Chapter 5: Timely Assistance in Times of Trouble

  The young Taoist furrowed his brow, thought for a moment, and said: "Alright, even if you're a self-taught disciple, you can still be considered a fellow practitioner of the same school. Meeting in the mountains is fate, and since you've called me 'Master Uncle', I'll help you out."

  As he finished speaking, he shook his hand and three objects flew out, suspended in mid-air before landing on a stone slab in front of Su Che.

  "With your own strength, walk out of this Blood Mountain Range. Even if you pass my test, take the token I gave you and return to the mountain gate. I will recommend you to enter the outer gate and become a formal disciple of my sect."

  As a more core inner disciple of the sect, he indeed has the right to recommend outer disciples.

  "Thank you, Uncle Master..."

  Su Che bowed deeply, suppressing his pain and making a somewhat laborious bow to the ground.

  Before he could say another word of thanks, the young Taoist had already risen into the air and departed on his sword.

  He appears as swift as lightning and disappears like a rainbow; such is his character, such is his demeanor. Watching him, Su Che couldn't help but feel stunned.

  This is what a true immortal cultivator looks like...

  "He's also considered a kind-hearted person in the immortal cultivation world."

  Taking a deep breath, Su Che lowered his head and looked at the three objects on the stone, which were a short sword, a small porcelain bottle, and a jade token.

  A short sword over a foot long, just solved Su Che's urgent need. In the wild mountains and ridges, he was worried about not having a defensive weapon. This short sword looks like it's not of poor quality, the tool that the cultivator took out, even if it's not a powerful magical artifact, should be a mundane divine soldier that can cut through iron like mud.

  Su Che picked up the short sword and tried it out a few times, and indeed it was quite sharp, cutting through stone blocks with ease, and would be more than enough to deal with ordinary wild beasts.

  To be honest, with my current abilities, even if I had a powerful artifact in hand, once I encountered a truly formidable demon beast, it would still be a futile effort, and having the artifact or not wouldn't make much of a difference.

  He picked up the small porcelain bottle again, opened the lid and smelled it. The faint medicinal fragrance was refreshing and should be a high-quality wound-healing medicine. A cultivator's pill would certainly have an excellent effect in treating his physical injuries.

  "Timely help in trouble..."

  Su Che picked up the last jade token again.

  A crystal clear white jade plaque, with "Xuan Ji" engraved on the front and "Yu Qing" engraved on the back.

  Su Che understood that this jade token was the token left by Yu Qing Shibo, and he was an inner disciple of Xuanji Peak in Tianxuan Sect. With this jade token, he could enter the mountain gate and find him personally.

  Normally, without special reasons, a self-cultivating disciple like myself doesn't have the qualifications to enter the inner sanctum of the mountain gate and can only spend his days in the outer peripheral areas at the foot of the mountain.

  Su Che slightly pondered, put the medicine bottle and jade token into his bosom, grasped the dagger, leaned on the crutch, and continued to walk towards the depths of the mountain valley.

  I don't know if there is still a little bit of leftover food in the valley, my physical condition, relying solely on medicine is not enough, it's far from the realm of Bigu, and I still need to nourish myself with food.

  The valley was in a state of complete devastation, with rubble scattered all over the ground and deep pits densely distributed. The patch of wild grass had long since disappeared, almost flattened. From this, it can be seen how fierce that battle just now was...

  As expected!

  Jade Clear Daoist only collected the most important materials from the giant bear, such as the strongest defensive fur on its back, the beast's inner elixir, bear paws, bear teeth, bear eyes, and bear gallbladder.

  Apart from these, the corpses of the small hills were piled up on the spot. As for Su Che, it was like a treasure mountain in front of him.

  Let's not mention anything else, just talking about these thousands of kilograms of bear meat, for the cultivators who have not yet achieved enlightenment, it is a rare and precious tonic that can invigorate the blood, strengthen the muscles and bones, and benefit their cultivation... You should know that this is genuine demonic beast flesh and blood, normally, even if there were a large number of Foundation Establishment stage warriors, they would still be unable to slaughter such a powerful demonic beast.

  Hurry up and eat, Su Che was no longer in a hurry to leave this place. Make the most of your time, eat as much as you can, after a long time, even the meat of a demon beast will rot.

  Wielding a knife to cut the meat, the sharp short sword was just put to use, Su Che also didn't have any extra physical strength to drill wood for fire, grabbed a large piece of bear meat and started tearing and chewing it raw.

