Chapter 156: Chapter 141: What a Good Girl_1
So that’s how it was.
Zhao Sirong understood.
Zhao Yi’s aim was to prevent Lu Ren from easily acquiring the martial arts he desired.
But Zhao Sirong didn’t think that Lu Ren was wrong for killing Zhao Hao.
She felt that even if Zhao Hao was possessed by a strange creature, he shouldn’t harm the Zhao Clan to save his own life.
What was even better wrong was, even after the strange creature was killed and his life was no longer threatened, he continued to frame Lu Ren as the one who was possessed.
Lu Ren could only prove his innocence by killing in retaliation. If she were in his shoes, she too would have done the same.
"Niece, you wouldn’t refuse to do this small favor for your uncle, would you?"
Zhao Yi said.
"Uncle, you’re overthinking. Lu Ren did indeed tell me about the martial arts he was planning to exchange. It is a top-tier martial arts technique, the Fiery Gold Body."
Zhao Sirong said.
"Fiery Gold Body, Body Refining Martial Arts."
Zhao Yi nodded, revealing a smile, and said, "Thank you, Sirong. Come, let’s drink."
A moment later, when Zhao Sirong took her leave, Zhao Yi’s expression darkened.
"Master, what do we do?"
The steward approached and asked.
"That girl Zhao Sirong might be lying, but regardless, we must first send someone to exchange for the Fiery Gold Body."
Zhao Yi ordered.
The steward nodded.
...
Three days passed in a flash.
Lu Yan came to the affair token again and met the old man from before.
"My young friend, you’re here. Let’s go. I will take you to the Weapon Collection Pavilion today."
The old man said with a smile.
"Thank you, senior."
Lu Yan clasped his hands.
The old man led the way, and Lu Yan followed.
The Zhao clan’s Weapon Collection Pavilion was naturally located on the Blood Land Vein in the center of Lingwang City.
In all honesty, this Blood Land Vein of the Zhao Clan was not particularly broad or large in area, but the Energy of Earth Blood was particularly dense, far surpassing other secondary Blood Land Veins.
It was a top-level secondary Blood Land Vein.
Lookout towers and arrow towers were built in various places, and martial troops patrolled all the time.
On those arrow towers, there were definitely hefty Armor-piercing Crossbows, extraordinarily powerful. It was said that the most powerful Armor-piercing Crossbow could pose a threat to a martial arts expert of the Martial Marquis Level Five.
Lu Yan followed the old man, went through heavy guard, and eventually arrived in front of a broad building.
Written above the large door of the building were three big characters: Weapon Collection Pavilion.
Surrounding it, the patrolling martial soldiers were even stricter.
There was no shortage of high-level Martial Marquis among them, Lu Yan even suspected that a Grandmaster was stationed in the surroundings.
The building had four levels.
"You can only go to the third floor. Go ahead, after borrowing, deduct the merit here."
The old man said.
Lu Yan nodded and stepped into the door of the first level.
The first level was filled with rows of shelves, all filled with miscellaneous texts.
Lu Yan did not linger, he ascended the stairs to reach the second floor and then the third floor.
There were far fewer books on the third floor, just a few dozen.
But each book was neatly wrapped in an iron box, sealed away.
Lu Yan began to browse, looking at each item in turn.
Fiery Gold Body, Nine-turn Mysterious Knife, Chonglou Flying Snow...
Each of these top-tier martial arts fascinated Lu Yan.
However, the box that contained the Fiery Gold Body had been opened, and it was empty inside.
"Hold on, once the Heart Tempering Decision is successfully cultivated, if there’s still merit left, it’s not too late to come and exchange."
Lu Yan suppressed his eager heart, made a tour of the place, and then his eyes lit up.
On one of the iron boxes, there was a paper slip, and on it were three characters: Heart Tempering Decision.
Lu Yan picked up the Heart Tempering Decision, and came to the first floor to register.
"Heart Tempering Decision, unlike other martial arts, must be returned within three months."
An old woman at the entrance stated coldly.
"Yes, senior."
Lu Yan nodded.
"Also, give me the Meritorious Service Token."
The old woman said.
Lu Yan took out the Meritorious Service Token. The old woman took out a special kind of paint, wiped off the previous number on it, and wrote a new number: eight hundred and fifty.
Having successfully exchanged the Heart Tempering Decision, Lu Yan was quite excited. He returned to his residence with the old man, and as soon as he returned home, he opened it for a look.
Half an hour later, Lu Yan closed the secret manual of the Heart Tempering Decision with a complex expression on his face.
As the rumor suggested, the Heart Tempering Decision was extremely difficult to cultivate and highly demanding.
The Heart Tempering Decision differed from other martial arts. It did not have levels like preliminary, small success, integration and mastery.
The Heart Tempering Decision only had eight levels.
To cultivate to the first level was considered preliminary.
However, after the preliminary level, the impact on the heart was small.
If one wished to increase the chances of success when breaking through to the Master Level, they had to cultivate it to at least the fifth level.
Upon cultivating to the fifth level, the heart would undergo a metamorphosis, strong as a silkworm thread.
After each subsequent level, the heart would undergo another metamorphosis, becoming stronger and stronger.
It was said that after cultivating to the highest eighth level, the heart would become extremely strong, just like the heart of a Flood Dragon.
One’s life force would also be enhanced, even their lifespan would be increased.
This kind of effect could be considered as defying heaven’s will.
However, the difficulty of cultivation was indeed too great.
Just to reach the preliminary first level, it required the heart of a secondary Alien Beast, along with three jin of mutated heart meat, and eighteen rare kinds of spiritual medicine.
All those weren’t even enough, one still needed to find a Pure Blood Chamber, put all the above materials into the chamber, immerse their body in the blood chamber to absorb the energy from those materials, and only after experiencing forty-nine days can one succeed.
And this was just the first level.
From the second level on, the required materials were even rarer and more precious.
Things like the heart orb of a secondary mutated beast king, which was a main material for breaking through to the Master Level.
There were also the heart of a tertiary mutated beast king, a hundred-year tiger king’s heart, and even ridiculous conditions like needing a Flood Dragon’s heart in the following levels.
No wonder the Heart Tempering Decision had been lost to history.
Who could cultivate it? Even if one managed to cultivate the first level, they wouldn’t be able to cultivate subsequent levels.
