Inside the private room.
Everyone from Zero Martial Arts Company was dumbfounded.
That included Xiao Yu'er, whom they called their boss.
She sprang to her feet in excitement. Through the glass screen, she stared at the gleaming golden elixir, covering her little mouth. Her usual aloof air was long gone.
Qi and Blood Golden Elixir!
That was actually a Qi and Blood Golden Elixir with a special attribute.
It was something that hundreds of billions on the market could not buy, yet she had actually encountered one!
"Six hundred million. Worth it!"
Xiao Yu'er pouted and gave a soft snort. "I really must thank everyone from Monster Potion Company for this. I never thought you would be willing to give up such an opportunity!"
Likewise, she was not someone who would swallow humiliation.
Whenever she caught an opportunity, she would strike back with mockery. Besides, tens of thousands of people had gathered at the auction, including martial artists and ordinary people, along with countless viewers in the livestream.
She had to humiliate Monster Potion Company thoroughly.
"Ahem!"
Lu Xuan rose unhurriedly and walked over to her. Staring at the Qi and Blood Golden Elixir, he said,
"That bird—I can sell it to you. I want the Qi and Blood Golden Elixir."
Xiao Yu'er turned her head and widened her eyes. "What do you mean?"
She grabbed Lu Xuan by the collar and pointed at herself like an angry kitten. "Don't forget, I'm the one who paid for it!"
"So what?"
Lu Xuan lowered his head, the corners of his lips curling up. "Without me, you wouldn't even have taken a second look at it. I'm selling you the most valuable thing here. You're making a guaranteed profit."
What kind of statement was that?
Xiao Yu'er turned toward the Skyfire Chicken in the egg in disbelief. She pulled hard, but Lu Xuan did not budge, so she simply rose onto her toes and brought her cheek close to his face.
"A Skyfire Chicken?"
"You're telling me that a premature Skyfire Chicken is the most precious thing here?"
"Genuine as they come."
Lu Xuan seized Xiao Yu'er's hand and leaned his head close to her ear. In a voice only the two of them could hear, he said,
"This isn't a Skyfire Chicken chick. It's that Beast Lord Level Skyfire Chicken itself. Its current state is merely rebirth through fire. Do you know what that means...?"
Boom!
Xiao Yu'er's mind exploded. Her mouth opened and closed, but in the end, she could not utter a word.
Rebirth through fire.
It sounded somewhat absurd, but it was not impossible.
After all, why would a Qi and Blood Golden Elixir appear in an egg for no reason?
"I'll remember you, Xuan Lu!"
She snorted and led her people out of the private room.
The Qi and Blood Martial Artist beside her was somewhat confused. "Miss, that young man is..."
Xiao Yu'er swept him with a cold glance and said indifferently, "From now on, whenever you see him, treat it as though you're seeing me."
Her subordinate shuddered and hurriedly nodded in agreement.
In truth,
if Lu Xuan had merely been an ordinary Holy Cult believer, she would not have paid him much attention. Yet this person had managed to see that there was more to the dead egg while everyone else failed to understand it.
That left her no choice but to take him seriously.
They absolutely could not afford to become enemies with him.
After they left,
Scarhead and the others crowded around Lu Xuan, their faces full of suspicion. "Little Xuan, you really know our boss?"
Excitement, delight, and shock.
The six members of War Spirit Squad had fallen into a state of unparalleled exhilaration.
Just now, because of Lu Xuan, not only had their wages increased, but even their resources would be allocated according to the standards for Ninth-order martial artists. How many people dreamed of such treatment?
Yet Lu Xuan had settled it with a single sentence.
"Brother Xuan, you were so manly just now!"
Zhang Wei gave an exaggerated grunt and was about to pounce onto Lu Xuan.
"Enough."
Lu Xuan dodged him and said with a chuckle, "I just happened to know Xiao Yu'er."
Know her?
That counted, too.
After all, the two of them were nominally both believers of the Holy Cult. They were branches of the same tree.
Very soon,
the Qi and Blood Golden Elixir was delivered into Lu Xuan's hands.
Without hesitation, Lu Xuan bade farewell to the members of War Spirit Squad and rented a cultivation room at the Martial Arts Association. He had to refine the Qi and Blood Golden Elixir as quickly as possible.
