Amidst the ruins of the collapsed wooden building.
Lu Qingshan and the Western Rat King stared at each other.
"You're saying that you did this?" The Western Rat King's eyes widened as he asked in disbelief, "Why did you demolish the house?!"
"It was an accident." Lu Qingshan thought for a moment, then said apologetically, "I had just broken through to the Void Refinement realm, and was unable to control my strength properly."
The reason for such an awkward situation was just as he said. It was because the power of the eye technique had suddenly increased. He hadn't fully grasped it yet, so this powerful eye technique's divine power flowed out of his eyes uncontrollably.
"No matter what reason it is, it can't be a reason to demolish the house!" The Western Rat King seized this rare opportunity to teach Lu Qingshan a lesson. However, after speaking, it suddenly realized what Lu Qingshan had just said.
"What? You've reached the Void Refinement realm? "The little rat demon couldn't help but jump up and down, as if it had been placed on a hot pan.
"I just broke through." Lu Qingshan nodded.
After receiving Lu Qingshan's confirmation, the Western Rat King froze on the spot, as if it had been struck by lightning.
There's no justice in this world!
In order to catch up with Lu Qingshan's cultivation progress, even though it knew that Lu Qingshan was going to leave the sect, it still suppressed the restlessness in its heart, and obediently stayed in Sword Cometh Peak to properly cultivate.
I'm so self-disciplined, but my cultivation level is still stuck at the third stage. Yet, Lu Qingshan left the sect for a month, and after returning, he actually advanced from the Nascent Soul realm to the Void Refinement realm?
Looking at the gentle yet somewhat dazzling smile on Lu Qingshan's face, the little rat demon's eyes were blank, and a bitter self-deprecating smile flashed across its mouth. It clenched its little claw into a fist, and because of its strength, its slightly sharp claws pierced into its palm.
"It's not me who's wrong, it's the world!"
It turned around and quietly found a corner to sit down. Its lonely figure seemed out of place with the world around it.
"No, thirty years … is too little. It might not be enough … Every dog has its day." The strong Western Rat King quickly adjusted his state of mind and muttered to himself, "Don't bully the rat demons because they are poor!"
Lu Qingshan did not have the time to pay attention to the rich psychological activities of the little rat demon. He just looked at the collapsed remains of the wooden building in front of him with some embarrassment.
For sword cultivators, it was very easy for them to cause destruction.
However, it would be difficult for them to rebuild the damaged buildings.
After pondering for a moment, Lu Qingshan decided to give up on the idea.
It was fine for him to use his sword to carve out a cave abode, but to build a new wooden building?
One should know one's place.
Therefore, Lu Qingshan turned his gaze to another wooden building to the side.
There were originally three wooden buildings on Sword Cometh Peak.
One of them was Xia Daoyun's residence, one belonged to Lu Qingshan, and the last one was temporarily unused.
Of course, there were only two left now.
"I'll take you to the new house." Lu Qingshan glanced at the still grumbling Western Rat King.
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Lu Qingshan, who was happily moving to a new house, calmed his heart. He decided to use this period of time to consolidate his cultivation and digest what he had obtained.
He first made a trip to the Treasure Storing Peak's Objects Hall.
The quota awarded to him by the Sword Sect after the training hall competition was put to good use.
He bought many spiritual materials and precious treasures in the Objects Hall.
First of all, he needed a lot of spiritual materials to refine a grade five sword armor. However, none of them were particularly precious.
If Lu Qingshan was still an unaffiliated cultivator, it would have been very troublesome to collect them.
Now that he had a sect's treasury to choose from, he only spent twenty spirit crystals to gather all the materials for the sword armor.
Of course, this was only the tip of the iceberg.
The true tip was the spiritual materials needed to refine the peach blossoms: four taels of brilliant star silver, nine taels of golden sand, seven taels of blood vein silver, and five kilograms of green copper.
Compared to the mediocre spiritual materials required for the grade five sword armor, the peach blossoms were much more precious.
The four types of spiritual materials it required were all extremely rare metals.
Brilliant star silver was a meteoric metal that was as bright as the stars, hence its name.
It had an almost unparalleled affinity with the Yuan Spirit. If one wished to better control a flying sword, it would definitely have a miraculous effect.
Green copper was known for being as hard as a feather.
If this material was added to the Origin Sword, it would greatly increase the sword's hardness, making it harder to destroy. However, it would not cause the sword to become too heavy, which would affect the flying sword's speed.
Golden sand was a precious material that could smoothly channel a cultivator's magic power. Blood vein silver was an extremely inclusive material that could neutralize various spiritual materials, preventing them from clashing with each other.
From the above, it could be seen that these four spiritual materials were especially suitable for refining the Origin Sword.
In fact, this was also the case. Every one of the three thousand and two hundred cultivators of the Sword Sect had the need to refine their Origin Sword. They all hoped that their Origin Sword could be stronger and sharper.
Because these four spiritual materials were extremely compatible with the characteristics of swords, they had always been in high demand. They were often in short supply and were expensive.
