Chapter 190 - 118: Zhang Su’s Embracing Pill, Advancing to Pill Force

SWISH.

Zhang Su’s eyes shot open.

"Embracing Pill... I’ve finally done it!"

he murmured to himself.

The light in the Quiet Chamber was dim, with only a single oil lamp on the wall casting a faint glow.

Zhang Su stood up and stretched his slightly stiff muscles and bones.

CRACKLE CRACKLE.

His joints let out a series of crisp cracks.

Zhang Su walked to the window and pushed it open.

Outside, it was early morning. The sky was just beginning to lighten.

Distant mountain peaks, shrouded in a light mist, were barely visible.

Zhang Su took a deep breath, feeling refreshed and invigorated. His entire body was brimming with power.

He felt a wave of emotion.

Ever since returning from Hengshan County, he had been preparing for Embracing Pill.

His original plan was to achieve it in six months, so it seemed he had gone over by a bit.

About two hundred days.

Even so, this speed was already very fast.

It was far quicker than the two-year limit the Sect Leader had set for the Celestial Pride Trial.

Zhang Su didn’t need two years to go from Huajin to Embracing Pill.

Successfully reaching Embracing Pill in just two hundred days was an extremely rare feat in the entire history of the Guiyuan Sect.

Moreover, he hadn’t achieved an ordinary Embracing Pill.

He had reached the Embracing Pill Realm with his Pure Yang Nine Combinations Divine Skill at the sixth combination level.

This was a monumental achievement that no one in the Guiyuan Sect had managed in a hundred years.

Zhang Su reined in his thoughts and began to feel the Pure Yang Force within his body.

Compared to his previous Yin Yang Mixture Strength, the current amount of Pure Yang Force was minuscule.

It wasn’t even a tenth of his former Yin Yang Mixture Strength.

But Zhang Su could feel that the Pure Yang Force was condensed to the extreme.

Every wisp of Pure Yang Force held power that far surpassed his previous Yin Yang Mixture Strength.

This was a qualitative transformation.

The transition from Huajin to Pill Force was, in itself, a qualitative change.

As for its explosive power...

Zhang Su extended his palm, gathering a trace of Pure Yang Force.

’This is true Pill Force!’

He hesitated for a moment, his gaze falling to the floor.

The floor of the Quiet Chamber was paved with bluestone slabs, each one as thick as a palm and incredibly hard.

An ordinary Martial Artist might not be able to shatter them even with a sledgehammer.

Zhang Su wanted to test the might of his Pure Yang Force.

He crouched down and placed his palm on the floor.

There was no gathering of energy, no preparatory motion.

Just a simple press.

He pressed down on the floor.

BOOM.

With just that tiny burst of Pure Yang Force, the floor of the Quiet Chamber instantly spiderwebbed with dense cracks.

Even the entire Quiet Chamber trembled slightly.

The fissures spread out from under Zhang Su’s palm, reaching all the way to the base of the walls before stopping.

Fragments of bluestone flew out, revealing the dark earth beneath.

Zhang Su retracted his hand, a flicker of shock in his eyes as he stared at the large crater in the floor.

He had only used a minuscule amount of Pure Yang Force.

And it was just a casual press, without using any Martial Techniques.

Yet the destruction it caused was utterly terrifying.

’If that palm strike had landed on a person...’

Zhang Su didn’t dare to imagine it.

Even a fellow Embracing Pill Martial Artist might not be able to withstand that blow.

"This is... a hundredfold burst!"

Zhang Su was shaken to his core.

He was truly and utterly shocked.

For an ordinary Danjin Martial Artist, a burst of Pill Force is about ten times its base power.

A slightly stronger one might manage a dozen or twenty-fold burst.

As for a thirty-fold burst, that was rarely seen.

When he was in Hengshan County, Zhang Su had learned about the Martial Arts of the Five Elements Sect. If one could achieve Five Elements Unite, they could reach a fifty-fold burst.

This was why the Five Elements Sect’s Celestial Pride, Shi Buyi, possessed such tyrannical combat strength.

Zhang Su estimated that the Pure Yang Force from his Pure Yang Nine Combinations Divine Skill should, under normal circumstances, also grant a fifty-fold burst.

But now, when he unleashed his Pill Force, he had actually achieved a terrifying hundredfold burst.

There was only one reason.

The Supreme Foundation!

Previously, Zhang Su had undergone a Second Limit Breaking, forging a Supreme Foundation.

The effects of this so-called Supreme Foundation weren’t obvious in the Outer Force, Inner Force, or Huajin Realms.

But in reality, the Supreme Foundation had been subtly strengthening every aspect of Zhang Su’s body, accumulating power bit by bit, preparing for a massive eruption.

Now, at the Pill Force Realm, this foundation had transformed into terrifying combat power.

It added roughly another fifty-fold burst.

That was why Zhang Su could now unleash a hundredfold burst of power.

’How... utterly terrifying!’

A casual strike from him was equivalent to ten times the power of an ordinary Danjin Martial Artist.

How terrifying was that?

Zhang Su stood up, looking at his own hands.

They looked no different from before.

But only he knew the terrifying power they now contained.

He could even imagine that if he were to face Ouyang Yin now, he wouldn’t need to use the Extreme Sword Form at all.

He could kill him just by using the Wind and Thunder Sword Technique.

This was the might of Pure Yang Force.

This was the terror of a hundredfold burst.

"Only when the Golden Core is swallowed does one know that my fate is my own, not heaven’s to decide! So this... this is Pill Force..."

Zhang Su murmured to himself.

Having just achieved Embracing Pill and experienced the terrifying power of Pill Force, he now understood the meaning of that phrase.

Once one reached Embracing Pill, it was a qualitative metamorphosis.

This was also why so many people were shocked when he, a Huajin, had defied the odds to slay an Embracing Pill master.

’Thinking back on it now, it truly was a monumental feat!’

The gap between the Huajin and Pill Force Realms was like a massive chasm.

An ordinary Martial Artist could never hope to cross it.

Yet Zhang Su had been able to ignore that chasm and kill Ouyang Yin.

The significance of that accomplishment was enough to make any Martial Artist take notice.

With his current, terrifying Pill Force, if he were to use the Bursting Sword Form of the Infinite Sword Scripture...

how astonishing would the power unleashed in that instant be?

Or, if he were to use the Extreme Sword Form of the Infinite Sword Scripture, spurred on by his Divine Intent, what new heights would his Swordsmanship’s speed reach?