Chapter 743: Chapter 485: Messaging Information, Redeeming Spiritual Objects

"Forget it, the boat will naturally straighten when it reaches the bridge."

After sighing for a while, Lu Qing calmed his mind.

These situations were actually within his expectations.

After all, his starting point was really too high; the power of the Perfect Golden Core was too mighty.

And the revival speed of this world couldn’t keep up with his cultivation speed.

It was expected that cultivation would be difficult.

He possessed a Superpower and many Exotic Treasures that could assist in cultivation.

Otherwise, the cultivation time might have to be extended tenfold or more.

After calming his mind, Lu Qing took out the Communication Jade Token.

This time, it was a long retreat breakthrough, and he wondered whether anyone had messaged him.

Detecting through his heart and spirit, Lu Qing found quite a few messages.

The first message was from his Mentor, sent half a year ago.

It said he had recently traveled the world and discovered a strange flower that could be used to concoct a very potent Detoxification Powder, which was mild in potency and could be consumed by ordinary people.

He could study it together once he returned to the village later.

Following it were messages from Wei Shanhai and Lin Zhirui and others.

Most of them were about recent happenings, with nothing extraordinary.

Besides these, the person who sent messages most frequently was Little Yan.

The little girl was recently traveling, and she took Little Li and Five Elements with her.

Whenever they reached a place or encountered something interesting, Little Yan would message Lu Qing to share the experience.

Thus, the Communication Jade Token mostly contained tales from Little Yan.

For instance, what delicious food she found at a place, or like discovering a beautifully blooming spirit flower in some mountain grove.

Although Little Yan mainly talked about mundane matters.

Lu Qing read them with relish, and a smile would often appear on his face.

In recent years, he spent most of his time in secluded cultivation on the Holy Mountain.

The time he could spend with Little Yan had significantly reduced.

Now seeing the little girl play happily outside, he was indeed gratified.

However, as he kept reading, Lu Qing’s brows began to furrow slightly.

Because in the subsequent messages, he noticed Little Yan seemed to be traveling with a few peers.

She started mentioning them more frequently, and the words indicated very good relations with those people.

"Is it really a chance encounter, or an intentional approach?" Lu Qing was somewhat doubtful.

Immediately, he sank his heart and spirit, calling according to the trace of sensing in his Divine Soul.

"Five Elements!"

In the distance, the colorful Winged Snake nestled in Little Yan’s hood suddenly awakened.

Its eyes showed joy, "Master, is it you?"

"Indeed, where are you, Little Yan, and Little Li right now?" Lu Qing asked in his heart and spirit.

Five Elements, enslaved by his Divine Soul, allowing communication anywhere in this world given Lu Qing’s current cultivation.

This was why Lu Qing was comfortable with Little Yan traveling outside.

Not only because there were Five Elements and Little Li to protect.

Should anything happen, Five Elements could summon him via the Divine Soul Enslavement Mark.

"Master, we are now in a small state called Lin State in the northern borderlands," responded Five Elements in heart.

In these past ten years, the colorful Winged Snake eventually learned to communicate using human language, allowing seamless conversation with Lu Qing.

"I just emerged from retreat today and saw Little Yan’s message about you recently traveling with several people. Who are they, are they trustworthy?"

"Yes, Master." The colorful Winged Snake thought for a moment, answering, "The young mistress indeed has been traveling with some young people currently.

These people seem to come from different sects, with decent cultivation, above the Innate Minor Achievement realm.

As for their character, both Little Li and I have not detected any ill intentions yet."

Hearing this, Lu Qing felt more at ease.

Five Elements may perceive incorrectly, but he trusted Little Li completely.

Little Li’s sensing ability was extraordinarily mystical.

If those people truly harbored ill intentions toward Little Yan, it would be tough to escape its perception.

Nonetheless, understanding the unpredictability of people’s hearts, Lu Qing instructed the Winged Snake cautiously.

"No matter what, be attentive and protect Little Yan."

"Understood, Master, Little Li and I always stay beside the young mistress, without exposing our power.

Even the young mistress herself only displays strength at the Innate Realm.

Those people are unaware of our true strength."

Five Elements said in heart.

"Good, keep it up, I’ll find you once I finish my tasks.

And don’t mention my contact with you to Little Yan for now."

Having heard Little Yan did not fully reveal her own strength, Lu Qing was completely relieved.

Indeed, he understood his worry was somewhat excessive.

Over these ten years, the little girl’s cultivation had progressed swiftly too.

Now she was a strong cultivator at Foundation Building Great Success.

Even within the entire Cultivation World, she could be considered truly adept.

Additionally, she carried many treasures given by him, and with Little Li and others with her.

Even true Golden Core Realm cultivators might not easily prevail against them in a short time.

After ending the mind-heart link with the Winged Snake, Lu Qing resumed browsing the Communication Jade Token.

Suddenly, upon seeing the last message, he first froze, then showed joy.

"Has that Old Dragon Turtle finally made up its mind?"

Throughout these years, Lu Qing had contacted that Old Dragon Turtle a few times.

During the interaction, he proposed exchanging some bloodline with the Old Dragon Turtle.

Initially, the Old Dragon Turtle flatly refused.

However, upon hearing Lu Qing’s offer later, it hesitated.

Now it seems that it has finally made sense.

"Just right, the spiritual charm in this Holy Mountain Cave Mansion is not so effective for me now.

I can go to the East Sea to see if there’s any treasure that can help with my cultivation."

