Volume 7: The Strongest Four Realms Chapter 1 January
A long chaotic strip stretching for thousands of miles is constantly expanding and shrinking.
This is one of the boundaries between the underworld and the sky.
The stream of light transformed by Lu Qingshan slowly descended in front of the boundary wall.
The method of breaking the dragon bird is just like the crossing of the boundary in the Nine Netherworld Fengshui Map. It uses the magic power of the dragon bird itself, so it needs a certain amount of time to recover.
It takes a month to recover from the broken spell.
In other words, after sending Ji Chuan to the wilderness, Lu Qingshan will have to stay in the underworld for another month.
Fortunately, he had the talent of Erosion Spirit, so he was no longer afraid of the existence of the Yellow Spring Death Qi.
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For most cultivators in the Nascent Soul stage, a month is really nothing. It is not even enough for them to master the basics of a technique.
But for Lu Qingshan, it was enough time for him to calm down.
In order to awaken more powerful Taoist magical powers, before his state of mind was improved, Lu Qingshan chose to deliberately slow down the speed of his cultivation.
Now that everything has settled, he has begun to act without any worries.
Lu Qingshan's heart moved, and a gorgeous column-shaped crystal immediately appeared in his palm.
There is liquid spiritual essence flowing in the crystal, which is dizzying.
This is a spiritual crystal that is worth the entire fortune of a weak infant cultivator.
The most common use of spirit crystals is to allow cultivators to absorb the pure spiritual power in them when they reach a bottleneck in their practice, thereby attempting to break through.
Because of its high value, wide versatility and difficulty in depreciating, it is often used as currency by high-level monks.
For Lu Qingshan, the spirit crystal has an additional function...
"Big Experience Pill" is another name for Spirit Crystal among players.
One spirit crystal, if fully absorbed, can be converted into 50,000 experience points.
Moreover, because the spiritual power contained in the spirit crystal is of extremely high purity, it often does not take too long to absorb and refine a spirit crystal.
"In the previous life, this was a luxurious treatment that only players who paid for the game could enjoy." Lu Qingshan showed a faint smile on his face.
Converting spirit crystals into experience points is the least cost-effective option for using spirit crystals.
To give the simplest example, you use a spirit crystal to buy a talisman, then go to a dungeon, throw the talisman into the dungeon, and call it a day. The experience points you gain will definitely far exceed 50,000 points.
But converting spirit crystals into experience points also has an obvious advantage.
That is to save time.
The kryptonian tycoons don't have the energy to clear each dungeon one by one, nor do they have the spare time to complete quests.
They only need to buy a bunch of spirit crystals to gain experience points in an extremely luxurious and wasteful way.
This is equivalent to spending a large amount of resources to quickly improve one's own cultivation.
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Without thinking any more, Lu Qingshan practiced the Jie Tian Sword Technique, and the pure spiritual power contained in the spirit crystal was quickly absorbed and refined by him.
The crystal clear spirit crystal gradually turned gray as the spiritual power was absorbed.
A quarter of an hour later, the spirit crystal in Lu Qingshan's hand had lost all its luster and looked gray, without any trace of its previous magical power.
And his experience value increased by 50,000 points.
Looking at the empty shell of the spirit crystal in his hand, Lu Qingshan was a little dazed.
The speed of refining spirit crystals was indeed very fast, but it had never been this fast before...
Is this the power of Taoist techniques?
Lu Qingshan murmured.
His actions did not stop, and soon, another spirit crystal appeared in his hand.
Lu Qingshan made up his mind that this time he must greatly increase his combat power, regardless of the cost.
Don’t be afraid of how much resources you spend. As long as you have the ability, you will earn it back tenfold or a hundredfold sooner or later.
Most importantly, time waits for no one.
Lu Qingshan has always had an extremely urgent need to improve his strength, as if there was a terrifying beast chasing him.
A quarter of an hour later, the second spirit crystal was refined.
Lu Qingshan’s stored experience points reached 990,000, approaching seven digits for the first time.
He was not satisfied and took out another spirit crystal.
Five hours later, forty spirit crystals had been converted into two million experience points.
And Lu Qingshan continued.
Time passes fastest during this process of wholeheartedly absorbing and refining spiritual energy.
