Chapter 753
I Can See Through Everything – Chapter 753
Chapter 753: Spatial Legacy, Even the Immortal Palace Has No Surplus Grain Left
“Little fellow, you understand spatial divine abilities?”
Old Canglong stared at Xiao Li with shining eyes.
Being watched by such a powerful existence, Xiao Li’s body trembled.
But after Lu Qing gently soothed it with a hand, Xiao Li’s heart unexpectedly settled down.
It met Old Canglong’s gaze and nodded hard. “Mm! I know a spatial innate divine ability.”
“Then can you use it here and let this old one take a look?”
Xiao Li looked at Lu Qing. Lu Qing gave it an encouraging look.
The little fellow thought for a moment, then hopped out of Lu Qing’s arms.
Next, the power of its divine ability surged within it, and the surrounding space rippled along with it.
In the end, right before Old Canglong, Xiao Li slowly sank into space itself, vanishing from everyone’s sight.
That scene made Old Canglong’s gaze grow even brighter.
After more than a dozen breaths, Xiao Li’s figure slowly reappeared, its aura a little weaker than before.
“I can only do this much. The space here is too stable—I can hardly break it open,” Xiao Li said, a bit embarrassed.
It had no idea that its performance had already shocked the three exotic beasts.
Old Canglong in particular was so excited that even its tail trembled.
“It’s good, it’s good! Your showing is already very good,” it said hurriedly.
Black Savage Bull and Ming Feng understood why it was so excited.
They all knew that the space within the Immortal Palace was extremely stable.
Even a Nascent Soul Nine Tribulations cultivator would find it hard to budge it in the slightest.
Yet Xiao Li, relying on its own innate divine ability, had forcibly torn open space and entered an interstitial layer between spaces.
The layer it opened was shallow and it stayed only briefly, but even so, it proved how extraordinary its Spatial Divine Ability was.
At the very least, its standing within the Dao of Space was probably not low.
And what Old Canglong’s lineage was best at was precisely the application of the Dao of Space.
Even within the Immortal Palace, spatial authority was mainly held in its hands.
However, Old Canglong’s lineage had already been reduced to only itself since the ancient era—there were no clansmen left to inherit their spatial secret arts.
Now that it had seen a younger exotic beast like Xiao Li with spatial divine abilities, how could it not be delighted at the prospect?
“Ah Qing, you said just now that you wanted to find some suitable Techniques for Xiao Li?” Old Canglong suddenly turned its head toward Lu Qing.
“It doesn’t necessarily have to be Techniques,” Lu Qing said after some thought. “This junior wants to find Xiao Li a cultivation path that suits it. Do the three seniors have any suggestions?”
“In that case, Ah Qing—if you trust this old one, how about leaving Xiao Li with me for a time? I can guide it for a while. I’ve gained a few insights in cultivating the Dao of Space,” Old Canglong said, consulting him.
Black Savage Bull also spoke up. “That’s right, Ah Qing. Among the three of us, Old Canglong is probably the most suitable to teach Xiao Li. Its lineage is born close to the Dao of Space, and its use of space is exquisitely subtle.”
As for Ming Feng, it didn’t speak, but it nodded slightly in agreement.
And what Lu Qing had been waiting for was exactly those words.
He nodded at once. “Then that’s naturally excellent. For Xiao Li to receive Senior’s guidance is its good fortune.”
Only then did Xiao Li finally understand: Ah Qing had brought it out here to seek a stroke of fortune for it.
In that instant of understanding, it lifted a paw and bowed in thanks to Old Canglong.
“Thank you, Grandpa Canglong.”
“Good! Good!”
Seeing how well-behaved Xiao Li was, Old Canglong’s face immediately filled with delight.
“Then, in the days to come, Xiao Li will be in Senior Canglong’s care,” Lu Qing said, giving a respectful salute.
“No need for that. If Xiao Li can truly inherit my lineage’s secret arts, then this old one should be the one thanking you,” Old Canglong said with a broad smile.
Black Savage Bull and Ming Feng, meanwhile, looked a little envious.
Their own clans had also perished tens of thousands of years ago.
Yet they hadn’t had such good luck in finding a suitable inheritor.
“Right—Ah Qing, this time you went into secluded cultivation and improved astonishingly fast. You actually broke through to Five-Tribulation Nascent Soul so quickly.”
After a while, once Old Canglong calmed down, it finally remembered why they had come.
Black Savage Bull and Ming Feng’s gazes also fell on Lu Qing.
With their realm, it was easy for them to see that Lu Qing’s cultivation was genuinely Five-Tribulation Nascent Soul, not the disguised aura he had shown before.
