Chapter 771: Plan B! Spirit Refining Art Fifth Layer!

"Sorry, I'm not interested." Xu Jingming shook his head.

Leng Yuexi had given him 3% of the Spirit Fox Guild's shares; that alone already made her better than Leng Shu.

Besides, from the very start, he had never intended to agree to Leng Shu.

"Not interested?"

Leng Shu frowned, mistakenly thinking Xu Jingming didn't know how important this 2% stake was, so he began to explain:

"Our Spirit Fox Guild has set up branches in most countries on Blue Star.

Every year, our guild has at least tens of trillions of Blue Star coins in liquid funds.

Although most of it is used to keep the guild running, 2% of the shares still earns hundreds of billions of Blue Star coins in dividends every year!

In addition, there are some SS-grade, or even SSS-grade cultivation resources that simply cannot be measured by money, which can be obtained for free.

Brother Xu, I know your background is powerful, but surely you wouldn't look down on assets worth hundreds of billions of Blue Star coins a year, right?"

After a pause, Leng Shu added: "If Brother Xu is still not satisfied, I can raise your share to 3%!"

3% of the shares!

That was already higher than the shares held by most of the Spirit Fox Guild's elders!

One must understand that those people only held fractions of a percent, or one-point-something percent.

3% was already the maximum bargaining chip he could offer.

"Sorry, I only came here to help this time. Shares don't hold much attraction for me."

Seeing he couldn't squeeze out any more information, Xu Jingming murmured as he rose:

"I still have things to do, so I'll head off first."

After saying that, he left the suite under Leng Shu's slightly gloomy gaze.

"No women, no money either — this guy really can't be dealt with."

Leng Shu's brows knitted into a Sichuan-shaped crease.

Xu Jingming, a disciple of the master of Lei Ting Martial Hall.

And also Blue Star's number one prodigy — as long as he doesn't die young, he will surely become a supreme power in the future.

The Spirit Fox Guild, founded by his father, an eighth-rank peak Grandmaster, might not necessarily catch this man's eye.

As for the share split he was offering now, it held no attraction for Xu Jingming either.

"For someone like this, profit is secondary; what matters most is sentiment.

It's just a pity I never had any contact with Xu Jingming before, otherwise things wouldn't be this difficult now."

Leng Shu couldn't help but shake his head.

He could only say his luck was bad — back then, Xu Jingming had been helped by Leng Yuexi in Myanmar.

If Leng Yuexi hadn't helped, then Xu Jingming wouldn't have come today either.

"The recruitment failed, so I can only activate Plan B."

Leng Shu murmured as he dialed a call: "Brother Kang, help me pass a message to Master Wu Xuan — I accept his conditions."

Wu Xuan!

Apart from his father Leng Cang, the strongest in the Spirit Fox Guild, his rank reaching as high as eighth-rank upper position!

Wu Xuan's condition was 5% of the shares; originally he didn't want to agree.

Because even without Wu Xuan, he was still sure to win against Leng Yuexi's side.

But now that Xu Jingming has joined in, it's different — his side must have someone who can suppress Xu Jingming!

Wu Xuan, at eighth-rank upper position, is the most reliable answer......

"Xu Jingming, what you killed was an eighth-rank lower-position Grandmaster; after activating the Divine Blood Secret Art, you reached eighth-rank middle position.

I'll treat your combat power as eighth-rank middle position. This time I've found an eighth-rank upper-position to come; you should be proud enough of that."

Leng Shu's eyes flickered.

Actually, in his view, Xu Jingming's combat power shouldn't quite reach the level of defeating an A-grade eighth-rank middle-position Grandmaster.

But one more layer of insurance could put his mind more at ease.

On the other side, after Xu Jingming told Leng Yuexi about Leng Shu's attempt to recruit him,

he spread his Thunder Dragon Wings and flew straight toward the wilderness zone.

Leng Yuexi's match is on May 15th; Xu Jingming plans to head back on the evening of May 14th.

After entering the wilderness, Xu Jingming went at full throttle, madly slaughtering beasts.

On the first day, he harvested 37,000 ability points.

On the second day, he harvested 36,000 ability points!

On the third day, his luck was good — he hunted two seventh-rank beasts and harvested 44,000 ability points!

By the evening of the fourth day, the ability points on the system panel had accumulated to a full 366,000 ability points!

At the same time, a plus sign had already appeared behind the SSS-grade Spirit Refining Art "Lei Hai Visualization Method"!

"The Spirit Refining Art can be upgraded now."

Xu Jingming smiled, without the slightest hesitation, and directly began upgrading!

Ability points -361,000!

Lei Hai Visualization Method Fourth Layer → Fifth Layer!!

Boom!!

The sea of consciousness — the ocean of spiritual power guarded by the Soul-Suppressing Tower — instantly surged!

Whoosh whoosh—

Spiritual power like thunder began to expand outward; in just an instant, it widened the sea of consciousness by one-fifth in size!

At the same moment, dense motes of spiritual power suddenly surfaced within the expanded range.

Crackle~~

Crackle~~

The spiritual power flickered and roamed like lightning, displaying an extremely formidable suppressive force!

The change in the spiritual sea gave Xu Jingming the most direct feedback—his consciousness had become far more delicate!

Originally, his spiritual perception could only perform a kind of replica simulation of the surrounding environment.

But now, he could even use his spiritual perception to sense the wriggling earthworms dozens of meters deep underground!

"Deep Blue!" With a single thought, Xu Jingming saw his own spiritual power attribute.

【Spirit】: He (+)

"Originally my spiritual power attribute was He, and now it's risen to He—my spiritual power has surged by a full five thousand points!"

Xu Jingming's face brightened with joy.

Worthy of an SSS-grade Spirit Refining Art—even breaking through from the fourth layer to the fifth layer yields this many attributes.

One must understand that his SS-grade Body Tempering Art, *Doushen Shenlei*, breaking through from the eighth layer to the ninth layer, only raised his qi and blood by six thousand.

Of course,

the upper limits of the two were inherently different.

The highest layer of *Doushen Shenlei* was the twelfth layer, while the highest layer of the Lei Hai Visualization Method was the ninth layer.

"With my spiritual power now stronger, controlling the blades has become much easier as well."

Whoosh—

Eighteen SS-grade alloy blades circled around Xu Jingming, streaking at high speed and performing all manner of complex maneuvers.

"The number of alloy blades should be able to be increased by a few more."

Xu Jingming silently noted in his heart.

But this also meant he would need to spend money again to forge alloy blades......

"Money is still not quite enough to use—I don't even have a single SSS-grade alloy spear."

Xu Jingming felt somewhat helpless.

Teacher Yang Zhentian, when he was still at the peak of the seventh tier, already had a full set of SSS-grade equipment.

Yet he, with combat power reaching the eighth tier, was still using SS-grade weapons.

But this was also related to the speed of his rise—Teacher Yang Zhentian, after reaching the peak of the seventh tier,

spent several years gathering a full set of SSS-grade equipment, whereas he had broken through to the seventh tier less than a month ago......

"With my spiritual power surging, Dou Tian Shen Lei should also have corresponding changes."

Xu Jingming's heart stirred.

Accompanied by a piercing thunderclap, a resplendent bolt of golden lightning suddenly appeared within the cave.

Yet the aura it emitted made him pause slightly.

This might... seemed to have grown in power by more than just a little......