Strength Soars

"Hurry and take over Still Water Peak. From today onwards, you also have your own peak. You must work even harder."

"This disciple understands."

Lu Wangchuan quickly went to take over Still Water Peak, driving out all the disciples who originally belonged to Yun Mengyao's faction.

As the saying goes, a new emperor brings new officials. These were all Yun Mengyao's former subordinates, and it was inevitable that some would harbor resentment towards him. There was no guarantee they wouldn't secretly dig a pit for him at some point.

As for the disciples who sided with him, they were just fair-weather friends. What use were such disciples?

After Yun Mengyao seized her master's Cave Dwelling, she didn't overly decorate it like a typical female cultivator's boudoir. It remained simple and cold, with the ground made of Spirit Stones transformed into stone. It was evident that she had indeed cultivated very diligently over the years.

This Cave Dwelling was the best location on the entire Still Water Peak, most suitable for absorbing the spiritual energy from the sect's spiritualmeridian. Lu Wangchuan could just take it and use it.

Many elders from the Law Enforcement Hall faction also came forward to congratulate him. Lu Wangchuan simply entertained them and received a large amount of resources.

Coupled with the resources at the peak master level, he was now incredibly wealthy.

So, after simply sending two letters to his master and sister respectively, Lu Wangchuan once again entered deep seclusion for cultivation.

The reason the Sect Master showed him favor was because he valued his talent.

The Divine Water Sect was not the strongest sect in the Great Wilderness. It was just a relatively strong sect within the small Da Qian Dynasty. There was always a higher heaven and stronger people outside. The emergence of a higher-level expert could elevate the entire sect by a level.

However, relying on others' protection was never as reliable as one's own ability. Only strength that belonged to oneself was truly reassuring.

Several days later, in a corner of the Yi Zhou Mountain Wilderness.

A martial artist in a white robe stood with his hands behind his back, explaining to a group of children who were just beginning to learn martial arts.

"Those who practice martial arts focus on essence, qi, and spirit! To practice martial arts, you must first establish your heart. Without the heart of a strong person, no matter how strong you practice, it will only be an empty shell."

Just then, a figure quickly ran over.

"Instructor Lu, you have a letter from the Divine Water Sect."

Hearing the words 'Divine Water Sect', his serious expression instantly softened, revealing a smile.

"You all review yesterday's boxing techniques for now. I will teach you a set of Life Nurturing Art later."

"Yes!"

The disciples began to cultivate, while Lu Xianyuan took the letter and walked to the side. The boy who delivered the letter smiled and followed.

"It must be from Senior Brother Lu. He must have already established himself in the Divine Water Sect."

"Yes."

Lu Xianyuan opened the envelope, wanting to see what Lu Wangchuan had written. After more than two years, he should have broken through the Dantian Realm, right?

He was still only twenty years old. Breaking through the Dantian Realm at twenty meant there was hope of breaking through the Celestial Human Realm before thirty.

However, when he opened the envelope and took out the letter paper inside, his body trembled, and then his eyes turned red. Two lines of clear tears flowed down uncontrollably.

The boy cautiously leaned forward and took a look. On the clean white letter paper, there was only a bright red seal.

It was stamped with four large characters - Still Water Peak Master!

"Instructor Lu, what's wrong? Did something happen to Senior Brother Lu?"

Lu Xianyuan wiped away his tears, carefully folded the letter like a precious treasure, and put it into his embrace. Then, his tears turned into laughter.

"No, your Senior Brother Lu, he's made something of himself! You all need to cultivate well. In the future, when you go to the Divine Water Sect, there will be someone who can look after you."

"Really? Since Senior Brother Lu has made something of himself, then Instructor Lu, aren't you going back to the Divine Water Sect to take a look?"

Lu Xianyuan shook his head and smiled with satisfaction.

"That place no longer belongs to me. It belongs to you young people. When you have cultivated well, go and see the scenery of the Divine Water Sect on my behalf."

Time flew by, and another year passed in the blink of an eye.

This year, Lu Wangchuan turned twenty!

Now, the youthful immaturity in his brows had faded, replaced by a touch of maturity and steadiness.

And in this year, Lu Wangchuan's cultivation had already reached the late stage of the Transforming Sea Realm. According to his estimation, in at most another year, he would be able to successfully break through to the third layer of the Celestial Human Realm—Suppressing World.

Originally, based on the ratio, he should have been able to break through within a year, but there was a very serious problem: insufficient resources.

Having previously received double the resources of a Peak Master level, coupled with the gifts from numerous elders, Lu Wangchuan had thought he could last for a long time. However, unexpectedly, he only lasted for two months. For the remaining time, he was essentially cultivating on his own using his cultivation technique, without any resource augmentation.

The eighteenth layer of the Azure Emperor Longevity Art consumed pills and absorbed Spirit Stones too quickly!

And this year, he could only receive double the Peak Master level resources once more, and no one would be giving him gifts, which meant one less source of expenditure.

Furthermore, the stronger his cultivation, the less effective pills and low-grade Spirit Stones became. Therefore, to break through, it would take at least another year!

Unless he had more resource augmentation, but this was clearly not easy to achieve.

However, Lu Wangchuan was already very satisfied with this cultivation speed.

One must know how to be content.

He opened the information screen again and began to check his information.

Name: Lu Wangchuan.

Cultivation: Transforming Sea Realm.

Blood Qi: 18749.

Cultivation Techniques: Azure Emperor Longevity Art (Eighteenth Layer Great Perfection), Prajna Dragon Elephant (Ninth Layer).

In one year, Lu Wangchuan had already raised the Prajna Dragon Elephant to the ninth layer. Coupled with the improvement in his cultivation, he could now increase the single-layer Prajna Dragon Elephant to a massive force of 130,000 jin.

The ninth layer of the Prajna Dragon Elephant could already unleash a massive force of 1.17 million jin!

This was precisely the terrifying aspect of the Prajna Dragon Elephant as a top-tier Forbidden Technique.

Among those at his current cultivation level, there was no one who could cultivate the Prajna Dragon Elephant to this level. Geniuses like Zhao Yanlong, with countless resources augmenting them, had only cultivated it to the sixth layer so far.

Lu Wangchuan felt that crossing realms to kill enemies was absolutely not a problem now, without any doubt.

He still had over 10,000 points of Blood Qi, but Lu Wangchuan did not directly add points to the Prajna Dragon Elephant.

He needed to improve his speed.

The movement technique he was currently using was still the insignificant Heavenly Dipper Eight Steps from before, which severely restricted his speed. Even if he could cross realms to kill enemies, it would be very awkward if he couldn't catch up to them.

Now that a year has passed, it's time to collect resources again, visit the Library Pavilion, and incidentally find out what has happened in the outside world over the past year.

With that thought, he quickly arrived at the Resource Hall.

Just as he reached the Resource Hall, he ran into Chen Qingquan.

"Wangchuan! You've come out of seclusion."

Chen Qingquan was also pleasantly surprised. Lu Wangchuan nodded, noticing that one of his sleeves was empty, and his brow furrowed slightly.

"What happened to your arm?"

Chen Qingquan gave a wry smile.

"This year, the war among the Seven Great Sects has intensified. The fighting between us and the Heavenly Martial Sect has also been fierce. You see, half a year ago, Martial Aunt Lin and I went out on a mission and were ambushed. Martial Aunt Lin's face was half-destroyed, and I lost an arm."

During the new book recommendation period, please understand the update schedule. If the situation improves later, I will speed up the explosive updates.

Recently, my depression has been quite severe, so the author is undergoing treatment while also stockpiling chapters, waiting for a later burst of updates.