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Meng Ling smiled bitterly to herself. Everyone understood the logic, but reality was too cruel. If the three of them rashly rushed into the palace, they would probably be killed by the palace guards before they even saw Su Mu.

"I can help you get revenge."

Xi Changfeng spoke slowly, his tone calm: "However, I also need the assistance of your Divine Judgment Organization to do something for me."

He had his own plans—the Tianwu Sect had no intelligence agents or spies in the Great Qian Imperial City and the Imperial Palace, so it would be somewhat passive to deal with Su Mu again. The Divine Judgment Organization had been operating in the Imperial City for a long time, which could make up for his shortcomings.

Previously, he was confident in his strength and thought he could easily kill Su Mu on his own without the help of external forces. However, the battle this morning completely shattered his confidence.

In that battle, he could only manage a draw with Su Mu at best, and that was without using any of his trump cards.

As a top genius of the Tianwu Sect ten thousand years ago, he was given many powerful reliance and trump cards by the sect's powerful figures back then.

In the morning's battle, he only used his own strength and did not use his trump cards.

If it really comes down to a fight to the death, using all his trump cards, he might not be the one to lose in the end.

Therefore, even after losing a match, Xi Changfeng was still confident that he could eliminate Su Mu.

"It is an honor for us, mother and children, that you, as a senior, are willing to lend a helping hand!"

Meng Ling was stunned for a moment, then reacted, her face beaming with joy. She quickly bowed and thanked them, saying, "We will never forget your great kindness, senior. We will definitely follow your instructions and serve you faithfully in the future!"

"Alright, let's go back to the capital first."

Xi Changfeng nodded in satisfaction, said no more, and got into the carriage.

The second floor of the imperial library.

In his room, Su Mu had already checked everything in Su Feiyang's storage ring.

Besides the items in the storage ring, two magic treasures also fell after Su Feiyang's inner world of Qi Sea and inner world of Consciousness collapsed. Both were low-grade earth-rank treasures, of average quality, and not of much use to Su Mu now.

The powerful figures of the Xichuan Sword Pavilion ten thousand years ago were quite generous to Su Feiyang, leaving her with a lot of cultivation resources—a large number of low-grade and mid-grade spirit stones, as well as many high-grade pills and rare treasures, and even some talismans that could save her life in times of crisis, such as the Earth Escape Talisman.

Unfortunately, Su Feiyang was killed by Su Mu in less than a single move, and he didn't have time to use these life-saving talismans. In the end, he could only leave them to Su Mu for nothing.

Su Mu is not lacking in cultivation resources now; he is more interested in finding some rare treasures that can be useful to him, like the Thunder Stone left by Situ Chengjun, something that can directly enhance his own strength.

Unexpectedly, he actually found something good in Su Feiyang's storage ring.

It was a sword blank about three feet long and one and a half inches wide, its entire body shimmering with light and exuding a sharp and incomparably fierce sword aura. Just by getting close, one could feel a bone-chilling sharpness.

This type of sword blank is a specialty of Xichuan Sword Pavilion. It is formed over a long period of time by the sword intent and sword momentum of generations of Sword Pavilion experts, and belongs to a special type of natural treasure.

Even an unrefined sword blank reached the grade of high-level Earth rank, which shows how precious it is.

Sword blanks of any grade have two uses.

One method is to integrate it into an existing sword, using the power of the sword blank to enhance the sword's grade and power, transforming an ordinary sword into a magical artifact.

Secondly, one can completely refine the sword embryo, integrating it into one's own primordial spirit or true spirit, thereby creating a sword primordial spirit or sword true spirit, greatly enhancing one's sword skills and combat power.

The grade of this sword blank is too high. Su Feiyang has not yet cultivated a true spirit and his cultivation is insufficient. He has no ability to integrate this sword blank into the sword, let alone completely refine it. He can only treat it as a collection and carry it with him.

Just as Situ Chengjun's spirit was not strong enough to absorb the energy of a high-grade Thunderstone, Su Feiyang also needed to significantly improve his own strength in order to bring out the full potential of this sword embryo.

Of course, Su Feiyang didn't even look at the lower-grade sword blanks.

"My golden true fire should be able to completely refine this high-grade earth-rank sword embryo."

Su Mu thought to himself, then bit his fingertip and dripped a drop of blood essence onto the sword embryo, completing the recognition ceremony. He then put the sword embryo into his inner world of Qi Sea.

Immediately afterwards, he activated his own true fire, tightly enveloping the sword embryo, and carefully observed the refining process.

As expected, his golden true fire was indeed able to refine the sword embryo, but the refining speed was extremely slow, far exceeding his expectations.

At Su Mu's current refining speed, it would take at least half a year to completely refine this high-grade Earth-rank sword embryo.

In fact, for a martial arts master who has achieved mastery, half a year is not a long time, and can even be said to pass in the blink of an eye.

If it were Su Feiyang, and he had the opportunity to refine this sword embryo, he would never rush into the Great Qian Imperial City to seek revenge. He would definitely find a secluded place, spend half a year to completely refine the sword embryo, and then make other plans after his own strength has improved.

"To speed up the refining process, my true fire must become stronger."

Su Mu frowned, pondering, "My golden true fire already far surpasses the true fire of ordinary True Martial Realm experts, but it's still not enough to quickly refine this sword embryo. How can I make my true fire even stronger?"

Su Mu fell into deep thought, constantly pondering ways to enhance the power of the True Fire.

A moment later, a glint of light flashed in his eyes, and he had an idea.

"That genius from the late True Martial Realm of the Heavenly Martial Sect has a very strong True Fire, which also has a Sparrow Shadow effect, making it a special True Fire. If I can absorb and fuse with his True Fire, my Golden True Fire will definitely become much stronger."

Su Mu had long known that not everyone's true fire could be integrated into his own—ordinary true fire, even if integrated, could not enhance the power of his own true fire, and might even affect the purity of his true fire.

Only a powerful true fire with a special illusory appearance and extremely high quality can be integrated into his golden true fire, thereby enhancing the power of the true fire.

"But I chased that guy away. I wonder if he'll dare to challenge me again..."

Su Mu thought to himself that he knew he couldn't completely rely on fusing someone else's true fire—even if he had that opportunity, the fusion process might not be successful, and it might even backfire on him.

He had to find another way, a two-pronged approach, to quickly enhance the power of the true fire and accelerate the refining speed of the sword embryo.

For the time being, Su Mu couldn't think of any other effective methods, so he simply stopped thinking about it and focused on consolidating his own cultivation.

The immense imperial aura converged from all directions and surged into Su Mu's body.

Su Mu composed himself and continued to infuse his Imperial Spirit with true essence, vital energy, and soul power, constantly stabilizing the spirit and enhancing his own strength.

He continuously took out and consumed various elixirs to aid his cultivation, such as the Spirit Essence Pill and the Soul Nourishing Pill. The medicinal power quickly integrated into his body, nourishing his primordial spirit and spiritual body.