Chapter 4: Breakthrough
Everyone on the stage was shocked and confused.
How could a rotten, useless youngster who was incapable of climbing up a wall suddenly become an alchemist master and make the Third Grade Alchemy Master kneel and worship him?
"Master Lu, please take me as your disciple!"
Once this statement was made, the entire audience was even more shocked.
A Third Grade Alchemist, actually paying homage to a freshly minted brat!
Lu Xuan frowned slightly and said, "I refuse."
"Why?" Old Lin was suddenly anxious.
"You're too old."
"..."
Too old?
Old Lin was almost out of breath.
Was being too old a crime?
Lu Xuan swept a glance at the crowd on the stage, taking all their faces in his mind, turned to Lu Shan, and said indifferently, "Father, this matter is over, let's leave."
It was only then that Lu Shan reacted, his son was no longer the loser he was back then.
Although there were doubts in his heart, this place was not a good place to discuss this matter, nodding his head, "Master Han, on this happy occasion, the Lu family will no longer bother you, goodbye!"
The two men prepared to leave.
" Wait!"
Seeing that Lu Xuan was leaving, Old Man Lin stood up in a hurry, while handing over a token with large golden letters printed on it, "Since Master Lu's alchemy attainments are so profound, it's a pity not to go to the Alchemy Guild. This item is a token from the Alchemy Guild, with this item, you will be able to travel freely in the City of Dan, Old..."
"I'll be waiting for you in the City of Dan."
Old Man Lin originally wanted to say something like " Old Man," but the other party's alchemy attainments were too high, countless times higher than his, so he naturally didn't dare to preposterously call himself Old Man.
Old Man Lin's words were very tactful, blocking Lu Xuan's possibility of refusing.
But Lu Xuan didn't care about that, he also wanted to see this so-called Alchemy Guild.
Three thousand years ago, there was no such thing as an Alchemy Guild, and to cultivate, there was nothing that could bypass pills, whereas pills had to be purchased with medicinal herbs and relying on the little number of medicinal herbs that the Lu family had, he was afraid that it wouldn't be able to support him to reach the Yellow Life Realm.
" This Alchemy Guild, it's inevitable."
Lu Xuan nodded inwardly and did not refuse, receiving the token.
After the two of them had walked away, Han Zhantian came over and said, "Old Lin, please reconsider!"
If the Lu Family really got involved with the Alchemy Guild, wouldn't the Han Family be finished?
"This brat is merely making up nonsense about two medicinal herbs with some knowledge of medicinal theory, Old Lin must not fall for this brat's trick!"
"Yes, to become an alchemist one must have a great Spiritual Strength, as well as the True Spirit of Fire, I've also investigated this guy, he doesn't have the True Spirit of Fire at all, and he's only at the second level of Mortal Life, how can he be a Master Alchemist with this kind of strength." Guardian Ling said.
"What the hell do you guys know!" Old Lin, who failed to pay homage to his master, was already in a bad mood as he said in a rage, "That Master Lu, without knowing the recipe, he directly stated the main ingredients of the Returning Qi Pill, can this be called knowing only medicinal theory?"
"Then maybe he just happens to know the recipe... "Han Zhantian still wouldn't give up.
"Impossible! All of the empire's Pill Recipes are stored in the Alchemy Guild, and no one is allowed to pass them out secretly." Old Lin shook his head, " Not to mention him being a member of the Lu family, even if he was an imperial relative, he can't know the Pill Recipe."
" Simply by the strength gained from a Reverse Pill Formula, it's enough to show that Lu Xuan is an authentic master alchemist."
"Hmph! You guys are so blind!" Saying that, Old Lin flicked his sleeves and left, he would quickly rush back to the Alchemy Guild to report this matter to the King of Pills.
A mere Returning Cloud Sect, it was nothing!
Looking at the back of Lin's departure, the Han family looked at each other.
"Father doesn't worry, a master alchemist is just a master alchemist, a martial artist still focuses on cultivation, alchemy is just a small Doyle." Han Zhi Yun's silver teeth almost clenched, her beautiful eyes showing anger.
A great shame, Lu Xuan's action had undoubtedly given her such a fiery slap in the face.
" Right, right, Alchemy is nothing more than a small Doyle, the Star Continent is still the strongest, even if this brat Lu Xuan is really a master alchemist at eighteen years old and still at the second level of mortal life, he is doomed to not achieve much in this life!" Speaking of this, Han Zhantian finally regained his confidence.
Only Old Man Ling secretly shook his head.
How could a master alchemist be only at the Second Level of Mortal Life, it was obvious that he was hiding his strength, and if you didn't even have this much of insight, how could you still be the Sect Master's Close Disciple?
But he didn't say that Han Zhiyun was still young after all, and she would inevitably be a bit arrogant, so she would be taught slowly later...
Returning to the Lu family.
Lu Xuan chooses to close the door as soon as he could.
At the Han Family, the pressure that the Jindan cultivators brought to Lu Xuan was not small.
Even though Lu Xuan's strength had increased by leaps and bounds, he was still as weak as an ant in front of the Xuan Realm.
The Martial Realm was divided into two major realms.
Houtian and Innate
The Houtian, in turn, was divided into five realms, Mortal Life, Yellow Life, Xuan Life, Earth Life, and Heavenly Life.
