Volume 8: Demon Suppression Chapter 2 Peach Blossom Promotion
In the ruins formed by the collapse of the wooden building.
Lu Qingshan and the King of the Rat from the West stared at each other.
"You mean, you did this?" The Western Rat King widened his eyes and asked in disbelief, "Why did you destroy the house when everything was fine?!"
"It was an accident," Lu Qingshan thought for a moment and apologized, "I just broke through to the Void Refining stage and I didn't control my strength well for a while."
The reason for this embarrassing situation, as he said, is that the power of the pupil technique suddenly increased sharply, and he has not yet fully mastered it, causing this powerful pupil technique to overflow from his eyes uncontrollably.
"No reason is enough to demolish a house!" The King of Western Rat seized the rare opportunity and was about to teach Lu Qingshan a lesson in righteousness. After he finished speaking, his little head suddenly noticed what Lu Qingshan had just said.
"What? You've reached the state of refining emptiness?" The little mouse demon reacted as if it was put on a hot pan and couldn't help jumping up and down.
"Just broke through." Lu Qingshan nodded.
After receiving Lu Qingshan's confirmation, the King of the Western Rat was struck by lightning and stood there in a daze.
It’s so unfair!
In order to catch up with Lu Qingshan's progress in cultivation, even though it knew that Lu Qingshan was going to leave the sect, it suppressed the excitement in its heart and its desire to wander around, and stayed at Jianlai Peak to practice its skills well.
I am so self-disciplined, but my realm is still at the third level. Lu Qingshan has been away from the sect for a month, and after coming back he has advanced from the Nascent Soul stage to the Refining Void stage?
Looking at the gentle and somewhat dazzling smile on Lu Qingshan's face, the little mouse demon's eyes were dull, and a hint of bitter self-mockery flashed across the corners of his mouth. His claws were clenched into small fists, and because of the great force, the slightly sharp claws pierced directly into his palm.
"It's not me who's wrong, it's the world!"
It turned around dejectedly and found a corner to sit down quietly. Its lonely figure seemed out of place with the world around it.
"No, thirty years... is a bit short, and may not be enough... Sixty years in the east, sixty years in the west." The resolute Western Rat King quickly adjusted his mentality and said to himself, "Don't bully the Rat Demon for being poor!"
Lu Qingshan didn't have time to pay attention to the mouse demon's rich psychological activities. He just looked at the collapsed and ruined wooden building in front of him with some embarrassment.
For sword cultivators, it is easy to let them carry out destruction.
But it would be a bit difficult for them to rebuild the destroyed buildings.
After thinking for a while, Lu Qingshan decided to give up the idea.
It would be fine if you asked him to use his sword to carve a cave, but asking him to rebuild a wooden building?
As a person, you should have self-knowledge.
So, Lu Qingshan turned his gaze to another wooden building next to it.
There were originally three wooden buildings on top of Jianlai Peak.
One of the buildings is Xia Daoyuan’s residence, one is Lu Qingshan’s, and the other is temporarily idle.
Of course, there are only two left now.
"Take you to move." Lu Qingshan glanced at the Western Rat King who was still full of resentment.
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Lu Qingshan, who was happy to move into a new home, calmed down and decided to use this time to consolidate his realm and digest what he had gained.
He first went to the Gewu Hall on Zangbao Peak.
After the dojo competition, the amount of money awarded to the Gewu Hall by the Sword Sect came in handy at this time.
He bought many spiritual materials and treasures in the Gewu Hall.
First of all, there are the spiritual materials needed to practice the fifth-grade sword armor. The required quantity is huge, but none of them is particularly precious.
If Lu Qingshan was still a casual cultivator, it would be very troublesome to collect them.
Now there was a sect's treasure house for him to choose from, so he only spent twenty spirit crystals to collect all the materials for the sword armor.
Of course, this was just a small portion of his spending on this trip.
The real big part is the spiritual materials needed to improve peach blossoms: four taels of star-studded silver, nine taels of gilded sand, seven taels of blood-threaded silver, and ten catties of emerald copper.
Compared to the mediocre spiritual materials required for the fifth-grade sword armor, peach blossoms seem very delicate.
The four spiritual materials it needs are all extremely rare metal treasures.
Starry silver is meteorite iron, as bright as stars, hence the name.
It has an almost unique affinity with the soul. If you want to better control the flying sword, integrating this thing into your natal sword will definitely have a miraculous effect;
Green copper is famous for being hard yet as light as a feather.
If this item is integrated into the natal sword, it can greatly enhance the hardness of the sword itself, making it less likely to be destroyed, but it will not make the sword too heavy and affect the speed of the flying sword;
Gilded sand is a precious material that can conduct the magic power of monks very smoothly, while blood-silver has unparalleled inclusiveness, which can neutralize various spiritual materials and prevent them from being melted in one furnace and causing conflict.
From the above, it can be seen that these four spiritual materials are particularly suitable for refining into the natal sword.
This is indeed the case. There are 3,200 Sword Sect monks, and each of them has the need to upgrade the rank of his own natal sword, hoping that his natal sword can be stronger and sharper.
