Random Reincarnation!

Purple Luo Gorge.

This was a natural gorge between Silverlight Mountain and Thundercry Mountain. Monstrous beasts ran rampant there, ferocious beasts littered the ground, and danger lurked everywhere.

Ordinary cultivators rarely came here.

Even the various guilds and sects were helpless against the endless ferocious beasts.

Lu Qingfeng stepped into Purple Luo Gorge, leisurely walking on his Cloud-Treading Boots.

"This is already my second life in the game, yet this is my first time coming to Purple Luo Gorge to see ferocious beasts." Lu Qingfeng looked around, feeling somewhat intrigued.

The price of death was simply too high.

Reincarnation required sixteen years, not to mention two months in reality. Even choosing resurrection required one lower-grade Spirit Stone at the Embryonic Breath Realm, equivalent to one hundred Spirit Stone Fragments.

Thus, Lu Qingfeng had always kept his head down in Black Sand Town, painstakingly practicing alchemy and talisman-making. He had never gone out to gain experience.

This was his first time leaving Black Sand Town for the sake of battle.

He looked around. There was not a single person in sight.

Those who "killed monsters to level up" were ultimately as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns.

"Ferocious beasts are violent and know only destruction, harming the world. Killing them earns merit and benefits one's cultivation. That is precisely where the idea of 'killing monsters to level up' comes from."

Lu Qingfeng's eyes swept across all directions, Radiance contained within them.

Technique: Heaven's Eye Technique (Incomplete)

Grade: Mid-Grade, Two Levels in Total

Evolving Method: Six Enhancements

Description: Can observe the cultivation of cultivators no more than one major realm above the user's own cultivation; can cause ordinary people mental intimidation, making them anxious and disoriented; Passive Effects: Falsehood-Breaking, Insight

After Lu Qingfeng enhanced the Heaven's Eye Technique six times, it rose directly from low-grade to mid-grade. Along with its greatly increased might, it had also gained more passive effects.

Like now.

Wherever Lu Qingfeng's gaze reached, strands of Killing Intent from ferocious beasts shot into the sky. Some resembled beacon smoke, while others were only as fine as strands of hair. Their strengths could be distinguished at a glance.

"The outskirts of Purple Luo Gorge should be the territory of the Iron-Crowned Beast packs!"

Iron-Crowned Beasts resembled small dogs, with dark-red iron crowns like those of roosters atop their heads. Their combat strength was average, and they were low-level ferocious beast packs found on the outskirts of Purple Luo Gorge.

Lu Qingfeng stepped on his Cloud-Treading Boots, while the Black-Iron Heaven-Soaring Shield revolved around him.

With two Fourth-Rank Talisman Artifacts at his side, he should be able to survive briefly on the outskirts.

"Roar, roar!"

Following the hair-thin beacon smoke, he soon saw groups of Iron-Crowned Beasts charging toward Lu Qingfeng's location with furious roars.

Ferocious Beast: Iron-Crowned Beast

Grade: Second Rank

Description: The weak among ferocious beast packs; numerous in number and skilled at group attacks, with iron teeth and steel claws; a close-combat ferocious beast; Weakness: fears lightning-attributed techniques

A Second-Rank ferocious beast was equivalent to a True Qi Realm cultivator.

The Heaven's Eye Technique's passive Insight activated, revealing the Iron-Crowned Beast's weakness.

In truth, as the lowest-level and most common ferocious beast pack, the Iron-Crowned Beast's weakness had long been common knowledge. However, the value of Insight remained immeasurable when applied to unknown ferocious beasts, monstrous beasts, or even other cultivators.

Lu Qingfeng swept the Heaven's Eye Technique across them and discovered that the charging Iron-Crowned Beasts were mostly around level twenty, with the highest no more than level forty.

"Excellent!"

Without making any show of preparation, Lu Qingfeng reached toward the Storage Bag at his waist and pulled out a handful of Thundercloud Talismans, scattering them—

Boom, boom, boom!

