this time his consciousness did not enter the mysterious space; he only saw a sky-blue bead clearly.

"Hmm? It seems a bit brighter! Could it be because it absorbed the Hundred Herbs Soup?"

"The *Qiankun Decisive Technique* only revealed the first layer of the body-tempering technique. Is this the complete first layer? How to obtain the second layer? How many layers are there in total? What is the relationship between the Stabilizing the Sea Needle and the Qiankun Immortal Palace? All these need to be studied... The bead became a bit brighter after absorbing the spiritual medicine. Does this mean that it will unlock other techniques after absorbing enough spiritual medicine? Hmm, it's possible! Unfortunately, I am poor and have no spiritual medicine. However... the spiritual medicine contains the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and my true essence is also refined from the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. I wonder if it will work... Let's try!"

With this thought, Lin Nan tried to activate the true essence in his dantian, slowly and carefully guiding it along his meridians toward his forehead.

The forehead, or the mind palace, is the most important acupoint in the human body and the most vulnerable place for cultivators. If the mind palace is destroyed, it means true death. As a low-level True Essence Realm cultivator, Lin Nan could not temper his mind palace, so he had to control the true essence to a very fine degree, approaching it slowly.

Unfortunately, when the true essence reached near the mind palace, it could not penetrate, let alone enter the mind.

"The true essence doesn't work... This is good. If it worked, wouldn't it all be absorbed? It seems I need to study more. The most urgent task now is to cultivate the first layer of the *Qiankun Decisive Technique* to its peak! Then, I might have the strength of twenty thousand pounds. Even if I don't break through to the Three Flowers Realm, crushing that Wu bastard will be like playing!"

Thinking of the Wu bastard, Lin Nan clenched his fists, his fighting spirit rising.

The reason the tragic hero forced a breakthrough, leading to the shattering of his meridians, was because of Wu Zhiyuan, a direct descendant of the Wu family.

Wu Zhiyuan, a Three Flowers Realm expert, ranked nineteenth among the junior disciples of the Dagan Academy, and with his status as a direct descendant of the Wu family, he was untouchable. Many sycophants followed him. It was this person who seduced the tragic hero's girlfriend and took her away!

Enraged, the tragic hero, provoked by the other party, lost his reason and agreed to a duel two months later, a life-or-death battle for a woman.

"Qian Jing! Humph! Isn't it just a sunflower? A woman with only a bit of beauty, and the former me actually risked my life for her? What a blind eye! Compared to my beautiful aunt, she's just trash! Most importantly, this woman was in cahoots with Wu Zhiyuan, setting a trap for me! Damn! With less than a month and a half left, I will definitely blind your titanium alloy dog eyes! Humph!"

Lin Nan reined in his surging fighting spirit and true essence, returning to his lazy appearance. He played with the silly golden needle and stepped out of the courtyard.

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