"Speak."
"It's someone named Yun Sheng, he's a disciple of your Divine Water Sect. We originally wanted to grab him to guide the way for us, but when he learned that we are upper echelons of the Black Lotus Society, he proactively told us that you reported our Black Lotus Society to the Divine Water Sect. He's also the one who brought us to your cave mansion."
"Yun Sheng!"
A flash of cold light swept through the depths of Lu Wangchuan's eyes.
"Where is he now?"
"He's waiting right down the mountain in a patch of bushes, watched by one of my companions. I've said everything I should, can you give me a swift—"
Before the words faded, Lu Wangchuan applied force with his foot, directly snapping his spine and causing his internal organs to burst on the spot from unbearable pressure.
Spurt--!
After dealing with him, Lu Wangchuan stowed the corpses of those few people into an empty Storage Bag and rapidly leaped into the darkness.
In the bushes at the base of the mountain, Yun Sheng was sketching the patrol map of the Divine Water Sect under the supervision of the other party, using a ragged cloth torn from his clothes.
"The patrols of my Divine Water Sect change every once in a while. I just participated in a patrol two days ago, and this is the latest patrol map. As long as Senior follows this route, you will definitely be able to get out."
The other party squinted his eyes and said:
"How do I know this is a real patrol map? In case you want to lure me into the presence of the Divine Water Sect's experts and give me a wrong map, wouldn't I be left without a place to die?"
"Senior is meticulous, and this junior is not stupid either. You helped me kill my enemy, if I fall into the hands of the sect's experts and am forced to sell you out, wouldn't I also undoubtedly die? I am even more eager for Senior to be able to fly far away."
"Good kid, you've got backbone. Let me tell you a secret, my Heavenly Martial Sect's rise is in sight, and the Divine Water Sect will inevitably perish in the future! If you want to go to the Heavenly Martial Sect in the future, just report this old man's name."
"Hehe. Then many thanks, Senior Qian."
Just as the words fell, a flash of silver light suddenly flickered in Yun Sheng's eyes. Before he even had time to react, Old Qian's head flew straight up, and fresh blood spurted all over his face from the neck.
Giving a start, Yun Sheng looked forward, and instantly his pupils dilated uncontrollably.
It was Lu Wangchuan!
This fellow actually disregarded martial virtue to this extent, walking right up and launching a direct sneak attack?
"You... you didn't die?"
But he quickly reacted. If Lu Wangchuan's strength wasn't enough, it would have been impossible for him to deal with those people and still be safe and sound, let alone silently come behind Old Qian to launch a sneak attack. Old Qian was an existence of the late Dantian Realm!
This fellow, he was at least at the Dantian Realm Peak, or even... the Condensing Truth Realm?
What kind of joke was this? How old was he anyway?
However, this was not the time to consider that issue; he needed to stay alive. Without hesitation, he immediately began to beg for mercy.
"I... I was forced by them, you can't kill me. My younger sister is the Peak Master of Still Water Peak, and even the second-ranked genius among the Divine Water Sect's younger generation. If you kill me, she will definitely not let you off."
"You should ask whether I will let her off!"
Accompanied by Lu Wangchuan's falling sword stroke, Yun Sheng was cleaved live into two halves on the spot, his breath completely cut off.
Lu Wangchuan's strikes were never soft-hearted. Those who dared to make a move against him required no extra words—kill without exception!
He tossed the corpses of those few people together as well, then turned around, returned to his own cave mansion, and continued cultivating.
Few had actually escaped from the Black Lotus Society; they had merely released some other prisoners to stir up a not-insignificant commotion. Yet under the suppression of the Divine Water Sect's experts, things quickly grew calm once more.
The Divine Water Sect returned to its former peace.
Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, another half a year passed.
In half a year, Lu Wangchuan's cultivation had surged by another notch, and now he had completely passed the mid Condensing Truth Realm. What was more, he had surpassed it by more than just a little—he was only a step away from the late stage!
