Time slipped away in the blink of an eye, and half a year passed in the flash of a moment!
In the span of half a year, Lu Wangchuan's cultivation grew increasingly profound, and his strength also grew daily.
His actual age was now considered eighteen. His physique had already reached one hundred and eighty-two centimeters at the age of seventeen and had not grown taller since, clearly having reached the limit height of his physical body.
Yet the strength of that physique increased day by day. It was not obvious when he wore clothes, but once he took them off, a dense, explosive feeling surged through his bulging musculature.
Even the muscles across his back fused into a single piece of ogre back, possessing an extraordinary aura!
Finishing his morning cultivation on this particular day, Lu Wangchuan let out a long breath. The expelled air carried a rich concentration of spiritual qi, and his eyes faintly gleamed with several sparks of lightning.
Half a year's time, and my cultivation has improved by at least thirty percent!
He clenched his fist, feeling the surging power within his body, and felt deeply gratified.
According to this rate of progress, at most after one year and two months, he would successfully break through to the Sea Transforming Realm.
This speed was comparable to lightning.
One had to know that even Yun Mengyao, who possessed talent and peak master-level resources, found it difficult to break through to the Sea Transforming Realm without several long years. Yet his resources were so much less than hers, and added together, he could break through in under two years.
As for many ordinary people, it took a short time of over a decade or a long time of several decades, so there was no need to even mention them.
He casually threw a punch, smashing it against the ground. The hard ground immediately split with winding cracks.
The ground of the Divine Water Sect was reinforced by formations and spiritual qi, making it even harder than outside stone. The power of this punch from Lu Wangchuan was no less than ten thousand catties!
The seventh layer of the mortal martial art Mountain Splitting Fist can already strike with a force of ten thousand catties, and the power unleashed by the thirteenth layer of the Limitless Sword Dao has broken at least thirty thousand catties! Compared to when I first stepped into the Condensing Truth Realm, my strength has increased so much.
Lu Wangchuan tapped open the light screen and glanced over it.
Name: Lu Wangchuan. Cultivation: Condensing Truth Realm. Blood and Qi: 1780. Techniques: Azure Emperor Longevity Art (eighth layer), Limitless Sword Dao (thirteenth layer grand completion), Heavenly Dipper Eight Steps (ninth layer grand completion)
In half a year, Lu Wangchuan's blood and qi had directly increased by ten thousand points, and he had used this to elevate the Azure Emperor Longevity Art to the eighth layer!
Nine thousand points came from cultivation advancement through techniques, while the remaining one thousand points were the credit of the Marrow Cleansing Pill and the Divine Blood Pill.
These two pills were indeed good pills, but they could not stand up to the fact that Lu Wangchuan's cultivation was too strong.
Take the Marrow Cleansing Pill for instance. It cleansed the marrow and washed the tendons, able to flush out impurities within the human body. Yet Lu Wangchuan practiced the Life Nurturing Art day in and day out, constantly refining his physique and expelling impurities at every moment.
Therefore, from this perspective, his body increasingly tended toward perfection, being even purer than those at the same level of the Condensing Truth Realm. The Marrow Cleansing Pill was of almost no use, which made Lu Wangchuan feel deeply regretful.
A single Marrow Cleansing Pill could at least be exchanged for two or three Divine Blood Pills, and Divine Blood Pills provided him with stronger blood and qi.
He retrieved the Godslayer Sword and once more carved a bone-deep wound across his palm. Running the Azure Emperor Longevity Art, the wound repaired rapidly, taking only about three breaths—even faster than before!
This would be of immense benefit in his future battles.
Yet Lu Wangchuan would not act recklessly and rashly rely on this technique.
He was currently only in the Condensing Truth Realm. The Azure Emperor Longevity Art could rapidly heal injuries, but what about after he grew stronger? With his physical strength further improving, it probably would not have such a good effect.
After finishing his cultivation, Lu Wangchuan walked out of his immortal cave to attend the sect's unified lectures.