Even Lu Qingshan himself did not realize that the spirit crystals in his storage ring were almost empty without him noticing.
When there were only five spirit crystals left, Lu Qingshan came to his senses and stopped refining the spirit crystals.
The leaders of the Seven Realms Forum rewarded him with a total of one hundred spirit crystals.
Afterwards, Qingzhou Zhishoulou also sent the three spirit crystals that had been agreed upon earlier.
A total of one hundred and three spirit crystals.
Lu Qingshan had previously spent ten spirit crystals at the Sword Sect to purchase the spiritual materials needed to improve the quality of Peach Blossom, but this time, only five spirit crystals were left.
The remaining spirit crystals were all converted into experience points.
A total of eighty-eight spirit crystals were consumed, a terrifying amount of assets that even a Void Refinement cultivator could not afford.
Such a huge effort brought Lu Qingshan a huge amount of experience points.
Four million four hundred thousand experience points!
Adding the 890,000 experience points originally stored, Lu Qingshan now has a total of 5.29 million experience points.
An extremely terrifying number.
You have to know that even if it is to practice Taoist techniques, the experience points consumed by Lu Qingshan to upgrade his entire Nascent Soul stage techniques is only 10 million.
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Now that you have experience points, the most important thing at the moment is to improve your own cultivation.
Without any stinginess, Lu Qingshan directly invested two million experience points in the technique.
His aura immediately began to rise.
"【Heaven-Severing Sword Scripture】(Nascent Soul Chapter) upgraded to level 2, spiritual power +10,000!"
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"【Heaven-Severing Sword Scripture】(Nascent Soul Chapter) upgraded to level 5, spiritual power +10,000!"
An inexplicable spiritual power emerged out of nowhere from Lu Qingshan's meridians.
The Nascent Soul in his Dantian sat cross-legged, with his hands forming seals in a cultivation posture, constantly absorbing the inexplicably appearing spiritual power.
Then, after absorbing a huge amount of spiritual power, Lu Qingshan's Nascent Soul form began to gradually solidify.
The transparent body is gradually transitioning to translucent.
In just a moment, he reached the peak of the early Nascent Soul stage.
A spiritual energy that was nearly twice as powerful as before flowed throughout his body.
Since he established his foundation, Lu Qingshan has been practicing Dao-level techniques, so the quality and quantity of his spiritual power far exceeds that of ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators.
According to the base and coefficient, his basic cultivation is equivalent to four times that of a first-grade weak infant cultivator in the early Nascent Soul stage.
The combat power increase of the top Nascent Soul is nine.
In other words, leaving aside other factors such as magic, artistic conception, and magical instruments, and just talking about cultivation, Lu Qingshan already possesses thirty-six times the combat power of an early Nascent Soul (a first-grade weak infant).
With this kind of cultivation and combat power, even if Lu Qingshan is only at the early stage of the Nascent Soul, he is enough to defeat most of the Nascent Soul cultivators who have reached the great perfection stage.
Lu Qingshan clenched his fists secretly, but his improvement continued.
The sword-controlling technique of the soul is the only technique he currently possesses that can effectively temper the soul.
Because sword-controlling is one of the most frequently used techniques, even though Lu Qingshan had not specifically practiced or studied it, his sword-controlling technique had already reached level 15.
Lu Qingshan, who had a huge amount of experience points, invested another 200,000 experience points into the Yuanshen Sword Technique without hesitation.
"Sword Controlling Skills upgraded to level 15, Spiritual Awareness +10!"
"Sword Controlling Skills upgraded to level 16, Spiritual Awareness +20!"
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"Sword Controlling Skills upgraded to level 20, Spiritual Awareness +20!"
With the double experience value reduction of [Natural Sword Type] and [Swordsmanship Affinity] (Intermediate), Lu Qingshan only spent 200,000 experience points to upgrade this sword technique to the theoretical maximum level.
"Most of the experience points are still useless..." Lu Qingshan narrowed his eyes, thought for a moment, and had made a choice in his mind.
"Invisible Sword Escape is upgraded to level 6... Invisible Sword Escape is upgraded to level 10... Invisible Sword Escape is upgraded to level 20!"
This upgrade once again cost Lu Qingshan about 300,000 experience points.
