Starting as The Young Master of A Pharmacy, He Trained Swordsmanship in Seclusion For Twenty Years - Chapter 123

Six days later!

Lu Xuan sat cross-legged in his training room.

He had now fully refined the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Treasures sent by Mo Ronghua.

Three mid-grade Heaven and Earth Spiritual Treasures, and fifteen low-grade ones.

The quantity of these treasures differed from what Mo Ronghua had initially mentioned.

There were actually more!
When that old fox Mo Ronghua returned to the Jingtai Prefecture office, he had gritted his teeth, made up his mind, and paid a hefty price.

A Martial Arts Grandmaster around twenty years old!

What did that concept even mean? Even if Mo Ronghua were a senile old fool, he would understand its significance.

It meant that Lu Xuan was absolutely the individual with the greatest potential to break through to that realm.

The realm of earth-shattering, heaven-reaching power!
The Divine Mansion True Lord!

With the Divine Mansion anchored within the body, a human form could harness the power of heaven and earth. Every single action possessed the might to destroy the world, overturn mountains, and fill seas!

The thought that he had actually crossed hands with someone who had the potential to become a Divine Mansion True Lord in the future nearly scared Mo Ronghua’s heart into stopping.

Mo Ronghua could well imagine that this Lord Lu must have encountered heaven-defying fortune.

A kind of fortune that would surely drive the world mad with desire.

However, Mo Ronghua didn’t harbor a single trace of covetous thought.

Coveting another’s opportunities required the strength to back it up.

For those without strength, coveting others’ fortunes was just asking for death, growing tired of living.

So, Mo Ronghua was wisely pragmatic. He added a few more Spiritual Treasures and personally delivered them to Lu Xuan.

This was to show his sincerity.

If he could befriend this martial arts prodigy at this juncture, that would naturally be for the best.

Simultaneously, Mo Ronghua cursed Li Chengfeng under his breath.

That old fox had stumbled upon ridiculously good luck, managing to befriend this one a step ahead of him.

Lu Xuan opened his eyes, and the system panel materialized before him.

Host: Lu Xuan

Realm: External Release Grandmaster (Minor Achievement)

Cultivation Methods: Blazing Flame Blade Art 9/9, Flowing Light Step 1/9 (Can Deduce), Indestructible Vajra Body 3/9 (Can Deduce).

Points: 1850

Host, please confirm: Consume 400 points to deduce Flowing Light Step?

Host, please confirm: Consume 90 points to deduce Indestructible Vajra Body?

Seeing the system points displayed, Lu Xuan thought to himself.

1850 points?

That was roughly within his expectations.

Refining a low-grade Spiritual Treasure provided him with about 60 system points.

Refining a mid-grade Spiritual Treasure provided him with 300 system points.

As for the Blazing Flame Blade Art… he didn’t know how many system points this final deduction would cost him.

For the next deduction, Lu Xuan had already decided to elevate the Blazing Flame Blade Art to a completely new level.

He wondered just how powerful the Blazing Flame Blade Art would be at that new realm.

The power of his current Blazing Flame Blade Art was already enough to shock even himself.

Since breaking through to the External Release Grandmaster realm, he hadn’t yet unleashed the Blazing Flame Blade Art at full power.

Because the Blazing Flame Blade Art was too terrifying, Lu Xuan had long abandoned the black iron broadsword he hadn’t used in ages.

He had already tasked Vice-Commander He to arrange for someone to specially forge a broadsword for him from Dark Mystical Gold.

Dark Mystical Gold was a rare material found only within the Xuan Bird Guard. Its strength was more than five times greater than the standard black iron used by government forces.

Lu Xuan dismissed the system panel, recalling his conversation with Mo Ronghua.

“In two years, the Spirit Ruin Realm will appear. Inside, there are limitless Heaven and Earth Spiritual Treasures.”

“Even top-grade Spiritual Treasures aren’t an impossible dream.”

“However, those mid-grade and above Spiritual Treasures are all guarded by spirit beasts, or even supernatural anomalies.”

“To obtain those treasures, one must slay their guardians.”

According to Mo Ronghua, it seemed these supernatural anomalies were things that leaked out from the Spirit Ruin Realm.

Every time the Spirit Ruin Realm opened, some brand new, unknown supernatural anomalies would appear in this world.

This…
This was damn!
Lu Xuan’s mentality nearly cracked at that moment. Why didn’t he know about this information before?!

This Spirit Ruin Realm… for him,

Wasn’t it just a vast, boundless, inexhaustible treasure trove!

Supernatural anomalies, Heaven and Earth Spiritual Treasures, spirit beasts, demonic beasts – these were all things Lu Xuan craved.

And they were all inside.

If Lu Xuan had known earlier, why would he have stayed holed up in a small place like Qingyun County?

Furthermore, the Spirit Ruin Realm had one rule.

The Spirit Ruin Realm could detect the bone age of entrants. Only beings under thirty years of age could enter.

Beings with a bone age over thirty, regardless of the method used, could not enter.

Hearing this rule, Lu Xuan finally felt a stroke of luck.

Because the Spirit Ruin Realm only appeared once every ten years.

If Lu Xuan missed its appearance in two years, he would never have another chance to enter.

Ten years later, Lu Xuan would already be thirty.

By then, he could only stare longingly at the Spirit Ruin Realm.

“But the entry slots for the Spirit Ruin Realm are limited!”

“The Great Xia Imperial Clan takes seventy percent of the slots. The Eight Great Families and the Five Supreme Forces take another twenty percent.”

“The remaining ten percent is allocated to all the other powers across the Great Xia Dynasty.”

“The Dynasty’s Martial Arts Grand Competition in two years!”

This was how the remaining ten percent of slots were distributed.

All participants must have a bone age under twenty-nine.

Anyone found falsifying their bone age would face severe punishment from the Great Xia court.

The lightest punishment: having their martial arts cultivation crippled. The heaviest: immediate execution!
“Fortunately, two years is enough time!”

Of course, Lu Xuan had no intention of participating in this so-called Martial Arts Grand Competition.

Because the Xuan Bird Guard was an organization under the current Emperor, it naturally also had slots for entering the Spirit Ruin Realm.

Within the Xuan Bird Guard, those with a bone age under thirty.

The ten individuals with the highest martial arts realm would be selected to obtain the qualification to enter the Spirit Ruin Realm.

Lu Xuan was quite confident about meeting this condition.

He didn’t believe that with his Martial Arts Grandmaster realm, he couldn’t secure one slot to the Spirit Ruin Realm.

Therefore, Lu Xuan only needed to stay within the Xuan Bird Guard and quietly wait for the Spirit Ruin Realm to appear in two years.

That was his greatest opportunity.

He would absolutely not miss this chance.

Nothing and no one could stop Lu Xuan’s resolve to enter the Spirit Ruin Realm.

“The Great Xia Dynasty, the Celestial Capital!”

“The Eight Great Families, the Five Supreme Forces.”

From what Mo Ronghua implied, these powers were the true masters of the Great Xia Dynasty.

Because within these forces existed beings at the level of the Divine Mansion True Lord.

Furthermore, these powerful forces also possessed complete Sacrificial Artifacts!
Lu Xuan didn’t know much about Sacrificial Artifacts.

Mo Ronghua had also been evasive, not explaining the details of Sacrificial Artifacts clearly to Lu Xuan.

Whether Mo Ronghua was playing dumb or genuinely didn’t know, Lu Xuan didn’t press further.

Lu Xuan only needed to understand the power of a Divine Mansion True Lord.