Chapter 18 Random Reincarnation!
Purple Luo Gorge.
This is the natural gorge located between Silver Light Mountain and Thunder Mountain, where demon beasts roam, and fierce beasts are everywhere, making it extremely dangerous.
Ordinary cultivators rarely come here.
The endless fierce beasts, even the major guilds and sects are helpless against them.
Lu Qingfeng steps on the Stepping Cloud Boots and leisurely enters the Purple Luo Gorge.
"In the game, this is my second life, but it is the first time I've come to the Purple Luo Gorge to see these fierce beasts," Lu Qingfeng surveys his surroundings with a sense of novelty.
Because the cost of death is too high.
Reincarnation requires sixteen years, and two months in real life, not to mention. Even if you choose to revive, the Fetal Breathing Realm also needs a Low-grade Spirit Stone, equivalent to one hundred spirit stone fragments.
So, Lu Qingfeng has been burying his head in Black Sand Town to train in alchemy, refine talismans, and has never gone out for experiences.
This is his first time leaving Black Sand Town for battle.
Looking around, not a soul in sight.
'Slaying monsters for leveling up' is ultimately a rare occurrence.
"Fierce beasts are violent, only knowing destruction, harmful to heaven and earth. Slaying them can gain merit, beneficial to cultivation; this is the origin of 'slaying monsters for leveling up.'"
Lu Qingfeng's gaze sweeps across, eyes brimming with spirit light.
[Skill: Heavenly Eye Skill (Incomplete)]
[Grade: Middle-level, a total of two layers]
[Derivation: Six times enhancement]
[Description: Can observe cultivators up to one rank lower than one's own realm, can cause psychological deterrence to ordinary people, making them panic; passive effects: Breaking Illusion, Insight]
After six enhancements by Lu Qingfeng, Heavenly Eye Skill directly rose from Low-level to Middle-level. With the increase in might, additional passive effects also emerged.
At this moment.
Where Lu Qingfeng's gaze reaches, streams of fierce beasts emit evil Qi, soaring to the sky. Some are like beacon fires, while others are as thin as strands of hair, their strengths and weaknesses discernible at a glance.
"The outskirts of Purple Luo Gorge should belong to the Iron Crown Beast Species!"
Iron Crown Beasts, resembling small dogs, have a dark red rooster-like iron crown on their heads. They have average combat power and are low-level fierce beasts around the perimeter of the Purple Luo Gorge.
Lu Qingfeng steps on the Stepping Cloud Boots, with the Xuan Tie Flying Sky Shield revolving around him.
Armed with two fourth-rank talisman artifacts, he should be able to survive for a short time on the periphery.
"Roar roar!"
Following the direction of the thin strands of smoke, it doesn't take long for a group of Iron Crown Beasts to roar, charging towards Lu Qingfeng's location.
[Fierce Beast: Iron Crown Beast]
[Grade: Second Rank]
[Description: The weaker species among fierce beast clans, large in numbers, excel in group attacks, with iron teeth and steel claws, melee-type fierce beasts; Weakness: Fear of Thunder Attribute techniques]
Second Rank fierce beasts are equivalent to True Qi Realm cultivators.
The passive Insight of Heavenly Eye Skill triggers, discerning the weakness of Iron Crown Beasts.
In fact, as the lowest level and most common fierce beast species, the weaknesses of Iron Crown Beasts are well known. However, the value of Insight Technique is still immeasurable when applied to unknown fierce beasts, demon beasts, or even other cultivators.
Lu Qingfeng's Heavenly Eye Skill scans and discovers that these charging Iron Crown Beasts are mostly around Level 20, and they hardly exceed Level 40.
"Good timing!"
Without any sign of preparing, Lu Qingfeng reaches into his storage bag at his waist, sprinkling out a 'Thunder Cloud Talisman'—
Boom boom boom!
Boom boom boom!
Dozens of thunder clouds shrouded an area of several tens of yards ahead.
Iron Crown Beasts within, whether Level 20 or Level 40, couldn't withstand a single round and were all blasted into char.
[Congratulations player for killing an Iron Crown Beast (Level 10), received 1 Experience Value.]
[Congratulations player for killing an Iron Crown Beast (Level 20), received 5 Experience Value.]
[Congratulations player for killing an Iron Crown Beast (Level 30), received 10 Experience Value.]
[Congratulations player for killing an Iron Crown Beast (Level 40), received 15 Experience Value.]
[Congratulations player on leveling up.]
...
Monster hunting and leveling up, indeed, cannot be compared with the slow cultivation in Black Sand Town.
A few Thunder Cloud Talismans thrown down, Lu Qingfeng's Experience Value kept soaring, and his level was raised by more than three in the blink of an eye.
The monster killing level-up mechanism in "Primordial" is—
Killing beasts within 10 levels above or below one's own gives 1 Experience point.
Below 10 levels, gives 0.1 Experience Value; below 20 levels, gives 0.01 Experience Value, and so on.
Above 10 levels, gives 5 Experience Value; above 20 levels, gives 10 Experience Value, and so on.
