Who taught him to practice swordsmanship like this?

Su Baichen returned to Xuan Yin Zhenren's place, quite exhausted... Oh, and he also brought the ghost eel he had caught.

When Xuan Yin Zhenren saw him arrive, he immediately went to help him deal with the ghost eel without asking any further questions.

He seems to know everything.

However, that evening, while Su Baichen was eating, he said, "Master, today I met the old general guarding the pass. He said he would pass on the Soul-Suppressing Sword to me."

Master Xuanyin paused slightly with his chopsticks, then said, "Hmm, I've heard. He's a respectable person. Don't let him down."

"But……"

Su Baichen was still somewhat unwilling; he really didn't want to bear such a heavy responsibility.

Master Xuanyin seemed to know what he was thinking and said, "You don't need to worry. Who would entrust such a great responsibility to a child like you?"

"By handing the Soul-Suppressing Sword to you, he is essentially handing it over to my Changchun Yin Sect. This responsibility will naturally be borne by our Yin Sect and the entire Changchun Palace!"

"You should continue as before, and if you feel weary, you can always find someone else within the sect to take over this legacy and responsibility."

Su Baichen felt a little relieved upon hearing this; if that was the case, he could still accept it.

"Don't overthink it. Just continue cultivating and living at your own pace. The things you're worried about may not actually happen."

"Come on, eat the eel meat quickly. This ghost eel is actually a special spiritual creature of Yinfeng Gorge. It's rare to find even one... I didn't expect you to bring it back today."

"Eat more of it. Ghost eel meat can nourish your body and is very helpful for your growth."

Su Baichen hummed in agreement and then began to eat in peace...

From then on, Su Baichen was no longer in a hurry to continue his cultivation.

He would just do his routine cultivation every morning, and then wander around in the morning, looking for the seniors who would "randomly refresh" in various remote places of the Yin Sect.

One interesting thing about the Yin Sect is that, probably because most of these senior masters understood the importance of leaving anchor points for themselves, they would pursue their strange hobbies in some remote corners.

Just as Xuan Yin Zhenren enjoys gourmet food and the old fisherman enjoys fishing, Shui Yin Ji enjoys going into the sea to find shiny and beautiful things.

During this process, Su Baichen encountered some senior experts, but he mostly didn't bother them. He simply observed what these senior experts' hobbies were and used them as a reference.

He was also looking for an anchor point, and it seemed that his master's love of food was the most suitable for him.

In the afternoon, he would go to the watchtower in the Yinfeng Gorge, and under the old general's watchful eye, he would pick up the Soul-Suppressing Sword and continue exploring the world woven with the will of the ancestors within that sword.

This is both a test and part of the legacy.

And so, time passed day by day.

Su Baichen cultivated at a leisurely pace, spending most of his time on inheriting the Soul-Suppressing Sword.

And it seems that his physical body began to grow wildly after being exposed to the will of those ancient ancestors.

Or rather, as he experienced more and more of those ancient battlefields and the bodies of every ancient person, he gained a deeper and deeper understanding of the powerful physical bodies of humans in ancient times.

With this understanding, he was also able to consciously try to train his body in that direction in reality.

He even temporarily put aside his cultivation for this reason, and did not rush to complete the Foundation Establishment stage.

The true energy within his body was merely maintaining and continuously nourishing his meridians; instead, he began cultivating the foundation-strengthening and vital energy-cultivating stage, a stage he could have skipped entirely.

Indeed, in the inheritance he received, those ancestors could even drive away a powerful ghost with their boiling blood energy... He knew he could never become like that, but he always had to try to move in that direction.

What he found incredible was that even though he didn't deliberately continue his foundation-building cultivation, his meridians were still being stretched and widened under this physical training.

His physical foundation is being continuously strengthened!

Originally, his body was just at the level of an ordinary person, but now, as the body-refining method he figured out takes effect, his body is undergoing an exaggerated transformation.

Of course, during this process of physical enhancement, he also unexpectedly found a 'yin-yang balance'.

That is, his body has abundant energy and a strong physique, but it is also easy for this body to control his thoughts... A strong body often makes its owner driven by various strong instinctive desires.

Even Su Baichen was no exception; he felt an even stronger appetite, a destructive urge, a desire to conquer, and other thoughts.

However, all of this vanished without a trace under the suppression of the Xuan Yin spiritual energy.

The profound Yin spiritual energy, a very important power in the Yin Sect's heritage, unexpectedly resonated with this body-refining technique at this moment.

The Xuan Yin spiritual energy can suppress human desires, even to the point that the Xuan Yin True Person worries it will affect their consciousness as a human being...

Wouldn't this be perfect for combining with body-refining techniques, complementing each other like yin and yang?

More than three years have passed, and Su Baichen is now twelve years old.

The twelve-year-old boy has grown increasingly robust, and has even reached a height of about 1.6 meters.

Even though he is very strong, because his large frame hides his flesh well, he doesn't look like a big, burly man.

Coupled with his delicate features, he actually has the air of a young nobleman.

What others didn't know was what kind of muscular physique he had hidden under that Taoist robe!

"Bai Chen, I've been away all this time. How's your cultivation? Wait, why are you still only at the Foundation Establishment stage?"

When Feng Linzi returned, the first thing he did was to check on Su Baichen's condition, and then he couldn't understand it.

According to his understanding, even if the Foundation Establishment realm is indeed very difficult, it shouldn't have stopped Su Baichen for so long.

After all, Su Baichen has talent, and he has already entered the cultivation world at a young age. He should be able to pass the first stage of Foundation Establishment very quickly.

Upon hearing this, Su Baichen suddenly realized, "Oh right, it's time for me to complete my Foundation Establishment cultivation..."

As he spoke, he had already guided the flow of his internal energy through his meridians.

His physical body had reached a certain level, and it was difficult to bring about further improvement through the method of transferring essence and blood that he had created.

Now that the body tempering has come to an end, it is time to complete the foundation building stage of cultivation.

He drew up a breath of true energy from his dantian and then circulated it along the Ren and Du meridians.

Previously, he had only been nurturing the plant without attempting to activate it, but now, his first activation went very smoothly.

The meridians were so wide they were like a running track, and the true energy circulated within them with unparalleled smoothness, without the slightest stagnation.

A small cycle was completed quickly, and the circulating true energy noticeably grew much stronger.

When his true energy circulates in his meridians, a large amount of true energy flows in during this process.

The essence accumulated in his body was being rapidly refined into his pure yang true energy.

The true qi in the Ren and Du meridians increases more and more, eventually connecting end to end to form a continuously rotating ring without beginning or end.

At this point, Su Baichen's foundation building was considered complete.

He opened his eyes and said, "Senior Brother, look, haven't I completed the Foundation Establishment stage?"

Feng Linzi was utterly astonished. How long had it been?

Su Baichen only stood there for a moment, and when he opened his eyes again, he had already completed the Foundation Establishment...

Well then, doesn't this just confirm Fenglinzi's earlier judgment?

Foundation Establishment was not difficult for Su Baichen.