Chapter 76: Good Friend

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

When true energy is born, the sixth grade has been achieved.

In the last few seconds of the Yin-Yang intersection, Su Jingxing absorbed worldly energy and successfully advanced to the sixth-grade.

Of course, the big white goose had been a great help.

Even though Su Jingxing was immersed in his cultivation, he could still sense the abnormalities in the outside world.

At the last moment earlier, a strange energy had enveloped his entire body. With its help, the increase in soul power gave Su Jingxing’s mind a boost of inspiration, and he ultimately succeeded in absorbing the worldly energy.

Su Jingxing had sensed this same strange energy before.

It was the silvery-white glow emitted by the big white goose.

So.

That he was able to advance to the sixth-grade this time, internal force, the Spirit Accumulation Pills, a physique at the limits of the human body, the Nine Steps Trampling Heaven, and the big white goose——none was disposable.

As such, once Su Jingxing opened his eyes, he immediately searched for the big white goose, planning to thank his Brother Goose.

Yet, within his sight, there was no sign of the big white goose on the slope.

Doing a good deed without leaving its name?

No, something is wrong.

For some reason, Su Jingxing felt his heart skip a beat. He stood up and used the Eight Steps Rising Dragon to descend the slope and arrived in the valley.

In the growth of grass next to the slope, he searched quickly and as expected, found the big white goose lying motionless.

A colorful snake as thick as an adult human’s thigh with a triangular head was slowly approaching the big white goose.

Swish!

Su Jingxing threw out a throwing daggers.

Plkch!

Blood splattered as the throwing dagger struck the snake’s head, killing it on the spot.

Su Jingxing walked over quickly and picked up the big white goose to check on it.

Firstly, it wasn’t dead. Secondly, it was severely depleted of energy. Finally, its Spiritual Beast aura had disappeared.

No wonder the snake dared to come close and try to take advantage of it.

The disappearance of the Spiritual Beast aura is equivalent to being severely injured.

In order to help me, the big white goose has paid a huge price!

Su Jingxing sighed and carried the goose back to the platform on the slope.

He sat down cross-legged and took out ten Essence Energy Pills. He crushed them into powder using his internal force and fed it into the mouth of the unconscious goose. Then, he guided the powder into its stomach.

After that was done, he placed the big white goose on the ground and carefully sensed for changes in its vital energy.

There was nothing unusual at first, but soon, the Spiritual Beast aura of the big white goose started to recover.

Although it was still weak, it was good that there was some recovery.

Su Jingxing kept guard at the side the whole time. When the big white goose finally woke up, he heaved a sigh of relief.

He took out another ten Essence Energy Pills, placed them in his palm, and passed them to the big white goose.

Su Jingxing said sincerely, “Brother Goose, thank you!”

“Ga ga~”

The big white goose called out weakly and stretched its neck to swallow the Essence Energy Pills.

“I won’t say anything else. Anyway, as long as I have something to eat in the future, I won’t let you starve.” Su Jingxing gently stroked the big white goose’s white wings and promised seriously.

“Ga ga?” The big white goose cocked its head to the side and called out in confusion.

“It’s fine. You just need to remember that we’re best friends.” Su Jingxing smiled.

“Ga ga!” The big white goose cried with all its might and flapped its wings.

“Yes, good friends.” Su Jingxing chuckled.

During the exchange yesterday, Su Jingxing had already discovered that the big white goose was very innocent.

It seemed to have just gained sentience and had never come into contact with any humans before Su Jingxing.

As such, when it first encountered Su Jingxing, it hid in the dark and observed him secretly.

When Su Jingxing realized how powerful it was, and wanted to befriend it, they got close very quickly.

Su Jingxing had no other intentions. Otherwise, it would have been easy to coax it away.

The good thing about being sincere in befriending it was that the big white goose had been a great help this time.

Without it, Su Jingxing didn’t know how long it would take for him to advance to the sixth-grade.

