Immortality from Taming Elephant

Chapter 565 - 250: Rebirth Through Destruction, Saint Manor’s Strength, Celestial Cyan Mine

The bright moon hangs high.Jin Buhuan threw a grand banquet, nearly booking all the business of three nearby restaurants around the Northern Emperor Academy for almost three days.

Dining tables spread throughout the Northern Emperor Academy for a full three days, no matter if they were disciples or warriors, no matter where they came from, anyone who sat down could eat.

Banners celebrating Xu Guang’s triumph were visible everywhere, no matter where you went, you could hear about Xu Guang’s victory.

The banquet lasted three full days without interruption.

"Junior Brother Xu, reputation is also a very important thing. Sacrificing some benefits to make everyone in the Northern Emperor Academy remember you, perhaps some proud individuals might think you’re flamboyant and high-profile, but even within the Northern Emperor Academy, most people are ordinary folks. If these ordinary folks remember your kindness, there will be countless benefits in the future."

Xu Guang naturally understood the benefits of a good reputation.

In his early years, his rise depended on building his image.

However, the price Jin Buhuan paid was somewhat hefty. Jiang Zi Yun and Bai Xiaozhu asked around, and those three nearby restaurants were quite expensive, with daily expenses exceeding ten thousand void crystals, totaling forty thousand void crystals over three days.

It made Xu Guang feel greatly indebted to Jin Buhuan.

However, Jin Buhuan seemed indifferent to this. His status within the Golden Bull Chamber of Commerce was somewhat ambiguous, even declining, but he did not lack money.

Things like lower-grade void crystals, though not limitless, amounts like tens of thousands of void crystals were just half a year’s living expenses.

"Junior Brother Xu, if you truly feel indebted to me, just help me take care of the South Mountain Mine. With your reputation, the people from the Purple Mountain Chamber of Commerce... sneer..."

Jin Buhuan reiterated his previous suggestion.

This time, Xu Guang considered it seriously.

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Xu Guang attended the banquet each day but would soon return.

He sat quietly, holding a piece of void crystal in his hand. This void crystal was different from ordinary ones, it was larger and brighter, containing some mysterious flowing clouds.

This was an upper-grade void crystal, a rare treasure collected from beyond the Nine Layers of Sea deep within the Void Realm, generally available only to a Saint.

There are records in the Northern Emperor Academy that, in the past, a Third-Grade strong person found an upper-grade void crystal washed out from deep within the Void Realm in the Third Level of the Sea and sold it to the Jizhou Chamber of Commerce for a price of a million lower-grade void crystals.

This was one of the gifts given to Xu Guang by the True Martial King.

Within the upper-grade void crystal, it contained some special energy, faintly similar to the life force of Guizang, capable of enhancing one’s divine soul.

On the second day of the banquet, Xu Guang had officially broken through to the Second Grade.

The rewards from the Northern Emperor Academy were also delivered, including five bottles of soul-quenching liquid, residence, and several demon slaying merits.

Xu Guang kept his promise and shared thirty percent of them with Bai Xiaozhu.

Soul-quenching liquid is a kind of Second-Grade spiritual liquid, as the name suggests, it targets the martial artist’s divine soul, significantly accelerating the tempering speed of the martial artist’s divine soul.

Apart from the rewards of this competition, he had already accumulated a considerable amount of resources.

Xu Guang was very satisfied with his current life, though he occasionally thought of old friends in Li Taizhou, like his senior brother Du Shizhen, some people from Dragon Gate, and also Liu Ruyan, Shen Muyu...

But there wasn’t much time for reminiscence. He knew how everything today came to be, from a stray dog to a local strong person, to now being the first in the Northern Emperor Academy’s assessment, he relied on his Golden Finger, and his own effort; he could not stop now.

Though others held him in high regard, which seemed a flourish of flowers, in reality, it was like cooking oil with fire, and behind him stood some people, but once he stopped in his tracks...

Fortunately, Xu Guang had no intention of stopping.

His divine thought whirred, wandering constantly in his divine soul, carefully searching for shortcomings in his divine soul, perfecting it until he reached a flawless state.

The cultivation of the Second Grade was roughly like this.

However, true flawless perfection was rare.

But with cultivation, Xu Guang discovered a challenging point.

As a martial artist of the Sacred House of Five Divine Techniques, when the five divine techniques were in a perfect state, they interfered with and influenced each other, even merging with each other.

Luckily, he had the Guizang Divine Technique, which subtly played an integrating role.

This was also the approach of martial artists in the Sacred House of Five Divine Techniques; among their divine techniques, there would always be one that could connect many divine techniques.

According to the records in the Northern Emperor Academy, some people were born with extremely strong divine techniques and were unable to become the thread connecting many divine techniques, ultimately abandoning the development of the Five Divine Techniques body.

Which is stronger, the ultimate divine technique or the Sacred House of Five Divine Techniques, is hard to say, but judging by the performance, some divine techniques that surpass the ultimate are indeed abnormal, even possessing the power to change fate.

The Northern Emperor Academy had probably never seen such divine techniques, but some texts did describe such divine techniques that surpassed the ultimate, people able to transform into void, walking on the river of time, reversing the flow of time.

Grasping the "Silence" divine technique akin to "pseudo-stopping time," Xu Guang, of course, knew the horror of such reverse flow of time. In battle, even returning to a moment before could have an unimaginable impact on the situation.

But that person did not achieve the Sacred House of Five Divine Techniques, because the reverse flow of time divine technique was too strong, the gap between divine techniques was too great, ultimately having to regretfully give up exploring divine techniques.

As his understanding of the connection between the divine soul and the five divine techniques deepened, Xu Guang realized the reason Ning Zhiqiu sought him that day.

She sought to reshape the true meaning of the martial dao, leveraging his Guizang Divine Technique to reinvigorate the true meaning of the martial dao.

Such grand ambition, even Xu Guang, had to admire that woman in red.

Such courage to break and then establish is something ordinary people do not possess.

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