Chapter 7

After receiving a Body Tempering Pill, Lu Li hurriedly left. This time, he returned even earlier, and Lu Ling didn’t come out to wait for him.

After eating, Lu Li told Lu Ling about the golden war chariot and the iron ship he had seen today. Lu Ling frowned in surprise and murmured, "An ancient war chariot? An ironclad spaceship? These are all Heavenly Rank Mystic Artifacts. The three Fifth Rank Royal Clans of the Northern Desert can’t possibly have so many! Could they be from outside? What exactly happened in the Ice Abyss?"

"An ancient war chariot, an ironclad spaceship, Fifth Rank Royal Clans?" Lu Li was a bit puzzled and asked curiously, "Sister, how do you know so much?"

Lu Ling pointed to an old bookshelf in the room and explained, "It’s all recorded in these ancient books. You never liked reading books when you were young, so who’s to blame?"

"Hehe."

Lu Li chuckled dryly. He had always been active since he was young, running around in the mountains all day. Lu Ling, with her lame leg, rarely went out and spent her days reading books, never imagining that these books contained so much mystical knowledge.

"Sister, where did these books come from?" Lu Li asked again, puzzled. He remembered that these books had been on the bookshelf since he was very young. Since they recorded powerful Heavenly Rank Mystic Artifacts, they definitely couldn’t be bought from ordinary places.

Lu Ling explained, "They were left by Father."

"Father?"

Lu Li’s eyes dimmed, and he subconsciously touched the beast tooth around his neck. He was very unfamiliar with his parents, who were said to have disappeared shortly after his birth, with no news for the past fifteen years. Lu Ling never talked about their parents, and Lu Li had often thought they were already dead.

After a long silence, Lu Li couldn’t help but ask, "Sister, are Father and Mother still alive?"

"Yes!"

Lu Ling paused and said, then patted Lu Li’s shoulder and added, "Brother, once you awaken your bloodline, I’ll tell you everything. For now... it’s not the right time."

"Okay!"

Lu Li nodded heavily and didn’t ask any more. He got up and returned to his room to refine the Body Tempering Pill. Today, he felt even more relaxed, as his body seemed to have adapted to the Body Tempering Pill, and there wasn’t as much intense heat. After refining it, he fell into a deep sleep.

After he fell asleep, the beast tooth began to glow again. Lu Ling then pushed the door open and looked at the glowing tooth. After confirming that Lu Li’s body was normal, she frowned and said, "Continuously refining Body Tempering Pills should greatly reduce their effectiveness, but the second pill still increased his strength by four to five hundred pounds. Could it be related to this beast tooth? What kind of mystic beast’s tooth is this?"

"Never mind."

After sitting for a while, Lu Ling nodded slightly and said, "Father put this beast tooth around his neck when Lu Li was born. It must be a rare treasure; Father wouldn’t harm his brother."

Lu Ling turned off the light and left, and the room returned to silence, with only the beast tooth emitting a faint white light, looking particularly eerie in the darkness.

...

"Another four hundred pounds of strength!"

The next day, Lu Li immediately went up the mountain after waking up. After testing, he was even more excited. He had refined three Body Tempering Pills and already had over four thousand pounds of strength. Ten thousand pounds of strength was no longer a dream.

After practicing for over an hour, Lu Li hurried back to the tribe, ate, and immediately went to pull the coffin. When Liu Wu and the others saw Lu Li, they were no longer surprised. He was a freak, with an extremely abnormal constitution. If he were given a few hundred Body Tempering Pills, he might reach tens of thousands of pounds of strength...

Liu Wu and the others were very regretful. If Lu Li could cultivate Mystic Energy, he would definitely be immediately recruited by the Liu family and given special training.

In the following days, Lu Li came to pull the coffin every day and received a Body Tempering Pill each time. What slightly comforted Liu Wu and the others was that Lu Li’s rate of strength increase began to slow down. By the fifth Body Tempering Pill, he only gained about three hundred pounds of strength.

If Lu Li continued to increase at his original rate, Liu Wu and the others would have suspected he was a monster...

Lu Li was very annoyed. At the original pace, he would only need about ten pills to reach ten thousand pounds of strength. Now, it looked like he would need at least twenty. There were only so many Body Tempering Pills from the Liu family’s ancestral coffin, and if they ran out, he wouldn’t have any more pills.

