Chapter 348: Within 10 Steps, I Guarantee Your Safety (Fourth Update, Please Subscribe)
The past miseries are not worth mentioning, but a single feat made him famous throughout the world.
With the end of the tournament battles, out of three major battles, the Human Race lost two and won one.
Yet in the end, it was the Human Race that triumphed.
Because in the last battle, Lu Xuanji emerged victorious, seizing two layers of destiny from the Hundred Thousand Mountains Demon Race, which was a tremendous loss for the Demon Race but a great gain for the Human Race.
The Human Race was in an uproar, cheering in celebration.
This meant that for at least a century, the Human Race would dominate the Demon Race, not only in face but also in substance, and would receive great favor of fortune.
In this short century, Chu Country would see a generation of talent, and the probability of breakthroughs would also increase accordingly.
Some were joyful, some were worried, and some were boiling with killing intent, seeming to want to obliterate him completely.
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At this moment, a guest arrived in the cave mansion.
It was Jin Xi.
She was dressed in a white palace gown, wearing a golden phoenix hairpin, holding a large gourd in her hand.
She tossed over a large gourd and said, "This is your reward."
Lu Xuanji took the gourd and weighed it carefully, seeing natural Taoist patterns inside. This was a spirit treasure naturally grown, not yet forged, with infinite possibilities.
This gourd was one of the rewards from the tournament.
Jin Xi introduced, "In the lineage of the Golden Crow, there's a sixth-grade spirit root that can produce a gourd every three hundred years. The gourd's interior holds natural Taoist patterns, making it supreme material for forging magical treasures. With a little refining, it can become a fifth-grade magical treasure."
"You can slightly refine this gourd into a Wine God Gourd, Medicine Nourishing Gourd, Immortal-slaying Gourd, Gu Insect Gourd, or many others. It equates to rewarding you with a fifth-grade magical treasure."
"Is there any problem with this gourd?"
Lu Xuanji asked with a frown.
"No problem," Jin Xi smiled and said, "Rest assured! I have a fifth-grade Medicine Nourishing Gourd myself; it can nurture elixirs inside, keeping them stored for a longer time. You can try refining the gourd into the magical treasure of your heart!"
"Oh, and there's more!"
As she spoke, she handed over a storage bag.
Lu Xuanji opened it, finding inside a hundred thousand middle-grade spirit stones, ten thousand upper-grade spirit stones, and some divine materials.
The hundred thousand middle-grade spirit stones might be fine, but the exorbitant price of over ten thousand upper-grade spirit stones was enough to move even a Nascent Soul True Monarch, it was indeed a windfall.
"Thank you!"
Lu Xuanji said.
"These are what you deserve, especially since you almost slew a reincarnated Celestial Venerable!" Jin Xi laughed, "A Divinity Transformation reincarnate, wielding divine intent, mastering three supreme divine techniques, each at least at the level of great success. But when he met you, it was his unlucky day, defeated by your single long saber, nearly getting killed!"
"If it weren't for the Kunpeng Dao Venerable's intervention, that reincarnated Divinity Transformation would have perished at your hands!"
Lu Xuanji took a deep breath and said, "Am I really that badass? Almost slashing a Divinity Transformation reincarnate to death!"
Jin Xi was speechless; this quasi-dao companion was smart in some aspects, yet so obtuse in others.
"The Five-Colored Celestial Venerable was a supreme powerhouse of the Hundred Thousand Mountains Demon Race, a ninth-layer Divinity Transformation great cultivator, who had already comprehended a trace of the mysteries of void. His divine intent is 'Sword Breaks Mountains and Rivers,' proficient in Five Elements Grand Capture, Five Elements Primordial Qi, Five Elements Divine Needle, and other three supreme divine techniques."
"In the older generation, he was renowned and dominated an era. For some reason, he reincarnated and returned to cultivation, with only Golden Core cultivation but still suppressing the heroes. At least during the Golden Core time, I couldn't defeat him. Those reincarnators have memories of past lives, which is akin to cheating in some ways."
"During his previous life, the Five-Colored Celestial Venerable had many friends and bloodline descendants. The Kunpeng Demon Race was one of his friends, and also one of his guardians."
"To save him then, the Kunpeng Demon Race paid a huge price!"
Jin Xi spoke of the legend of the Five-Colored Celestial Venerable and the tale of the Kunpeng Celestial Venerable.
Lu Xuanji listened, feeling a slight toothache.
It seems, Gu Changfeng was indeed formidable, and I underestimated him.
A Golden Core becomes a True Master, a Nascent Soul becomes a True Monarch, a Divinity Transformation becomes a Celestial Venerable.
He almost toppled a Celestial Venerable.
"Am I really that strong?"
Lu Xuanji said.
Jin Xi smiled, "Do you know what they say outside? Everyone says that True Master Xuanji has the potential for Divinity Transformation, with the purple aura stretching three thousand miles at birth. True Master Xuanji's mother often says, 'My son Xuanji has the potential of a Celestial Venerable.' The world spreads your fame."
Lu Xuanji shook his head and replied, "This is setting me up for failure!"
"It's good that you understand!" Jin Xi said, "So-called True Monarch potential, Divinity Transformation potential, listen to the talks outside, but don't take them seriously. If one out of ten with Divinity Transformation potential reaches Divinity Transformation, that's not bad! You know, countless demons want to kill you outside. Also, countless powerful humans want to kill you too!"
"Of course, due to certain reasons, they cannot openly act. But if you are alone, they wouldn't mind killing you! 'A big tree attracts wind, a person is famous and perishes for fame.'
Lu Xuanji said, "I know, but for destiny, I have no choice!"
Jin Xi said, "For safety, don't stray more than ten steps away from me. Within ten steps, I guarantee your safety. But beyond ten steps, it's uncertain!"
Lu Xuanji nodded in agreement, slightly worried, "What if the Demon Race targets my Lu Family?"
"They won't!"
Jin Xi said, "Before taking you out, the Lu Family is safe; they can't afford such a cost. Even in the worst case, if the Lu Family is annihilated, as long as you live to take wives and concubines, gathering over thirty female cultivators, and keep having children. Perhaps in three hundred years, there will be another Lu Family!"
"Annihilating the Lu Family doesn't mean much to the Demon Race."
"Of course, I can only ensure the general safety of the Lu Family. If a cultivator ventures outside, killed by some cultivator, I can't do anything about it."
Lu Xuanji expressed gratitude, "Thank you!"
"Let's go!"
Jin Xi said.
Moments later, the two sat on a flying ship and vanished away.
Watching the two leave, countless cultivators flashed with killing intent, malice surging but quickly turned into silence.
"Interesting, with True Monarch Xi Yue protecting, it's hard to kill!"
"True Monarch Xi Yue won't be thinking of catching the young, will he?"
"I think it's possible!"
"Old shameless, despicable person."
Countless people were preparing, getting ready to assassinate Lu Xuanji.
Of course, many assassins might be eliminated before even approaching Lu Xuanji.
The storm was stirring, countless were plotting and scheming.
In just a moment, they reached the Lu Family.
Lu Xuanji was arranging everything, starting to distribute rewards, and the participating cultivators were all cheering. As for those who didn't participate, they were envious and regretful.
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