Practice begins with immortality

In the pharmacy,

"It's Junior Brother Wang. Here, this is your tonic." The pharmacy manager said enthusiastically.

"Thank you, Manager Zhang."

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When he got home, Wang Bai picked up the medicine jar, drank the medicine, and then started practicing kung fu.

"This tonic is quite effective. At this rate, I will be able to break through to the external forging stage in ten days at most." Wang Bai said to himself.

He broke through from health preservation to external training in half a month. This speed of practice can only be achieved by the direct descendants of large families and sects who have taken secret medicines since childhood to lay the foundation. Wang Bai practiced for nearly six hours a day, and achieved such a speed by squeezing the foundation of his body. It was also thanks to the light ball that could repair Wang Bai's body. If an ordinary person did this, he would become a useless person even if he took more tonics.

Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, over a month had already passed. Inside the martial arts gym, everyone was busy practicing martial arts, while Wang Bo spent this time continuously improving his own strength. In fact, he had successfully broken through to the External Refining Realm a dozen days ago, an achievement that filled him with great satisfaction.

One day, Wang Bo found Huang Li and told him the good news: "Master Huang, I have broken through to the outer realm."

Upon hearing this, Huang Li's face flickered with surprise, then turned to admiration and envy. He couldn't help but sigh, "Brother Wang, you truly are gifted. You've achieved so much at such a young age! With your talent, Master will definitely accept you as his disciple when he returns. You'll definitely become a true inner martial artist. So, I'll accept you as Master's disciple, and from now on, we can call each other brothers."

Huang Li, already 24 years old, had only just reached perfection in external cultivation last year, and still had a long way to go before reaching internal cultivation. He knew Wang Bo had enormous potential, so he was full of expectations and wanted to befriend him. In response to Huang Li's praise, Wang Bo humbly replied, "Then I'll accept your kind words, Senior Brother Huang."

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Since that last time, Wang Bo has actively demonstrated his talents, and his relationship with Huang Li has grown increasingly close. Through his interactions with Huang Li, he has learned some important information. For example, the martial arts academy lacks internal cultivation techniques; only the imperial court, aristocratic families, and sects possess these precious cultivation resources.

For ordinary martial artists, if they want to obtain internal cultivation techniques, they need to join one of the factions or rely on chance to obtain them. Otherwise, they can only diligently practice their original techniques and try to break through from the external to the internal cultivation. The three masters of the Qingcheng martial arts halls achieved breakthroughs through years of hard training.

"But you don't have to worry, Junior Brother. At the beginning of the year, my eldest senior brother, who went to Fujun City, wrote to me saying he had become a disciple of a nobleman. That nobleman has an extraordinary background and accepts all who come to him. As long as you have the ability, he can teach you not only internal cultivation techniques, but also techniques of higher realms. So, please ask Master to join us. With Master and my eldest senior brother's abilities, you will be able to obtain the techniques in two to three years at most. For now, you should focus on your training. I will teach you martial arts after you have achieved some success in external cultivation."

Listening to Huang Li's words, Wang Bo thought in his heart: "My dear..."

The country where Wang Bai was located was called Xuan State. It had been established for ninety-eight years and had thirty-two counties. Each county had a dozen cities under its jurisdiction. Qingcheng was under the jurisdiction of Yunping County. The country was originally very powerful.

Unfortunately, four years ago, when the war broke out with the Liang Kingdom in the north, the previous Emperor Xuan followed the example of Emperor Taizu of Xuan and led a group of ministers to the army in person.

As a result, they were severely defeated by the Liang army at a place called Mutubao. Not only did they die, but they also destroyed most of the Xuan Kingdom's elite troops. Of the 50,000 elite soldiers, less than 30% returned alive.

If there had not been a rebellion in the rear of Liang State, and if Xuan State still had some assets, Xuan State would have been finished long ago.

Now the new emperor has ascended the throne, but he is young, and the empress dowager is ruling the country from behind the curtain, barely stabilizing the situation. The various places are even more suspicious, recruiting troops and horses, each eyeing the throne.

"Bribing off the gangsters with promises of benefits to make them work for him. This operation is either by a traitor or a royalist." Wang Bai complained in his heart.

"It seems I have to hurry up and improve my cultivation!" Wang Bai said with determination.

Before, he had thought that he could just let everything take its course and give it his all. After all, with the Light Ball by his side, he only needed to persevere and eventually become a peerless master. But after learning this, he now just wanted to go faster, the faster the better.

It's just that political struggle is ruthless. The losers even have the wrong names, and if they're not careful, they might be liquidated along with them one day.

After Wang Bai's breakthrough, he deliberately delayed telling Huang Li until now. After all, such a quick breakthrough was too unreasonable based on his own experience, and would only bring trouble to himself.

Half a month later, in a small courtyard in Qingcheng, Wang Bai's whole body turned red, like a steamed shrimp.

"Huh, I finally broke through to Minor Success."

Feeling his own strength, Wang Bai had an estimate of his own strength.

"The entry level of external forging has about 300 kilograms of strength, the minor level is about 600 kilograms, and Senior Brother Huang has about 1,400 kilograms of strength at the completion of external forging, so the major level should be close to 1,000 kilograms of strength."

Then, Wang Bo looked at the letter on the table. It said: "June 15th, night, Ximen Street, Wuyi Lane"