Chapter 48

Alive, perhaps he still had some value.

But dead, he would truly be worth less than a penny.

"This talent is so monstrous it's terrifying."

"Useless Body of Ten Thousand Years... is this really the Useless Body of Ten Thousand Years?"

Amid the crowd, Xu Qin quietly departed, his heart filled with endless doubts.

He even began to suspect once more that something had gone wrong with the test on the day Lin Xuan entered the sect.

"Such a peerless genius must never be buried in the Servant District. Peak Lord Liu isn't here, and the Holy Master is impossible to meet..."

Xu Qin returned to his elder's courtyard, growing anxious for a time.

But soon, his eyes lit up. "Right, there's Elder Luo too. Elder Luo's identity is mysterious; he can see the Holy Master at once."

Muttering to himself, Xu Qin headed straight for the Martial Pavilion.

Meanwhile, Lin Xuan returned to his residence and transferred all of Ling Chao and Sun Liang's Contribution Points into his own Disciple Token.

"Dirt poor!"

Seeing that he had gained only a little over a thousand Contribution Points, Lin Xuan curled his lip.

Afterward, he opened Sun Liang's Spatial Ring. There was very little inside as well—some medicinal herbs and clothing. The only things with any value were twenty Qi Blood Pills.

Unfortunately, Qi Blood Pills were completely useless to Lin Xuan.

Of course, no matter how small a grasshopper was, it was still meat. Lin Xuan put them away in his own Spatial Ring, intending to sell them later for Contribution Points.

His Contribution Points had now risen to over 4,200. In the Servant District, that made him an absolute tycoon.

Even those veteran outer disciples would likely have nothing to do but envy and resent him.

"Cultivate!"

Having finished everything, Lin Xuan sank his consciousness into the first floor of the Soul Suppressing Pagoda.

Myriad Ages in an Instant had now stored fourteen years of cultivation time, as well as a not particularly abundant mass of qi and blood.

Lin Xuan directly ignored that mass of qi and blood.

The gap in qi and blood between the Body Forging Peak and the Blood Refining Realm was enormous. Lin Xuan estimated that it was at least several times the combined qi and blood strength of the previous three minor realms.

The blood qi currently within the Soul Suppressing Pagoda could only be called better than nothing.

He directly invested the time and began cultivating Concealed Breath Stride.

Concealed Breath Stride was absolutely a deadly trump card in battle.

As a Profound Rank Low Grade movement technique, its upper limit was destined to be extremely high.

And the faster one was, the greater one's margin for error in battle.

Had Concealed Breath Stride not reached Lesser Mastery, Sun Liang and Ling Chao would never have been so powerless in their fight against him.

Time was swiftly consumed, though to Lin Xuan, it was merely an instant.

Seven years flashed by, and Concealed Breath Stride completely entered Major Mastery.

The instant his consciousness returned to his body, a sharp gleam flickered in Lin Xuan's eyes. With a thought, the aura around him dropped straight to freezing point.

With a single step, his figure flickered through the cramped room like a phantom.

He opened the door, and his body vanished outright. When he reappeared, he was already ten meters away.

"Compared to Lesser Mastery, Major Mastery has at least doubled my speed."

"Against the Earth-Rending Bear now, I probably wouldn't even need to unleash Blood Rage to kite it to death."

Lin Xuan was extremely satisfied with his combat strength.

He was absolutely invincible within the Body Forging Realm. Even against those peerless geniuses, he could utterly suppress them, even kill them in seconds.

As for ordinary Blood Refining Realm cultivators, if he unleashed Blood Rage, he could likely kill even mid-stage Blood Refining Realm cultivators with ease.

As for late-stage Blood Refining Realm cultivators, Lin Xuan had yet to encounter one, so he could not make an estimate.

Outside the Martial Pavilion.

"What did you say?"

Luo Tongtian cried out in disbelief, his eyes fixed rigidly on Xu Qin.

Xu Qin had just reported everything that had happened on the Life and Death Arena to him without leaving out a single detail.

Luo Tongtian did not even know what words to use to express his feelings at this moment.

Blade technique at Major Mastery, movement technique at Lesser Mastery, Body Forging Peak, instantly killing veteran Blood Refining Realm cultivators.

Could one lucky encounter really create something this absurd?

Wang Xuanfeng, you fool!

At most, only seven or eight days had passed since Lin Xuan exchanged for the blade technique and received Concealed Breath Stride from him.

Never mind breaking through to the Body Forging Peak—he had even cultivated two martial techniques to such profound heights.

Calling such cultivation speed an immortal descending to the mortal world would not be an exaggeration.