Chapter 288: Chapter 122 Transcendental Giant Whale Skill! The Giant Whale of the Furious Sea! (10,000-word Mega Chapter Combined)_4

Feeling the abundant power filling his body, Su Changkong’s lips curled into a slight smile. The internal method of the Whale Five Skills, the Long Whale Inhales Water, was many levels stronger than before. With just his fists alone, Su Changkong could suppress masters of Feng Mo’s caliber.

Giant Whale Technique. Giant Whale Exhales!

“Boom!”

At last, Su Changkong opened his mouth to release a mixture of furious True Qi and air currents. Like a giant beast charging forward, vegetation exploded and the ground sunk in its path, stones tumbled, it was almost as if bombarded by artillery.

When it flew several dozen feet out, it suddenly burst, the violent gusts swirling and rampaging like blades, sending grass flying. A deep trench more than one meter wide and ten meters long had been plowed into the ground, an unfathomable demonstration of power that could erupt from a flesh and blood body!

“Refreshing!”

After a hearty venting of emotion, Su Changkong’s mood finally settled, and a smile spread across his face.

Over half a year of hard work, dedicating so much time and energy, the rewards were certainly worth it. Three Monster Martial Pills had propelled the Giant Whale Technique through two realms. His strength had leaped quantitatively.

In Dafeng State City, not to say that Su Changkong was the strongest, but aside from those on Hong Zhenxiang’s level, other martial artists found it very difficult to compare with Su Changkong!

Even against Mu Jin, a youngster from a family with special bloodlines, Su Changkong was confident he could compete!

“I’m starving… let’s go back and have a feast!”

After testing his improvement and progress, Su Changkong didn’t linger. He left the mountain, which looked as if ravaged by a wild beast, and headed back to Dafeng State City.

Once back in Dafeng State City, Su Changkong consumed a large amount of meat to satiate his hunger.

“After reaching the 8th level of the Whale Technique, my speed in metabolizing Pill Medicine has greatly increased. I can probably refine about ten or so Qi-Blood Pills in a day…”

Su Changkong was testing how fast he could now refine Pill Medicine.

Being able to metabolize more than ten Qi-Blood Pills a day was undoubtedly a terrifying speed!

However, Su Changkong frowned, “Qi-Blood Pills are too ineffective for someone at the Qi-Blood Long Dragon level like me. Though I can compensate quality with quantity, it’s time-consuming and labor-intensive. To break through to a new level of Qi and Blood, who knows how much time it will require. It would be best if I could refine Qi-Blood type Pill Medicine suitable for my current realm.”

Su Changkong’s Alchemy had reached the seventh tier. He could achieve an average success rate of four pills per batch of Qi-Blood Pills, a rate that made others green with envy. In all Dafeng State City, among all the Alchemists, including those from the big families, there were at most two or three Alchemy Masters who could achieve such high success rates.

In theory, Su Changkong could refine 10 batches and produce 40 Qi-Blood Pills a day. However, in reality, Su Changkong couldn’t spend 24 hours a day on Alchemy as before. He needed to practice martial arts, so refining 4 or 5 batches of Qi-Blood Pills was his limit, which equated to 20 pills a day.

He would consume half and sell the rest, maintaining a balance between income and expenditure to support his rapid cultivation.

But since Qi-Blood Pills were not very effective for him, consuming them in large numbers equaled waste. Su Changkong wanted to use higher-tier Pill Medicines of the Qi-Blood realm to achieve the perfect pace of progress!

But that required Pill Recipes. Such high-tier Pill Medicine recipes were undoubtedly precious.

Su Changkong had previously tried to purchase such a recipe from Spirit Medicine Pavilion but was bluntly refused by Shopkeeper Lin, who didn’t even ask how much Su Changkong was willing to pay. He was also informed that for major families and powerful factions, such high-tier recipes were closely guarded secrets, like high-tier cultivation technique manuals, not available for public sale.

Firstly, if the recipe fell into more hands, it would inevitably lead to a sharp increase in the cost of medicinal ingredients, which is akin to shooting themselves in the foot.

Secondly, these big families had an agreement to monopolize such high-tier Pill Medicines. Unless one joined a major sect or paid a hefty price, it was impossible to obtain high-tier Pill Medicine through other means!

“Go buy in the Ghost Market!”

But Su Changkong didn’t get too discouraged. If he couldn’t buy the recipe on the market, then he would buy it from the black market.

Even the Monster Martial Pill recipe he had gotten was from the Ghost Market; surely, others possessed such high-tier Qi-Blood type Pill Medicine recipes. As long as he was willing to spend time, he was bound to acquire them sooner or later—no need to rush!

When the middle of the month arrived, the day the Ghost Market opened, Su Changkong, carrying the Qi-Blood Pills he had refined, set out for the Ghost Market to sell them.

“The Bull Demon King is here!”

Adorned with his signature bull head mask and with a burly stature, Su Changkong entered the Ghost Market, immediately drawing attention from many.

Nowadays, the ‘Bull Demon King’ was quite the celebrity in the Ghost Market, capable of selling Qi-Blood Pills at lower-than-market prices, benefiting many.

Moreover, this Bull Demon King was shrouded in mystery. Some speculated he must be a Martial Artist from a powerful faction, but if that were the case, there was no need for him to personally come to the Ghost Market every time to sell his Pill Medicine.

“The Bull Demon King is here, let’s buy his Pill Medicine.”

And in the Ghost Market, as soon as Su Changkong appeared, various agents from the big families in Feng State City flocked towards him, all eager to buy Su Changkong’s Qi-Blood Pills.

Su Changkong’s approach was simple: sell the Qi-Blood Pills at a substantial discount. The big families would just buy them up and resell them in their stores at the regular price. Not only could they turn a small profit, but they also wouldn’t disrupt the market pricing, achieving a win-win situation.