Nine Evolutions of the True Spirit
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In truth, Kong Liang could be considered one of the strongest cultivators Lu Ping had ever fought, not to mention Yue Ying’s assistance in the battle. However, Lu Ping had set up the Primordial Star Array Formation beforehand and also had the element of surprise, so there was little that Kong Liang could’ve done in that situation.

With the Inebriant Purified Water, Lu Ping’s chances of completing his vision mini divine ability were high. Thus, knowing that he’d achieved his ultimate goal, he finally took the time to inspect his gains from the battle.

The fan mystic treasure was ordinary, but Lu Ping still liked it. He could give it to the alchemy puppet to replace its original fan mystic instrument, which would help him improve his alchemy.

As he was now concocting Core Forging Realm medicinal pellets, the required spirit herbs were harder to gather, so he would need to ensure the maximum success rate. He would accept any little thing that could help improve his alchemy.

What did surprise him the most were the two spirit waters in the stone jar and jade bottle.

The spirit water in the stone jar was a type of peculiar water: the Three Thousand Weak Water. It was an incredibly overwhelming peculiar water similar to Lu Ping’s Kui Water Essence. It would suit him well when enhancing his aegis energy.

The spirit water in the jade bottle was even more precious; it was an Earth-class low-grade wonder water, the Magnificent Wave Water. It was also Lu Ping’s sixth wonder item and third water-element wonder item. Given that Kong Liang was in the peak of the Third Layer Core Forging Realm, this was clearly the wonder item he intended to use for advancement.

Naturally, the most important gain was Kong Liang’s nascent mystic treasure, the gourd glimmering in seven colors. Although it was inferior to that of the Ninth-Rank White Jade Lotus, it was incredibly high in quality and had used at least one Grade 3 spirit material to forge it.

The gourd had three Mystical Inscriptions and contained peculiar items of six different elements: gold, water, fire, earth, ice, and wind. These peculiar items could unleash their powers through the gourd as powerful attacks.

Notably, there were three peculiar waters in the gourd, which could be utilized to cast a mini divine ability—this was the Kui Water Yin Lightning that Lu Ping had witnessed.

Lu Ping looked at the gourd while deep in thought. He somehow recalled hearing of such a thing before.

Wait, is this…

In a flash of realization, Lu Ping thought, … is this the Seven Elemental Lightning Gourd?!

Rumor has it that the Seven Elemental Lightning Gourd was Prime Peng’s weapon. Armed with this gourd, Prime Peng had claimed the title of strongest among the seven primes. It was said that the gourd could cast seven types of elemental lightning: gold, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, and ice. Each elemental lightning was a great divine ability, and when the seven were combined together, Prime Peng could cast an ultimate divine ability—the heavenly chaotic lightning.

Naturally, the Seven Elemental Lightning Gourd in Lu Ping’s hands was not the one Prime Peng used, but an imitation belonging to Kong Liang.

With three Mystical Inscriptions and three peculiar items of a particular element, the gourd could cast a mini divine ability in that element. With seven Mystical Inscriptions and seven peculiar items of a particular element, the gourd could cast a divine ability in that element.

The more Mystical Inscriptions, the higher the gourd’s quality, and the more peculiar items it could contain, the stronger the gourd’s power would be.

With nine Mystical Inscriptions and seven peculiar items for all seven elements, the gourd could then cast seven divine lightning bolts on par with the great divine abilities.

As for the ultimate divine ability that combined all seven divine lightnings, Prime Peng had never passed it down, so no one in the cultivation world had ever heard of anyone successfully cultivating it.

In fact, imitations of the Seven Elemental Lightning Gourd were not uncommon, but only a few managed to successfully promote the gourd to a high level. The very few who managed to bring their gourd’s lightning bolts up to the level of a great divine ability were all renowned and powerful figures in the history of the cultivation world.

After all, peculiar items were rare and precious to begin with. Collecting one was difficult enough, let alone collecting seven different peculiar items for seven different elements. Moreover, not all peculiar items suited the gourd. For instance, the Inebriant Purified Water which Kong Liang gave to Yue Ying instead of using it himself.

