A Martial Saint Among Men: From Joining a Martial Arts School

Chapter 168 Improvement

After leaving Poison Bone Ravine, Chu Xuan ran wildly for more than ten miles before he felt relieved.

"Damn it, there's definitely something wrong with this Cold Tide Pool!"

Chu Xuan cursed.

Although he didn't see the giant Frost Spirit Fish that appeared in the icy pool, the more he thought about it, the more something seemed off.

It's quite possible that it's not the person fishing, but the fish fishing for the person!

I'll never come back to this place again.

At the very least, they will not come before they break through to the True Essence realm!

Without delay, he activated the Thousand Faces Illusion Technique. His bones cracked and his facial muscles twitched, and he quickly transformed into the appearance of Shi Wanshan.

Chu Xuan didn't linger. He went straight to Sanxi Ferry, took out Shi Wanshan's credentials, and successfully retrieved the armored flying wheel before sailing away.

There were no further setbacks along the way.

After hiding the armored flying wheel, Chu Xuan headed straight for Lingxiao City and finally returned to the house he had bought before nightfall!

In the dimly lit room, only an oil lamp was lit.

Chu Xuan, on the other hand, was reviewing his experiences along the way.

This time, everything he did was to protect himself, but if the news gets out, things will get complicated!

Whether it's Su Mei, an inner disciple of the Xuan Yang Sect, or Zhao Meng, who has mastered the Horizontal Cultivation technique, they likely both have considerable power behind them.

Even Liu Ming's death can probably be attributed to him.

Liu Ming is not only an inner disciple of the Jade Pivot Sword Pavilion, but also seems to be the son of an elder!

This is too much trouble!

Chu Xuan reviewed the situation and felt there were no major problems.

Fortunately, he used the alias Xu Fengchu when he went there, and when he returned, he impersonated Shi Wanshan!

The Xuan Yang Sect and the Jade Pivot Sword Pavilion wanted to investigate, but they couldn't find anything about him.

The only loophole is probably Liu Donglin!

Does the other party know Xu Fengchu? He is him.

However, this wasn't necessarily a bad thing for Chu Xuan. It was a good opportunity to test the Liu family's sincerity.

If the Liu family keeps it a secret for him, it means that the Liu family is indeed sincere in cooperating with him.

If the Liu family exposes his identity for their own benefit or under pressure, it will not have much impact on Chu Xuan.

He could easily have claimed that after finding the Five-Shedding Golden Toad, he separated from the others and returned alone.

There is another loophole here: if he doesn't ride Shi Wanshan's armored flying wheel, it will take him at least three days to return from Poison Bone Ravine.

Therefore, Chu Xuan must not be exposed to the Liu family during these three days!

After figuring all this out, Chu Xuan felt relieved and took the opportunity to refine the Heavenly Essence Pill in the next two days.

After reviewing the information several times to make sure there were no problems, Chu Xuan began to take stock of his gains.

Although the trip was short, I gained a lot.

The most abundant items were various bottles and jars of elixirs.

Shi Wanshan and his men were well-prepared to remove the poison from Gurun, carrying several bottles of various antidotes and blood-restoring pills with them.

Su Mei, in particular, is a disciple of Qingmu Peak and has even more pills on her.

However, Chu Xuan dared not eat it!

He would never forget that Cui Sheng died after consuming a Qingling Pill given to him by Su Mei.

Who knows if there are any problems with the remaining pills?

Of course, just because you can't eat it doesn't mean you can't sell it for money. You can sell it to Wuyi Lane!

Chu Xuan calculated that the value of these pills alone was worth seventy to eighty thousand contribution points.

As for Shi Wanshan and the others' weapons, Chu Xuan did not pick them up. Firstly, they were not valuable weapons, only about the same value as the knife he had bought before. Secondly, no one was sure if these weapons had been marked, and it would be a loss if they were recognized.

The rest are materials from exotic beasts.

They all come from the Azure-Scaled Ghost-Faced Eagle and the Five-Transformed Golden Toad, and are equally valuable, probably worth several thousand contribution points!