Compared to the efforts of the big white goose, the few Essence Energy Pills were really not worth mentioning.

…

In the latter half of the night, Su Jingxing did not cultivate much and kept the big white goose company.

When the sun rose, Su Jingxing fed the goose 20 more Essence Energy Pills. When its Spiritual Beast aura had recovered and it could fly in the sky, Su Jingxing then bade farewell and left.

For the time being, Su Jingxing didn’t want to bring the big white goose out of the valley. He also reminded the big white goose not to fly out by itself.

The reason was simple.

Su Jingxing was not powerful enough!

Even though a sixth-grade martial artist could be considered a high-level figure in the Qinghe City, he was still not one of the best. It was not enough to protect a Spiritual Beast.

In addition, the white goose’s innate divine power wasn’t in combat.

If it were to head to Qinghe City, once exposed, it would surely be seized by others.

For this reason, it was safer for it to remain in the valley.

…

Back at the small courtyard at the foot of the mountain.

Su Jingxing casually ate some food before circulating the Nine Steps Heaven Trampling to condense more true energy.

The Nine Steps Trampling Heaven had a total of nine levels.

Although Su Jingxing had already produced a strand of Heaven Trampling True Energy in his dantian, when it came to mastering this internal exercise, he was merely a beginner.

The speed at which the introductory stage of the Nine Steps Heaven Trampling condensed true energy was extraordinarily slow.

Thankfully, Su Jingxing did not intend to condense his true energy in this courtyard at the foot of the mountain. If he really wanted to do so, he would only go to the valley where the big white goose was.

The valley was where the worldly energy was abundant.

Presently, the source of Su Jingxing’s true energy was not the worldly energy, but internal force!

With the internal force that filled his body, Su Jingxing had intermittently accumulated a hundred years of cultivation.

Now that true energy was born, there was no longer any need to store the internal force. It was more suitable to convert it into true energy.

The process was not difficult. Under the guidance of the Nine Steps Trampling Heaven, in less than half an hour, all his internal force was converted into Heaven Trampling True Energy.

Mm, I have one year of cultivation!

A hundred years of cultivation in internal force when covered into true energy, became only one year.

This ratio was very low.

The Ethereal Sword Immortal had once said that it was usually ten years of internal force to one year of true energy.

10: 1

But it was 100: 1 for Su Jingxing.

This was proof of the might of the Nine Steps Heaven Trampling.

10: 1 was for normal internal exercises. The conversion rates for high-level internal exercises were very low.

Other than internal force, Su Jingxing also had a True Energy Card.

The remaining True Energy Card contained two years of cultivation, and had no attributes.

Su Jingxing unlocked it and absorbed the true energy before converting it into Heaven Trampling True Energy. He discovered that not a single trace of it leaked out, and two years of cultivation had been successfully converted.

That is great!

However much cultivation the True Energy Cards extracted contained can be fully converted.

If my true energy cultivation is high enough, even if my cultivation realm is beneath others, I would still be able to crush them through my cultivation!

Su Jingxing, who had suddenly gained three years of true energy cultivation, rubbed his hands happily.

…

At night.

Su Jingxing disguised himself as Yang Jian and put on his cloak and mask. He first went to one of Wan Rong’s secret rooms and took ten million dollars of dirty money.

Then, he headed to the black market and bought three Vitality Supplement Pills for testing.

One Vitality Supplement Pills was priced at 500,000 Great Yu dollars.

Ordinary martial artists could not afford such body tempering pills.

Su Jingxing bought three of them and ate them one by one to compare it to the effects of the Strength Pill.

He discovered that a single Vitality Supplement Pill was equivalent to a hundred Strength Pills.

After transforming into the Demonic Elephant Physique, he would need to eat more than ten Vitality Supplement Pills.

In other words, if Su Jingxing wanted to transform, he had to prepare 1,000 Strength Pills!

“I initially thought that I’ll just keep the Strength Pills to prevent myself from being exhausted.. I didn’t expect it to be so useful now.”