Chapter 500 - 176: Great Harvest, Cultivate with Full Effort!
Chapter 500: Chapter 176: Great Harvest, Cultivate with Full Effort!
Leaving the battlefield, Luo Cheng sped northward all the way.
By the next morning, Luo Cheng had traveled more than ten thousand miles away from Wuyan City, finally stopping in a scenic spot with mountains and water.
Drawing the Thunder Hidden Sword, Luo Cheng flicked his wrist, sending sword qi slicing through the cliff and carving out a stone chamber the size of a house.
Entering the stone chamber, Luo Cheng exhaled deeply, his taut nerves relaxing at last, allowing a profound exhaustion to set in.
Too much had happened between yesterday and today.
Not to mention the side effects of taking the Blood Burning Pill.
Both his body and spirit had been drained to an unprecedented degree.
If it were someone else, they might have already reached their limit.
“I need to rest first!”
Clutching the Thunder Hidden Sword, Luo Cheng leaned against the rock wall. Before long, he drifted into sleep, maintaining only a single trace of consciousness.
By the afternoon, Luo Cheng opened his eyes.
“I feel much better. This is the first time I’ve ever been so worn out.”
He stood tall, stretching his body, his bones emitting a series of crisp pops and cracks.
“A Venerable-level expert…”
Thinking of what had transpired the day before, Luo Cheng furrowed his brows deeply.
The Ji family powerhouse who had ordered a lethal strike against his father was powerful even in a mere projection of their will, capable of leveling mountains and filling seas with just a gesture!
Their true strength—unimaginable!
The gap between him and that foe was like the difference between a twinkling star and the radiant moon!
After a brief moment of shock, Luo Cheng shook his head, discarding the thought.
“Meals must be eaten one bite at a time, and roads must be walked step by step.”
While the chasm between them was vast, Luo Cheng resolved to do all he could to improve his strength!
“Let’s see what I’ve gained first.”
Luo Cheng sat cross-legged.
The wealth of the Sun family intrigued him.
Having developed for so many years in Wuyan City and with Sun Yingyang serving as an outer elder of the Fierce Cloud Sect, the Sun family’s accumulated fortune must surely be astonishing!
First, Luo Cheng took out the Essence Energy Pills.
Box after box of Essence Energy Pills was piled up into a small mountain. A rough estimate put the total at no less than one hundred thousand pills, and together with the thirty thousand from the Sun family in Luoyan Town, the total count approached one hundred fifty thousand!
One hundred fifty thousand Essence Energy Pills equated to fifteen billion taels!
This was an unimaginably immense fortune for most Awakening Vein Realm experts.
Aside from Essence Energy Pills, Luo Cheng also discovered a box of Soul Crystals, along with a large assortment of elixir pills.
Though these elixirs and Soul Crystals were of relatively low grade, their abundance and variety still made them exceedingly valuable.
Additionally, there were over one hundred cultivation and martial arts secret manuals. Most were low-level manuals ranging from One-star to Three-star grades, but there were also seventeen Four-star manuals and four Five-star manuals, two of which reached the pinnacle of Five-star grade!
“So many intermediate-grade manuals! These will bolster the strength of my family greatly!”
Luo Cheng smiled, his expression pleased.
With so many manuals, the overall power of his family could rise by several levels.
“Huh!”
Just as Luo Cheng was about to store the elixirs and manuals, his attention was drawn to a purple sandalwood box.
The intricate craftsmanship of the box exuded a vigorous life force that Luo Cheng could sense clearly.
Click!
Luo Cheng opened the purple sandalwood box, and the entire stone chamber was instantly bathed in a dense blood-golden glow.
Inside the box was a palm-sized, entirely blood-red lingzhi mushroom.
The lingzhi had two vein-like lines running through it, pulsing faintly with an otherworldly blood-golden light. Spiritual energy lingered in the air, dazzling like flowing rainbow hues, and five stars floated and sank within its radiance. Holding it in his hand, Luo Cheng could even feel a peculiar rhythmic pulse!
“A Five-star pinnacle-grade spiritual medicine—Blood Ganoderma, imbued with two blood veins and at least two thousand years of maturity!”
Luo Cheng’s eyes sharpened momentarily before a wide grin spread across his face.
The Blood Ganoderma was a heavenly treasure for replenishing blood and nourishing flesh!
Ordinary Blood Ganoderma lived only seven or eight hundred years, and those surpassing a thousand years were exceptionally rare!
A two-thousand-year-old Blood Ganoderma had spiritual potency and value far surpassing that of its ordinary counterparts.
