Just as he was puzzled, a surprised voice suddenly came from his side: "Huh?"
It was Yang Kai's voice! How could Su Mu not recognize it, given his deep hatred for Yang Kai?
It was him. So this poison was from Yang Kai. Bastard! We just wanted to teach you a lesson, but you actually used such a cruel method! How ruthless!
He wanted to curse Yang Kai, but Su Mu's consciousness quickly became hazy.
Damn it, is this young master going to die so easily? Pitiful, my ambitions and grand plans have been cut short here. Heaven envies talent, heaven envies talent!
Yang Kai walked up to the group with a light step, squatted down, and removed their masks. He saw that they were all familiar faces.
After a moment's thought, Yang Kai understood what they were up to. They must have been suffering from his torment these days and came to sneak attack and take revenge at night.
But they were just too unlucky.
Yang Kai weighed the incense burner in his hand, his face a mix of laughter and tears.
This was truly an accident. Normally, Yang Kai would put the incense burner into the black book without words before going to bed every night. However, he had practiced for too long tonight, feeling tired, and fell asleep accidentally, forgetting to put it away. The herbs inside hadn't been completely consumed, and Su Mu and the others just happened to come and smell them.
The strange fragrance from the incense burner was extremely powerful. The first time Yang Kai smelled it, he only took three steps before falling to the ground. Even with his proud golden body, he was affected so much, let alone Su Mu and the others?
Without the support of a proud golden body, they would probably need several days to recover from this single exposure.
Although his negligence was partly to blame, the main reason was Su Mu and the others' carelessness. If they had held their breath the moment they smelled the strange fragrance, they probably wouldn't have ended up in such a miserable state.
"Alas, why go to such lengths?" Yang Kai sighed, putting the incense burner into the black book without words. He looked at the group on the ground, feeling somewhat troubled.
After a moment's thought, Yang Kai dragged them all out and threw them in a random place, then ignored them.
Returning to the wooden house, Yang Kai continued to rest.
This incident made Yang Kai more alert. He needed to break through to the Body Tempering Realm as soon as possible. The incense burner could only be used outside for now, but if he broke through to the Origin Opening Realm, it wouldn't be so troublesome. At that time, the incense burner would still work even if it was placed inside the black book without words, as long as his internal essence energy could connect to it.
In the following days, Yang Kai practiced diligently. The two herbs were used sparingly, but they were still gradually running out.
On the morning of the third day, after Yang Kai finished practicing the Body Tempering Chapter, he inhaled a breath of purple qi from the east, and the qi sensation in his body's meridians suddenly became very active, as if they had turned into little insects, moving and pulsating in the meridians.
Yang Kai's expression was solemn as he quickly focused his mind.
The pulsation of the qi sensation caused the flesh to move, making his whole body feel numb and itchy, a sensation of comfort that lasted for an unknown duration. Suddenly, Yang Kai felt his body become light, and a warmth in his abdomen. At the same time, the pulsation of the qi sensation disappeared without a trace.
With a thought, the warmth in his abdomen seemed to come alive, leaping with joy.
Essence energy! Finally, he had taken this step. At the seventh layer of the Body Tempering Realm, essence energy was generated in the body, which was the most obvious sign.
The first thread of essence energy in one's life always originates in the dantian. At this point, the essence energy is very insignificant and cannot support a martial artist in battle, as it would disappear once used. The body's meridians are not yet open, and it takes a lot of effort to condense it again.
However, because essence energy is generated in the body, martial artists can begin to practice martial techniques at this stage.
This is not the same as the basic techniques like long punches and whip kicks in the Lingxiao Pavilion. Martial techniques are moves that can harness essence energy, which is the foundation of a martial artist's combat.
The same punch, when used by a martial artist at the sixth layer of the Body Tempering Realm and the seventh layer, produces completely different effects. If a martial artist at the sixth layer of the Body Tempering Realm can deliver a full-strength punch with a force of 200 pounds, then a martial artist at the seventh layer using essence energy can deliver a punch with a force of 500 pounds or even 1000 pounds.
Of course, at the Body Tempering Realm, martial artists generally do not easily use martial techniques, as essence energy is difficult to recover. Only when they reach the Origin Opening Realm can they use essence energy in combat at will, and even if it is exhausted, they can quickly recover it through cultivation.
The root of everything lies in the ability to recover quickly.
Therefore, starting from the seventh layer of the Body Tempering Realm, martial artists need to use this thread of essence energy as a foundation to cultivate and expand it.
The most common method is to practice martial techniques!
Each martial technique requires the movement of essence energy through several, or even a dozen or more meridians, in a specific order and path to form different martial techniques.
Cultivating martial techniques to expand essence energy, opening the body's meridians to reach the Origin Opening Realm, is something every martial artist does.
Yang Kai was no exception.
After realizing he had reached the seventh layer of the Body Tempering Realm, Yang Kai quickly calmed his excited heart and hurried back to the room to summon the black book without words.
He flipped directly to the fourth page and focused his mind.
Over the past few days, every time he broke through, he would try to break the seal on the fourth page, but he had never succeeded. Yang Kai estimated that only at the seventh layer of the Body Tempering Realm, the dividing line of the Body Tempering Realm, would the fourth page change.
His guess was correct!
In less than a moment, the fourth page emitted a brilliant golden light, just like the previous times. These golden lights detached from the book and directly entered Yang Kai's head.
Suddenly, some information appeared in his mind: the True Yang Technique! This was what the black book gave him after this breakthrough. As he read it carefully, Yang Kai's expression became strange.
The True Yang Technique was somewhat different from ordinary martial techniques. Ordinary martial techniques have fixed patterns of movement, and even if they can change, they still follow a fundamental principle. If they deviate from this principle, they are no longer the same martial technique.
However, the True Yang Technique did not have fixed patterns of movement. It was infinitely variable and could be used at will. Or rather, it had no specific techniques.
This was the first difference.
The True Yang Technique was also simple to cultivate, but it had specific requirements.
It could only be cultivated in an environment with yang energy.
However, when the true yang essence energy cultivated through this technique reached a certain level in the body, it would condense into a liquid and accumulate in the dantian.
This was something that no other martial technique or technique could achieve, as every martial artist's body has a saturation point. Once they reach the peak of cultivation, they cannot increase their essence energy in the body unless they break through their limits.