Chapter 200: The Cautious Long Xuan

Soul Nourishing Wood was a priceless treasure outside. Once it appeared in the world, it would be enough to set off a bloody storm, and even trigger a chaotic battle of countless Gu Kings, producing a great commotion.

This was because the efficacy of Soul Nourishing Wood was truly too heaven-defying. As long as a Gu Cultivator stayed in a place very close to the Soul Nourishing Wood, their innate soul power would grow naturally.

Like lifespan, soul power was also divided into innate soul power and acquired soul power.

One had to know that the strength of soul power was innate and very difficult to grow through acquired means. Means to grow soul power were extremely few.

Even if soul power was grown, it was the increase of acquired soul power. Innate soul power was fixed and could not be increased.

Only Soul Nourishing Wood was an exception. It could actually increase a Gu Cultivator's innate soul power.

As for the difference between innate soul power and acquired soul power, one could make an analogy.

Every time a Gu Cultivator advanced a rank, it would naturally drive the growth of soul power. The soul power of Gu Kings was not weak, and the soul of a powerful Gu King could even fly out of the body to possess and be reborn.

But every Gu Cultivator was a different individual. How much soul power improvement each person could drive after advancing was different.

People with strong innate soul power would have more soul power improvement every time they advanced.

People with weak innate soul power would have less soul power improvement every time they advanced.

Every time the two advanced, a gap would be opened. As the number of advancements grew more and more, the gap opened between the two would grow larger and larger, gradually forming a chasm that could not be crossed. The gap was like heaven and earth.

One could imagine how important increasing innate soul power was.

It could completely be said that Soul Nourishing Wood was enough to trigger the greed of anyone in this world. Remember the keyword: anyone, regardless of gender, age, or realm. It was just that absolute.

The temptation of Soul Nourishing Wood was fatal to anyone. For this, one could lose one's reason, fight for one's life, and once it appeared in the world, it would definitely cause chaos under the heavens.

One had to know that Long Xuan was a person for two lifetimes. His innate soul power was truly too strong, too strong; it was already not human.

His innate soul power was already this strong, and now he was about to possess a Soul Nourishing Wood that increased innate soul power. What kind of terrifying monster would this shape?

Long Xuan's throat moved, and he swallowed a mouthful of saliva. At this moment, he had already made up his mind: after those six Spirit Sea stage Gu Cultivators of the Bai Clan left, he would go and secretly take the Soul Nourishing Wood away.

At the same time, he had to watch this Soul Nourishing Wood well. Don't ever let the Straw Gu take it to build a house again, and don't let the Heavenly Dream Dragon Silkworm secretly eat all the leaves.

This Soul Nourishing Wood was truly too precious. It was the highest quality spirit medicine among all the spirit medicines in his medicine garden, even surpassing the Fire Dragon Fruit Tree and the Living Wood, so he couldn't let them ruin it.

Long Xuan suppressed the excitement in his heart, let himself calm down, and finally turned his gaze to the three cultivation methods.

Looking at these three cultivation methods, his mood was complex.

These three cultivation methods were one body refining method, one soul refining method, and one cultivation method for spiritual power. The grades were all terrifying Heaven-Tier High-Grade cultivation methods, the highest-level cultivation methods in the Gu World.

Anyone could imagine how rare the highest-grade cultivation methods in the world were.

This level of cultivation method only existed in legends. Most people hadn't even heard of it. It was hard to imagine that this cave master actually had three types.

Cultivation methods were things that accompanied a person for a lifetime. What did Heaven-Tier High-Grade cultivation methods mean? Once a family mastered them, the cultivation speed of the geniuses in this family would be far faster than other families.

The probability of this family producing Gu Kings would also be many times greater than other families.

People who practiced Heaven-Tier High-Grade cultivation methods would all possess heaven-defying combat power, and the overall combat power of this family would also throw off other families by who knew how many streets.

It was no exaggeration to say that a family mastering Heaven-Tier High-Grade cultivation methods, as long as they were given time to grow, would be a giant in the future, becoming a first-class force in the entire Gu World.

At this moment, Long Xuan finally knew why the Bai Clan didn't hesitate to pay the price of a generational gap in family geniuses to occupy the entire mine vein.

It was all because of these three cultivation methods. These three cultivation methods were truly too important for a family; they were things that had to be obtained at all costs.

In front of these three cultivation methods, the value of the Geng Metal mine vein seemed insignificant.

As long as these three cultivation methods were obtained, then the Bai Clan would be heaven in the future. A small Western Lands couldn't trap them.

Unfortunately, the Bai Clan calculated everything but ended up with nothing. Even if they paid the price of the family's geniuses, they didn't get what they wanted. Truly sad and sigh-worthy.

Long Xuan took a deep breath, ignored the cultivation method and body refining method, and reached out to grab the soul refining method.

Heaven-Tier High-Grade body refining methods and cultivation methods were things sufficient to make people crazy outside, but he was not interested in them at all in his eyes.

He couldn't replace his "Ten Extremes Scripture" and "Purgatory True Demon Art" just because of two Heaven-Tier High-Grade cultivation methods.

Although he didn't know what level the cultivation method he created belonged to in this world, he was conceited. He was absolutely confident that the cultivation method he created couldn't be weaker than any cultivation method in this world. He had absolute confidence in his own cultivation method.

Therefore, no matter what kind of cultivation method in this world was placed in front of him, it was impossible for him to have the thought of replacing his cultivation method.

