Chapter 67: The Black Hand Reappears

"This is..."

Ouyang Xue and the others revealed expressions of utter shock.

Deep in the backyard.

Stood an ancient tree emitting a faint spiritual light.

The moment they stepped into the backyard, the spiritual power emitted by the ancient tree completely submerged them. Within that spiritual power were traces of Dao Rhyme, triggering their cultivation techniques to circulate on their own, as if it could allow one to ascend to immortality.

Growing up until now, they had never had such a peculiar experience.

"This is the Firmiana Holy Tree, which has the miraculous effect of helping one comprehend the power of Heaven and Earth. Since it is your first time in contact with it, you will have deeper insights."

Lu Li's voice drifted over slowly.

Falling into the ears of the three, it left them even more shocked.

As students of Tiansheng Academy, they knew far more than ordinary Martial Dao practitioners!

According to the data updated by the academy!

The greatest enemy of Qian Cheng today is the Hei Diao Wang!

In the hands of that Hei Diao Wang, it possesses a holy object born from gathering the spirits of Heaven and Earth!

That is the Firmiana Holy Tree!

Rumor has it that the Black Eagle King cultivates alongside the Firmiana Holy Tree!

That Firmiana Holy Tree is the foundation of the Black Eagle King's Martial Dao, and their lives are linked; even the Fierce Beasts the Black Eagle King trusts most cannot get close to it. How could it suddenly appear in the teacher's backyard?

At this moment!

They finally understood.

Why the Hei Diao Wang suddenly left during the Fierce Beast battle outside the city that day!

Why, when the battle was in full swing and the whole city was participating, the teacher only returned to the city after several days!

Why, as soon as the teacher returned to the city, he was received by the City Lord Mansion and even obtained the fourth Wushuang Token!

So, all of this was because of this Firmiana Holy Tree!

They suddenly realized!

Only then did they understand the intention behind the teacher's warning just now. This is a holy object that cannot be found in the entire Qian Cheng. Once the news leaks, it will likely bring endless trouble.

But even so!

The teacher still took such a risk to let them train under the tree!

This made them not know how to repay him!

"No need to be moved."

Lu Li smiled lightly.

"You all participated in the battle outside the city that day, and you all know the dangers involved. You are my students, so I naturally want to help you grow as quickly as possible. When the Fierce Beasts come again, I hope you all have the power to protect yourselves and won't die meaninglessly like Wang Ling, Jiang Chao, and He Xiaotong."

After Lu Li finished speaking.

He pointed to the Firmiana Holy Tree.

Ouyang Xue and the other two took a deep breath and walked toward the Firmiana Holy Tree.

They were very clear.

Currently, they didn't even possess half of the teacher's strength.

If they really wanted to repay the teacher!

They had to grow up quickly!

Seeing them begin to train, Lu Li left the backyard and walked toward the practice room.

At this moment.

In the practice room!

A fierce collision rang out.

"Bang, bang, bang..."

When the final strike ended, Shen Yiya and Zhou Wuyan each retreated two steps.

"Haha, Brother Shen, your progress is not slow!"

"You kid aren't bad either!"

The two looked at each other and smiled.

After a morning of training, Shen Yiya had completed three marrow cleansings and broken through to a high-level Martial Artist. However, because he did not rely on external forces, he did not break through to Martial Master in one go.

This was also Lu Li's arrangement.

Within Shen Yiya's body, the pure power of the Heaven Pulse Life-Continuing Pill was still sealed.

Under its silent nourishment, his training speed would not be much slower than Zhou Wuyan's. If he were to break through by relying on external forces, it would cause the power within his body to become impure, which even Lu Li might not be able to remedy.

Moreover, that Heaven Pulse Life-Continuing Pill had already merged with him!

It was constantly tempering his physical body!

Before Grandmaster, as long as Shen Yiya did not rely on any spirit medicine to assist his training, the foundation he forged would be even deeper.

Lu Li did not want to destroy this.

Therefore, after Shen Yiya completed his third marrow cleansing and adapted to his regenerated right leg, he was also arranged to go under the Firmiana Holy Tree to train together with Zhou Wuyan.

But seeing each other, they were exceptionally excited!

Plus, their respective cultivation breakthroughs were so fast that it wasn't suitable to just train blindly, so they came to the practice room to spar and hone themselves.

Under Zhou Wuyan's deliberate suppression, the two actually fought back and forth.

"Brother Shen, this time we really have to thank Brother Lu!"

"Indeed, without him, I'm afraid I would still be a cripple; how could I have such cultivation?"