As for the others—

There are also some cultivation manuals, as well as some gold tickets and contribution points, which are just extras. Combined with the exotic beast materials, they are estimated to amount to 10,000 contribution points.

"Finally, we can recover some health!"

Chu Xuan exhaled a breath of stale air.

The materials for refining the Heavenly Essence Pill are not only the heart blood of the Five-Transformed Golden Toad, but also various other spiritual herbs and auxiliary ingredients, which together require forty to fifty thousand contribution points.

Although the Liu family helped find these things, he paid for them all himself!

Including the preparations he made before going to Poison Bone Ravine, he spent about 50,000 contribution points and didn't have much food left.

Fortunately, this wave of recovery has made his wallet bulge again.

[Slayed a fourth-tier beast, Essence Value +3357]

[Slayed a martial artist at the peak of the罡劲 (Gang Jin) realm, Essence Value +3246]

[Slayed a martial artist at the peak of the罡劲 (Gang Jin) realm, Essence Value +3167]

[Energy Value: 9863]

"It's true what they say, you can't get rich without unexpected windfalls!"

Chu Xuan couldn't help but sigh. He had only been away for a day or two, and his essence value was almost fully replenished.

This is much faster than his arduous cultivation!

Unfortunately, such opportunities are rare and hard to come by! Chu Xuan wouldn't go around killing people indiscriminately for the sake of essence points, and neither the Five-Transformation Golden Toad nor Zhao Meng and Su Mei are ordinary people with extraordinary internal energy!

Finally, Chu Xuan's attention fell on the silk cloth.

This is the greatest gain from this trip, besides the heart's blood and essence value of the five-transformed golden toad!

A top-tier external martial arts technique!

If he hadn't cultivated the Eight Desolations Suppressing Prison Technique and possessed the semi-spiritual weapon, the Karma-Slaying Blade, he probably wouldn't have been able to defeat Zhao Meng!

Chu Xuan didn't delay and immediately began to read it carefully.

After reading it several times, the information finally appeared on the panel.

【Lapis Lazuli Vajra Body (0/100000)】

"Another 100,000?"

Although Chu Xuan was already prepared, he couldn't help but smile wryly when he saw the information on the panel.

Another major consumer!

However, although the Vajra Body of Lapis Lazuli consumes a lot of energy, it is also incredibly powerful!

Although both Vajra Indestructible and Vajra Indestructible are methods of body tempering, they are the opposite of each other.

The Vajra Body is built by first training the tendons, then the bones, and finally the skin. The Crystal Vajra Body, however, is built by first training the skin and flesh, then the tendons and bones, and finally the internal organs.

The two are just in different directions; there's no question of which is better or worse!

In terms of skill level, Vajra Indestructible is clearly higher. The Glazed Vajra Body is only a method for cultivating Gang Jin, while Vajra Indestructible is obviously more than that.

However, that was enough for Chu Xuan.

According to the cultivation method, once the Glazed Vajra Body is fully cultivated, one can achieve the Glazed Vajra Body, a physical body comparable to a spiritual weapon.

Zhao Meng's physical body was so strong, but he had only cultivated it to the point of barely achieving great success. His internal organs were like glass, and his skin was warm and translucent glass. His body was a complete body, but he was still far from achieving the perfect Vajra Body of Glass!

Otherwise, Chu Xuan would have had no choice but to flee in a sorry state.

Over the next two days, Chu Xuan began working on refining the Heavenly Essence Pill.

He changed his appearance again, and after wandering around Lingxiao City several times, he finally bought a suitable alchemy furnace and rented a secluded house!

There are too many unexpected things involved in alchemy. If he were to refine pills in the house he bought, and something were to happen, the house would be exposed!

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Therefore, renting a house is the safest option.

The house that Chu Xuan rented also had a basement, which made things much more convenient.

After bringing all the necessary medicinal herbs, Chu Xuan went to the basement and began refining pills.

