123: Chapter 123 Too High to Reach

The Breakthrough in Saber Intent was an unexpected joy.

It meant that Chen Hu's strength had grown significantly once again.

With a thought, Chen Hu took out the Martial Skill Fusion Card and ordered the Fusion of Seven Styles of the Divine Blade and God-Slaying Slash.

"Ding, Fusion started!"

"Ding, Fusion successful. Congratulations to the host for obtaining a Heaven-grade intermediate saber technique. Please name the new saber technique!"

Chen Hu thought for a moment and said, "Let's call it Seven God Slash!"

"Ding, naming successful. Now transmitting the cultivation memories and experience of the Perfection-level Seven God Slash to the host!"

The next moment, a surge of memories flooded into Chen Hu's mind, perfectly merging with his current memories.

At this very instant, his Saber Intent made another Breakthrough, reaching the fourth level of Saber Intent.

Chen Hu, who had been keeping his eyes tightly closed, suddenly opened them.

The moment he opened his eyes, a flicker of a saber shadow flashed across his pupils.

"Huhu!"

Chen Hu exhaled a breath of stale air.

He was certain that if he were to face that Grey-Robed Elder again now, even without using Soul Pierce, he could defeat the opponent relying solely on his martial arts strength.

In other words, even though he was only at the Early-stage Bone-Refining Realm, his combat power had already reached the Organ Refining Realm.

Although that Grey-Robed Elder was only at the Early Stage Organ Refining Realm, the Cultivation Techniques and Martial Skills he practiced were extraordinary. His combat power was not something an ordinary Early Stage Organ Refining Realm practitioner could compare to; Chen Hu even suspected that his combat power could rival an ordinary Mid Organ-Refining Realm practitioner.

The next moment, Chen Hu took out the martial arts cultivation card.

"Activate!"

"Ding, congratulations to the host for obtaining 80 days of cultivation!"

"Not bad!"

Chen Hu nodded with satisfaction and chose to claim it.

The next moment, 80 days of cultivation were injected into his body, suddenly splitting into four streams, each tempering his skin, muscles, tendons, and bones.

Under the tempering of these four streams of cultivation, Chen Hu felt that his skin, muscles, tendons, and bones had become significantly stronger once again.

After half a quarter of an hour, the tempering ended.

The four streams of cultivation that had not yet been fully consumed suddenly converged into his arms.

They opened up new bone apertures on the bones of his arms.

Very quickly, more than sixty new bone apertures appeared on the bones of Chen Hu's arms.

The remaining cultivation directly flowed into these bone apertures.

Chen Hu clearly sensed that the progress of Marrow Refining in his arms had accelerated significantly.

With this, the extracted eighty days of cultivation were completely consumed.

Next, Chen Hu took out the cultivation multiplier card.

"Activate!"

"Ding, congratulations to the host for obtaining a 10x cultivation effect!"

Chen Hu took out another soul nourishing pill, swallowed it, and began to activate the Spirit Refining Art to refine it.

An hour later.

The cultivation session ended.

Chen Hu claimed the 10x cultivation effect.

A surge of pure Soul Power was injected into his Divine Soul, and then gathered into that pill.

Causing the pill to subtly expand a bit more.

"Tonight's cultivation is over. Right, there is still an identity card I haven't used yet. Let's take it out and see!"

He took out the identity card and silently thought to activate it.

"Ding, congratulations to the host for obtaining the identity of Sect Leader Chen Qiu."

"Interesting!"

Seeing that the identity card had produced the identity of Sect Leader Chen Qiu, Chen Hu was slightly surprised.

Changshou Ward and Changqing Ward were adjacent to each other.

If nothing unexpected happened, once the Fierce Tiger Gang finished consolidating their existing territory, they would make a move on the Iron Blade Sect.

"Use!"

The next moment, Chen Hu directly transformed into a middle-aged, burly man.

Similarly, all of Sect Leader Chen Qiu's memories from childhood to adulthood also appeared in Chen Hu's mind.

Very quickly.

Chen Hu read through Sect Leader Chen Qiu's memories.

This Sect Leader Chen Qiu could be said to have killed his way up from the bottom; he was ruthless and vicious, with a sinister personality, and most importantly, he was extremely suspicious. He trusted no one but himself.

Moreover, the man was indeed a ruthless character.

The previous leader of the Iron Blade Sect was Sect Leader Chen Qiu's foster father.

Sect Leader Chen Qiu's foster father was very fond of adopting foster sons.

