Chapter 44: 【Inside Collusion, Plotting Golden Core】 (First update, seeking follow-up...)

Lu Chengtong immediately checked Lu Chengqin's traces.

Just as investigated, Lu Chengqin had already left her cave abode three days before the sect announced her disappearance.

She was also taken away at night.

During the day, she was first summoned by Sun Xiao.

At that time, Sun Xiao should have just learned of the existence of the Supernatural Power Dao Fruit, so he called her over to ask a few questions.

Lu Chengqin did not reveal any news, which made Sun Xiao very dissatisfied.

Sun Xiao left for a period of time through the teleportation array, and after returning, at night, he caught Lu Chengqin and brought her to another place through the teleportation array.

Lu Chengtong guessed that later taking action against other Lu family inner disciples was all done by Sun Xiao alone in order to avoid that person and swallow the supernatural power seed himself.

He didn't bring people away with the teleportation pillar anymore, but interrogated them one by one.

The defense of the inner sect of the Ziyao Immortal Sect was strict; the Lu family inner disciples who disappeared were all Sun Xiao's doing.

And those outer disciples were caught by Zhao Yongcheng.

Including those Lu family outer disciples who were performing tasks outside, it was all Zhao Yongcheng's doing alone.

Using the Treasure Mirror's supernatural power, Lu Chengtong roughly investigated the cause of death and disappearance of all the Lu family members, basically concluding that this matter was done by Zhao Yongcheng and Sun Xiao; these two were the masterminds behind the extermination of the Lu family and were his greatest enemies.

For now, Lu Chengtong had arranged several dark pieces, all aimed at Zhao Yongcheng.

On Sun Xiao's side, it was too late to do any dark pieces, so it would be safer to take action himself.

The enemy was clear, and now that the enemy was in the light and he was in the dark, it was a good time to develop and strengthen his own strength.

Now that he had investigated clearly, he could let Hou Zhao stop taking risks to investigate, so as not to startle the snake.

Lu Chengtong came to Danquan Peak to find Hou Zhao, but was told that Hou Zhao had gone out to perform a task.

He had already been gone for a month.

This surprised Lu Chengtong a bit; after all, Hou Zhao had already become a cultivation fanatic, practicing hard every day. The task requirements for inner disciples only needed to hand in some pills to complete; why did he go out to do tasks?

Intuition told him that this matter should not be simple.

Returning to his cave abode, Lu Chengtong immediately used the Treasure Mirror to investigate Hou Zhao's situation.

He knew that the Treasure Mirror could perceive the physical condition of every Dao Seed host and could accurately locate them within a certain range.

Receiving the Treasure Mirror's feedback, he learned that Hou Zhao was currently practicing and seemed to have no major problems.

But the location could not be determined.

Lu Chengtong began to use the supernatural power to check Hou Zhao's traces.

Just as he used the supernatural power to check Hou Zhao's aura from a month ago, Lu Chengtong discovered something wrong.

His cultivation had actually reached the ninth layer of the Foundation Establishment realm!

You must know that when he left the sect more than three months ago, he was only at the seventh layer of the Foundation Establishment realm, and it was just after breaking through.

By the time Hou Zhao left the sect, only two months had passed, and he had already entered the ninth layer of the Foundation Establishment realm; improving two small levels of the Foundation Establishment realm in two months was absolutely not something that could be achieved by normal cultivation.

He must have taken some kind of pill or something.

Lu Chengtong wanted to continue checking Hou Zhao's daily practice, and soon, he discovered the scene of him taking a blood-colored pill.

The aura of this thing was very evil; at a glance, it was not a good thing.

After taking this pill, Hou Zhao's cultivation immediately improved to the ninth layer of the Foundation Establishment realm; such an effect must be worth a lot.

No one would give charity for nothing.

Lu Chengtong still wanted to continue checking, but he received feedback from the Treasure Mirror that the divine soul power was consumed too much and needed time to recover.

It would take about five days.

His face sank, and he could only stop temporarily.

