The Geng Metal Sword was of unparalleled sharpness.
It had no other characteristics to it other than being extremely, unnervingly sharp.
Excluding top-tier treasure items like the Chaos Heaven Stabilizer Bell, that sword was capable of reducing all forms of defense into something as weak as cardboard.
Up until the moment he died, Gongsun Yan probably never thought that Lu Xuan was going to kill him this way.
It only took mere moments for Lu Xuan to kill him with ease.
One could’ve said that Lu Xuan wracked his brain coming up with ways to ambush Zhou Sulong, so much so that he even had to put the Seven-star Poisonous Centipede to first deal massive damage to Zhou Sulong. He eventually became crippled by the Seven-star Poisonous Centipede’s poison before Lu Xuan moved in for the kill.
At that moment, however, he seemed to have relied on the bell and the sword to immediately get rid of Gongsun Yan.
The whole process was easy.
One could’ve imagined just how far his powers have grown in such a short amount of time, allowing him to kill Gongsun Yan without breaking a sweat.
Of course, there was also the fact that Gongsun was never on guard against neither the Chaos Heaven Stabilizer Bell nor that Geng Metal Sword of unparalleled sharpness.
If he did come prepared, killing him wouldn’t have been so simple.
Then again, Lu Xuan’s powers were also far beyond what they used to be.
Before he could continue looting the vault, he heard someone shout from outside, “What’s going on in there? How dare you!?”
A terrifying aura permeated the place from the external fringes of the vault. The door of the vault was then opened. It was apparent that all that commotion inside had alerted the guards outside.
There were two extremely powerful experts at the ninth tier of the Divine Transformation Realm among them.
Lu Xuan didn’t hesitate, putting away the bell before seemingly reaching the edge of the vault in the blink of an eye. He then disappeared from inside the vault in yet another flash.
Thanks to the teleportation abilities that the bell bestowed upon him, moving around had been extremely convenient. At the very least, he didn’t have to sneak outside from the door like before.
It didn’t take long for the fighters of the Divine Blood Church to discover Gongsun Yan, who had just been killed moments ago. They also found tens of millions of mid-tier spirit stones and the blood orbs that were reserved for Xiang Tianfang, the leader of the cult.
The guards knew something severe had happened.
Everyone present thought the same thing for the time being. They all knew of the dire consequences of what just happened.
At that moment, Lu Xuan had already used the teleportation abilities from the bell to disappear from the blood-colored fortress.
Of course, he had to spend 10000 mid-tier spirit stones as fuel for the bell.
Then again, having to use that many stones was hardly an issue when compared to what he had expended on the trip.
By the time he stopped moving, he was already outside the fortress, well over 50 kilometers away.
He then stood around and looked up to the sky to find the two overwhelming figures up there, still engaged in an intense battle.
Both of them had cleaned up the battlefield around them as they fought. Nobody else dared to get near them at all.
He chuckled and flashed, using the jade sword to get into the secret realm.
Regardless of how intense the battle was out there, he could simply take his time and watch from the safety of his secret realm.
“Quite a lot of loot this time around, but this is far from enough.”
Lu Xuan sat cross-legged on the jade bed in the cave residence, reflecting on the operation that he had just undertaken.
His powers grew stronger by leaps and bounds compared to when he just got to the Holy Sun Continent. However, he was still far from being able to claim supremacy on the continent.
The most powerful beings found on the continent were probably Xuanyangzi and Xiang Tianfang, who were both at the Divine Transformation Realm for a very long time now. They were only stuck where they were because they lacked the means to make further breakthroughs.
They were almost considered to be at the absolute peak of the Divine Transformation Realm.
The ones right behind them were probably the likes of the Red-brow Immortal and some other top-notch fighters at the ninth tier of the Divine Transformation Realm. Every single one of them could rule over a region.
Lu Xuan had been able to set one up and take it out of the picture with the help of that deep-sea snake monster, but he wouldn’t have just considered their powers to have been ordinary because of that. Lu Xuan had only been able to do so because he had more means at his disposal.
If any other cultivators at the same level of power as Lu Xuan were in his position, there was no need to mention the red-browed Immortal. Zhou Sulong and Gongsun Yan were probably strong enough to kill him without running into many problems.
“While finding grandfather’s place for mother is important, I need to first grow my powers.”
He knew that taking the time to sharpen the sword would’ve only benefitted him in the long run. His current level of powers enabled him to easily kill a fighter at the seventh tier of Divine Transformation Realm after catching said opponent off-guard.
Even so, he believed that such a level of combat prowess was far from enough.
He needed to become more powerful. At the very least, he had to reach the same level as the red-brow Immortal before he could truly stand his ground on the Holy Sun Continent.
It would’ve been best to find the Liu Clan in his mother’s stead once that happened.
That thought was enough for him to make up his mind. He remained completely unfazed despite the chaos and atrocities occurring out there.
He extended his hand and took out the Chaos Heaven Stabilizer Bell while taking out over a dozen top-tier spiritual weapons, all of which were things that he looted in a hurry before.
Those served well as nutrients to allow the bell to grow.
He then took out a blood orb and immediately consumed it, allowing immense power to surge within his body. Meanwhile, countless mid-tier spirit stones were reduced to dust as the spirit qi within was converted into long streams that split apart. One half of it went to the bell, while the other half went inside his body.
As time passed, he became completely steeped in his isolated state. Everything inside the secret realm was completely under his control.
As such, he didn’t have to worry about anything. He could completely dedicate himself to making a breakthrough inside the secret realm.
Lu Xuan, who had just made a breakthrough not long ago, had to keep fortifying his powers. Every single blood orb that he consumed enabled his powers to grow further inside of him.
In his current state of having newly made a breakthrough, he was like an expanded pool that was being continuously filled with water.
By the time he consumed his 30th blood orb, the Spiritual Aether within his body finally stopped growing any further.
He could tell that his foundations had been completely solidified. That meant he was ready to make it to the next step.
By then, he had already been in his isolated training state for one whole month.
Throughout the past month, he never spent even a second of his time worrying about the battles between the Divine Blood Church and the many fighters of other forces out there.
As he currently was, he was far from being qualified to be a part of such battles.
This is a chance like no other.
He could tell that he was only one step away from making yet another breakthrough. He grabbed 10 pieces of the blood orbs right away, converting all of the massive medicinal powers within them into his own powers. He began trying to break into the sixth tier of the Divine Transformation realm right away.
Boom!
Explosions seemed to have erupted from within his body. That was a sign that he continued breaking through into the realm.
The explosive rumbles happened 99 times. That meant that when he had gone at it 99 times, he finally sensed a raging power bursting out from within his body.
Boom!
He opened his eyes to find that he just made a breakthrough into the sixth tier of the Divine Transformation Realm.