But unexpectedly, it was this habit of loving to adopt foster sons that led to his tragic end, with his entire family wiped out.

As for the murderer, it was naturally one of his foster sons, Sect Leader Chen Qiu.

The process need not be described; to summarize in one sentence, Sect Leader Chen Qiu colluded with some of his foster father's other foster sons to rebel, killed his foster father and his entire family, then wiped out the other foster brothers who opposed him, and ascended to the position of Iron Blade Sect Leader.

After taking power, he used various means to kill off those foster brothers who had supported him.

Now, Sect Leader Chen Qiu was forty-two years old, and his cultivation had reached Late-stage Tendon Refining.

Unfortunately, he did not have a Bone Refining Realm Cultivation Technique.

Therefore, he dreamed of obtaining a Bone Refining Realm Cultivation Technique.

Chen Hu did not care about any of this.

What he cared about was that Sect Leader Chen Qiu had stored the wealth he had earned over the years in seven different locations.

Four of these locations were within the Prefecture City, and the other three were outside the city.

The wealth in the seven locations added up to over eight hundred thousand taels of silver.

"It's all mine now!"

Chen Hu smiled slightly and decided to go and take the wealth from the four locations within the city.

He directly dismissed the identity of Sect Leader Chen Qiu and then escaped from the study by tunneling underground.

Half an hour later, Chen Hu returned.

The wealth in his Storage Ring had increased by about 500,000 taels.

As for the three locations outside the city, the nearest one was over a hundred miles away, and the farthest one was over three hundred miles away; he would go and retrieve them when he had time.

"Time to sleep, time to sleep!"

Chen Hu got up and went to the bedroom next door.

Tonight he had eaten his fill at Saintess Luoyan's place, so he wouldn't disturb Widow Wang.

The next morning.

Just as Chen Hu got up, Ruyi and Zhizhi brought in washing utensils to serve him.

After finishing washing, he went to the front courtyard and used a loyalty card on another maid, Li Qian.

And released her cultivation seal.

"Greetings, Master!"

Li Qian knelt on one knee.

"Get up. From now on, you are my subordinate, and I am your big brother!"

"Yes, greetings, Big Brother!"

Number of subordinates + 1.

Reached 1146.

After the meal, Yang Fu came to report to him about the establishment of the Secret Hall.

Yesterday.

Yang Fu had already bought a large courtyard in the Slum Area to serve as a base.

Then Yang Pi took two other people to the mountain villages outside the Prefecture City to select suitable people for training.

It is estimated that it will take three to five days before they can return.

"Is the money enough?"

Chen Hu asked.

Yang Fu said, "Renting the large courtyard didn't cost much, but I gave Yang Pi five thousand taels of silver. The remaining silver will be used by this subordinate to purchase medicinal herbs for training; I'm afraid there won't be much left!"

"Take this!"

Chen Hu directly took out 100,000 taels in silver notes and threw them to Yang Fu, saying, "When your Secret Hall members reach 100 people, come report to me again. Right, if the money is not enough, you can still come to me for more!"

"Yes!" After Yang Fu accepted the silver notes, he withdrew.

But just as Chen Hu walked out of the main gate, he discovered a middle-aged woman dressed in colorful, flashy clothes walking towards him: "Master Tiger, please stop!"

"Something the matter?"

Chen Hu looked at her and asked.

"Master Tiger, I am the famous Matchmaker Wang from our Changshou Ward. I have been entrusted by Master Su to come and act as a matchmaker for you!"

"What?"

"A matchmaker?" Chen Hu's expression was somewhat playful: "Who is this Master Su you speak of?"

"Master Tiger, Master Su's full name is Su Quanzhong. His family has over one hundred thousand mu of land outside the city, and within the city, they have three large restaurants and over twenty shops. Actually, the most important thing is that Master Su's older brother is an official in the capital, it seems he is some sort of Vice Minister of the Ministry of Revenue."

A Vice Minister of the Ministry of Revenue was no small official; he was a high-ranking official of the third rank, and furthermore, the Ministry of Revenue was a very lucrative position.

Thus, Chen Hu asked: "Which daughter does that Master Su intend to marry off to me?"

The matchmaker's eyes rolled, and she was just about to speak.

Chen Hu released a trace of his Aura and pressed it towards her: "Tell the truth!"

Pressed by Chen Hu's Aura, the matchmaker dared not be glib anymore and directly revealed the truth.

After listening, Chen Hu was so angry he laughed.

He waved his hand at the matchmaker: "Alright, go back and tell that Master Su that I am not worthy of such a high connection!"