Chapter 516 - 484 - Distant Mountain Ascends Crystallization

As Lu Zhiwei’s strength improved, reaching the Ninth-Layer Foundation Establishment Stage, it caught the attention of many cultivators around.

Liu Hanshuang took a deep breath, already considering Lu Zhiwei’s strength to be formidable, and now breaking through to the Ninth-Layer Foundation Establishment, she was even more impressive.

This woman is worth befriending.

While Liu Hanshuang contemplated this, many others around, including Zhao Mingyuan and others, shared the same thought.

As Lu Zhiwei successfully broke through, they all came to offer their congratulations.

For a moment, Lu Zhiwei became the focus of everyone’s attention.

And to everyone’s congratulations, Lu Zhiwei politely nodded in response.

The fervor from Lu Zhiwei’s breakthrough lasted for several days.

Soon enough, as the number of demon beasts around increased and their strength slowly grew, Liu Hanshuang and others shifted their attention to those beasts.

On this day, a group of a thousand demon beasts launched a surprise attack on Gourd Town, causing three cultivators from Nine Cold Mountain on patrol to be hunted down and killed by the demon beast group.

Lu Ping, through his Divine Sense, discovered this situation and communicated it to Lu Zhiwei.

After Lu Zhiwei reported the situation to Liu Hanshuang and Zhao Mingyuan, the three immediately led a team of cultivators to eliminate the demon beast group.

In this battle, the strongest in the demon beast group included six Ninth-Layer Foundation Establishment demon beasts.

Additionally, there were over a hundred Tier Two Lower Grade demon beasts.

The rest were all Tier One demon beasts.

Facing this group of demon beasts, Lu Zhiwei and the others didn’t spend much time.

With Lu Zhiwei’s elevated power, the six Ninth-Layer Foundation Establishment demon beasts all became prey under her sword.

Within less than ten moves, Lu Zhiwei consecutively defeated these six Ninth-Layer Foundation Establishment demon beasts, astonishing and earning the admiration of Liu Hanshuang and the others accompanying her.

Moreover, beyond admiration, Liu Hanshuang and the others found that words like admiration, surprise, and respect seemed almost overused when it came to Lu Zhiwei.

Indeed, this was the case.

Since traveling with Lu Zhiwei and battling demon beasts, the shock Lu Zhiwei brought deeply influenced Liu Hanshuang and the others.

If Lu Zhiwei’s strength did not appear so remarkable and powerful, they would, instead, feel uneasy.

More importantly, it was the sense of security Lu Zhiwei provided.

Wherever Lu Zhiwei was, as long as there weren’t demon beasts above Tier Two, there was no danger.

Because demon beasts below Tier Three couldn’t pose a threat to Lu Zhiwei, they could be effortlessly slain.

After clearing out this group of demon beasts.

In the following ten days, they continued to eliminate several Tier One and Tier Two demon beast groups one after another.

Until the one-month garrison mission in Gourd Town was completed, Xuu Lingxing piloted the Dubhe Institute flying ship, descending above Gourd Town.

Xuu Lingxing brought a new Profound-level team to replace Zhao Mingyuan and Liu Hanshuang’s teams.

Lu Zhiwei and her team then followed Xuu Lingxing, boarding the flying ship, and returned to Purple Fire Castle.

After returning to Purple Fire Castle, Lu Zhiwei checked her Battle Merit Points.

This time, executing the mission to support Gourd Town took a total of one month, bringing substantial Battle Merit Points to Lu Zhiwei.

Lu Zhiwei’s Battle Merit Points had already reached over sixty thousand.

Pondering for a moment, she thought it somewhat premature to exchange these Battle Merit Points for magical artifacts or elixirs.

Lu Zhiwei wasn’t lacking in magical artifacts at the moment, with the Taiyi Celestial Ruins Sword and Cyan Cold Mirror among her possessions.