“It’s thanks to the pills Senior bestowed,” Lu Qing explained. “This junior’s cultivation is rather special. In the past, I was held back by a lack of pill resources, so my realm stayed low. With those pills’ help, I was able to break through quickly.”
“With pills, you can break through quickly?”
Hearing this, the three exotic beasts exchanged looks. Instead of joy, worry appeared on their faces.
Old Canglong said pointedly, “Ah Qing, pills are good, but you mustn’t rely on them too much. Otherwise your foundation can become unstable, affecting your future Dao path. Your road should be the Dao-Integration Realm, perhaps even the Dao-Transformation Realm. Don’t limit yourself to a mere Nascent Soul Realm.”
It had mistaken Lu Qing’s rapid breakthrough as the result of forcefully raising his realm by consuming large quantities of pills.
Lu Qing also heard the meaning behind Old Canglong’s words. He said solemnly, “Thank you for the reminder, Senior. This junior will be careful.”
Seeing Lu Qing accept the advice humbly, Old Canglong and the others felt more at ease.
After all, Lu Qing was the most astonishingly brilliant person they had seen in hundreds of thousands of years.
They didn’t want Lu Qing to ruin his Dao path out of short-term impatience.
Yet Lu Qing’s next sentence left them stunned again.
“However, Senior—the pills you gave before have almost all been used up. Might there be more? This junior can exchange suitable treasures for them.”
“What did you say? The pills we gave you earlier—you used up almost all of them?”
Old Canglong and the other two froze.
Their first reaction was that it was impossible.
They had given enough pills that even a peak Nascent Soul Nine Tribulations cultivator couldn’t have refined them all in so short a time.
Even setting everything else aside, the terrifying accumulation of pill poison alone was not something a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator could bear.
Lu Qing, who had been a Four-Tribulation Nascent Soul at the time, should have been even less able to remain unscathed—let alone break through.
“I didn’t refine all of them, but there isn’t much left,” Lu Qing said, a bit embarrassed.
The resources his cultivation consumed were simply far too outrageous.
Still, the pills Old Canglong had given were indeed excellent, so he had wanted to see whether he could exchange treasures for more.
In any case, he still had quite a few spiritual artifacts seized back when he was in the Great World of Tianyuan. He didn’t use them much—trading them for cultivation resources wasn’t a bad idea.
Old Canglong and the others fell silent, not knowing what to say, only staring at Lu Qing.
Seeing the calm frankness on Lu Qing’s face, they finally confirmed he wasn’t joking.
Old Canglong was quiet for a moment, then asked, “With that many pills, how did you withstand such massive pill poison?”
More importantly, after refining that many pills, Lu Qing had only gone from Four-Tribulation Nascent Soul to Five-Tribulation Nascent Soul?
“This junior already said—my cultivation is special, and my physique is also somewhat special. Pill poison and the like isn’t harmful to me. Instead, it counts as a great tonic,” Lu Qing said.
He wasn’t lying.
After achieving success in cultivating the [Heavenly Witch Body of Ten Thousand Tribulations], his flesh body had taken on traits of certain powerful Tribulation Beasts—able to devour many kinds of strange energies and turn them into his own strength.
Pill poison might be fierce, but to him it was only a kind of energy. Not only was it harmless, it could even strengthen him.
But Lu Qing’s answer made Old Canglong and the others fall silent yet again.
A physique that could treat pill poison as nourishment—perhaps they had seen such a thing in certain legendary exotic beasts.
But they had never heard of human cultivators possessing such an ability.
Looking at Lu Qing, who only had Five-Tribulation Nascent Soul strength, the three powerful exotic beasts suddenly realized they couldn’t quite see through him anymore.
Black Savage Bull, meanwhile, recalled the scene when Lu Qing had forced out essence blood to let the Mirror of Still Mind conduct its examination.
Back then, it had already felt that Lu Qing’s qi and blood was extraordinary.
Could it be that something even more peculiar lay hidden within Lu Qing’s body?
But Black Savage Bull didn’t voice the question.
Every cultivator had secrets. Since Lu Qing didn’t say it himself, probing would only risk offending him.
After finally finding such a peerless genius disciple for its master, it didn’t want to create a rift over something like this.
“I didn’t expect you to have such a peculiar physique, Ah Qing. That truly is rare,” Old Canglong said with a sigh, likewise not asking further.
“But if you want more pills, I’m afraid that won’t be possible.”
“Back then, Master left in a hurry and didn’t leave many arrangements behind. He also took away the vast majority of the Immortal Palace’s resources.
“The pills I gave you before are already almost the entirety of our stock.
