Chapter 39

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Xiaobai wasn't interested in all weapons; he took a few steps and grabbed a broken sword. Lu Li followed him, picking up over a dozen weapons, but Xiaobai showed no signs of stopping. He kept pointing here and there, his small eyes burning with enthusiasm.

Soon, Lu Li was holding over twenty broken weapons. He called Xiaobai into the sack. Xiaobai, indeed very intelligent, listened to Lu Li and quickly slipped into the sack.

"What do you need so many broken weapons for?"

When Lu Li entered the hall with over twenty broken swords and weapons, Old He looked at him suspiciously and asked.

Lu Li's heart stirred, and he grinned, "I want to learn how to forge weapons..."

Old He rolled his eyes. Was forging weapons that easy to learn? The large Liu family had only three weapon forgers, and they were all low-level forgers who could only forge Human Rank Mystic Weapons. This foolish boy thought he could learn forging with some broken Mystic Weapons.

He didn't bother to argue with Lu Li, just flipped through the weapons and estimated, "These are all Human Rank Mystic Weapons. Five of them are Eighth Rank Human Rank Mystic Weapons. Let's say they are worth 500 contribution points in total."

"500 points..."

Lu Li had a total of 1,400 contribution points. Using 1,100 of them made him feel a bit painful, but thinking of Xiaobai, he gritted his teeth and handed over the token.

Old He deducted 500 contribution points, and Lu Li's token now showed only 300 points. He carried a pile of broken Mystic Weapons back to the guest hall, where he was looked at like a monster by the passing Liu family martial artists.

Entering his room, he threw the broken Mystic Weapons into a corner, released Xiaobai, and grinned, "Eat, eat whatever you want."

"Neigh~"

Xiaobai excitedly called out and pounced on the weapons. In Lu Li's astonished gaze, he devoured a short sword in a few bites.

Xiaobai only ate the blade of the short sword, not the hilt, and after eating, he was still unsatisfied and pounced on a dagger.

"Is this a Citi Beast?"

Lu Ling held an ancient book and, after reading for a while, shook his head, "The book says that a Citi Beast is as large as a giant bull, with a large horn on its head, and its body is as black as charcoal. It eats iron and excretes steel. This little beast is too small and has white fur, so it doesn't seem to be a Citi Beast."

"It's not a Citi Beast!"

Lu Li looked at it for a while and said confidently, "A Citi Beast is a Fifth Rank Mystic Beast. The higher the rank of a Mystic Beast, the larger its body. Even a newborn Citi Beast should be as big as a tiger. Xiaobai is so small, how can he be a Fifth Rank Mystic Beast?"

Lu Ling also knew it was impossible. A powerful Mystic Beast, even when just born, couldn't be so small. Xiaobai, after eating two weapons, found a corner to curl up and sleep.

Lu Ling didn't care and told Lu Li to focus on his cultivation to strengthen himself for the upcoming bloodline awakening.

"Cultivate, refine the Blood Refining Pill!"

Lu Li excitedly took out a Blood Refining Pill and swallowed it. Soon, a warm current spread throughout his body. Lu Li waited quietly and found that the Blood Refining Pill was indeed more powerful than the Body Tempering Pill, making his blood feel like it was boiling.

However, he had once refined five Body Tempering Pills at once, so he could still bear this temperature. He waited until the temperature stopped increasing and felt he could bear it, then looked at his chest.

"Hum~"

As expected, the beast tooth began to glow, but it was covered by the black bag, so the light was very faint. Lu Li thought for a moment, took off the black bag, and carefully observed the beast tooth.

Lu Ling had told him that the beast tooth glowed when he refined the Body Tempering Pill. Lu Li was now even more surprised. This beast tooth was indeed a rare treasure, seemingly... able to help the body absorb the medicinal power more effectively?

The beast tooth glowed for over an hour, and the temperature began to decrease. Lu Li felt a bit drowsy, climbed into bed, and slept soundly.

"Indeed, it's a Fifth Rank Human Rank pill, increasing my strength by at least 2,000 pounds!"