Hou Zhao had already run out, and he couldn't change anything for the time being; now, he would first go find a suitable body-refining technique.

As a comprehensive sect, the Ziyao Immortal Sect was not a short board in body refining.

The Second Elder, You Dong, was a body-refining expert, practicing both spirit and body; not only did his spirit cultivation reach the seventh layer of the Golden Core realm, but his body-refining strength also reached the Golden Core realm, with a powerful physical body and both attack and defense. In terms of combat power, he was the third in the Ziyao Immortal Sect.

The two above him were the Supreme Elder and the Sect Master, the two Nascent Soul Ancestors.

Even the Lingjian Peak Great Elder Xiao Yi had publicly stated that he was not You Dong's opponent.

This was enough to show the power of body refining.

But if one wants to go far on this path, it consumes more resources, and the higher the level, the more resources it consumes; the "more" here refers to consuming more resources than spirit cultivators of the same level.

For a sect, this is naturally not worth the loss.

But if any cultivator has the opportunity to enhance their physique, as long as they still have reason, they will definitely not give up.

For no other reason, the benefits of a powerful physical body are too many.

Spirit power storage, divine soul amplification, etc., all kinds of benefits are obvious.

Although the Ziyao Immortal Sect is not a famous righteous sect that claims justice, it is still a sect with rules, and the development of the sect also has a certain direction.

As an inner disciple, one can learn various Foundation Establishment realm techniques at will, only needing to pay a little spirit stone as the demand for maintaining the operation of the "Library Hall" in normal times.

Of course, the content of techniques that truly have transcendence and leadership is monopolized by the Elders and will not be placed in the Library Hall.

But for Lu Chengtong, superficial, or rather, basic body-refining techniques were enough.

After paying two spirit stones, he obtained the qualification to study in the Library Hall for twelve hours.

During this period, he could study any content.

He checked any books, and there were records; the content within, according to the sect rules, could not be spread at will.

But it was clear that this could not be controlled and could only rely on self-consciousness.

Generally speaking, no one would be bored enough to go and spread various techniques out of kindness.

If it were done too much, it might anger the Immortal Sect, which was unnecessary.

There were not many body-refining techniques; after all, compared to spirit cultivators, body cultivators were only a small part, and in this Northern Wasteland Region, there were even fewer body cultivators.

Not to mention anything else, the Golden Wind Immortal Sect had no body-refining inheritance.

Lu Chengtong just checked roughly and recorded almost all body-refining techniques.

Finally, he found a body-refining technique suitable for himself.

"Demon Blood Body Refining Technique"

As the name suggests, it is a body-refining technique that uses monster beast blood.

Its exquisiteness is not the most profound, but it is indeed very suitable for Lu Chengtong to practice.

For one thing, he went out this time and hunted many monster beasts, obtaining various monster beast blood, including the essence blood of the Golden Core Fire Vulture Demon King.

Furthermore, he possessed the 【Embryonic Transformation】 supernatural power, which could perfectly fuse monster beast blood; in this way, combined with the body-refining technique, it was twice the result with half the effort.

Other cultivators practicing this body-refining technique must consider the changes that monster beast blood brings to themselves.

Meridian changes and residual thoughts eroding the divine soul.

These, for Lu Chengtong, did not exist!

This method was a perfect match for him.

After confirming this technique, Lu Chengtong suddenly remembered that he still had four hours left.

He couldn't come for nothing.

The Treasure Mirror has a recording function; just right, he could collect some techniques to expand the Lu family's technique foundation.

He immediately began to browse various techniques, just flipping through, scanning with divine sense, not learning, so the speed was much faster.

Four hours were enough for him to scan all the books and record them into the Treasure Mirror.

Inside the Treasure Mirror, looking at the various techniques that had been added, Yan Zhe was very excited.

The divine soul level advanced, the Treasure Mirror's storage capacity increased, and he had a feeling of emptiness.

At this time, a large amount of knowledge was filled in, which gave him a new hobby; why not try to create techniques?

Since he was idle anyway.

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