Chapter 11

Chapter 11: The Great Sun's Remnant Flame—Breaking Through The Postnatal Peak Realm! It Wasn't On Purpose!

【Liu Kun (Group Owner): Sure, but you don't need to bother with common-grade arts—just send me the Spirit-Grade and Earth-Grade ones.】

【And so, you entered the Scripture Pavilion once more, using the pretense of practicing calligraphy to begin your grueling scanning routine.】

【Half a day later, you had scanned over a hundred Spirit-Grade arts and 4 Earth-Grade arts in their entirety using the Group Scan Function, then packaged them into the group archive and sent them to Liu Kun via encrypted group transfer.】

【At the same time, Liu Kun sent back a white jade bottle through the group transfer.】

【This jade bottle was a rare ice-type treasure.】

【The moment it appeared, it caused the temperature of the entire room to drop by several degrees.】

【The Great Sun's Remnant Flame is inside here?】

【You took out a thick cloth, wrapped the bottle in it, not daring to touch it with your bare hands—let alone pull out the stopper directly.】

【This Great Sun's Remnant Flame could easily kill a Mystic Core Realm Martial Venerate.】

【Even a single strand of it had to be handled with extreme care.】

【You hadn't yet reached the peak of Postnatal Realm 10th-tier, so you would wait until you hit that limit before figuring out how to use it.】

【A month later, after grueling cultivation day and night, the Golden Crow Inner Energy within your body finally reached the limit of what you could contain.】

【By now, it was more than 10 times stronger than before.】

【You had successfully reached the Postnatal Realm 10th-Tier Peak!】

【Even though you were still in the Postnatal Realm, your aura was already no weaker than that of an Innate Realm 1st-tier martial artist.】

【Even the guard commander Dian Cheng-feng was left shaken and uncertain.】

【Having spent years on the battlefield, he was most sensitive to auras.】

【You had always claimed to be at the Postnatal Realm 3rd-tier.】

【Yet your aura was like that of a ferocious beast—absolutely impossible for someone at the Postnatal Realm 3rd-tier to emit.】

【You were, after all, the grandson of the Guardian King. If you chose not to speak the truth, it was not his place to ask.】

【In his heart, he was now fairly certain you were a Transmigrator.】

【Transmigrators possessed all manner of extraordinary abilities.】

【Such anomalies would make no sense in an ordinary person—but in a Transmigrator, they were entirely reasonable.】

【However, what troubled Dian Cheng-feng most was not you.】

【What troubled him most was the fact that he had already sent 7 or 8 letters to the Guardian King, yet not a single reply had come.】

【He had never encountered such a situation before.】

【He had no idea whether something had gone wrong at the border, or what had happened.】

【He had already dispatched his personal guards to ride to the Nation-Stabilizing Army at the border.】

【Hopefully, a reply would come very soon.】

【Having reached the Postnatal Realm 10th-Tier Peak, your next step was to consider breaking through to the Postnatal Peak Realm.】

【As for how to draw the Great Sun's Remnant Flame into your body, the Golden Crow World-Illuminating Scripture contained clear records of it, and you had run through the process countless times in your mind.】

【You were confident the success rate was at least 80%.】

【But now that the moment had actually come, you still hesitated.】

【After all, this concerned your life.】

【An 80% success rate felt a little unsafe.】

【You consulted several senior Transmigrators in the Primordial Realm Group.】

【They told you it would be best to find a powerful guardian to protect you during the process.】

【You laid out your assets, hoping one of the group's experts would lend a hand.】

【But they all shook their heads, saying the things in your household weren't even enough to cover the cost of their teleportation over.】

【The most valuable possession of the Guardian King's Manor was the collection of arts in the Scripture Pavilion.】

【Everything else was mere worldly wealth—nothing of note.】

【The senior Transmigrators in the group clearly had no interest.】

【Moreover, using the group transfer carried extreme risks, as it could easily be caught in a trap set by the Celestial Mechanism Pavilion.】

