Chapter 178: Chapter 178: Realm Breakthrough, Sect Leader Summons Again! (4th Release)
“The fourth layer of the Nine Revolutions Divine Demon Body Refining Skills is now complete,”
Lu Changsheng’s Innate Taoist Body absorbed the medicinal power of treasures like the Ginseng King that had been aged for ten thousand years. After undergoing body tempering, the Nine Revolutions Divine Demon Body Refining Skills had reached the fourth layer—the Fourth Revolution Demon Body.
Lu felt that even without the protection of the Mysterious Yellow Tower, if he were to be struck by a lower-grade Immortal Sword, he would not be easily injured.
“If I can cultivate the Nine Revolutions Divine Demon Body Refining Skills to the ninth layer while in the Void Refinement Realm, I could fight against an Immortal Sword barehanded.”
Lu did not hesitate to use a large number of rare heavenly materials and high-grade elixir pills for body tempering, with the ultimate goal of saving his life. The Nine Revolutions Divine Demon Body Refining Skills held immense potential; cultivating to the ninth layer would make his physique equivalent to the Nine Revolutions Divine Body.
The greatest advantage of the Innate Taoist Body lies in the fact that no matter what cultivation technique is practiced, progress can be made by leaps and bounds.
“Hmm?”
No sooner had Lu Changsheng completed the fourth layer of the Nine Revolutions Divine Demon Body Refining Skills, than the Dual Cultivation System returned several hundred days worth of cultivation.
The cultivation returned from teaching his disciple had already left Lu’s Qi Sea brimming, and now, the return of several hundred days of cultivation from the Dual Cultivation System put him on the verge of breaking through to the fourth layer of the Void Refinement Realm at any moment.
“It’s time to make a breakthrough.”
“Lian, after you finish your body refinement, go back to Fire Lotus Peak to cultivate by yourself; Master needs to go into seclusion and make a breakthrough,”
“Understood,”
replied Lu Qinglian, who was in the midst of practicing the Nine Dragons Refinement Technique.
Lu Changsheng took out an eighth-grade Red Flood Dragon Gold Pill and refined its demonic energy with the Yin Yang Dragons Cauldron, providing himself with an abundance of Spiritual Energy for his breakthrough.
The Taiqing Wuji Technique circulated, and a thousand miles of purple qi came from the east; the myriad cloud seas of Mount Shu, centered around Qingyun Peak, rapidly gathered, forming a vortex that spanned a thousand miles, a sight of extreme shock and awe.
Lu Changsheng felt unrestricted in making a breakthrough in Mount Shu.
With Grandmaster Taiyuan and many other Supreme Elders of Mount Shu presiding, and the mountain’s protective Great Formation in place, even the Demon Lord would not dare to attack Mount Shu lightly.
The legacy of Mount Shu was profound, making it the ideal place for a cautious cultivation approach.
Although Lu Changsheng’s Taiqing Wuji Technique at the ninth layer had not yet reached Great Perfection, after years of rigorous cultivation, he had already grasped parts of the ninth layer, causing the manifestation of the heavenly purple qi phenomenon to be extremely spectacular, which had replaced the previous divine and demonic phenomena.
“Has the phenomenon changed?”
“This is the heavenly phenomenon caused by the Taiqing Wuji Technique.”
“Junior Brother Lu is about to make another breakthrough.”
Elders of Mount Shu, such as Li Changye, Song Wuchuan, Murong Shi, and Zhao Wuyan, took notice of the ancient divine and demonic phenomena above Qingyun Peak disappearing and being replaced by the phenomenon of heavenly purple qi caused by the Taiqing Wuji Technique.
Li Changye also practiced the Taiqing Wuji Technique, thus he was more than familiar with the phenomenon it caused.
“Damn it, how do those people from Qingyun Peak cultivate? I’ve already been working so hard…”
Xiao Xiangdao, who was furiously cultivating at Li Changye’s peak, felt an unprecedented sense of powerlessness upon witnessing the astonishing phenomenon.
The disciples of Qingyun Peak seemed invigorated, their cultivation advancing by leaps and bounds. Without long intervals between, they made continuous breakthroughs, creating various heavenly phenomena each year.
Now, Qingyun Peak’s leading disciple, Lin Qingzhi, had surpassed Xiao Xiangdao in cultivation level.
Xiangdao, who became a disciple of Mount Shu’s first senior brother, Li Changye, during the disciple induction ceremony, thought that from then on he would soar high with ease. Yet who could have imagined that within just over twenty years, Lu Changsheng, who had accepted Lin Qing as his disciple, would ascend from the Nascent Soul Realm to the Void Refinement Realm?
