The Bell Tolled Nine Times-Had Something Major Happened to the Joyful Union Sect?

The Joyful Union Sect was on the verge of a great calamity, yet these people were still busy fighting among themselves.

Lu Chen was truly speechless.

With his current body cultivation realm, was he supposed to fear two idiots like them?

"Lu Chen, you abandoned your post and descended the mountain without permission. According to the Joyful Union Sect's rules, I will cripple your cultivation and expel you from the sect!"

Su Qingqing stared coldly at Lu Chen.

"No, Senior Sister Su, just expelling him from the sect?"

Manager Pang said in disbelief.

Su Qingqing had directly killed Liu Heizi before.

Why was Lu Chen's punishment merely having his cultivation crippled and being expelled from the sect?

"Are you teaching me how to do things?"

Su Qingqing glanced at Manager Pang.

"Pang Yong, Pang Yong..."

Lu Chen was just about to make his move.

In his eyes, Su Qingqing and Manager Pang were nothing more than ants.

Besides the three of them, there was no one else here anyway.

Since this matter could not be peacefully resolved, he could only kill them.

Clang!

At that moment, the sound of a bell suddenly rang out from the mountain.

"Hm?"

Su Qingqing was startled upon hearing it.

Why was the bell ringing on the mountain in the middle of the day?

Clang!

The bell continued to ring, tolling nine times in succession.

"Nine tolls?"

Su Qingqing was greatly alarmed. Something major had happened. She no longer cared about anything else and turned to leave immediately.

"No, Senior Sister Su..."

Seeing this, Manager Pang hurriedly chased after her.

"Why are you leaving? Weren't you going to deal with me?"

Lu Chen called after them.

Su Qingqing and Manager Pang had no idea that they had just taken a stroll through the gates of hell.

"The bell tolled nine times. What happened?"

Lu Chen looked up toward the mountain.

Could it be that the Black Tortoise Sect had grown impatient and made a move against the Joyful Union Sect?

Anyway, when the sky fell, the tall people would hold it up. He was merely a menial disciple guarding the Waste Pill Repository.

I should keep cultivating and raise my cultivation instead.

Ever since he had used his divine sense to discover how the Yin-Yang Essence inside the Yin-Yang Cauldron was produced, he had been both shocked and delighted.

What shocked him was that there really was more than one way to obtain Yin-Yang Essence.

What delighted him was that he no longer had to risk his life in Dual Cultivation.

These past days, he had wanted to cry but had no tears.

He did not want to be treated as some lust demon.

Who did not want to cultivate immortality properly?

Now, he could finally cultivate immortality properly.

As long as he absorbed a female cultivator's vital essence and let it converge with his own vital essence inside the Yin-Yang Cauldron, Yin-Yang Essence could be produced.

What he cultivated was the Five Elements Swallowing Heaven Scripture, capable of Devouring all vital essence beneath heaven.

Devouring a female cultivator's vital essence was nothing more than a piece of cake for him.

He had used three of the five Realm-Breaking Pills, leaving two.

He had also gathered enough Yin-Yang Essence to restore the Failed Nascent Soul Pill.

His spell cultivation was only at Qi Refining, Fifth Level. He was still separated from the Nascent Soul Realm by a distance of a hundred thousand miles.

There was no rush.

Still, the body-refining technique of that Primordial Five Elements Immortal Sect was truly heaven-defying.

At Copper Skin Realm, Great Accomplishment, he could already crush a Peak Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator.

If he broke through to the Iron Bone Stage, he would be able to face Golden Core Stage bigshots head-on.

What he needed now were Advanced Body-Tempering Pills, Advanced Marrow-Washing Pills, and Advanced Foundation-Nourishing Pills.

He had to devote himself to raising his body cultivation realm.

He remembered that when he had previously inventoried Numbers Sixteen, Seventeen, and Eighteen Pill Rooms, he had found quite a few failed Advanced Body-Tempering Pills, Advanced Marrow-Washing Pills, and Advanced Foundation-Nourishing Pills.

These were all pills he desperately needed to raise his body cultivation realm.

Without hesitation, Lu Chen headed straight into the depths of Waste-Pill Valley.

Meanwhile, as the bell tolled nine times,

all the Inner Sect Disciples of the Joyful Union Sect converged on Joyful Union Hall at lightning speed.

Even those Personal Disciples of the Joyful Union Sect who were in seclusion emerged immediately after hearing the bell.

No one knew what had happened.

At that moment, Lu Chen was inside Number Eighteen Waste-Pill Room. He took out the Yin-Yang Cauldron and began restoring failed pills.

It only took one strand of Yin-Yang Essence to restore thirty-three of the lowest-grade pills.

He discovered that restoring higher-grade pills also consumed more Yin-Yang Essence.

He took out the failed Body-Tempering Pills he had inventoried earlier and tossed them into the Yin-Yang Cauldron.

One strand of Yin-Yang Essence could restore six Advanced Body-Tempering Pills.

"Restore!"

Lu Chen directly activated the Yin-Yang Cauldron.

