Heavenly Spiritual Root

Lu Qingshan broke the silence first, his words carrying a hidden meaning.

Tantai Qingrun swept her bright eyes over Lu Qingshan. "You seem to know quite a lot?"

Her question was an implicit acknowledgment of the Sword Cultivator's statement.

Lu Qingshan chuckled lightly. "Tower Lord Tantai, you are so young yet already hold the position of Tower Lord of Yuanshan Tower. It's highly probable you come from a prominent family."

Coincidentally, there is a Tantai family in Qingzhou. The surname Tantai is already uncommon, so the possibility that the original poster, Tantai, has no connection to this Tantai family is not high.

Furthermore, the Tantai family is a renowned Sword Cultivator family in Qingzhou, so..."

Tantai Qingrun's gaze lingered on Lu Qingshan for a moment before she fell silent.

Seeing that Tantai Qingrun had no intention of continuing the conversation, Lu Qingshan also fell silent. However, in his mind, Lu Qingshan was still thinking rapidly.

Tantai Qingrun. In his past life, he had never heard this name in the game.

There were two possibilities for this situation.

The first possibility was that Tantai Qingrun was just an ordinary, insignificant background NPC.

However, the first thing Lu Qingshan did upon entering the room was cast the Heavenly Eye Technique on Tantai Qingrun.

??? (Human)

Profession: ???

Rank: ??? (Extremely Lethal)

Attributes: ???

Skills: ???

Talent: [Heavenly Spiritual Root]: ???

???

Due to the vast difference in strength, the information received was a series of question marks. The only useful piece of information was the [Heavenly Spiritual Root] in the talent slot.

[Heavenly Spiritual Root]: Gain 100% increased Experience when cultivating techniques.

This was a very rare talent, but not one that was particularly popular with players.

—Players have always been enthusiastic about defeating monsters and leveling up. Few would diligently level up by cultivating techniques.

Therefore, attributes that increased the experience gained from cultivating techniques seemed rather useless to players.

However, for NPCs, this talent was proof of genius.

NPCs could not level up by defeating monsters; they always improved their cultivation by practicing techniques.

Possessing a Heavenly Spiritual Root was equivalent to having a cheat code.

In other words, this root had the potential to reach the Nascent Soul stage!

With such talent, Tantai Qingrun, if she developed normally, should have achieved a considerable level of accomplishment.

Coupled with Tantai Qingrun's unapproachable aura, based on Lu Qingshan's understanding of those masochistic players, Tantai Qingrun would definitely become an NPC with extremely high popularity among players!

It was clear that Tantai Qingrun could not possibly be an ordinary background NPC.

Yet, she was remarkably unknown.

This left only the second possibility.

Tantai Qingrun met an unfortunate end early in the game. By the time players began to flood into "Nine Heavens" in large numbers, the NPC Tantai Qingrun no longer existed within "Nine Heavens."

With this thought, Lu Qingshan's gaze towards Tantai Qingrun couldn't help but fill with a touch more sympathy.

Girl, do you know that even though you seem so formidable now, your future prospects aren't that great.

On a rather prosperous street in the northern part of Yuanshan City, there was a large residence. The red-eaved main gate of the house was tightly shut, with no signboard hanging above it.

Not far from this residence, diagonally across the street, stood a two-story restaurant. It appeared to be doing good business, filled with customers, with people coming and going, creating a lively scene.

A somewhat disheveled middle-aged male cultivator was sitting at a table by the window on the second floor of the restaurant. Exquisite food and two pots of wine were laid out on the table.

Judging by the messy state of the cups and plates on the table, he had likely been eating for a long time.

Jiang Rong, the vice Tower Lord of Yuanshan Tower. Despite his unreliable and unkempt appearance, his seniority was considerable.

He had been with Yuanshan Tower for nearly a hundred years, assisting the Tower Lord in various tasks. He had witnessed the succession of three previous Yuanshan Tower Tower Lords, with Tantai Qingrun being his fourth.

Flowing楼主s, steadfast vice-楼主s.

With a century of accumulated authority, Jiang Rong's influence in Yuanshan City was deeply rooted.

Although the楼主 was supreme within Yuanshan Tower, out of respect for the elder, Tantai Qingrun always referred to Jiang Rong as a junior in her daily interactions.

His authority and status were not to be underestimated.

Jiang Rong observed the residence not far away from his vantage point by the window, idly twirling a half-full wine glass in his hand, lost in thought.

Finally, a jade pendant hanging from his waist flashed with a ripple of green light.

Jiang Rong was momentarily lost in thought, receiving the message from Bi Bo.

Soon, after finishing the message from his subordinate, the usually lethargic Jiang Rong's eyes flashed with a sharp light. He tilted his head back and drained his wine cup, then placed it on the table.

"Waiter, the bill!"

At this moment, a hint of killing intent subtly emanated from Jiang Rong.

With the intelligence provided by Lu Qingshan and the control Yuanshan Tower had over Yuanshan City, they had pinpointed the Blood Corpse True Person's location in Yuanshan City in just half an hour.

And in a very short time, they had organized sufficient manpower.

At this very moment, the small residential house had been silently surrounded by cultivators from Yuanshan Tower.

Jiang Rong did not make a grand entrance by kicking down the door.

—Zhishou Tower always acted with discretion.

After circling the courtyard, Jiang Rong transformed into a wisp of smoke and directly entered the backyard.

Smoke Luo Technique!

One of the signature abilities of a Nether Cultivator.

Using the Smoke Luo Technique, Jiang Rong moved unimpeded through the small house, searching.

The house wasn't large, and Jiang Rong was extremely fast. In just a moment, the wisp of smoke that was Jiang Rong had scouted the entire house.

"Nothing," Jiang Rong frowned slightly. "Impossible. According to the intelligence, the Blood Corpse True Person was seen returning to this small house just a few hours ago. How can there be no one? Unless..."

Thinking this, Jiang Rong couldn't afford to be cautious about alerting the target. A vast divine sense surged from between his brows, quickly spreading throughout the entire house.

As expected.

Beneath the floor of the eastern room in the house, something was blocking his divine sense from penetrating.

Jiang Rong quickly hurried to the eastern room, scanned the room, and finally fixed his gaze on a bookshelf in the corner.

Jiang Rong waved his left hand, and a ball of black, misty spiritual energy flew from his hand, directly smashing into the bookshelf.

Bang—

After a tremendous impact, the bookshelf was shattered into pieces, its debris scattering everywhere.

Jiang Rong's eyes narrowed.

Behind the bookshelf was the entrance to a dark, underground passage, about a person's height, pitch black and leading to an unknown destination.

Jiang Rong did not hesitate and entered.

Following the underground passage downwards, after walking a short distance, the originally very narrow underground passage suddenly opened up, revealing a dark room tens of square meters wide.

On the floor of the dark room, dozens of Spirit Stones, still emitting a faint white glow, were arranged. Threads connected these Spirit Stones together.

Spirit Concealment Array: Conceals spiritual energy fluctuations within the array and can shield divine sense probes from cultivators.

However, the dark room was already empty.

Looking around.

There were a total of five passages in the dark room, all leading to unknown destinations.

A cunning fox has three burrows; this Blood Corpse True Person had prepared five escape routes for himself.

The cautious and cunning Blood Corpse True Person, the moment he sensed an unknown divine sense probing the house, had quickly slipped away through one of these five passages.