Starting from the Greyhound, seventy-two changes.

Chapter 218 Things are different now
boom!
Accompanied by a loud noise like a dam bursting, all the true energy in his body rushed out from the "Chong Mai" and spread into his internal organs.

And a layer of membrane begins to condense around the internal organs.

"In the fifth realm, you will use your whole body's Qi and blood to reshape your internal organs, tendons and bones, so that inner membranes will appear on the surface of each organ, tendon and bone in the body. Then, by urging the internal Qi to expand the Qi membrane, you can achieve the magical state of strengthening your internal organs and compressing or expanding your body."

Chen Ku recalled the fifth realm of inner strength, which was not an ordinary internal organ training, but a membrane training:
"There are three stages in internal strengthening. In the first stage, the five internal organs are first formed into a qi membrane, and then the tendons and bones. In other words, it is the organ membrane, fascia membrane, and periosteum. After all of them are trained, the internal strengthening is complete."

He felt the miraculous experience of breaking through to the fifth realm.

The pulse all over the body becomes slow and long like that of an old turtle. This is a direct reflection of the improved vitality and lifespan. In nature, the slower the heartbeat and pulse of a creature, the longer its lifespan will generally be.

This is the fourth realm, the great achievement of opening the meridians, which leads to the fifth realm, an improvement in the essence of life.

Chen Ku circulated the fourth level of his physical body skills and began to integrate the four kinds of true qi into his internal organs, causing a layer of faint light to appear on the surface of his internal organs.

"Although I have already made the initial steps into the fifth realm, it is still a long and arduous process to achieve the visceral membrane in one go. I can't rush it, unless... I have the realm experience of a fifth realm master to add to my body."

It took him less than a week to successfully advance from the fourth realm to the fifth realm, completing a major realm breakthrough. He clearly realized that he should stop here. Otherwise, it would be risky and impetuous to achieve success.

Make a slight fist.

Feeling the changes brought to him by the strong man from the fifth realm:
"My energy has expanded three or four times compared to the fourth level of meridian opening. The same is true for my spirit. A martial artist is indeed a man who cultivates both body and soul. I feel that with my current energy, the effect of using my spiritual eyes can be doubled..."

On second thought, he was considered the third inner-strong martial artist in Baojiao County.

Before he entered Yaowang Hall, in the entire Baojiao County, only the county magistrate Shangguan Yun was a master among the top five regions.

Later, during the fight with the demon from Ping An Dao, his master Yang Luchan also successfully entered this realm and became one of the only two masters in the fifth realm.

Now, if we only count the people from Baojiao County, he is considered to be among the top three in the city.

Simply felt the power.

Chen Ku walked out of the house and asked towards the kitchen:

"Is there food at home?"

After the breakthrough, I felt full of energy, but I still missed the taste of food.

Not long after, after finishing his meal, he prepared to walk around Yaowang Hall. However, as soon as he walked out of his yard, he found that everyone in the hall looked hesitant when they saw him, as if they wanted to say something to him.

"What's wrong? What happened?" Chen Ku walked forward and asked.

"Young Shopkeeper, you're out." A waiter immediately explained to Chen Ku, "You don't know that during your retreat, you received several invitations, including from Miss Sui Qingfang, Mr. Jiang Shaoyou, Di Jianqing, Fu Huangfei, Pei Qingzhi from the city, and Princess Guan Hongluan from Hanshouhou Mansion... There was even a letter of challenge from the Sword Demon Dugu Wuer from Dugu Castle, who wanted to compete with you in martial arts."

Chen Ku's heart was moved as he listened to so many invitations. Especially the declaration of war from Dugu Wuer, he guessed a little bit about the other party's thoughts.

Before entering the world of martial arts, Dugu Wuer had always wanted to spar with himself, Guan Hongluan, and Pei Qingzhi. However, after entering the world of martial arts, the few of them hardly ever met each other.

Coupled with his achievements in the world of martial arts, it is estimated that Dugu Wuer has become even more interested in him.

"Reject Dugu Wuer's letter of challenge. Don't agree to it."

Chen Ku has never liked this kind of meaningless challenge. What’s the point of winning or losing?
But he viewed other people's invitations like this:

"But as for those invitations, please send a letter to each of them. If they want to have a drink with me, I will host them. We will choose Xiangshui Pavilion. After all, Baojiao County is our territory. How can we let others treat us?"

"Is that all? I've made a note of it. I'll do it right away." The waiter did not hesitate.

Chen Ku smiled as he watched the guy leave.

He was not very interested in fighting and killing, but he was happy to chat with these geniuses from the city. In a sense, this was also to pave the way for interpersonal relationships for going to the Qiulong Mansion in the future, and to find out some information about the city from them, in preparation for going to the Qiulong Mansion in the future.