And on the panel, the level of Invisible Sword Escape has also reached the theoretical maximum level.
Invisible Sword Escape: After activating this skill, the swordsman can fly for a short distance with the flying sword. The current maximum accompanying flight distance is three hundred feet.
Three hundred zhang is approximately equal to one kilometer.
This is already a very strategically valuable advance distance.
With the speed of Lu Qingshan's flying sword, one kilometer really only takes a moment.
With this skill, he can rush to the enemy's face before other monks can react, making it impossible to defend against them.
There is still plenty of experience left.
"You spend 997,500 experience points, and the level of your natal sword: Dragon Bird is increased to LV4 (0/2 million) - all sword skills performed with this natal sword will increase the damage by 50%!"
"You spent 499,200 experience points, and the level of your natal sword: Peach Blossom was increased to LV4 (0/100w) - the damage of all sword skills performed with this natal sword increased by 25%!"
"You spend 1 million experience points, and the level of your natal sword: Peach Blossom is increased to LV5 (0/250 million) - all sword skills performed with this natal sword will increase the damage by 35%!"
Inside Lu Qingshan's Dantian, on the Nascent Soul that was sitting cross-legged, in the sword orifice, countless dense spots of light suddenly appeared and rushed towards the dragon bird hidden inside.
Similarly, a small part of these light spots containing Lu Qingshan's essence and spirit also flowed into the Peach Blossom Sword contained in his Nascent Soul!
There was a halo of light suddenly flowing on the two natal swords. They were constantly absorbing the rich light spots, and the sword bodies were buzzing.
Ding! Ding!
Along with two clear and pleasant humming sounds, a shimmering light lingered on the swords of Peach Blossom and Dragon Bird, and the shapes became hazy and sublimated.
After a while, it finally stabilized.
The two natal swords were upgraded at the same time.
Lu Qingshan could clearly feel that his connection with Taohua and Longque had become much closer.
"What about me? What about me? I want one too, I want one too!" Gu Yiyi, who watched helplessly as Longque and Taohua absorbed these energy spots and got promoted, but had yet to receive Lu Qingshan's favor, felt so aggrieved that she was about to cry.
"Lu Qingshan, why are you so skilled? How many times have you done this to them? And why are they so skilled, but I am still not there? How far do you want to leave me behind?"
Lu Qingshan slapped his forehead and apologized, "According to the order in which they came, they should have come first. It's just that when it was your turn, they were gone by chance."
"Ahhh..." Gu Yiyi couldn't stand this injustice.
"But..." Lu Qingshan showed an embarrassment on his face, "I can still squeeze out a little for you..."
"Really?" Gu Yiyi stopped crying and was full of anticipation.
Lu Qingshan nodded.
"You spend 0.92w experience points, and your natal sword: Wangchuan level is increased to LV2 (0/10w) - all sword skills performed with this natal sword have a damage increase of 20%!"
There are also many light spots generated, rushing towards the Forgotten River.
"Come on, come on..." Gu Yiyi suddenly burst into laughter and continued to absorb these light spots that contained Lu Qingshan's essence and spirit.
As for the fact that the number of these light spots was very different from that of dragon birds and peach blossoms, the overjoyed Gu Yiyi automatically ignored it.
This tactic is called retreating to advance.
If Wang Chuan was given the 10,000 experience points directly, Gu Yiyi would definitely be indignant and feel that Lu Qingshan was partial.
Lu Qingshan chose to pretend not to give Gu Yiyi any experience points, and then deduct the 10,000 experience points after Gu Yiyi accepted the fact.
In this situation, not only did Gu Yiyi not feel aggrieved at all, she was even a little silly and happy, thinking that she had made a lot of money...
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After completing all this, Lu Qingshan took out four precious spiritual materials that had been prepared long ago from his storage ring: withered dragon wood, earth dragon essence, mutton-fat white jade, and redbud divine copper.
He used his spiritual power to control these spiritual materials to float in the air.
Lu Qingshan is going to improve the quality of peach blossoms here:
[Peach Blossom] Quality: Mid-grade Heavenly Weapon (Sword Embryo, can be upgraded)
Current upgrade requirements: Sword level greater than lv4, two taels of withered dragon wood, six taels of redbud divine copper, nine taels of mutton-fat white jade essence, and four taels of earth dragon essence.
