Inside the training room, Lu Xuan placed two small wooden boxes beside him, each containing a low-grade Heaven and Earth Spiritual Treasure.
Lu Xuan intended to first evolve his martial body-tempering technique, Indestructible Diamond Body, to an entirely new realm.
As for his movement technique, Flowing Light Step, its current stage was sufficient to meet Lu Xuan’s needs for now.
The main reason was that the system points required for Flowing Light Step were several times higher than those needed for Indestructible Diamond Body.
It was simply too much. Lu Xuan couldn’t afford the system points required for Flowing Light Step at present.
Therefore, Lu Xuan still planned to enhance the strength of his physical body.
Although he had the protective True Qi barrier of an External Aura Grandmaster, if he encountered a stronger enemy, that barrier wouldn’t protect him for long.
Increasing the robustness of his body was undoubtedly an added layer of life-saving means.
With his current mastery of Indestructible Diamond Body, even if a huge gash were split open in his flesh, Lu Xuan was confident he could recover completely within a day.
If he were to evolve the Indestructible Diamond Body technique to the next stage, wouldn’t it become nearly impossible to die?
Rebirth from a single drop of blood, indestructible and undying, longevity that gazes upon the ages.
These divine feats, unbelievable to ordinary people, were ones Lu Xuan firmly believed he would achieve one day.
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Host: Lu Xuan
Realm: External Aura Grandmaster (Major Accomplishment)
Techniques: Blazing Heaven Saber Art 1/9, Flowing Light Step 1/9 (Can Evolve), Indestructible Diamond Body 3/9 (Can Evolve)
Points: 860
Host, please confirm: Consume 400 points to evolve Flowing Light Step?
Host, please confirm: Consume 90 points to evolve Indestructible Diamond Body?
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Lu Xuan glanced at Indestructible Diamond Body and confirmed the evolution without hesitation.
Evolve!
This time, Lu Xuan planned to evolve the Indestructible Diamond Body technique several times in a row.
He would continue until all the system points on his panel were completely exhausted.
After Lu Xuan’s confirmation, the system points began decreasing at an astonishing rate.
In the next moment, a howling gust of wind swept through the training room. Lu Xuan’s black robes flapped violently in the fierce wind.
If one looked closely, when his sleeves billowed, one could glimpse the muscular lines of his arms beneath.
Those incredibly robust arms now emitted a faint golden glow, akin to the incarnations of Buddhas from the highest heavens—majestic, sacred, and impossible to gaze upon directly!
In a flash, a terrifying aura erupted from within Lu Xuan’s body.
His entire figure seemed to suddenly expand by a full size, radiating an unimaginably fearsome presence that gave the impression he could shatter heaven and earth.
At that moment, the previously intact upper part of Lu Xuan’s robes was instantly torn into countless shreds by an invisible force.
The tattered pieces of cloth, along with Lu Xuan’s black hair, which had been neatly tied behind his back, danced within the training room amidst the howling wind.
After a while, Lu Xuan’s enlarged body returned to its original state.
Lu Xuan, who had been keeping his eyes tightly shut, quietly opened them. His handsome face now carried an added air of maturity and steadiness.
“Only enough for four evolutions?”
Sensing the changes in his body, Lu Xuan realized his current points had allowed him to evolve Indestructible Diamond Body four times.
A full 860 system points only let him evolve this body-tempering technique four times.
Sigh!
The first evolution cost 90 system points, the second 150 points.
The third evolution cost 240 points, and the fourth 360 points.
Altogether, that was 840 system points.
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Host: Lu Xuan
Realm: External Aura Grandmaster (Major Accomplishment)
Techniques: Blazing Heaven Saber Art 1/9, Flowing Light Step 1/9, Indestructible Diamond Body 7/9
Points: 20
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Just three more evolutions, and Indestructible Diamond Body would reach the next level.
After completing four evolutions of the technique, Lu Xuan felt his body brimming with boundless power.
