Enlightenment: Beginning as a Disposable Warrior

"Third Brother, you should rest in Tang Garden for a few days. We’ll need your help with the alchemy. Once we deal with Gongyang Jue, we’ll definitely give you justice later."

"Alright."

Su Mu agreed. With the gifts he received, he now had ample cultivation resources, needing time to digest and enhance his strength.

Soon, Baili Feng and Baili Hongtang left, leaving the cold moonlight and Su Mu alone in the side hall.

The fifteenth moon is fullest on the sixteenth, and tonight a full moon hung in the sky. Su Mu looked up at the full moon and suddenly thought, perhaps the Little Doctor was also gazing at the bright moon in the sky at this moment.

The bright moon hangs over the sky, shared across the ends of the earth.

Su Mu quickly took a deep breath, realizing it was not the time to be thinking about these things. For what he intended to do, his current strength was far from enough. Just one Great Cultivator from the Huo Family could easily crush him.

Snowflakes fluttered down, and the side hall became silent again, eerily so.

"I’m not far from the final Blood Exchange... these three bottles of Blood Tempering Pill should suffice. Once the final Blood Exchange is complete, I can start advancing to Fifth Grade."

"The Flood Dragon Shocking Skill is extremely powerful; this cultivation technique cannot be neglected."

Su Mu whispered to himself, having already made a clear plan.

"Let’s test the effects of the Blood Tempering Pill."

Su Mu uncorked the Cyan Jade small bottle, and a dense blood-red mist-like pill fragrance wafted in, causing turmoil in his Qi Blood.

He poured out one pill; it was completely crimson red with clear three Pill Patterns and half a Pill Pattern. It was clearly a Half-Step Sixth Grade elixir.

Su Mu had read about the Blood Tempering Pill in the "Ten Elixir Herbs Manual." This elixir is typically used at the pivotal moment of a Blood Exchange to overcome bottlenecks. When taken at regular times, its potency is too strong, risking harm to the body even for Martial Artists with powerful physiques, unlike typical elixirs.

However, Baili Hongtang trusted her Third Brother, Su Mu. His body was forged by Cross-Training Martial Arts and Jiao Tendon Jade Bone, making him far stronger than ordinary Martial Artists. Now fortified by the Flood Dragon Shocking Skill, he was naturally eligible to consume it!

"Gulp!"

Raising his head, though Su Mu had long been accustomed to taking medicine, he couldn’t help but twitch his brows a bit each time he tried a new elixir, never having liked medicine since childhood.

The Blood Tempering Pill entered his stomach, and as the effects unfolded, Su Mu felt a vast medicinal power chaotic within, like a fierce Demon Beast, causing his fair skin to warm and redden slightly.

"Truly an Ancient Pill... Its power is indeed formidable, ten times stronger than regular Qi and Blood Pills, three times stronger than Three-Turn Qi and Blood Pills..."

"But the stronger the power, the better!"

Su Mu consumed the pill, the more, the better!

Su Mu was delighted, his body an endless energy black hole, continually refining the pill’s power. Finding it too slow, he began to activate Gang Force for acceleration.

He then trained in the courtyard, practicing Flood Dragon Shocking Skill, Three-Turn Dragon Elephant Skill, and Hundred Battle Fists, accelerating the pill’s refinement.

The already vast medicinal power catalyzed, pouring forth endlessly. Su Mu’s Qi Blood grew stronger each moment, layers of Qi Blood veils surfaced, hot and mighty.

It took Su Mu a full five days to completely refine a single Blood Tempering Ancient Pill.

"About three more should suffice to start the fourth Blood Exchange!"

With a flicker of thought, Su Mu’s Qi Blood River, five-hundred and nine feet wide, quietly surged three feet to a staggering six-hundred and two feet in mere five days, equaling months of hard cultivation.

After a simple examination, Su Mu consumed the second pill, and five days later, while adapting, he retrieved the Ancient Scroll from Baili Feng’s gift meeting.

"Zhengzheng——!"

The Ancient Scroll unfurled, and the grim sound of war horses echoed, a domineering dragon-head Great Spear ringing out.

"Zheng!"

Su Mu’s eyes brightened, entering a semi-enlightenment state. Inference and Soul Incarnation activated simultaneously.

In a moment, the world spun and shifted, Tang Garden’s full moon vanished. Su Mu found himself atop a desolate mountain, puzzled.

The heavens raged with Silver Snakes dancing wildly, violet lightning pouring down, like three thousand waterfalls descending upon the world.

This scene shocked Su Mu to his core, numbing him, nearly making him throw the Ancient Scroll away.

"Rumble!"

Thunder furiously struck the ground, shattering rocks, causing the desolate mountain to collapse. Su Mu trembled awake but saw a piercing brilliance shooting up from the mountain before the scene shattered completely.

"Is this... a residual Spear Momentum?"

Su Mu’s eyes brightened, soon realizing the Ancient Scroll’s embedded power. It didn’t contain Martial Arts Secret Manual but harbored a domineering Spear Momentum.

From Second Sister Baili Hongtang, he learned that post the Upper Three Grades, Three Religions’ teachings and Martial Arts often got lost or were incomplete.

The core issue was Upper Three Grades’ teachings were too profound, hard to communicate through ordinary text and pass on directly, hence divine intent maps emerged.

Great Cultivators stored the true intent and comprehension within their Martial Arts and Martial Momentum in Ancient Scrolls to pass to future generations, using drawings for simplicity and clarity, called Divine Intent Maps.

The "White Flood Dragon Flipping River Map," containing Flood Dragon Shocking Skill, was a Divine Intent Map, and so was the one holding the residual Spear Momentum now.

Text can be easily copied and printed, but Divine Intent Maps, holding the true intent, are difficult to replicate. Outsiders can only copy the form, not the true meaning.