Longevity Begins with the Seven Injuries Fist-Chapter 219 - 145: Divine Transformation Sunflower Manual! Eighteen Bandits!

A massive bell, emitting a blood-golden glow and engraved with a fierce beast face, stood in the mountains.

The aura from the Exotic Golden Bell Shield erupted, forming a gust of wind that blew the surrounding dust and swayed the branches and leaves.

With the addition of Gang Qi, the Exotic Golden Bell Shield became even larger and heavier than before.

Now, the entire bell shield has a thickness of precisely one notch.

Coupled with its hardness, it was far superior to before.

Let alone those at the same realm as Su Que, even martial artists several lesser realms higher than Su Que might not be able to break Su Que's defense.

Su Que, with a thought in mind, retracted the Exotic Golden Bell Shield.

The massive Exotic Golden Bell Shield shrunk and vanished in an instant.

Then, he activated the Nine Yin Corpse Claw, and a cold, white aura rose around him.

Using his entire strength, he mustered his Gang Qi, bent his right fingers into a claw, and swung it toward the mountain wall from afar!

Swipe!

Rocks flew from the mountain wall, and five claw marks, as thick as a palm and seven feet long, appeared instantly on the mountain wall, deep and menacing.

...

In the past three months, while Su Que was practicing, Li Xuanji left Jiannan Prefecture City, leaving behind a portion of the Heaven-Breaking Army to guard Jiannan Prefecture, leading another part of the Heaven-Breaking Army to advance to Nanming Prefecture.

Li Xuanji absorbed the people of the Thunderbolt Army, White Lotus Sect, Zaiyang Sect, and others. In addition, the Heaven-Breaking Army constantly recruited in Jiannan Prefecture, attracting many who came to join, making the Heaven-Breaking Army unprecedentedly large.

The defensive power of Nanming Prefecture was already weaker than Jiannan Prefecture.

The strength of their martial artists was also not as strong as Jiannan Prefecture's.

Moreover, recently, Li Xuanji had opened the fourteenth meridian, being only one meridian short of the former Li Tunshan.

Even if strong martial artists from Nanming Prefecture emerged to resist, they were either recruited by Li Xuanji or killed by him and his subordinates.

Thus, Li Xuanji's march in Nanming Prefecture was extremely fast, advancing with unstoppable momentum.

Within just over two months, he had occupied Nanming Prefecture.

Due to his prior experience managing Jiannan Prefecture, and as Nanming Prefecture followed Jiannan's policies, only slight adjustments were required according to local conditions.

Therefore, Li Xuanji left a group of troops and officials and appointed a few trustworthy and capable civil and military generals to manage Nanming Prefecture.

He then took the remaining soldiers and troops back to Jiannan Prefecture City for rest, planning the attack on Celestial River Prefecture.

If Celestial River Prefecture were conquered, it would be equivalent to occupying the entire Southern Domain.

This would complete the first step of his and Fan Gushan's plan for the restoration of their country.

However, to capture Celestial River Prefecture, they would have to directly confront the Red Dragon Army guarding it.

The commander of the Red Dragon Army, Ma Kuanglong, was a martial general who had opened seventeen meridians.

And Li Xuanji, being a martial artist with only fourteen meridians opened, would not be able to defeat Ma Kuanglong unless he used the Rakshasa Kui Divine Skill.

However, the Rakshasa Kui Divine Skill was a martial art that damaged one's life while increasing power.

Every time it was used, the tyrannical inner strength within the body would accumulate.

If the body couldn't withstand the tyrannical inner strength, life would be lost.

Currently, Li Xuanji had used the Rakshasa Kui Divine Skill twice, and both times for a short duration.

Yet he felt the tyrannical inner strength continuously accumulating within his body every day.

This was also why he reached the fourteenth meridian in the Meridian Opening Realm in such a short time.

Although his power increased rapidly, he didn't want to die young.

He even hoped to live into his seventies or eighties, and after restoring his country, to personally govern it.

Therefore, he decided that in the days to come, he would abstain from using the Rakshasa Kui Divine Skill as much as possible.

'I must ask for the master's help this time...' Li Xuanji thought to himself.

Previously, Su Que had fought with Li Tunshan's senior brother—the sixteen-meridian Monk Fa Jie—and the fifteen-meridian Li Tunshan, with relative ease.

Moreover, he heard from Elder Qingxuan that the mysterious master's elixir refining speed had reached an incredible level.

At this rate of elixir refining, the mysterious master's strength should have greatly improved over this period.

Dealing with Ma Kuanglong should not be a problem.

Thinking of this, Li Xuanji decided to attack Celestial River Prefecture in the coming days.

When the time came to face Ma Kuanglong head-on, he would have that mysterious master join the fight.

...

Time passed, and more than a month went by again.

Su Que immersed himself in cultivation daily and checked Su Jing's physical condition every two or three nights.

Su Jing's physical condition showed no abnormalities, and his martial arts realm reached the Second Blood in the Qi Blood Realm.

One day, while having breakfast at a tavern in Jiannan Prefecture City, Su Que heard good news brought by the Heaven-Breaking Army from Celestial River Prefecture.

The good news reported that Li Xuanji, leading the Heaven-Breaking Army, advanced to Celestial River Prefecture.

In Celestial River Prefecture, they engaged in several tactical battles with the Red Dragon Army guarding it, achieving major victories and capturing five county towns.

One night, after dinner, Su Que returned to the cave where his belongings were hidden.

He sat in meditation deep inside the cave and began to cultivate the Sunflower Manual.

Sunflower Manual (6th Realm Divine Skill 98%)

He hadn't practiced the Sunflower Manual for quite some time and had only resumed five days ago.

Due to his significantly increased Talent Value, his cultivation speed for the Sunflower Manual had also accelerated dramatically.

In just five days, he advanced from a previous 6th Realm Divine Skill 76% to the current 6th Realm Divine Skill 98%.

'Let's break through it tonight!'

Thinking of this, Su Que immediately collected his Heart Spirit and began cultivating according to the Inner Power Heart Method described in the Sunflower Manual.