“There are still some pills meant for the Dao-Integration Realm, but pills used for the Nascent Soul Realm are nearly gone.”
As it spoke, Old Canglong showed a trace of embarrassment. “After all, Nascent Soul Realm pills weren’t used much in the Immortal Palace in the first place. They were basically rewards for some outer sect disciples and menial attendants. Master’s direct disciples used Dao-Integration Realm resources.”
Lu Qing was a little dumbfounded.
He understood Old Canglong’s meaning: the Immortal Palace did still have resources, but they were basically meant for those at the Dao-Integration Realm and above.
As for what suited the Nascent Soul Realm, there wasn’t much left.
In other words, his realm was too low. Even if resources existed, he couldn’t use them right now.
Seeing Lu Qing’s expression, Old Canglong also felt a bit awkward.
The three of them had just been discussing how to cultivate Lu Qing.
They hadn’t expected that they would already be unable to supply even Nascent Soul Realm cultivation pills.
Then again, who could have guessed that Lu Qing’s cultivation would consume pills so extravagantly?
Logically speaking, the pills Old Canglong had given should have been enough for even a peerless genius to cultivate from early Nascent Soul all the way to late stage.
Yet those pills had only helped Lu Qing advance from Four-Tribulation Nascent Soul to Five-Tribulation Nascent Soul.
Where had all that immense medicinal power gone? Had he truly absorbed it, or had most of it been wasted?
If it was the latter, that would be a little troubling.
It would mean Lu Qing’s talent in cultivation might not be as strong as they had imagined.
“So that’s how it is. Then this junior was too rash,” Lu Qing said, smiling as he came back to himself.
Though he was somewhat disappointed inside, he wasn’t dejected.
After all, for him, lacking cultivation resources was the norm—he was already used to it.
Besides, even without pills, with the spiritual qi of the Lingxu Peak cave dwelling aiding him, his cultivation wouldn’t be too slow.
At most, he just wouldn’t be able to surge forward as explosively as he had during this period.
After adjusting his mindset, Lu Qing asked about another matter.
“Right, Seniors—during these two or three years of my secluded cultivation, has anything happened inside the secret realm?”
“Nothing particularly special. Just the cultivators who came in running the trials in the passages,” Old Canglong said casually.
“Ah Qing, do you have a grudge with those cultivators outside?” Black Savage Bull asked.
“Not exactly a grudge. It’s just that when I first entered, I had some entanglements with a few of them,” Lu Qing said with a smile.
Old Canglong and the others understood at once.
If Lu Qing put it that way, then there must be enmity between him and certain people outside.
They knew very well what kind of temperament those cultivators had. Lu Qing had entered the secret realm alone—he would definitely be coveted by others.
It seemed that, back when they were still asleep, something must have happened.
“As for those running the trials, the fastest among them are all stuck at the sixth trial. Compared to you, Ah Qing, they’re far inferior,” Old Canglong said.
“The fastest are still at the sixth trial?”
That surprised Lu Qing.
He had been in secluded cultivation on Lingxu Peak for two or three years, yet those people had only reached the sixth trial.
You had to understand: among the cultivators outside, quite a few were Nascent Soul Eight Tribulations experts—true prodigies and core inheritors of many top-tier forces.
“Then may I ask, Senior—among those cultivators, there’s a sword cultivator named Yu Jian, and another cultivator named Mo Tushan. Which trial have each of them reached?”
“They’re both at the sixth trial,” Old Canglong said.
Old Canglong understood that since Lu Qing had named those two specifically, they were probably connected to the “entanglements” he had mentioned.
Its thoughts stirred, and it added, “However, that sword cultivator Yu Jian was ambushed in the fifth trial by the cultivator Mo Tushan and suffered serious injuries. Later, though he barely recovered, it greatly affected his speed in breaking through the trials, so he’s fallen somewhat behind.”
“Yu Jian was ambushed by Mo Tushan? Wait—inside the trial passages, you can still fight? Are they walking the same passage?” Lu Qing asked in surprise.
He knew that in the Formation passage, once you were trapped in a formation, not only was fighting between participants impossible—communication was forbidden too.
“Not every trial passage is the same. Some passages allow communication, and at certain node trials, different passages can connect to each other.
“When you were clearing trials before, in the fifth, seventh, and ninth trials, didn’t you see teleportation formations underfoot?” Old Canglong said.
Lu Qing thought back, and it seemed that was indeed the case.
But back then, his mind had been wholly on absorbing and comprehending the Formation Inheritance, and he hadn’t paid close attention.
Only now did he understand what those teleportation formations meant.
And immediately, his eyes lit up.
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