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Lu Qingshan stretched out his hand and a gray flying sword flew out, turning into a sword light and piercing into those precious materials.
It's peach blossom.
Hiss, hiss, hiss!
He practiced the magic formula, and with a thought, the surface of the peach blossom suddenly flashed with spiritual light, generating a powerful suction force.
At the same time, a large number of light spots of different colors emerged from the four precious spiritual materials.
These spots of light are the essence of the four spiritual materials. They are like stars, rising up continuously and then pouring into the peach blossoms.
With the influx of these light spots, the power of the peach blossom itself became stronger and stronger.
About a quarter of an hour later.
clang!
Taohua's sword body suddenly began to vibrate violently, and the speed of absorbing the essence of spiritual materials also increased several times.
Lu Qingshan knew that this was the critical moment for Taohua's transformation.
The volumes of the four spiritual materials , namely, withered dragon wood, earth dragon essence, mutton-fat white jade, and redbud divine copper, are shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye.
After these spiritual materials were refined and absorbed by more than 50%, no more light spots emerged from them. What was left were only some useless waste, as the essence had already been extracted by the peach blossoms.
At this moment, the Peach Blossom Sword flashed with a water-like luster, like mist and jade.
After a moment, the shaking of the sword finally stopped.
The peach blossoms that were originally gray now had a hint of green like clear water, and there seemed to be terrifying power accumulating in them.
【Peach Blossom】
Quality: Top-grade Heavenly Weapon (Sword Embryo, can be upgraded)
Current upgrade requirements: Sword level greater than lv7, four taels of brilliant star silver, nine taels of gilded sand, seven taels of blood-thread silver, and ten catties of emerald copper.
Level: lv5 (0/300w) - [All sword skills performed with this natal sword increase damage by 42%]
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"A top-grade heavenly weapon..." Lu Qingshan waved his hand and the peach blossom fell into his hand.
The three-foot-long peach blossoms are not as breathtaking as the dragon bird in appearance, and appear to be very simple and unpretentious, but their power should not be underestimated.
Feeling that both Dragon Bird and Peach Blossom had made great improvements, Lu Qingshan was also extremely happy.
"Let's see how powerful my flying sword is now." His mind moved, and the dragon bird and peach blossoms suddenly shot out, turning into two streams of light, one bright red and one blue-green, which kept moving in the air, bringing up bursts of roaring sounds.
"Dragon Bird, forty times the speed of sound, Peach Blossom, twenty-eight times the speed of sound." Lu Qingshan murmured.
This is the speed of flying swords that Longque and Taohua can achieve without any artistic conception power.
You must know that the power of the flying sword wielded by an ordinary Nascent Soul Great Perfection sword cultivator may not necessarily reach the general state of the Dragon Bird.
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In fact, when one reaches Lu Qingshan's level, the power of the flying sword is mainly determined by three factors: one's own cultivation, sword intent, and magic weapon.
Cultivation is the foundation and the source of the art of flying swords. Sword intent is the soul. With the soul, the power of the art of flying swords can be taken to a higher level.
The sword itself is also extremely important.
The power of the flying sword technique performed by Taoist weapons is naturally extraordinary.
That is why the most important asset of a swordsman is, in most cases, his natal sword.
After all this, there were still 290,000 experience points left on the panel. Lu Qingshan no longer used them and kept them for emergency use.
"Next, I need to get familiar with my own skyrocketing strength." Lu Qingshan murmured.
It only took him a few days to go from the late Jindan stage to the current peak of the early Yuanying stage. The gap is so big that it will take some time to consolidate his cultivation.
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As time passed, in the silent underworld, Lu Qingshan's practice seemed to be in order.
Just when he had completely gained control of his surging power, a month had finally passed.
"It's time to go back."
Holding the dragon bird in his hand and standing in front of the boundary wall, Lu Qingshan muttered to himself
Then, he swung the sword in his hand.
The fault stagnated for a moment, then suddenly expanded, the membrane of the boundary wall broke open in an instant, and a space channel appeared.
Lu Qingshan did not hesitate and stepped into the space channel.