  It doesn't matter, the demon beast is also a high-level cultivator, with a strong physique, no internal injuries or diseases, and its demonic powers are always circulating, so it's impossible for parasites to survive inside its body. Therefore, eating its raw meat will only taste bad, there's no need to worry about getting food poisoning.

  Unfortunately, Su Che was still in the severely injured and unfed stage for several days. His digestive system was on strike, so suddenly gorging himself was suicidal behavior. Therefore, after swallowing only a palm-sized piece of bear meat, Su Che wiped his mouth and forced himself to stop eating.

  "Don't be impatient, eat another piece after two hours, and by this time tomorrow, you can basically open your stomach..."

  Thinking of this, Su Che's eyebrows rose, and he had another idea.

  With a swing of his short sword, Su Che carefully dissected the remaining valuable parts from the giant bear's corpse, including a large piece of bear meat that would be enough for him to eat for five days.

  Finally, using the remaining bear skin, these demon beast materials were wrapped up and hidden in a cool and dry place in the valley.

  These materials are parts that Yu Qing Dao Ren looks down on, but they can still be sold for a good price at the Xiuzhen market, and are worth at least ten or more spirit stones.

  That's why he hid these materials ahead of time, because Su Che had learned from a young age that you can't put all your eggs in one basket, and making extra preparations wouldn't hurt.

  After that, Su Chi guarded the pile of bear meat, sat cross-legged on the ground and started to cultivate, using his internal force to quickly absorb the huge energy and nutrients contained in the bear meat.

  Of course, I haven't forgotten to take the healing medicine given by Yu Qing Dao Ren. At this moment, my current state is a combination of recovering from injuries and practicing internal energy at the same time.

  The warm current of Xiaotai, Dan medicine and bear meat, three tubes at the same time, the effect is really surprising.

  It only took a day for Su Che to confirm that his injuries had fully recovered, and his combat capabilities were completely restored. What's more, his cultivation strength had shown significant improvement. If this continued for several more days, it might even bring about an opportunity for a breakthrough, and he might even be able to generate true energy!

  Fortunately, it was already winter, and the daytime temperature wasn't high either. Within three to five days, the bear meat wouldn't spoil or go bad.

  Opportunities are rare, seize the time.

  Su Che's mind was focused, planning to make a concerted effort to establish the foundation of his Refining Body stage to the most perfect realm, and then try to condense his true energy...

  The Su family was originally a cultivator family, but it had declined in the past hundred years. However, they still had the most basic qigong methods.

  The Su Che of the past had tried many times to cultivate his family's qigong, but each time he was met with failure and couldn't condense even a single strand of true energy.

  The way of cultivation is like this, talent, diligence and opportunity, each factor is very important, none can be missing!

  This time, Su Che had a feeling that the opportunity for true energy to form had arrived.

  However, in life, things don't always go as planned, and many things can't be done to one's satisfaction.

  The next day after eating bear meat, an unexpected guest broke into the valley again.

  This time there were three people, two men and one woman, all wearing the Taoist robes of the Tianxuan Sect.

  Pure white Taoist robe, with the silk weaving pattern unique to Tianxuan Sect barely visible, and a silver thread embroidered at the cuff and collar, obviously an outer disciple of Tianxuan Sect. (One silver thread represents an outer disciple, two threads are inner disciples, three threads are true transmission disciples)

  These three people should be underpowered and unable to fly with swords, Su Che guessed that they should have followed the traces left by the giant bear when it escaped.

  That giant bear charged forward, wherever it went trees fell and rocks shattered, Su Che didn't have the ability to erase these traces.

  Su Che knew that the Blood Curtain Mountain Range belonged to the jurisdiction of the Tian Xuan Sect, and there were at least several dozen sect-related tasks related to the Blood Curtain Mountain Range, which was also a trial ground for disciples.

  So, it's no surprise to run into Tian Xuan Sect disciples here again and again.

  "Look quickly, it's the carcass of a sun bear!"

  As soon as the three of them entered the valley, that female disciple pointed this way and started shouting.

  Su Che only then knew that this demonic beast that was devouring its own flesh was called a Crimson-backed Fierce Bear.

  "Having gone through three masters."

  Before they approached, Su Che stood up in advance and greeted loudly. After recovering from his injuries, his voice also returned to normal.

  "Hmph, it's actually a self-taught disciple."

  The female disciple raised an eyebrow and turned up her mouth corner, her face showing disdain.

  Two male disciples, one with an ordinary face and the other quite handsome. As for their overall demeanor and temperament, they were far inferior to that Yu Qing Daoist.