Opportunity to Subvert the Urban Version

After Blood Beard completely devoured Cheng Yu's soul, his original Peak Qi Refining realm began to loosen, showing a faint trend of breaking through to the Foundation Establishment stage.

However, Cheng Yu had ultimately consumed too much soul power to cast the curse, preventing Blood Beard from completing the breakthrough in one go.

Lu Yan didn't pay much attention to this; at most, he would just find another opportunity to kill a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

Among Lu Yan's three Main Souls, the Warrior primarily provided defense, the Giant Spirit had strong single-target combat power, and only Blood Beard could fuse all the Fierce Ghosts together through the Soul Fusion Technique, maximizing the power of the Soul Banner and achieving the ability to kill enemies across realms.

Once Blood Beard's cultivation realm reached a certain level, gathering thousands of Fierce Ghosts into one, he might not be unable to contend against a Golden Core True Person.

Compared to the three Main Souls, each with their own divine peculiarities, Cheng Yu, a Foundation Establishment Great Cultivator with hidden dangers, was not particularly outstanding. Even if he were truly placed in the Soul Banner, the effect he could exert might not be comparable to the three Main Souls.

"I didn't notice it before, but after this fight with Cheng Yu, I realized that the Talent Spells converted from these Main Souls' extraordinary abilities seem a bit too powerful?

What is the essence of these extraordinary abilities? Could this also be related to the characteristics of the Apocalypse Version?"

Thoughts flashed through his mind. Then, Lu Yan recalled most of the Fierce Ghosts, leaving only a hundred ghosts outside.

His gaze swept over these Fierce Ghosts, and Lu Yan ordered:

"Search the surrounding area and bring back everything that has spiritual energy."

As his voice fell, hundreds of Fierce Ghosts instantly merged into the darkness, beginning to search for items in the vicinity.

Lu Yan also walked to Cheng Yu's crushed corpse and rummaged through a pile of bloody, mangled flesh, finding two Storage Bags.

One was a red Storage Bag, embroidered with a red lotus mark, clearly from the Red Lotus Demonic Sect.

The other blue Storage Bag looked quite ordinary and could be purchased in a Market Street.

However, compared to the low-grade Storage Bag on Lu Yan, this blue Storage Bag had reached the level of a low-grade magic tool. Its price was more than ten times higher, its space was several times larger, and the stability of the spatial array allowed the Storage Bag to be preserved for over a hundred years.

Lu Yan bent down, preparing to pick up the Storage Bags, but suddenly, a powerful spiritual sense made him detect something was wrong.

He paused slightly, and with a wave of his hand, the Profound Yellow Merit Fire fell into his palm. With the light of Merit protecting him, Lu Yan reached out for the two Storage Bags again.

The next second, a ferocious, distorted face suddenly appeared on the red Storage Bag. The vengeful spirit wailed and lunged at Lu Yan, but couldn't even break through the light of Merit. Under the illumination of the Profound Yellow Merit Fire, it rapidly dissipated.

"There's no offensive ability. It should be some kind of curse that leaves a mark.

Once the mark is branded on me, people from the Red Lotus Demonic Sect will detect it, and what awaits me will inevitably be endless pursuit."

He sighed inwardly at the hidden and complex methods of the demonic path, but Lu Yan wasn't overly worried.

The Profound Yellow Merit Fire was the most effective against these demonic methods; even if a mark was left, it could be easily removed.

He reached out and opened the red Storage Bag. In the vast space, there were no other miscellaneous items, only a half-human-sized, completely crystal-clear blue crystal.

Ordinary Spirit Stones would actively dissipate spiritual energy to the outside, but the spiritual energy emanating from this blue crystal was extremely restrained. If Lu Yan didn't actively touch it, he wouldn't even be able to detect the presence of spiritual energy.

"Could this be the legendary Spirit Marrow Ore?"

Lu Yan's expression froze slightly, then showed shock.

The Spirit Stones used by rogue cultivators usually came from Spirit Stone Mines, but Spirit Stone Mines didn't only contain Spirit Stones. In the core of some Spirit Veins, a special kind of ore could be produced—Spirit Marrow Ore.

In terms of spiritual energy content alone, Spirit Marrow Ore was only slightly higher than Spirit Stones, but its value far exceeded that of Spirit Stones of the same volume.

This was all because Spirit Marrow Ore could absorb the spiritual energy in the surrounding air and infect surrounding items through contact, assimilating the contacted items into spiritual objects.

This kind of spiritual object requires Spirit Marrow Ore as a medium. Once it disappears, it cannot be preserved for long. However, it is precisely this characteristic, combined with some special formations, that allows Spirit Marrow Ore to evolve into a Spirit Vein!

Many large sects establish branch sects and rogue cultivator Market Streets by using Spirit Marrow Ore combined with formations to stimulate the growth of Spirit Veins.

Depending on the quality of the Spirit Marrow Ore, the Spirit Veins that can be stimulated naturally vary, but they will not exceed a second-tier Spirit Vein at most, only enough to establish Foundation Establishment level Market Street branches.

This is somewhat redundant for large sects, but for those cultivation families and low-level forces, it is a strategically important treasure.

Lu Yan had no way of knowing the specific quality or price of the Spirit Marrow Ore.

But even the lowest grade Spirit Marrow Ore would require at least tens of thousands of Spirit Stones, enough to purchase several Foundation Establishment Pills.

However, for Lu Yan, the price of this piece of Spirit Marrow Ore far exceeded the so-called Foundation Establishment Pills.

Because Lu Yan realized that if this piece of Spirit Marrow Ore was used properly, it might have the ability to subvert the entire Urban Version!

"Such a precious treasure, even a Golden Core True Person might not possess it. Cheng Yu is merely a Foundation Establishment cultivator, so how did he obtain this piece of Spirit Marrow Ore?"

After a moment of thought, Lu Yan came up with an answer.

Ruins!

A branch of the Red Lotus Demonic Sect had infiltrated Witch Mountain for over ten years, precisely for that set of Ruins.

Being able to persist for such a long time, it is possible that the Red Lotus Demonic Sect has already achieved some results in deciphering the Ruins, and this piece of Spirit Marrow Ore is likely produced from those Ruins.

This piece of Spirit Marrow Ore was placed separately in the Red Lotus Demonic Sect's Storage Bag, and there were special curse marks on the Storage Bag, clearly used specifically for transporting treasures.

Perhaps even Cheng Yu himself didn't know what was stored in this Storage Bag.

"Regardless of the truth, this piece of Spirit Marrow Ore is already mine."

Although the Profound Yellow Merit Fire had already cleaned the Storage Bag, Lu Yan still took out the Spirit Marrow Ore and placed it in his personal Storage Bag for storage.

After doing this, Lu Yan looked at the other blue Storage Bag.

After opening it, the first thing that caught Lu Yan's eye was a copy of the Red Lotus Karma Fire Sutra.

However, compared to the one Lu Yan had before, the Red Lotus Karma Fire Sutra in Cheng Yu's Storage Bag clearly had some changes in content. It clearly recorded the cultivation methods from nurturing the divine soul to breaking through Foundation Establishment, and then to the subsequent Foundation Establishment stage, enough for Lu Yan to cultivate all the way to Peak Foundation Establishment.

Seeing this book, Lu Yan finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He came to the Xianxia Version largely for the subsequent cultivation techniques of the Red Lotus Karma Fire Sutra.

Being able to cultivate all the way to Peak Foundation Establishment would be enough for Lu Yan to use for a long time.

The method for condensing a Golden Core was still too far away for Lu Yan. It wouldn't be too late to plan after reaching Foundation Establishment.