Chapter 557

Xu Yang seemed to see the spirited young genius from back at the Weiyuan Hall again, the difference being that he had a bit more wind and frost and was not as arrogant and looking down on everything as before.

"Junior Brother Lu, congratulations!"

"Junior Brother Lu is truly a genius!"

Many people stood up to congratulate Lu Ren, and some had even started to send gifts.

No matter how good Xu Yang's talent was, they might not necessarily seek help from Xu Yang in the future, so when he was at the Minor Success Realm of Marrow Cleansing, except for those with good relationships, most people didn't send him gifts.

But Lu Ren was different. With such a talented weapon-forging master, no one could guarantee that they wouldn't go to him for help in forging weapons in the future.

Lu Ren responded with a smile, and he didn't hesitate to accept the gifts.

After dealing with the circle, he sat down next to Xu Yang.

"When did you get back?" he laughed.

Xu Yang also smiled and said, "Today."

The tone of their conversation was like friends.

"I really envy you being able to run around everywhere." Lu Ren said.

He didn't want to become a weapon-forging master; he aimed for the martial arts. Unfortunately, at the Marrow Cleansing Realm, his talent began to struggle, and his resource supply was insufficient. If he didn't find another way, he didn't know how many years it would take to reach the Heavenly Origin.

Xu Yang shook his head, "No need to envy me. Your cultivation is still low now. When you reach the Minor Success Realm of Marrow Cleansing, you will have plenty of opportunities to go out and explore."

Lu Ren:...

Alright, he hadn't even reached the Minor Success Realm of Marrow Cleansing yet, so his cultivation was indeed a bit low.

"Second dragon ascent, I will go explore with you!" Lu Ren said confidently.

Before, he wasn't sure if he could participate in the second dragon ascent, but forging a half-spiritual weapon was different. Resources were no longer too difficult for him to obtain, and he had already received confirmed news that the sect would tilt resources toward him. He might not have no chance to participate in the second dragon ascent two and a half years later.

Xu Yang smiled and didn't speak, standing up and leaving directly to go to the Outer Sect Mission Hall to settle the contribution points he earned at Moon Lake.

"Junior Brother Xu, give me the mission settlement slip." Sun Ke invited him into a side hall.

Xu Yang handed over the mission settlement slip.

"Four months, the base is 100 contribution points per month. Junior Brother Xu, you killed that alligator dragon, and the reward set by the sect before was 200 contribution points. You killed Guan Du, this dark agent of the Blood Lotus Sect, and the contribution points are 200.

Discovering that Chen Yong and Guo Yun were secretly stealing sect property, according to the regulations, you can get 100 contribution points. For the spiritual iron recovered from Guan Du, the sect high-level instructed to give you 400 contribution points..."

After some calculations, Xu Yang could obtain a full 1,800 contribution points for these four months.

Sun Ke showed a look of horror. Many people with cultivation at the Major Success Realm of Marrow Cleansing might not be able to obtain so many contribution points even after doing missions for a year.

Xu Yang was killing exotic beasts and killing dark agents of the Blood Lotus Sect. In just a few months, he had actually obtained such a terrifying amount of contribution points.

One must know that one Dragon-Tiger Great Golden Pill only required 300 contribution points.

These 1,800 contribution points were enough to exchange for six Dragon-Tiger Great Golden Pills.

"If Junior Brother Xu has no objections, I will go and get the contribution points for you." Sun Ke said.

Xu Yang nodded with a smile, "Troubling Senior Brother Sun."

He hadn't expected to have so many contribution points either. He had been worried before about not having enough contribution points to exchange for the main ingredients of the Dragon-Tiger Great Golden Pill, but now it seemed it was enough.

After saying goodbye to Sun Ke, he left the Mission Hall to find Xu Qing.

He hadn't seen the little girl for four months, and he missed her a bit, but it was still early, so he had to wait outside the courtyard.

In the evening, a beautiful figure walked from afar. In the evening breeze, their eyes met.

"Brother!"

Seeing Xu Yang, the reserve of a young woman on Xu Qing could no longer be maintained. She ran over in surprise, wanting to hang directly on him, but noticing that there were many people around, she stopped her movements abruptly at the last moment.

Xu Yang raised a smile at the corner of his mouth, "Did you miss Brother?"

"Yes!" Xu Qing nodded hard.

"Brother missed you too. Let's go, let's go eat."

A smile appeared on Xu Qing's face, following behind Xu Yang: "I learned to refine Blood and Qi Powder and Body-Forging Soup. Senior Brother Sun Jian said that after settling down for a while, he can teach me to refine Qi-Gathering Pills."

She excitedly reported to Xu Yang the achievements she had made during this period, having learned to refine two low-level elixirs.

Don't look at these things as the lowest level; if she couldn't make it in the Profound Heaven Sect in the future and returned to a place like Qingyuan County, she would immediately be a master of alchemy, respected by all martial artists.

"Amazing!"

Xu Yang gave a thumbs up and said, "How is your cultivation? Alchemy is just a means of making a living; cultivation is the foundation. Cultivation must not be left behind."

He had taught Xu Qing the Breath-Restraining Technique, so he couldn't sense Xu Qing's cultivation.

Mentioning cultivation, Xu Qing's face immediately fell, and she said depressedly, "I'm stuck at the bottleneck of the Major Success Realm of Gang Qi."