Boom, boom, boom!

Dozens of thunderclouds covered every inch of the area dozens of yards before him.

The Iron-Crowned Beasts caught within them, whether level twenty or level forty, could not withstand even one volley. They were blasted into charred corpses.

Congratulations, player, you killed an Iron-Crowned Beast (Level 10) and gained 1 experience point.

Congratulations, player, you killed an Iron-Crowned Beast (Level 20) and gained 5 experience points.

Congratulations, player, you killed an Iron-Crowned Beast (Level 30) and gained 10 experience points.

Congratulations, player, you killed an Iron-Crowned Beast (Level 40) and gained 15 experience points.

Congratulations, player, your level has increased.

Killing monsters to level up was indeed far faster than slowly cultivating in Black Sand Town.

After scattering a few Thundercloud Talismans, Lu Qingfeng's experience points surged upward, and his level rose by more than three levels in the blink of an eye.

The mechanism for killing monsters to level up in "Primordial World" was—

Killing something no more than ten levels above or below one's own level yielded 1 experience point.

Killing something below one's level by ten levels yielded 0.1 experience points; below by twenty levels yielded 0.01 experience points, and so on.

Killing something above one's level by ten levels yielded 5 experience points; above by twenty levels yielded 10 experience points, and so on.

"If I had an expert protecting me and was willing to spend talismans by the handful, raising my level wouldn't be too difficult."

"But for me, gaining experience is easier than raising my level!"

Lu Qingfeng hunched over, yet moved as leisurely as if strolling through a courtyard. He scattered talismans, quickly slaughtering an entire small patch of Iron-Crowned Beasts.

His level remained at ten.

"By constantly spending experience to keep my level fixed at ten, I'll always receive an experience bonus from killing high-level ferocious beasts!" The corners of Lu Qingfeng's lips curled upward as he poured his experience into various techniques, pill formulas, and talismans.

The experience he had once calculated so carefully was now being squandered without restraint.

The Azure Origin Sword Art had already reached Unorthodox Grade. Raising it further would require an ocean of experience.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Lu Qingfeng poured all his experience into it.

After all, no matter how much various techniques were enhanced, their power was ultimately tied closely to one's cultivation.

Only cultivation methods were fundamental.

The same applied to pill formulas and talismans. Over the years, some had been enhanced six times, while even the least-enhanced ones had been enhanced four times.

Lu Qingfeng discovered that regardless of whether it was a pill formula or talisman, once it was enhanced more than five times, the required materials would change, effectively evolving it into another kind of pill.

Although the effects were stronger and the items more precious, the materials were so costly that the profit margin was actually inferior to that of five enhancements.

They might prove useful once Lu Qingfeng's cultivation improved in the future. But by then, there would still be suitable pill formulas and talismans.

For example, after the Yellow Dragon Pill was enhanced six times, its refining cost increased greatly, becoming nearly equivalent to that of its advanced pill, the Golden Marrow Pill. Rather than spend experience enhancing it, it was better to obtain the Golden Marrow Pill formula directly and enhance that.

Thus.

After enhancing all the pill formulas and talismans he currently knew to five times, Lu Qingfeng devoted himself wholeheartedly to enhancing and raising the Azure Origin Sword Art.

After this, the Azure Origin Sword Art would be sufficient for Lu Qingfeng to hold an absolute advantage among cultivators of the same level for a very long time!

Time passed.

After slaughtering the Iron-Crowned Beast packs, Lu Qingfeng obtained more than five thousand experience points in total.

For a low-level cultivation method, the first enhancement, upgrade, or fusion cost 10 experience points. Every subsequent enhancement, upgrade, or fusion doubled the previous cost.

For an Exquisite-Grade Cultivation Method, the first enhancement, upgrade, or fusion cost 100 experience points. Every subsequent enhancement, upgrade, or fusion doubled the previous cost.