To make things harder, the Seven Elemental Lightning Gourd had a special feature—the moment it reached the level of a great divine ability, the gourd would be tied to the owner’s life. When the owner died, the gourd would also disintegrate into pure elements. This made it impossible to pass it down to a successor.

Kong Liang’s Seven Elemental Lightning Gourd was his nascent weapon. The monster genius was ambitious, but unfortunately, everything belonged to Lu Ping now. However, although he looked forward to untapping the gourd’s full power, he didn’t intend to make it a top priority by spending all his time looking for peculiar items.

But after giving it some thought, Lu Ping decided to refine it with his blood essence. Even if he didn’t upgrade it, the Seven Elemental Lightning Gourd was still powerful and useful.

Immediately, the Seven Elemental Lightning Gourd entered his heartspace and caused a disturbance. It took over the second orbital layer, pushing the River Inclusion Cauldron to third, while the Golden Scale Sword was pushed to fourth.

Lu Ping realized that Kong Liang’s status in the monster race was much higher than he expected. His instincts were alerting him to leave immediately, but he had promised to meet Liang Xuan-Feng here, so he couldn’t leave.

In the end, he was betting on the fact that the monster race couldn’t arrive so quickly. With the Silver Sword Island being the Sky Cleaving Sword Sect’s frontier base, he didn’t think the monsters could break through the frontlines quick enough to reach him.

He calmed himself down, then continued to check the remaining dozen jade scrolls. He was overjoyed to find that there were two water-element Mystical Inscriptions, one for attack and one for defense. The offensive Mystical Inscription was just right for the Primordial Stars and Golden Scale Sword which already had two and three Mystical Inscriptions respectively.

As for the defensive Mystical Inscription, he was planning to use it in his Nascent Life Primordial Star Array Formation. The battle with Kong Liang and Yue Ying exposed Lu Ping’s biggest weakness—his lack of defensive means.

Although the Fire-Ice Dual Rings were both offensive and defensive, he only used it to defend throughout the entire fight. The only means of protection he had left was his aegis energy, which should be considered a last line of defense.

Hence, there was an urgent need to make up for this lacking, and his best option was naturally the Nascent Life Primordial Star Array Formation.

The only reason he had yet to do so was because he lacked a suitable Mystical Inscription for it. Furthermore, the twelve Primordial Stars were essentially part of the array formation. Wielding them alone already strained his true energy; he couldn’t imagine how burdensome it would be to cast them in the array formation.

Secondly, the array formation needed a formation chassis. Lu Ping had already decided on the item, he just didn’t know how to forge it.

He’d been greatly surprised by the Seven Elemental Lightning Gourd and water-element Mystical Inscriptions; the rest of the treasures were lackluster by comparison. Most were just spirit herbs, spirit materials, and spirit stones. The only notable ones were Yue Ying’s pair of daggers, eight 3,000-year spirit herbs, some twenty high-grade spirit stones, a Grade 2 water-element spirit material, and a Grade 2 wind-element spirit material.

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Deep in the depths of monster race territory, at the instant Kong Liang’s life was taken, a loud bellow of anger and agony rumbled from the deep sea, rocking the sea into turmoil.

Then, a dark blue light disappeared in the horizon, followed by a few light blue lights.

Lu Ping stayed on Silver Sword Island for three days, using the Inebriant Purified Water to wash his eyes while waiting for Liang Xuan-Feng’s arrival.

On the third day, while Lu Ping was cultivating the [Tri-Pristine True Vision] in the inn, a loud and long whistle of maddened grief sounded outside of the island, followed by an overwhelming and dominating aura. Those on the island were forced to stop their cultivation, and some even suffered internal injuries from the interruption.

As the culprit, Lu Ping knew exactly what was happening. He quickly walked out of the inn and saw a tsunami advancing towards the island, as if to slam the entire Silver Sword Island into the ocean’s depths.

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