However, it seemed that Lu Qingshan's luck was not bad. This time, the treasury happened to have everything he needed. After spending two hundred and fifty spirit crystals, he finally prepared all the spiritual materials.
Lu Qingshan, who came out of the Resource Hall with a full load, sighed in his heart.
A sword cultivator would burn hundreds of spirit crystals just to refine a spell to improve the quality of their Origin Sword. Fortunately, his wealth was far beyond that of ordinary people, so he could barely afford it.
If other Void Refinement sword cultivators wanted to raise such a Origin Sword, how many years of wealth would they have to accumulate?
It was no wonder that the sword cultivator players in his previous life had always jokingly called their Origin Sword "wife". When he thought about it carefully, it was really very appropriate. In addition to showing that the sword cultivator valued and loved their Origin Sword, it also revealed a characteristic of the Origin Sword, which was "squandering".
After spending a lot of money in the Resource Hall, Lu Qingshan went to Shang Xingfeng Peak again.
Shang Xingfeng Peak was a peak in the Sword Sect that was responsible for external transactions.
After he killed the Soul Formation cultivator Yuan Cang in Zhenjiang, he obtained a storage ring from a cultivator of the sixth realm.
Unfortunately, Yuan Cang was a sword cultivator and not a spiritual cultivator who was known as a "rich lord". The most valuable things on him were the two Origin Swords. Other than that, there were only some miscellaneous items and thirty spirit crystals in the storage ring.
A sword cultivator's Origin Sword was incomparably precious to the sword cultivator himself. To others, it was at most a slightly sharper magic tool. Its applicability was not strong, so it was not as valuable as imagined.
However, a starving camel was still bigger than a horse. In the end, Lu Qingshan only kept one of Yuan Cang's Origin Swords. The rest of the items were entrusted to Shang Xingfeng to be sold by the Sword Sect.
"Most of the items you entrusted to be sold were not rare items, so their prices were not high in the first place …
However, the materials of that Origin Sword were not bad. If you were not in a hurry, the transaction price could have been twenty to thirty percent higher. However, you were in a hurry to resell it … so this is the price …
Then, according to your request, we will exchange all the spirit stones for spirit crystals. You also know that there will be some difference in the exchange of spirit stones for spirit crystals …
In addition, according to the usual practice, we will take half of the remuneration. Therefore, the final total is one hundred and forty spirit crystals. Junior brother, please check. "The Shang Xingfeng Peak cultivator, Huang Ya, handed over a storage bag containing one hundred and forty spirit crystals.
Lu Qingshan received the storage bag and glanced at the spirit crystals within. After confirming that there was no problem with the number, he cupped his fists and thanked, "Thank you for your trouble."
"You're welcome." Huang Ya waved his hand and said, "We have already completed the handover of Marquis Luo Tang's properties. According to the Sword Cometh Peak master, do you intend to directly exchange them for spirit stones?"
Lu Qingshan nodded in confirmation.
"Alright." Yellow Crow smiled and handed over a storage pouch. "Marquis Luo Tang's property has a total of three herb gardens and one pill shop … The final valuation is about a thousand Spirit Crystals. If we split it 50%, it would be five hundred Spirit Crystals.
Lu Qingshan received the storage bag. Five hundred spirit crystals was not a small sum, and filled the storage bag to the brim.
"Even a Divine Transformation cultivator would be envious of junior brother's wealth." Said Huang Ya with a smile.
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Sword Cometh Peak, New Wood House.
Lu Qingshan was seated with his legs crossed. Several dozen lumps of materials floated in front of him.
These were the spirit materials needed to refine the grade 5 sword armor.
The Five Elemental Sword Armor was his only pure defensive spell technique at the moment, and Lu Qingshan was still very diligent in the cultivation of the sword armor.
Traces of the five elemental qi were being extracted from these spiritual materials by Lu Qingshan.
When all the spirit materials had lost their glow, only five lumps of five yuan Qi of different colors floated in the air.
With a thought, Lu Qingshan shot out a beam of Sword Qi. Then, it moved in the wind and turned into a green snake. It opened its mouth and swallowed the golden Qi of Metal into its mouth. Then, it swam into the acupoints all over Lu Qingshan's body.
After repeating this process five times, five layers of sword Qi of different colors enveloped Lu Qingshan's body.
The grade 5 sword armor was complete. After his sword Qi reached the Manifestation stage, refining the Five Elements Sword Armor had become exceptionally easy.
…
The next step was to raise the quality of the peach blossoms.
The materials had been prepared. However, there was still a hard condition for the peach blossom to evolve. That was the level.
Although Lu Qingshan had used up nearly five million experience points to practice the Da Xia Kingdom Scripture, he still had seven million experience points in his savings.
Although it seemed like a lot, seven million experience points were not as much as he had imagined after he became a grade 5 cultivator.
Fortunately, he still had a huge amount of spirit crystals.
These spirit crystals could all be converted into experience points.
Compared to storing the spirit crystals in his storage ring and collecting dust, it was definitely more worthwhile to use them to raise his battle strength.
Although it was a little extravagant and wasteful, Lu Qingshan had already taken out the spirit crystals and began refining them without hesitation.