With so many elixirs from Xu Yang, she had started to break through to the Major Success Realm of Gang Qi a month ago, but now the bottleneck hadn't loosened at all.

"It's okay, Brother will help you in a while." Xu Yang laughed.

Xu Qing hadn't been in the Profound Heaven Sect for two years yet, and she had already started to break through to the Major Success Realm of Gang Qi. This speed wasn't slow. Although it was because he had been giving elixirs, it also showed that Xu Qing hadn't been lazy in her cultivation.

"How to help?" Xu Qing asked curiously.

"You'll know in a while!" Xu Yang didn't talk about the Eight-Treasure Lotus Seeds here.

Things that could improve innate talent were too precious. If outsiders heard about it, it would inevitably cause trouble.

The siblings ate at a restaurant, and Xu Yang took Xu Qing up to the Departing Fire Peak.

He wanted to use the Eight-Treasure Lotus Seeds to cleanse Xu Qing's innate talent and improve her talent. The outer sect wasn't suitable, so it was better to bring her to the Departing Fire Peak and guard her personally.

"Is this where inner sect disciples live? It's too good." Xu Qing saw the residence of inner sect disciples for the first time and couldn't help but be curious.

Seeing that Xu Yang's courtyard was piled with a lot of dust and fallen leaves, she soon started cleaning.

"Xu Yang, look at you. Without me, the place you live is as dirty as a dog kennel, dirty everywhere." The little girl lectured, earnestly.

Without her, Xu Yang's life was simply a mess, and he couldn't even manage a courtyard well.

"I haven't been back for several months. I just came back and went to see you, so I didn't have time to clean. Of course, it's dirty here." Xu Yang said.

He also wanted to live with Xu Qing. With Xu Qing, he didn't need to worry about these small things, and Xu Qing would manage them in an orderly fashion.

Unfortunately, Xu Qing was not an inner sect disciple, and it was very inconvenient to enter and exit without a waist token.

The two worked together, taking half an hour to clean every place before entering the quiet room together.

"Do I need to take off my clothes?" The little girl said with a blushing face.

Xu Yang rolled his eyes, not knowing what the girl was thinking in her head, and said, "Yes!"

Xu Qing:...

Xu Yang couldn't be bothered to pay attention to her, rummaged through the cabinet to find the jade box containing the Eight-Treasure Lotus Seeds, dug out one and handed it to her: "This is an Eight-Treasure Lotus Seed, a spiritual herb I obtained outside this time. It can cleanse innate talent and improve talent. After taking it, it should help you break through to the Major Success Realm of Gang Qi.

However, the medicinal power is somewhat fierce, and it will be very painful. The process is like being reborn, and it will expel impurities and dirty blood. You take off your clothes and take it, and I will protect you outside."

"Is this a spiritual herb?"

Seeing a spiritual herb for the first time, Xu Qing couldn't help but be curious, looking at it over and over, and couldn't see any difference between the spiritual herb and ordinary medicinal materials.

"Don't look with your eyes, use your five senses to perceive. Whether it's a spiritual herb or spiritual iron, they will all emit spirituality. This kind of spirituality cannot be seen by the eyes." Xu Yang reminded.

"Sure enough, there is a special aura." Hearing this, Xu Qing closed her eyes and sure enough discovered the characteristics unique to spiritual objects.

"The Eight-Treasure Lotus Seed is precious, don't tell anyone. I'll go out first. If there's a problem, stop."

After instructing Xu Qing, Xu Yang walked out of the quiet room and sat outside, closing his eyes and meditating.

The quiet room not only isolated the aura but also isolated sound. He couldn't hear the movement inside, but things like spiritual herbs basically wouldn't have problems, just suffering a bit of bitterness under the fierce medicinal power.

The moon reached the high sky and slowly fell.

At the fourth watch, Xu Yang estimated it was about time and boiled a pot of hot water.

The water was almost boiled when Xu Qing pushed the door and walked out, in high spirits, her skin even more delicate and white.

Xu Yang glanced and found that Xu Qing's appearance had even changed slightly, and the proportions of all aspects seemed to have become more perfect.

"Brother, I broke through!"

She was a bit excited: "This spiritual herb is simply amazing. The bottleneck of the Major Success Realm of Gang Qi was easily pierced. I am now the fourth person in our batch to break through to the Major Success Realm of Gang Qi."

Calculating this way, she was the fourth genius of the Ten Elites.

Xu Yang was somewhat speechless. The main function of the Eight-Treasure Lotus Seed was to cleanse innate talent and improve talent, and breaking through the realm was just incidental.

"I boiled hot water, you go take a bath first." Xu Yang said.

Xu Qing suppressed the excitement in her heart and soon entered another room to wash off the residual dirty blood on her body.

Coming out again, she could be said to be glowing, and Xu Yang only felt his eyes light up.

"Can you feel that your talent has improved?" Xu Yang said.

Xu Qing nodded: "Yes, the Gang Qi has become purer than before, and also more vigorous. I feel that my spirit is also very sufficient, and the Gang Qi runs much more smoothly."

Xu Yang was very satisfied: "The Eight-Treasure Lotus Seed needs to be taken three times before it has no effect. Tomorrow night, you continue to come, and I will wait for you at the foot of the mountain."

At dawn, he sent Xu Qing down the Departing Fire Peak. ===== CHAPTER 558 =====