Martial Saint with Passives

This was a plum job that everyone fought over!

Perhaps after entering the Inner Sect in the future, they could use this connection to gain quite a few benefits!

Among these Outer Disciples were many young, beautiful female disciples.

Many of them harbored hopes of using this opportunity to latch onto someone powerful.

Of course, some had also been sent by their families to intentionally get close to the chiefs of major sects like him.

If they succeeded, even becoming a concubine could bring immense benefits to their family!

However, Jiang Che was a recluse who rarely went out, and his temperament was quite cold and detached.

Aside from giving necessary instructions, he almost never interacted with them and forbade them from casually entering his courtyard.

This left those who held such aspirations feeling at a loss for what to do.

Among them was a female disciple named Wan’er. With a delicate, melon-seed-shaped face and willow-leaf eyebrows, she was quite pretty and charming.

She gazed at the tightly shut Stone Door of the cultivation room, her heart filled with curiosity and fantasies.

This Chief Jiang was the most sought-after legendary figure in the entire Cangyun Sect, and even the whole of Cangzhou Prefecture.

Not only that,

this Chief Senior Brother was also strikingly handsome and refined. His every move carried the air of an unparalleled master.

She couldn’t help but fantasize. ’What kind of person is he, really?’

’What are his hobbies? What kind of woman would he like?’

Just then, with a CREAK, the Stone Door swung open.

Jiang Che’s figure appeared in the doorway.

He glanced at the crowd, then pointed at Wan’er and said,

"You, come in for a moment."

"Yes! Chief Senior Brother!" Wan’er’s heart leaped with joy. She quickly responded and followed him inside with small, hurried steps.

’I wonder why he called me in?’

’Is it to grind ink for him, or to brew tea?’

’Or maybe...’

As her mind raced with wild thoughts, a faint blush crept onto her cheeks.

However, as she followed Jiang Che into the cultivation room—which should have been a place of serene spiritual beauty—a thick, nauseating stench of blood assaulted her nostrils!

She fixed her gaze on the scene and instantly froze on the spot!

In a corner of the room, a river of blood flowed. Shredded flesh and organs were smeared across the floor, and over a dozen mangled, grotesquely ugly giant rat carcasses were piled together. The scene was horrifying and bloody to the extreme!

"BLEGH..."

Wan’er felt her stomach churn violently, and she nearly threw up on the spot.

Seeing her ghastly pale face, Jiang Che looked a little embarrassed. He scratched his head, gave a dry cough, and explained,

"Er... well, I was just training and accidentally used a bit too much strength, and... this happened. Could I trouble you to find someone to help clean it up?"

The moment Wan’er heard this, the beautiful image of a "refined and graceful young master" in her heart shattered spectacularly!

She looked at Jiang Che’s still-handsome face, then at the pile of bloody, mangled flesh on the ground. A chill shot up from the soles of her feet straight to the top of her skull, and she couldn’t help but shiver.

’So... the legendary Chief Jiang is secretly a... weirdo who enjoys torturing and killing Black Beasts?’

"Y-yes, Senior Brother, I... I’ll go right now!"

Not daring to stay a second longer, she fled as if escaping for her life.

Jiang Che watched her panicked retreat, shook his head helplessly, and turned to leave the cultivation room.

...

Having confirmed that the hidden danger of the Heart of the Black Abyss losing control was resolved,

a great weight was finally lifted from Jiang Che’s heart.

He then began a new round of secluded cultivation.

Increasing his strength was the most crucial matter for him at present.

After all,

that old dog Xie Songnian was like a sword hanging over his head, ready to fall at any moment.

Furthermore, the threat of the Demon Sect’s True Master Realm experts made him feel as if he were sitting on pins and needles.

More importantly,

True Master Bai Yi’s words had given him a clearer understanding of his future Martial Dao path!

Only by stepping into the Realm of True Mastery could he truly control his own destiny and completely eliminate the ticking time bomb within his body!

Moreover.

In these chaotic times,

only with sufficient power

could he protect everything he wished to protect!

...

「Inside the Level A Cultivation Room.」

Jiang Che sat cross-legged, surrounded by a milky-white Spiritual Mist so dense it was visible to the naked eye.

With a thought, he began to circulate the Nine Heavens Azure Cloud Technique.

The increase in cultivation speed brought by his Top-Grade Root Bone was so terrifying it defied description!

If Jiang Che’s body was previously a leaky water ladle,

and then became a stainless-steel ladle after his first Root Bone enhancement,

then now,

his body was like a massive whirlpool with an invisible pull!

The vast Spiritual Qi around him no longer needed to be laboriously guided and absorbed.

Instead, like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, it frantically and actively poured into his body!

Every inch of his skin, every pore, was greedily devouring this pure energy!

He could clearly feel that his meridians were like rivers widened several times over, capable of containing a torrent of Strength many times more powerful than before, surging endlessly within them!

His five viscera and six bowels were like tempered, glazed Jade. With every pulse, they generated a massive amount of incredibly pure Refining Organ Force!

With this terrifying cultivation efficiency,

the massive amount of cultivation resources he had obtained from the Cloud Tier Inquiry Conference were being consumed at an astonishing rate!

Nine-Turn Golden Pills, Top-grade Snow Crystal Milk...

These were supreme treasures that would make any Refining Organ Realm Martial Artist ecstatic.

Yet he consumed them by the handful, as if they were common candy beans, without the slightest hesitation!

Besides primarily cultivating the Nine Heavens Azure Cloud Technique,

he still hadn’t given up on the "training and Dissipating Skill" shortcut to rapidly accumulate Qi Blood and nurture his Talent.