Urban Super Medical Sage-Chapter 710 - 704: News (5 updates)

And then.

"Let’s think, where else can it be used?" Su Chen said with a smile, having already thought of a place where he could apply it, but it still wasn’t enough. Such a heaven-defying Heavenly Dao must certainly be useful in many aspects.

"After much thought, accelerating maturation is the most promising!!!" A short while later, Su Chen took a deep breath, "For example, I can cultivate herbs within my Azure Mysterious Ring. I am now capable of accelerating time locally by a thousandfold, which is enough for cultivating herbs."

That’s right!

Su Chen had grasped the merest essence of the Temporal Heavenly Dao, allowing him to accelerate time locally by a thousandfold. While a thousandfold may seem like an incredibly exaggerated figure, in reality, it was very inconsequential...

Because the process of battling with others is swift; sometimes, it’s over within a few breaths.

Do the math: if you accelerate time by a thousandfold for just a few breaths, that makes a few thousand breaths, which, all told, amounts to just a few hours.

So what if you aged a martial cultivator by a few hours within the span of a few breaths? Does it amount to anything? Does it have any effect at all?

For a martial cultivator of Su Chen’s level, their lifespan is at least a million years; a few hours is pitifully insignificant.

Not to mention, how could the opponent possibly stand still obediently within a certain range and wait for you to accelerate time for them? Even attempting to engage time acceleration for a few breaths is likely a delusion.

Therefore, if you want to apply time acceleration abilities directly in combat, you’d need to start with a magnitude of acceleration that begins with a figure in the hundreds of millions. Then, when you suddenly employ the time acceleration ability, if you could shave off a hundred thousand years of your opponent’s life in an instant, that would indeed be powerful and intimidating.

However, that doesn’t mean Su Chen’s current ability to accelerate time locally by a thousandfold is completely useless. Not to mention the heaven-defying effect it has on healing injuries, just the cultivation of herbs alone is something to look forward to.

After all.

Time acceleration can be constantly applied within the Azure Mysterious Ring; a day on the outside translates to a thousand days inside, which amounts to three to four years.

"I can specifically seek out some rare and precious herb seedlings to cultivate!" Su Chen’s eyes sparkled.

There was a type of herb known as ’Spirit-Returning Grass’.

This herb was very delicate, needing specific soil, moisture, temperature, and so on to grow. Any slight environmental change could cause it to wither immediately.

Therefore, throughout the mountain ranges of the Divine Martial Continent, there are hardly any ’Spirit-Returning Grass’ older than ten years. Most of the ’Spirit-Returning Grass’ on the market are one or two years old.

In fact, even the one- or two-year-old Spirit-Returning Grass is incredibly expensive; it usually takes about ten to eight Black Mysterious Stones to buy just one plant!!!

After all, the Spirit-Returning Grass is an indispensable herb for refining advanced Qi-Replenishing Pills, which are extremely important for martial cultivators. It could be said that out of a hundred martial cultivators, all one hundred would possess Qi-Replenishing Pills. Of course, most of them might only have low-grade Qi-Replenishing Pills, but advanced Qi-Replenishing Pills also have their customers, such as the Royal Family, First-Rank Powers, and Great Sects, who need to purchase them in large quantities every year.

The Qi-Replenishing Pill, whether advanced or low-grade, has a consistent market demand on the Divine Martial Continent. Therefore, the price of Qi-Replenishing Pills is continually rising every year, with the price of Spirit-Returning Grass also rising without a drop, basically comparable to the housing prices on Earth in China.

"When I get back, I’ll buy a few hundred Spirit-Returning Grass seedlings. With just one day of cultivation, that’s a thousand days, which is three years old. If I cultivate for ten days, that’s thirty years old," Su Chen swallowed a gulp of saliva, excited and greedy at the prospect.

With that calculation, having a thousandfold local time acceleration ability, from this point forward, Mysterious Stones are just a number for him.

"If I have enough Black Mysterious Stones, I might as well go to those auction houses to buy some treasures," Su Chen licked his lips.

Having enough treasures would also represent growth in one’s own strength!

For example, if you could afford it, and you possessed ten thousand Divine Artifacts.

Even if you encounter a terrifyingly strong individual like Li Ping, if you cannot beat her in combat, you can instead constantly command the Divine Artifacts to self-destruct!

Martial cultivators can self-destruct; the more powerful the martial cultivator, the greater the destructive power when they self-destruct.

Weapons can explode too, and if a Divine Artifact level weapon were to explode, its power would be exceedingly terrifying.

"Hehe... In the future, besides bluffing with an Undying Body, it seems I’ll have to bluff with my rich and imposing nature too," Su Chen chuckled somewhat proudly, "Jiuyou, I can hardly wait. I’ll make a sneaky trip to the Imperial City first! I want to cultivate herbs!"

"Fine, let’s go! It’s a good opportunity to inquire about some news; it’s already been ten days!"

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Xuanfeng Imperial City.

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Seventh Princess’s Mansion.

The Seventh Princess was sitting by the window, her complexion somewhat pale, with traces of tears still visible in her beautiful eyes.

She was lost in thought.

It had been ten days.

Su Chen had been missing for ten days.

She had visited the Imperial Father several times to inquire about Su Chen’s news, only knowing that on that day, Li Ping had pursued and attacked Su Chen, and they had entered Vast Mountain.

Beyond that, there was no news.

Was Su Chen still alive?

Li Ping was of the Dome Extreme Realm!

Just how terrifying was the Dome Extreme Realm? The Seventh Princess did not know, but the Imperial Father and the Imperial Mother did.

Both the Imperial Father and the Imperial Mother said that there was virtually no chance of Su Chen surviving.

And on that day, when Li Ping struck at Su Chen, she had seen it herself: Su Chen had not the slightest ability to fight back.

Could it be that Brother Su truly was... These past ten days, the Seventh Princess had been in tears almost constantly; for ten days, she hadn’t left her own room, her heart continually in throbbing pain.

"Princess..." Suddenly, a voice reached the Seventh Princess’s ears; it was Elder Huo.

"Elder Huo, what’s the news?" The Seventh Princess stood up immediately.

Unable to withstand her pleading, Elder Huo had left her side a few days ago to go out and gather information.

As an Old Monster at the Ninth Level of the Creation Realm, Elder Huo was undoubtedly the most effective and most reliable person to gather news.

Now, at last, Elder Huo had returned.

"Princess, are you sure you want to hear it?" Elder Huo’s voice was heavy with gravity.

The Seventh Princess’s complexion instantly drained of color; hearing Elder Huo’s warning, she had already become seventy percent certain.

"Just... just tell me!" The Seventh Princess bit her lip hard, struggling to keep her tears from falling.

"After much investigation, I found out that ten days ago, Li Ping returned to the Li Family in Nan’e Ancient Capital! Someone saw her leaving Vast Mountain!" Elder Huo knew how cruel it was to say this, but still, he spoke.

Tears instantly began to stream down her face, and the Seventh Princess nearly fainted; she wasn’t a fool—one could assume that if Li Ping was still alive, then the chances of Brother Su being alive were not great.

She had been hoping for Su Chen to create a miracle and turn the tables on Li Ping. If Li Ping never returned to the Li Family in Nan’e Ancient Capital, then the outcome of who lived and who died would still be uncertain.

Now, with Li Ping alive and back at the Li Family, Su Chen...