So the cultivation methods that the Bai Clan didn't hesitate to obtain at all costs were of no use to him at all.

Only the soul refining method still interested him a little. After all, he hadn't practiced a soul refining method yet.

A soul refining method was a cultivation method that could refine the soul, increasing acquired soul power, and was extremely rare. Even if he searched through the Long Clan's Library Tower and the Qian Clan's Treasure Pavilion, he hadn't discovered a single soul refining method.

To date, this was the only soul refining method he had ever seen, and the first soul refining method he saw was Heaven-Tier High-Grade.

Long Xuan was full of interest. At this moment, he was already considering whether he should self-create a soul refining method, and then he would practice soul, body, and spirit, from then on having no shortcomings.

The benefits of a powerful soul were truly too many. For example, the stronger the soul, the higher the resistance to illusion techniques. The stronger the soul, the stronger the perception. Even if he closed his eyes, he could perceive opponents far away and opponents sneaking up on his back.

Also, a strong soul could immunize against Shi Haojun's ability to eavesdrop on heart voices. Long Xuan believed that similar abilities absolutely existed in this world, and it was absolutely not the case that only Shi Haojun alone had the ability to read minds.

Long Xuan had truly too many secrets in his heart. Just this one reason was enough to make him decide to practice a soul refining method.

However, whether to learn an existing soul refining method or self-create one, Long Xuan thought for a moment and decided to see what level this cultivation method was first.

If the power was far lower than the "Ten Extremes Scripture" and "Purgatory True Demon Art," then with his personality, he would definitely self-create one.

After all, a cultivation method was a person's lifetime matter; one couldn't settle. If one wanted to learn, one must learn the strongest cultivation method.

Long Xuan opened the first page of "True Soul Transformation." Just by seeing a line of words written on the first page, he knew this Heaven-Tier High-Grade cultivation method was extremely dangerous.

Because the first sentence written in this cultivation method was: "To practice this technique, one must first find Soul Nourishing Wood, otherwise, ten deaths and no life."

The danger level of this cultivation method was actually that without Soul Nourishing Wood to strengthen the soul, one would definitely die.

And Soul Nourishing Wood was one of the three great spirit woods of this world, rare to the extreme. It was already not bad to be able to find one Soul Nourishing Wood in the whole world.

So it could be said that the danger level of this cultivation method meant only one person in the world could practice it.

And a cultivation method dangerous to such a degree, how could it be weak? One had to know that the danger level of a cultivation method had to be positively correlated with its strength.

At this moment, he finally knew why the cave master wanted to raise a Soul Nourishing Wood in the cave. It was entirely because of this cultivation method. He had to walk the road of searching for Soul Nourishing Wood all over the world. Fortunately, he finally succeeded.

It was just that he didn't know why such a strong person would fall here. A ruthless person who practiced three major Heaven-Tier High-Grade cultivation methods at the same time—Long Xuan could completely imagine how terrifying this person's combat power was before he died.

He began to look forward to this extremely dangerous cultivation method, but now was not the time to study the cultivation method here.

He roughly looked at what treasures were in the cave abode and quickly exited from the illusion.

After all, the treasures in the illusion were illusory. If he really wanted to obtain the treasures, he still needed to start from reality.

After knowing what treasures were in the cave abode through the Original Realm, Long Xuan felt that this cave abode was worth his trip.

Just that Soul Nourishing Wood was worth his making a big fuss. Soul Nourishing Wood had the effect of increasing innate soul power, and its help to him was truly too great.

Besides Soul Nourishing Wood, it would be very difficult for him to find anything else that could increase innate soul power, so he had to obtain the Soul Nourishing Wood in the cave abode at all costs.

However, how to take away the treasures in the cave abode still needed careful planning.

Long Xuan pondered for a moment and decided to take action today.

Through his observation, those six Spirit Sea stage Gu Cultivators of the Bai Clan, in order to avoid alarming the Long Clan people and causing the fact that there was a cave abode here to be discovered, were all cautious and secretly sneaked over to break the array at night.

In other words, those six Spirit Sea stage Gu Cultivators of the Bai Clan wouldn't come during the day, and those overseers also needed to show their faces during the day.

He could completely take advantage of the time when they went back during the day to secretly scrape clean all the treasures in the cave abode.

It would be best to frame the pot of stealing the cave abode's treasures on them, and then let them be killed by the Long Clan's Gu Cultivators, coming to a "dead men tell no tales." This plan was simply perfect.

Long Xuan excitedly clapped his hands and immediately sent the Flame Clone out.

At this time, it was just morning, and those few Spirit Sea stage Gu Cultivators of the Bai Clan had just left. At this moment, it was the best time to steal the treasures in the cave abode.

However, Long Xuan had always been cautious by nature. Out of safety considerations, he didn't intend to go and steal that cave abode personally, deciding on the old rule: let the clone do the work.

Although he had successfully conquered this cave abode in the illusion, things that could be done in the illusion might not necessarily be done in reality, and many variables might appear.

For example, his Original Realm couldn't perfectly copy very powerful living things. He had to take this factor into consideration.

Who knew if there were any other powerful Gu worms in the cave abode? This situation was completely possible to happen. Being careful wouldn't be a mistake.

He had already handed over the method of breaking the cave-protecting array to the clone. As long as there were no other variables in the cave abode, it wouldn't be difficult for the clone to take away all the treasures in the cave abode. He just needed to wait patiently.

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