Chapter 75: Xuan Ku’s Discovery.
Edited by: Mochiusagi
Back Mountain.
After Su Qin broke through, he took a sharp breath and absorbed the World’s Essence Qi all around him, as if he was a sponge absorbing water.
“I’m so hungry…”
Su Qin felt that every bone and muscle of his body was trembling, as they frantically devoured the World’s Essence Qi.
Unfortunately, the World’s Essence Qi cannot satisfy and supplement his Body. As a last resort, Su Qin could only take out a few Glazed Golden Cores and use that instead.
In half an hour.
Su Qin opened his eyes again.
“Who would’ve thought that after reaching the 2nd Heavenly Layer, I would need a lot of World’s Essence Qi for my Body…” Su Qin whispered to himself.
If he hadn’t prepared Glazed Golden Cores beforehand, with the thin amount of World’s Essence Qi, his Body would be deficient and that could’ve caused some damage to his Body.
“But finally, everything is over.”
“I have now truly entered the 2nd Heavenly Layer…” Su Qin looked at his hands, and grasped the feeling of his newfound power.
“In terms of True Essence, it has skyrocketed by at least two to three times. As for the Body, although it is not as exaggerated as True Essence, it has nonetheless improved. Finally, my Divine Sense has nearly doubled and its area has expanded a lot…” Su Qin evaluated himself.
“The me now is at least five times stronger than the me before the breakthrough!” Su Qin was very satisfied with the result.
An Arhat is already a taboo among taboos, enough to suppress all Demons and monsters. But now Su Qin is equivalent to five Arhats?
What is this?
As long as Su Qin is willing, he can sweep across the world, and whether it be the Tang Empire or Meng Yuan Empire, they would have to stand aside.
“Let’s first stabilize my Realm.” Su Qin thought.
The so-called stabilizing his Realm, naturally, is not about losing his Realm and going back. Currently, Su Qin has completely entered the 2nd Heavenly Layer. Unless he got into a Cultivation Deviation and his True Essence was in disorder, it is absolutely impossible to fallback.
Buddhist Cultivation Techniques are known for its deep roots, even more for its highest Buddhist Scriptures like [Past Amitabha Sutra].
Su Qin wants to stabilize his Realm because he wants to be familiar with his power suddenly skyrocketing.
In the next few months, Su Qin began to look through some Buddhist Classics and the like in addition to Cultivating.
Although he had already read these Buddhist Classics in his more than two decades of staying at the Temple, currently Su Qin is an Arhat and his perception is obviously different and much stronger.
During this period of time, Su Qin did not forget to Sign In. The medicinal pills and Divine Arts he obtained were all thrown into the System Storage, to be used later.
Since the time in the System Storage is different, there will be no problem of medicinal pills spoiling.
While reading the Buddhist Classics, Su Qin will occasionally give pointers to Xuan Ku.
After entering Grade 7, this little novice was preparing to rush into the Middle Realm in a short time.
But Su Qin stopped him.
A Buddha’s Heart Owner indeed has the unimaginable convenience in Cultivation, but why does every Buddha’s Heart Owner in the past have not been able to achieve Arhat Buddhahood while those who were initially mediocre people did so?
Su Qin guessed some of the reasons for this.
And hence why he wants Xuan Ku to advance steadily, slowly consolidating each Realm, before trying to break through.
On this day, Su Qin was thinking about how many Glazed Golden Cores should take when he suddenly noticed someone outside the Back Mountain.
It was Xuan Ku. He was standing there cautiously, not knowing if he should come in or not.
“Come in.”
At that time, a calm voice suddenly rang Xuan Ku’s ears.
“Yes.”
“Venerable.”
Xuan Ku slightly relaxed.
Soon, Xuan Ku came to Su Qin.
Several years have passed and Xuan Ku has not gotten rid of his immature look. Adding to the fact that he is a Grade 7 Martial Artist, he is basically similar to normal grown men.
“Venerable.” Xuan Ku respectfully moved towards Su Qin and bowed.
Because Su Qin never specifically stated that Xuan Ku is his disciple, Xuan Ku can only call Su Qin as Venerable like Abbot Hui Wen.
“Are you going to break through?” Su Qin glanced at Xuan Ku and asked.
In fact, Su Qin already noticed this even before Xuan Ku came in.
“Yes.”
“Venerable, I can’t help it anymore.” Xuan Ku whispered.
“Since you can’t suppress it any longer, then let’s break through.” Su Qin said casually: “Just break through here.”
Su Qin asked Xuan Ku to postpone his breakthrough and solidify his Realm, but now Xuan Ku has almost reached his limit and cannot suppress it any longer. If he doesn’t break through, it will instead turn harmful to himself.
“Yes.” Xuan Ku then immediately sat cross-legged.
Compared with the natural phenomenon caused by Su Qin’s breakthrough, Xuan Ku’s breakthrough is almost silent.
This is normal. Those under the Upper Realm mainly Cultivate the Body and the Internal Strength, it does not involve World’s Essence Qi.
Since it has nothing to do with World’s Essence Qi, naturally there will not be any natural phenomenon.
In less than half an hour, Xuan Ku moved from Grade 7 to Grade 6.
Although Grade 6 and Grade 7 is only one level apart, the difference between the two is big, as it is what separates the Lower Realm and Middle Realm.
In this bottleneck, many Martial Artists have been trapped and couldn’t break past through it.
“Many thanks Venerable.” Xuan Ku got up and said respectfully.
“Since you have broken through, you can now go down.” Su Qin looked at Xuan Ku and said.
“Venerable…”
However, Xuan Ku was hesitating whether to speak of something or not.
“What’s the matter?” Su Qin raised his brow and asked directly.
Based on Su Qin’s understanding of Xuan Ku over the past few years, if the other party has no major event, he would not act like this.
“Venerable, I found a stone gate under a hill near the Dharma Court.”
“The stone gate is carved with Buddhist patterns and looks very mysterious.”
Xuan Ku paused for a while, and then continued: “This stone gate is very heavy, and I can’t push it open at all.”
“Stone gate…”
Su Qin repeated in a low voice, and his Divine Sense quickly unfolded. It was like a hurricane that made Xuan Ku rock back and forth.
However, Su Qin was surprised that he could not find the stone gate that Xuan Ku said.
“Venerable.”
“I feel that something in the stone gate is attracting me…” Xuan Ku’s face was full of confusion.
There is something in the stone gate that attracts Xuan Ku, but Xuan Ku cannot push the stone gate open, which makes him extremely conflicted.
Su Qin was silent.
If Xuan Ku wasn’t lying about there being a stone gate, it means that the stone gate has somehow blinded his Divine Sense’s perception.