As Luo Cheng was still suffering from the side effects of the Blood Burning Pill—with his vitality severely drained, his flesh and blood depleted, and his condition at only twenty to thirty percent of its peak strength—this two-thousand-year-old Blood Ganoderma could help him recover to peak condition in no time!
“This is truly a gift at the most critical moment!!”
His heart settled, Luo Cheng set the Blood Ganoderma aside, giving a sweep of his gaze and noticing two blood-colored porcelain bottles.
He distinctly remembered that these two porcelain bottles were given to Sun Yingyang by a Blood Nether Sect practitioner.
“I wonder what sort of elixirs these are.”
Musing to himself, Luo Cheng uncorked one of the bottles and allowed a single pill to roll out.
Immediately, the entire stone chamber was filled with brilliant blood light, and a thick, iron-scented aroma permeated the air.
However, this scent wasn’t revolting. Instead, a single whiff made one’s body feel warm and revitalized, the spirit invigorated.
The source of this blood-stained aroma was the crimson elixir pill in Luo Cheng’s hand.
The elixir was blood-golden in hue, its surface etched with twisted patterns resembling struggling blood shadows, with wisps of crimson aura spiraling across its exterior.
“The Blood Essence Pill!”
Seeing the crimson elixir pill in his hand, Luo Cheng couldn’t contain his delight.
The last time he consumed three Blood Essence Pills, his cultivation jumped from the middle stage to the late stage of the Fourth Layer in the Awakening Vein Realm.
Each of these bottles contained six Blood Essence Pills, making a total of twelve pills!
With these twelve Blood Essence Pills, reaching the Fifth Layer in the Awakening Vein Realm would be effortless, and he might even attempt a breakthrough to the Sixth Layer!
“A single Five-star pinnacle-grade spiritual medicine is worth over fifteen million taels! The Blood Essence Pills are even more valuable; twelve pills amount to at least two hundred million taels! What an extravagant display! No wonder Sun Yingyang was willing to throw his lot in with the Blood Nether Sect.”
“I wonder how many more people from the Three Great Sects have been bought off by the Blood Nether Sect…”
As he gazed at the Blood Essence Pills in his hand, a cold light flashed in Luo Cheng’s eyes, and a strong sense of crisis surged in his heart.
There were undoubtedly more traitors than just Sun Yingyang!
Luo Cheng had a premonition that something catastrophic would soon engulf the entire Great Yue Dynasty!
“It doesn’t matter. If the sky falls, the tall ones will hold it up. My immediate priority is to enhance my strength as fast as possible to prepare for any contingencies!”
Luo Cheng shook his head, discarding extraneous thoughts.
He put away all the miscellaneous items into the Lingxiao Jade Token, then retrieved the Blood Ganoderma.
After eliminating the Sun family and resolving a long-standing grievance, Luo Cheng’s mind was uncharacteristically calm, and he decided to enter secluded training for some time.
Aside from raising his cultivation, he needed to carefully comprehend the Martial Soul will left behind by a senior expert!
But before all that, he had to first restore himself to peak condition.
Schh!
Taking out the Blood Ganoderma, Luo Cheng used his fingers to slice off a piece and popped it into his mouth.
The Blood Ganoderma melted instantly upon entering his mouth, and a surge of fiery warmth spread through his abdomen, reaching his limbs and bones.
Luo Cheng immediately felt his depleted body, like parched earth meeting spring rain, greedily absorbing the medicinal power of the Blood Ganoderma. He could even hear the sounds of blood and flesh regenerating and bones mending!
Taking a deep breath, Luo Cheng entered a state of recuperation.
A day passed.
The next day, Luo Cheng opened his eyes, looking refreshed and brimming with energy.
His entire body now had skin as radiant as jade, a faint golden aura flickering on its surface. Where once he had been emaciated, his body now appeared robust and muscular, with defined lines exuding strength.
Rising to his feet, Luo Cheng casually threw a few punches. The air rippled as his fists moved, while his muscles and bones resonated in unison!
“As expected of a two-thousand-year-old Blood Ganoderma. In just over a day, it has restored me to peak condition!”
Luo Cheng’s eyes gleamed with determination. Now that he had recovered to his peak, he could set everything else aside and focus all his efforts on cultivating and improving his sword intent!
Having absorbed so much Martial Soul Essence combined with the twelve Blood Essence Pills, Luo Cheng was confident he could break through to the Sixth Layer of the Awakening Vein Realm!
As for sword intent, how much he could grasp from the Martial Soul will of the senior expert and to what extent his sword intent could develop were uncertain—only training would reveal the answers!