For an Unorthodox-Grade Cultivation Method, the first enhancement, upgrade, or fusion cost 1,000 experience points. Every subsequent enhancement, upgrade, or fusion doubled the previous cost.

Each grade of cultivation method could generally rise by one grade after approximately five enhancements.

For example, the Azure Origin Sword Art was essentially an Exquisite-Grade Cultivation Method. After five enhancements, it became an Unorthodox-Grade Cultivation Method.

Because its essence was that of an Exquisite-Grade Cultivation Method, even after reaching Unorthodox Grade, enhancing it again still doubled the cost based on the original amount.

It was not recalculated from the beginning.

Lu Qingfeng poured all five thousand experience points into the Azure Origin Sword Art, directly enhancing it seven times. He also raised the cultivation method's levels from the original nine to twenty-one, allowing cultivation up to the Foundation Establishment Qi Guiding Realm!

This was still not enough!

After the Iron-Crowned Beast packs, Lu Qingfeng swept through seven more Second-Rank ferocious beast packs in succession, including Jade-Scaled Beasts, Red Mountain Rats, and Blood-Spined Hedgehogs.

The high-grade and top-grade talismans he had bought with his entire fortune—Chainfire Talismans, Chain Lightning Talismans, Thundercloud Talismans, Firecloud Talismans, Hundred-Ice Talismans, and others—were completely exhausted!

That was precisely how wealthy Lu Qingfeng was!

By spending experience to enhance pill formulas and talismans, he refined extremely high-quality pills and talismans at low cost, earning a hefty difference in price.

After decades of accumulation, the wealth on his person was nearly no less than that of a small guild!

For this moment, Lu Qingfeng had exchanged his entire fortune for high-grade and top-grade talismans. Before his lifespan ran out, he frantically harvested experience points.

Ordinary cultivators—even great Foundation Establishment cultivators—probably could not be as insane as Lu Qingfeng.

First, their financial strength would not allow it.

Second, as more ferocious beasts were slaughtered and their levels grew, the experience points they could obtain fell like a waterfall. They could not remain mixed among Second-Rank ferocious beast packs forever.

Moreover, experience points could only rapidly raise one's level. The bottlenecks of the various major and minor realms still required time to break through, so limitless advancement was unrealistic.

Lu Qingfeng was different.

He slaughtered ferocious beasts not to raise his level or cultivation, but simply to obtain experience points. So long as his level did not rise, killing ferocious beasts of the same level would never cause the experience gained to decline!

Under these circumstances, two hours later—

Cultivation Method: Azure Origin Sword Art (Incomplete)

Grade: Orthodox Grade, Twenty-Seven Levels in Total

Evolving Method: Ten Enhancements, Five Upgrades

Traits: Azure Origin Sword Gleam, Body-Protecting Sword Shield, Sword-Shadow Light-Division Art, Great Geng Sword Formation, Threefold Origin Reversion, Nine Refinements of the Sword Elixir, Hundred Temperings of the Primordial Spirit

Description: The Azure Origin Sword Sect's guarded supreme art from three thousand years ago; currently incomplete

"Orthodox Grade!"

Lu Qingfeng tossed out his final Firecloud Talisman and poured all his experience into the Azure Origin Sword Art.

The Azure Origin Sword Art's attributes changed drastically. It transformed in one move, rising from Unorthodox Grade to Orthodox Grade!

From now on, even if he did not enhance it further and only continued raising its levels, it would be enough for Lu Qingfeng to cultivate to the Earth Immortal level!

A cultivation method like this was an existence that mighty figures across the entire Heavenly Fox Realm would fight over madly. If it were released, the great sects under heaven and Mahayana cultivators would go berserk for it!

"It was worth it!"

Lu Qingfeng glanced at the Azure Origin Sword Art and threw his head back in laughter.

Immediately afterward, the corner of his eye caught sight of a column of beacon smoke as thick as an arm. He looked up and saw a dark-red eagle swooping out from the depths of Purple Luo Gorge—

Ferocious Beast: Ironfeather Thunderhawk

Grade: Seventh Rank

Description: A flying ferocious beast with great speed and a powerful body; capable of unleashing lightning attacks

A Seventh-Rank ferocious beast!