These four spiritual materials have always been in short supply because of their characteristics that are extremely suitable for swords. They are often in short supply and very expensive.
However, Lu Qingshan seemed to be lucky. This time, the treasure house had everything he needed. After spending two hundred and fifty spirit crystals, he finally prepared all the spiritual materials.
Lu Qingshan, who came out of the Gewu Hall with a full load, sighed in his heart.
In order to practice a sword technique and improve the quality of his natal sword, he would have to burn hundreds of spirit crystals. Fortunately, his wealth far exceeded that of an ordinary person, so he could barely afford it.
If any other sword cultivator in the Void Refining Stage wanted to raise such a natal sword, how many years of accumulation of assets would it take?
No wonder the sword cultivator players in the previous life have always jokingly called their natal sword "wife". If you think about it carefully, it is really appropriate. In addition to expressing the sword cultivator's respect and love for the natal sword, it also reveals a characteristic of the natal sword, "spendthrift".
After suffering heavy bleeding in the Gewu Hall, Lu Qingshan went to Shanghang Peak again.
Shanghang Peak is the peak of Jianzong responsible for external transactions.
After he killed the Divine Transformation cultivator Yuan Cang in Zhenjiang, he obtained a storage ring from a Sixth Realm cultivator.
Unfortunately, Yuan Cang is a sword cultivator, not a magic cultivator or spiritual cultivator known as a "rich man". The most valuable things on him are his two natal swords. Apart from that, there are only some miscellaneous items and thirty spirit crystals in his storage ring.
A sword cultivator's natal sword is extremely precious only to the sword cultivator himself. To others, it is at most a sharper magical weapon with little applicability, so it is not as valuable as imagined.
But a lean camel is still bigger than a horse. In the end, Lu Qingshan only kept one of Yuan Cang's natal swords, and entrusted all the other items to Shanghangfeng to be sold to the Sword Sect.
"Most of the items you entrusted to sell are not rare, and the prices are not high... But the material of the natal sword is good. If you are not in a hurry, the transaction price can be 20% to 30% higher. It's just that you are in a hurry to resell it... so this is the price... Then according to your request, all the spirit stones you get will be exchanged into spirit crystals. As you know, there will be some price difference when spirit stones are exchanged for spirit crystals... In addition, according to convention, we will also charge a half-cent commission, so the total number is 140 spirit crystals. Junior brother, please count them." Huang Ya, a cultivator from Shanghang Peak, handed over a storage bag containing 140 spirit crystals.
Lu Qingshan took the storage bag, glanced at the spirit crystals inside, and after confirming that the number was correct, he clasped his fists and thanked him, "Thank you for your help."
"You're welcome," Huang Ya waved his hand and continued, "Marquis Luotang's assets have already been handed over to us. According to what Master Jianlai said, do you mean to convert them directly into spirit stones?"
Lu Qingshan nodded and gave an affirmative answer.
"Okay," Huang Ya smiled and handed over another storage bag. "Marquis Luo Tang's assets include three medicine gardens and a pill shop... The final estimated value is about one thousand spirit crystals. If it is 50%, it will be five hundred spirit crystals."
Lu Qingshan took the storage bag. Five hundred spirit crystals was not a small number, so he filled the storage bag.
“Junior brother’s wealth is so great that even the most powerful cultivators would be envious.” Huang Ya said with a smile.
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Jianlai Peak, new wooden building.
Lu Qingshan sat cross-legged, with dozens of clumps of material floating in front of his body.
These are the spiritual materials needed to refine the fifth-grade sword armor.
The Five Elements Sword Armor, as his only truly pure defensive technique at present, Lu Qingshan is very dedicated to the practice of the sword armor.
Traces of the Five Elements Qi are being continuously extracted by Lu Qingshan from these spiritual materials.
Until all the spiritual materials' divine light disappeared, five groups of five-element gases of different colors floated in the air.
Lu Qingshan's mind moved slightly, and a sword energy shot out. Then it moved slightly against the wind and turned into a green snake. It opened its big mouth and took the golden Jin Yuan energy into its mouth in one gulp. It was like a green snake holding a pearl, and then swam into the acupuncture points all over his body.
After repeating this five times, five layers of sword curtains of different colors enveloped Lu Qingshan.
The fifth-grade sword armor has been completed - after the sword energy has reached the transformation stage, practicing the five-element sword armor has become extremely easy.
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The next step is to improve the quality of peach blossoms.
The materials are ready, but there is still a hard condition for Taohua to advance, and that is the level.
Although practicing the Great Summer Sutra cost Lu Qingshan nearly five million experience points, he still had seven million experience points saved.
It just seems like a lot, but after he became a fifth-level cultivator, once he used up the seven million experience points, it was actually not as much as he had imagined.
Fortunately, he still had a huge amount of spirit crystals.
These spirit crystals can all be converted into experience points.
Compared to leaving the spirit crystals gathering dust in a storage ring, it is definitely more cost-effective to use them to improve one's own combat power.