Plus,
He wanted to sell the 'Breakthrough Pill' worth 30,000 Wu Luck in his hand. If he could trade it to anyone, he could raise enough money for the Fire Repellent Pearl.

Allow him to try to enter the core area of ​​Huozui Mountain and gain more high-level fire evil energy.

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"Oh, Chen Ku is inviting me to the Perfume Pavilion for a small gathering?"

In the garden mansion, Guan Hongluan couldn't help but raise her eyebrows slightly when she heard the news, and slowly stood up from the red couch.

As the little princess stood up, she chuckled as she had just broken through to the fifth level of the Dragon Refining Divine Sword. Her clothes were blowing with the aura of the sword.
"It's true that fame and honor nourish a person. He has developed such confidence after becoming a martial arts scholar. I originally wanted to invite him to my house to have a chat, but I didn't expect him to invite me instead. He seems to regard himself as the 'master' of Baojiao County. It's true. His fame, potential and strength are enough for him to have such confidence and status. Well, I will go to the meeting and take a look."

On the second day of the Martial Arts World Trial, Guan Hongluan came out with the Nine Yang True Pill that she needed.

During these five or six days, with the help of the Nine Yang True Pill, she successfully broke through the bottleneck of the Dragon Subduing Divine Sword she was practicing, and in one breath she cultivated the fifth-level signature sword style of the Dragon Subduing Divine Sword, "Shrinking the Sword into an Inch", which allowed her to cultivate the sword energy that was more than ten feet long to a size that was determined by her heart, making it even more domineering and fierce.

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At night, at the entrance of Perfume Pavilion.

"Miss Sui, you're here." Jiang Shaoyou was waiting at the door early, and saw Sui Qingfang and her cousin Lin Xinglong walking towards him from afar.

"Brother Shaoyou." Sui Qingfang smiled bitterly and said, "You and I both failed the martial arts test this time. We are both equally miserable."

Hearing this,

Jiang Shaoyou also sighed, smiled bitterly, and said, "I still remember that half a year ago, we gathered with Junior Brother Chen Ku in this Perfume Pavilion. When we left, we wished each other a good result in this martial arts test. The result... was really disappointing."

Sui Qingfang let out a breath.

Talking about this sad thing, she felt helpless.

Although they had started preparations half a year ago, knowing that this martial arts test would be presided over by the great master Qin Yuxian, and would surely attract all the young heroes and geniuses in the entire Qiulong Mansion, it would be extremely difficult for them to pass the martial arts test with their internal energy cultivation.

However, they still didn't expect that they would find it difficult to even complete the first stage of the martial arts test, 'leaving their names on the monument'. At the first stage, these young masters from Baojiao County were eliminated.

"After all, it's because of lack of strength. If we all have the strength of Brother Lin, even if we can't enter the trial of the martial arts world, we can still stand firm on the ten arenas in the martial arts temple." Jiang Shaoyou looked at Lin Xinglong behind Sui Qingfang.

This genius from the capital city, who was one of the first batch to come to Baojiao County, was still ambitious at first, but even this time, he was not able to enter the world of martial arts. He only gained the title of a martial artist on the arena of the martial arts temple.

Lin Xinglong glanced at Jiang Shaoyou and wanted to say something. What country bumpkin? How dare you compare yourself to him?

He is now 25 years old. He passed the examination for martial arts student seven years ago and now has the title of martial arts scholar.

Suddenly, I saw a young man in a long gown walking slowly towards me on the street not far away.

He immediately put away the disdainful look that was about to fall on Jiang Shaoyou, and turned it into a smile. He took two steps forward with his hands behind his back, came in front of Chen Ku, and said:

"Master Chen, do you remember me? I am Lin Xinglong, Qingfang's cousin. Congratulations to Brother Chen for winning the title of 'Martial Scholar'."

Chen Ku was slightly stunned when he saw the young man in brocade clothes who took the initiative to come forward and greet him. After hearing him introduce himself, he remembered who the other person was.

Isn't this the young man who was so arrogant and said he wanted to be on equal footing with Xie Qingfeng when he was fighting at the dock? When he went over, this man didn't even look at him.

Now he actually takes the initiative to greet me with a smile.

As the saying goes, don't hit a smiling person, Chen Ku also smiled and bowed, saying: "Hello, tonight is a party, let's celebrate together."

Lin Xinglong asked softly, "I heard that Brother Chen invited Princess Hongluan to this party. Is that true?"

After hearing this, Chen Ku immediately understood what the other person was thinking. It turned out that he was someone who wanted to get close to Guan Hongluan.

"It's just an invitation. I can't guarantee that the princess will come." Chen Ku didn't say anything firm.

But at this time.

