Chapter 1259: Sparring with Yan Qingxue
On the second day of the New Year, Ten Thousand Pines Daoist and Song Kaichuan bade farewell and departed.
During the festival, the women spent several days sightseeing under the guidance of several Phoenix Mountain maidservants and great demons, while Lu Zheng followed Si Lingxi to Divine Fire Cave Heaven once more.
After seven days of dual cultivation, when he emerged from the mountain again, all his essence and vigor had withdrawn inward, and his aura had returned to pristine simplicity. So long as Lu Zheng did not deliberately reveal himself, he looked to everyone like nothing more than a plain and unadorned scholar from a small town.
The way Si Lingxi looked at Lu Zheng also carried a touch more amazement.
Although Lu Zheng's seclusion this time had not brought the same great qualitative leap as the first, he had advanced steadily over the past year. Coupled with the five-thousand-year Fire Ganoderma he had consumed earlier, the acceleration of his cultivation could not quite be called a wolf racing through graves or a rat fleeing with its head in its paws, but it was close enough.
His true qi was perfectly unified, his divine soul pure and deep, his bones and blood firm as a tripod. He cultivated body, qi, and spirit as one, and his numerous cultivation arts and secret techniques were all orthodox Mystical Sect inheritances. If they truly fought, even someone with higher cultivation might not be able to defeat him.
"If I ran into Qing Xin Saintess again, I'd absolutely have her in the palm of my hand." Lu Zheng said smugly, flipping his palm over. "Easy as turning over my hand!"
"Pity Qing Xin Saintess is already dead. Otherwise, why not try Qingxue?" Shen Ying said with a