Lu Qing thought about it and was about to leave the cave to go to the East Sea.

At this moment, a voice suddenly came from outside, "Lu Xiaodao, have you left your retreat?"

Lu Qing recognized the voice as that of the First Saint Master and immediately exited the Cave Mansion.

"It’s been a long time, Saint Master senior."

"Indeed, just now I sensed your presence, and we speculated that Lu Xiaodao would have left his retreat."

Outside the Cave Mansion, all three Saint Masters were present, and the First Saint Master smiled.

"Apologies for not controlling my aura and disturbing all three Saint Masters," Lu Qing said apologetically.

"No need to say that, Lu Xiaodao," the First Saint Master waved his hand repeatedly, "But if even you couldn’t completely control your aura, it seems this retreat has yielded a significant harvest."

"Just a minor breakthrough, it’s not worth mentioning," Lu Qing smiled.

"Lu Xiaodao, you’re overly modest."

On hearing this, the three Saint Masters couldn’t help but be shocked.

Indeed, Lu Qing had made another breakthrough.

But what realm he has reached this time remains unknown.

The real cultivation realm of Lu Qing has always been inscrutable to the three Saint Masters.

Regardless of when they face Lu Qing, there is only one feeling they have.

That is deep and unfathomable, hard to speculate.

And with strength so terrifying, Lu Qing can still occasionally make breakthroughs.

This made the three Saint Masters truly sigh with admiration.

No doubt, he is the first Tribulation Crossing person after the world changed, an exceptional genius of this era.

Over the past ten years, their own cultivation realms had progressed somewhat.

Like the First Saint Master has stepped into the second transformation of the Golden Core realm, while the Second and Third Saint Masters are nearing perfection in the first transformation.

Their cultivation progress cannot be said to be slow.

But compared to Lu Qing’s frequent retreat breakthroughs, the difference is really quite large.

"By the way, what brings the three seniors to find me?" Lu Qing then asked.

"It’s like this, this booklet records various spiritual objects collected by Holy Mountain disciples throughout the year.

It’s rare for Lu Xiaodao to leave his retreat, so we brought it for you to have a look."

The Second Saint Master then handed over a booklet.

"Oh? Let me take a look."

Lu Qing took the booklet and began to browse through it.

Ever since the Holy Assembly ten years ago, where various sect forces discussed and established the forbidden decree, Holy Mountain has been dedicated to maintaining the decree’s authority.

Whenever a cultivator is found to violate the decree, disciples are dispatched to arrest and interrogate them immediately.

Once the crime is confirmed, punishment is meted out without mercy, even if the person violating the decree is a disciple of a major sect.

Arresting criminals involves considerable risk, and Holy Mountain certainly doesn’t allow its disciples to take risks without rewards.

Thus, Holy Mountain has always maintained a complete merit system.

Disciples who successfully arrest criminals receive a certain merit reward.

The merits can be exchanged for various cultivation techniques or spiritual objects and magic artifacts.

Likewise, if disciples acquire spiritual objects that they can’t use, they can also submit them to Holy Mountain.

The objects are converted into merit, which can then be exchanged for other desired things.

Ten years ago, Lu Qing accidentally learned about Holy Mountain’s merit system and became interested.

As the world changes and spiritual energy continues to recover, various spiritual objects will endlessly emerge.

Even secret realms that disappeared tens of thousands of years ago will gradually resurface.

Since Lu Qing frequently needs to go into retreat for cultivation, he clearly has little time to gather spiritual objects.

But if he could utilize Holy Mountain’s merit system, he could have the disciples collect the spiritual objects he needs.

At that time, Lu Qing proposed to the three Saint Masters to place some items in the Merit Hall to exchange for Holy Mountain’s merits.

The three Saint Masters naturally had no objection, and even welcomed it greatly.

The three of them cannot leave Holy Mountain in person and can only go out with a Puppet Dharma Body.

Prior to spiritual energy recovery, it was easy for the Puppet Dharma Body to collect treasures given its strength.

But now, the situation has long changed, and the Puppet Dharma Body can no longer dominate as before.

Moreover, they themselves need to focus on cultivation and rarely have time to go out.

So the treasures they could provide to Holy Mountain disciples gradually became inadequate.

If Lu Qing could join, it would be a boon, alleviating their urgent needs.

Thus, Lu Qing became part of Holy Mountain’s merit system.

The items he placed in the Merit Hall weren’t anything else but various talismans.

Initially, he planned to engrave talismans with little effort and as a chance to cultivate the Rune Path.

If he could exchange them for some needed spiritual objects, it would be a pleasant surprise.

Unexpectedly, when Lu Qing placed the talismans into the Merit Hall, they were well-received by the Holy Mountain disciples.

They even became the most popular treasures for disciples to exchange for.

After all, activating talismans doesn’t require high cultivation.

And a powerful talisman can significantly enhance a cultivator’s combat strength, even allowing them to fight across realms.

Such treasures, who wouldn’t like them?

Precisely because talismans were so popular, over the years, the merit Lu Qing accumulated surpassed the three Saint Masters.

He became the one with the most merits in the entire Holy Mountain.

However, apart from the three Saint Masters, very few others knew about this.

The majority of Holy Mountain disciples still believe that these talismans were provided by the three Saint Masters.

Lu Qing continued browsing through the booklet, marking the spiritual objects he wanted.

However, most of the spiritual objects in the booklet were quite ordinary and were of little use to him.

Until he reached the last page and saw an item that suddenly brightened his eyes.

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