Comparable to a great Spirit Void cultivator!

"Shriek!"

Lu Qingfeng had only just raised his head and had the information about the ferocious beast flash through his mind when a Thunder Prison enveloped it.

Amidst a thunderous roar, its body and soul were annihilated!

You have died. Please choose resurrection/reincarnation.

After sixty-eight years had passed in game time, Lu Qingfeng once again appeared in the Chaos space without sky or earth. The blood-red system notification actually made him feel somewhat familiar.

"The feeling of death really is unpleasant."

Lu Qingfeng shook his head, recalling that instant of death.

Although he knew it was only in the game, it had still been terrifying beyond measure.

The Ironfeather Thunderhawk had pounced down, and with a tremor of its wings, scattered a vast expanse of lightning. It had blasted Lu Qingfeng's physical body to pieces. The Third-Rank Talisman Artifact Black-Iron Heaven-Soaring Shield had been unable to last even half a breath under such an attack before exploding instantly.

No one would want to experience that sensation a second time.

However.

This could also be considered Lu Qingfeng seeking death of his own accord.

He had slaughtered so many First-Rank and Second-Rank ferocious beasts on the outskirts of Purple Luo Gorge, naturally alarming the powerful ferocious beasts in its depths.

The Ironfeather Thunderhawk, for example, fed on First-Rank and Second-Rank ferocious beasts such as Iron-Crowned Beasts and Red Mountain Rats. Lu Qingfeng had slaughtered all its food, so how could the Ironfeather Thunderhawk let him off?!

Faced with a Seventh-Rank ferocious beast, even throwing out high-grade talismans by the sheetful would not inflict the slightest injury.

With Lu Qingfeng's cultivation, provoking such a ferocious beast left him only one path—to await death.

"If I hadn't died voluntarily, I wonder what changes might have occurred when my lifespan reached its end."

Time passed swiftly in the game.

Lu Qingfeng immersed himself in alchemy and talisman-making. Before he knew it, his lifespan had already been exhausted. Because he was worried that dying naturally of old age might cause some unexpected change, Lu Qingfeng had simply gone to Purple Luo Gorge to hunt ferocious beasts and obtain experience points.

He had long been prepared for death.

At present.

The familiar yet strange scene of death gave Lu Qingfeng the feeling that a whole lifetime had passed.

"Reincarnate."

Please choose: Reincarnate to the current map/Random map

"Random map."

Lu Qingfeng had stayed in Black Sand Town for so many years that he knew its environment and various powers extremely well.

For example, the Imperial City Guild, with which he had cooperated for a long time, had given birth to a Spirit Void Realm true cultivator more than twenty years ago. It had gained the qualifications to establish a sect and had built the Imperial City Sect beside Black Sand Town.

With the Imperial City Sect's connections, Lu Qingfeng had been completely at home in Black Sand Town.

Furthermore, because of the various low-level pills and low-level talismans he sold, almost every low-level cultivator who had arrived in Black Sand Town over the past few decades knew Lu Qingfeng.

Although Daoist Huang Luo had traveled throughout the lands in search of opportunities in recent years, Lu Qingfeng's connections had instead grown even broader.

Naturally, he wanted to remain in Black Sand Town.

But after reincarnation, exposing his identity as a reincarnator might cause some trouble.

After all, it was rare for someone's lifespan to reach its end in the game while they were somehow still alive in reality.

It would be better to change environments, see the scenery elsewhere in the Primordial World, and perhaps gain something unexpected.

The player has chosen to reincarnate to a random map. Please wait—

Reincarnation successful. Growth Progress: 1/16

Within the Ascension Pool, the newborn Lu Qingfeng was taking shape. Only after sixteen years would he be able to embark on the "Primordial World" journey once again!

Yet no one knew where he would be born!