Chapter 157: Long Xuan's Calculation

The idea he had sprouted was by no means groundless; he was thinking of his own lifelong happiness.

Ever since he and Long Ziyan had been intimate, he had assumed that, given the conservative nature of women in this world, the two of them would certainly become dual cultivation partners.

He had also taken the initiative to launch an offensive, pursuing her relentlessly for a long time. Every "Straw Gu Day," he would send a letter via Straw Gu, but until now, he had failed to conquer this iceberg.

Now, he could only resort to an unconventional strategy, and this time was a good opportunity.

One must know that Long Ziyan was a possessor of a Ninth-Rank bloodline, just one step away from becoming a possessor of a Tenth-Rank bloodline, which is rare in ten thousand years.

The benefits of raising her bloodline by one rank were undoubtedly the greatest for her; no one could be more eager than she to raise her bloodline purity by another rank.

The temptation of raising her bloodline purity by one rank was simply a fatal temptation for someone with a Ninth-Rank bloodline. Could Long Ziyan resist this temptation?

She was pure and clean, and might strictly adhere to her original intentions, but she had already been intimate with him once. What difference did it make if it happened once or twice? With this mentality, she might really just give up and let things take their course.

Long Xuan's gaze was thoughtful, his eyes full of calculation...

Next, Long Xuan wandered through I don't know how many more tomb chambers, but he found no more treasures or useful murals. Gradually losing patience, he decided to put aside those small tomb chambers and walk directly toward the sleeping hall in the deepest part.

According to his estimation, the treasure displaying infinite progress must be placed in the sleeping hall; the possibility of it appearing in a small tomb chamber was extremely, extremely low.

However, the road leading to the sleeping hall was certainly the most dangerous. Even though he was careful, careful, and more careful, he still encountered a blind spot in his knowledge. He didn't know where he had gone wrong, and then he heard a "Boom—" sound; the tomb passage suddenly collapsed, burying him alive.

Long Xuan was a sore loser; he actually pulled the plug at this moment. The screen went black, and he exited the illusion realm before he even had time to die.

Then, he took a deep breath, patted his startled little chest, re-entered the illusion realm, and began to clear the level again.

Of course, the accident this time was entirely because he hadn't used a clone to scout the path. If this were in reality, given his personality, he would definitely have used a clone to scout; it would certainly not be so easy for something to happen to him.

However, this was, after all, his own illusion realm, and there was no danger to his life. Moreover, all his clones were working hard at their studies, so he decided not to disturb them.

He would do it himself this time, just treating it as playing an AR game. In his view, this game was quite exciting.

Just like that, after constantly courting death and wasting a full ten lives, he finally successfully walked into the sleeping hall.

The sleeping hall was very spacious; the floor was paved with reflective jade, and chandeliers hung from the ceiling. The entire sleeping hall was brightly lit.

Under the illumination of the lights, he could easily see the murals on the surrounding walls of the sleeping hall.

There were no words on the murals; they depicted scenes of war, as if two forces were attacking one force. The battle scenes were earth-shattering and ghost-weeping, not like the battles of ordinary Gu cultivators.

However, because there was no text introduction for the murals, Long Xuan did not know the background of this battle, the time period in which it occurred, nor did he know the cause and consequence of this battle, or which forces were fighting.

Everything about this great war was unknown. He couldn't understand the murals here at all and was completely confused. After he just recorded all the content of the murals, he stopped paying attention to them.

The most eye-catching thing in the sleeping hall was the large coffin placed in the very center, and a large hole next to the coffin.

The lid of the coffin had long since been pried open and thrown on the ground. Inside, it was empty; neither the corpse nor the burial objects were to be found, obviously all taken away by tomb robbers.

Long Xuan didn't pay much attention to it, instead focusing his attention on that large hole.

He walked over slowly. It seemed that the dangers in the sleeping hall had already been resolved by the tomb robbers. He walked all the way to the very center of the sleeping hall without encountering any danger, and he easily arrived next to the large hole.

Viewing this large hole at close range, he was soon startled. When he dug up the Fire Dragon Fruit Tree back then, he had also left behind similar traces.

Therefore, he could judge that a tree had once been buried in this large hole, but it had obviously been dug away by the tomb robbers.

How could a tree placed in the center of the sleeping hall be simple? This tree must be of an extremely high grade, and its value far exceeded the value of all the treasures in the tomb chambers.

Therefore, Fourth-Grade spirit medicine could basically be ruled out, and spirit medicine from Fifth to Tenth Grade did not grow in this world, so the answer was ready to emerge.

Long Xuan's eyes widened suddenly. An Earth-Grade spirit tree or a Heaven-Grade spirit tree must have been buried here once. Which guy had it cheapened?

Long Xuan suddenly thought of that living wood. Could that living wood have come from this ancient tomb? Heaven-Grade spirit medicine was truly rare; he couldn't help but have such suspicions in his heart.

Could the tomb robber be Shi Haojun? Long Xuan's eyes rolled.

He had previously speculated that the tomb robber must be a monstrous-level genius, and Shi Haojun completely belonged to the category of a monstrous-level genius.

Although he had no evidence at this moment, Long Xuan felt that the possibility of his speculation being a fact was absolutely not small.

However, who the tomb robber was no longer mattered to him, and he was too lazy to investigate.