【Such things had happened before.】

【Without an enticing enough price, they would not act rashly.】

【It seemed you still had to figure this out on your own.】

【You thought of Dian Cheng-feng and Elder Chen the Physician—the 2 people you trusted most, who also knew some of your secrets.】

【You summoned both of them and said you intended to cultivate a secret art, and hoped the 2 of them could serve as guardians.】

【At first, the 2 assumed it was a minor matter and did not refuse.】

【It was only when you produced the white jade bottle that they sensed something was off.】

【Then you pulled out the stopper.】

【With just a wisp of energy seeping out from the bottle, the entire spacious underground chamber transformed into a furnace.】

【Dian Cheng-feng and Elder Chen's expressions changed drastically.】

【This wasn't cultivating some secret art—you were clearly throwing your life away!】

【Dian Cheng-feng had just moved to stop you when Elder Chen grabbed his arm.】

【Because at that moment, you had already begun absorbing the power of the Great Sun's Remnant Flame from the bottle.】

【Interrupting mid-process would absolutely result in a devastating backlash.】

【Dian Cheng-feng looked on with great anxiety—if something happened to you, how would he explain it to the Guardian King?】

【Time passed, second by second.】

【The early stages went very smoothly—your Cinnabar Field slowly expanded under the power of the Great Sun's Remnant Flame.】

【It wasn't until it had expanded 5 or 6 times over that you felt your own strength beginning to falter.】

【Damn it all—I still underestimated how hard it would be to break through to the Postnatal Peak Realm!】

【I thought I had an 80% chance. As things stand, it's less than 30%!】

【Just when you thought the breakthrough was about to fail, a burst of external force entered your body, helping you guide the power of the Great Sun's Remnant Flame.】

【Dian Cheng-feng had made his move!】

【Another half an hour passed. The power of the Great Sun's Remnant Flame was exhausted, and the Cinnabar Field within your body had finally reached 10 times its original volume!】

【You had successfully broken through to the Postnatal Peak Realm!】

【When you opened your eyes in elation, you saw Dian Cheng-feng slowly collapse in front of you.】

【Uncle Dian!】

【Your expression shifted instantly. You rushed forward to catch him.】

【But Elder Chen said unhurriedly: "Relax—Commander Dian has simply exhausted his Mystic Core energy, which has caused his old battlefield wounds to flare up. He will need time to recover, but his life is not in danger."】

【Ah—so it's just his old wounds acting up. I thought he had died.】

【You let out a sigh of relief and released your hands.】

【Dian Cheng-feng dropped straight to the floor with a dull thud.】

【Elder Chen: "……"】

【It really wasn't on purpose—during the breakthrough just now, you had already been pushed to the edge of exhaustion, and were now running purely on willpower.】

【Both you and Dian Cheng-feng entered a period of recovery.】

【Except that after 2 or 3 days of rest, you were up and about again, full of energy.】

【Dian Cheng-feng, on the other hand, had his old wounds flare badly enough that he remained bedridden.】

【Elder Chen said he wouldn't be getting out of bed for at least 3 to 5 months.】

【From then on, you continued building up your Golden Crow Inner Energy.】

【With your Cinnabar Field expanded 10-fold, the capacity for your Golden Crow Inner Energy would naturally increase by the same margin.】

【The more Golden Crow Inner Energy you had, the more Innate True Energy would be converted when you broke through to the Innate Realm—making you all the more powerful.】

【But growing your Golden Crow Inner Energy by 10 times was no easy feat.】

【It had taken you nearly 2 months to cultivate it to its current level.】

【Growing it 10 times over—wouldn't that take 1 or 2 years?】

【And so, you sent people out to purchase large quantities of Condensing Energy Powder—a substance even more potent than Vital Energy Pills.】

【Condensing Energy Powder was generally used by Innate Realm martial artists and cost considerably more than Vital Energy Pills.】

【A small packet was priced at 1,500 silver taels.】

【And you could consume as many as 6 packets in a single day.】