Refusal! Stat Points, Corrupt Immortal Spiritual Charm!

A full sixteen hundred-plus Fortune Points—converted into the Energy Points of the past, that was a full sixteen hundred-plus billion Energy Points!

The thousand Fortune Points needed to upgrade Gui Xu Yin by three levels had actually been returned directly through this method!

There were even quite a few extra!

"Does this count as freeloading? Interesting."

Lu Qingyun's grin nearly split his face, but just then, he saw Sixth Ancestor of the Lu Family's expression turn strange.

At the same time, Fifth Ancestor of the Lu Family's voice sounded by his ear.

"A hidden constitution of the devouring type? Interesting."

"Lu Qingyun, is it? Would you be willing to follow me in rigorous cultivation from now on?"

Originally, Fifth Ancestor of the Lu Family had not thought much of Lu Qingyun, but after all thirteen of his Star Stones had been completely absorbed, his attitude took a complete one-hundred-eighty-degree turn!

Although the Blood Moving Secret Treasury had now surpassed several hundred million layers, making it incomparably difficult to break through into the Cave Heaven Secret Treasury in the future, this hidden constitution was simply too miraculous!

It was as though there were a bottomless pit within his body, capable of endlessly devouring all energy without leaving the slightest trace behind!

Fifth Ancestor of the Lu Family and Sixth Ancestor of the Lu Family had even joined hands to inspect Lu Qingyun from top to bottom, confirming that he was not carrying some item containing dozens of old monsters.

That truly stirred Fifth Ancestor of the Lu Family's interest.

Seeing that Fifth Ancestor of the Lu Family had finally relented, Sixth Ancestor of the Lu Family also breathed a sigh of relief.

Several years ago, because of his constitution, Lu Qingyun had not received the nurturing of these old fellows, leaving him far behind.

Although he had relied on his own talent to forcefully turn that disadvantage into absolute suppression in terms of raw strength, it would still be better if he could make up for it in this regard.

Yet, faced with Fifth Ancestor of the Lu Family's invitation, Lu Qingyun fell silent for a long while before asking, "May I ask, Ancestor, what does the rigorous cultivation you speak of generally involve?"

"Naturally, it means improving you in every aspect. For example, sending you into a region devoid of spiritual energy, where you can only obtain combat strength by drawing upon the scant energy between heaven and earth, surviving the attacks of special vicious beasts. And also..."

"Thank you for your kind intentions, Ancestor! But this junior has always been used to idleness. It seems you and I are fated to meet, but not fated to be together!"

Lu Qingyun did not even listen to what came next before directly refusing.

Just hearing the first part had scared him half to death. How could he dare listen to the rest?

What did he mean by struggling to survive in a region devoid of spiritual energy?

How was that any different from tossing him directly into a vat of boiling oil!?

That was worse than death!

Indeed, for an ordinary prodigy, Fifth Ancestor of the Lu Family's method would certainly be effective.

It could temper one's devouring power as well as one's will.

But for Lu Qingyun, devouring... was merely a means of obtaining Fortune Points!

Forsaking Fortune Points in order to improve his devouring power—wasn't that putting the cart before the horse?

"Since that is the case, I won't force you."

Fifth Ancestor of the Lu Family did not understand why Lu Qingyun's reaction had been so intense after hearing only part of the training regimen.

But when he had trained the Taotie Sacred Body back then, he had used this very method. Though it had wailed and howled every day like ghosts crying and wolves howling, the results had been exceptionally effective!

Fifth Ancestor of the Lu Family did not believe a single word of Lu Qingyun's reason for refusing.

Could a genius who crushed his peers and slaughtered enemies until the major powers joined forces, forcing the monster forbidden from entering the Great Wilderness to act, possibly be some idle good-for-nothing?

That was utterly absurd!

"Forget it, forget it."

The towering horn sank back into the ground, and Fifth Ancestor of the Lu Family fell into slumber once more.

He did not dwell on the matter. Since Lu Qingyun was unwilling, it only meant less work for him.

As for Lu Qingyun's hidden constitution... he would understand it eventually.

"Do you know what kind of opportunity you just refused?"

Sixth Ancestor of the Lu Family was equally puzzled, yet he did not try to persuade him.

He had always refrained from interfering with the choices of the younger generation.

"An opportunity? Perhaps."