This was also one of the benefits of joining a sect; having experts explain their experiences was very beneficial to martial arts cultivation.
However, Lu Wangchuan did not listen to every single class. The lecturing teachers were often the masters of each peak, and occasionally there would be higher-level elders. Most of those peak masters were in the Condensing Truth Realm, and Lu Wangchuan would not waste time on them. Only when sect elders lectured would Lu Wangchuan listen.
Over the past half year, the knowledge he acquired was also not small. By making oblique inquiries and checking ancient texts, he had quietly translated the ancient characters on Dust Floating Old Man's treasure map.
It turned out that the ancient characters on that treasure map recorded the formation and mechanism diagram of an ancient mighty figure's tomb named 'Xi Feng'.
Lu Wangchuan checked the ancient texts, but he failed to find the name 'Xi Feng'. Unable to figure out who he truly was for the time being, he could only set it aside.
Arriving at the grand hall plaza of the Divine Water Sect, it was already packed with people. By the time Lu Wangchuan arrived, it happened to coincide with Cheng Yunxiao coming over, so he immediately saluted and said:
"This disciple pays respects to Grandmaster."
Cheng Yunxiao nodded with a smile.
"I heard that for the past half year, you have been in secluded cultivation all along, ignoring worldly affairs?"
Lu Wangchuan nodded.
"This disciple has shallow aptitude and can only compensate for clumsiness with diligence, not daring to slack off."
"Good. For those who practice martial arts, perseverance is paramount. Since you can work this hard, it does not waste the painstaking efforts your master spent sending you here. If there is anything you don't understand, you can ask Martial Aunt Lin of Small Bamboo Peak. If even she doesn't understand, then come straight to ask me."
"Many thanks, Grandmaster, but since Grandmaster's official duties are busy, this disciple wouldn't dare disturb you casually."
"Heh heh, what's there to disturb? You are Xian Yuan's disciple, and now you have entered this lineage of mine as well. If you have matters, just speak without hesitation; there's no need for taboos. Life is brief; never let reluctance to ask questions ruin your grand cultivation plans."
A thought stirred in Lu Wangchuan's heart, and he immediately spoke to inquire:
"This disciple happens to have a matter he wishes to ask Grandmaster about. I wonder if Grandmaster knows the name 'Xi Feng'."
Hearing these words, Cheng Yunxiao's expression instantly changed drastically.
"Where did you hear this name?"
Lu Wangchuan paused inwardly, faintly sensing something unusual, yet his expression remained calm and unruffled.
"I merely heard it by chance, and searching through ancient texts yielded no trace, so I'm somewhat curious."
Cheng Yunxiao was silent for a moment, then immediately began to explain:
"This person, Xi Feng, is one of the top ten ancient demon gods!
Legend has it that when our human race was first established in the Great Wilderness, our power was weak. We suffered bullying from all clans and were driven to the verge of extermination!
It was the human race's first great emperor, Emperor Yu, who fiercely slaughtered the powerhouses of all clans, drove out the myriad clans, forged the Nine Cauldrons, and gathered the qi and fortune of heaven and earth to the human race, which gave rise to the subsequent prosperity of the human race.
Throughout countless myriad years since then, the myriad clans have been watching for a chance to counterattack. Every time they accumulate a certain amount of strength, they launch an assault on the human race.
Over countless myriad years, adding Emperor Yu, our human race has produced a total of ten great emperors who guard the Great Wilderness Three Thousand Regions.
Yet to achieve the position of a great emperor, one does not know how many severe hardships and life-and-death tribulations one must experience!
Every great emperor's path to becoming an emperor is trodden upon mountains of corpses and seas of blood. Every great emperor has experienced the contention and slaughter of countless geniuses before finally becoming an emperor.
Among them, the enemy most difficult for every great emperor to deal with is called the demon god of the current era. They are also candidates for the great emperor, yet they ultimately failed at the end of the emperor's path.
Xi Feng is precisely the destined enemy of the last great emperor of our human race from ten thousand years ago! He is also the last of the Ten Demons!"
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