Soon, after consuming one strand of Yin-Yang Essence, he obtained six Fourth-Grade Body-Tempering Pills.

He put away the High-Grade Body-Tempering Pills and continued restoring Marrow-Washing Pills.

One strand of Yin-Yang Essence could restore seven Advanced Marrow-Washing Pills.

Without the slightest hesitation, Lu Chen activated the Yin-Yang Cauldron to restore the Marrow-Washing Pills.

In less than half an hour, he had obtained six Fourth-Grade Body-Tempering Pills and seven Fifth-Grade Marrow-Washing Pills.

There were still 343 strands of Yin-Yang Essence inside the Yin-Yang Cauldron.

He put away the pills, then sensed the Yin-Yang Space within the Yin-Yang Cauldron.

To his delighted surprise, all the spiritual herbs planted in that space had survived. Not only that, they were growing extremely well, and their ages had increased considerably.

Especially that Soul-Condensing Grass. It had only been planted for a few days, yet it had grown a great deal taller.

He reached out and touched the Soul-Condensing Grass, discovering that it had already reached an age of five hundred years.

"This is far too incredible!"

Lu Chen was both shocked and delighted.

At this growth rate, this Soul-Condensing Grass would become a thousand-year Soul-Condensing Grass before long.

With these cultivation resources, he could raise his cultivation as quickly as possible.

The Joyful Union Sect was about to suffer misfortune.

He had to raise his cultivation with all his strength in order to protect himself.

Lu Chen put away the Yin-Yang Cauldron, then sat cross-legged on the ground. He swallowed a Body-Tempering Pill, circulated the Five-Element Body-Refining Technique, and began refining its medicinal power to temper his fleshly body.

The medicinal power of a Fourth-Grade Body-Tempering Pill was indeed formidable.

Lu Chen only felt as if countless sharp little blades were slicing through his entire body.

This pain was far worse than death by a thousand cuts.

This was simply self-torture.

No wonder body cultivation had vanished from today's cultivation world while spell cultivation flourished beyond compare.

Yet Lu Chen had blazed a new trail, becoming a cultivator of body cultivation, spell cultivation, and Dual Cultivation.

Spell cultivators judged a cultivator's talent by the quality of their Spiritual Root.

Body cultivators, on the other hand, refined their bodies and tempered their flesh. They did not place much importance on Spiritual Roots.

In the primordial era, even those without Spiritual Roots could cultivate body cultivation techniques and embark upon the path of powerhouses whose fleshly bodies became saints.

But that was no longer possible in today's cultivation world.

Body cultivation had completely declined.

Spell cultivation, meanwhile, had become incomparably prevalent.

Lu Chen endured it.

His clothes were completely soaked with sweat.

The impurities within his body were further tempered out.

However, his cultivation did not break through to the Peak Copper Skin Realm.

If one High-Grade Body-Tempering Pill was not enough, then two. If two were not enough, then three. I refuse to believe I can't break through to the Peak Copper Skin Realm.

Lu Chen did not hesitate and continued swallowing pills.

He endured wave after wave of inhuman agony.

Even after consuming all six Fourth-Grade Body-Tempering Pills, his cultivation still failed to break through to the Peak Copper Skin Realm.

However, his flesh, blood, tendons, and bones had been further strengthened.

"Is the Peak Copper Skin Realm really this difficult to break through?"

Lu Chen was depressed. It seemed he would need to restore even more High-Grade Body-Tempering Pills.

Mm, and Marrow-Washing Pills as well.

Cleansing the marrow and washing the tendons, tempering the Spiritual Root.

Lu Chen continued swallowing Marrow-Washing Pills.

After all, one strand of Yin-Yang Essence could restore six or seven High-Grade foundational pills like these.

Vital essence surged powerfully throughout his body.

The Five Elements Swallowing Heaven Scripture could refine and absorb more than eighty percent of a Marrow-Washing Pill's medicinal power.

When he had completely refined and absorbed the sixth Fifth-Grade Marrow-Washing Pill, his body trembled.

His whole being instantly became ethereal.

At that moment, he felt that the spiritual energy around him was within arm's reach.

His Five-Element Mixed Spirit Root had finally transformed.

He was both shocked and delighted.

His Low-Grade Five-Element Mixed Spirit Root had transformed into a Mid-Grade Five-Element Spirit Root.

He could clearly sense that the speed at which his body refined and absorbed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, along with medicinal power, had doubled.

His affinity with the surrounding spiritual energy of heaven and earth had become even greater.

His cultivation speed had also increased.

This felt amazing!

He stopped, then rose from the ground.

When he walked out of the Waste Pill Repository, night had already fallen outside.

Lu Chen returned to the small building, took a bath, and then headed straight down the mountain.

He did not care at all how Su Qingqing intended to deal with him.

At worst, he would simply leave.

Besides, the Joyful Union Sect was probably too busy looking after itself now.

Who would have time to bother with a lowest-ranking menial disciple like him?

He was still worried about his disciple with the Supreme Heavenly Spirit Root.