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Lu Qingyun's smile was confident and unrestrained, his words brimming with irrepressible arrogance!

Sixth Ancestor of the Lu Family's gaze turned somewhat distant. He recalled a day several years ago when he had gone fishing.

Back then, he had lamented missing out on a big fish.

But on second thought, no matter how badly that big fish had slipped away, it was still in the Lu Family's Spirit Lake. It had nowhere to run!

After asking the Sixth Ancestor of the Lu Family to move Ling Jue Hall back, Lu Qingyun sat upright in the cultivation chamber, his eyes filled with contemplation.

Just now, he had asked the Sixth Ancestor of the Lu Family about the Star Stones, wanting to know whether the family could provide them to him.

After all, a single Star Stone could nearly bring him a hundred Fortune Points!

That was comparable to a Three-pattern Sacred Medicine.

Yet the answer he received disappointed him. As supreme cultivation resources, Star Stones existed only in the hands of supreme experts.

Moreover, because Star Stones were of such an extraordinarily high grade, unless one had reached a certain realm, one was not even qualified to use them as cultivation resources!

In other words, even if the Sixth Ancestor of the Lu Family gave Lu Qingyun several Star Stones, he could only stare at them helplessly, unable to absorb them!

Unless a supreme expert took action, like the Fifth Ancestor of the Lu Family had before, using some method to help him absorb them.

But there was no need to think to know how impossible that was!

So for now, he could only rely on ordinary resources to obtain Fortune Points.

And now that Gui Xu Yin had reached the third layer, the Fortune Points he could obtain each day had reached a terrifying two hundred!

"Just five days will be enough to gather one thousand Fortune Points. In fifty days, that'll be ten thousand!"

Thinking of it that way, the Fortune Points needed to deduce his own death were not actually that many!

But... Lu Qingyun had no intention of simply saving up for nearly two months.

The faster his strength increased, the faster he could acquire Fortune Points.

If he wasted two months just like this, he would lose two whole months of growth.

Perhaps, in the end, the difference would come down to those two months!

Increasing his strength first was what mattered most!

With nearly two thousand Fortune Points in hand, Lu Qingyun had many options for allocating them.

But aside from the already upgraded Gui Xu Yin, the one most likely to bring him a qualitative transformation was undoubtedly Corrupt Immortal Spiritual Charm!

This was the heaven-defying fortune he had once parsed from that section of Immortal Divine Medicine, the Fallen Immortal Green Vine—a trait that could grant him limitless possibilities!

[Corrupt Immortal Spiritual Charm (0/1000): One of the heaven-defying fortunes within the Immortal Divine Medicine, Fallen Immortal Green Vine. After receiving its blessing, one fears none of the poisons in the world, using poison as kindling to fuel the flames of cultivation. Furthermore, attacks unleashed will automatically carry countless strange poisons, ever-changing and impossible to guard against! The most supreme strange poisons can corrode immortal bodies and pierce Immortal Souls!]

"System, add it for me!"

With a tap of Lu Qingyun's finger, Fortune Points poured into the Corrupt Immortal Spiritual Charm entry.

In an instant, a ray of spiritual light entered Lu Qingyun's body. The moment it came into contact with his blood qi, it suddenly spread out, coursing through every part of his body.

There was not the slightest phenomenon, nor did he feel anything at all.

It was as though his thousand Fortune Points had been splashed away like water, never to be recovered.

Fortunately, as a Lu Family Sequence, finding some living creatures to test it on was exceedingly easy.

Once Lu Qingyun's order was passed down, before long, a fierce barbarian tightly bound in profound iron chains was brought in.

Lu Qingyun did not know what crime the man had committed, nor was he interested in knowing.

After giving him a brief glance, he saw that the man was at the peak of Nirvana.

Not bad. He was not weak—just right for a test.

Lu Qingyun did not display any great power. He merely condensed a thread of blood qi in his hand.

With a light flick of his finger toward the barbarian, the blood qi landed on him, scorching away some of his hair before falling silent.

"Hm? Didn't it work?"

Lu Qingyun was somewhat puzzled and was just about to try again.

When he noticed something.

From the moment the blood qi had touched the barbarian, the expression on the man's face had not changed in the slightest.

At some unknown point, all his flesh and bones had already melted away completely!

Only a layer of skin remained on the outside, propped up like a balloon painted with a human face.

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