Da Da Da~
The sound of the carriage wheels turning came over, and a graceful woman's light laughter came from inside, saying:
"I was originally going to invite you to have a chat, but now you have become the host. How can I, a guest who has come from afar, not come? Wouldn't that be a disrespect to you, Brother Chen?"

After someone lifted the curtain of the car, Guan Hongluan walked down slowly.

When Lin Xinglong saw the princess of Hanshouhou Mansion in person, his eyes lit up, and he walked forward and bowed:
"My name is Lin Xinglong, and my father is Lin Ruhai, the governor of Qiulong Prefecture. I had the honor of meeting the princess at the last Peony Festival in Qiulong Prefecture. I wonder if the princess still remembers me."

"Yeah, remember."

Guan Hongluan nodded to him, then walked towards Chen Ku and said with a smile:

"Chen Ku, since you are the host tonight, I will leave it to you to arrange it."

“Princess Hongluan, please come in!” Chen Ku extended his hand to invite.

Lin Xinglong was slightly embarrassed for a moment, but then he took a deep breath and followed the two of them.

Jiang Shaoyou was watching Lin Xinglong from the side, and couldn't help thinking in his heart: "It's true that different people belong to different classes. This Lin is arrogant and always looks down on others, but there will be a day when he will be like air in the eyes of others."

Thinking of this, and looking at Chen Ku again, he felt even more dazed.

Not long ago, Chen Ku was just a young man in the butcher's shop of Yaowangtang. Although he saw that Chen Ku would become extraordinary in the future, he never thought that within half a year...

This junior fellow apprentice has not only become the most famous person in Baojiao County, but his level of friendship has even reached the level of Princess Hongluan.

After Chen Ku and others entered the Perfume Pavilion.

One after another, the people on Chen Ku's invitation list arrived.

Di Jianqing and Fu Huangfei, both of whom had entered the world of martial arts, looked at Chen Ku with mixed feelings.

As the first group of geniuses from Qiulong Prefecture to come to Baojiao County, they wanted to make a name for themselves in Baojiao County. However, they were repeatedly overshadowed by Chen Ku. Now...

This made the native of Baojiao County the real protagonist of this martial arts test.

Even if it's unbelievable, I don't want to believe it...

They also had to admit that Chen Ku's ability to break two records in a row was something they could never replicate.

"Where does this Chen Ku come from? How could a Baojiao County produce such a person? He beat up a large number of our Qiulong Mansion geniuses?" Di Jianqing said to Fu Huangfei depressedly while sitting at the table.

The banquet has begun.

Chen Ku looked at the table full of people. It could be said that there were no ordinary people here. They were all talented people with families and backgrounds.

Half a year ago, when he entered such a gathering, he was just a foil for Sui Qingfang and others.

It is simply unimaginable that now, he has become the core protagonist of this party, and Sui Qingfang at that time has become a foil.

"Chen Ku, I'll be frank. You have such potential and strength. Are you interested in coming to my Hanshou Mansion? This princess can promise you here that as long as you enter my Mansion, with the connections of my Guan family, within five years, you will be able to lead an army and become the youngest young general in Qiulong Mansion." After the banquet began, Guan Hongluan showed her unfeminine decisiveness.

"Marquis' Mansion?" Chen Ku knew in his heart that his master Shan Lingguan and senior brother Qin Yuxian would most likely fight against the Hanshou Marquis' Mansion, so how could they possibly join this Marquis' Mansion.

Then he smiled and said, "My lord, it's a good idea. Let me consider it."

Guan Hongluan heard Chen Ku say this, most likely meaning rejection, so she no longer had any interest in trying to win him over, so she said:
"Since you don't want to, I won't force you. So just tell me, what is the purpose of holding this banquet?"

Chen Ku got straight to the point when he heard that, and said, "Some of you should know that after I broke the record of Huangshaling, I got a realm-breaking pill, but this thing is in my hand and has no effect at the moment, so... I want to ask if anyone among you wants it?"

"Breakthrough Pill?" Everyone at the table, whether it was Jiang Shaoyou and Sui Qingfang who were in the Inner Energy Realm, or Lin Xinglong, as well as Di Jianqing, Fu Huangfei and others, all paused in breathing.

When practicing in the world, even the most talented people will encounter bottlenecks. This is inevitable.

Even Guan Hongluan's sword-like eyebrows slightly raised: "You want to sell that realm-breaking pill?"

Why did she go to the martial arts world to fight for the Nine Yang True Pill? Wasn't it because she encountered a bottleneck?

The elixir of Breaking Realm Pill is a more precious medicine than Nine Yang True Pill. It is made by a master of alchemy. It can be said that with such a pill, one can achieve the effect of "breaking realm" when encountering bottlenecks in any realm.

Especially before the fifth realm, after taking it, there is almost a 70% to 80% success rate of breaking through the realm.

Such a pill?
Is Chen Ku crazy?

(End of this chapter)