Chapter 382: Rapid Advancement
She wore a yellow Bixia Luo embroidered with phoenixes, a pink smoke gauze skirt that trailed on the ground, a Qiluo silk bag in her hand, and a peony flower inserted diagonally in her bun.

There really is a bit of the flavor of "black brows blooming like distant mountains, and green hair thickly stained with spring smoke."

The emerald emerald green smoked sweater, the pleated skirt scattered with water mist and green grass, the body is covered with a thin emerald water veil, the shoulders are cut into a waist, and the muscles are like orchids, charming and boneless.

……

When Lu Changjing sneaked into Chen Derong's secret retreat room and saw his true appearance, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.

The owner of Huarong Tower, the most beautiful madam among madams, is extremely beautiful.

In terms of appearance and temperament, she is not inferior to his lovers, and even surpasses them in some aspects.

She doesn't look like a brothel owner at all. Some people would believe that she is a royal noble who is the mother of the country.

Her charm was mixed with a bit of purity, and she looked a bit naive about the world, which really amazed Lu Changjing.

I have seen beautiful madams, but I have never seen one as beautiful as this one.

Lu Changjing was excited for a moment, then he activated the Dragon Emperor Bell with all his strength. The mental assistance that had reached the level of a two-star Xuanzun burst out with unprecedented power.

“Heart power!”

When attacked suddenly, Chen Derong showed a look of horror, and he actually activated several talismans at the first moment, all of which were used to resist the mental strength and inner demons.

However, Lu Changjing's mental strength was twenty-one times that of an awakened person of the same level, and with the help of the top-level mysterious weapon Dragon Emperor Bell, he crushed all the talismans, which was simply beyond Chen Derong's ability to resist.

"Chichichi..."

The mental defense was quickly broken, and he fell into the inner demon. He used the Star-Picking Hand one after another, taking away several mysterious weapons from Chen Derong's body, and even his outer clothes were taken off.

Then the soul-picking technique followed closely, taking away a wisp of Chen Derong's three souls and seven spirits, turning him into his own soul-picking slave.

Although there is a huge gap between Lu Changjing and Chen Derong in terms of cultivation realm, there is also a huge gap between Chen Derong and Lu Changjing in terms of overall strength.

Twenty-one times the cultivation foundation, various perfect combat skills and secret techniques, many special blessings... make Lu Changjing almost have the strength of Zongheng Xuanzun, let alone a mere eight-star Xuanzun.

Looking at the ordinary-looking middle-aged man in front of him, Chen Derong, who had already woken up, had an extremely complicated expression that kept changing.

Lu Changjing stared at her in silence, waiting for her choice.

After an unknown amount of time, Chen Derong could not help but ask, "Sir, are you the Earth Lord?"

"Although not, for me, being the Earth Honored One is just a matter of time." Lu Changjing said confidently.

Chen Derong bowed down and said, "I am honored to meet you, my master. From now on, I will obey your orders."

He who knows the times is a hero, and it is obvious that Chen Derong is a hero.

Lu Changjing nodded and pointed a finger at her head, causing her to pass out: "Okay, then let me check her carefully again."

The soul-stealing technique was used to carefully look through Chen Derong's memory, while at the same time checking his entire body to avoid any backup plans.

The lessons of Jiuying and the five-clawed golden dragon are still fresh in his mind, and Lu Changjing doesn't want the same thing to happen again.

It can be said that he broke it into pieces and crushed it for inspection, no matter how big or small, up and down, left and right, inside and outside. If he found anything abnormal, Lu Changjing would confirm it again and again.

Finally he discovered a trump card, something similar to memory recovery, which was applied to him in advance. If someone deleted or modified his memory, it would be restored later.

Although he was unable to escape the control of the Soul-Picking Technique, he was able to remove all the manipulations that Lu Changjing had done to his memory.

As expected of the owner of Huarong Tower, he does have a backup plan.

Lu Changjing cleared up the backhand and continued to check, leaving no part unchecked.

Once again, a hair that was suspected to be from the back hand was discovered, which contained some strange power. Even in Chen Derong's memory, there was no related content.

Continue to clean it up, and then you won’t find anything else, so you can control and master the other party with confidence.

If you encounter similar things again in the future, you should still check them carefully. It just so happens that the ability to see through illusions can help you detect some problematic areas and avoid a recurrence of past lessons.

Now that Chen Derong has been completely captured and his memory has been deleted and modified to make him loyal, it is time to reap the fruits of victory.

First, he plundered its resources and treasures, such as mysterious weapons, mysterious pills, mysterious medicines, mysterious talismans, and mysterious ores... He found quite a few mysterious pills and mysterious medicines that were useful to him, including several bottles of Nine Yang Pills.

Considering the effect of the Nine Yang Pill on him, Lu Changjing planned to let Chen Derong replace the other mysterious pills and medicines with the Nine Yang Pill little by little, as well as some mysterious weapons and talismans that he did not need, to meet his needs for cultivation.