Although it might be a bit extravagant and wasteful, Lu Qingshan took out the spirit crystal without hesitation and began to refine it.
He held a spirit crystal in his hand and then practiced the Great Summer Sutra.
The pure spiritual power in the spirit crystal was quickly absorbed and refined by him.
After advancing to the Refining Void stage, his speed in refining spirit crystals was greatly improved compared to the Nascent Soul stage.
Now, he can refine a spirit crystal in half a quarter of an hour.
Lu Qingshan now has a total of 834 spirit crystals. He was not stingy and directly refined 700 spirit crystals into experience points in one breath.
This is an extravagant behavior that would make other monks shudder with fear.
Seven hundred spirit crystals ultimately exchanged for thirty-five million experience points. Adding the original experience points, Lu Qingshan's total experience points reached forty-two million.
He is not a miser, and the moment he makes a profit he has already invested his experience points into romance.
"You spend 2.71w experience points, and the level of your natal sword: Peach Blossom is increased to LV6 (0/500w) - all sword skills performed with this natal sword will increase the damage by 50%!"
"You spend 5 million experience points, and the level of your natal sword: Peach Blossom is increased to LV7 (0/8 million) - the damage of all sword skills performed with this natal sword is increased by 58%!"
At this moment, countless points of divine light overflowed from the sword orifice located at the position of Lu Qingshan's Nascent Soul and kidney, a misty fog appeared, and divine clouds flickered.
It is worth mentioning that as his cultivation level improves, the sword-cultivating ability of his sword skill has also been greatly enhanced.
When in the Nascent Soul stage, the experience points that the natal sword contained in the sword orifice could gain in a year were 90,000. Now it has skyrocketed to 180,000, directly doubling.
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In the sword orifice, the essence transformed from experience points began to come into contact with the peach blossoms and continued to flow on the peach blossom sword.
Under the cover of these rich light spots, Taohua instinctively felt happy and expressed waves of gratitude and admiration to Lu Qingshan.
Then, Taohua, who was very polite, thanked Lu Qingshan, and then consciously began to absorb the divine light into the sword body, prompting herself to complete a certain transformation.
Divine light entered the body, and ripples appeared on the peach green sword . The shape gradually became hazy, like fog and illusion, undergoing some kind of sublimation.
After a moment, all the strange phenomena disappeared and everything returned to normal.
Peach Blossom has completed the upgrade.
At the same time, Lu Qingshan clearly felt that his connection with Taohua was becoming closer and closer.
"Today, the quality of peach blossom can be upgraded to a top-grade heavenly weapon." Lu Qingshan's heart moved, and peach blossom left the body and floated in front of him.
He waved his left hand again, and the spiritual materials that he had purchased with more than two hundred spiritual crystals also appeared, floating in the air.
Lu Qingshan pointed from a distance, and Taohua immediately dived into the pile of treasures and began to absorb the essence of the treasures and spiritual materials.
Bits of the essence of spiritual materials continued to fly up and merge into the sword body.
Taohua ate with relish while uttering continuous and extremely excited sword chants.
The sound of the sword chanting was clear and pleasant. As the sword master of Taohua, Lu Qingshan could understand the meaning of the sword chanting. If translated into language, it was roughly equivalent to "eat, eat"...
Those extremely precious spiritual materials gradually turned into waste after their essence was absorbed by Peach Blossom.
Another half a quarter of an hour passed.
The sound of the sword suddenly stopped, and all the essence of the spiritual materials was refined by the peach blossoms. The spiritual materials that were shining with divine light turned into waste and piled up into a small ball.
Above the peach blossoms, it seemed as if a layer of emerald green water curtain covered them, constantly flowing and extremely agile, with a terrifying power brewing within it.
This is an inner change.
Lu Qingshan is waiting...
This transformation lasted for half an hour.
clang!
A whistling sound of a sword came from Taohua, and then the sword body underwent visible changes.
At this time, the sword body of Taohua was like a piece of emerald green glass, in which the scene of the growth of all things could be faintly seen, and the green was everywhere, like a landscape painting.
【Peach Blossom】
Quality: Top-grade Heavenly Weapon (Sword Embryo, can be upgraded)
Current upgrade requirements: The next level is a pseudo-Tao weapon, which requires absorbing the essence of countless spiritual materials before having a chance to complete the transformation.
Level: lv7 (0/1000w)——[All sword skills performed with this natal sword increase damage by 64%!]
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"Finally a breakthrough." Lu Qingshan was slightly excited.
After the best heavenly weapon comes the pseudo-Taoist weapon.
If one wants to upgrade it to a pseudo-Tao weapon, it cannot be done by simply dissolving into several designated spiritual materials. Instead, one needs to constantly absorb the essence of various spiritual materials and continuously strengthen the natal sword until the day when quantitative changes lead to qualitative changes.
Taohua, who had completed the quality upgrade, was now circling around Lu Qingshan lightly, like a naughty child trying to please his father.
However, Lu Qingshan could feel that within the peach blossom, whose soul was as childlike as that of a child, there was a frightening brutality and power.
Lu Qingshan's mind moved and he took it back into the sword.