He held a spirit crystal in his hand and began circulating the cultivation method of the Da Xia Kingdom Scripture.
The pure spirit energy within the spirit crystal was rapidly absorbed and refined by him.
After advancing to the Void Refinement stage, the speed at which he refined spirit crystals had greatly increased compared to when he was at the Nascent Soul stage.
Now, he could refine one spirit crystal in about seven minutes.
Lu Qingshan now had a total of 834 spirit crystals. He was not stingy and directly refined 700 spirit crystals into experience points in one go.
This was a kind of extravagant behavior that would make other cultivators shudder in fear.
In the end, the 700 Spirit Crystals were exchanged for 35,000,000 EXP. In addition to his original EXP, Lu Qingshan now had a total of 42,000,000 EXP.
He was not a miser and had already thrown his experience points into the peach blossom.
"You spent 2,710,000 experience points. Natal Sword: Peach Blossom Level Upgrade: LV6 (0/5 million) — All sword skills performed through this Natal Sword have an additional 50% damage!"
"You spent 5,000,000 experience points. Natal Sword: Peach Blossom Level Upgrade: LV6 (0/8 million) — All sword skills performed through this Natal Sword have an additional 58% damage!"
At this moment, in the sword aperture located at the kidney of Lu Qingshan's Nascent Soul, countless specks of divine light overflowed. A misty fog appeared and rays of divine light flickered.
It was worth mentioning that with the increase of his cultivation, the sword aperture's ability to nurture the sword had also increased greatly.
When he was at the Nascent Soul stage, the Natal Sword that was nurtured in the sword aperture could obtain 90,000 experience points a year. Now, it had skyrocketed to 180,000 experience points, which had directly doubled.
…
In the sword aperture, the essence of the experience points began to come into contact with the peach blossom and continuously flowed on the sword.
Under the shroud of these dense specks of light, the peach blossom instinctively felt joy and let out waves of gratitude and affection towards Lu Qingshan.
After that, the very polite peach blossom, after thanking Lu Qingshan, consciously began to absorb the divine light into the sword body, prompting it to complete some kind of transformation.
As the divine light entered the body, the peach blossom's jade-green sword body rippled with waves of water. Its shape gradually became hazy like fog and illusion, undergoing some kind of sublimation.
A moment later, all the strange phenomena disappeared and everything returned to normal.
The peach blossom had completed its upgrade.
At the same time, Lu Qingshan could clearly feel that his connection with the peach blossom had become closer and closer.
"Today, the peach blossom's quality can be upgraded to a supreme-grade Heaven Artifact." Lu Qingshan's heart stirred, and the peach blossom left his body and floated in front of him.
He waved his left hand again, and the spiritual materials that he had spent more than 200 Spirit Crystals to purchase also appeared and floated in the air.
Lu Qingshan pointed from afar, and the peach blossom immediately plunged into the pile of treasures and began to absorb the essence of the treasures and spiritual materials.
Bits of spiritual material essence continuously flew up and merged into the sword body.
The peach blossom was eating heartily, and at the same time, it let out a continuous and extremely excited sword hum.
The sword hum was crisp and pleasing to the ear. As the master of the peach blossom, Lu Qingshan could understand the meaning of the sword hum. If translated into language, it was equivalent to "dry rice, dry rice" …
Those extremely precious spiritual materials gradually turned into waste after their essence was absorbed by the peach blossom.
Another quarter of an hour passed.
The sword hum suddenly stopped, and all the spiritual material essence was refined by the peach blossom. The spiritual materials that flickered with divine light turned into waste and piled up into a small pile.
On the peach blossom, there seemed to be a layer of jade-green water curtain that flowed continuously. It was extremely agile, and a terrifying power was brewing within it.
This was an internal change.
Lu Qingshan waited …
This time, the transformation lasted for half an hour.
Clang!
A sword hum came from the peach blossom, and then the sword body underwent a visible change.
At this time, the peach blossom's sword body seemed to be made of jade-green glass. The scene of all living things growing could be faintly seen within it. Green filled the air, and it was like a landscape painting.
[Peach Blossom]
Quality: Supreme-grade Heaven Artifact (Sword Embryo, upgradable)
Current Upgrade Requirements: The next realm is a Pseudo Dao Artifact. It needs to absorb the essence of countless spiritual materials before it has a chance to complete the transformation.
Level: Lv7 (01000) — — [+ 64% damage of all sword skills performed through this Natal Sword!]
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"I've finally broken through." Lu Qingshan was slightly excited.
After the Supreme-grade Heaven Artifact was a Pseudo Dao Artifact.
If one wanted to upgrade to a Pseudo Dao Artifact, it could not be done by fusing a few designated spiritual materials. Instead, it needed to continuously absorb the essence of various spiritual materials and continuously strengthen the Natal Sword until the day the quantitative change caused a qualitative change.
The peach blossom that had completed its grade upgrade was now circling around Lu Qingshan lightly, like a naughty child trying to please its father.
However, Lu Qingshan could feel that within the child-like peach blossoms, there was a frightening ruthlessness and power that made one's heart tremble.
With a thought, Lu Qingshan put it back into the sword aperture.
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