Ancient Crystal

Lu Zhen, refreshed and invigorated, continued his bitter cultivation inside the quiet chamber of Bamboo Listening Pavilion.

After taking Feng City, he had far greater confidence.

It was not merely because he had acquired Wang Meng's stockpile of Ancient Jade.

More importantly, he now commanded tens of thousands of troops!

These tens of thousands of men were continuously scouring Feng City and the surrounding territories for Ancient Jade on his behalf.

Every day, over a thousand pieces of Ancient Jade flowed into his residence like water.

The number of Ancient Jade inside Lu Zhen's Space Ring had already surpassed the thirty-thousand mark!

"Hmm?"

Lu Zhen abruptly opened his eyes in the midst of cultivation, one brow lifting slightly.

Inside his Space Ring, the mountain-like pile of blood-red Ancient Jade was undergoing a bizarre change.

A full thirty thousand pieces of Ancient Jade melded together.

In the end.

They became a single blood-red crystal no larger than a dragon's eye, crystalline and translucent throughout!

"What is this?" Lu Zhen was astonished.

He took out the blood-red crystal and held it in his palm.

The crystal was warm and smooth, yet it contained a terrifying aura.

"Thirty thousand pieces of Ancient Jade fused into just one crystal?" Lu Zhen murmured to himself. "What exactly is this Ancient Jade for?"

He suddenly realized something.

The Supreme Unity Mystic Sect was the true supreme overlord of the Azure Wind Domain.

Why would they go to such great lengths to send fifteen thousand peerless geniuses to this Ancient Star for special training? Could it really be only to make them rob these stones like bandits?

Impossible!

"This Ancient Jade—or rather, this crystal—must conceal a tremendous secret." Lu Zhen thought.

The city lord's manor contained an abundant collection of books.

Lu Zhen plunged headfirst into the