The most urgent task was to find that treasure with infinite progress as soon as possible.

Finally, he smashed a wall and pulled out a stone from a secret compartment. He revealed a slight smile.

It looked like the treasure missed by the tomb robber was this thing.

And sure enough, as he expected, the tomb-securing treasure of this ancient tomb was indeed a fossil.

After he entered the ancient tomb illusion realm, he had never discovered infinite progress, so he had vaguely guessed that the tomb-securing treasure of this ancient tomb might be a fossil.

There were living things inside the fossil; the Original Realm could not replicate living things, so how could he see the progress?

What kind of living thing was inside the fossil that would display an infinite symbol, and have a value so astonishing that it was enough to be a tomb-securing treasure, and still had to be hidden so tightly? This all indicated that this living thing was very heaven-defying. Long Xuan revealed an expectant look, unable to wait to explore the truth.

However, there was no way to satisfy his curiosity now. The Original Realm could not replicate living things; even if he cut this fossil open, there would be nothing inside.

He could only send a clone to make a trip and personally go to the ancient tomb in reality to retrieve this fossil; only then would he know what kind of thing was hidden inside this fossil.

At this moment, he could only suppress his curiosity and slowly exit the ancient tomb illusion realm.

Thus, this ancient tomb was considered completely conquered by him. When the time came, he only needed to let his clone take the strategy he wrote down to retrieve the treasure; it was just that simple.

As soon as he exited the ancient tomb illusion realm, he couldn't wait to take out paper and pen, preparing to immediately carry out the work of adapting the "Yin-Supplementing Art."

Adapting a cultivation method didn't take long, so he decided to put the matter of adapting the "Yin-Supplementing Art" before creating the "Ten Extremes Blade Technique."

Two months later, Long Xuan closed the book, wrote the four large characters "Yin-Yang Treasure Canon" on the cover, and the corners of his mouth slowly curled up.

Thus, the "Yin-Supplementing Art" was considered completely adapted by him, and the name "Yin-Supplementing Art" was also renamed by him to "Yin-Yang Treasure Canon."

The "Yin-Yang Treasure Canon" took two months to complete, which was not long, but the effort he poured into it was not small. Adapting a cultivation method was easier than creating one from scratch, but that was only relatively speaking; in fact, adapting a cultivation method was certainly not a simple matter.

It was only because his comprehension was high and his wisdom was heaven-defying; otherwise, if it were an ordinary person, even with his golden finger, they would never be able to successfully adapt a cultivation method in two months, especially one with such heaven-defying effects.

After the cultivation method was greatly modified by him, it had many differences compared to the original version. First, it changed from the original "Yin-Supplementing Yang" to "Yin-Yang Mutual Complement," making the dual cultivation effect beneficial to both parties; this was something that had to be done.

However, pulling one hair affects the whole body; with such changes, the rest of the cultivation method would be affected.

For example, the effect of raising the bloodline by one rank. If it were the original cultivation method, after extreme "Yin-Supplementing Yang," doing it once would be enough. But changing to the gentler "Yin-Yang Mutual Complement," it would take at least a hundred times to succeed; this had to be said to be a huge drawback.

Finally, Long Xuan also created many forms in the cultivation method, researching a full eighteen forms, all of which had never appeared in this conservative world. He had created another powerful inheritance for which no similar one could be found in this world.

However, most of the eighteen forms he researched were content that had nothing to do with the cultivation method.

In other words, whether or not those actions were added to the cultivation method had no effect at all; they were all just making up the numbers.

But what was written was profound and mysterious; ordinary people would really find it difficult to discover the trickery within.

Thus, an extremely strange cultivation method was completed by him just like that.

However, he actually wrote this cultivation method using the extremely obscure Divine Text, not using the common script of this world. It was unknown what his intention was, or what kind of conspiracy and trickery he was hiding in his belly.

He did not sign his name on the cultivation method this time. As soon as the cultivation method was successfully created, he put it away and couldn't wait to walk out.

Although he was ostensibly conducting research on the Long Xuan Battle Gu formula at this time, he was not grounded, and he still had a great degree of freedom.

After he walked out of the secret chamber, he immediately walked toward the place where Long Ziyan lived.

Not long after, Long Xuan knocked on the door of a certain attic, and a crisp voice came from inside: "Please come in."

Long Xuan straightened his attire, then pushed open the door and walked inside with his head held high and chest puffed out.

Today, Long Ziyan was not practicing sword, but was sitting upright at the table writing something. Hearing the sound of the door opening, she didn't even turn her head and asked directly: "What's the matter with finding me?"

Long Xuan subconsciously glanced at what she was writing and was soon stunned.

She was actually compiling the Gu formula for the Blade Gu. At this time, she had already written I don't know how many sheets of paper, and the materials on each sheet were dense. Making a rough estimate, the Blade Gu formula she was writing probably had ten thousand kinds of materials?

Sure enough, refining a Blade Gu with five hundred kinds of materials was definitely not her personality; she certainly wanted to challenge high difficulty.

However, she only had one top-grade Silver Moon Mantis and no golden finger of her own. Writing so many materials, the failure rate was really too high. Wasn't she afraid of losing everything and ending up with nothing?

Once such a Silver Moon Mantis Gu King was refined to waste, it would really be too much of a pity.

Betting so big was really too risky. Was it really worth it?

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