Under Lu Mei's slow and detailed narration, Lu Jun gradually understood his sister's experiences over the past year.
The Tarim Desert truly deserved its title as the best cultivation sacred land for the Earth, Fire, and Wind Elements.
Lu Mei ventured deep into the desert, hunted monsters, obtained opportunities, and her cultivation in all three elements rose rapidly. Of course, if that were all, at most she would have reached high-level completion in all three elements.
Before they parted, she had been at High-Tier Level 2 in two elements and High-Tier Level 1 in the other. Now that she had returned, her cultivation had reached the astonishing level of Earth and Fire Dual Super-Tier Level 1, and Wind Element High-Tier Completion. There had to be an extraordinary opportunity behind this!
His gaze fell on the Heart of the Earth she held. As a supreme treasure capable of supporting the barrier of an entire major city, fully refining it would be enough to break through to the Forbidden Curse.
Even though most of the crimson-gold thousand-petal core had already withered, the remaining majestic energy was still enough to build a small fortress-city in an uninhabited region.
Lu Mei had cultivated while simultaneously refining the Heart of the Earth's energy. Combined with renting a Star River Magic Tool for training, she broke through the Super-tier bottleneck in both Earth and Fire Elements.
However, just like Lu Jun, Lu Mei had only recently advanced to the Super-tier. She had not yet fully mastered the Stars, could not cast Super-Tier magic, and had not cultivated Transcendental Power.
Even so, Lu Jun felt both admiration and emotion. After all his painstaking cultivation and countless opportunities stacking together, he had only just reached Super-tier in Curse and Psychic. Barely enough to catch up with his sister.
But he also understood clearly: in value, the Heart of the Earth was not necessarily inferior to a Divine Soul-grade treasure. Although far from the Ancient King Armor, the latter two were sealed and carried terrifying backlash.
Furthermore, Lu Mei herself was a genius. Five years older than he was, with five more years of cultivation—being equal in strength was completely reasonable.
"Based on your description, I found the Heart of the Earth. I refined a portion of its massive energy, and the rest is still vast with no obvious depletion. I'll hand it over to you."
Lu Mei gave the Heart of the Earth to her younger brother with casual ease.
Lu Jun quickly stored the item into his personal space and exhaled in relief. Fortunately, he knew his breakthrough had been loud and had deliberately chosen an isolated, uninhabited place to cultivate; otherwise, with both the life-and-death phenomena and the Heart of the Earth appearing, it would have drawn countless unrelated people and caused trouble.
Honestly, letting Lu Mei refine the Heart of the Earth this way was wasteful. Its true use should have been handing it to the Forbidden Curse Association.
Then the nations would decide whether to use it for building a city or helping a Forbidden Curse seed break through.
Either option could save countless lives.
But Lu Jun had no intention of handing it over to the Nine Provinces or the Magic Association. Didn't Mo Fan in the original story find two Hearts of the Earth? One was this incomplete one he held, the other buried deep within Lanyang City in Jiangnan Province.
And what happened? Mo Fan submitted both Hearts of the Earth to the Forbidden Curse Association.
When Mo Fan later applied to use one to break through to the Forbidden Curse, the request was denied—because there were "no extra Hearts of the Earth."
The real reason: the Forbidden Curse Association was directly controlled by the Magic Associations of the Five Continents and the Holy City. No single power controlled it. It was too complex, and one never knew whom the treasure would benefit.
Better to keep it for himself.
Lu Jun had no interest in being a fool. Besides, Lu Mei's actions were perfectly hidden—no one would know. He would keep it and slowly restore it.
After dealing with the Heart of the Earth, Lu Jun still held his sister's hand tightly, his gaze fixed on the eight-colored silk ribbons wrapped around her body.
A woman's intuition was sharp—Lu Mei sensed his gaze. Her charming face flushed slightly as she remembered that night… herself hanging in mid-air…
Absence makes the heart grow fonder. The two lingered, and unable to hold back, they hurried off to a professional company, compensated for the damages, rented another villa, and went off to create life.
For three days and three nights, Lu Jun fully enjoyed himself. In his mind, the faces of Lu Mei and Tangyue alternated repeatedly, leaving him in excellent spirits.
Lu Mei, however, had been thoroughly exhausted. Now she lay fast asleep on the bed, her long black hair messy like flowing ink, sweat clinging in strands to her fair face, the blush still lingering.
Beside her, Lu Jun studied his newly awakened Healing Element. The milky-white Stardust expanded to its limit, reaching Basic-Tier Level 3 without him even cultivating it.
"Basic-Tier magic—Healing Light?"
He murmured to himself. With his Spiritual already at the Heavenly Realm, he no longer needed to carefully control the Stars like during the Basic, Intermediate, or High-Tier. His first casting would succeed instantly.
Thus, under his unfamiliar manipulation, one milky-white Star linked to another. Seven Stars connected into a pure white trajectory, and a surge of vibrant life energy overflowed.
Buzz, buzz, buzz!
In his palm, a gentle cluster of white starlit radiance floated and pulsed. His five fingers moved slightly, and it changed shape like dough, kneaded freely as he pleased.
Deep within the creamy light sphere, a trace of emerald flowed, carrying the aura of life and rejuvenation. Even the corners of the villa around him sprouted patches of mushrooms and wild grass under its influence.
A normal Healing Mage's Healing Light has three levels: promoting blood circulation, stopping bleeding and mending wounds, and extracting illness and poison.
The effects are decent, but compared to Lu Jun's Healing Light, the gap is like the difference between the bright moon and a firefly.
Lu Jun could clearly sense the life energy in his hand—its quantity alone was overwhelming, and its quality surpassed others by more than tenfold. Such a trivial external injury was nowhere near enough to challenge him.
The three levels of his Healing Light advanced step by step, completely transforming into the tiers of Flesh, Muscle and Bone, and Internal Organs.
That's right—just as the names implied, Lu Jun's introductory Healing Magic eliminated every toxin, cured every illness, and with the increasing penetration of magic power, moved from the outer body to the inner, covering nearly every part of the physique.
After all, as the saying goes, bone injuries take a hundred days to recover. External wounds are far easier to heal than torn muscles and bones, and internal injuries are undoubtedly the most troublesome cases—normally sent straight to the ICU.
"No wonder… this truly is completely different from an ordinary Healing System when mastered at the Super-Tier."
Lu Jun nodded, shifting his focus. "Of course, this qualitative transformation comes from the two major pillars: the Calamity-Bearer Talent and the Super-Level Additional Effect."
Every Calamity-Bearer had a different innate power—Wu Ku's Water-Element storm-calling, Ding Yumian's Psychic emotional assimilation, and so on.
Through basic experimentation, he discovered that his Healing System Calamity Talent was called Life Sovereign.
Its description was simple: To command all authority within the domain of life.
Precisely because of its simplicity, it carried infinite might. The specific abilities were still being explored, but Lu Jun was certain this far exceeded the framework of conventional magic and possessed limitless potential.
As for the Super-Level Additional Effect, it was called All Things Revive, which was far easier to understand.
Every time he cast a healing spell, he would randomly obtain one or several buff-type enhancements—varying in strength. It could be continuous regeneration for a period of time, enhanced physical resilience, and so on, with the guaranteed baseline of Fountain of Vitality.
The key point was: these buffs had a chance to become permanently solidified, transforming into something akin to a natural inborn talent!
When he learned this, Lu Jun inhaled sharply—this was insane.
From now on, he would be honored as the Grandmaster of Deliveries. For every pregnant woman he helped deliver, he could casually apply healing and stack buffs. With enough quantity and probability, he could mass-produce magically gifted individuals with innate talents.
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