Every inch of his flesh pulsed with astonishing vitality.
Swish!
With a mere thought in Lu Xuan’s mind…
A strand of purple True Qi manifested around him, then shot towards his right arm like an incredibly sharp blade tip.
A dull thud sounded. A very shallow mark appeared on Lu Xuan’s arm.
However, this faint mark on his right arm lasted only half a breath.
After that half-breath, Lu Xuan’s arm restored itself to its flawless, unblemished state.
Hmm, excellent!
Such astonishing regenerative power and defense greatly satisfied Lu Xuan.
The True Qi strand he had just used was powerful enough to kill any martial artist below the External Aura Grandmaster level.
Yet, even such a lethal attack couldn’t even break his skin.
By Lu Xuan’s estimation, he could now completely ignore attacks from martial artists below the Minor Accomplishment stage of the External Aura Grandmaster realm.
Even opponents at the same Major Accomplishment stage as him would struggle to inflict any truly fatal damage.
Therefore, with his current formidable strength, Lu Xuan was a match for those at the External Aura Grandmaster Perfection stage.
“Have I already reached this point?”
Lu Xuan couldn’t help but feel a sense of awe.
With his current strength rivaling Perfection-stage Grandmasters, only beings at the realm above that could pose a genuine threat to his life in this world.
Divine Mansion Realists!
And that Nether Python in the Jinlin River of Baidao Prefecture—a Divine Mansion realm demonic beast.
Speaking of that Nether Python lurking in the depths of the Jinlin River, a flicker of desire arose from deep within Lu Xuan’s heart.
Tsk, a Divine Mansion realm demonic beast!
If he could slay it now and refine its flesh and blood…
He would probably be able to immediately evolve both Flowing Light Step and Indestructible Diamond Body to their next levels.
By then, his martial realm would likely have reached the level of a Divine Mansion Realist.
He had not forgotten the might of a Divine Mansion Realist.
He had experienced the terror of that realm firsthand.
It was the closest brush with death he had encountered since beginning his martial path!
Back in Taiping Town, the carp demon he slew contained a strand of divine sense from a Divine Mansion realm demonic beast!
Moreover, that strand was a fragmented version, not at its full power.
Because that Nether Python was still sealed by the so-called sacrificial artifact, the Mystical Bird Heavenly Lock, which suppressed most of its strength.
Consequently, the divine sense bestowed upon that carp demon was greatly weakened, possessing only the power of an initial External Aura Grandmaster.
Nether Python!
Mystical Bird Heavenly Lock!
Lu Xuan had firmly committed these two things to memory.
In the future, once he broke through to the Divine Mansion realm, he would definitely not let these two things at the bottom of the Jinlin River escape him.
If the Mystical Bird Heavenly Lock could seal a Divine Mansion realm demonic beast, it must be far more powerful than that One-Sigil Mortal-grade sacrificial artifact from Qingyun County.
It was a pity that after Lu Xuan absorbed the Heaven and Earth origin energy from that Mortal-grade One-Sigil bronze bowl artifact, it completely lost its efficacy, turning into an ordinary bronze vessel of the mundane world.
Thinking of this, Lu Xuan remembered another troublesome matter he had yet to resolve.
“Prince An, the Luo Family…”
“Hmph!”
“It seems this time, I cannot leave any loose ends.”
Last time, when he learned that Baidao Prefecture’s Vice-Administrator Luo Jinhe was targeting the Lu Family, it was only by chance.
From now on, Lu Xuan did not intend to give his enemies any leeway.
To deal with troublesome foes like these, only by uprooting them completely could Lu Xuan set his mind at ease.
Just as Lu Xuan was contemplating the Luo Family of Qingling Prefecture and Prince An, Xia Mingqing…
Luo Jin, the head of the Luo Family in Qingling Prefecture, also received letters—one from the Provincial Governor and another from informants he had placed within Baidao Prefecture.
