NOVEL NEXT Chapter 30: Why Not Fight?
Lu Qingshan gazed at the image of the cultivators from Northern River Border bowing towards him, a strange feeling arising in his heart.
In this world, there is no one who must die by reason.
Yet there are always those who must stand up when the tide surges.
He returned to Northern River Border simply because this was a responsibility that the Young Sect Leader of the Sword Sect should shoulder.
But when Lu Qingshan saw the performance of the cultivators from Northern River Border, he couldn't suppress a feeling that what he was doing was worthwhile.
Three life-bound swords had already flown back to him, wandering around him, their sword light agile like three dragons.
A heavy murderous intent seeped out from Lu Qingshan's bones.
"Those who violate our Human Race's stronghold, die!" Lu Qingshan raised his right hand, and the three long swords roared out.
The three life-bound swords took on the momentum of flying swords, crossing through the sky dome.
The flying swords contained incomparably powerful strength, causing sonic booms wherever they went.
The sonic booms further created terrifying sound waves, which turned into substantial ripples, spreading out.
It is conceivable that the flying swords themselves would possess such terrifying power.
The next moment, Dragon Sparrow was the first to clash with a standard seventh grade demonic cultivator of the Demon Race.
A sense of withering annihilation spread out from Dragon Sparrow, accompanied by terrifying flames.
True Annihilation Intent.
In an instant, that seventh grade demonic cultivator, even while employing the Divine Demon Body to resist, still had their physical body instantly shattered, exploding into a cloud of blood mist.
Boom! Boom!
Two more blasts came in quick succession.
This was Oblivion and Peach Blossom following close behind, similarly making meritorious achievements by striking down and injuring two standard seventh grade demonic cultivators.
"How has he become stronger again?" Witnessing this scene, Xuan Du's pupils contracted abruptly, murmuring to himself.
Immediately, he shook his head, realizing, "No, it should be we have weakened."
The support from the Black Demon Flower faded into oblivion with Lu Qingshan's release of the six sword tokens, causing their combat power to drop back to normal levels.
Furthermore, in order to capture Northern River Border before the Human Race's reinforcements arrived, he commanded all demonic cultivators to launch relentless attacks on Northern River Border in an almost sleepless, exhausting manner.
This choice couldn't be said to be wrong, and in the current situation, it could even be considered a highly wise decision.
——As long as they didn't rest, the cultivators from Northern River Border, whose numbers were far fewer than theirs, would have no chance to rest.
And given their far superior overall strength compared to Northern River Border, the side to collapse first would inevitably be Northern River Border.
In fact, the cultivators from Northern River Border are indeed at the end of their tether.
Of course, the Demon Race's side has also consumed quite a lot.
Almost all demonic cultivators, by now, are less than fifty percent of their peak state.
However, not everyone failed to get a chance to rest.
During the two days he temporarily retreated from Northern River Border, Lu Qingshan accomplished two things.
The first was spending two days, with the aid of pills, to completely recover the Element Force he had exhausted.
While one side was in poor condition, the other returned to peak state, wouldn't it then seem as if Lu Qingshan's strength had increased quite a bit?
Xuan Du thinks so.
But in fact, his judgment was only half right.
——Their side of the Demon Race was indeed weaker compared to before, but Lu Qingshan had also grown much stronger compared to before.
What Xuan Du thought to be a unilateral decrease in combat power was actually a process of mutual gain and loss.
Because the second thing Lu Qingshan did was convert his vast amount of experience points into his combat power.
His slaughter of Feather Demon City had brought him 712 million experience points.
Outside Northern River Border, he crossed three thousand cultivators, consecutively slaying top demon marshal Gudong and three seventh grade Black Demon Flowers, along with the incremental reward for leap-grade slaying, it brought him an additional 270 million experience points.
His total experience points reached 982 million.
With such a vast amount of experience points, the first thing Lu Qingshan wanted to do was to elevate the level of the Bing syllable mantra.
The Bing syllable mantra, being the Demon Race's foremost offensive secret technique, its power was undoubtedly strong.
Yet during his last transformation at Divinity Transformation, Lu Qingshan didn't elevate the realm of the Bing syllable mantra.
It's not that he didn't want to, but rather he couldn't.
Because, to elevate the Bing syllable mantra to Second Seal Meeting, there's a prerequisite condition——"Increase the life-bound sword compatibility (Level greater than 10)."
One must understand that advancing from Level 9 to Level 10 in life-bound sword compatibility is a major bottleneck, doubling the required experience points.
Even with his substantial resources at the time, Lu Qingshan still couldn't bear such huge consumption.
However, times have changed, now Lu Qingshan can calmly face such experience point expenditure.
"You spend 100 million experience points, life-bound sword: Dragon Sparrow level increased: Level 10 (0/150 million)----all sword techniques performed with this life-bound sword damage +100%!"
"Meet prerequisite condition for Bing syllable mantra secret technique elevation, spending 50 million experience points, you have comprehended 'Bing' syllable mantra Second Seal Meeting!"
"Current secret technique realm: Second Seal Meeting."
"Prerequisite condition for elevation to Tri-Seal Association: life-bound sword quality higher than supreme Heavenly Artifact."
——Only sufficiently strong weapons can release the power matching Tri-Seal Association Bing syllable mantra.
A very reasonable prerequisite condition.
For Lu Qingshan, it was practically a gift.
Know that among his life-bound swords, even the youngest, Little Peach Blossom, has already reached the supreme Heavenly Artifact quality.
"Spend 231 million experience points, you have comprehended 'Bing' syllable mantra Tri-Seal Association!"
"Bing syllable mantra (Demon Race's supreme secret technique): actions swift as darts, with no barriers.