"If there's a master protector who is willing to spend a lot of talismans, raising the level wouldn't be too difficult."
"But for me, earning Experience Value is simpler than raising the level!"
Lu Qingfeng bent over, yet he strode like a leisurely walk in the garden, distributing talismans and quickly slaughtering a small group of Iron Crown Beasts.
His level remained at Level 10.
"Constantly consuming Experience Value, keeping the level at Level 10, killing high-level demon beasts, there's always an Experience Value bonus!" Lu Qingfeng's mouth curled slightly as he invested Experience Value into various techniques, elixir recipes, and talismans.
Previously carefully calculated Experience Value, now fully splurged.
"The Qing Yuan Sword Technique" has already reached the side door level, and the next improvement requires a massive amount of Experience Value.
Seizing the opportunity, Lu Qingfeng invested all Experience Value into it.
After all, no matter how much techniques improve, their power is ultimately related to one's cultivation realm.
Only the cultivation technique is fundamental.
Elixir recipes and talismans are the same; those that have been enhanced six times over the years, and even those with four times enhancement.
Lu Qingfeng discovered that whether it was elixir recipes or talismans, once enhanced more than five times, the required materials would change, equivalent to evolving into another kind of elixir.
Although more potent and more precious, the materials are so rare that the profit margin is actually lower than that of five times enhancement.
In the future, as Lu Qingfeng's cultivation advances, he might need them. But by then, there would be suitable elixir recipes and talismans.
Like the Yellow Dragon Pill, after six times enhancement, the cost of refining increases significantly, nearly equivalent to the advanced elixir Golden Marrow Pills. Rather than consuming Experience Value to enhance, it would be better to directly obtain the Golden Marrow Pills recipe for enhancement.
Therefore.
After enhancing all currently mastered elixir recipes and talismans to five times, Lu Qingfeng started to wholeheartedly enhance and improve "The Qing Yuan Sword Technique".
After this time, for a long period, "The Qing Yuan Sword Technique" would give Lu Qingfeng an absolute advantage among his peers!
Time passed.
By slaughtering the Iron Crown Beast clan, Lu Qingfeng amassed over five thousand Experience Value.
Basic Level cultivation techniques, the first enhancement/promotion/fusion consumes 10 Experience Value, and with each subsequent enhancement/promotion/fusion, it doubles based on the original amount.
Refinement Level cultivation techniques, the first enhancement/promotion/fusion consumes 100 Experience Value, and with each subsequent enhancement/promotion/fusion, it doubles based on the original amount.
Side Door Level cultivation techniques, the first enhancement/promotion/fusion consumes 1000 Experience Value, and with each subsequent enhancement/promotion/fusion, it doubles based on the original amount.
For each grade of cultivation technique, approximately after five times of enhancement, it can be raised by one level.
"The 'Qing Yuan Sword Technique' is inherently a Refinement Level Technique, and after being enhanced five times, it became a Side Door Level.
Because its essence is a Refinement Level Technique, even after reaching the Side Door Level, if one wants to enhance it again, it is still based on doubling the original foundation.
Not recalculating from scratch.
Lu Qingfeng invested all 5000 Experience Value into the 'Qing Yuan Sword Technique', directly strengthening it seven times, and raising the technique's layers from the original nine to twenty-one, allowing cultivation up to the Foundation Establishment Qi Introduction Realm!
Still not enough!
After the Iron Crown Beast Species, Lu Qingfeng then swept through seven more Second Rank Fierce Beast Clans such as the Green Scale Beast, Red Mountain Rat, and Blood Hedgehog.
All his possessions exchanged for Continuous Fire Talisman, Connected Bead Thunder Talisman, Thunder Cloud Talisman, Fire Cloud Talisman, Hundred Ice Talisman and other high-level, top-level talismans, have already been exhausted!
That's just how wealthy Lu Qingfeng is!
After spending Experience Value to enhance elixir recipes and talismans, he refined high-quality elixir and talismans at a cheap cost and earned a substantial profit margin.
After decades of accumulation, his wealth was almost comparable to a small Guild!
And for this moment, Lu Qingfeng exchanged all his assets for high-level, top-level talismans, madly reaping Experience Value before his Life Span arrived.
An average cultivator, even a Foundation Establishment Great Cultivator, would hardly be able to act as crazy as Lu Qingfeng.
For one, they don't have the financial means.
Two, as the level of the beasts being slaughtered increases, the Experience Value drops like a waterfall, and they can't always mingle among the Second Rank Fierce Beasts.
Plus, Experience Value can only rapidly raise one's level, but to break through the bottlenecks of various realms still takes time, endlessly leveling up is not realistic.
Lu Qingfeng is different.
He slays beasts not to raise levels or cultivation, but simply to gain Experience Value. Without raising his level, slaying beasts of the same rank, the Experience Value will never decline!
