Chapter 277: Fu Yue's Shock

Innate Ice Marrow? Lu Xun actually found such a rare item, Xiao Xue—now your Profound Ice Spirit Body can be made whole!

Upon discovering that what Lu Xun sent was actually Innate Ice Marrow, Fu Yue also couldn't help feeling happy for Fu Xue.

Fu Xue possesses an ice-type constitution, namely the Profound Ice Spirit Body.

However, due to lacking Innate Ice Marrow, it was never fully complete upon awakening, always having some defects.

These years, the Fu family has been searching for Innate Ice Marrow for Fu Xue.

But Innate Ice Marrow is extraordinarily rare, even rarer than Innate Spiritual Qi.

Once, the Fu family had a chance to obtain Innate Ice Marrow, but a Westerner got there first.

Fu Xue's Profound Ice Spirit Body has remained in a defective state.

This is also why, although she and Fu Yue are twins with similar talents, she fell behind by a step, one reason she couldn't break through to the Seventh Realm.

Now, with Innate Ice Marrow, Fu Xue can complete her Profound Ice Spirit Body, letting it reach perfection.

With the Profound Ice Spirit Body, her comprehension of heaven and earth will become at least ten times easier.

Breaking through to the Seventh Realm will also become much easier.

"Where did he get it?"

Fu Xue's mind conjured Lu Xun's appearance.

Lu Xun's luck was so good that during a trip to an ancient road node, he managed to get his hands on Innate Ice Marrow.

After thinking, Fu Xue looked at her older sister and said, "Sister, I need to focus all my efforts on breaking through these few days. Lu Xun is naturally lazy; please go guide him and see if you can help him reach the Fifth Realm."

The Innate Ice Marrow Lu Xun gave helps her so much that Fu Xue naturally cannot remain unresponsive.

However, she is now solely focused on breaking through, and she doesn't have anything convenient to offer, so she wants Fu Yue to urge Lu Xun.

In her impression, Lu Xun is extremely lazy.

Despite possessing heaven-defying talent and enviable luck that others can't match, he ends up so lazy.

If he were a bit more diligent, he'd probably have already broken through to the Fifth Realm by now.

By then, Lu Xun would be a rare genius who broke through to the Fifth Realm at twenty.

Even if this is achieved through a fortuitous encounter.

Placed on Lan Xing, it would be unprecedented in history.

"Good."

Fu Yue agreed.

"Sister, the Sword Origin he obtained should be quite formidable; you should pay attention, make sure he doesn't wholly absorb others' true intent, or else he might end up copying them and walking someone else's path."

"Hmm, I know."

Fu Xue wasn't entirely reassured, so she added a few more words of advice.

In her view, Lu Xun's rapid growth must have come from obtaining something like a Cultivation Relic in an ancient cultivator's cave dwelling.

Sword Origin is a type of Cultivation Relic.

After Lu Xun burned evil souls with Southern Ming Separation Fire, the Soul Relic he gained can also be seen as a Cultivation Relic, though pertaining to the soul.

To ordinary cultivators, a Cultivation Relic is a supreme treasure.

After absorbing it, one's cultivation can shoot up rapidly.

Just as cultivators in the East once obtained a Cultivation Relic and, in just a few years, rose from the Third Realm all the way to the Sixth Realm, their speed of improvement is astonishing.

In a certain sense,

this is equivalent to having an ancient expert transmit his power to you.

Like in old martial arts novels where a peerless expert directly transfers decades of internal force to a younger disciple, enabling the disciple's power to surge forward.

However, to an expert like Fu Xue, a Cultivation Relic comes with considerable hidden dangers.

For instance, some Cultivation Relics may contain traps; absorbing them could lead to one's body being seized.

Even if there are no traps, it is ultimately someone else's path.

If one fully absorbs it, they could completely copy another person, even forgetting their own path.

Such achievements would be very limited.

"Younger sister, you cultivate; I'll go find Lu Xun."

After the two women finished their talk, Fu Yue left.

Fu Xue then took out the Innate Ice Marrow and began to absorb it.