When leaving Chang'an Island, Lu Changjing also collected a large number of precious Xuan-level resources and treasures. He could hand over those resources and treasures that would not expose himself to Chen Derong, and exchange them for the Nine Yang Pills and other resources that Lu Changjing needed.

The energy consumption of his current practice is really too great. He needs hundreds of Nine Yang Pills a year, which is dozens of times that of an ordinary Xuan Zun.

In this situation, you have to plan ahead, otherwise you will soon run out of resources.

Huarong Tower alone is definitely not enough to support his practice. He will need to find suitable enthusiastic people to help him collect resources and treasures.

Of course, alchemy skills also need to be continuously improved. If he can be promoted to an intermediate Xuandan master, Lu Changjing can refine the Nine Yang Pill by himself, saving dozens of times of resources and treasures.

Lu Changjing gained a lot from Chen Derong.

After sorting out the various resources and treasures, the main event began.

Initiation!
Although this woman is a bit old, more than three thousand years old, compared with her lifespan, she is just a young woman.

Lu Changjing could accept Qingqiu Xiaoyu, Fu Shishi, Zeng Li, Feng Qi... and make them his love, let alone Chen Derong.

We are just close friends, is it impossible for you to accept that?

So Lu Changjing was very calm. He hugged Chen Derong, tried to have as much contact as possible, and began to perform the initiation technique.

A moment later, a surge of insights, skills, methods, and experiences about the Auspicious Cloud Technique came flooding in, and changes began to occur in Lu Changjing's body.

The Lucky Cloud Technique began to operate at a rapid speed, unstoppable and fluent. It seemed that his body was quite suitable for the Lucky Cloud Technique and the degree of compatibility reached an extremely high level.

With the help of the initiation technique, Lu Changjing was just like Chen Derong. He practiced the Auspicious Cloud Technique day after day, year after year, for decades. He perfected the first level in one go and was about to break through to the second level.

He then stopped and looked at the time. Three minutes had already passed. Although the damage to his foundation was serious, it was within the tolerable range and would recover in a few days, and would not affect his practice.

As expected, the initiation technique was powerful. The first level that originally required several years to cultivate was completed in just three minutes. At this rate, it wouldn't take long for him to cultivate the initiation technique to the sixteenth level or above, thus being listed on the Auspicious Cloud List.

During the practice, Lu Changjing could vaguely feel the growth of his practice foundation and talent, but the increase was so small that people with poor perception would not be able to detect it.

It is estimated that even if one cultivates to the 96th level, the improvement that can be brought is limited, but something hidden in the body seems to have improved a lot, far exceeding the other two aspects. This should be the potential. The so-called potential, is it the highest realm that can be cultivated?

Could it be that after reaching a certain level of practice, one can no longer improve, and at this time one needs sufficient potential to break the shackles?

But even if it is impossible to improve further at that time, can't we break the limit like before? Why should we increase our potential?

It's a bit confusing, but since this secret technique is known as the best magic of the human race, there must be a reason. It won't be a loss to practice it. Anyway, it won't take much time and energy for him.

With a full load of harvest, Lu Changjing quietly returned to the True Fire Hall of Guangyang Palace and continued to immerse himself in practice.

Martial arts, combat skills, secret techniques, side jobs... none of them have been given up, and at the same time, he is also looking for suitable people to receive initiation, so that the various combat skills, secret techniques and side jobs can be improved faster.

With the help of Chen Derong, Lu Changjing's process of finding a suitable person for initiation became much simpler. He quickly found suitable people to improve his formation and alchemy skills. Although they were all men, they did not need to be too close during the initiation.

There are quite a few Nine Yang Elephant disciples who practice the Nine Dragons combat skills system, but their attainments are not much higher than Lu Changjing's. Rather than taking the risk of enslaving them to perform the initiation technique, it is better for him to practice on his own.

Therefore, in terms of the Kowloon combat skills system, Lu Changjing mainly relies on himself.

After some reconstruction, the Nine Dragons Combat Skills System had fallen to the level of minor success, but its power was not much inferior to the previous level of perfection.

It is indeed a top-level skill, its power is simply astonishing.

While practicing, Lu Changjing also learned from Lu Ying about the practice situation of the Earth Venerable Realm.

When one reaches the realm of Earth Venerable, what one cultivates is the source earth in the body, which can also be called the inner world.

Guided by the essence, energy and spirit, the power of heaven and earth is integrated to give birth to source energy. When the source energy reaches a certain level, it can be transformed into source earth, forming a source earth world, which is the world inside the body.

And this inner world can accommodate living things, not just dead things.

Even for a one-star Earth Lord, the world inside his body is several square kilometers in size, far exceeding the area of ​​most storage rings. It can basically solve storage problems, and one can also cultivate some confidants inside.

It is precisely because of this that Di Zun is qualified to be called an overlord, because a Di Zun is a force, and who knows how many masters are hidden in the world within him.

Moreover, the Lord of Earth can also give birth to the Lord of Earth's clone, which possesses most of the combat power of the original body. Therefore, most of the time the Lord of Earth does not need to take action himself, but only needs his clone to take action.