Under such circumstances, two hours later—
[Cultivation Technique: Qing Yuan Sword Technique (Incomplete)]
[Grade: True Sect Level, 27 layers in total]
[Derivation: Ten times strengthened, five times improved]
[Features: Qingyuan Sword Radiance, Body Protecting Sword Shield, Sword Shadow Splitting Light Skill, Da Geng Sword Formation, Three Transitions Rebirth, Nine Refinements of Sword Pill, Primordial Spirit Hundred Forging]
[Description: Three thousand years ago, the absolute technique of the Qingyuan Sword Sect, currently incomplete]
"True Sect Level!"
Lu Qingfeng threw out the last Fire Cloud Talisman, investing all Experience Value into the 'Qing Yuan Sword Technique'.
The attributes of Qing Yuan Sword Technique underwent a massive change, transforming from Side Door Level to True Sect Level!
Next, even without further enhancements, just continuing to increase its layers, it was enough for Lu Qingfeng to practice up to the Earth Immortal Level!
Such a technique, if looked upon the entire Heavenly Fox Realm, was something Great Powers would frantically vie for. Once released, the entire world's Great Sects, Mahayana cultivators would go crazy for it!
"Worth it!"
Lu Qingfeng glanced at the 'Qing Yuan Sword Technique', and laughed loudly.
Soon after, he caught sight of a smoke signal thick as an arm from the corner of his eye. Looking up, he saw a dark red eagle swoop out from the depths of Purple Luo Gorge—
[Fierce Beast: Iron Feathered Thunderhawk]
[Grade: Seventh-Order]
[Description: A flying class of fierce beast, fast speed, strong physique, capable of unleashing thunder attacks]
Seventh-Order Fierce Beast!
Comparable to a Spirit Void Great Cultivator!
"Screech!"
Just as Lu Qingfeng looked up and the information about this fierce beast flashed in his mind, a Thunder Prison enveloped it.
Amidst the booming, both body and soul were annihilated!
...
[You have died, please choose to revive/reincarnate]
For sixty-eight years (game time), Lu Qingfeng reappeared in the Chaotic Space where there was neither sky nor earth. The blood-red system prompt actually gave Lu Qingfeng a sense of warmth.
"Indeed, the feeling of death is unpleasant."
Lu Qingfeng shook his head, recalling the moment of death.
Even though he knew it was in a game, it was still a great terror.
The Iron Feathered Thunderhawk swooped down fiercely, its wings trembled, a vast expanse of thunder rained down, blasting Lu Qingfeng's body into pieces. Under such an onslaught, the Third-tier Talisman Artifact Xuan Tie Flying Sky Shield couldn't even last half a breath, and immediately exploded.
That kind of sensation, no one would want to try a second time.
However.
This was also Lu Qingfeng seeking death on purpose.
He had slaughtered so many First and Second Rank fierce beasts on the outskirts of Purple Luo Gorge, which obviously alarmed the powerful fierce beasts deep within.
Like the Iron Feathered Thunderhawk, it fed on Iron Crown Beasts, Red Mountain Rats, and other First and Second Rank fierce beasts. Since Lu Qingfeng killed all its food, how could the Iron Feathered Thunderhawk let him go?!
Facing a Seventh-Order fierce beast, even if he threw out a barrage of high-level talismans, it wouldn't cause any harm to it.
With Lu Qingfeng's level of cultivation, provoking such a beast, he only had death to await.
"If I hadn't actively sought death, I wouldn't know what changes might occur when the Life Span comes to an end."
Time in the game flew by swiftly.
Lu Qingfeng immersed himself in Alchemy and talisman refining, and before he knew it, his Life Span was exhausted. Worried about unexpected changes from a natural end of Life Span, Lu Qingfeng simply went to Purple Luo Gorge to hunt fierce beasts for Experience Value.
He had been prepared for death all along.
Now.
The familiar yet unfamiliar scene of death gave Lu Qingfeng a sense of being worlds apart.
"Reincarnation."
[Please choose: Reincarnate on the current map/random map]
"Random map."
Lu Qingfeng had been in Black Sand Town for so many years and was extremely familiar with the environment and forces here.
For instance, the Imperial City Guild, which had been working closely with him, had produced a Spirit Void Realm True Cultivator over twenty years ago and had the qualifications to establish a sect. They built the Imperial City Sect right next to Black Sand Town.
With Imperial City Sect's relationship, Lu Qingfeng was like a fish in water in Black Sand Town.
Besides, the various low-level elixir and low-level talismans he sold, in the past few decades, almost every new low-level cultivator in Black Sand Town knew of Lu Qingfeng.
Though Daoist Huang Luo had traveled far and wide in search of opportunities in recent years, Lu Qingfeng's connections had grown even wider.
Naturally, he wanted to stay in Black Sand Town.
However, if the identity of reincarnation is exposed after reincarnating, it might cause some trouble.
It's quite rare to see in the game someone whose Life Span has come to an end while still alive in real life.
It's better to switch to a new environment, to see the sights of the primordial elsewhere, perhaps uncovering new gains.
[Player has selected reincarnation on a random map, please wait—]
[Reincarnation successful, growth progress: 1/16]
In the Ascension Pool, the newborn Lu Qingfeng was being nurtured. In sixteen years, he will set off on the journey of 'Primordial' again!
Yet unknown where he will be born!
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