Chapter 70

Lu Li once again realized the cold-blooded nature of large families; there was no room for sentiment within a family. If you could create value and benefits for the family, they would treat you like a lord. But if you were of no use to the family, even if you begged, they wouldn't give you a single coin.

Lu Li gritted his teeth and once again spent two thousand contribution points. This cultivation manual had unique explanations on how to condense the Divine Sea. Lu Li felt that if he could understand the content inside, even if he couldn't successfully condense the Divine Sea, he would at least have a direction.

He carefully read through the manual several times. Since he had plenty of time, he continued to search for other books to verify the accuracy of what he had just read.

An hour later, Lu Li came out. He had found three books on condensing the Divine Sea, and their descriptions were similar. Now he thoroughly understood how to condense the Divine Sea.

To avoid forgetting, Lu Li quickly went home, found paper and pen, and recorded the method of condensing the Divine Sea.

Lu Ling saw that Lu Li had been gone for more than two hours and hadn't returned with a pile of scrap mystic weapons, so she asked curiously, "What happened?"

Lu Li explained everything and said worriedly, "I thought the contribution points were enough, so I didn't have to worry about Xiao Bai's food. Now that the Liu family is targeting me, the remaining thousand or so contribution points won't last long."

Xiao Bai hadn't grown in size, but his appetite had increased. If he bought scrap mystic weapons, he would probably have to leave the city again to do missions and earn contribution points in less than a month.

Lu Ling thought for a moment and said, "Then don't go to exchange scrap mystic weapons. Go to the Spirit Materials Hall. There should be food for Xiao Bai there. Ordinary spirit materials are cheaper than scrap mystic weapons. If you can find suitable food as a substitute, your contribution points will last for several months."

"Okay!"

Lu Li went out to find the Spirit Materials Hall. He asked a random person and found it easily. The Spirit Materials Hall was huge, a major hall in every family.

All the spirit materials collected by the Liu family's martial artists outside were submitted to the Spirit Materials Hall if they were not needed. This was a treasure house of the family. You could exchange contribution points for any spirit materials you needed.

The range of spirit materials was very broad, including various minerals, mystic beast cores, furs, horns, various spirit herbs, and strange items. Anything useful to martial artists could be considered spirit materials.

The Spirit Materials Hall was so large, like a big castle. There were five guards inside. Lu Li walked in and glanced around, finding two floors with over twenty rooms on the first floor.

To enter, you needed to verify your token. When Lu Li handed over his token, the faces of the Spirit Materials Hall's attendants darkened. One of them said coldly, "You don't have the qualifications to enter the second floor. If you want to exchange spirit materials on the first floor, it will cost you four times the contribution points!"

Lu Li was not surprised. Guest contributors already needed to pay double the contribution points, and now that the Liu family was targeting him, the contribution points doubling was normal.

He took back his token, scanned the surrounding rooms, and found one labeled "minerals" and walked in.

Xiao Bai liked to eat scrap mystic weapons. Before they were destroyed, scrap mystic weapons were intact mystic weapons, which were made from various minerals. Lu Li guessed that what Xiao Bai truly liked to eat was minerals.

Entering the room, Lu Li found that it was not a room but a large hall, filled with various minerals. He glanced around, took Xiao Bai out of his sleeve, and asked, "Is there any food you like in here?"

Xiao Bai scanned a few piles of minerals nearby, his small eyes showing disdain. As he walked around, when he saw a pile of fire-red crystals, his eyes lit up, and he immediately flew out to gnaw on the fire-red crystals.

Indeed!

Lu Ling and Lu Li's guess was correct. What Xiao Bai truly liked to eat was not mystic weapons but the fire-red crystals used to forge mystic weapons.

He quickly picked up Xiao Bai, glanced at the label next to the crystals, and smiled. These crystals were called Fire Jade, a very common type of crystal with many uses, essential for forging mystic weapons.

Most importantly—Fire Jade was very cheap, ten crystals for one contribution point. Although he needed to pay four times the contribution points, he still had over a thousand contribution points, enough to buy several thousand crystals.

Lu Li hid Xiao Bai and went out, asking the attendant outside to exchange a thousand Fire Crystals for him.

Spending four hundred contribution points, Lu Li carried a sack of Fire Crystals back home, threw the Fire Crystals in a corner, and let Xiao Bai out, grinning, "Eat your fill, just don't overeat."

"Neigh~"

Xiao Bai happily neighed a few times, pounced into the sack, and bit into a Fire Crystal, crushing and swallowing it in a few bites. After eating five Fire Crystals, he was satisfied and lay down in the corner to sleep.

"Alright, Lu Li, don't worry about Xiao Bai. The food supply is temporarily sufficient." Lu Ling nodded slightly and said, "Now try to see if you can condense the Divine Sea. Stop cultivating the Thunderbolt Mystic Technique; realm is paramount. After eating, go into seclusion."

It was almost mealtime. Lu Li sat and chatted with Lu Ling for a while. Someone brought the food. Lu Li glanced at the meal and found it was clearly much worse than before. Previously, they had four dishes and a soup, but now there was no soup, only two dishes...

"The Liu family is too stingy!"

Lu Li muttered, but Lu Ling smiled and said, "I'm not a guest contributor of the Liu family, yet they still let me stay here and provide for me for free. They are already giving you a lot of face."

Lu Li didn't care; as long as he wasn't hungry, it didn't matter if the food was good or bad. After eating, he went back and immediately went into seclusion to start cultivating. He had already mastered the method of condensing the Divine Sea and could try it out.

Condensing the Divine Sea was simple.

It was more about creating a space than condensing, because the human body did not naturally have a Divine Sea. A space had to be created within the body.

Everyone had twelve main meridians running through their entire body. Martial artists could circulate mystic power throughout their body to increase strength, defense, and speed.

However!

The meridians were very small, and the amount of mystic power they could hold was extremely limited. Therefore, to have an inexhaustible supply of mystic power, martial artists had to create a Divine Sea to store mystic power.

With a Divine Sea, the amount of mystic power a martial artist's body could store would increase by a hundred or a thousand times, and they would not run out of mystic power during battles.

Additionally, the Divine Sea had a very powerful ability to refine mystic power, increasing its potency. This is why Divine Sea realm martial artists were so powerful, capable of sweeping away all Mystic Warrior realm martial artists.

In essence, condensing the Divine Sea meant using mystic power to forcibly create a space within the body, a magical space that could store mystic power.

The principle was simple, and Lu Li understood the method, but he didn't dare to rashly condense the Divine Sea.

He started cultivating mystic power, practicing for four to five hours until the twelve meridians were full of mystic power. Then he began to gather mystic power at the intersection of two meridians in his lower abdomen.

"Start condensing!"

Lu Li took a deep breath, bit a piece of wood, and closed his eyes to meditate. He bit the wood to prevent himself from biting his tongue if the pain became too intense.

Condensing the Divine Sea was like forcibly creating a mysterious space within the body. Without special elixirs to assist, the pain would be excruciating, and if not controlled properly, it could even lead to death.

Lu Li had no elixirs, so he could only endure the pain and rely on his strong willpower to create the Divine Sea.

Martial cultivation, defying the heavens and changing one's fate!

If anyone could become a strong person, then defying the heavens would be too easy.