She intends to in one go complete her Ice Soul Divine Body, thereby obtaining the Heart of Heaven and Earth and condensing the Heaven-Earth Dharma Form.

Originally, she didn't have much confidence she could condense the Heaven-Earth Dharma Form within a few days.

Now, however, Fu Xue has full confidence.

Her confidence—needless to say, is more than sufficient.

Fu Yue then made her way all the way to the South Heaven Gate, where she precisely found Lu Xun.

"Really? Lu Xun is Elder Fu's boyfriend? Who started this rumor? It's utterly absurd."

"Someone claimed they saw Elder Fu holding Lu Xun's arm and even personally admitted it to her father."

"Whether you believe it or not, I don't."

Northern Dipper Hall garrison.

Several cultivators of the Northern Dipper Hall gathered there, chatting about the recent rumor spreading on the South Heaven Gate.

Since this rumor concerns Elder Fu Yue of the Northern Dipper Hall, they naturally pay special attention.

As for this rumor, those few cultivators don't really believe it.

Fu Yue is a Seventh Realm powerhouse; she and Fu Yue together are the Northern Dipper Hall's face.

In the eyes of the numerous cultivators of the Northern Dipper Hall, she is a true goddess-level figure.

How could it possibly be a match with Lu Xun?

In the sky, Fu Yue, who happened to be passing by, slightly furrowed her brow.

She never imagined that, when her father arrived, someone would see her holding Lu Xun's hand.

Not only was it seen, but rumors also spread.

Fu Yue's nature was steadfast, so she was naturally unaffected by this.

「From the fourth to the fifth realm, the key is to open the divine treasury within your body; your true intent has already met the standard, and your true qi likewise far exceeds the fifth realm, so opening the divine treasury is not difficult for you. Now your crucial point is, conversely, that you cannot break through to the fifth realm via the sword origin... 」

Early the next morning, in the training chamber, Fu Yue's voice rang out.

The person before her was none other than Lu Xun.

Lu Xun felt somewhat depressed.

Yesterday, after Fu Yue found him, she insisted on personally guiding him to break through to the fifth realm.

It appears Fu Yue has decided that Lu Xun's rapid cultivation progress comes from absorbing sword-origin cultivation relics and the like.

This is actually the result of Lu Xun's deliberate guidance.

He's so heaven-defying; there ought to be some explanation for it.

The theory of him being a reincarnation of an ancient expert has already been blocked by Lu Xun himself.

The best explanation, then, is cultivation relics.

But now, with Fu Yue personally coming to guide him, Lu Xun feels a bit awkward.

Can he still happily just lie flat?

Since they're so enthusiastic, Lu Xun finds it hard to refuse.

"Come, attack me with your sword."

After a brief explanation of some theory, the two began practical combat.

Fu Yue wanted to conduct a comprehensive assessment of Lu Xun's strength.

"Sorry for the offense, teacher."

Lu Xun brandished a long sword and launched an attack.

Sword qi surged toward Fu Yue in wave after wave.

Fu Yue stood still, using her finger as a sword, continually shattering Lu Xun's sword qi.

She handled it with ease, but deep inside a sense of astonishment arose.

She had thought Lu Xun's sword intent could at most reach the annihilation level, but upon contact, Fu Yue discovered that his sword intent had already reached the destruction level!

Both being extinction-level sword intents, the destruction level is far more overpowering than the annihilation level.

Even if one absorbed the power and true intent from the sword origin, such a rapid increase in sword intent is extraordinarily astonishing.

Moreover,

Fu Yue gradually sensed that Lu Xun's sword intent lacked that insubstantial feeling.

It doesn't seem like something acquired halfway; rather, it appears to have been cultivated bit by bit by himself.

To have cultivated a destruction-level sword intent at twenty years old?

Even if Lu Xun had started cultivating from the womb, it would still be impossible.

Therefore, there is only one possibility: Lu Xun truly made the sword intent from the sword origin his own.

Fu Xue worried that Lu Xun would follow someone else's path, but that concern was likely unnecessary.

"His comprehension... just how astonishing must it be?"

If that's the case, then Lu Xun's comprehension is not merely astonishing.