The momentum displayed by the Han family's Old Man Ling earlier was the Houtian's Xuan Life Realm.
Above the innate heaven, there was even the term emperor realm, and in his previous life, Lu Xuan was a legendary emperor realm powerhouse.
Sweeping across the entire continent, beating the world without a single rival!
A layer of white fog immediately appeared on Lu Xuan's body as he operated his technique, this was the phenomenon of gathering aura.
If anyone saw it at this time, they would be so shocked that their jaws would drop to the ground. Ordinary people in cultivation were quietly absorbing the spiritual energy of the heavens regularly, unlike Lu Xuan, who was forcibly gathering the spiritual energy of his surroundings.
Such a violent cultivation method could easily damage the meridians, or heavily damage the dantian.
One had to know that the origin of a cultivator was the dantian, and if the dantian was damaged, then the consequences would be unimaginable.
" The Immortal Secrets of Immortality is truly miraculous, it can forcefully plunder the spiritual energy of the heavens in a radius of hundreds of meters without any after-effects at all."
However, after a moment, Lu Xuan stopped operating the technique.
The Immortal Secrets of Immortality's plundering of Qi could be described as a brilliant technique, but the drawbacks were obvious.
The spiritual energy of the surrounding heavens and earth clearly couldn't keep up with Lu Xuan's rate of consumption.
In less than an hour, the spiritual energy of the heavens and earth in his room had been completely depleted.
Lu Xuan looked at his hands and frowned slightly, "Three thousand years and so much change, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth can't even compare to a tenth of what it was back then."
"Even if I've drained all the aura in a radius of hundreds of meters, I'm still far away from the second level of Mortal Life."
The Immortal Secrets of Immortality was a divine technique, and almost no one was a match at the same level, but again, the effort was countless times greater than others.
It could be said that Lu Xuan had become a bottomless pit of aura, and it might only take two or three days for an ordinary person to break through to the Second Level of Mortal Life.
Lu Xuan, on the other hand, could potentially meditate for ten days, or a month, before he could break through to the next stage.
"If only I had a spirit stone, I might be able to break through to the Yellow Life realm right away."
In Lu Xuan's previous life as a strong emperor, Mortal Life Realm cultivation was as simple as eating and drinking water.
And the spirit stones were the crystals that the spirit energy gathered into.
Usually buried in mines and monopolized by the Empire, ordinary merchants dared not collect them for themselves. Due to the monopoly law, spirit stones were also used as one of the common currencies of the empire.
One lower grade spirit stone was equivalent to a thousand silver coins.
And a thousand silver coins was equivalent to half a year's profit for an ordinary big family.
Thus, even a big family like the Lu family didn't have many lower grade spirit stones.
"Looks like we can only find a way to earn some spirit stones." Lu Xuan secretly nodded his head.
Right at this moment, the Xuanhuang Pearl suddenly trembled.
Lu Xuan's heart was so tight that he even summoned it and held it in his hand, while a suction suddenly erupted.
The True Qi of the meridians wildly surged into the Xuanhuang Pearl.
Lu Xuan was now only at the First Layer of Mortal Life, and although his True Qi was comparable to the Seventh or Eighth Layer of Mortal Life, it was not even close to his prime.
Soon, the True Qi began to be stretched to the limit.
"Oh no, there's not enough True Qi." Lu Xuan roughly estimated that at the speed of the Xuanhuang Pearl, he would be sucked dry after another cup of tea.
Fortunately, just as Lu Xuan was about to be unable to hold on, a boom sounded, and the Xuanhuang Pearl erupted with a burst of pure energy.
Immediately after, the heavens spun, and in the next moment, Lu Xuan entered a strange space.
The surrounding area was grey, and Lu Xuan couldn't see where the border was at all, the only thing he could see clearly was the black mud on the ground.
It was about three feet long and four feet wide.
"This? Could it be inside the Xuanhuang Pearl?"
Although Lu Xuan had spent three thousand years inside the Xuanhuang Pearl, he was, after all, in a wisp of a residual soul state, so it was good that he could protect himself, not to mention observing the surroundings.
Entering the Xuanhuang Pearl for the first time with his physical body was a new and strange experience indeed.
A few steps forward, the black clay came to the end.
An invisible barrier stopped him.
"By the looks of it, this is the border." As soon as the words left his mouth, a stone platform rose out of nowhere.
On the stone platform, there was only a man-high stone tablet.
Three large characters were written on it, the Xuanhuang Tablet.
"The Xuanhuang Tablet?" Lu Xuan's heart was happy, for three thousand years, he had attached himself to the Xuanhuang Tablet and comprehended the divine technique, The Immortal Secrets of Immortality.
Going up to grasp it, Lu Xuan had wanted to take this supreme treasure with him, but the Xuanhuang Tablet was so heavy that it seemed to be connected to the stone platform.
One must know that now, Lu Xuan had two hundred pounds of strength in one hand, but he couldn't even hold a small stone tablet.
"Alas, my cultivation is still not good enough." Lu Xuan sighed slightly.
Just as he was about to exit the interior of the Xuanhuang Pearl, an incomparably pure aura suddenly erupted from the Xuanhuang Tablet, instantly pouring into Lu Xuan's 36 million pores.
The dantian suddenly roared.
Mortal Life Second Layer!
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