Although Terra Su had no prior experience in breaking through to the Condensing Origin Realm, the Primal Five Elements Lotus he had just consumed provided immense assistance.
The True Qi generated by the Primal Five Elements Lotus was so abundant that his Dantian couldn’t contain it all, causing the True Qi to almost automatically compress into True Essence.
Soon, the first wisp of milky-white True Essence appeared.
Then came the second, third, fourth…
Terra Su became increasingly adept at controlling these wisps of True Essence, skillfully intertwining them to form a cocoon-like True Essence Core.
If all went well, once this True Essence Core grew to the size of a walnut, he would officially break through to the first layer of the Condensing Origin Realm.
But soon, Terra Su realized that things weren’t that simple.
After the first True Essence Core appeared, a second, third, fourth, and even a fifth True Essence Core emerged in his Dantian!
A total of five True Essence Cores floated within Terra Su’s Dantian.
Terra Su had never seen such a scene before. His first reaction was to wonder if he had suddenly broken through to the fifth layer of the Condensing Origin Realm.
However, he quickly realized that this was impossible.
These five True Essence Cores were too small, far from the size of a normal True Essence Core. Rather than five separate True Essence Cores, it was more like one large True Essence Core divided into five parts.
Though these five small True Essence Cores were somewhat apart, it was clear they formed a whole. They seemed to be in a state of mutual balance, both repelling and attracting each other. Each of the five small True Essence Cores displayed a different color: gold, green, blue, red, and yellow.
These five colors matched exactly with the colors of the Primal Five Elements Lotus, representing the five attributes of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. Terra Su’s heart skipped a beat—could this be the true function of the Primal Five Elements Lotus?
In his previous life, he only knew that the Primal Five Elements Lotus had a transformative effect on Martial Practitioners but didn’t know the specifics.
Now it seemed that the Primal Five Elements Lotus altered a Martial Practitioner’s constitution, granting them the innate ability to wield all five attributes simultaneously!
It was well known that most Martial Practitioners had a constitution inclined towards one of the five elements. Therefore, when breaking through to the Condensing Origin Realm, many could only form a True Essence Core of a single attribute, such as a metal or wood True Essence Core. From then on, they would focus on developing that single attribute.
Only exceptionally rare geniuses could form dual-attribute True Essence Cores, known as dual True Essence Cores. However, such geniuses were exceedingly rare.
As for triple or even quadruple True Essence Cores, they were even rarer.
Yet the Primal Five Elements Lotus could enable a Condensing Origin Realm Martial Practitioner to form five True Essence Cores in their Dantian!
This meant that Martial Practitioners who consumed the Primal Five Elements Lotus would have comprehensive Martial Dao talents, possessing the innate ability to cultivate techniques of all five attributes.
Moreover, the benefits didn’t stop there.
The five True Essence Cores forming one large True Essence Core meant that every time Terra Su made a move, he would channel True Essence from all five cores, making his power five times stronger than that of an average person!
However, there were drawbacks.
The downside was that every time he cultivated, he would need to strengthen all five True Essence Cores simultaneously. Compared to others who only needed to strengthen one True Essence Core, this meant he would require five times the resources.
Furthermore, as Martial Dao cultivation progressed, the resources needed would increase exponentially. The resources required for five True Essence Cores in the later stages could be described as astronomical!
But Terra Su wasn’t worried.
“To possess five times the power of an average person, some price must be paid. Besides, if a little issue with cultivation resources could stump me, then I wouldn’t deserve the title of Alchemy Emperor.”
A confident gleam flashed in Terra Su’s eyes.
“In this lifetime, with my foresight and the vast knowledge of the Alchemy Emperor, and now the coveted five True Essence Cores, I will achieve my previous life’s dream and ascend to the pinnacle of Martial Dao.”
Taking a deep breath, Terra Su continued his cultivation. Having just broken through to the first layer of the Condensing Origin Realm, his realm was still unstable and needed further cultivation to solidify.
Three days later, Terra Su finally stabilized his first-layer Condensing Origin Realm.
He ceased his cultivation technique, carefully channeling the True Essence flowing through his meridians back into the True Essence Cores in his Dantian. His aura also retracted.
In this way, his True Essence was condensed and hidden, making him appear to others as merely an Inducing Qi Realm Martial Practitioner.
However, a closer look would reveal subtle differences. Terra Su’s eyes were brighter, his expression more confident, and his overall demeanor more composed, like a peerless sword still in its sheath, ready to unleash earth-shattering power once drawn.
Calculating the time, Terra Su realized he had been in the Rising Sun Mountains for half a month.
In this half-month, he had broken through from the peak of the eighth layer of the Inducing Qi Realm to the first layer of the Condensing Origin Realm, a monumental change in strength.
From today onwards, he was also a Condensing Origin Realm expert.
“It’s time to head back.”
Terra Su set off for home, using the True Essence in his Dantian to hasten his journey.
While it had taken an afternoon and an evening to get there, the return trip only took an afternoon.
Before dusk, Terra Su had already entered the gates of Clear River City.
Terra Su had initially thought he could head straight back to the Jiang Family, but things didn’t go as planned.
Shortly after entering the city gates, Terra Su was blocked by a group of people on the street.
“Terra Su, I’ve been waiting for you for half a month, and you finally returned!”
The leader of the group was Olivia Wang. From her words, one might think she had a close relationship with Terra Su.
However, Olivia’s eyes were blazing with anger, and her tone was filled with rage and a hint of resentment.
Terra Su stopped and asked, “Waiting for me?”
Olivia Wang replied with hatred, “You made my brother a lifelong cripple. Let’s settle this score right now!”
At this moment, Olivia Wang’s heart was filled with fury. After Terra Su had refused to treat her brother that day, she had no choice but to take him back to the Wang Family. Fortunately, the Wang Family had extensive connections, and despite no one in the Alchemy Guild being willing to treat him, they managed to find an Alchemist from another region to save Olivia’s brother’s life.
However, even so, the poison in his body couldn’t be completely expelled, and the best treatment time had passed, leaving him permanently crippled and bedridden.
Thinking back to that day when even a raggedly dressed commoner child was saved while her brother was left crippled, Olivia Wang’s hatred for Terra Su grew. She had sent people to the Jiang Family to find Terra Su, only to be told he had left the city with no known return date.
So Olivia Wang had people stake out the city gates day and night, and finally, today, they saw Terra Su return. Olivia immediately brought a group of Wang Family members to confront him.
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