27: Chapter 27 Test of Strength

The father and son returned to the house, and Su Chengyuan solemnly placed the jade box carrying the Family's hope on the table.

"The foundation establishment pill recipe, I've got it."

Su Cheng picked up the jade box, undid the Restriction, and saw a Jade Slip inside. He probed his Mental Energy into it, and a complex and profound piece of Pill Formula information instantly flooded into his mind.

The Pill Formula was in hand!

Even with his Heart-Nature, he could hardly hide his excitement at this moment.

This meant that their Su Family finally had the possibility of breaking through the class barriers and truly rising!

"Father, you've worked hard." Su Cheng calmed his emotions and looked at his father.

"The journey was fairly smooth." Su Chengyuan briefly recounted his experience at Treasure Gathering Tower and how he escaped, then his expression became serious, "However, there might be some trouble on Yun Ling's side."

He told his son about Su Yunling being targeted by Lin Feier, as well as his own speculations and warnings.

After Su Cheng finished listening, he frowned slightly.

He knew his sister's personality best.

She was soft on the outside but firm on the inside, kind to others on normal days, but if someone truly touched her bottom line, she was by no means a soft persimmon to be manipulated at will.

"Just a clown acting out," Su Cheng said. "As long as she doesn't have solid evidence, she can't stir up any big waves. Once Sister succeeds in Foundation Establishment in the future, these petty people naturally won't dare to provoke her again."

"Mm, that's true." Su Chengyuan finally felt relieved.

Su Cheng pondered for a moment and continued, "Father, refining the foundation establishment pill is no small matter. It requires several extremely rare main ingredients. Most of these main ingredients are monopolized by those Golden Core forces; I'm afraid they will be hard to buy. We still have much preparation to do."

"What do you mean?"

"From now on, you have only one task, and that is to enter seclusion. Use the fastest speed to push your cultivation to the Tenth Level of Qi Refining Great Perfection. Only when your cultivation is high enough will we have the confidence to plot for those Spirit Medicines." Su Cheng's thinking was very clear.

"Good!" Su Chengyuan agreed straightforwardly.

Then, Su Cheng took twenty pills out of the hundred or so Medicinal Pills and handed them to his father.

"Father, these pills should be enough for you to break through the bottleneck."

Su Chengyuan took the heavy weight of the Medicinal Pills and entered the underground secret chamber to begin a long seclusion.

As for Su Cheng, during the time his father was away from home, he also hadn't stopped his pace.

With the help of the top-grade qi gathering pills, his cultivation had steadily stepped into the Qi Refining sixth layer Middle Stage.

The Qi of Creation in his Dantian had accumulated to nearly seven hundred strands. The green vortex became increasingly solid, and with every rotation, it carried a surge of majestic vitality.

The power of the Qiankun Creation Art was beginning to truly manifest.

His spiritual power, whether in purity or total volume, was far beyond what a Cultivator of the same level could compare to.

The three Spells his father brought back, he had not only learned them, but when cast with the augmentation of the Qi of Creation, they displayed a different kind of mystery.

To test his own strength, he sparred once with his father during a break in his father's cultivation.

Inside the underground secret chamber.

"Father, use sixty percent of your strength to attack me," Su Cheng said.

"You brat, don't go crying when I hit you." Su Chengyuan smiled, and his Peak Ninth Layer of Qi Refining Aura spread out slightly.

He didn't use a Magical Artifact, but simply joined his fingers like a sword. A sharp golden finger glow shot toward Su Cheng—it was that move, the Sharp Gold Finger.

Su Cheng stood in place, neither dodging nor avoiding.

He also pointed out a finger.

A more condensed golden finger glow, even carrying a faint hint of green light, arrived first despite being launched later, colliding with his father's finger glow.

"Bang!"

The two finger glows annihilated each other in the air, sending air currents scattering in all directions.

Su Chengyuan's pupils constricted. This finger of his, though only using sixty percent of his strength, was enough to heavily injure any Eighth Layer of Qi Refining Cultivator.

But his son, a Qi Refining sixth layer Middle Stage, actually blocked it head-on?

He didn't have time to think carefully. He clapped his hands together, and dozens of ice spikes condensed out of thin air, whistling as they enveloped Su Cheng.

Su Cheng's footwork shifted, his figure becoming flickering and uncertain. He executed the Wind Riding Steps with fluid grace, weaving through the dense rain of ice spikes like a leisurely stroll; not a single ice spike could even touch the corner of his clothes.

"Third move!"

Su Chengyuan let out a low shout. This time he used eighty percent of his strength, his Qi Refining Ninth Layer spiritual power erupting as he punched out.

This punch was plain and unremarkable, yet it carried a massive force like an overturning sea.

Su Cheng took a deep breath and stopped dodging.

He also met it with a punch. On his fist, the green power of creation and the golden Sharp Gold Qi intertwined, with the faint sound of wind and thunder.

"Boom!"

The two fists met, producing a muffled explosion.

Su Cheng stumbled back seven or eight steps before stabilizing his figure, his blood and Qi churning.

Meanwhile, Su Chengyuan stood firmly in place.

The secret chamber fell into a blanket of silence.

Su Chengyuan looked at his own fist, then at his son across from him whose face was only slightly pale, his own face filled with shock.

He, a Peak Ninth Layer of Qi Refining Cultivator using eighty percent of his strength, actually only managed to knock back a Qi Refining sixth layer Middle Stage Cultivator?

Is this kid even human?

"A monster, truly a monster," Su Chengyuan couldn't help but laugh and scold.

Su Cheng also smiled. Although taking it head-on was still a bit forced, he now had a clear understanding of his own strength.

The Qiankun Creation Art—invincible in the same realm and capable of fighting those in higher realms—was no empty boast.

In the days that followed, peace returned once more.

The Wang Family had been completely well-behaved since the last incident, never coming to find trouble with the Su Family again.

The Su Family finally had room to breathe. The Family atmosphere eased considerably, and everyone was silently accumulating strength, looking forward to Su Yunling sending back good news from the Tiangang Sect.

And Su Cheng's small courtyard became the most inconspicuous place in the entire Family.

Su Cheng's daily life was simple and regular.

During the day, he flipped through the miscellaneous notes his father brought back to understand the local customs of this world, and occasionally went to the Library to look for records of Heaven And Earth Treasures.

At night, he no longer performed Alchemy.

The previous medicinal ingredients had long since been exhausted by him.

This time, in order to buy the foundation establishment pill, his father had exhausted their Spirit Stones, so he hadn't brought back any Spiritual Plants.

Now that the Spiritual Plants were gone, his focus naturally shifted to improving his cultivation.

Fortunately, there were enough Medicinal Pills, so he didn't have to worry about cultivation for the short term.

Besides Cultivating, he also immersed most of his mind in that hard-won foundation establishment pill recipe.

This Pill Formula was incredibly profound, listing a total of forty-nine types of medicinal ingredients. The medicinal properties, compatibility, and the roles of monarch, minister, assistant, and envoy for each were extremely meticulously detailed.

Among them, three main medicines were completely unheard of.

"purple monkey flower, nine-leaf dragon ganoderma grass, rootless fruit..." He firmly etched these three names into his heart.

These names sounded extraordinary just hearing them; presumably, the difficulty of obtaining them would be immense.

Not to mention that these Spiritual Plants were hard to come by, even the current peace was only temporary.

Whether it was the Wang Family or his sister's situation in the Sect, they were both like swords hanging over their heads.

And the only thing he could do was to forge himself into an even sharper and stronger sword before the sword fell.

"I can only wait for Father to come out of seclusion first; the road is still very long," Su Cheng murmured to himself.