Under the guidance of Li Changye, Xiao’s cultivation was not slow. In any other era, he might have been Mount Shu’s most eye-catching unparalleled genius, potentially achieving the accomplishments of Mount Shu’s seventh Sect Leader, Grandmaster Tailin, or the twenty-first sect leader, Grandmaster Taixu.
Both of these previous sect leaders had achieved the Great Accomplishment of the Spirit Sword Physique.
However, Xiao Xiangdao, this unmatched genius, seemed to cultivate at a slow pace when compared with his peers at Qingyun Peak.
“No matter how I cultivate, it’s impossible for me to catch up to Lin Qingzhi, unless I find some other way that can defy the heavens and change my fate, only then might I surpass him,”
Xiao Xiangdao clenched his fists, struggling to contemplate a method of cultivation.
However, Xiao Xiangdao couldn’t think of how to rapidly improve his cultivation.
If there really was such a rapid method, Mount Shu would have been full of Void Refinement Realm experts by now.
At Ten Thousand Swords Peak, Grandmaster Taiyuan was chatting with the old handyman when suddenly, signs of a breakthrough appeared at Qingyun Peak, shocking them both.
“I didn’t expect Changye to have just made a breakthrough in the Nine Revolutions Divine Demon Body Refining Skills and now his cultivation realm has advanced once more. Carefully considering, his cultivation has now reached the fourth level of the Void Refinement Realm,”
Grandmaster Taiyuan, as a master, also didn’t know how this close disciple cultivated.
Even if the Ancestral Master of Mount Shu had visited him in dreams, conveying cultivation progress and Immortal Artifacts, Lu Changsheng’s rate of cultivation was still shockingly fast.
“According to our Mount Shu’s rules, once one’s cultivation reaches the fourth level of the Void Refinement Realm, they are considered one of the true foundations of our Mount Shu and are eligible to inherit a lower-grade Immortal Artifact. It’s just that Changye lacks for neither Immortal Swords nor Treasure Pagodas, and there are few Immortal Artifacts that could enhance his power,”
As the Sect Leader of Mount Shu, Grandmaster Taiyuan strictly enforced the rules of the sect.
Mount Shu had an unwritten rule that if a Supreme Elder’s cultivation reached the fourth level of the Void Refinement Realm and there were spare Immortal Artifacts, then the Sect Leader of Mount Shu could choose to bestow a lower-grade Immortal Artifact to enhance the combat power of the sect’s Supreme Elders.
Mount Shu’s Supreme Elders would return the Immortal Artifacts before they passed away.
After accumulating over hundreds of thousands of years, Mount Shu always had a surplus of Immortal Artifacts.
Normally, Supreme Elders above the fourth level of the Void Refinement Realm could fully unleash the power of a lower-grade Immortal Artifact.
Therefore, Mount Shu’s Supreme Elders only had the possibility of receiving an Immortal Artifact after reaching above the fourth level of the Void Refinement Realm.
Of course, someone like Lu Changsheng who could fight above his level was an exception; he could already exhibit the magic of a lower-grade Immortal Artifact before reaching the fourth level of the Void Refinement Realm.
But Grandmaster Taiyuan was worried.
For a typical Supreme Elder, reaching the fourth level of the Void Refinement Realm meant there was hardly any chance of obtaining an Immortal Artifact.
And yet, Lu Changsheng already owned several Immortal Artifacts; even if Grandmaster Taiyuan offered a lower-grade Flying Sword Immortal Artifact, the boost to Lu Changsheng’s power would not be significant.
Grandmaster Taiyuan could never have imagined that one day he would worry over which Immortal Artifact to award.
As for mid-grade Immortal Artifacts, Mount Shu did possess them, but such artifacts required at least the cultivation of the six sect leaders to unleash their full power.
This was like giving a ten-thousand-pound cauldron to a mortal; the mortal couldn’t lift it at all.
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Qingyun Peak shook violently due to the commotion caused by Lu Changsheng’s breakthrough, but fortunately, the disciples and handymen were already accustomed to the various disturbances caused by Lu’s cultivation techniques, so it was no longer surprising.
The vision of purple clouds lasted for half a month before dissipating.
“Fourth level of the Void Refinement Realm,”
Lu Changsheng took a deep breath, now one step closer to the realm of the six great Sect Leaders.
“Changye, come to Ten Thousand Swords Peak,”
Just as Lu Changsheng had finished his breakthrough, Grandmaster Taiyuan suddenly communicated to him.
The Sect Leader has returned from Huang State? And he is summoning me, but for what purpose?