Super Invincible Immortal Doctor
Chapter 1077: Armor Upgrade

Chapter 1077: Chapter 1077: Armor Upgrade

"Mr. Su, it is our negligence that has allowed your identity to be exposed. You may punish us as you see fit."

After Chiyomiko left, Hua Qian knelt before Su Chengyu to apologize for exposing his identity.

Su Chengyu didn’t seem to mind, merely waving his hand dismissively, "It’s not your fault. Upon my arrival at Liuli Island, I already anticipated that my identity might be detected."

Before leaving, Ye Qingci had reminded Su Chengyu that news about him had already been spread by someone with intent.

However, most people only knew about his vendetta with the Long family and the fact that he possessed an Immortal Artifact. The rest of the details were not widely known.

Clearly, it was a deliberate leak, designed to create more trouble for Su Chengyu, and the mastermind behind it was obvious without saying.

The Long family would not dare to disobey orders openly and expose internal warrants and such matters to the public, but these issues belonged to the grudges of the martial world; even if it was later discovered that the Long family had added fuel to the fire in secret, no one would dare to say much.

After all, that was the Long family.

Walking the line of acceptability was just routine for them.

"Mr. Su, do you truly hail from the Demon Slayer Department?"

Hua Qian asked cautiously and with utmost care. As a member of the Demon Clan, how could she not have heard of the Demon Slayer Department?

"You could say there are some ties," Su Chengyu replied, not wanting to delve into the topic but understanding Hua Qian’s concerns, he still offered her reassurance.

"But rest assured, I don’t have much prejudice against the Demon Clan."

Su Chengyu had never approved of the current practices of the Demon Slayer Department, and after learning about his grandfather’s relationship with the Green Hillock Empress of the Fox Clan, he was even more certain that the department’s original purpose had vastly diverged from the present.

To protect the country and the people, and to slay demons and vanquish evils in order to stabilize the realm was true, but it certainly wasn’t to establish a Xia Country that would completely squeeze out the living space of the Demon Clan.

He even suspected that his grandfather’s ultimate fate was largely connected to the changes that the Demon Slayer Department had undergone.

After all, Su Chengyu himself had demon blood flowing through him, being of half-demon lineage.

But at the moment, he did not plan to dwell on it, as the truth was now within close reach.

"The Liuli Royal Family should not bother us again for the next couple of days. I will enter seclusion for a day. Unless it’s an emergency, do not disturb me."

"Understood."

After Hua Qian agreed, Su Chengyu returned to his room to begin his true seclusion.

To Su Chengyu, ascending to the Nascent Soul Realm was not simply about improving his strength, but it was more importantly about climbing the peaks of the Thousand-Mile Mountain and River Map.

After emerging from the Kunwu Realm, Su Chengyu had tried to climb to the summit to see his grandfather and to uncover the truth.

However, on that path, all of Su Chengyu’s methods and Magical Treasures proved useless. Even with a body capable of the Nascent Soul Realm, he was still unable to sustain himself to the summit.

At that time, Su Chengyu had realized there were no shortcuts on this path. The only way to truly reach the summit was to truly enter the Nascent Soul Realm.

After setting out to sea, Su Chengyu had never forgotten about enhancing his strength.

Having gone through the events at the Hua family and infiltrating the Golden Palace of Liuli, Su Chengyu finally felt his eighth layer’s bottleneck loosening. He immediately decided to push towards the ninth layer of the Golden Core Realm.

Sitting cross-legged and after circulating his cultivation technique, nature’s spiritual energy whistled as it was drawn into Su Chengyu’s body.

Although it wasn’t as exaggerated as the anomaly caused by Yu Yanshu initially, it still gave Hua Qian, who was outside, quite a scare.

She quickly concealed all traces of her presence to avoid attracting the attention of others.

Despite her greatly reduced realm, Hua Qian’s innate divine ability was still a top-notch existence within the Dragon Carp clan, and not even Chiyomiko, who was in the same embassy, could detect the slightest abnormality here.

And for Su Chengyu, whose bottleneck had already been completely shattered during his trip to Liuli Golden Palace, there was no obstruction in the process of enhancing his strength.

Nature’s spiritual energy flowed smoothly under Su Chengyu’s guidance, converging into his Dantian. After cycling through his body in a full Great Heavenly Circuit, it ultimately established a previously non-existent passageway between the Dantian and the Domain of Consciousness, and then settled into tranquility.

To transform spiritual energy into divine energy, and with divine energy, exchange the body.

The Nascent Soul Realm is an extremely critical step for any cultivator, linking the Dantian with the Domain of Consciousness.

Then, with powerful Mana, they condense the Primordial Spirit within the Domain of Consciousness.

Only by truly achieving this step can cultivators be said to have freed themselves from the shackles of ordinary humanity, accomplishing the genuine state where the Primordial Spirit does not scatter, and the cultivator does not die.

Even if a cultivator’s physical body is completely destroyed, as long as a sliver of the Primordial Spirit remains, there is hope for re-cultivation and reformation, for every strand of the Primordial Spirit contains a complete wisp of the cultivator’s God’s Soul.

As long as the God’s Soul is intact, regardless of whether it’s the physical body or the cultivation level, all can be regained once again.

A significant reason why Su Chengyu was able to break through the ninth layer of the Nascent Soul so conveniently was his prior encounters with many matters related to the God’s Soul.

Whether it was being injured in the God’s Soul by Feng Xin Shu or later, Yu Yanshu’s God’s Soul being severely damaged by the Yin-Yang Tribulation, all these experiences gave Su Chengyu a deeper understanding of the God’s Soul than an ordinary Jindan cultivator.

He could feel very clearly the God’s Soul within his body, now prepared, all coiled at the most central position of the Sea of Consciousness, waiting for the moment to gather the soul and form the Nascent Soul.

Soon.

Su Chengyu took a deep breath, suppressing the eager desire in his heart to ascend in realm.

He understood the gravity of this matter and that it shouldn’t be done hastily. Moreover, he indeed still had time and did not need to rush this moment.

The final deadline Su Chengyu set for himself was the last month before going to the Capital City; as long as he could learn about the past from his grandfather before heading to the Capital City, it would be sufficient.

Stabilizing his aura after the advancement in his realm took Su Chengyu only half a day.

After confirming there was no movement outside, Su Chengyu did not hurry to exit his meditative state.

Instead, he took out the other two Emperor’s seals he acquired from the Liuli Golden Palace. With the experience from last extraction, Su Chengyu smoothly extracted the remaining two True Dragon Reverse Scales from them.

The two seals, now lacking their former divine aspect, suddenly dimmed considerably.

The True Dragon Reverse Scales were not the core of the seals’ creation; even without the True Dragon Reverse Scales, they remained extremely useful Magic Artifacts, and when united as a set of six, they were among the very best Extreme Artifacts.

But to Su Chengyu, these items were somewhat superfluous; what he cared about was always the hidden True Dragon Reverse Scales.

The True Dragon Armor personally bestowed upon Su Chengyu by the Real Kunwu was, in fact, only a Superior Grade Divine Artifact.

When it came down to it, its value was somewhat inferior to the Emperor’s Six Treasures, focusing solely on defense.

But when Su Chengyu obtained the True Dragon Armor, he was very clear that its true value was not in the armor itself but in its characteristic to be upgraded!