Chapter 85: Great Benefits [Short]

The initials 'D.S' that were engraved on the sword morphed into 'L.Z' as an absurd amount of Qi gushed into Lu Zheng's meridians.

Lu Zheng instantly felt like he would explode as the Qi poured into his aperture and Qi leaves.

The flow of Qi was unending. Lu Zheng's meridians began to feel burdened by the heavy flow of Qi.

"Fuck!" Lu Zheng gritted his teeth in pain and attempted to throw the sword away but it was stuck to his palm.

Lu Zheng's Qi tree grew taller and thicker as his Qi leaves enlarged, growing to the size of a grown human.

Lu Zheng's aura also began to rise from the first tier of Void Passage realm slowly till it balanced at the second tier of Void Passage realm.

It was only after three minutes that the flow of Qi stopped and the pain that assaulted Lu Zheng disappeared.

After a while, Lu Zheng calmed himself down and sent his Sea of Consciousness into the sword.

Inside the sword were channels that resembled the blood vessels of a human.

These channels all converged at a single point where a small bright stone revolved at an amazing speed.

Lu Zheng was staggered because the amount of Qi condensed in that small stone was millions of times greater than the one within Lu Zheng's aperture.

"This… is an artifact core!" Lu Zheng was stunned.

Artifact cores contained highly concentrated Qi that could be used by the artifact spirit to launch techniques.

From what Lu Zheng knew, only Divine Grade artifacts had artifact cores.

Lu Zheng gazed at the sword in his hand, his soul consciousness wrapping around it like tentacles.

It was only a rank three Immortal Grade sword. It was impossible for it to contain an artifact core.

"Unless… this sword has fallen from Divine Grade!" Lu Zheng's eyes glistened as he gleaned the truth.

The sword had probably fallen when Darmian had encountered Nuwa just like the Vermillion Sacred Prism.

Lu Zheng soon felt overwhelmed.

He had absorbed Qi directly from the artifact core of a Divine sword. It was definitely a fortuitous encounter.

Soul tendrils snaked from Lu Zheng's Soul Lake, entering his aperture. A warm smile formed on Lu Zheng's lips.

~Second tier of Void Passage realm and the conflict between dao imprints is gone… this must be Darmian's inheritance~

Lu Zheng felt the bitterness he felt against Darmian melt away as a tinge of gratitude replaced it.

He knew that all that had happened during the last eight months was because of Darmian's inheritance.

Without it, even with his innate talent, it would take Lu Zheng many years to reach the second tier of Void Passage realm.

He was also a rare space path martial practitioner. [1]

All in all, his battle strength had soared beyond understanding.

Lu Zheng was sure that if he encountered a third tier of Void Passage realm expert now, he would not necessarily lose.

He might even be able to ensure his life against an ordinary Acquisition realm expert.

"I have surely benefitted a lot" Lu Zheng smiled.

After sealing Mei Luan's soul in his new sword, Lu Zheng entered the flying carriage and left Antarctica.

[1] Lu Zheng now has twenty four space path dao imprints. He can be considered as a space path martial practitioner.