"Sigh..." In the Emperor Realm, behind the mountain, in that ancient and dim cave, the Old Ancestor of the Di Family sighed and shook his head. He wasn’t particularly heartbroken over the explosion at the front section of the Mother River, nor did he exhibit much emotional fluctuation. What disappointed him was Di Jie, the current head of the Di Family, who no longer had the requisite State of Mind.

However, the Old Ancestor of the Di Family could only sigh in pity, unable to intervene. After all, his remaining lifespan was limited. Without the Life-and-Death Reversing Pill, there were no further opportunities to extend his life, nor did he have the vigor to manage the affairs of the Di Family.

"Su Chen, is it? Has my Life-and-Death Reversing Pill fallen into your hands?" A flash of intense light crossed the sunken, murky eyes of the Di Family’s Old Ancestor: "If you’re dead, then all is well; if you’re not, I will drag you into destruction with me before my lifespan ends."

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Inside the Jinxian Pavilion.

A sudden flicker of mockery appeared and quickly vanished from the exquisite face of Di Feijin.

"Father, do you really believe that the explosion at the front section of the Mother River would kill my man, Su Chen?" Di Feijin murmured inwardly, completely unafraid that Su Chen would die in that terrifying, earth-shattering explosion. Why? Because she could feel Su Chen’s presence, the aura of life.

Whenever something happened to Su Chen, she would have some sense of it. This was largely why she had repeatedly arrived just in time when Su Chen faced life-or-death crises. This method came from her master or perhaps her future mother-in-law, or possibly Su Chen’s mother.

Of course, the fact that Su Chen was still alive was something Di Feijin kept to herself, without expressing or mentioning it to anyone.

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In the middle section of the Mother River.

Su Chen was like a stone, a refined and blood-colored stone, lying on the ground, completely still. The storm of the middle section of the Mother River was like ferocious tsunami waves, relentlessly battering his body.

Every moment, Su Chen was in a pain worse than death, as if needles were piercing his marrow.

Every moment, Su Chen wanted to faint, to fall into slumber, but he could only use his unmatched willpower to force himself to stay awake.

In his Divine Mansion, the elixir spiritual flow, which had already liquefied, was being guided by Su Chen throughout his entire body bit by bit.

His body, constantly torn to a bloody mess by the storm and then healed by terrifying regeneration, continually absorbed the elixir spiritual flow.

Time ticked away, second by second.

A day.

Two days.

Three days.

Five days.

By the fifth day, Su Chen’s every breath had harmonized and resonated with the storm in the middle section of the Mother River.

Not only that, Su Chen had already absorbed all seventy plus top-level elixirs.

Though still lying there, the level of his body reduced to a bloody mess when the storm swept over had diminished significantly.

Now, it was merely superficial wounds.

"Five days, and my Mysterious Qi Realm has crazily increased to the Seventh Layer of the Realm of Returning to Truth."

The primary function of the elixirs was undoubtedly to enhance one’s Mysterious Qi Realm. Therefore, having absorbed more than seventy top-level elixirs, Su Chen’s Mysterious Qi Realm had increased significantly.

Even though the Mysterious Qi Realm was not that important to Su Chen, the enhancement brought an enormous increase in the quantity of Mysterious Qi within his body. This was a significant gain, as Su Chen had the ability of Three Powers Transformation, meaning the rise in Mysterious Qi also equated to the improvement of his Divine Soul and Physical Body.

Additionally, there was another major gain—the doubling of his body defense power, primarily due to the relentless washing of the storm over these five days. Do not underestimate this doubling of body defense power; for Su Chen, it’s akin to a heaven-defying gain. It allowed Su Chen to disregard any attacks below the Seventh Level of Human Lordty from this day on and enabled him to only sustain superficial wounds in the middle section storm.

"Kid, can you stand up and walk now?" the voice of the Iceflame Vermilion Bird came through.

Su Chen nodded.

Bit by bit, he stood up.

The entire process of standing took Su Chen a whole Shichen; it was slower than a snail.

But ultimately, he managed to stand up, and that was enough.

After standing up, Su Chen did not immediately take a step but instead adapted to the storm’s focused attention on him in this standing environment.

This adaptation process took Su Chen an entire day.

Not until after a day did Su Chen attempt to move his feet, his steps extremely unsteady.

It seemed as if he might be blown over by the storm at any moment.

Yet, Su Chen himself was quite satisfied.

Compared to five or six days ago when he first entered the middle section storm, he had progressed enormously.

Another five or six days passed.

In the storm within the middle section of the Mother River, a solitary figure walked upon the vast, boundless land.

The speed was still not fast.

Yet the steps were quite steady.

From time to time, the figure would stop, bend over, and pick up something from the ground.

The figure, of course, was Su Chen.

What was he picking up?

Crystals of the Mother River.

The front, middle, and back sections of the Mother River all contained crystals of the Mother River. Undoubtedly, the crystals at the back section were the most pure, with the middle section being second, and the front section the least.

The front section of the Mother River had recently entered a cessation period, and all the crystals within it had been nearly picked clean by the people of the Di Family. Thus, back when Su Chen was in the front section, he barely encountered any crystals of the Mother River. For more crystals to appear in the front section would take several hundreds of thousands, even millions of years.

However, this was unnecessary for the middle section of the Mother River. From the beginning, not even a few people from the Di Family had managed to enter, including the head, Di Jie, making it very hard to access. So the middle section contained an abundance of crystals of the Mother River, accumulated over billions of years.

Crystals of the Mother River were everywhere.

Especially on the ground.

These crystals of the Mother River were also beneficial to Su Chen. When Su Chen tried to absorb them, he discovered that they could enhance the hardness and width of his meridians, increase the hardness of his bones, improve the quality of his Mysterious Qi, among many other benefits.

In any case, crystals of the Mother River were quite valuable treasures.

For Su Chen, a piece or two of the Mother River crystals naturally wouldn’t be of much help, but what if there were a hundred thousand, a million, ten million pieces, or even more?

The middle section of the Mother River was vast and full of crystals of the Mother River; there were likely tens of millions of them.

This was another massive gift from the Di Family.

The Di Family truly were like a Wealth-bringing Child.

They offered so many Top Supreme Treasures in the Emperor’s Treasure Abyss, sent the Primeval River Storm for body refinement, and gave abundant Mother River crystals.

Every time Su Chen picked up a thousand crystals of the Mother River, he would concentrate on absorbing, then continue picking.

Each absorption increased his strength by a small extent, accelerated his speed, and made the process of picking up Mother River crystals faster.

A virtuous cycle.