When Lu Yu left Brother Kui’s artifact refining room, his backpack contained six processed Sky-exploding Bombs and one Heaven-shaking Thunder.
According to Brother Kui, one Heaven-shaking Thunder is worth more than 300,000 gold, which translates to over 3 million points. Lu Yu glanced at the system mall, where the Heaven-shaking Thunder was priced at 3.2 million points, with a daily purchase limit of one.
It’s more like killing people with money than with the Heaven-shaking Thunder; it’s too expensive for Lu Yu to use lightly.
Heaven-shaking Thunder is a spiritual treasure with low usage requirements and absurdly high power, so its exorbitant price is only natural.
After these several days of spending, Lu Yu’s points have fallen below ten million, leaving just over nine million. Converting to an Ice Spirit Body cost nearly three million, and subsequent insights into the Ice Branch Blaze Flower used more than two million.
Lu Yu couldn’t help feeling that cultivation is just burning money. Especially cultivating the Seven Layers of Ice and Fire, he still hasn’t grasped the transformation of Ice and Fire Polar Body, nor does he know how much more money it will take to reach the first layer.
After leaving the Skyfire Furnace, Lu Yu went to the Transmission Pavilion and exchanged 1200 contribution points for a book called Introduction to Array Path. Introduction to Array Path doesn’t record any arrays, but its content is essential for learning arrays.
Introduction to Array Path is a version compiled over years by the elders of the Divine Weapon Pavilion, skilled in arrays, recording most of the foundational knowledge about the Array Path, with subsequent versions continually updated.
Lu Yu spent only 1200 contributions to exchange for Introduction to Array Path. Selling it outside to wild array masters could fetch over a million gold. Wild array masters are extremely eager for system array knowledge, and they happen to be wealthy.
Unfortunately, Introduction to Array Path is covered with restrictions, allowing only Lu Yu who exchanged for it to see its content. Forcing open the restrictions would result in the content being destroyed.
What disappointed Lu Yu was that Introduction to Array Path couldn’t load a learning interface, meaning that this tome of tens of millions of words required Lu Yu to spend time reading and understanding it himself, no cheating allowed.
Activating the teleportation array through his identity token, Lu Yu returned to Beifeng City.
After an afternoon of study, Lu Yu discovered that Introduction to Array Path not only recorded array knowledge but also covered symbols, artifact refining, geography and feng shui, heavenly materials and earthly treasures, among other fields.
Symbols use the most basic array patterns, artifact refining also requires restrictions from arrays, geography and feng shui greatly influence the power of arrays, and heavenly materials and earthly treasures are various array materials...
Introduction to Array Path encompasses everything, leaving Lu Yu so absorbed he forgot to have dinner.
Knock knock knock~ "Sir, I’ve brought your dinner to your room."
Hearing the word "dinner," Lu Yu instinctively replied, "Come in!"
Then he realized he hadn’t called for dinner nor did he have the habit of dining in the study.
Crack~ The door was pushed open, a wooden cart topped with an overturned round lid slowly rolled into Lu Yu’s room, with no one behind it, yet it kept moving closer to Lu Yu.
Seeing the cart, Lu Yu immediately felt something was wrong, put away Introduction to Array Path, and crashed through the wall to escape the study.
The study’s window and the hole he made spewed fire, which disappeared in less than two seconds. When Lu Yu looked inside the study, everything was charred black.
"There’s a fire, quickly put it out." Someone outside shouted.
Lu Yu used the Fierce Tiger Fist technique, channeling the ice spiritual qi within him, sending a frosty wind to extinguish the flames in the study.
"Not bad, I didn’t even realize you were a Martial Cultivator at the Qi Cultivation stage, quite the hidden depth." A voice came from the darkness outside the window.
Wu Ping emerged from the shadows, entered the study, and looked at Lu Yu with a mocking smile, "You weren’t expecting someone to come and save you, were you? Too bad, they won’t make it here."
"They should all be at the kitchen putting out the fire. This place is already sealed off by my array; no one will notice anything here."
He hoped to see a look of panic on Lu Yu’s face, but was disappointed; Lu Yu seemed very calm, not surprised by his arrival.
"Looks like you were prepared." The smile disappeared from Wu Ping’s face.
"Why talk so much with him? Isn’t he just a native disciple of the Divine Weapon Pavilion? Get it over and done with, kill him." A burly man in a black fur vest, with scars all over his chest, stepped out from behind Lu Yu, forming a surrounding stance with Wu Ping.
"Mad Lion, can’t you appreciate the pleasure of watching weak prey struggle desperately in the face of death?" Wu Ping said with a laugh.
"I have no interest in weak prey; I only challenge the strong." Mad Lion replied expressionlessly.
"Alright, since you’re not interested, I’ll take care of him." Wu Ping said easily.
Lu Yu watched them ignore him, not feeling angry, but took out a feather fan and gently fanned himself, as if the room’s air temperature was too high for his comfort.
When Lu Yu took out the feather fan, both men became wary, suspecting it might be a powerful spiritual treasure. When they saw it was only used to fan him, they gradually relaxed.
"If you love this fan so much, I might consider letting it accompany you to the grave after you’re dead." Wu Ping said.
In the middle of speaking, Wu Ping suddenly felt an itch on his face but held back from scratching due to their tense standoff.
The more he resisted, the itchier he felt, until he couldn’t bear it anymore and scratched his face.
After scratching his face, he felt the itch on his hand, and then all over his body started itching. Seeing Mad Lion scratching too, while Lu Yu stood unaffected in the middle, Wu Ping realized it was Lu Yu’s doing.
"What did you do? Oh, so itchy." Wu Ping asked loudly.
Mad Lion scratched inconspicuously. Although uncomfortable, he didn’t lose his fighting ability.
Mad Lion said in a muffled voice, "Attack, stop dragging this out."
With that, he threw a punch at Lu Yu.
Facing Mad Lion’s fist, Lu Yu felt as if a fierce and brutal monster lion was roaring at him, taunting him from within, a gleam of ferocity appeared in his eyes.
Rooar~ An even more savage and rampant roar erupted, the Evil Tiger Roar of Tiger’s Might.
With the power of strong qi blood and the addition of Tiger’s Might, the power of Evil Tiger Roar was extraordinarily impressive. Mad Lion was hit by the Evil Tiger Roar, and felt as if he was facing a forest’s dominant beast, his black fur vest lifted, and his punch stopped.
When Lu Yu’s Fierce Tiger Fist reached an exceptional level, he comprehended Fierce Tiger’s Gaze, which could deter weaker creatures, and Evil Tiger Roar could only disrupt the attacks of Martial Cultivators with similar strength.
With the understanding of Tiger’s Might, and its enhancement, the power of Evil Tiger Roar increased substantially, capable of affecting enemies stronger than oneself, and Tiger’s Might could intimidate Martial Cultivators of comparable strength.
This is the power of profound meaning.
Lu Yu took advantage and attacked when Mad Lion’s offensive was interrupted.
He had already seen that Wu Ping was just a person with psychological issues; his level was high, but the threat was not significant. Under the effect of the Itchy Fan, Wu Ping nearly lost all fighting capacity, constantly scratching and unable to focus his mind to unleash his strength.
Mad Lion, however, was the true threat.
He actually withstand Lu Yu’s full strength attack with the Itchy Fan, indicating his extremely resolute will. The itchy effect of the Itchy Fan could only play a supporting role in battle.
Mad Lion is extremely dangerous!
The serial is being updated explosively; as for how many updates, it depends on the condition! After all, I don’t have a backlog.