There was no helping it; the Condensing Truth Realm itself was already very powerful, and wanting to break through to the Sea-Transforming Realm required accumulating a massive amount of cultivation.
Being able to reach his speed was already quite swift. One had to know that even geniuses had to spend several years to improve by this much.
On this day, Lu Wangchuan opened his eyes, electric sparks flashing through his pupils, glowing with brilliant light.
As my cultivation improves, my physical body grows increasingly powerful, and my strength is also continuously increasing.
Using fifty percent of his force to execute the Mountain Splitting Fist and hammer the ground, he could already achieve the results of using full force to hammer the ground half a year ago.
This meant his strength had doubled once again.
The present me, executing the Great Perfection Limitless Sword Dao, should be able to unleash sixty thousand jin of force!
Sixty thousand jin!
How terrifying was this figure? The Sword Qi erupted by it was enough to easily tear apart a small mountain twenty or thirty meters tall!
And so far, his cultivation counting every single day still hadn't even reached four years! His progress was truly astonishingly rapid.
He opened the Light Screen.
Name: Lu Wangchuan. Cultivation: Condensing Truth Realm. Qi and Blood: 12171. Cultivation Methods: Azure Emperor Longevity Art (eighteenth layer), Limitless Sword Dao (thirteenth layer), Heavenly Dipper Eight Steps (ninth layer).
In half a year, Lu Wangchuan utilized medicinal pills and cultivation methods to cultivate a total of over thirty-five thousand points of Qi and Blood. Added to the previous one thousand seven hundred plus points of Qi and Blood, it thoroughly exceeded thirty-seven thousand!
Originally, according to his projections, he should have been able to attain over forty thousand points of Qi and Blood. But later on, he discovered that as his cultivation increased, coupled with eating too many Divine Blood Pills, the effects of the pills gradually began to weaken.
That was why he fell short by nearly ten thousand points of Qi and Blood.
As for a taboo-level cultivation method like the Azure Emperor Longevity Art, it also allowed him to figure out its pattern: the limit of this cultivation method's Great Perfection tier was the eighteenth layer!
In other words, after upgrading to the eighteenth layer, it would no longer improve further.
If an ordinary person were to cultivate the eighteenth-layer Azure Emperor Longevity Art, it would be impossible for them to cultivate it to the eighteenth layer in a lifetime. If it were those so-called sect geniuses, they might have to exhaust the greater part of a lifetime's time, cultivating day and night without rest, in order to reach it.
Yet now, he had used only a single year!
The sheer speed of it was enough to leave one tongue-tied.
The effects of the Great Perfection Azure Emperor Longevity Art were extremely terrifying. Not to mention that it increased Qi and Blood by several times more than before, it could even achieve instantaneous healing upon injury without any intervals at all!
As for his cultivation improvement, it was similarly extremely rapid. Half a year ago, when Lu Wangchuan's cultivation was at the mid Condensing Truth Realm, his estimated time to breakthrough to the Sea-Transforming Realm was a year and two months. Now it appeared he could reach it in nine months.
Now that half a year had passed, it meant that within four months, he had the confidence to break through to the second layer of the Celestial Human Realm—Sea-Transforming!
At this moment, the voice of Peak Master Lin Qingxue traveled from outside the cave mansion.
"Lu Wangchuan."
Lu Wangchuan reined in his aura, rapidly arrived outside the cave mansion, and cupped his fists in a salute toward Lin Qingxue.
"Martial Aunt Lin."
Lin Qingxue nodded.
"How is your cultivation over these past six months?"
"Replying to Martial Aunt Lin, it has increased greatly, and I have already reached the late Dantian Realm."
After all, Cheng Yunxiao had given him fifty Divine Blood Pills, and medicinal pills had bonuses for both Qi and Blood and spiritual qi. If there hadn't been a massive increase, it would have been unreasonable.
Lin Qingxue's eyes lit up, evidently extremely satisfied with Lu Wangchuan.
"Not bad, I can tell you've been working hard. Let's go, accompany me to the Library Pavilion to select a cultivation method."
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