Chapter 128 - 120: Spirit Sect, Fairy Ruins_1

Sure enough, after consuming the second-tier Martial Food, the Martial Arts Avatar of the Nine Divine Lightning Slash began to move, swinging an energy-condensed War Knife, and starting to cultivate the Nine Divine Lightning Slash.

After digesting the Martial Food, the avatar stopped.

"One kilogram of second-tier Martial Food can only advance 2% of the progress in the initial stage."

Lu Yan’s face looked somewhat unpleasant.

Terribly inefficient.

Based on this estimation, the cost of improving a top-tier Martial Art is far above that of improving a second-tier Martial Art.

For second-tier Martial Arts, just first-tier Martial Food is enough for advancement. In the initial stage, one kilogram of first-tier Martial Food can increase the progress by 10%.

And the price of second-tier Martial Food is five times that of the first-tier Martial Food.

Although it takes nine second-tier Martial Arts to be integrated into one top-tier Martial Art, the cost is still almost three times lower than directly upgrading a top-tier Martial Art.

Nevertheless, Lu Yan chose to improve his top-tier Martial Art.

Because, improving a top-tier Martial Art could cultivate an Acquired Martial Body, which permanently enhances various attributes of one’s own.

Second-tier Martial Arts are useless now.

For those permanently enhanced attributes, even a higher cost is worth it.

If that’s the case, more second-tier Martial Food is required, which means he will have to learn to cook it himself.

Right away, Lu Yan went to the Martial Kitchen to learn how to cook second-tier Yinuo Lizard Meat from Zhou Clan’s Martial Chefs.

Since Lu Yan provided the recipes for second-tier Yinuo Lizard Meat and the meat of the Mutated Beast, Zhou Clan’s Martial Chefs didn’t hold back, sharing everything they knew.

Apart from his daily Martial Arts practice and Cultivation Level improvement, Lu Yan became fully engrossed in mastering the second-tier Yinuo Lizard Meat.

Even so, it took Lu Yan two months to barely succeed in making a piece of second-tier Yinuo Lizard Meat and to reach a beginner’s level, taking even longer than improving the Nine Divine Lightning Slash.

After reaching a beginner’s level, he finally formed an Avatar of the second-tier Yinuo Lizard Meat.

However, what made Lu Yan speechless was that enhancing the Avatar of the second-tier Yinuo Lizard Meat also required second-tier Martial Food.

It’s a vicious cycle.

Making a rapid progress in a short period of time was impossible, so he could only accumulate slowly.

Patience could pay off.

Lu Yan decided to use all the second-tier Martial Food solely for improving second-tier Yinuo Lizard Meat.

Once the second-tier Yinuo Lizard Meat progressed, the progress in other areas would naturally speed up.

Every day for Lu Yan was fully scheduled, and he didn’t feel the time passing at all.

In the blink of an eye, another half a year had passed.

Adding up the time, it had been over five years since they moved to Baicao City. Lu Yan was now a young man of 24, and was about to turn 25.

In half a year, the second-tier Yinuo Lizard Meat finally reached Mastery.

With this degree of proficiency, Lu Yan had already surpassed most of the advanced Martial Chefs.

Not to mention other Martial Foods, just concerning the second-tier Yinuo Lizard Meat, he was not much inferior to some Martial Chef Masters.

His success rate was more than 80%.

At this time, Lu Yan let Zhou Clan’s Martial Chefs cook only first-tier Martial Food, and he himself cooked all the second-tier Martial Food.

Stacked inside his exclusive Martial Kitchen were thousands of kilograms of Blood Armor Lizard Meat.

Finally, he didn’t need to hide anything.

Except for himself, no one else was allowed to enter his exclusive Martial Kitchen.

Lu Yan began to prepare, following the steps of cooking second-tier Yinuo Lizard Meat; every step was as smooth as flowing water, with no confusion.

The next day, the mouth-watering aroma wafted inside the Martial Kitchen

Ten kilograms of second-tier Yinuo Lizard Meat were successfully completed.

Lu Yan feasted, using all of it to enhance the Nine Divine Lightning Slash.

The Nine Divine Lightning Slash’s avatar, which hadn’t moved for half a year, started again. Looking at the rapidly increasing progress, Lu Yan felt extremely relieved.

He finally made a breakthrough.

He continued with his cooking.

This time, Lu Yan increased the amount and cooked twenty kilograms of Blood Armor Lizard Meat all at once.

This amount was his current maximum capacity.

....

Late at night, frigid wind bit into the bones.

In a secret room of Li Wenxuan’s mansion, two figures were sitting face to face.

One of them was the Gentleman Sword, Li Wenxuan.

The other was a woman in her forties. Despite her age, she was still charming and her figure was extremely hot. Her whole body exuded a seductive atmosphere.

"Li Wenxuan, have you made up your mind? This is the third time I have come to see you, and it’s also the last time. If you refuse again, I will leave and never return," the middle-aged woman said.

"Communicating with the Martial Spirit is a crime punishable by death. Please forgive me for my inability to comply with your request," Li Wenxuan replied calmly.

"Really?"

A hint of a smile crept up on the woman’s face, "Since you have met me three times, and haven’t thrown me out yet, it indicates that you are hesitant and you are already wavering in your resistance."

Li Wenxuan remained silent.

"In fact, considering the current situation, you have no other choices apart from choosing the Martial Spirit path. You hurt your meridians by rushing your cultivation. It would take at least five years of adjustment to recover fully. Li Wenxin will not stop and wait for you."

"Moreover, Li Xingyuan seems to be gradually leaning towards Li Wenxin. Chances are high that your Li Family’s next heart orb from a King Class Mutated Beast, will be given to Li Wenxin, to aid him in breaking through to the Inner Strength Master Level. Once Li Wenxin becomes an Inner Strength Master, will there be any place for you in the Li Family?"

The middle-aged woman’s words pierced Li Wenxuan’s heart like a sword.

"You indeed made a great effort to persuade me," said Li Wenxuan.

"But it worked, didn’t it?" The woman chuckled lightly.

Again, Li Wenxuan fell silent.

The middle-aged woman’s each sentence struck home, brutally laying bare the sorry state of his current situation.

He and Li Wenxin had been the twin jewels of the Li Family since they were children. Both were considered shining stars and were trained as future Family Head candidates.

But only he knew that in terms of Martial Arts talent, he fell short of Li Wenxin.

To make up for the gap in talent, he trained harder than others, even more desperately and diligently than Li Wenxin.