When he woke up, Lu Li casually tested his strength and was overjoyed. He had twenty Blood Refining Pills. Even if the effectiveness of the later pills decreased, he could still increase his strength by at least 10,000 to 20,000 pounds. When he reached the peak of the Xuanwu Realm and used his Mystic Power, his combat strength would skyrocket.

"Cultivate, cultivate!"

Lu Li was even more excited and completely ignored the outside world. Guest experts usually didn't go on missions and no one managed them, so he had plenty of time to cultivate.

There were still over ten days before the bloodline awakening. Lu Li planned to use this time to fully open his meridians and refine all the Blood Refining Pills.

Lu Li and Lu Ling paid no attention to the outside world, but the Liu family was in an uproar. Everyone in the inner and outer halls was indignant, and many were calling for a direct attack on the Zhao family to destroy them.

The elders in the inner hall suppressed the Liu family members. The Liu family had recently suffered a major change, and many Liu family martial artists had died in the Cold Cloud Mountain. On the other hand, the Zhao family's patriarch had broken through in strength and successfully allied with a major family. No one knew what the consequences would be if a conflict broke out with the Zhao family.

The Liu family held a mourning ceremony because of the major change. The major change was that the Liu family patriarch had been severely injured by a powerful Mystic Beast and was still in a coma, possibly never to wake up...

Currently, all affairs of the Liu family were managed by the Grand Elder, who was far away in the Cold Cloud Mountain, seeking help from major families to condemn the Zhao family. The city naturally couldn't be in chaos.

Due to the events in the Cold Cloud Mountain, the atmosphere in the city became tense and oppressive. The three Second Rank families in the city restrained their members, not allowing them to step out of their families to avoid getting involved in the conflict between the Liu and Zhao families.

The Liu family had suffered a major change and lost a lot of strength, while the Zhao family had allied with a major family. The layout of Wuling City might change. If other small families made a wrong move, they could fall into an abyss.

...

Time flew by, and six days passed in the blink of an eye.

Lu Li stayed in the guest hall, cultivating Mystic Power, opening meridians, and refining Blood Refining Pills.

Ten days was a short time, but Lu Li's progress was very obvious. He had already refined all twenty Blood Refining Pills. At first, he refined one at a time, but later he could refine three or four at once, and the refinement process was particularly fast. He also refined the remaining Body Tempering Pills. His physical strength had increased by 17,000 pounds, and with his original strength, he now had nearly 30,000 pounds of physical strength.

30,000 pounds of strength!

If only considering strength, with the increase in Mystic Power, Lu Li was already surpassing the early Divine Sea Realm and could barely match the mid Divine Sea Realm.

Of course...

In terms of overall combat strength, Lu Li definitely couldn't compare to Divine Sea Realm martial artists. After all, breaking through any realm was extremely difficult, and the combat strength would increase several times after the breakthrough.

A martial artist's combat strength wasn't just about strength. Speed, reaction ability, defense, the thickness of Mystic Power, and advanced Mystic Techniques all affected combat strength.

Lu Li had already opened eight meridians, reaching the late Xuanwu Realm. He was just four meridians away from the peak of the Xuanwu Realm, and once he condensed the Divine Sea, he could break through to the next realm.

It seemed that the remaining four meridians would take more than half a month to open. The later the cultivation, the harder it became. This was an unchanging truth. Cultivating in the martial path, defying the heavens, how easy was it to defy the heavens?

"Tomorrow is the end of the half-month period!"

Lu Li stopped cultivating and prepared to have a good night's sleep. He would get up early the next day to go to the temple for the bloodline awakening.

"Awaken the bloodline!"

Thinking of this, Lu Li's heart was filled with excitement. Lu Ling said he would definitely awaken a powerful bloodline, and after awakening, he would be informed of all the matters.

Bloodline warriors were the strongest warriors in the Northern Desert. Once Lu Li successfully awakened a powerful bloodline, his strength would undergo a tremendous change, and his status in the Liu family would become transcendent.

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