Just like Lou Guangzhi, the one who is now in charge of Fenghan Island is only his Earth Lord clone, and his real body is hiding somewhere to practice and improve himself.

This is also the power of the Earth Lord. As long as the main body is not dead, his clones are almost endless and they are fearless of death.

Therefore, in the Wanxiang Sea, no force is willing to push a Earth Lord into a corner, otherwise the other party will risk sacrificing their clones and keep causing trouble for your relatives and friends, or the forces under your command. Even the Wanxiang Sect will find it a headache.

As long as one can enter the realm of Earth Venerable, one can be ranked among the overlords, and a force will also be qualified to be passed down for ten thousand years.

An ordinary one-star Earth Lord has a lifespan of about 10,000 years, and is a true Heavenly Lord.

As for the Xuanzuns, the lower-level Xuanzuns have a lifespan of about 5,000 years, the middle-level Xuanzuns have a lifespan of about 6,000 years, the upper-level Xuanzuns have a lifespan of about 7,000 years, and the extreme-level Xuanzuns have a lifespan of about 8,000 years.

Lu Changjing is an exception. Although he is only a lower-level Xuanzun now, with the blessing of the golden finger, his lifespan has already increased to more than 100,000 years, which is simply impossible to use up.

Therefore, for Lu Changjing, what attracted him most was the clone of Earth Lord. Once he entered the realm of Earth Lord, he would be able to give birth to the clone of Earth Lord.

In the future, many dangerous things can be handled by the clone of Earth Lord, and the original body can stay in a safe place. As long as he does not show up, there is basically no danger of falling due to his ability to hide.

After learning about the situation of the Earth Lord, Lu Changjing asked about the Heaven Lord, but did not get much information.

All we know is that Tianzun needs to hold up the stars, raise the world inside his body to above the nine heavens, and hide it in the nine heavenly strong winds. As for the specific details, I don't know.

The Heavenly Venerable can naturally also give birth to a clone of the Heavenly Venerable, and can give birth to two clones of the Heavenly Venerable, acting on behalf of the original body and possessing most of the combat power of the original body.

When the two great avatars of the Heavenly Lord join forces, their combat power is even stronger than that of the original body. This is also the power of the Heavenly Lord.

As for whether there is a higher level above Tianzun, it is unknown.

But Lu Changjing had a feeling that there was probably a higher level above the Heavenly Venerate, but he just didn't know it yet.

It was just like when I first traveled through time. At that time, I thought that the Grandmaster was the pinnacle of martial arts. Later, I found out that there was a realm of gods and demons above the Grandmaster, and that gods and demons were also divided into ten small realms.

Later, I discovered that gods and demons were not the ultimate, and Xuan Zun was the ultimate in martial arts on Chang'an Island.

But after becoming Xuan Zun, he discovered that above Xuan Zun there is Di Zun, and above Di Zun there is Tian Zun.

There is no limit to spiritual practice, there is no limit to martial arts. Only at this moment did Lu Changjing vaguely understand the meaning of this sentence.

Practice, you still need to practice.

Half a year passed in the blink of an eye. He had already rebuilt the Nine Dragons Combat Skills System and had fully adapted to it.

Even the new Nine Dragon Sword Technique was reintegrated into the Nine Dragon Sword Technique.

His cultivation level also increased dramatically, and he had already reached about one-tenth of the Three-Star Xuanzun level.

At the current speed, it would only take about six years to reach the four-star Xuanzun realm.

For an ordinary Xuanzun, it would take hundreds of years, or even longer, to reach a small realm.

This speed is already very fast.

But the biggest improvement was in the Auspicious Cloud Technique.

With Chen Derong's selfless help, and with the help of the golden finger and the power of initiation, Lu Changjing was unstoppable and had unexpectedly broken through to the sixth level.

In half a year, he broke through six levels of the Lucky Cloud Technique. Even though he had just started practicing the Lucky Cloud Technique, this speed was enough to shock the entire Nine Yang Elephant.

Currently, the fastest practitioner of the Nine Yang Elephant needs more than half a year to advance one level, and that is when he is just starting to practice the Lucky Cloud Technique, when it is still relatively simple.

But Lu Changjing was different. He broke through six levels in half a year, which was several times more than that Nine Yang Elephant genius. The two were simply incomparable.

Moreover, this was the case when Lu Changjing spent most of his time on other aspects. He did not fall behind in his cultivation realm, combat skills, formations and alchemy... and all made rapid progress.

In this case, the Lucky Cloud Technique can break through six levels in a row. If one puts all his effort into it, it can at least break through ten levels.

However, that would be too exaggerated. Lu Changjing was also consciously controlling the speed of his practice to avoid being discovered and arousing suspicion.

Not long after the Auspicious Cloud Technique broke through the sixth level, Lu Changjing was about to reach ten thousand days while traveling through this world.

The throbbing in my body has begun, and it is much stronger than any previous time. Could it be that these ten thousand days are also a big hurdle, so my extraordinary characteristics are about to awaken?
(End of this chapter)