Both of them sighed with emotion, and then they saw a figure walk in.

"Brother Lu!"

"Brother Lu!"

Seeing the two about to step forward, Lu Li waved his hand, signaling them not to be so excited.

His gaze turned to Shen Yiya.

At this moment, Shen Yiya's skin was crystalline and radiant with vitality, a completely different person from before.

"Brother Shen, this is the 'Heaven Origin Strike' I deduced based on the Diamond Finger. You can try practicing it."

With a flip of his hand.

Lu Li then handed over his insights on the Heaven Origin Strike.

Shen Yiya and Zhou Wuyan both came from the military and had practiced the Diamond Finger, a fierce and lethal Martial skill.

However, this Martial skill had a huge flaw.

Once unleashed, it would at best damage the meridians, and at worst, cause the meridians to explode, leading to death.

On his Heaven Origin Strike insights, he had already detailed the methods for finding and opening those eight meridians one by one. Even if the two couldn't learn it for a while, they could still patch the flaws of the Diamond Finger so it wouldn't harm themselves.

Shen Yiya hurriedly took it.

Lu Li turned his head to look at Zhou Wuyan and handed over a bottle of spirit medicine.

Zhou Wuyan was different from Shen Yiya!

If he wanted to train quickly, he had to constantly rely on various spirit medicines.

"Thank you, Brother Lu."

Zhou Wuyan thanked him and also took the spirit medicine.

As a Martial Artist, he naturally knew that taking too many pills for training would shake his foundation, but after witnessing Lu Li's methods, he didn't have the slightest worry. Since Lu Li dared to let him train like this, he must have a way to compensate.

After doing all this.

Lu Li returned to his room.

However, before leaving, he also introduced the three new students to Shen Yiya and Zhou Wuyan so they wouldn't feel awkward when they met.

After all, they would still be training under the Firmiana Holy Tree together.

In the room.

Lu Li sat cross-legged.

Casually, he placed the few pages recording his insights and reflections to the side.

These were prepared for Zhao Tieyi!

Not long ago, he helped Zhao Tieyi break through to Grandmaster, leaving behind a flaw. After this period of combining the cultivation techniques Zhao Tieyi practiced to deduce, he finally found a way to compensate.

However, his work was far from over.

Besides Zhao Tieyi.

Now there were Shen Yiya and Zhou Wuyan.

Shen Yiya was fine!

He had the power of the Heaven Pulse Life-Continuing Pill constantly tempering his physical body. He only needed to perfect his cultivation technique so he could fit the technique to train, and he could forge a deep foundation and soon break through to the Grandmaster realm.

And Zhou Wuyan was not only like that, but he also had to constantly find and compensate for the various flaws left behind by relying on pills for rapid training.

Only in this way would his training foundation not be shaken!

"It is a bit troublesome!"

Lu Li whispered to himself.

Zhou Wuyan's situation was tailor-made and required a lot of his time.

But even so, Lu Li didn't have any dissatisfaction.

Former brothers of life and death!

Spending this little time was nothing!

At the same time, he was also glad that Shen Yiya had the Heaven Pulse Life-Continuing Pill to assist him.

Otherwise, adding another Shen Yiya would likely greatly affect his speed in deducing the Spirit Building Technique.

Lu Li didn't think anymore.

In his mind, his Thousand-fold Talent was pushed to the limit, and he began to continue his deduction.

In the blink of an eye.

Another five days passed.

Five days was not short, and the sky-shattering storm caused above the Zhu family that day had gradually subsided.

On the morning of the sixth day.

Lu Li quietly left the villa and went to Tiansheng Academy.

Zhao Tieyi had a flaw left from breaking through to Grandmaster.

If he didn't send the compensation method over, she might come looking for him.

Moreover, he had already perfected the cultivation techniques for Shen Yiya and Zhou Wuyan's Martial Master realm over these few days. To continue deducing the Spirit Building Technique, he still needed to borrow the hard-earned experience of those predecessors in the academy library.

He arrived at the library in one step.

After handing the insights on compensating for the flaw to Zhao Tieyi, Lu Li dove into the library's many hidden techniques.

Soon.

A whole day passed.

Lu Li walked out of the library, just about to close the library door.

Suddenly, Zhang Chi ran over.

"Teacher, someone stopped me this afternoon and asked what I had been doing in your villa these past few days."

"What!"

Lu Li's pupils shrank sharply.

It had only been quiet for a few days!

Was the person hiding behind the scenes unable to hold back again?

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 68 =====