On the eighth day, Lu Li decided not to go to the waterfall to temper his body and practice his knife skills. He got up before dawn and headed straight for Broken Blade Ridge. His strength had already reached about six thousand pounds, and he planned to pull two coffins a day to get two Body Tempering Pills.

The weather had been clear for the past few days, and the snow on the road wasn’t as deep, making it much easier to pull the coffins. Lu Li had long wanted to pull two coffins but was afraid he wouldn’t make it in time for the second one and wouldn’t get the reward. Today, he pushed himself to the limit, running and pulling the coffins with all his might, and successfully pulled two coffins before nightfall.

"Roar~"

Just as he received the two Body Tempering Pills, a huge roar came from the north. The roar shook the heavens and pierced the sky, making all the old men pulling coffins and Lu Li tremble.

"A Mystic Beast, at least Fifth or Sixth Rank!"

Miss Yi exclaimed, looking horrified at the north. A Fifth or Sixth Rank Mystic Beast was as powerful as a human Immortal Realm Duke. Such a powerful Mystic Beast could easily flatten Wuling City.

Fortunately, the Mystic Beast was very far away, probably at the edge of the Ice Abyss in the Northern Desert. Despite this, Miss Yi and Liu Wu’s faces were very grim.

Many ancient war chariots and ironclad spaceships had gone there recently, with many super-family experts entering. Now, a huge roar from a Mystic Beast had suddenly come, and even a fool wouldn’t believe nothing had happened in the forbidden area.

"Starting tomorrow, everyone must speed up the coffin-pulling. Move as fast as possible to transfer the ancestral coffins. Once all the coffins are moved, each person will be rewarded with five Mystic Spirit Pills or Body Tempering Pills."

Miss Yi shouted, then hurriedly left with a few others to report to the family and avoid any unexpected incidents.

Five Mystic Spirit Pills!

Many of the old men and Lu Li’s eyes lit up. This was equivalent to pulling five more coffins. Everyone quickly returned to rest and prepare for the next day’s full effort in pulling coffins.

...

"A powerful Mystic Beast’s roar?"

After telling Lu Ling, Lu Ling’s willow-leaf eyebrows furrowed. She thought for a moment and waved her hand, saying, "Don’t worry about it. Since so many super-family experts went to the Ice Abyss, nothing major will happen. Tonight, take both Body Tempering Pills and quickly reach ten thousand pounds of strength."

"Okay!"

Now, refining Body Tempering Pills didn’t give Lu Li much of a feeling. Refining two shouldn’t be a problem.

He got up, returned to his room, and swallowed the two Body Tempering Pills. As expected, although the temperature increased significantly, it was still weaker than the first time, and he gritted his teeth and endured it.

As before, after he fell asleep, the ancient beast tooth glowed again, shining for half the night before returning to its original state.

The next day, after waking up, Lu Li sensed that refining two Body Tempering Pills together was indeed much better. This time, he gained at least eight hundred pounds of strength.

"Go!"

Getting closer to ten thousand pounds of strength, Lu Li was increasingly excited. He shouldered his sack and walked out of the earth fort.

Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh!

Outside, Lu Li heard many footsteps. Looking around, he saw that many adult men in the tribe had mobilized and were gathering outside.

"What happened?"

Curious, he observed for a while and quietly followed them out. Outside, he saw the tribe’s chief, Di Ba, and at least two hundred people had already gathered, with more on the way.

"Everyone, listen up!"

Once everyone was gathered, Di Ba shouted. He was tall and muscular, like a strong lion, and his large eyes swept over the tribe members as he said, "The Liu and Zhao families have ordered us to guard the periphery of the Ice Abyss for a month. Upon completion of this task, each person will receive a thousand gold leaves."

"Wow~"

There was a commotion outside the tribe. Nearly three hundred people had gathered, and a thousand gold leaves per person was no small amount.

"Go!"

Wuling County was on the outer edge of the Ice Abyss. The tribe members had grown up in the mountains and were the best hunters. Although many were not warriors and couldn’t cultivate Mystic Energy, guarding the periphery of the abyss was not a difficult task.

Di Ba led nearly three hundred people in a grand procession and left. Lu Li stepped out from the corner, his gaze fixed on the north, even more curious.

What exactly happened in the Ice Abyss? First, there were golden war chariots and ironclad spaceships, then a Mystic Beast’s roar, and now so many people were being gathered to guard the periphery.