"But speaking of which, your aura has been changing almost daily these past two days. Have you almost perfected the Body Tempering chapter?"
After preparing everything for the Lu family, Hu Sanqiang curiously inquired about Qin Xuan's cultivation progress.
As someone who primarily cultivated his martial body, he was always exceptionally sensitive to issues concerning the physique.
Moreover, he had already reached the seventh movement of the Body Tempering chapter himself, making him even more curious about Qin Xuan's cultivation.
"Pretty much..." Qin Xuan scratched his head, feeling a little embarrassed as he spoke to his second master.
It wasn't that he didn't want to say, but he himself was a bit unsure of his own cultivation progress.
Ever since he consumed the Soul Nourishing Pill in Niudu last time, Qin Xuan found that his strength improved almost every day.
And the speed of this improvement was getting faster and faster, quickly surpassing the speed of his pure cultivation of the Body Tempering chapter.
Especially recently, when he reached the last movement of the Body Tempering chapter, this characteristic became particularly evident.
According to the Body Tempering chapter, upon reaching ultimate mastery of body tempering and perfection of the cultivation technique, one would exhibit a state of smooth perfection with blood like rumbling thunder.
However, although he now possessed a slight state of blood like rumbling thunder, he couldn't feel any sense of smooth perfection.
He didn't know what had gone wrong, but he always felt something was slightly off.
Although this "something" was slowly being filled in day by day, simply cultivating the Body Tempering chapter had become completely ineffective.
Qin Xuan wanted to ask Master Chen Xuan about this, but unfortunately, Chen Xuan had fallen into a deep sleep again and couldn't be woken.
So he hadn't bothered and just let things take their course.
Hu Sanqiang naturally knew that his disciple wouldn't hide anything from him, so he didn't say much more.
He sensed that his disciple seemed to have encountered some difficulties in his cultivation.
But Qin Xuan's current cultivation was no longer something he could intervene in.
So, he shook his head with a sense of helplessness.
How far Qin Xuan could go in the future would depend on how Chen Xuan continued to guide him.
The night passed uneventfully. The next day, Qin Xuan and his three masters took a private jet to the deep mountains east of Jiangcheng.
To Qin Xuan's surprise, as they ventured deeper, the age of the vegetation here began to exceed his imagination.
One hundred years, two hundred years, and then a thousand years, two thousand years!
Towering trees with lifespans exceeding two thousand years were everywhere, their canopies blocking out the sky.
Yet, there was no sign of any settlement nearby.
"This should be about it."
Finally, after they had walked several hundred more miles, Ke Wudi raised his hand, signaling Qin Xuan and the others behind him to stop.
He chanted a mantra, his lips moving slightly a few times, then tapped his fingers, shifting several giant stones in front of them.
*Pop~*
A soft sound, like a bubble bursting, instantly reached Qin Xuan and the others' ears. A crack appeared out of nowhere as the last stone landed.
Slowly, the crack grew larger.
A very comfortable aura slowly emanated from the crack.
Before Qin Xuan could even feel it, Ke Wudi reminded them to quickly enter through the crack.
This was a temporary entrance set up by the Lu family's barrier. To minimize the loss of spiritual energy, each opening of the entrance lasted no more than 10 seconds.
Therefore, regardless of the myriad of questions in Qin Xuan's mind, he hurried to follow his three masters and stepped into the wondrous world he had only heard about.
Upon entering the barrier, Qin Xuan felt a sense of openness.
The feeling of towering trees outside the barrier vanished instantly. Strangely, in the eastern part of the entire barrier, there was also a very real sun.
"No need to look, that's real."
As the barrier gate slowly closed, Ke Wudi explained with a smile to Qin Xuan.
"The reason you couldn't see this barrier normally is because they've set up an invisibility formation here."
"But in reality, the true appearance of this place is not a solid, enclosed space as you might imagine."
"So, everything you can see outside, you can also see here."
"The sun, moon, stars, and even birds are all like this."
"So that's how it is..."
Listening to his master's explanation, Qin Xuan felt that these cultivators from Longguo certainly knew how to enjoy themselves.
However, he didn't dwell on these matters, as a strange change was occurring within his body.
He felt that his cultivation, which had been suppressed for the past two days, seemed to be slowly climbing again.
The inexplicable sense of incompleteness was also gradually dissipating.
The ultimate source of all these changes was the strange, comfortable aura from just now.
And according to Qin Xuan's guess, that aura was likely spiritual energy.
"What's wrong, Xuan'er?"
The three people standing beside Qin Xuan also seemed to have noticed Qin Xuan's abnormality and immediately gathered around, wanting to check the situation.
But before the three of them could figure out what was happening, streams of spiritual energy began to form a vortex above Qin Xuan's head.
A large amount of spiritual energy surged into Qin Xuan's body like a madman.
And Qin Xuan, at this moment, was like an insatiable glutton, with his "mouth wide open," accepting everything.
"Bastard, who dares to trespass into the Lu family of Jiangcheng?!"
Two quarters of an hour later, a roar suddenly came from a distance.
Not long after, three figures dressed in blue-green robes arrived in front of Qin Xuan and the others.
They were the Grand Elders of the Lu family in Jiangcheng, each at least at the middle stage of Foundation Establishment.
Just now, they had sensed that the spiritual energy in the entire barrier had begun to deviate from the center of the spirit gathering formation and gather towards the entrance of the barrier.
They were so startled that they thought someone was forcibly tearing open the barrier to attack the Lu family.
However, upon arriving here, they discovered that it was a young child, no more than twenty years old, absorbing spiritual energy!
But the speed of absorption was too fast!
Let alone the three of them combined, they were no match for him.
Even if all the Foundation Establishment cultivators in the family, along with the Patriarch and the Old Patriarch, both at the Core Formation stage, absorbed spiritual energy with all their might, their absorption speed might not be faster than this little fellow!
This was too outrageous!
Could it be that although he looked only in his early twenties, he was actually an old monster who had reached the Golden Core stage?
At this thought, the three of them became hesitant.
And just as they were hesitating, they happened to see the three God-level Supremes standing beside Qin Xuan.
"Aren't these Ke Wudi, Hu Sanqiang, and Zheng Wanqing?"
"What are you doing here?"
"And who is this kid absorbing my Lu family's spiritual energy?"
Not daring to provoke Qin Xuan easily, the elders could still question outsiders of similar cultivation levels.
The leading Grand Elder raised his eyebrows and immediately adopted an accusatory tone.
Upon seeing this, Hu Sanqiang let out a cold snort, unwilling to pay them any mind.
Ke Wudi, however, had to force a smile and explain Qin Xuan's identity.
There was no other way; they were here to see the Lu family patriarch, not to cause trouble.
When encountering Grand Elders of this status, even if their own strength was slightly higher, they had to show them due respect.
Otherwise, dealing with troublesome juniors would make it difficult for them to smoothly meet the Lu family patriarch.