This Sword Cultivator is Somewhat Dependable

A deep and quiet chamber.

Everywhere was blinding golden light, with visions continuously appearing.

Waves surged and golden light twinkled, continually rolling up.

But this scene only lasted for a few breaths before all the divine light began to converge. freёnovelkiss.com

"The Void Refining Chapter of the Great Xia Scripture enhanced to the Four Flowers Realm, max Spiritual Power Value increased by 250k!"

"Your Primordial Spirit Realm has been promoted (Divine Sense +200)!"

Lu Qingshan, sitting cross-legged at the center of the chamber, felt his whole body brimming with vigor, as if a robust essence was circulating within him.

Having spent five million one hundred and fourteen thousand Experience Points, he had successfully raised his Cultivation to the Four Flowers Realm.

However, his Experience Points, under this upgrade, plummeted back to rock bottom, leaving him with a mere nine hundred thousand.

But no matter, he still had eight thousand Battle Merits in hand.

In other words, he wasn’t short on resources!

Lu Qingshan, reassured, introspected and saw that within the Nascent Soul between his eyebrows, the Primordial Dao Seed was now resplendently blooming with four radiant golden lotuses, hanging down strands of golden threads, making the whole Nascent Soul dazzle in golden light.

"With each additional bloom, the strength of the Nascent Soul improves a rank, and my accumulation deepens further," Lu Qingshan reflected.

It was said that Void Refining Cultivators were no match for Divine Transformation Cultivators, as the latter cultivated Element Force, while the former were still at the stage of cultivating Spiritual Power.

The robust nature of Element Force, when contended with Spiritual Power, could easily overpower it.

This gap was qualitative, not to be easily bridged by quantity.

No easily bridged, yet not impossible to bridge.

He cultivated the Flawless Dao Foundation, and the purity and finesse of his Spiritual Power already far surpassed ninety-nine percent of cultivators on the same level.

The same Spiritual Power held much more formidable power in him than in others.

Of course, it definitely was incomparable to Element Force.

But that also gave him the chance to make up for the qualitative difference with quantity.

"If I cultivate to the Six Flowers Realm or higher, I should be able to wrestle with ordinary Divine Transformation Initial Stage Cultivators," Lu Qingshan assessed his condition carefully and made a reasonable evaluation in his mind.

The wrestling he mentioned referred to not using any unconventional methods such as "Power of the Mountains and Seas" or "Life-Spend," etc.

"It’s truly exciting." Lu Qingshan withdrew his mind, slowly stood up, and left the quiet chamber.

By now, the sky was brightly lit.

Lu Qingshan did not further delay, he activated his Sword Control, tracing a fleeting radiance in the air, and flew out of Falling Goose Pass, immediately heading back to Yumen Pass along the original path at a very fast speed.

.....

The sky brightened.

A whisper arose — "Hmm—"

Pain!

So painful!

My head hurts so much!

Groggily and losing consciousness, Marquis of An Hai felt an exceptional throbbing in his head as he struggled to wake from his stupor and slowly opened his eyelids.

In the moment of waking, his eyes, consciousness, and voice were all exceptionally clear, but he discovered that although his eyes were open, his body was completely immobile, not even his fingers could twitch.

This unfamiliar state even caused some panic in Marquis of An Hai.

If it were an ordinary mortal, they would have dismissed the scenario lightly—wasn’t it just sleep paralysis?

After some time, Marquis of An Hai finally regained sensation and control over his body.

"Whew!" Having regained control of his body, he abruptly sat up, immediately looked around, and discovered he was in an unknown wilderness.

"I don’t know if I’m lucky or unlucky…"

Marquis of An Hai introspected on his internal condition and saw his Essence Blood depleted and in disarray, the situation couldn’t be worse, leading him to bitterly smile.

Being in such poor condition and fainting unprotected on a battlefield teeming with crises…

Throughout his unconsciousness, any member of the Demon Race discovering him could have easily taken his life.

Yet in the end, he was safely alive upon waking.

"After a great disaster comes great fortune," Marquis of An Hai comforted himself internally, meanwhile with a thought, the ground rippled like water, creating wave after wave.

The next instant, his form sank noiselessly into the earth like a stone thrown into the sea.

As the ripples dispersed, the ground returned to tranquility.

And with that, all traces of his presence completely vanished.

This was an extremely powerful Breath Concealing Technique that Marquis of An Hai cultivated—the Heavenly Serpent Breath Concealing Technique.

It was precisely through this technique that he remained undetected by the Demon Race’s extensive search efforts after breaking out.

Underground.

Marquis of An Hai took out a Pill and swallowed it, starting to heal his injuries by circulating his Cultivation Technique—having used a Forbidden Technique to forcefully break out, his injuries were severe.

.....

A day later.

Above the desolate battlefield beyond the domain, a bizarre seven-colored butterfly fluttered its wings in the sky.

The butterfly appeared to gently flap its wings each time, yet covered vast distances.

The speed seemed slow yet was incredibly fast, mysterious and unfathomable.

And behind this butterfly, two figures moved swiftly.

Upon closer inspection, one could see the triangular-eyed, sinister face and Qing Ge’s grim, cold expression…

"Lord, why not bring the Demon Race army along to ensure the elimination of Lu Qingshan? According to what the Demon Lord said, Lu Qingshan is not a simple man," the triangular-eyed Demonic Cultivator, Pu Qu Demon Marshal, couldn’t help but ask.

"No matter how extraordinary, isn’t he just a Void Refining Cultivator?

To kill a mere Fifth Realm Sword Cultivator, I alone am enough; why would I need an army?"