Leaving Xinghao Group, Qin Hanchu and the other person went directly to the hospital.
"Hanchu, an elder asked me to give this to you."
As soon as they entered the ward, Wang Xuan handed a slip of paper to Qin Hanchu.
After reading the contents of the slip, Qin Hanchu said to Qin Yun, "Sister, I'm going out to handle some matters."
"Be careful," Qin Yun cautioned.
Five minutes later, Qin Hanchu arrived at the hospital's rooftop.
At the edge of the rooftop, an old man stood with his hands behind his back, quietly gazing at the distant city.
What attracted Qin Hanchu the most was the wooden box the old man carried behind him.
"Only you? Where are Old Ghost and the others?" the old man asked, without turning his head, as if talking to himself.
"It wouldn't make much difference if they came, would it?" As he spoke, Qin Hanchu approached the old man from behind.
Only then did the old man turn around and ask coldly, "Do you know who I am?"
"Blade Master Ancestor!" Qin Hanchu smiled.
Hearing Qin Hanchu utter his identity, Blade Master Ancestor was somewhat surprised, "You know who I am and still dare to come alone, aren't you afraid of death?"
"You can't kill me, so why should I be afraid?"
"Even if you didn't come looking for me, I would have gone overseas to find you."
"You coming to my doorstep has saved me a lot of time," Qin Hanchu said.
Blade Master Ancestor's eyes narrowed, "You want to find me overseas? To court death?"
"Your Blade Master organization is quite good. From now on, you will work for me," Qin Hanchu said.
Blade Master Ancestor's gaze suddenly flared with anger. He rebuked, "What big talk! Do you know what realm I am in?"
"At most, you are only in the middle stage of Grandmaster," Qin Hanchu replied.
"Only in the middle stage of Grandmaster?"
"Hahaha…"
"Youngster, do you know what Grandmaster represents?"
Blade Master Ancestor's eyes were filled with confusion.
Qin Hanchu couldn't possibly not know how strong a Grandmaster was.
Since he knew he was in the middle stage of Grandmaster, why did he still look down on him so much?
Could it be that Qin Hanchu had a late-stage Grandmaster backing him?
But he had already sensed carefully, and there were no strong presences hidden nearby.
Without the protection of a Grandmaster, killing Qin Hanchu would be as easy as flipping his hand.
"Surrender to me, and you can live a few more years."
"Refuse to surrender, and today will be your death anniversary."
A cold smile curled up on Qin Hanchu's lips.
"Let's see if you can survive that first." Blade Master Ancestor lost his patience. He suddenly pointed a finger at Qin Hanchu.
With a finger thrust, a surge of qi erupted!
The void was torn apart by an almost transparent force.
In an instant, this finger force reached Qin Hanchu's front.
Qin Hanchu casually waved his hand, and a surge of qi swept towards the finger force.
Bang!
The two forces collided in the air, and terrifying residual qi waves scattered outwards.
Blade Master Ancestor stared at Qin Hanchu dumbfoundedly, his eyes filled with shock.
His previous move was merely to force out the person behind Qin Hanchu.
But he never expected that Qin Hanchu was actually a Grandmaster!
This was simply unbelievable!
He had only reached Grandmaster at nearly a hundred years old, while Qin Hanchu was only twenty. How could he be a Grandmaster?
Could it be that Qin Hanchu had merely found the secret to maintaining his youthful appearance? That he was actually an old man of a hundred years?
Comparatively, Blade Master Ancestor preferred to believe his own guess.
A twenty-year-old Grandmaster was something he wouldn't even dare to dream of.
Blade Master Ancestor slapped the wooden box on his back, and a blood-red long saber flew out.
Grasping the long saber, Blade Master Ancestor asked with shock, "Who exactly are you?"
"You've been chasing me for so long, yet you don't even know my background?" Qin Hanchu asked.
"You absolutely cannot be a young man in his twenties. What is your true identity?"
Blade Master Ancestor's words made Qin Hanchu laugh, "No need to doubt, my actual age is twenty-one."
"Impossible, this is absolutely impossible!"
"The path of martial arts, how arduous it is. It's absolutely impossible to reach Grandmaster at twenty."
Only those who had experienced it would know how difficult it was to become a Grandmaster.
Blade Master Ancestor had cultivated diligently for a hundred years, consuming countless precious medicinal materials, before he finally reached Grandmaster.
Even if Qin Hanchu had started cultivating in his mother's womb, it would be impossible for him to reach Grandmaster at the age of twenty.
Martial arts had been passed down for thousands of years, and only a handful of people had reached Grandmaster before the age of fifty.
In the past three hundred years, only the Asura King of Great Yan Kingdom had reached Grandmaster in his late forties.
Reaching Grandmaster at twenty was unheard of.
"Believe it or not, it's up to you."
"Besides, it actually doesn't matter."
"So, what do you say? Surrender or die?"
"To be frank, I haven't just reached Grandmaster, but I have already reached the late stage of Grandmaster."
"Even if you are in the middle stage of Grandmaster, you have no qualification to survive in my hands."
Qin Hanchu said with a smile.
"I don't believe it, this is absolutely impossible!"
Upon hearing Qin Hanchu claim to have reached the late stage of Grandmaster, Blade Master Ancestor became even more frantic.
He suddenly made a move, and the blood-red long saber slashed out a bloody saber energy.
Qin Hanchu stood in place, his protective qi swirling around him.
Boom…
The saber energy fiercely collided with the protective qi.
The surge of qi transformed into a gale and dispersed, and dust on the ground was swept up.
In the dust cloud, Blade Master Ancestor collapsed and knelt on the ground.
His full-power strike had not managed to break through Qin Hanchu's protective qi.
The gap between them was like an insurmountable chasm.
Having cultivated diligently for a hundred and twenty years, yet being inferior to Qin Hanchu's twenty years of cultivation, Blade Master Ancestor's mental state completely shattered on the spot.
Qin Hanchu walked step by step towards Blade Master Ancestor and then tossed a poison pill into his hand.
"Surrender to me, and I can let you live a few more years."
"Perhaps, I can even help you reach the late stage of Grandmaster within your lifetime."
Qin Hanchu began to paint a rosy picture for Blade Master Ancestor.
"I can surrender, but you have to tell me how you cultivate?" Blade Master Ancestor said.
Qin Hanchu nodded, "Alright."
Blade Master Ancestor wasted no more words. He tilted his head back and swallowed the poison pill.
The potency of this poison pill was terrifying. Even though Blade Master Ancestor was a Grandmaster, he could not hope to neutralize its effects.
Having swallowed the poison pill, his life was now controlled by Qin Hanchu.
Unless he wanted to perish together, he would not dare to betray him.
"Can you tell me now?" Blade Master Ancestor asked.
"My physique is different from ordinary people, so cultivation is twice as effective with half the effort."
"Combined with the accumulation of resources, that's how I achieved today's success."
"As for the cultivation technique, it's just an ordinary Heaven-grade technique."
Martial arts cultivation techniques are divided into four grades: Heaven, Earth, Black, and Yellow.
The higher the grade of the cultivation technique, the faster the cultivation speed.
Ordinary people could only access Xuan-grade and Huang-grade cultivation techniques.
To access higher-grade techniques, they could only enroll in military academies or join the army.
For powerful individuals like Blade Master Ancestor, they would naturally cultivate Heaven-grade techniques.
Qin Hanchu's cultivation technique was taught by Hu Qingshan, and there was nothing particularly special about it.