Although it was his first time, he had already maxed out his experience points and had a thorough understanding of all the techniques for refining the Heavenly Essence Pill, as if he had refined it countless times.

He skillfully sorted the medicinal herbs and then put them into the alchemy furnace.

Two hours later.

Boom!

With a sound like a boiler explosion, thick black smoke billowed from the basement.

"Cough cough cough————"

A moment later, Chu Xuan emerged from the basement, his entire body covered in soot, panting heavily. His face was so black and gray that his original appearance was almost unrecognizable.

He glanced at the three pills in his hand, grinned, and revealed a set of white teeth.

Although the furnace exploded at the last moment, it was not a failure. The Heavenly Essence Pill was of such high quality that the furnace's quality couldn't keep up, leading to the explosion at the last minute.

Fortunately, Chu Xuan protected the pill at the last moment, otherwise all his efforts would have been in vain.

"This is bad! The explosion was quite loud; powerful figures will probably arrive soon! We need to get out of here immediately!"

Thinking of this, Chu Xuan did not hesitate and turned to disappear into the night.

Whoosh whoosh!

Almost immediately after he left, several figures appeared on the rooftop outside the courtyard.

At first glance, it's clear that this was caused by someone refining elixirs here.

The group exchanged glances, but no one spoke. They then dashed towards the basement like arrows.

Unfortunately, the place is now deserted.

Inside the basement, apart from a few broken fragments of the alchemy furnace, there were no other traces.

the other side.

After returning to the house he had purchased, Chu Xuan separated the other two Heavenly Essence Pills and then swallowed the last one in one gulp.

The pill melted instantly upon entering his mouth, and Chu Xuan clearly sensed a gentle yet incredibly powerful medicinal force spreading out in an instant. It first flowed down his throat into his dantian, and then surged through his limbs and bones like a warm current.

At first it was just a slight warmth, but in an instant it turned into a surging heat wave that washed over my whole body.

He felt his entire body burning hot, and his already resilient bones and muscles became slightly numb under the nourishment of the medicine, followed by a fine, aching sensation.

Before Chu Xuan could even get a good feel for it, he heard a "crackling" sound coming from his bones.

A sharp, soul-piercing pain instantly swept through my entire body.

The feeling was as if his bones were being gnawed by thousands of insects. The physical torment was secondary; the most important thing was the psychological torment.

Even though Chu Xuan was mentally prepared, he couldn't help but let out muffled groans and subconsciously tried to circulate his internal energy to resist the impact.

However, Chu Xuan still held back!

If it cannot be resisted, the medicine will lose its effect, and the bone and joint transformation will also fail!

Chu Xuan could only grit his teeth and endure it, large beads of sweat constantly rolling down his forehead.

Blood beads seeped from the pores of his skin, and the intense pain nearly made him faint several times.

However, Chu Xuan persevered! He could clearly feel his bones and muscles transforming, as if he were being reborn.

I don't know how much time passed, but the excruciating pain finally subsided.

Chu Xuan could clearly feel that his physical constitution had improved to a higher level, his physical foundation was more stable, and the flow of qi and blood throughout his body was smoother and easier, as if his whole body had been reforged.

His physical attributes have finally improved again.

Chu Xuan immediately began practicing the Eight Desolate Prison Suppressing Force, and his cultivation speed increased by a full 50%!

"Good heavens!"

Chu Xuan couldn't help but sigh.

This is only the sixth form of root bone, and it's already so terrifying! Above that are the seventh and eighth forms, and Luo Yun, who is ranked first on the Wind and Cloud Ranking, has the ninth form of root bone!

How many times faster is his cultivation speed?

Not to mention the legendary dragon-shaped bone structure!

"The road ahead is long and arduous—"

Chu Xuan sighed.

The next day, Chu Xuan changed his appearance and came to Wuyi Lane again.

The person greeting customers at the counter was still the same person wearing the rat-faced mask.

The moment Chu Xuan entered, the rat-faced masked man's eyes narrowed.

Is this... another new alias?