Crimson Flame Blade Art! Seeking the Source of Yin Energy!

"Uncle Li is right. My cultivation has progressed somewhat these past few days, so I failed to restrain my strength for a moment."

Lu Xuan spoke calmly. He had deliberately left those traces behind rather than concealing them.

It was a necessary measure. These past few days, the entire Lu Family had been gripped by unease and turmoil because of what had happened to Lu Yun'an and the others.

Thus, Lu Xuan needed to display some of his strength at this time to steady the Lu Family and prevent any further trouble from arising.

What!

With Lu Xuan's confirmation, Li Mingzhong was shocked to the core, his face filled with awe.

Li Mingzhong was so deeply shaken because he himself was a martial artist at the peak of Flesh Refining.

He asked himself honestly and knew that, with his own strength, he could not leave such a terrifying sight upon this sturdy Blue Stone Slab floor.

Since Lu Xuan had created this scene, it was obvious that his realm of strength had already surpassed his own.

Flesh Refining perfection?

Or had Young Master already broken through into the Bone Refining Realm?

He clearly remembered that just a few years ago, Young Master had merely been a martial artist at the peak of Skin Refining.

Who would have thought that in only a few years, he would undergo such an earth-shaking transformation?

Young Master was only twenty years old, yet his realm of strength had already surpassed Li Mingzhong's.

The more Li Mingzhong thought about it, the more terrifying it became. Beads of sweat the size of soybeans abruptly trickled down from the side of his forehead.

So after cultivating martial arts for most of his life, he had ultimately been surpassed by a Young Master who was only twenty.

If even Li Mingzhong was this shocked, the other ordinary guards looked even worse.

Their faces had all gone blank as they stared at Lu Xuan as though he were some monster.

Such a horrifying sight could actually be created by a person—and that person was their own Young Master.

Seeing that his purpose had been achieved, Lu Xuan spoke again. "All right. Once the fire goes out, clean up their ashes and let them rest in peace beneath the earth."

Then Lu Xuan looked at the two of them again and pointed toward a spot.

"Second Brother, Third Brother, I'll leave this place to you two. Yun'an is over there."

"You two, gather Yun'an's remains and give them to Uncle Qing. Let Yun'an be buried and rest in peace."

"Yes, Big Brother!"

After speaking, Lu Xuan raised a hand and gestured to several servants.

"You few, help Master back so he can rest."

"Yes, Young Master!"

No one present had any objection to Lu Xuan's arrangements. All of them looked at him with awe.

Once everything had been arranged, Lu Xuan did not linger. He still had important matters to handle.

His heart had long been itching to return and verify something.

Within a quiet, elegant courtyard, several swords and sabers were placed around the area, along with several enormous boulders standing one meter tall.

At its center, a young man sat cross-legged upon the ground. It was Lu Xuan, who had just returned from the rear courtyard.

After hurriedly washing up and changing into a clean black brocade robe, Lu Xuan's mind stirred, and the Point Addition Panel appeared before him once more.

Host: Lu Xuan

Realm: Blood Refinement Realm (Perfection)

Cultivation Technique: Blazing Fire Blade Art 9/9 (Mastery) (Can be deduced)

Points: 11

Spend 11 points to deduce Blazing Fire Blade Art?

Without any further hesitation, Lu Xuan directly confirmed it in his mind.

The next second, the points on the Point Addition Panel instantly dropped to zero.

A vast and boundless stream of information suddenly flooded Lu Xuan's mind. Brand-new blade techniques unfolded and played out within his thoughts one by one.

A golden little figure wreathed in mysterious light held a saber in its hand, continuously performing obscure and profound blade techniques.

At last, a strand of bewitching crimson flame surged from the saber, radiating a blazing heat as though it could melt all things in the world.

The instant that terrifyingly hot flame appeared, Lu Xuan's eyes snapped open.

An indescribably powerful force emerged from nowhere within his body, coursing through him and nourishing every cell.

At the same time, the muscles of Lu Xuan's body bulged wildly. His frame grew several sizes larger than before, while the fluctuations of his aura became increasingly powerful.

Before long, the fluctuations of Lu Xuan's aura stabilized, then slowly subsided.

"Just a little more. Just that final little bit."

Lu Xuan could feel that his strength had reached the limit of the Blood Refinement Realm. His next step would be to break through into the legendary Inner Qi Realm.

Host: Lu Xuan

Realm: Blood Refinement Realm (Perfection)

Cultivation Technique: Crimson Flame Blade Art 1/9

Points: 0

He was still just short on points. Lu Xuan could feel it.

As long as he added points to his Blade Technique once more, he would break through into the legendary Inner Qi Realm.

Crimson Flame Blade Art?

Lu Xuan immediately picked up the large saber beside him, the moves of the Crimson Flame Blade Art flashing through his mind.

Lu Xuan suddenly spun around. His aura surged sharply, and the long saber in his hand, carrying overwhelming power, lashed toward a nearby boulder like a bolt of black lightning.

In an instant, a bewitching, scorching crimson blade aura spread wildly from the saber's edge like a nimble fire serpent.

The extreme heat raged, instantly igniting the surrounding air. It was as though an invisible hand were wantonly twisting and wrenching it apart.

Ripples of eerie distortion spread across the invisible void, as if even space itself had become unstable beneath this force.

Boom! Boom!

Two deafening explosions rang out. Beneath that unmatched blade aura, the boulder split apart like a fragile sheet of paper.

Lu Xuan fixed his gaze tightly upon it. The boulder, originally a full meter tall, had been cleanly cleaved in two.

The cut was smooth and even, as though it had been carefully polished.

At the very center of the cut, a pitch-black mark stood out starkly, as though it had been licked by blazing hellfire, radiating heart-palpitating heat.

What a terrifying Blade Technique. This high-temperature flame was several times stronger than the Blazing Fire Blade Art Lu Xuan had cultivated before.

This was merely the effect of the first level, yet it had already raised Lu Xuan's strength by a great deal.

Yin Energy!

A frightening light flickered in Lu Xuan's eyes—the desire for Yin Energy.

Just a few strands of Yin Energy had earned Lu Xuan ten System Points.

If he could find more Yin Energy, or even its source, then his strength could soar by leaps and bounds.

At that time, vast as the world was, Lu Xuan could go anywhere within it!

Even the ultimate dream buried deep within Lu Xuan's heart could be realized.

Immortality!

No one could refuse the temptation of immortality.

For death meant losing everything. It meant that all one had done and all one possessed would vanish like clouds and smoke of the past.

Lu Xuan had originally planned to lie low and develop in this tiny County Town, but at this moment, he changed his mind.

The temptation of Yin Energy was enough to make him personally leave the County Town and risk his life to obtain it.

After all, Lu Xuan had already felt that as his Martial Realm improved,

the Great Supplement Medicine that was so precious to ordinary people was having less and less effect on him, while the increase in points had slowed to a crawl.

Thus, relying solely on the Lu Family's pharmacy would no longer be enough to support his martial cultivation.

Nearly a hundred mouths in the Lu Family were waiting to be fed. Lu Xuan could not possibly consume all of the Lu Family's resources by himself.

The operation of such a large pharmacy also depended on buying and selling Great Supplement Medicine to sustain itself.

Ping'an Township?

Lu Xuan had briefly looked into it before. That was where his cousin had met with disaster.

But since such strange, supernatural things could appear there, he needed to investigate it thoroughly.

Lu Xuan did not become blindly arrogant just because his strength had soared. He understood the truth that one misstep could leave a regret lasting a thousand years, so caution had to come first in all things.