Notably, within Lu Yuanshan’s Storage Bag in the Cyan Mountain Sect, there were still several Tier Four Spiritual Artifacts.

These Tier Four Spiritual Artifacts were acquired long ago from Profound Plain Sect Leader Zhao Hanyun.

Since Lu Yuanshan and his siblings were still at the Foundation Establishment Stage, they couldn’t wield these Tier Four Spiritual Artifacts and thus had to keep them shelved temporarily.

However, soon enough, once Lu Yuanshan broke through to the Crystallization Stage, these Tier Four Spiritual Artifacts would have their place.

During the period of rest and recuperation at Purple Fire Castle, Lu Zhiwei was constantly concerned about Lu Yuanshan’s secluded cultivation.

Soon, Lu Ping detected some movement from Lu Yuanshan’s seclusion chamber.

Hovering beside Lu Yuanshan, Lu Ping’s eyes flickered with light as he observed Lu Yuanshan’s cultivation aura becoming extremely chaotic at this moment.

In a rather volatile manner, he was in the process of elevating.

Lu Yuanshan’s forehead was already covered with fine beads of sweat.

This was a unique phenomenon of breaking through to the Crystallization Stage, and was quite normal.

As someone with experience, Lu Yuan noticed that within Lu Yuanshan’s body, in his Dantian, a vast amount of Foundation Establishment True Essence was being compressed.

All this Foundation Establishment True Essence was driven by Lu Yuanshan to fuse with the Jia Wood Crystal refined into his body.

The presence of the Jia Wood Crystal served as a natural crystallization vessel, allowing Foundation Establishment Cultivators to refine their Foundation Establishment True Essence and condense Five Elements Crystals.

This significantly reduced the lengthy process of converging Crystalized True Essence.

Due to Lu Yuanshan’s inherent Wood Spirit Root attribute, the attribute aura displayed by the Foundation Establishment True Essence at this moment was all of the Wood Attribute.

With the assistance of the Jia Wood Crystal, in the time it takes for half an incense stick to burn, Lu Ping, through his Divine Sense, saw that the Jia Wood Crystal had transformed into Lu Yuanshan’s Crystallization Body, amassing a substantial amount of Magical True Essence.

A surge of aura far surpassing the Foundation Establishment Stage emanated powerfully from Lu Yuanshan’s body, blasting in all directions.

Lu Yuanshan’s long hair and robes were blown into a fluttering dance.

"Crystallization Stage, I have broken through!"

With the spillover of this crystallization aura, stabilizing, Lu Yuanshan opened his eyes with a face full of delight.

Not too long ago, even the Foundation Establishment Stage felt somewhat distant for Lu Yuanshan, but now, he had reached the Crystallization Stage, stepping into the ranks of High-Tier Cultivators.

This excitement and joy nearly made Lu Yuanshan jump around in celebration like a carefree child.

His aura, unreservedly released, feeling the strength of this moment.

Feeling the joy of once again having this kind of power after the disappearance of the Three-star Crystal Power.

And this time, no longer was it a temporary possession of Crystallization Stage power, but a permanent one.

He achieved entry into the Crystallization Stage through his own cultivation efforts, step by step!

"Yuanshan, congratulations."

Lu Ping’s voice resonated in Lu Yuanshan’s mind, his tone carrying a hint of happiness.

For Lu Ping, the father, seeing his eldest son successfully break through to the Crystallization Stage was an anticipated development, yet witnessing Yuanshan’s current excitement and joy, Lu Ping felt truly happy for him.

"Father!"

Hearing Lu Ping’s voice, Lu Yuanshan’s expression brimmed with joy.

After opening his arms and laughing heartily for a moment, he assumed a solemn expression and communicated with Lu Ping, saying: "Father, I never imagined I could one day reach the heights of the Crystallization Stage, achieving such accomplishments."

"My strength’s breakthrough to the Crystallization Stage is largely due to your meticulous guidance and nurturing, Father."