Of course,
he would not refine it directly.
"The Future Mail clearly stated that I'm supposed to put the Qi and Blood Golden Elixir into the Bronze Gourd."
Inside the cultivation room, Lu Xuan placed the Qi and Blood Golden Elixir into the Bronze Gourd.
The next second,
the Bronze Gourd burst into radiance, crushing the golden elixir into a stream of pure qi and blood power, accompanied by a scorching fire attribute.
"Hm?" Lu Xuan raised his eyebrows. He carefully sensed the fire attribute inside the Bronze Gourd and was overjoyed. "The fire attribute didn't dissipate instantly. Instead, it's growing hotter inside. Could this Bronze Gourd actually store energy?"
At the thought of this possibility,
his mind stirred, and a thread of Psychic Power surged into the Bronze Gourd.
It was not far from what he had expected.
The moment his Psychic Power entered the Bronze Gourd, gentle ripples were born inside it. A force that drifted softly like a jellyfish wrapped around his Psychic Power and began to nourish it.
"Nourish it?"
Delight appeared on Lu Xuan's face.
Nourishing power was just like cultivating an object or pet. It could allow it to level up, improve its quality, and accumulate continuously until it became a trump card when needed.
For example, he could store a wisp of power inside.
Then he could feed the gourd all kinds of heavenly treasures. After enough time passed—ten or a hundred years—that wisp of power would become a raging flood or storm. Once released, it could destroy heaven and earth.
"Could this gourd be the legendary Sword-Nourishing Gourd?"
Whether in his previous life or this one,
Lu Xuan had studied this kind of magical treasure to some extent.
The Sword-Nourishing Gourd was a divine artifact said to nourish treasured swords.
However, this Bronze Gourd seemed even more extraordinary. It could actually nourish Psychic Power, and even power of any attribute.
This was a huge trump card.
As long as there was enough time, or he fed it enough heavenly treasures,
when he released it, it would unleash a strike capable of destroying heaven and earth.
"If that's the case, then from now on, I'll feed you all the heavenly treasures I can't use up!"
Lu Xuan made up his mind.
At the same time,
his gaze fell on the spot where the Qi and Blood Golden Elixir had originally disappeared.
At that very moment, energy began to gather. Under the Bronze Gourd's nourishment, the Qi and Blood Golden Elixir's energy became gentler, while its impurities were continuously stripped away until only an incomparably pure stream of qi and blood power remained.
This was the true Qi and Blood Golden Elixir!
Lu Xuan stared at the golden elixir that continued condensing from energy. With a tug of his will, the Qi and Blood Golden Elixir flew out of the gourd and straight into his mouth.
In an instant,
an incomparably vast qi, blood, and spiritual energy exploded, pouring into every meridian in his body.
The cells throughout his body boiled. His blood stirred with inspiration, and the spiritual energy supply in the cultivation room was consumed at the speed of shifting sand. In the blink of an eye, the warning light flashed red.
Fortunately, Lu Xuan had paid for it.
Even with the red light flashing, they still had to provide the spiritual energy.
As the Spiritual Energy invaded his body, he began circulating his Martial Art Manual, refining the energy brought by the Qi and Blood Golden Elixir bit by bit. His qi and blood value began skyrocketing.
7000 qi and blood!
7002 qi and blood!
7100 qi and blood!
7600... 7800!
"Just a little more!"
Lu Xuan gritted his teeth and summoned the Bronze Gourd. His powerful Mental Power manipulated the spiritual liquid inside the gourd, drawing it out and merging it into his body at the crucial moment.
"Now!"
Lu Xuan growled. Golden light flared from his eyes, and he swallowed the remaining spiritual liquid in one gulp.
Energy churned, and qi and blood coursed through his meridians.
Bang!
With a muffled boom, the cells, meridians, and blood throughout Lu Xuan's body suddenly expanded. Then, they divided at astonishing speed before healing again.
The wounds that had covered Lu Xuan's body began healing at a speed visible to the naked eye, until they vanished completely.
8400 qi and blood value!
His qi and blood power broke through the 8000 mark.
Qi and blood division, super regeneration.
Even a severed arm could regrow. As long as he did not die, he would eventually recover!
He had become a Tier 8 Martial Artist!
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