Luo Jiujiang picked up the pearl left by the mysterious predecessor on the stone platform.

This bead is only the size of a newborn baby's palm. It is clear and smooth, with a restrained radiance and is as moist as water. It makes people feel relaxed and happy at first glance, and it clears their minds when they hold it in their hands, making them feel invigorated and relaxed.

"Refreshing?" Luo Jiujiang muttered softly, tentatively channeling a little true energy into it and holding the pearl up to the sunlight. In a split second, the pearl transformed into a stream of pure water, seeping through Luo Jiujiang's fingertips. It then flowed upstream, following the flow of true energy he had just circulated, and plunged relentlessly into Luo Jiujiang's dantian.

All of this happened in one go, from the moment the pearl turned into water to the moment the liquid flowed directly to Luo Jiujiang's dantian. The entire time added together took less than a blink of an eye.

Xie Chuncan had been watching Luo Jiujiang's movements from the sidelines. He was startled when he saw this scene. He rushed forward and repeatedly examined Luo Jiujiang's expression: "What is that thing? It's not a poisonous insect, right?"

Luo Jiujiang shook his head, half-closing his eyes. It was too late to explain to Xie Chuncan. The several meridians through which the fluid flowed could now feel a soothing, scalding heat, like being immersed in a hot spring. This sensation was spreading upward from Luo Jiujiang's dantian, gradually transferring to the eight extraordinary meridians throughout his body.

This feeling is not unfamiliar, it’s just that every action before was not this big.

After he ate the food that his master specially added fragrant powder to every morning, this slight warming effect would appear in his meridians. This was the normal reaction when the meridians became more flexible after being nourished.

Luo Jiujiang didn't dare waste such a golden opportunity. He sat down, crossed his legs, and gazed inward. His true essence circulated through his body for a full cycle, and he felt refreshed, his fatigue vanished, and his cultivation surpassed all expectations. He had reached the first level of foundation building, on the verge of breaking through. Most amazingly, the fluid in his dantian condensed into a bright pearl. Though its diameter had shrunk, it still hung high in his dantian, like the sun and moon hanging in the sky.

Luo Jiujiang opened his eyes. Although his clothes were tattered, he was energetic and radiant. His heroic and unrestrained temperament almost gave Xie Chuncan a certain illusion - if Luo Jiujiang was thrown into the normal world outside, as soon as he showed up, someone would definitely take him away to be a son-in-law because of his extraordinary talent.

"How are you now?"

Luo Jiujiang smiled and rose. His palm seemed to casually brush against Xie Chuncan's ribs, circling the wound he had sustained when Lu Qi and his group had recently pursued him. Without replying, Luo Jiujiang turned his back and bowed deeply toward the direction of the flower seeds that had formed the characters in his palm. He bowed to the ground, "Senior, you saved me from danger, gave me the pearl and the medicine, and showed me the way forward. I will never forget your kindness."

After three consecutive bows, Luo Jiujiang finally turned around. This time, he couldn't hold back the smile on his face any longer. He was beaming with joy, so proud that it made people want to hit him: "Brother Xie, look at this, this is what it means to want to doze off and then someone will bring you a pillow - let's not talk about the functions of this bead in refining cultivation, it can actually help me improve my perception, which can solve our urgent needs."

The so-called urgent matter was naturally Luo Jiujiang's original plan of "finding the weak point of the membrane of this world, breaking it open with a knife, and attacking it out."

Xie Chuncan was originally itching to touch his hands because of his laughter, but when he understood the meaning of Luo Jiujiang's words, he also cheered up: "Then let's leave quickly, I don't know if they are in any trouble there."

Luo Jiujiang nodded first and then shook his head: "Thank you, brother, please wait a moment. No matter how urgent it is, it won't hurt to wait a moment... I want to verify something first."

As he spoke, he drew his sword, needing no hesitation, and brought it down on the nearby dome wall with the force of flowing water. The blow was so powerful that the stone hall was in turmoil, and in a split second, rocks and sand flew through the air. Besides large chunks of heavy stone, three corpses were also hurled from the ceiling.

"It seems that my newly enhanced perception is correct." Luo Jiujiang sighed. Not only is it correct, its sensitivity has almost doubled.

He stepped forward and turned the thin body over, parted the hair, revealing the head and face. The gloomy and thin face was undoubtedly Lu Qi.

The faces of the two remaining corpses also looked familiar; they were the cultivators who had surrounded Lu Qi during the previous chase. Xie Chuncan took a few steps forward and checked their cold, silent pulses one by one, a look of surprise and doubt still on his face. "This bastard is so lucky, he died so easily."

Perhaps it was because human life here was as cheap as paper. Even if one moment they were commanding and ruling, the next, their bodies would be worth no more than a snowflake. Luo Jiujiang opened his mouth to speak, but Xie Chuncan pulled out a feathered arrow from his quiver and pierced Lu Qi's throat from top to bottom. His eyes gleamed, and he said firmly, "This must be a trick!"

Luo Jiujiang: “…”

At this moment, he was really curious about what kind of psychological trauma Lu Qi had brought to Xie Chuncan.

The corpse was already ice-cold, and the blood was almost coagulated. Even under Xie Chuncan's brutal hands, no bright red blood splattered, but only flowed out slowly.

Luo Jiujiang climbed up to the large hole he had carved in the temple's roof and took a look. He saw a deep, rough passage. The stone walls were uneven, with marks of knives and axes on them, as if they had been carved by humans. He had to lean almost his entire body into it before he realized that the passage was full of twists and turns. Just looking at it made him feel lost. He wondered how much effort it would take to advance through it by human power.

The two men now lived a rather primitive existence, their clothes no longer covering their bodies. Just then, Luo Jiujiang stabbed three bodies with a single blow, finally giving them a change of clothes. Xie Chuncan, having grown up in a place of death, was a seasoned expert at this. By the time Luo Jiujiang peeked through the ceiling, he had already stripped the three men naked and sorted their useful magical weapon storage bags into their proper places.

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