Profound Mother Scripture

On the banks of the Clear Source River, the waters rolled on, never to return.

"Had he really left?"

Lu Xuanping sensed again and again until he was certain Jiang Chen had truly gone. Looking in the direction Jiang Chen had taken, he felt a sudden tangle of emotions: relief at having passed the test, and a bitterness he could not quite hide.

"Did he truly not notice, or did he simply not care?"

Lu Xuanping clenched his hand without realizing it, turning over every possibility.

There had been a time when he and Jiang Chen were genuine friends. Later, Jiang Chen had even saved his life without knowing it. But too much had happened since then. Now, he found it hard to trust anyone.

"Whether he noticed or not, the greatest uncertainty has finally passed."

"All I need to do now is wait for the right moment and keep drawing in the calamity qi between heaven and earth to nourish myself. Then I can mend the flaws in the Four-Symbols Calamity-Breeding Qi and make this heavenly material whole again."

"Once I do that, I'll be one step closer to the Celestial Phenomenon Realm."

Gathering his thoughts into a blade, Lu Xuanping cut away the stray thoughts in his heart. His gaze grew firm once more.

While on another continent, he had encountered a rare opportunity and obtained a heavenly material suited to his inheritance. Unfortunately, something had gone wrong during its formation, and it had never fully taken shape.

Fortunately, the inheritance he had obtained contained a secret art. He could use his body as a furnace to mend the heavenly material's foundation after the fact and bring it to perfection. But because he had not refined it, its aura still leaked out from time to time despite all